It’s been a 24 hour traveling day from Portland to Pécs, which includes 2 planes, a bus, a metro, a train & a car. I am so excited to be at ERM2025 and to be selected as a speaker in the New Perspectives, Tools and Resources session!

Congratulations to Dr. Teva Bracha on his successful dissertation defense!

Thanks to OPB for doing a feature on the PREP program at OHSU. www.opb.org/article/2025...

With all the chaos and destruction of academic research going on in the US right now, it feels a little weird to post this. But.... New preprint from the lab is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

If you show a mouse a movie, you may just learn a lot about the visual cortex! Thank you @karissawaddick.bsky.social for sharing our recent publication of the most complete functional map of an animal brain yet in @usatoday.com. 🧠📈 Read the article: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I completely forgot what day it was. @ninaluong.bsky.social got me!

1/ There it is! 😊 Published today in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DONATE to protect biomedical research: bit.ly/4i3RhsF Executive orders & changes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be catastrophic to our ability to perform groundbreaking research and train the next generation of scientists. Learn more about the Vollum: www.ohsu.edu/vollum-insti...

This needs attention www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Anglerfish turn out to be considerably less frightening once you know how tiny they are.

Finally, while we first learned about this with F31 predoctoral fellowships and diversity supplements, this is also occurring for F32 postdoctoral, K99/R00 and F99/R00 postdoctoral transition awards, and R01s with explicit diversity language. 14/n

And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists

My feed is overwhelmed with scientists right now calling out the catastrophic consequences of the NIH indirect cost order from last night. If those same people aren't also speaking out against the anti-trans, anti-DEI, anti-immigrant orders...we are lost. The only path forward is solidarity.

As someone who wants to stay in academic research, how is it even possible to stay optimistic right now…

It’s 8pm. I’ve been in my dark room recording since 8am…my vision is getting blurry but I don’t want to give up yet 🥲

I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!

I created a simple flow chart to help my lab trainees choose the most appropriate stats test in Prism (*for single-factor comparisons only). Feel free to share with your group if you think it could be helpful first start.

Happy to share my first preprint from the McCormick Lab! If you're interested in mesoscale 2-photon imaging and the relationship between neocortical activity and movement/arousal, check it out! A thread...🧵 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I still can't believe I work in a laboratory.

Can confidently say it was awesome 😎

Crocheted retinal neurons #crochet #sciart #science #scicomm #neuroscience

Job Alert! University of Oregon, Department of Human Physiology is searching for an Assistant Professor, with a focus in Neuroscience. All areas of neuroscience-related research are welcome, including research using model organisms or humans. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25319

2 weeks until my first DAC meeting- is it normal to be excited?