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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City to all who celebrate 😭❤️

raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Huge congrats to my fellow KAUST students for crushing finals week! 🎉 Time to find your "crater moment," decompress, and celebrate making it to the top. Recharge for what’s next! 🚀🏜️ #KAUST #SaudiArabia #AlWahbahCrater #StudentWellbeing #Resilience #Neuroscience #GradSchool

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

🤝Community makes the difference. The journey is always better when we support each other. Whether it’s a hand up after a fall or a laugh to break the heat, we go further together 🧠The Essential Reset: Our brains aren't built for 24/7 output. Rest is fuel for the next big thing

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

🧗‍♀️The ascent is the work. The climb looked daunting from the bottom, but you get there by focusing on 1 step at a time 🩹Resilience is a practice. Even though I took a hard fall, I knew I had to get back up. Stumbles happen; the grit to finish the climb is what counts

raheema climbs back up the crater with the group

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

250m deep in the Al Wahbah Crater! 🌋 Just wrapped up finals at KAUST and looking back at this grueling 4-hour trek. It was hot, steep, and rocky—the perfect metaphor for a Master’s program. Here are 4 lessons I’m carrying from the crater into the break: 🧵👇

Raheema stands at the bottom of the crater

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

IDWS 2025 reinforced that innovation = technology + policy + knowledge. Proud to see this strategic transformation coming to life! #WaterSustainability #PredictiveModeling #NeurosciencePolicy #KAUST #Jeddah #Vision2030

Sign that reads "Where innovation flows, possibility follows."

Sign that reads "Water isn't just a resource, it's our responsibility."

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

As a bioscience student, I focused on these pillars: 🌊Digitization & AI: The use of large models & predictive systems—essential for analyzing complex systems 🌊Regulation: Understanding how policy links directly to Behavioral Science—incentivizing compliance for sustainability

digital screen pointing direction to Miyahthon hosted by the water academy

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

What does a Neuroscientist do at the Global Water Sustainability Conference?💧 Look for the Data, Policy, & Behavioral Loops! Attended #IDWS2025 in Jeddah this week Water security, like the brain, is a complex system solved at the intersection of #AI, #Policy, & #HumanBehavior

Raheema stands in front of the IDWS sign

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Hosting "Classroom Cognition" was great training! It taught me how to communicate complex research clearly—a critical skill I now use in my Master's program at KAUST 🇸🇦! #ScienceCommunication #TeacherLife #CognitiveScience #CUNO #Neuroscience #EduSky #Science

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It was truly heartwarming to see @nycschools.bsky.social teachers brave the cold December night ❄️ to join us. Their dedication showed me just how vital it is to bridge that research-to-education gap 🏫. Thank you to the CUNO team (s/o Carina Pizzano & John Rinald) for the opportunity! 🙏

Raheema shares pictured from her time in the classroom

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I was joined by educators & members of the community to talk about my lab's work on balancing memory encoding & future prediction (essential for learning!)🔮 My core goal was to equip teachers with practical cognitive insights for lesson planning🧑‍🏫

Raheema shares a slide titled "Hippocampus' role in recalling memories"

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

One year ago today: I hosted "Classroom Cognition" for CUNO ( @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's #NeuroscienceOutreach program)🧠 My #SciComm goal: Bridge the gap between #Neuro knowledge & classrooms. Having been a teacher, I experienced firsthand this knowledge gap's harm This talk was my answer👇

Poster for Late Night Science talk titled "Classroom Cognition: Memories for the Future" hosted by Raheema Javid

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/12/2025

GLP-1 drugs can help people lose weight by quelling hunger cues. Nature reports on the work by scientists testing if these drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids. 🧪

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Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?

Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine.

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Sustainable practices are fundamentally #BehavioralChallenges. Inspiring to see this international collaboration dedicated to data-driven solutions📈 Huge thanks to National Waste Center & all the organizers 🙏 #BehavioralScience #PolicyForum #KAUST #SustainableWaste #KSA #Vision2030 #Neuroscience

Main stage at Behavior Change Policy Forum

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The Forum (hosted by KAUST & 🇬🇧UK-Saudi🇸🇦 #Waste2Energy) tackled 3 key areas: 💡Analyzing psychological/cultural levers influencing waste behavior in KSA. 💡Learning from global success stories. 💡Designing a data-driven pilot project roadmap.

Behavior Change Policy Forum sign and agenda

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

When #Neuroscience meets #Policy! 🧠🇸🇦 Was thrilled to attend the Behavior Change Policy Forum at KAUST last week, focused on driving sustainable waste management. My driving force: Using behavioral insights to translate research into massive, positive societal change (hello, #SaudiVision2030). 🌍

Raheema standing in front of a Behavior Change Policy Forum sign

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 10/12/2025

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Just announced: a massive new program from the Canadian govt, separate from the well-known CRCs and CERCs, to recruit foreign scientific talent Canada was already a destination for scientists but whoa. Real impressive for a new govt to back political talking points with serious investment

nouvelles.umontreal.ca

$1.7 billion to attract international researchers to Canada

Details of the major federal initiative to draw new talent to the country's universities were announced today at UdeM.

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Jeff Stein @jsstein.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Increasing e-cigarette nicotine strength doesn't appear to make e-cigarettes better substitutes for combustible cigs. New data suggesting that both low- and high-nicotine e-cigarettes support product switching about the same. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Does e‐cigarette nicotine strength influence substitution for combustible cigarettes?

Using the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace, we examined the effects of e-liquid freebase nicotine strength (3–24 mg/mL) and e-liquid price (US$0.25–$1.00/mL) on behavioral economic substitution for c...

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Couldn't be prouder to be pursuing my masters at KAUST, where #BrainResearch 🧠 is clearly a flagship area with global reach🌍 What a productive week! #NatureConferences #Neuroscience #BrainMetabolism #KAUSTResearch #BrainScience #SaudiArabia #alhumdulillah

Signs for Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease conference behind sign for KAUST neuro symposium

Flags advertising Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease conference on KAUST campus

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Over 3 days, we dove into crucial topics at the frontier of brain research: ✔️Astrocyte-neuron metabolic coupling ✔️The role of energy disruption in neurodegenerative disease ✔️Targeting metabolic pathways for brain health. So much cutting-edge science!

Dr Nave talks about his work on Oligodendrocytes in brain energy metabolism and Alzheimer's disease

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

And that's a wrap on an incredible week of #Neuroscience at KAUST🇸🇦! Thrilled to have attended the Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease conference🧠, hosted by @natureportfolio.nature.com right here on campus. 💡 A great capstone to a week of high-level brain discussions! 👇

Raheema stands in front of a sign for the Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease conference

Main stage at the Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease conference

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Huge appreciation to @leenaibrahim.bsky.social for organizing such a diverse and inspiring flagship event for neuroscience at KAUST. A truly memorable day! #KAUSTNeuroscience #NeuroscienceSymposium #BrainResearch #SciComm #Neuroscience

Leena gives opening remarks at symposium

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A major highlight was connecting with my 'neuro family' and meeting new, brilliant minds! Great to catch up with @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & meet @drjkhokhar.bsky.social, @neuroseq.bsky.social, and @osamaharraz.bsky.social!

Attendees of KAUST Neuroscience Symposium pose for photo on steps

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The future of the brain is bright at at KAUST 💡 Thrilled to attend the Neuroscience Symposium 2025 🧠 Energy, research, and collaborative spirit were contagious! Sessions covered emerging tools, genetic insights, & brain health. So exciting to see neuro get its flowers here💐

Raheema stands in front of a sign for the KAUST neruoscience symposium 2025

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Josep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Palestinians mourn their colleague Saleh Al-Jaafarawi, killed today by Israeli-backed gangs in Gaza City.

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

he survived two years of genocide, reporting the news for us only to become the news story once the genocide was “over” saleh. anas. hamza. the dozens of journalists who have been targeted and killed by the occupation all deserve justice

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

saleh was the best of us 💔 glory to the martyrs

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Honored to serve as a Graduate Student Ambassador representing KAUST at the @timeshighered.bsky.social #WorldAcademicSummit 🏔️ We proudly welcomed delegates from universities across the world 🌎, showcasing KAUST's innovation and the warm hospitality of Saudi🇸🇦 #thewas

Raheema standing at the front desk helping someone

a group photo of all kaust student volunteers at THEwas

a group of KAUST student volunteers poses for a picture

Raheema standing next the the #THEwas sign

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The destruction of Gaza. Genocide.

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

reposting this with tears in my eyes. what palestinian doctors have been telling us all along only now being confirmed by “american doctors volunteering in gaza.” hopefully this wakes people up

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

mehdi is a voice of reason in what feels like a see of stupidity at best, moral bank and a complete loss of human decency at its worst

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"He has 100s of 1000s of Arabs' blood on his hands. Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza." What I told Piers Morgan on his show this week, about the ludicrous and colonial plan to have Blair help Trump run Gaza. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

i love that fork and chopstick (?) where the first tries 😆 brilliant!

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnslipshrimp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

'Conference of Zionists Will Colonise Palestine' - June 20, 1899, 124 years, 3 months and 17 days before October 7, 2023

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

from right to left or the other way round?

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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

neuroscience.georgetown.edu

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

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Mélissa Camara @melissacamara.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💥 KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! Governments must take action. The kidnapped crews of the Sumud must be released immediately. Share information about the flotillas. Take part in support events across France and the European Union. We are counting on you! ✊🏾🔴

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 01/10/2025

sumud flotilla is intercepted and being boarded, chemical agent apparently used against one boat via @dropsitenews.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters. Pressure your government for the protection of Global Sumud Flotilla

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raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

the summer i turned into a cake 🎂

raheema standing in front of the city skyline holding a cake with a picture of young raheema that reads “missing…. you so much!”

a chocolate cake reading “Hajj Mubarak! 2025” in front of a bowl of cherries

a strawberry shortcake reading “Hajj Mabrook Raheema + fam!”

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