Michelle Obama saying she's been at every powerful table you could think of and quickly realizing "they're not that smart." I think about how many women feel that exact same way while in male-dominated rooms/fields.

Is it really happening?! The NEW permanent Smith Lab space UCSD BioSciences UC San Diego Health Sciences is finally ready after only 659 days of waiting (1yr 9mo 20d)!!!! Come see! 👀 1/2

I am so concerned/upset about this UC San Diego . How will we get any new faculty? This is our only chance to buy a house here as faculty

My lab manager parnazboroon is incredible and does everything! (Ordering, inventories, safety, mouse colony, managing undergrads, experiments and sooo much more!). Plus all lab members have their own lab tasks. At home- a house cleaner, gardener and use grocery delivery a lot 🙃

I have given this a lot of thought- I think it’s state matching- and actually not all that surprising that when we are socially communicating and matching each other moods (eg you tell a funny joke and we both laugh) that our physiological patterns and neural activity are similar

Every grad program needs to ensure their students are aware that even of you squeeze thru the bottleneck & get a faculty position, the numbers in the 2019 plot shown here have gotten worse: now you need 25 proposals to get 95% probability of funding, as drug monkey updates here

Don’t mind me carting a fiddle leaf fig across the UCSD campus to my new office… 🌱 🌳 ✨

It’s here and it’s fabulous 🩷

We are excited to announce a new tenure-track faculty (open rank) search in computational neuroscience at the NYU Neuroscience Institute (Deadline: Nov 15) apply.interfolio.com/153167 #facultysearch #academicjobs #NYU

Welcome to being a PI

Was just discussing this yesterday: Don’t fall for the narrative that because you couldn’t get a PI position out of your PhD/Postdoc that’s it. My career path is non linear: from postdoc to industry to direct a core to PI. And many others have unique paths. Ask us stuff!

This has everything I wished someone told me about SfN years ago! Whether it’s your first time or you are an SfN veteran, check out this episode 🎤📻

📢The FY25 #NIHLRP application cycle is officially open! Qualified applicants could receive up to $100,000 toward student loan debt over two years. Deadline = Nov. 21. For more details and to apply visit: 💻go.nih.gov/4vfpU5Y #AcademicChatter #NIH

🚨The UCLA Psychology Department is hiring!!! 🚨 The UCLA Psych department is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Computational and Behavioral Neuroscience. More info here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09740) Applications are open now through October 31 🎃

Check this out 🧠 New paper from the lab 🥳 Serotonin release in the habenula during emotional contagion promotes resilience | Science ⁦Manuel Mameli⁩ ⁦Department of Fundamental Neurosciences⁩ ⁦Patricia Molina⁩ ⁦Mauro Congiu⁩ ⁦⁦Leo Michel⁩ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Peep those new Rita Allen Scholars >> I'm honored to be in the company of so many rockstar scientists, past and present, especially my Award in Pain co-winner, Kara Marshall! ritaallen.org/stories/announ…

Exciting discovery: CSF flow isn't confined to the brain and spinal cord—it also extends to peripheral nerves! Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Groundbreaking research from UF Health FLORIDA #neurotwitter #neuroscience #AcademicChatter

Omg obsessed! I love talking to dr. ashley juavinett - so I can’t imagine not loving hearing her talk about cool shit on a podcast!