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Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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Not my Presidents’ Day protest in Irvine, CA

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All over today. This is NYC.

submitted 6 days ago • 129 comments

Lots of anxiety but also considerable courage and determination. We need to nurture and support the next generation of scientists, especially those who overcame significant barriers to join the field. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...

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Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

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Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

For my own wellbeing, I took some time off social media. I encourage you to do the same as needed. You can be informed without being overwhelmed ❤️

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Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

If you can, I strongly recommend that you consider “holding space” 💖 I held space tonight for the neuro grad students & postdocs. I ordered pizza/soda and we talked. I didn’t have any answers. They didn’t expect me to. They just wanted to be heard & to feel that they’re not alone in their worries.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Ronald E. McNair: Father, Husband, Physicist, NASA Astronaut, Pioneer in the Field of Lasers (SO COOL). We tragically lost him in the tragedy of the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle. He was selected to become part of NASA group 8, the first class that included both women and minorities. 🧵 1/4

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

I’ve heard that it takes teaching a course three times before you feel really good about it. And that definitely seems to hold true 🙌🏾 I am MUCH more confident teaching in year 3 - which makes it easier to connect with & excited my students 💖

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Happy Black History Month ✊🏾 This month, as we do every month, we celebrate Black history and all the many accomplishments our people have made inside and outside of science. We are all Black history yall. We love our community and wish you all joy and peace 🖤

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Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure: First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day

submitted 22 days ago • 114 comments

Khristina Hunter is a firefighter. Her mom is Shelia Hunter, one of the first woman firefighters for the San Francisco Fire Department. The FIRST Black woman! Together, they’re the first mother/daughter duo with the department ✨ HERstory. They just so happen to be my neighbors 🧡 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Sydney Floryanzia is a neuroengineer & science communicator ✨ As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠 She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞 #BlackInNeuro

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Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠 The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭 #BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Today and every day….Black History Month is everyday #Blacksky

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

submitted 22 days ago • 647 comments

I JUST GOT ACCEPTED INTO OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY AS A FRESHMAN FOR FALL 2025!! 🧡🖤🦫🖤🧡 It’ll be 10 years since my high school graduation so I’ll be 10 years older than the average freshman but it’s been my dream to attend Oregon State since I was In elementary school. Going to study horticulture! 🌱

submitted 24 days ago • 2036 comments

Feels weird to be celebrating in these ~times~ BUT I passed my quals and I’m officially a PhD ✨candidate✨

submitted 24 days ago • 682 comments

Keep sharing your JOY ✨ Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things. Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

A young civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins passed away in the tragic DC plane crash last night. She wrote some amazing articles about the law and justice that I will share in the subsequent thread. May her memory be a blessing ❤️

submitted 24 days ago • 202 comments

I hope people come to understand what we’re dealing with isn’t due to a lack of nuanced understanding of different approaches to addressing racism. They’re not looking for your reasonable middle ground or more compelling argument. They don’t care if you prefer a different intellectual framework.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Mentors and advisors, a very impactful thing you can do right now is to assure your mentees from all backgrounds that you will continue to support them because their worth is not contingent on any program or funding mechanism 💕

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Had a Black student tell me after class that he is so excited to take my course because he hasn’t had a Black professor in 3 years. Our presence will ALWAYS matter ✨ #BlackEduSky

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🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

I approach teaching with excess kindness. I assume if someone misses a class or an assignment, it’s because they are having a hell of a time existing right now. I frequently encourage them to tell me if they need extensions or to meet outside of office hours. These students are paying to be here.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

But not today. Today they got beat. Everybody should take the W & the lesson that fighting back matters.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

I woke up ready to fight. Listening to Break My Soul by Beyoncé 🎶 wearing my “We Are Scientists” and rainbow brain pins 🧠✨ Show up to teach my students and support my trainees. To figure out what I can do as an advocate & leader while still taking care of myself. I hope you’re able to do the same.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I, too, got into science because I didn’t like politics. But guess what? Our entire existence is political. It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Exactly how I’m feeling about all the work we do to support historically marginalized students. It should NOT be a bad thing to acknowledge and want to fight against the systemic barriers that make it harder for us. We shouldn’t be forced to be silent about things that matter and affect PEOPLE.

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 27 days ago • 1664 comments