Aaaaaaand daycare is closed for most of next week- just throwing my postdoc salary into the black hole that is pandemic childcare @momamedia

If anyone is wondering why working parents in academia right now are losing it right now… a thread of what January has been like for us (and most other working parents I know)... a thread Academic Mom, PhD

Who will be attending EasternPsychological next month in NYC? We have some Team WIL representation, don't forget to check out their talks! @Sydney_Trask Nicole Ferrara Anyone else presenting? Drop your info below! 👇

An incredibly real barrier for Black women in academia - donate to the National Black Postdoc Assoc Childcare fund (👏 to Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. for organizing)

If you're at #basalgangliaGRC definitely go check out Jackie Gio 's poster representing from Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬 lab! She has some 🔥 data to share

I often feel extremely helpless in the face of such overt white supremacist violence but the fact that he cited GWAS on educational attainment really cements for me that academia desperately needs physicians and scientists who understand how data we generate perpetuates racism

To receive #disability accommodations for my NINDS F32, I need to submit an administrative supplement. Does anyone out there have an example (supp for PI) I could look at? Ideally I'd love to see an example from an F or K or similar training mechanism. TIA Pls RT #DisabledInSTEM

We are now accepting apps for our 2022 Outstanding Graduate Woman in Learning Award! Applicants must be grad students w/ > 1 year of study completed who have made significant contributions to the field. Please email CV & advisor LoR to [email protected] by 9/14.

One week left to apply for the Outstanding Graduate Woman in Learning Award! Easy application - just submit a CV and advisor LoR by 9/14. More details in the link below.

Women in Neuroscience is a community space @ UCLA for women + nonbinary folks // fostering support, mentorship, and collaboration 👩🏼‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬 We look forward to connecting with everyone on campus! Stay tuned for information about our first event✨

Sharif University is under siege by police forces, and hundreds of students are thought to have died last night. where are the voices of my academic colleagues, who so often tweet about treatment of grad students in the US, but have been silent about the murder of youth in Iran?

We will be speaking at PDA at UCLA together with SACNAS at UCLA on Friday Oct 14 at noon. Join us to learn more about our mission and more! #AcademicTwitter #advocacy #URMinSTEM #STEMeducation

horrific and unthinkable. Iran’s parliament votes to issue the death sentence to > 14,000 arrested protestors, most of them young people. this is genocide.

Lactation in academia for those who don’t know… 1. Most women who are exclusively breastfeeding need to pump every 3-4hrs 2. If we miss a pump session or delay it, we get engorgement. Basically the milk backs up into the breast and we can start leaking it’s quite painful.

In case you missed it: Women are less likely to be credited for their scientific contributions than men. It’s true across multiple fields & at all stages, with important repercussions for career progress. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #MedTwitter nature.com/articles/s4158…