Get em all.

I was one of the first people to donate to Mamdani's campaign and TBH I thought I was donating to keep a dream alive, even though the dream was not going to become a reality Choose hope. Choose to dream. Choose a just in case we win scenario. Sometimes we do. Go forward knowing that, fam.

Tomorrow (Nov 3) at 6:30pm EST, join @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, the Harvard University Division of Science, and @harvardlibrary.bsky.social in welcoming award-winning neuroscientist @okaysteve.bsky.social for a discussion and signing of his new book, How to Change a Memory RSVP: buff.ly/PEwnVu8

Birthday cakes I made this month 🎂 Happy Halloween

I miss the good old science Twitter days. How are the grad students that I followed years ago doing now? Have they defended? What are y’all up to 🥺

We've added even more to our Applying to Faculty Jobs 101! Follow the link below to find tips from @drnancypadilla.bsky.social and @moeneuro.bsky.social on everything from where to find job ads, how to advocate for yourself, what goes into a research statement, and more!

But what if there are two co-first authors and the first-first author is actually also co-corresponding author with the last author but the second-first author isn’t?

Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology

New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Come be our colleague! Application deadline: November 22 apply.interfolio.com/176153

My first first-author paper is published! At the intersection of metabolism and reproduction, we wrote this review with a broad audience in mind, and hope that there is something for everyone. Excited for the future of the field and honored to be a part of it! academic.oup.com/endo/article...

We are hiring 🎉 Brandeis Neuroscience is looking for an Assistant Professor. The search is in the broad area of cellular/circuit neuroscience. It’s a fantastic place to do research and train students.If you’re interested, apply and reach out with any questions! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

No labor today

It should be said too that in the two-state solution scenario, this would still happen because apartheid with all its anti-miscegenation tendencies would still be baked in

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions

Me not knowing I missed a paper from the 80’s

Brown University is caving to Trump. They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university. president.brown.edu/president/br...

I am honored to be selected as an ASCB fellow! SO much thanks to those who nominated me and provided letters of support! And congratulations to the other Fellows selected! 🎉🥳🎊

Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social! Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress rdcu.be/ezzYq

Nature research paper: A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours go.nature.com/4l0XKoB

Ever wondered how fasting and lactation affect gene expression in the hypothalamus? Looking for a dataset to mine? Look no further! We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of the arcuate nucleus and medial preoptic area in 4 groups of female mice: zenodo.org/records/1531...

This is probably my favorite comment from a reviewer. Sometimes, less is more 😉 Read the full transcript of the reviewers’ comments and our responses for our recent @nature.com publication here: static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Terrific study, led by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social, on the neural circuitry underlying the prioritisation of competing motivated behaviors, out in @nature.com 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@nytimes.com recent attack on Zohran Mamdani was bullshit and angered me as a mixed person. We exist. Sorry, we don't fit into your boxes.

if anyone at the NYT wants to talk about this rufo/mamdani/columbia leak clusterfuck, i’m marisakabas.04 on signal

a political consultancy that does what now?

First time having my own apartment! Crazy to think that until I was 17, we lived in a 1-bedroom as a family of 5.

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!

Is it finally time for systems neuroscience to take hormones seriously? OMG YES! @meenakshiasokan.bsky.social and I share some of our thoughts about recent work in this review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For a living, I got to study a sliver of the world that truly fascinated me. What a privilege. Here’s to more discoveries ✨ PhD in Neuroscience from Brown University ‘25

"to run a contest that you end up not funding as a private organization at this time is… both extremely wasteful of these people’s time, and just devastating in terms of morale." I spoke with @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT today about HHMI's decision not to fund this round of Hanna Gray applicants.

Life update: moved to New Jersey! Excited to start my new gig as a postdoc at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute 🤩🧠

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At Princeton University we are being clear about our continued commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination, in full compliance with law (as opposed to executive order) and consistent with our ethical responsibilities as educators for the entire nation. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Thanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Had my thesis defense yesterday and got my PhD in Neuroscience! 😎 Thank you @mikekrashes.bsky.social for your mentorship and friendship

Loved the dissertation talk on how hypothalamic neurons help balance hunger versus parental behaviors by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social, mentored by @mikekrashes.bsky.social Great science, and a poised presentation!

Internally (and externally) screaming

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -

Our paper @dulaclab.bsky.social on social homeostasis is online today! We characterized “social rebound” behavior after social isolation in multiple mouse strains and revealed its neural basis. Intriguingly, soft touch plays a key role in satisfying social need! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How is it that I, a PhD program director at Pitt, heard about this from the media and not my University?!?

This might just be my outfit for my thesis defense next month