We have a new website! The JHU OneNeuro Initiative is focused on increasing interaction among all our many neuroscientists to help advance our understanding of brain and mind. Check out the site to see what we’re up to 🧠

Loving all the aurora borealis pictures on my timeline this night. Unfortunately in Baltimore, cloud cover and light pollution leads to this 👇🏾maybe, if I squint???

When Reviewers find a study too “descriptive”, I think of Eve Marder’s words; “Descriptive’ is also commonly used as a pejorative, despite the fact that seeing a new phenomenon for the first time can be revelatory, and much important science is discovery through visualization”

Women leaders, especially women of color, are exhausted.

The pressure to shrink ourselves, the navigation of the likability vs. assertiveness double bind takes a toll.

My latest article in Inside Higher Ed explores this and more. Check it out!

insidehighered.com/opinion/career…

NYC vignettes-a one of a kind city. The opera, a tramway, and a Japan food festival all in the span of two days

Roosevelt island in NYC where you feel the city but not overwhelmed by it. And it has an amazing funicular and a cute hotel called the “Graduate”

This is why governments are the major funders of scientific research—only govts, societies, have the long time horizon needed.
What private firm would fund the next research on DNA, with treatments coming only decades later?

Science is a public good, and govts fund public goods.

Our work with Daniela Gutiérrez and collaborators, conducted at Álvarez's Lab, has finally been published. It all started with Lina Vargas and Marcelo Lara, but thanks to everyone who contributed over the years, we have finally achieved this result. Universidad Católica NCATS

Thank you ⁦Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences⁩ Deans Office for the wonderful celebration with cake and champagne and flowers. I am fortunate to be part of a collaborative and supportive team!

Vibrant spring colors springing back in our garden and a lovely northeast day

Congratulations to the six Johns Hopkins researchers recognized this year as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. hub.jhu.edu/2024/04/18/aaa…

Many thanks to my nominators Marnie Halpern Marnie EH and Judith Walters (NINDS) and the two referees who wrote letters for this honor. Also, long-term support of my lab and colleagues!

Glad you raised this important point Dr. Rejji Kuruvilla - still too many meetings for women scholars/professors where this happens+ the minute you speak, someone says “let’s stay on track” 🤷‍♀️etc. Hope everyone reads this, evaluate if they do this+ then #stop . It gets old…and fast.😤

Is there a fancy German word for individuals who dominate the conversation in every meeting, do not listen, and then look at their watch when you pipe up to make your one point?

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

nature.com/articles/d4158…

We are so excited to share our results about in vivo calcium imaging in clock neurons with the community!

Discrete photoentrainment of mammalian central clock is regulated by bi-stable dynamic network in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…