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Extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego last week. I had the chance to serve on an amazing panel at this year’s ENDURE meeting alongside incredible neuroscientists, and I also presented a poster on our MDMA-assisted therapy work.

at ABRCMS 2025? Stop by our Colors of the Brain scholar posters!

I'll be presenting my work on the social, neural, and hormonal effects of shared stress Sunday 8-12. Come check it out! #SFN25

I’ll be presenting my work on species-specific differences in neural population dynamics during singing, multi-region models of HVC and RA, and how population geometry and coupling relates to vocal flexibility. Come check it out Saturday from 1-5!

worth noting this is the exact approach you get a lot of flak from other scientists for trying

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Neurociencias Para Todos brings neuroscience education to remote communities in Mexico. @analog-ashley.bsky.social‬ talked with founder Monica López-Hidalgo about the program’s efforts and the importance of making neuroscience accessible to all. www.thetransmitter.org/community/br...

Bad news for the species, to be sure, but the upside pedagogically is that the data seem to suggest that if you want to know whether a student actually wrote their paper, a fairly effective assessment is simply to ask them to talk about it and to walk you through their arguments.

The "just learn to code" approach to society turned into "just make your own cancer medicine" faster than anyone anticipated I think

We'll be having our 3rd annual MINDS Symposium this August 29th, 1-5 pm Bonner Hall 2130! The CoB scholars will highlight their research, along with a keynote from Dr. Anne Beatty-Martinez from UCSD, special thanks to @ibroorg.bsky.social for supporting Aisha Cinar and Sasha Bikkina this summer!

I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it! Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This happened right down the street from my house, at the place where my kids went to after-school care. He originally came on a student visa, is employed as a doctor, married a US citizen, has a young child, and has applied for a green card. WTF. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Six months ago: get attacked in multiple executive orders that declare everything you work on in STEM education "illegal", funding pulled from your field Now: get EDI award as you continue to do the work anyway, as you always have and always will You absolute badass @analog-ashley.bsky.social

New STAT story about NIH rescinding the institution-wide anti-DEI term and condition that had been added to Notices of Award. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n... 1/n

“In an unusual act of public protest, more than 340 scientists and staff at the National Institutes of Health today released a statement charging NIH officials and their superiors with politicizing science.” www.science.org/content/arti... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration

Very proud of my latest article with @network-alba.bsky.social! I encourage all STEM researchers to check it out, we try to give practical tips whether you're working with human participants, animals, or just collecting diversity data for e.g. a conference. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Stoked to share our new review on why neuroendocrinology needs a systems lens and why hormones should matter to systems neuroscience. It’s time for serious cross-talk!

Trump’s cuts to research programs directly harms scientists from working class backgrounds. Bridges built between the blue collar and ivory tower are collapsing in front of us.

Just got the notice for termination of my K00! add it to the pile of illegal contract termination, now if only our leaders gave a shit I'd be more hopeful

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!

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

RFK Jr. has me irritated for several reasons, but the premise that the sole purpose of life is to work (pay taxes) and date (procreate) demonstrates how people with disabilities are seen as defective in an extractive, exploitive, and capitalist society. #Eugenics #Ableism #Disabilism

Always inspired by fellow trainees like @fleabrained.bsky.social creating opportunities for the next generation. Feeling powerless lately in the context of national news but focusing on the power that I DO have to continue opening doors for undergrads www.thetransmitter.org/community/as...

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

As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

NSF GRFP Awards by the Year: 2021 - 2074 2022 - 2193 2023 - 2555 2024 - 2036 2025 - 1000 Again, these funding cuts will have drastic longterm effects on the scientific future of the US....... @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

Here’s a Harvard student with more courage than the University President www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... via @annaekstrom.bsky.social

Julia Gorman @jcgorman.bsky.social highlighting that sensory processing is not static but exhibits temporal dynamics that is shaped by expectation and behaviour. www.youtube.com/live/f7cm6CU... 4/4

Our brains use prediction in two seemingly contradictory ways. Our latest paper, just published in @natureneuro.bsky.social, investigates how we do it. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expectation-driven sensory adaptations support enhanced acuity during categorical perception in European starlings 🧠🧪 @timsainburg.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bravo @plos.org! US exec orders "stand in direct conflict with our core values, our mission, edit policies" "PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor & editorial integrity... we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science" theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

I think the plot has been lost a little on what DEI is and how it’s implemented. I wrote a piece about why DEI matters and how it actually allows meritocracy to thrive. neuwritesd.org/2025/02/20/m...

#Neuroskyence educators - looking for ideas on how to broach the topic of science funding with your students? @analog-ashley.bsky.social shared tips and ideas in @thetransmitter.bsky.social from educators, incl. our own @rpenton.bsky.social! 🔗 www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach... #iteachbio

The UC system released guidelines related to immigration actions on campus. Key points for those of us who work on UC campuses: 1. Our police officers should NOT be working with immigration authorities to remove students. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/frequently-a...

Petro, in 2021: “At NASA and Kennedy Space Center, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”

The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.

I tried to look up the f99/k00 DSPAN and got this.

This is so sad

Step 1) find your rep www.congress.gov/members/find... Step 2) send an email or call their office Step 3) tell them that federal spending on scientific advancement is the best hope we have to “win against china” or whatever these guys are obsessed with these days

Instead of just reading summaries on news sites, I highly recommend going through these executive orders and really absorbing the intent and language. It's fucked. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... It is of greater importance now for individual labs to open career pathways for marginalized peoples in research as programs being to be hamstrung

People asking “what can we do”? Good advice to enact accountability in our scientific societies. Use the power you have in the spaces you can. Keep pushing for 1) gender inclusive and or single use restrooms 2) inclusive pronouns on registration portal 3) ensure code of conduct is up to date Etc

Thank you to the UC San Diego Mentoring for All initiative for the Mentorship Program Award!

thanks to my PI for the paper copy of our Colors of the Brain article! first thing in the issue 🤩

NIH funding generated $2.46 for every $1 funded in 2023. Important info for scientific advocacy in the years ahead- science is a quantifiable investment, not just a cost. H/t to @nicolecrust.bsky.social for sharing! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...