I’ve been mentoring admissions + fellowship applications for ~6 years (through Científico Latino, Project SHORT, TechDev Academy, and as an NSF mentor via Harvard GSAS), and I finally formalized it into a clear coaching structure with options + pricing. www.yaelcourtney.com/coaching

I read 150 books in 2025, here were my favorites 📚 Did you read and love (or hate) any of these? See next post to take a closer look. Also, always looking for recs! What books moved you this year? What book could you not stop thinking about? Any genre!

I read 150 books in 2025, here were my favorites 📚 Did you read and love (or hate) any of these? See next post to take a closer look. Also, always looking for recs! What books moved you this year? What book could you not stop thinking about? Any genre!

After months of work in DC, @rephaleystevens.bsky.social has, with the support of @standupforscience.bsky.social, introduced articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. But...the press thinks it can't be done. We aren't buying it. WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Impeach him.

YOUR MOVE @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

“We now have the single most effective intervention against dementia [shingles vaccine]…if this was a drug this would be a blockbuster…but since it’s a vaccine I think the public isn’t getting the magnitude” awesome @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Grand Rounds by @erictopol.bsky.social today.

What causes long covid? Check out this week's video to see how one scientist is trying to unravel this mystery: www.youtube.com/shorts/b3OAG...

Some engagement posts taken with self timer by my talented partner @kylemurphyphoto.bsky.social

This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷

every time sama posts about “you could have phd level intelligence i. your pocket” i simply remember that i can text actual phd @scienceyael.bsky.social whenever i want and not burn down a meadow to do it

Excited to see a new cohort of @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellows. I have seen the impact this program has had and am glad its continuing. Special congrats to UNC's Celeste Robles and her advisor Helen Lazear, continuing a long tradition of amazing Gilliam Fellows here

No one should ever have the power to autonomously cancel hundreds of millions of dollars for scientific research based on some lies they saw on YouTube.

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants. RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

P.S. this review was originally 5x longer and soooo much more fun/historical/engaging/narrative.... DM me if you want the director's cut LOL the reviewers did not care for the style.

Call Congress 202-224-3121 or use @5calls.org Pressure is necessary. #StandWithScience For @resist.bot write your Own letters or simply click the one below to sign and share, or text sign PQFDDW to 50409 resist.bot/petitions/PQ...

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David Corey is one of the most brilliant scientists I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Cutting funding to scientists like him is going to hurt our country in so many ways including its standing in the world as well as economically. Not to mention the health of our citizens. All for what?

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL. FLOOD THE ZONE 🚨 The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more. Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF. & watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND

Now a Jane Coffin Childs postdoc at Stanford, @scienceyael.bsky.social studies how infections like Epstein–Barr, COVID, & Lyme trigger long-term neurological disease. We talk science, survival, solidarity, & making academia accessible for those without a safety net. #LongCOVID #ChronicLyme 5/

At 15, @scienceyael.bsky.social fled a violent fundamentalist household. She battled #eatingdisorders, self-harm, & poverty—working night shifts while teaching herself high school. She forged a transcript to escape, later confessed, earned a GED, & won a full scholarship to Kent State. 3/

In Ep. 46 of A Chat with Uma, I talk to Dr. Ya’el Courtney @scienceyael.bsky.social—a neuroscientist whose life traverses extreme circumstances that most only read about. From surviving an abusive home to couch-surfing through high school, her path to neurosci. is nothing short of extraordinary. 2/

🎓 FROM FOSTER CARE TO HARVARD NEUROSCIENTIST: The Choice to Live, Maternal #Psychedelics, & Post-Viral Chronic Illnesses with Dr. Ya’el Courtney @scienceyael.bsky.social ☄️ Ep. 46 of A Chat with Uma is out everywhere now! Truly a MUST listen🌟👏🏾 🎙️Tune in here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma... 1/

📣EVENT ALERT! Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you! Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN @burkebrewing.bsky.social

“More than 270 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency signed a letter on Mon denouncing the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.” This is courage.🧪 @maxinejoselow.bsky.social

Babies are being born with measles in Alberta, having caught the illness in utero from unvaccinated mothers. The measles outbreak in Alberta is huge. Their case count is approaching 1,000. A baby born with measles in Ontario has already died. Please get your vaccines. This is all preventable.

New for @teenvogue.com: Republicans love to talk about how much they care about the American worker, but the Trump admin’s anti-worker, anti-regulatory, anti-science agenda is putting millions of workers in danger—and more of them are going to die because of it www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

Here is a good profile of Judge Young. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

In case you needed another reason to hate Epstein-Barr virus- it looks like it might cause primary sclerosing cholangitis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks for highlighting this work by me and @lehtinenlab.bsky.social !!

ICE: It is DEEPLY OFFENSIVE and HURTFUL to compare us to the gestapo. Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.

“The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations.”

1. Do you believe that pathogens cause disease? 2. Why has CDC greatly reduced testing and monitoring for human H5N1 cases? 3. Do you believe that HIV causes AIDS? 4. Do you believe that the polio vaccine is safe & effective and will you commit to not changing recommendations on polio vaccination?

Upset abt RFK Jr. firing the Vaccine Advisory panel? Here’s what you can do. Public comment for the June 25-27 ACIP meeting opened today & closes 6/20. Let’s flood the public comments. Find talking points & sample comment below. @standupforscience.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/precauti...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

Please join the chorus of voices, including my own, in support of the talented, hardworking and dedicated scientists and staff at NIH. They serve their country by deploying their training and skills to improve the health and quality of life of all Americans 🙏 🇺🇸

“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

next round of trainee gifts, thanks @christineliu.art twophotonart.com !

🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash. THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science. Our Open Letter is featured here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

An apocrine secretion mechanism in the choroid plexus that modulates the CSF protein composition and instructs cortical development @lehtinenlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...