Fifty four years ago today, the Kent State shootings of unarmed students at a rally protesting the expanding Vietnam War launched a nationwide awakening as universities, including UVA, saw student walkouts and demonstrations. #maydays

this is the university of virginia. they let nazis march but they won’t let you protest genocide.

THIS is the set-up that prompted multiple police forces to come to uva with zipties, tear gas, and riot gear. How many times with Charlottesville become a shorthand for unnecessary violence and destruction?

How much do you know about the longest-living Nobel Prize laureate ever? Learn more about medicine laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini who discovered nerve growth factor and was 103 years old when she passed away in 2012. #NobelPrize

Image 1: Retina captured with ex vivo confocal imaging. Image credit: Marta Grannonico and Migna Liu.

The Northern Lights over UVA! 💫

It's great to see Brain Camp is alive and well in Charlottesville. Shout out to Department of Psychology at UVA alum Amalia M. Skyberg, PhD and SkybergRolf for creating such an awesome program. Thanks to all the current students for continuing to make it grow! news.virginia.edu/content/uno-yo…

Big day for neuroscience & the end of the beginning for whole brain connectomics. Shout out to Sven Dorkenwald and Philipp Schlegel, first authors of the connectome papers, Murthy Lab Sebastian Seung for establishing #flywire to make this possible and Davi Bock for birthing this dataset.

Fly connectome got a shoutout on SNL 😮 Saturday Night Live - SNL

Happy Holidays! From our labs to yours. ⁦Connelly Lab⁩

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH science.org/content/articl…

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists go.nature.com/41nzzsP

When your kids ask you what you did to save US science in the crisis of ‘25, you will say that you showed up! Please spread the word and join us!!

"As long as people in power use ignorance as a weapon, science will always be political and we will always have to defend it." #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScience2025

Thousands of the best experts at FDA, NIH, and all across HHS are being terminated right now. These are the people who make sure the medications you and your children take are safe. These are the people who perform and oversee research on cancer, infant health, and so so so

Our scientists with over 150 collaborators have released the largest functional map and wiring diagram of the brain to date – seven years in the making. Today’s 1.6 petabyte release marks a historic day for neuroscience. This moonshot milestone will further efforts towards

Grad school

Excited to share this paper which encapsulates so much of my graduate career!

#SnapshotsinNeuroscience: Tree Shrew Visual Thalamus This image from Sciaccotta, Kipcak, and Erisir shows excitatory axon terminals expressing vesicular glutamate transporters in the thalamus of a tree shrew. Image credit: Arda Kipcak blog.eneuro.org/2025/08/snapsh…