Mike Yassa
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I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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UC Irvine hiring Postdoctoral Researcher in Irvine, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 12:31:04 AM. Postdoctoral Fellow ā Neuroimaging, Network Neuroscience & AI/ML in Cognitive DisordersYassa Lab |ā¦See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4423282964/
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I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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UC Irvine hiring Postdoctoral Researcher in Irvine, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 12:31:04 AM. Postdoctoral Fellow ā Neuroimaging, Network Neuroscience & AI/ML in Cognitive DisordersYassa Lab |ā¦See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4423282964/
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It felt like the right time for a reminder. This is based on an older interview but almost too relevant today. āOn Failure and āPathological Persistenceā in Scienceā by Michael Yassa on Medium:
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On Failure and āPathological Persistenceā in Science
If you look at a CV, academic life can appear very linear. Degrees lead to positions. Grants lead to papers. Papers lead to promotionsā¦
https://medium.com/@myassa_62896/on-failure-and-pathological-persistence-in-science-a74688db2de5
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If youāre a scientist and youāve ever opened a blank doc to start a paper and immediately regretted your life choices, youāre not alone. Here's my method. Read "Slot-Based Writing: The Cure for Scientific Paper Paralysis" on Medium
medium.com/@myassa_6289...
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Slot-Based Writing: The Cure for Scientific Paper Paralysis
If youāre a scientist and youāve ever opened a blank doc to start a paper and immediately regretted your life choices, youāre not aloneā¦
https://medium.com/@myassa_62896/slot-based-writing-the-cure-for-scientific-paper-paralysis-d2df0ad252e0
4 months ago
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aaron bornstein
5 months ago
#ACNP2026
- Wednesday afternoon
@biancaleonard.bsky.social
will present a computational model-driven motivational conflict challenge that identifies novel, *opposing* influences of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia
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@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
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Emily G. Jacobs
5 months ago
Incandescently happy to spend an evening with friends and colleagues at
@ucirvine.bsky.social
& the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory for the 2026 Barclay Lecture.
@mikeyassa.bsky.social
, it's an honor. Join us Jan 28. Registration:
cnlm.uci.edu/emilyjacobs/
@ucsb.bsky.social
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Nicole Rust
6 months ago
How do brains manage it? For a long while, the hippocampus has been known to be involved (thanks to
@brockkirwan.com
,
@mikeyassa.bsky.social
and others) - eg individuals with hippocampal damage are impaired at tasks like the Brady task.
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Landed at
#SfN
and we have lots of fun new results to share. See below for Yassalab poster presentations. If you want to talk
#Alzheimers
or
#mentalhealth
come chat with us.
#SfN25
#neurosky
#neuroskyence
#academicchatter
7 months ago
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Imaging Neuroscience
8 months ago
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dana M. Parker, Michael A. Yassa, et al: NODDI-derived measures of microstructural integrity in medial temporal lobe white matter pathways are associated with Alzheimerās disease pathology and cognition
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Tallie Z Baram
9 months ago
Published! to NAIL human paraventricular thalamus, we imaged & aligned postmortem human thalamus labeled c calretinin. Finally a gold standard allowing mouse, rat human comparisons
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A Combined Neuroanatomy, ExĀ Vivo Imaging, and Immunohistochemistry Defined MRI Mask for the Human Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus
Existing definitions of the human paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) differ between histological and MRI atlases; this study addresses this conflict by leveraging MRI and histology in the ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.70366
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Curing Alzheimerās disease requires a radically different approach. Read my latest piece in
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
12 months ago
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Eric Topol
about 1 year ago
He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
@science.org
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Tallie Z Baram
about 1 year ago
Gary lynch rocking a huge crowd talking about th 50 years of LTP
@cnlm.bsky.social
@serenadudette.bsky.social
@ucirvine.bsky.social
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#memory
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UC Irvine CNLM spring meeting fully in session! Celebrating decades of work on synaptic plasticity: From Molecules to Memory
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about 1 year ago
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The brilliant artwork by
@neurobatool.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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DEI is under fireā¦ but may be we need something better. I spent five years as a diversity officer in academia and this is what Iāve learned. Read my take at
@insidehighered.com
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Confessions of a Reformed DEI Officer (opinion)
We need to distinguish between good DEI and bad DEI, Michael A. Yassa writes.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/05/05/confessions-reformed-dei-officer-opinion
about 1 year ago
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Batool Rizvi
over 1 year ago
Ecstatic to receive my PhD today!! So incredibly thankful to my PI
@mikeyassa.bsky.social
for all his encouragement in growing my scientific career and endeavors. Also thankful to family, friends, and other mentors/collaborators! šš§ š
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