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Sculpting Audition

This study demonstrates how emergent properties and behaviour of cellular components of the inner ear's organ of Corti influence auditory tissue shaping during development. A model system of how developmental instructions coordinate across spatial scales so that tissues are sculpted reproducibly

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Anubhav Prakash and colleagues

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Image contributed by the authors and originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in PLOS Biology, September 2025

And you get shit from both deaf and hearing people, like deaf & HOH people telling you to “stop using our services,” and “well… but you don’t actually know what it’s like to have hearing problems,” like… yes I do??? also like, Ive really wanted to learn ASL for a long time, so that maybe, just maybe I can communicate without issues, but in the class for hearing people at my local disability services area, they always talk to teach so I couldn’t understand, yet apparently I wasn’t eligible for the non talking course with subtitles???

Not to mention, teachers not believing you, people thinking you’re stupid, people in general not believing you have hearing issues because “you listen to music” and “you sound so normal” and having to constantly explain that you have to see someone’s face to understand what they’re saying and you’ll still get it wrong a lot.

Of course I’m not saying that I’m deaf or hard of hearing, I’m just tired of not having anyone understand and being penalized for something I can’t control.