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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I am excited to share this workshop on science advocacy that will be run by the @sfn.org advocacy team for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology on Jan 13 at 3:30PM EST on zoom! Sign up if you're an ARO member to learn more about advocacy best practices & how to meet with your legislators!

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

As part of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology I am co-hosting this panel on science communication in January (Jan 13 at 12:30PM EST)! Sign up to hear from myself, Dr. Kelsey Anbuhl, and Dr. Alli Coffin about how to communicate your science to a non-science audience!

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Our pup Marvin went for his very first trail run today and he was pretty pumped about it! It is very hard to be a scientist right now, but Marv only cares about getting to hang out with the people he loves, and sometimes that’s a good reminder.

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

If you're in the Bay Area, @your.neighborhoodscientist.org is having our first in-person event, "Brains, Biology, and Big Pharma", on September 29. See flyer below and register here: luma.com/m51ug5x1 Great opportunity to meet w/ scientists & learn about the scientific process! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I had SO much fun speaking about how amazing hearing is at Philly’s @pintofscience.us last night!! Thank you to my amazing lab @geffenlab.bsky.social & @mikelhaggadone.bsky.social for coming out to support! 🧠 🍺

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Everything seems terrible in the world but this is Marvin, a scared little shelter pup we adopted last week. We love him and his little tail wags and sweet kisses and goofy mannerisms so much. Thanks for bringing us a lot of joy in such a hard time, little buddy ❤️

A scruffy grey dog resting his head on a green alligator stuffed toy.

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Interrupting your daily doom scroll with some very happy neurons 😊 So happy to be back at recordings again! Continuing to do good science = resistance 🇺🇸❤️

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I spent this afternoon in DC meeting with @repdwightevans.bsky.social about the current science funding freeze & indirect cuts. I'm proud to fight for the biomedical research funding & cures we all deserve—and you can, too.

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hi, please call your reps tomorrow to restore funding to the NIH and oppose RFKs nomination! Here is a script you can use. If you are in Pennsylvania, you are calling these people: John Fetterman: (202) 224-4254 and David McCormick: (202) 224-6324

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Response from a Pennsylvania GOP congress member I emailed urging the continued funding of the NIH.

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am very sad this morning to see this email from Penn about the bird flu mRNA vaccine utilizing Dr. Drew Weissman's tech, as this paragraph completely ignores and erases the work of Dr. Katalin Karikó, the Penn faculty with whom he shared the Nobel Prize in 2023 and who pioneered mRNA technology. 🧪

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

One critical but rarely discussed inclusion in all of my machine learning pipelines is lots of adjacent plants 🪴🌱🌿🌵

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Reached peak patch clamper during the move (packed my wine glasses in an old Sutter micro manipulator box from the lab)

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Not many people would say that grad school was the best five years of their life, but I loved every second of getting my PhD in the @robertsneuro.bsky.social lab. I’m packing up my things to move today and feeling so grateful for my people—it’s been an absolute honor. ❤️ 🧪 🧠

Roberts lab members smiling at the camera in a 0.5 iPhone selfie.

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

So fun to be cruising thru some great science posts again with the pup (BlueSky, meet Mo)

Top down photo of a small dog curled up in my lap; I’m wearing a brown fleece jacket on a red couch.

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In 2021 I wrote this poem about how women should be allowed to drink beer

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I think about this quote from Duke Ellington at least once a day, and it appears in the opening pages of my dissertation. I love it because it’s so easy to forget the love for science in between all the pipetting, but at the end of the day, science, art, music—it’s all dreaming. 🧪

Text with a quote from Duke Ellington saying “Oh man I got a million dreams, that’s all I do is dream” and an interviewer responding “I thought you played piano” to which Duke says, “No, this is not piano. This is dreaming.” Quote featured in a Jon Batiste track.

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