#AcademicTwitter: I used to be a horrible scientific writer. I was paralyzed by writing anxiety & it took me FOREVER to write papers. Last year I published 14 scientific articles (8 first, 2 second, 2 senior-author) & 2 book chapters. A thread⬇️on how I became more productive:

Please apply: now in it's second year, the Ben Barres Spotlight Awards from eLife - the journal aims to specifically support and give exposure to minoritized scientists. Ben Barres Spotlight Awards: Applications open for 2020 elifesciences.org/inside-elife/6…

Great summary of awesome work! Nice Nuria :)

Excellent opportunity. We are also recruiting new students 👇

Fall 🍂🥰

Are you a neuroscientist looking for a postdoc position in Canada? Do you identify as Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+, a person with a disability, or a woman? Come work with us Western BrainsCAN Western University brainscan.uwo.ca/programs/pdf_s…

Fantastic opportunity!!

👋!! On Sat. Oct. 31st, 7 friends and I are running laps of McHugh Bluff in Calgary until we reach the elevation gain of Everest (8848 m). We’re hoping to raise $8848 for Calgary Drop-In Centre to combat the winter challenges during the pandemic. City of Calgary gf.me/u/y36szy

Today is the ultimate demonstration of “social stress transmission”. 300M demonstrators, 7.5B observers. Toni-Lee Sterley (she/her) Spencer Loewen my CRH neurons are already working overtime

Excited (and terrified) to start releasing the material for the Math Tools for Neuroscience course I'm teaching this fall at Harvard! Khan academy style videos and tutorials/exercises in Google colab (python) github.com/ebatty/MathToo…

Wrote a review with jaideep bains on social communication of affective states. Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Cited by Vogue magazine 😄 vogue.com/article/is-str…

Stress transmission, buffering and metaplasticity!! Cool cool cool ... 👇🏽 jneurosci.org/content/41/6/1…

I’m going to pin the link to my “Last Lecture” commencement speech for a bit, because it seems to be resonating with many of you. It’s really not just for graduates, but anyone who’s been struggling under the weight of the last year. #BeTheBreadGirl youtube.com/watch?v=eLo_U9…

I am so excited to share my latest review in #neurophotonics! We talk about all the good stuff: astrocytes, calcium imaging and new photonics tools😃 SPIE spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro…

Excited to share this! Features work done by ⁦Toni-Lee Sterley (she/her)⁩. Thanks ⁦Bishop Sand⁩ for highlighting fundamental research! We have so much to learn washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10…