
Kellie Williford, PhD
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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:






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










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!