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I loved my time in 🇨🇦, but I missed the idiosyncrasies of life on a college campus in the US 🤣😅 espn.com/mens-college-b…

Do I miss Toronto? Of course. But having this as my patio view as a read papers on a Friday afternoon is a pretty fair trade 😀 Also, the #PhDog enjoys it too!

I just contacted my reps (Richard Blumenthal Sen. Murphy Office Rep. Joe Courtney) to advocate for continued full support for the BRAIN Initiative. For a #NewPI like myself, this funding is CRITICAL! It took 5 minutes thanks to this tool from Society for Neuroscience (SfN): sfn.org/Advocacy/Advoc…

As a #NewPI reviewing a flawed manuscript, I make sure not only identify the flaws but suggest ways they might be remedied in revision. I'm guessing the length and rigor of reviews decays exponentially with time on the job 🤣 OpenAcademics Academic Chatter™ #AcademicTwitter

I've been quiet here because (breaking news😉) being a #NewPI is hard. But my first semester is done! There's been a mix of accomplishments (submitting my first grant!) and disappointments (that grant getting rejected!), but the net is positive momentum. I view that as a win😀

I'm so excited for #CNS2024Natal, my first as a PI😀 I'll be speaking twice: once at a tutorial I'm co-organizing on Cortical Network Dynamics, and again at a workshop on multiscale cortical circuits led by the fantastic Maurizio De Pittà (@mdepitta.bsky.social). Let me know if you want to catch up in Natal!

Another #NewPI accomplishment: One page down on my next grant application! Who cares if only half of it is text and the rest is an outline of the remaining section headings😉 Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics Future PI Slack #AcademicTwitter

A #NewPI question for #AcademicTwitter: How do you deal with email communication that is very clearly AI generated? My instinct is that this is a dealbreaker (you need to be able to express your interest in the lab!), but I know this could be overkill with equity implications…

PSA: Bouldering is the coolest thing you’re probably missing at the Olympics.

As of today I officially have grad students 😀

How I know I have a grant deadline coming up in a matter of weeks: Any period of supposed "down time" ends with me frantically writing down the ideas and phrases for the grant that inevitably pop into my head 😅😂🤣

Nothing epitomizes being a #NewPI more than going to fill up your water bottle and returning to your desk to find 5 new emails. Every. Single. Time. Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics #AcademicTwitter

110,000 going crazy! 🔊 #GoBlue

Another #NewPI achievement: the Rich Lab's first poster! Tarun presented his work at the UConn Undergrad Research Fall Frontiers poster session. In such a short time he's gone from learning Python to diving headfirst into bifurcation theory. Lucky to have him as one of my first undergrads!

Soooo… are people actually moving to the other app? I’m thinking it may be time to make the jump, but I need the push of knowing I’ll find the neuro community over there.

A bittersweet new preprint alert, the last of my work at Krembil Brain Institute UHN Research! Jeremie Lefebvre, Dr. Valiante and I computationally deciphered how h- and m-channel over expression promote seizure. For more… come find me on that OTHER site 😉 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Kudos to our @richcompneuro.bsky.social -- former #KCNhub member and recent addition to UConn for a great #preprint from his multi-year research at @kcnhub.bsky.social on #computational #biology of the #molecular bases of #epilepsy tinyurl.com/4n7mx7c3