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Liz Chrastil @chrastil.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Come see our lab's posters at #SfN2025! With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!

Lab posters every day in the afternoon sessions

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Alina Tu @alinatu.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

#SfN25 here I come! I'll be presenting at SfN's first poster session today in San Diego (Saturday 1pm-5pm). If you're interested or knowledgeable in human navigation, grid cells, entorhinal cortex, and/or path integration, I'd love to chat with you. (I have questions!) PSTR043.27 / Board HH12

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Daniela @danielamcossio.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🔬 Exciting News! I am approaching the end of my Ph.D. journey, and this means that I am actively seeking my next position. If you have any suggestions for positions, please DM me! See the thread for more info about me! #OpenToWork #Neuroscience #NonAcademicJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions

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Daniela @danielamcossio.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Excited to be presenting my work on white matter structures supporting wayfinding in midlife adults tomorrow at #CNS2025 See me at poster B62 in the Back Bay Ballroom!

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Alina Tu @alinatu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

CNS was my 1st ever conference I attended and presented at as an undergrad. I'm now in Boston for an amazing #CNS2025, and I'm ready to talk science 😎🥼 My poster: "Uncovering the neural basis that distinguishes two path integration tasks: Triangle Completion & Loop Closure" (1/2)

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

From my PhD advisor @kenmiller.bsky.social at Columbia. These are the grants that funded my PhD.

So the NIH grant terminations at Columbia turned out to be:
-- all training grants (T series), which were all required to have extensive sections addressing diversity
-- grad student and postdoc fellowships (F series)
-- center and core grants (P series), including a cancer center, Alzheimer's center, diabetes center and more, and the vision core grant Michael Goldberg has been PI of for 17 years that provides shared facilities (machine shop, imaging, ...) for vision researchers
-- a smattering of individual research grants, apparently targeting anything to do with covid, vaccines, or HIV, and including one study with title involving study of diverse tissues, i.e. with the verboten word diverse.

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In California NIH FUNDING: $5.31 B JOBS SUPPORTED: 55,949 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $13.55 B KEEP IT GOING

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found". This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/01/2025

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

Jan 21 2025: 27 job openings listed at NIH.

Jan 22 2025: There are no postings at this time.

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

For anyone hesitant on submitting grad apps, DO IT‼️ The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨ • • I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏 ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾

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Alina Tu @alinatu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

@chrastil.bsky.social's Spatial Neuroscience Lab posters at #psynom24 on Friday 11/22 7:45pm: 4075 4078 4081 4083 ...and our posters are located among other cool and exciting spatial cognition/navigation research 🧭 😎 see y'all there!

Screenshot of the Psychonomic schedule from the mobile app for all Chrastil lab posters: 1) "Cortical thickness and gray matter volume supporting object-based and egocentric perspective transformation" by Marjan Rashidi. 2) "Local and global strategies for navigational learning" by Daisy Vargas. 3) "Reinforcement learning for spatial graph knowledge through explicit predictions during active vs passive exploration" by Taylor Le. 4) "The role of working memory ability on path integration performance" by Alina Tu. Senior author on all posters: Liz Chrastil

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Alina Tu @alinatu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

my first paper and my first first-author paper 🥳 please feel free to reach out with questions/comments! conveniently, #psynom24 is happening in one day. @chrastil.bsky.social and I will be attending and would love to chat with folks!

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