Haven't been posting a lot. Focusing on getting the lab up and running, but taking a lunch break on a beautiful day is 💯 Thanks @arunsethuraman.bsky.social for getting me out of the office 🙃

My new research home ❣️🔆 @sdsuresearch.bsky.social

Lost the final weeks of a grant because my former institution declined to work with the sponsor on a solution they pproposed.💸💸💸 Sadly, this says a lot about the environment I was in.

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Congratulations to Bridget in our lab to get the 2025 Trainee Professional Development Award by @sfn.org !! 🎉💪🏼 So well deserved!

If you have a "recently" (in the last 2 years) published paper with a preprint available, I’d love to hear from you! All neuroscience topics are welcome. 🙏🏼 Thank you!

I’m designing a course that uses preprints and their peer-reviewed, published versions to directly compare how manuscripts are originally conceived by authors and how the peer-review process shapes their final form.🎯My goal is to help students strengthen critical thinking and become fair reviewers.

This precious work came out almost a year ago and I am celebrating with one of the great authors who contributed. Thank you, Dr. Jensen and everyone else who made it happen 🍻

9 days left (no that I'm counting....)! 🌅🌯 Working every day with these people is the thing I’ll miss from Thomas Jefferson. I’ve been very lucky to work with students who set the bar pretty high!

So exciting to see my new @sdsuresearch.bsky.social profile biology.sdsu.edu/elena-blanco...

Our StepUp! To Cancer Research program intern presented her summer work today. Bravo, Bri!

A problem I'm familiar with. Obvious fix?: Train people to become good leaders. Get rid of those who can't and won't lead, who can't deal with conflict appropriately, who don't have emotional intelligence. From department chairs to the very top.

📣 Big news! The Blanco-Suarez Lab is moving to @sdsuresearch.bsky.social in beautiful San Diego🌅🌴 Excited to rejoin this science community and continue exploring astrocyte-neuron interactions in stroke and expanding to other models! 🧠Stay tuned for open positions!➡️www.blancosuarezlab.com

Muy entusiasmada de ser ponente en esta workshop organizada por @fleabrained.bsky.social Mark it in your schedule!

Submit a symposium proposal for ASN 2026! Deadline extended to July 16 🚨 icsevents.eventsair.com/Presentation...

Following up on this. I've heard a lot the "it dampens my enthusiasm". So the idea doesn't knock your socks off. Doesn't mean it's not worth supporting/pursuing it, if it's well-reasoned, interesting, rigorous. Your enthusiasm is not a fair criterion. Your enthusiasm is an opinion, in my opinion 😅

I don't think we realize that, as grant reviewers, when we don't do a good and fair job, we may be jeopardizing someone's career. Especially of junior faculty. Non-constructive, biased reviews don't help anyone.

Clearing my desk at home I found a pile of 15+ letters from some grateful San Diego middle schoolers when I used to have more time to do outreach. I need to find time again, because receiving those letters was more rewarding than any NOA.

It was refreshing and encouraging to hear a senior faculty calling out the BS with the current administration and funding situation. Thank you @dattalab.bsky.social for speaking up during your visit. Some faculty leaders can learn from that!

Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity

Join us today for another exciting session of #AstrocyteCafe, where Dr. Elena Blanco-Suarez (@eblancosuarez.bsky.social‬) will speak about Time and region-dependent roles of #astrocyte-secreted proteins in stroke! 🤩 Starting soon!

Thank you, Facultad de Medicina @ucm.es for this really cool gift for being a speaker at the seminar series. A copy of Ramón y Cajal's doctoral thesis (from 1877)!

It's been fantastic to visit Seoul for the first time, seeing amazing research in stroke, and meet up with old and new colleagues. Brain and Brain PET might become my favorite meeting!

I was looking for our review, authored by Eileen, to share with a student and... AI decided to change our names to male names. Are women in science getting their names "translated" to Edward/Eduardo?

Reposting this, because it seems like it was easy to be an advocate and an ally when it was "trendy", but not so much anymore...

Getting reprimanded for requesting a message of support for us, non-US citizen folks, is a new kind of soul-crushing experience.

🎗 Hoy es el #DíaMundialDeLaEsclerosisMúltiple. En el Instituto Cajal recordamos que la investigación es clave para mejorar el diagnóstico, los tratamientos y la vida de quienes conviven con EM. #MiDiagnósticoDeEM

Grateful for all the extensions in ESI status and clock - 4 in total over nearly 5 yrs, due to difficult or unprecedented circumstances (covid, grief, politics...). I wish things had gone differently, more "normal". But we keep going... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I came back to the lab today to do some mouse surgeries. I hadn't realized how much I missed it. And I can confirm... I've still got it 😏 (phew)

"(...)so many senior faculty are still trapped by their perceptions of the grant game as it was back in the 1980s" 💯 In the meantime, we are choking. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/y...

Any advice if after a couple of emails your PO is still not responding? Should I keep insisting?

🧠 If women’s brain injuries aren’t studied, they’re not seen. 💸 If they’re not seen, they’re not funded. 🏥 If they’re not funded, better care doesn't happen. Equity in research is not a luxury. It is a necessity. #ResearchJustice #BrainHealth #TBI #PinkConcussion

Good thread summarizing the gutting of science by the administration. We need to keep fighting back and educating the public on what will be lost if they continue. 🧪

DM if you'd like to be part of our panel! Looking for a few more, if you have experience in communicating science in Spanish or other languages for your community, and believe you have lessons learned that you'd like to share to the audience, let me know!

New post from NeuWrite Philly! By our own Andrea Berghella 👏🏼 neuwritephl.wixsite.com/neuwrite-phi...

The amazing Bridget, grad student in the lab, won the Jefferson Research as Art competition with this pretty neuronal composite (sorry, no astrocytes 😁). And Gabi, another awesome student (and the newest addition to our lab), submitted another piece with some suspicious but pretty culture 🙃

Thank you @canxuki.bsky.social for hosting me and showing me UMBC's beautiful campus! Visiting other institutions to present our work and getting to know students and faculty still one of my favorite things of this job.

It's been a while since I stopped everything I was doing to read a paper. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Been in an endless email chain with Leica for a month to get our camera repaired. The quote: flat rate travel for the technician $2,200 (x2, to pick up and return). Are they coming from Australia? And noncontractual customer fees (whatever that means) for $~$8,000 💸 Oh, the abuse!

Right now in Philly @50501movement.bsky.social ✊🏼

Today is my birthday. Study section was meant to happen but got cancelled, like many others. We haven't heard officially though. Turns out to have ss on your birthday is not a good omen.

If you are interested in synaptic plasticity, you probably know that Ras is important. But... which one? Would you have guessed that there is one Ras for potentiation and another one for depression? Check our latest publication in @embojournal.org doi.org/10.1038/s443... @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social

There’s a viral story ab a green card holder getting deported. If you have a green card and travel abroad, never sign anything at customs—they can’t make you. I'm a green card holder. I’ve been stuck in those little rooms before, you'd do whatever they say to get out. DON'T tinyurl.com/4t32yr

I just got my first notification that a Diversity-based mechanism for which I applied for has been cancelled. And this was NOT NIH.

Dear tenured full professors: Stop saying "What a horrible time to be a junior scientist". Stating the obvious doesn't help.

Young researchers are essential for us to improve human health and society. The fear and confusion caused by current administration has real consequences that real people have to face. Help tell their story and support science across the US. #research #science #neurosky #neuroskyence #STEAM #STEM

🚨 Applications are closing soon. Late-stage doctoral students and early-career postdocs are encouraged to apply to the Rising Stars Symposium—an incredible opportunity to present your research, network with faculty, and explore open postdoc positions at Sanford Burnham Prebys. Apply: bit.ly/4ixccVs

Are you a postdoctoral basic researcher studying stroke who has benefited from finding good mentors? Or have you had bad experiences? Please reach out to me, we want to hear your story! Send me a DM 📬

Are you at #ISC25? I'll be presenting our work tonight at 7pm (poster P344). Come by! I am craving some good discussion about advantages and caveats of using sub-anesthetic ketamine in stroke🧠

We can and should continue to advocate for DEIA, no matter what, even if we can't write it down or say the words out loud.