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Daniel Gonzales

@dgonzales1990.bsky.social
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• Asst. Professor @ Vanderbilt BME • HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow • Neurotechnology & BMIs • Technically a physicist • Husband • Dad • BBQ • Texan • he/him gonzales.science

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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When reviewing PhD applications this cycle, I made small notes of things that stood out to me. Both good and bad. I think it could be helpful to those considering applying this Fall. gonzales.science/resource-blo...
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Reviewing PhD Applications: A stream of consciousness — Gonzales Lab
A list of notes takes in real-time when reviewing PhD applications and interviews
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We snagged two GRFPs and one honorable mention this cycle. Super proud of the lab and the great quality we’re able to recruit! gonzales.science/lab-news/apr...
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April 15, 2025: The lab lands multiple NSF GRFPs — Gonzales Lab
The lab snagged multiple NSF GRFPs!! A huge congrats to Camila Romero and incoming BME PhD student Lauren Iskander on their awards! Hailey Edelman also received an honorable mention. We are so proud o...
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The lab has had a hell of a month and I’m excited for some upcoming announcements… …but for now please enjoy these pics as we move step-by-step towards simultaneous ephys and two-photon imaging with our flexible & semi transparent electrodes
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So as of this week it appears the lab is now in the NHP ephys game Recorded with thin film flexible electrodes
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
i want to neuropixels these things
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There’s been some talk on here about communicating more with undergrads about science funding, policies, outlook etc. I admit I was skeptical there would be interest. I polled my course. 70% were interested in having a discussion. The other 30% were “maybe interested.” 0% were not interested.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This new Atlantic piece on the timeline of the NIH shutdown reads like the script to a new Soderbergh film. It is so, so dark and perfectly captures the evil and intentional chaos behind everything we've experienced over the last month www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
More bad news
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Microsoft is inventing new forms of matter for quantum computing before making Outlook or Teams usable without feeling the pain of a thousand suns
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Awesome thread and be prepared for a rollercoaster of emotions
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Nice to see McKnight digging in when others are stepping back
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Teaching citizens about science 🤝 Teaching students about being a citizen
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Angie Voyles Askham @avaskham.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
NIH meetings are still not being announced in the federal register, so nearly all study sections and councils after this week are not going to happen. This is basically a freeze on funding new grants...
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
2018 vs 2025. This dude has been coming to lab with me since he was in diapers 😭
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We’re official doing two photon imaging (and chronic too!). So much work to do but all of these firsts are special
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
also this same org has this super useful infographic, breaking down the difference between direct and indirect (also called Facilities and Administration) costs and what F&A costs can and cannot be used for at a research university or institute
Infographic showing what the difference between direct and indirect (also called Facilities and Administration) costs are and what F&A costs can and cannot be used for at a university or research institution
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 07/02/2025
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @paulgribble.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor superlab.ca/posts/2025-02-07-list28…
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Dear biologists & neuroscientists -- I'd like to collect some cursory data on what the "typical" breakdown of funding between federal & private looks like in labs. If you run a research lab or know enough about yours, could you fill this small form out? forms.gle/PEzWEYojBjfj...
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Neuroscience & biology lab funding
What is the current rough breakdown of funding sources for your lab? The answers below should add to 100%!
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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at mwadman@aaas.org or on Signal: meredithwadman.13
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is so embarrassing
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Sensory inputs trigger a fast-traveling wave, followed by a slower wave carrying top-down info (value/choice). The late wave reactivates ensembles in superficial cortical layers. Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #neuroscience
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Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code
Translaminar spacetime patterns organized by feedback-dependent cortical circuits support sparse traveling waves.
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well, would you look at that - travelling waves in cortex have the ingredients necessary to do credit assignment via the apical dendrites of L5 neurons! 😎 #neuroscience 🧪
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New blog post. Thoughts on this first year of being a new PI gonzales.science/resource-blo...
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Year One in Review — Gonzales Lab
One year. What a wild ride. They give you a lump of money, an empty lab space, a course to teach, and a parachute. Before you can even comprehend the purpose of the parachute, you get roundhouse kicke...
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Is there a way to speed this up
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Caitlin Mallory @caitlinmallory.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!
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The time course and organization of hippocampal replay
The mechanisms by which the brain replays neural activity sequences remain unknown. Recording from large ensembles of hippocampal place cells in freely behaving rats, we observed that replay content i...
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Really proud to see my postdoc work out!! We used flexible, semi-transparent NeuroGrids to record traveling waves while simultaneously mapping cellular and subcellular dynamics with two-photon imaging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code
Translaminar spacetime patterns organized by feedback-dependent cortical circuits support sparse traveling waves.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Perfection
The Anakin/Amidala meme making fun of the funding freeze OMB rescission and rescission of the rescission
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Unreal day to be submitting my first R01 lol
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Amidst the chaos (and not unrelated), I wrote a sequel to my posts from the last 2 years since they seemed to resonate with people: Thoughts after 3 years as a PI www.brains-explained.com/thoughts-aft...
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Stressed about the uncertainty at the NIH? Have a cigarette.
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ah yes exactly what the world needs a faculty needing in 1 min long increments
Headline: “Duke professor to launch new academic TikTok, GPAs expected to hit record highs”
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
ME: wanna hear a joke BSKY REPLY PERSON: a what
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The stages of grant writing
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Puts me in the mood to fire up the smoker (chicken wings maybe?) and drink some whiskey this evening
Snowy backyard
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Fielding good ice breaker questions for the start of my course tomorrow Last semester we did “if you were a potato how would you like to be prepared for a meal and why” Taking new suggestions
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I regret to inform you I did not get my life together* over the weekend like I thought I would *finish my syllabus
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I’ve put a lot of thought into it. As a husband, dad, researcher, new professor…my New Year’s resolution is to eat more tacos
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
God bless
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Coming up on a full week of family visiting our house and they don’t realize how dangerously close I am to pulling up a powerpoint and specifics aims page the next time they ask about my job
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas
Smoked brisket. Looks very good in my opinion
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Having a few drinks on Christmas Eve and putting together bikes and toys for the kids always rocks
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The branding for this butcher paper I ordered for bbq is NOT inspiring confidence
Front of butcher paper box with the most horrendous looking brisket, sausage, and (maybe?) ribs you’ve ever seen
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The PI urge to still send super interesting papers to the lab while they’re off for the holidays (I’m resisting!!!)
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Mood: writing without citing. That’s a problem for future daniel
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Postdoc paper finally accepted. Free me from these shackles 😂
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Me most of December: no worries! Let’s meet up early in January to talk about it. Have a great holiday! Me in early January with a calendar full of meetings:
The Joker wearing makeup staring into a mirror
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Really sorry for letting y’all down. Full details here
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Daniel Gonzales @dgonzales1990.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
One of my fav things is taking pics of the lab
All of these images are of our new two-photon microscope
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