I'm honored to run for President-elect of the American Assn for the Advancement of Science (AAAS ), which promotes diverse, responsible science. Vote for President-Elect until April 21. aaas.org/governance/202…

Congratulations to Keith Yamamoto for being elected president of AAAS! Learn more about the extensive experience he’ll bring to the role here: ucsf.edu/news/2022/05/4…

Join ESAL and @justice_data on July 19th from 5-6pm ET for our upcoming panel, 'Science for the People'. RSVP to join the discussion on how to center communities in scientific projects, with the goal of empowering community members to effect local change! esal.us/science-for-th…

NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on. Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials... ARIES Doctoral Training UK Research and Innovation Natural Environment Research Council

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our SPG Welcome Picnic! Hope we'll see you all at our leadership meeting next Thursday at 5:30pm! 💙

How have legacies of global imperialism & IP law shaped access to lifesaving technologies? Explore the logistics of vaccine research, production, & distribution in our upcoming speaker series. Check out the flyer ⬇️ and spgatucsf.org for more info.

Highly recommend checking out this seminar series on global covid vaccine distribution policy! Put together by a fabulous postdoc, brilliant nursing student, and the rest of our SPG team!

Join us for the 1st installment of the Vaccine Equity Series on Thu 9/29 @ 5:30pm! Achal Prabhala will discuss global vaccine rollout, policy, & ongoing efforts towards more equitable distribution. RSVP @ tinyurl.com/VaccineEquity1 & check out the rest of the series ⤵️

For anyone interested in what patent-free vaccines COULD look like, come check this out!! On Zoom and in HD-160 at UCSF!

Had a great discussion w/ Achal Prabhala on the role of monopolies in vaccine dev & distribution. How can we change the system? Join Maria Elena Bottazzi on Mon 10/3 to talk patent-free #Corbevax. RSVP: tinyurl.com/VaccineEquity2

Vaccine distribution CAN be equitable! Come join our discussion with Dr. Botazzi today at 12pm PT to learn more about her experience with Corbevax in India!

"It's all in the empowerment. Bring them to the table, sit them at the front, & ask them first what they have to say." - Maria Elena Bottazzi on decolonizing vax dev. How can we best move forward? Join Monica Gandhi MD, MPH on Wed 5pm PT to find out: tinyurl.com/VaccineEquity3

BREAKING: Nearly 50,000 University of California student workers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to go on strike, an action that threatens to hobble UC campuses and laboratories up and down the state ahead of next month’s final exams. trib.al/IIYaPF5

This is what union power looks like across several of the UC campuses 🎉 (featuring UCB, UCSD, UCR, and UCLA)

Interested in overdose prevention but not sure how to help as a community member? Join us for a seminar & hands-on training with @DallasAugustine theDOPEProject; leave with fentanyl test strips + nasal Narcan. RSVP: tinyurl.com/SPGharmredux @hramofficial Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs UCSF School of Medicine

First ever UCSF Sci Pol mini-course! :) Been four years in the making, and the finished product is awesome. Highly recommend taking it if you can next year!

What an amazing way to kick off the new academic year at our annual Welcome Picnic! We’re so excited to meet so many #scipol enthusiasts and we can’t wait to make everyone’s event ideas a reality!

Using chimeric mouse model w/ iPSC-derived neurons, Antara Rao, Yadong Huang, et al. examine effects of APOE4 & microglial depletion on #Alzheimers pathogenesis. They demonstrate how neuronal #APOE4 & #Microglia promote Aβ/tau pathology. Cell sciencedirect.com/science/articl…