If you are a tenured professor in the life/neuro sciences who values open exchange of ideas in academia, please sign our new petition telling HHMI and eLife not to censure Michael Eisen for tweeting about the Middle East. eLife - the journal and @HHMINews docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

If you are a tenured professor in the life sciences, help defend freedom of expression in academia. Sign our petition telling eLife - the journal and @HHMINews not to censure Michael Eisen for tweeting his personal opinions about the Israel-Gaza conflict. forms.gle/QJF2ELNQwvGb9S…

It is with great sadness that I have to resign as eLife - the journal editor and early-career advisor after Michael Eisen was fired as editor-in-chief for making use of his freedom of speech to stand up – once again – for the people who were silenced. A brief statement here:

Now it’s over 2000 Palestinian children murdered. Do people comprehend what this means? Will imagining that they’re white help?? When you drop your kids off at school or day care how many are there? How many day cares can fit 2000 kids? I’m so disgusted by the world right now…

Hey #BlackInNeuro fam! 👋🏾 are you going to SfN?? 🧠 Here are 3 things to do‼️👇🏾 1) Let us know if you’re presenting so we can stop by & support you! 📊 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 2) Invite folks to our “How I Survived Grad School” session 👩🏾‍🔬🧑🏾‍🎓 on Sunday Nov. 12th from 12pm-2pm

3) Attend the official #BlackInNeuro social as we celebrate all the #BlackExcellence within our community 🎉✨ Sunday Nov. 12th from 6:45pm-8:45pm If you can’t attend but want your achievements from this past year to be highlighted, fill out this form tinyurl.com/SFNxBIN

To Palestinian students, there or in the diaspora, please feel free to email me if you I can help with: - grad school apps - feedback on a grant app - general science career advice - feeling alone in your lab and just want someone to listen Much love ❤️ (contact link in bio)

Academics should be screaming right now, especially those who call themselves decolonial thinkers. The bombing of universities is a deliberate act to destroy the future of any Palestinians who survive the genocide. It is a deliberate act to force them to move elsewhere if they

I’m also happy to help! 🙋🏾‍♀️ Not because I have an abundance of extra time, but because supporting students is a collective effort that we ALL need to contribute to ❤️ Please feel free to DM me if I can help you!

Every year we do an SfN jobs thread to help ppl looking to join labs or folks recruiting to get the word out. Has anyone posted one yet? If you’re going to SfN and recruiting or on the market, chime in below #SfN23

📣 Parents of #SfN23: • Annually and always ✨the #MarlinLab supports parents in science. If you need help reach out. • (I’ll also do play dates this year😂)

So excited to see everyone at #SfN23!! If you’re still around on the last day, stop by my poster, B33, Weds Nov 15th 8-12.

Come through to my poster session Monday afternoon! My last SfN as a postdoc 😁 Also, come chat about the wonderful opportunities in the Coley Lab 👨🏾‍🔬 coming soon 2024 #SfN2023

Me and incubating-baby-#2 are on our way to #Sfn23! We'll see y'all there! #Mominstem #Mominacademia #ConferencingWhilePregnant #PostdocLife #IHatePregnancy #Butyayforkids

I HAVE ARRIVED. I know ya’ll were waiting for me. My poster is Monday afternoon (1pm) SS11. #SfN2023 #teaminsula Come learn about the insula and alcohol!

YA’LL!! BIG NEWS! This week was Phoebe’s first CONFERENCE and today she became a PUBLISHED AUTHOR! Let’s give her a congratulations! She's a undergrad who is applying to PhD programs this year. Keep an eye out for her.

Hey yall… Super late, but always reppin’ #BlackInNeuro I’m Lillian, an Asst. Prof. at UAB in the Dept. of Psychiatry, where my lab studies biological sex/hormone-specific effects of drugs of abuse and medications on neural circuit mechanisms underlying reward learning #BINW24

Thanks, AKU Brain & Mind Institute for the feature! My host department here in Kenya, the Brain & Mind Institute @ Aga Khan University has been a wonderful intellectual environment to learn in. I think this is a well rounded take on who I am as a scholar 🥰🧠🔍👩🏿‍🔬👩🏿‍💻👩🏿‍🏫 aku.edu/news/Pages/New…

New R01 for the lab! Our goal is to develop biomarkers for OUD by defining how interneuron subtypes contribute to EEG signatures. Highly collaborative project with Yanhua Huang and other labs. We are looking to grow our team to take this on - please reach out if interested!