First Day! I’m happy to be returning as the instructor/grant coach for Stanford REACH Postbac program. Stanford Grant Writing Academy REACH Initiative On the road to a tenure track position in a few years, and I guarantee I’ll still wear my J’s on the first day because authenticity matters.

12/ Finally! Our lab website is live: help me populate the lab with kind and curious people 🫶🏾🙌🏾. More on our research directions & hiring in a few weeks, but feel free to reach out if our lab goals, philosophy, and code of conduct resonate with you. 🌐🖥️ neuroact.in

Love to see the Harvard Medical School Black Postdoctoral Association (HMS Black Postdoctoral Association) thriving! Check them out during their Annual Retreat at the Harvard Club of Boston❤️‍🔥

The surprising cause of fasting’s regenerative powers go.nature.com/46YJqaI

Try and wrap your head around the body weight trajectories in this preprint, damn.. Cool stuff that challenges aspects of the settling zone/dual intervention point model ⚖️

"Most of us will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth." - Michelle Obama

The application for summer 2025 Grass Fellowships is now live at grassfoundation.org/fellowship-ove…! Applications are due November 15. Please share with promising early-career neuroscientists. The Fellowship provides 14 weeks of sponsored research support at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA.

Kudos to ⁦Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D.⁩ for this insightful article “There’s a lot of privilege masquerading as merit’: why inclusion matters in academia” nature.com/articles/d4158…

What if I told you that I co-founded a startup in 1987 that obtained world-wide rights to GLP1 as a metabolic Rx, collaborated with Pfizer to show key activities, & abandoned it in 1990 when Pfizer lost interest? I tell the previously untold tale in an open access paper now up

UTSW_PROVIDES welcomes Dr. Jennifer Heemstra (Jen Heemstra), Professor and Chair of WashUChem. Seminar: A chemical biology toolbox for probing A-to-I RNA editing September 16th at 12-1 pm NG3.112 Auditorium

In this Nature Careers Q&A with Changemaker Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D., he describes why isolation and a need for his community of peers led him to found the @NatBlackpostdoc (National Black Postdoctoral Association) in 2021. go.nature.com/4cBxgpM

.Heather K. Beasley, PhD, MS, PhD, & vice chair of National Black Postdoctoral Association (NBPA), says, “As you go into faculty, the fewer you see of women who identify as being Black, like I do. That can be a hindrance in a lot of ways, because being the first of anything comes with its own barriers" aamc.org/news/we-need-m…

It's September....you know what that means! No, I'm not talking about cuffin season...it's LRP SEASON!! Learn more about the #nihlrp today! #lrpchat

If anyone knows someone who specializes in (1) Team/Group Coaching, or (2) Career Coaching, that would be comfortable talking to a group of Black postdocs, please share their information. Thanks!🙏🏾

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. Ruth (Ginsburg) Gotian, EdD, MS is a fantastic colleague who you should consider!

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. Me!

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. davenewright.com/career-develop…

Dr. Ushma Neill Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. Ruth (Ginsburg) Gotian, EdD, MS +1 on this

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. Damaris Price. She is the best

I snagged this hat last year at SACNAS as a PLI alumni to manifest my #PDEP application for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. It’s almost a year later, and I finally get to wear it in the airport as a PDEP awardee. I’m on my way to the #DivSch24 Conference in SoCal. 🐢 #blackinneuro