ICYMI My new picture book, SPARK, received a great review in Kirkus Reviews 🎉 Coming to bookstores on 10/21/25 via Candlewick Press 🎤 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #STEM #sciencematters #picturebooks #kidsbooks #hiddenfigures #Blackscientist #Blackprofessor

SWAT Team Robot Successfully Dismantles Black Man theonion.com/swat-te...

I’m begging neuroscientists to please decide if “Population Neuroscience” will henceforth refer to groups of people or groups of neurons 😭😭

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My best friend was there 🥹👏🏾👏🏾

Why does Delta airlines label me Mrs? Not that they need to know my marital status at all, bc it’s Dr!

What happens if you wear an overnight lip balm in the daytime? Do all nighttime products need SPF to make them safe in the sun?

Pittsburgh showing up to say No Kings!

Whatever ancient secret South Africans have in their music, I hope it never dies. Any genre they touch turns to gold. I’m just blessed to be on the same planet to hear it 🙏🏾😩

True story bro.

Check me out! Won last year's Young Explorer Award from AAAS/Science and I get to present my work in Switzerland next week 😎 youngexploreraward.nomisfoundation.ch

Sooo everyone else in my F99/K00 fellowship got their termination notices but I didn’t. My work *and* my mechanism are both DEI What gives?

In a blow to many foreign medical researchers who rely on U.S. funding, the NIH has announced that by the end of September, it will halt what are known as “foreign subawards,” in which U.S. researchers share their grant money with overseas collaborators. scim.ag/42UpRyQ

HOW DO YOU DE-FUND PBS, NPR, NSF, NIH, FDA, CDC, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION??? LIKE WHAT ELSE IS THERE??????????? PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THE POST OFFICE????

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

Just thinking about how there's literally a BROADWAY MUSICAL about why we needed to enact the Food & Drug Act.

NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.

WHAT (and i cannot emphasize this enough) THEE FUCK

I'm personally working on putting my time where my values lie. I'll be attending. mobilize.us/s/TXzddI

SfN reversed their decision, THE WORKSHOP IS ON, it will center around communicating neuroscience to non-English speaking communities, see you at SfN 2025!!!!

It Only Tuesday

In our first “Postdoc perspectives” essay, @fleabrained.bsky.social and @maribel-patino.bsky.social explain how grassroots organizations led by trainees are stepping up to provide career and mentorship guidance for neuroscience students from marginalized backgrounds. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4csFx0B

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

It’s honestly just another DEI cut. GRFP always had a focus on diversity, outreach, and pipeline strengthening (look up the history and the predecessor programs). As a 2015 recipient, I’m devastated. First Ford, then DSPAN, now GRFP.

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

I wish I could talk to Dean McLeod at this point in my life 😞 ( #WashU grads know what I mean )

My uni received a letter from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, demanding that it hand over information on all Chinese international graduate students, claiming that they are a threat to national security. wtf.

To the 8 people that congratulated me for returning to DuoLingo: I was just getting rid of red bubbles on my home screen. My Swahili has regressed to “hakuna matata” and “jambo”. Please respect my privacy at this time 😂

Upon reflection, I think the reason my return to the US these past 2 months have been so calm, routine-driven, and peaceful is bc underneath my exterior, there is a fiery rage so uncontrollable that if I turn the release valve even a tiny bit, I'll absolutely lose it. So that's how I'm doing!

This is Seth Milchik stan account henceforth

Not an HBCU band with Milchik as drum major!!!!! I'm screamingggg #SeveranceSky

Not the Chicago bulls theme song for Kier 😭 #SeveranceSky

I love being Black. We're so sensory! "Listen, chile" "Loooooook" "You hear meee??" "Girl, I see you!" "I felt that fr"

Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.

AIMBE's new fact sheets highlighting the NIH & NSF as economic engines have dropped at lnkd.in/ePRGWqnC! Did you know that every $1 in NIH research funding yielded $2.56 in new economic activity in the U.S.? NIH-funded research also supported over 400,000 jobs across the nation in FY2024!

I can't wait for the day when scientists learn that marketing is everything. That jargon is not always best. That scientists are humans too. These are simple lessons that allude the best of us. (see also: don't be a dick, and people will want to collaborate) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICYMI: Defining the clinical niche for photoacoustic imaging

if you were a university admin, what are the sorts of things you'd need from trainees to help us with bridge funding? i.e. impact of funding loss, like samples lost, collaborations disrupted, paper revisions interrupted, etc

Settling into my apartment despite the chaos of my funding situation... The name of my NIH fellowship and my work itself have the terms "diversity" and "inclusive" in them. We move! Life continues, and I'm grateful!

But seriously, I’m an avocado toast away from financial ruin over here wtaf is going onnn

Quiet as it’s kept, spring is actually a 2nd leather jacket season for the girlies 👩🏾‍🎤

Preparing for Seppuku (read: checked my light bill 😭😭😭)

That’s the plan! But also… that’s been the plan since I was like 14. Not saying it’s healthy, but it’s effective!

Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people