I’m in neuroscience research at the University of North Carolina, but I also have interests in contemporary (and not-so-contemporary) legends, modern folklore, and origins of (and origin-stories about) words, phrases, and quotations.

I’m on Twitter as @ULTweets, where I tweet about folklore in the news and retweet interesting comments about modern folklore, and as @btaylorblake, where I tweet about everything else (especially sports, neuroscience, politics, and linguistics).

You can reach me at b.taylorblake@gmail.com.

In the meantime, here are some images from my research, a few of which have won awards. (And here’s a link to neuroscience-related papers I’ve co-authored.)