Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"I passed Step 2!!!" "How are you going to celebrate?" "Making a PowerPoint about the basal ganglia, of course!!!" 020
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I officially made it to my last year of medical school with an undulled sparkle. ✨️ 3210
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Pspsp update: MS3 is kinda hard, for unexpected and expected reasons, but I'm alive and trying. More to come when things slow down a bit. ✨💪 060
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Hi! Are you on Medicaid and were you essentially turned away from the ER by being told that it isn't clear that you care would be covered due to Medicaid portal issues? Email me at jmetraux@motherjones.com 4631501353
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 29/01/2025Attention #Medsky! The Latino Medical Student Association is circulating a petition to call on professional medical organizations to stand up to ICE re: rescinding their “Protected Areas” policy. This needs a massive signal boost. Let’s #STANDUPTOICE and get as many signatures on here as possible.change.orgSign the PetitionMedical Students and Residents OPPOSE ICE Activity Near Schools and Healthcare Facilities! 417796
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Genuinely insane that a major newsroom isn't running a live post today trying to verify what is and what isn't being impacted by the federal funding freeze. Embarrassing how bad the media response is to this. 753306712
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The silence from professional societies is VERY LOUD RIGHT NOW 3338
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I have been out with covid for nearly a month. The way I finally got covid the first time is an awful story I'll share later on. Sorry for not being too active. :( It is just as bad as I thought it would be for me. 3110
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖eg @maxemilysm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Hey #NEISvoid pals! Anyone in the #Seattle area have the name of a doctor who’s knowledgeable about the EDS/POTS/MCAS trifecta, or open to referrals to drs who are? I have a friend who’s struggling to find informed care. Reskeets helpful, thank you! #disability #ChronicIllness #EDS 51516
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Constant stress isn’t healthy for anyone, but especially for those with chronic illness where it makes the conditions worse! 2242
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Affirmation of the week courtesy of the Nap Ministry ✨ 213120
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/11/2024When you go to an open mic night, you realize the point of art is not really to be a fancy person whose name everybody knows. Amateur singers & poets with day jobs deliver the most stirring & moving pieces. Their names may never be known & they may not care, the point was to share for someone. 0203
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Like am I not allowed to travel ever? Am I just supposed to be able to go (45 minutes from my home, I might add) whenever? People around me can’t drop everything to drive me. I’m so over the US’ puritanical drive to punish illness. 191
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖De-Shaine Murray, Ph.D @shaine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024A directory of great opportunities #AddtoBlackSky #BlackSky 165
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Creepin' into my dreams 5795183
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Tia N. Donaldson, PhD @tiandonaldson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Intro post 🗣️ Hello! I’m Tia. I’m a 1st gen scholar with a PhD in psych. Trained as a behavioral neuroscientist, I broadly studied hippocampal dependent spatial navigation (how do we get from one place to the next?). My lab days are behind me but you can find me writing about cool science. 4437
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Ali Christy, MD, PhD @oligoclonalband.medsky.social · 20/11/2024This is a neuron I embroidered on a skirt 1172194149
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now. 434298817056
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/20245. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯 Also, we're hiring! bsky.social/about/join 313223973600
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/20242. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem. 147176121717
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I hope it happens here. I hope it happens with the covid-conscious, too. 251
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 19/11/2024Something about Twitter that was so powerful was how somebody could talk about an experience being disabled and so many people around the world could respond saying OMG I am experiencing that! For a community so isolated, it was such a validating thing and I'm beginning to see it happen here. 320825
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024🥺🥺🥺 I feel so loved. I walked in and got handed a heartfelt card congratulating me on my defense and thanking me for my summer workshops, plus a little treat. University of Arizona neuro undergraduates are the sweetest. This gives me that lil boost I need to power through these revisions. 💪 051
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Make sure to re-follow this pack if you followed a few days ago! There were many more fantastic disabled folks added, so you may want to hit that follow button again. ✨️♿️ 011
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024🥺🥺🥺 I feel so loved. I walked in and got handed a heartfelt card congratulating me on my defense and thanking me for my summer workshops, plus a little treat. University of Arizona neuro undergraduates are the sweetest. This gives me that lil boost I need to power through these revisions. 💪 051
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Make sure to re-follow this pack if you followed a few days ago! There were many more fantastic disabled folks added, so you may want to hit that follow button again. ✨️♿️ 011
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I think I’m finally caught up adding individuals to the #DisabledInSTEM Starter Pack!! If I missed you, please reach out! 💜 3213
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 19/11/2024All residencies and fellowships should be unionized. #Medsky 4335
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The fantastic @shaunoboyle.bsky.social has put together a vast list linking many studies and reports focusing on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people studying or working in STEM. You can read it here. prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t... 18537
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I'm giving a lil talk to the University of Arizona undergraduate neuroscience club in a little bit. I've been looking forward to this for awhile! 1140
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetricsdocs.bsky.appAction Intent Links | BlueskyAuthors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu... 166113164572
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024This is all Alyssa's hard work! She also set up a great #DisabledInSTEM mentorship program and does a lot of presentations at various conferences to help promote accessibility. She pours her heart into this on our behalf, all while doing her PhD, and she is so amazing. 💖 bsky.app/profile/disa... 1122
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024#BlackInNeuro Starter Pack v1! Let us know if we missed you. #BlackInSTEM #Neuroscience 🧪 go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe 16271140
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The #DisabledInSTEM starter pack is here! Thanks to @disabledinstem.bsky.social, you can easily tune in to the important perspectives of disabled academics. Give them all a follow! I'm in there too. 🥰 #MedSky #Disability #Disabled #Academic #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/SwJ4rFX 43720
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Got the #DisabledInSTEM Starter Pack up and running! Can't wait to see the list grow and meet new connections! 💜 go.bsky.app/SwJ4rFX 3914976
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Deleting twitter felt fine in the end but it’s hard to overstate how much it mattered in allowing me to make a career. It feels so silly to say. 8689737
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thank you all for the support. 🥺 It's been a rough couple years, but we made it happen. 050
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Tip for our "leaders". Your op-ed about how "science shouldn't be political" isn't going to save us. It never has, and it certainly never will when the politicians reject evidence and counsel. Just don't write the op-ed, and do yourselves a world of good. 2558
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖John Streicher @johnstreicher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024One of my favorite kind of days. The Dissertation Defense of my student Britt Gratreak! Congrats doc! 171
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My first order of business as a newly minted PhD today was spilling an entire mug of coffee and soaking it completely into my computer chair. Let's go!! 🥰 3171
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The slide that you insist on keeping even though it'll make your presentation go over time 41149
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 15/11/2024BEST thing about this site,, I can hide negative replies and unattach my posts from reposts that are rude,,, I ain’t gonna take no negativity or trolling on my page. You will not build up by tearing others down here. 1122553564900
Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖 @brittgratreak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024After the public part of my defense today, I took a concert-style group selfie with the crowd. 'cause look at all these beautiful people coming out to support me! #neuroskyence #medsky 2140
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖MD or Bust aka Applejuice @appyjumpindaze.bsky.social · 15/11/2024@brittgratreak.bsky.social congratulations on your PhD defense!!!media.tenor.coma woman is giving a thumbs up and the words rockstar alert are on the screen behind herALT: a woman is giving a thumbs up and the words rockstar alert are on the screen behind her 1121
Reposted by Britt Gratreak, PhD 🖖Michael Bashir (they/them) @trekkienurse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Holy shit!!!! Congrats Dr NOW! (Obligatory dad reply) 111