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neuroscientist with a propensity for pop culture & pop punk. @forbes.com 30 under 30 ‘22, @vox.com #FuturePerfect50 ‘24 #DSPAN & #PDEP alum she/her 🖤🧠 kss-phd.com

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/07/2026
Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@sfn.org #SfN25 #SanDiego starts this Saturday. The lab is going to be there in full force - see our presentations below. Represented this year by @borderbiologist.bsky.social, Nick Kathman, @mrodea.bsky.social, @melcooperphd.bsky.social, @pryprk.bsky.social, @kerrylimberg.bsky.social. (1/2)
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Pilot just came on and said that in addition to turbulence, “We are flying today with an unusually large number of tubes. Please make sure you exit the plane with the correct tube.” Non #SFN25 passengers very confused 😂
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kaela @kssphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is like me a neuroscientist saying “I don’t know what neuronal degeneration would look like” during my thesis defense
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/08/2025
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Scientific Societies File Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of NIH Grantees
ASM and fellow societies filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, calling for the swift restoration of NIH grant funding supporting early-career scientists, such as the MOSAIC program.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We want to hear from you! @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social are teaming up to better understand how to support early-career researchers. Make sure your voice is heard. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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What kinds of support do early-career researchers need?
Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ
Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"The Mamdani campaign’s identity is the work of a tiny design co-op called Forge, and specifically its designer Aneesh Bhoopathy, formerly of Queens and now living in Philadelphia" — a little bit Bollywood, a little bit bodega :)
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is free.
a still of mahmoud khalil as he exited ice detention. he’s wearing a long sleeve khaki button up and a white and black keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. he’s got a big smile on his face and his fist raise in the air, defiant and proud.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
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In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
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kaela @kssphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
the best thing I’ve read all year— my fav writer, writing about one of my fav topics 🖤
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Seasonal reminder: thousands of college students are currently selling very gently used items on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and it's a great time to pick up stuff like a TV, office chair, desk, and other home goods
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.” www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...
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NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia
A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Inspired by others on here I wrote a short op-ed in support of federal research funding for a local newspaper in small town PA where I grew up
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My #sciencehomecoming op-ed was just published in my hometown paper. Thanks @cantlonlab.bsky.social for the prompt!
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Dear Decaturish - Public science matters to Tucker
Unfortunately, public science is under attack, with major science agencies facing massive layoffs and unprecedented funding cuts.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies" wrote Dr Marks.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.
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This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message :
"If you're reading this, it means I have been killed
-most likely targeted-by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old-a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents
-anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza.
Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."
- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
it is truly terrifying when this level of international fame doesn't offer any protection. If a recent Oscar winner can be attacked and disappeared like this, we can make assumptions about what happens to people who have no international friends and support.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How dare princeton be the ivy with a bit of spine. Y'all letting the uni with eating clubs outshine you at standing up against authoritarianism?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
As I understand it, most people who love AI hypothesize that some sort of natural equilibrium will be achieved between the exponential input AI needs and what we need of it. As far as I can tell — and I swear I’m being fair — it’s very much “invisible hand of the market” type wish fulfillment.
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hire these people! Add your name if you're in this group! A running list of folks who have recently lost their jobs and are looking for something new: docs.google.com/document/d/e... h/t to @kssphd.bsky.social for circulating this doc
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Former Fed Job Seekers - LinkedIn
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 13/03/2025
REST IN PEACE TO BREONNA TAYLOR (June 5, 1993 – March 13, 2020)
Breonna Taylor
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Michel Martin, my friends.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025
Folks came out in support of Mahmoud Khalil! And a ton of media so we will see how things get covered. I have more photos but these aren’t showing anyone’s face, so these are the ones you get.
A group of protesters two of whom are holding signs calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. A protester holding a sign that says Hands off our students, ICE off of our campus. There were a bunch of folk holding martyr signs depicting people killed by bombardment. Quite sobering.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Columbia Spectator: Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will ‘not be removed’ from United States until court orders otherwise, U.S. District judge writes
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Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will ‘not be removed’ from United States until court orders otherwise, U.S. District judge writes
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York wrote that Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, “shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court ...
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
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ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia
Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Here’s the reality: This government—despite what they’d have us believe—cannot simply do whatever it wants. The moment we accept that bullshit, we become complicit in this blatantly authoritarian move by the president and his administration. With a loud, collective voice, we must say: fuck this!
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Given the platform, I wanted to make sure I used it well & clearly articulated my message: "Thru anti-DEI & anti-trans executive orders & laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race & gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism." tinyurl.com/3bvrf6nn
Facebook post from NPR's Philadelphia affiliate WHYY: "At the Philly 'Stand up for Science' protest Friday, Neuroscientist Eartha Mae Guthman said, "Republicans are weaponizing the state to attack all science."" 

The post links to an article about the Stand Up for Science protest.
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I am loving all the protest pictures but please be mindful of sharing photos with others’ faces, given known threats to international students who attend protests.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2025
Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE? Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm! #standupforscience2025
image of the stand up for science logos with "live stream" on it
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Prism @prismreports.org · 05/03/2025
Two years later, we look back at the decades-old roots of organizers' fight to Stop Cop City. Cop City is a fundamentally anti-democratic project driven by a mix of powerful actors, while Atlanta’s residents have been utterly ignored. This is why “the Stop Cop City movement is here to stay.”
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The fight to Stop Cop City has decades-old roots
The Stop Cop City movement recalls Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic bid and the city’s history of wealth and white communities over Black and working-class people
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I, personally, don't get into public fights with the Jesuits but you do you
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Yes, there is an injunction, but... "In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
OK, gonna see if Bluesky can come though like twitter did in the before times: source request—are there any addiction/substance use specialists who can talk to me for a piece? It needs to be today but it won’t be more than 15 minutes. comee onnn blueskyyyy!
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