Got my run in earlier at School of Biological Sciences retreat in Lake Arrowhead. Now indulging in amazing science from our PhD program!

I could not be luckier to have such an amazing mentor behind me as I develop myself both personally and professionally. Thank you @neal-lab.bsky.social for standing behind and with me in this journey and @hhmi.org for this opportunity!

Scientific pursuit is a team effort, built on mutual trust, respect and collaboration from mentor & mentee. Grateful every day for this journey, and so proud of my mentee @ericjordahl.bsky.social for being selected as @HHMINEWS Gilliam fellow! biology.ucsd.edu/about/news/2...

Grateful to share my academic journey & our lab’s research in the School of Bio.Science lecture series which build a bridge between our amazing administrative staff and faculty, further strengthening the bonds that make our community so special. Thankful to be part of it! @ucsandiego.bsky.social

Look what came in today! @jenheemstra.bsky.social can’t wait to learn your ways. You have paved the way for so many of us 🙏🏽

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

STEM isn’t a pipeline—it’s a braided river. Verónica Segarra offers a new model to support inclusion and rethink how we view scientific careers. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #ASCB #CellBiology

So proud of my trainee, @ericjordahl.bsky.social , for being selected as an HHMI Gilliam Fellow! Your dedication to outreach and your relentless pursuit of inclusive excellence are unmatched! You are so deserving of this honor!!!!!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/gil...

Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉 The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments. Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.

$400M more for the NIH in FY26 is a win for all Americans. Read our full statement thanking the Senate Appropriations Committee for their bipartisan support of scientific research: ow.ly/gtMv50WyRza.

Keep an eye out for this rising star on the faculty job market. Elizabeth is truly remarkable. Her resilience and determination continue to inspire me, especially in the face of setbacks during these times. #proudMOSAICcoach

Elizabeth Kaweesa was recently featured in ASBMB Today. Here's the link! ow.ly/k7EF50WykAJ

"To retreat from [diversity, equity and inclusion] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward." @anthrofuentes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First run in at GRS/GRC molecular membrane biology conference. GRS has been an amazing start to an exciting week ahead! #GRC #ProctorAcademy

“If you cut out these diversity measures, you're going to make science full of people that are very elite…Full of people who have grown up with a large amount of privilege, who were able to work in a lab in high school because their dad was a prof at Cornell.” 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Reflecting on the resilience of @bummpatucsd.bsky.social community and grateful to the #Wileypress #JCellularPhys for supporting our undergrad & master’s scholars and spotlighting their amazing research. It’s more important than ever to come together to support the future generation of trainees!

On Juneteenth, and in this era of rising vaccine disinformation, it is useful to contemplate that three centuries ago, the knowledge of an African slave introduced the concept of immunization to America, launching the first successful public inoculation campaign  🧵Thread 1/8 #Juneteenth #Vaccines

New @neal-lab.bsky.social team photo! ❤️ Leaning on each other more than ever during these times & grateful for this resilient, inspiring group. #NealLab

🖤 On #Juneteenth, we honor the fight for Black freedom — delayed, but never denied. At #BlackInNeuro, we carry that legacy forward by creating space for Black excellence in neuroscience, year-round. ✨ Freedom is a journey — and we’re not done yet. ✊🏾

Huge congratulations to all which include superstars @luisci22.bsky.social and my MOSAIC mentee Elizabeth Kaweesa🎉🎉🎉

Thank you, Sonya ‪@neal-lab.bsky.social‬. It was a real pleasure organizing the meeting with Julie, and we’re thrilled you’ll be co-organizing in 2027. The ER community will be in excellent hands and we already look forward to seeing the direction you and Julie take the next edition.

Huge thanks to @gthibault.bsky.social and Julie Hollien for organizing a warm, welcoming FASEB ER meeting filled with incredible science! Excited that I will carry the torch as a co-organizer for the 2027 meeting….can’t wait! @faseborg.bsky.social

Top of the morning run in beautiful Melbourne, Florida. Now get to indulge in amazing science at the ER @faseborg.bsky.social meeting!

All because I have the best mentor!!!

Thrilled to share two amazing grad students @dagarwal.bsky.social @ericjordahl.bsky.social have advanced to candidacy! Milking these moment for all they’re worth…pure joy radiating through the Neal lab today🎊🙌🏽

Microbiome folks: one of my former students is a Gilliam fellow & is looking for an HHMI lab for a postdoc in the next year-ish. She has a lot of bioinformatics (16S for sure, I am not sure what else) experience. Have any leads?

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

📣 🥳 🧑‍💻 Our department is hiring: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark Deadline June 1st Thanks for sharing! mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Huge thanks to @joann-trejo.bsky.social for delivering a powerful and inspiring keynote at the @bummpatucsd.bsky.social annual symposium. Your words lit a fire in the room and reminded us why pursuit of bold science, mentorship and community matter♥️

The @bummpatucsd.bsky.social annual symposium was a ray of light for our undergrad & master’s students. The future is bright but only if we invest in those that shape it♥️

The annual @bummpatucsd.bsky.social symposium happening now! Come by for mentees’ poster session/talk!

Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

Proud coach & mentor of these two amazing postdocs! Drs. Elizabeth Kaweesa and Rebecca Faulkner are rising stars and will be hitting the job market soon—keep an eye out for these two! #ASBMB

This was the last @hhmi.org conference Lilly and Yuh-Nung Jan attended as investigators. They're becoming HHMI emeritus but still run a thriving NIH-funded lab. From cloning the first potassium ion channel (Shaker) to decoding neuronal development, the Jans have made a huge impact.

Many brilliant scientists are now being punished by having our funding terminated because we are from underrepresented groups. We did everything right and we EARNED these awards. Remember us when you’re making decisions on whether DEI should be sacrificed to “protect” research funding. #InMyFeelings

I interviewed for the Big Picture Science podcast to be aired on NPR this week, and I am overwhelmed by how well it turned out. Please listen and share. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/dis...

Checkout @500womensci.bsky.social weekly wrap-up- bringing important content and perspective - worth a read, we all need to rise up! mailchi.mp/500womenscie...

13th LA Marathon in the books! My last marathon was March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic and didn’t run it since. Needed more than ever to be a part of something where the best of humanity is on display for 26.2 miles. Cheers to many more!

Come be our colleague! Interested in careers @ PUI or R2? We envision this 3yr position to be launching pad for such roles. Teaching & research. Modest start-up. Mentoring, other resources. Great for graduating PhD students, current PDs. Please share! www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

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I will be at UCSD this Friday! Come by, say hello, and Stand Up for Science🧪

LET’S DO THIS UCSD #standupforscienceUCSD

I emailed university faculty/staff/administrators a roadmap to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty. The question isn’t whether institutions will comply—it’s who will fight back, and how! greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

Looking for leaders and team members for several states! If you’re interested, sign up info below :D let’s #standupforscience

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My statement regarding the decision to drop the second round of the CZI Science Diversity Leadership Award funding opportunity:

I emailed NIH program officers I know to thank them for all they’ve done and continue to do. This is a great time to show appreciation—let people know you value them!

Each piece of good news no matter how small is like a knife of light and we will need many to cut through this shroud. There I no question we will need a concerted effort to help our colleagues who find themselves in a terrible situation through no fault of their own. But we can do both. /2

Flooding BlueSky with good news today. Neal lab received a NoA! Grateful our NIH R35 MIRA renewal is funded to support our ongoing work on membrane protein quality! 🙏🙏

Our work is finally published! We developed a robust in vitro platform to study a disease relevant membrane protease, notoriously difficult to isolate.This protease has linked to cancer & neurodegen,and our platform opens new doors for structural & drug discovery. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...