Improbable Research

Christopher Moyer has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a conjoined-twin organization to the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I’m in the Psychology Department at University of Wisconsin Stout, where my students and I conduct research on how massage therapy can reduce anxiety and depression.  I know of no psychologist who has an easier job attracting research participants into his lab.

Christopher A. Moyer, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Stout, Wisonsin, USA

Alessandro Gagliardi has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a conjoined-twin organization to the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I always knew my hair would make me famous.

Alessandro Gagliardi, LFHCfS
Graduate Student in Integrative Neuroscience
Rutgers University Mind Brain Analysis
Newark, New Jersey, USA

Christof Teuscher has joined the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (a conjoined-twin organization to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists). He says:

I believe I qualify for the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists. My lab investigates, designs, and builds emerging computing models and technologies. We are interested in bold, visionary, and transformational solutions to complex and critical problems needed for the medium- and long-term sustainability of the technological future of the computing disciplines.

Christof Teuscher, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon, USA

Joanne Manaster has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a conjoined-twin organization to the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

I am a bioengineering instructor at the University of Illinois-Urbana. I am also involved in practically nauseating amounts of science outreach at every level. My personal website Lovely Scientist Loves Science includes videos from my YouTube channel, and also some items from my modeling days way back when… when I had luxuriant flowing hair, but was NOT a scientist — yet! I was called to audition recently for a Dove ‘Real Women’ commercial for their shampoo, but was disqualified b/c I have to pull it back into a ponytail for lab work. Sigh. What’s one to do?

Joanne Manaster, LFHCfS
Laboratory Teaching
Specialist and Lecturer, Bioengineering and Developmental Biology
University of Illinois-Urbana
Urbana, Illinois, USA

Mitch Dushay today becomes the first member of the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (a conjoined-twin organization to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists). He says:

The primary focus of my laboratory is on the immune systems of insects, with emphasis on hemolymph (blood) clotting in fruit fly maggots. We are also exploring the role of nuclear lamins on immunity, gene expression, and aging. Joining the LFHCfS seems to fit with the time-honored tradition of participating in one’s work.

Mitchell Dushay, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Biology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Bob Kentridge has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says:

I am a Reader in Psychology at Durham University in England. I have conducted research in many areas of psychology. My recent work has focussed on neuropsychological deficits of vision, in particular cerebral achromatopsia and blindsight and, more generally, the relationship between attention and awareness. Earlier in my career I published papers in the vitally important (literally) research area of Cricket and death – do left arm bowlers die younger than right-armers? When? Why? You should read the papers to find out. My hair has been feeling especially luxuriant and flowing of late so the time seemed right for the LFHCfS.

Bob Kentridge, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Reader in Psychology
Durham University
Durham, UK