Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 25/09/2026Apologies to my mice, I'll be busy this morning reading the @leahhouri.bsky.social mosquito double feature that just dropped!!! 🦟 010
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 25/09/2026wooooooooow congratulations Leah!!!!! Fascinating discoveries!!🔥🔥🔥 110
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 25/09/2026Postdocs across STEM: we’d love your advice! 👀 Did you apply for fellowships before starting your postdoc? If so, did you already have a formal or informal offer from your postdoc mentor? This is for @cientificolatino.com’s #NextLab program for senior grad students. Please share your experience! 134
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDJosue Regalado, PhD @josueregalado96.bsky.social · 20/05/2026So lucky to have my work featured in this awesome study! Check out how vision shapes spatial maps in the hippocampus, out now on biorxiv 🔥 041
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDCientífico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 14/04/2026Congratulations to our sixteen NSF-GRFP awardees and Honorable Mentions!! 3218
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 01/04/2026Applying to STEM grad programs? Know someone who is? Be a good friend/colleague/mentor/labmate.... tell them to apply to #GSMI!!! ❤️ 👉👉 cientificolatino.com/gsmi 👈 👈 022
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 31/03/2026New article from @cientificolatino.com !!! On the struggles of first year grad students and how to support them 💜 073
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDValerie Tornini @valetornini.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Happy to share our article on @cientificolatino.com's GSEC program: a national mentorship program for 1st-year STEM grad students, geared for those from underrepresented backgrounds. We review why programs like this are urgently needed & what we learned while running it 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... 11611
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDHHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellowsbit.lySummer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMIThe Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders. 07089
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 11/12/2025Woohoo!!! Thanks so much again for the beautiful art, @somedonkey.bsky.social !! 🦟✨ 030
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDNadav Shai @nadavshai.bsky.social · 11/12/2025🎉 Thrilled to see our #MosquitoCellAtlas featured on the cover of @cp-cell.bsky.social ! This mosaic represents 367K cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Beautiful art by @somedonkey.bsky.social meets the #Vosshalllab science! 🦟🎨 2199
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDCientífico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 10/12/2025Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!! This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school. 1109
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDBiomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Head to Mosquitos: Cell atlas reveals sex differences in mosquitos – potentially applicable for disease spread management 📷 @oliviagoldman.net, AlexandraDefoe et al @rockefeller.edu in @cellpress.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with John Ankers 062
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDJacopo Razzauti @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)biorxiv.orgFERAL: A Video-Understanding System for Direct Video-to-Behavior MappingAnimal behavior unfolds continuously in time, yet quantitative analyses often require segmenting it into discrete, interpretable states. Although manual annotation can achieve this, it remains slow, s... 43919
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 19/11/2025Awesome!! Would love to discuss with you some new applications of this 🐁✨️ (e congratulazioni!!) 110
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDJacopo Razzauti @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social · 17/11/2025#SfN25 stop by board ZZ5! We are presenting FERAL! 0113
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDJacopo Razzauti @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social · 17/11/2025#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai 21810
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 05/11/2025Thank you Ryan!! Was great to have the opportunity to work with you! 🦟🙌 010
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDRyan Smith @vectorimmunity.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I'm happy that I could contribute even a small part to this fantastic and monumental study! Huge shoutout to @oliviagoldman.net @nadavshai.bsky.social and @leslievosshall.bsky.social for their incredible leadership in organizing this massive project! 164
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDCientífico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 03/11/2025TOMORROW – for CSU East Bay Students! Our Co-Founder/Board Secretary @oliviagoldman.net participates in "Paths into Mind and Brain Careers" for CSU East Bay's Connections Week! 🕰️ Tuesday, 11/4, 12pm to 2pm 📍University Union, Multipurpose Room (CSU East Bay) ➡️ lrubio12.wordpress.com/event 031
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Thank you so much for contributing your valuable expertise, Ben!! 🪰✨ 110
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDBen Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Great to see that our mosquito cell atlas is now out in Cell. Amazing work from @oliviagoldman.net and @nadavshai.bsky.social to organise so much data and so many interesting stories into a single paper! 175
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDCientífico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 30/10/2025Excited to team up with CSU East Bay for Connections Week (Nov 4-8)! ➡️ lrubio12.wordpress.com/event… 11/5, @latinodeciencia.bsky.social leads a virtual workshop on applying to summer research & grad school (open to all!) 🎓 11/4, @oliviagoldman.net joins the Paths into Mind & Brain Careers panel! 🧠 032
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Such creative and insightful work - Congrats, Leah!!! 🥳🦟 110
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDLeah Houri-Zeevi @leahhouri.bsky.social · 28/10/2025What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES> 56628
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Thank you Leah - Congrats on your awesome new mosquito mating paper as well!!! 😮💫 010
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDLeah Houri-Zeevi @leahhouri.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A real game-changer for the mosquito community - all packed in a beautiful paper!!!! 054
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Check out the Aedes aegypti Mosquito Cell Atlas for yourself!! Acessible from your web browser thanks to @genomebrowser.bsky.social & @ucscgenomics.bsky.social!! If you have a min to report to us what your favorite gene looks like, we would love to hear about it 😃✨ mosquito.cells.ucsc.edu 072
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDUC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics.bsky.social · 30/10/2025🦟 The mosquito is the most deadly animal in the world. The Mosquito Cell Atlas is an incredible new resource to help us understand more about their ability to transmit pathogens to humans. Data is available on the UC Santa Cruz @genomebrowser.bsky.social at mosquito.cells.ucsc.edumosquito.cells.ucsc.eduUCSC Cell Browser 095
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Marcus F. Oliveira, Roenick P. Olmo, Umberto Palatini, Zeaan M. Pithawala, @julienpompon.bsky.social, Yan Reis, João Rodrigues, @vectorimmunity.bsky.social Congratulations & thank you to all !! 😊💫 130
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025& the Mosquito Cell Atlas Consortium! Joshua X.D. Ang, Igor Antoshechkin, Yu Cai, Fangying Chen, @ycchentw.bsky.social, @juliendevilliers.bsky.social , Linhan Dong, Roberto Feuda, Paolo Gabrieli, Artyom Kopp, Hyeogsun Kwon, Hsing-Han Li, Tzu-Chiao Lu, Thalita Lucio, João T. Marques, ... 120
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Brittney Wick, Maximilian Haeussler, Shih-Che Weng, Omar Akbari, @leahhouri.bsky.social, Priyanka Lakhiani, @takeshimorita.bsky.social, @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social, Adriana Rosas-Villegas, Yael N. Tsitohay, Madison Walker, ... 120
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025And sincerely none of this would be possible without our small mosquito-loving village of collaborators for believing in and making brilliant contributions to this project! Yaoyu Jiao, @trevorsorrells.bsky.social, @laurabduvall.bsky.social, Helen White-Cooper, @brhopkins92.bsky.social,... 130
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Thank you to our core team - @nadavshai.bsky.social, @alexandradefoe.bsky.social & @leslievosshall.bsky.social !! Hongjie Li, Yanyan Qi, Roshan Sharma for guiding this project since Day 1... 151
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Appropriate for a Halloween release because I've always thought of primarily-nectar-feeding mosquitoes as "vampire butterflies"! 🧛♀️🦇🤓 For insights from the paper, check out the pre-print thread below!! bsky.app/profile/oliv... 161
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDTrevor Sorrells @trevorsorrells.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Mosquito cell atlas is now published! Congratulations to @nadavshai.bsky.social and @oliviagoldman.net and the many other collaborators that contributed to this resource. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comA single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoA comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres... 1319
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 30/10/2025Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comA single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoA comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres... 26728
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 14/10/2025Consider donating to a hardworking non-profit that seeks to keep doors open into STEM higher ed and academia 🎓💜 www.cientificolatino.com/donate 064
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDParmvir K Bahia @parmvir.com · 09/09/2025An excellent and very comprehensive resource for grad students-to-be! 022
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 09/09/2025It's been a while since I applied to the #NSFGRFP... but over that time I developed this guide based on my experiences and mentoring other students with the NSF-GRFP through Cientifico Latino, Inc. (and otherwise)! 💛 Thank you to John Lê for the additional contributions!! 152
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 21/08/2025Feel very lucky to have learned so much alongside Dr. Tornes Blanco (@anibaltornesblanco.bsky.social)!!! 🥳🌟 010
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDCientífico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 05/08/2025Graduate school applications are expensive!! 💸 We are proud that we were able to save $53,205 in graduate school costs this year for our 100 GSMI scholars through Cientifico Latino, Inc. scholarships and fee waivers. Learn more about our program: cientificolatino.com/gsmi 0126
Reposted by Olivia Goldman PhDCientífico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 28/07/2025We had a blast at #ASV2025 in Montréal! 🦠🍁 Our co-founders @latinodeciencia.bsky.social & @oliviagoldman.net: 🔹 Led a workshop on culture, communication & mentorship 🔹 Spoke on a panel about shifting cultural & funding landscapes Big thanks to the organizers & everyone who came! 071
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 16/07/2025No prob !! I was also a little late haha, but the coolness of the science is evergreen 😄 010
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 06/07/2025I agree - faculty transparency would be ideal and could help solve a lot of problems. 010
Olivia Goldman PhD @oliviagoldman.net · 06/07/2025This is a great suggestion, thank you! I like the idea of also trying to get to know the program director at an early stage. 010