The BRAIN miniseries | Meet the neuroengineer building brain-monitoring devices and thriving communities Meet De-Shaine Murray, the researcher developing innovative brain-monitoring devices. In this podcast, we speak with De-Shaine about his research, motivations and outreach initiatives.

🧠 In this interview with @shaine.bsky.social, we learn about the innovative devices he’s developing to monitor neurological disorders. We also had the opportunity to hear about his role in co-founding the ACRC and @blackinneuro.bsky.social >>> www.biotechniques.com/podcasts/the... 🧪

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🧠 Poster abstract submissions are OPEN for #BINW25!
Join us in person to share your science, your story, and your brilliance. ✨
Let’s #PictureABINScientist — and that includes YOU!

🔗 tinyurl.com/poster-binw25
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
#BlackInNeuroConference

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We’re celebrating 5 years of building a global movement for Black neuroscientists — and we need your support to keep it going. 🧠💛

Help support #BlackInNeuro as we grow our impact in academia, industry, and public health.

Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.

Federally funded DEI training programs and funding sources are disappearing. Meet seven neuroscientists who are filling these gaps.

By Paige Miranda

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🎉BIN is turning 5️⃣—and going in-person for Black In Neuro Conference 2025 in Washington, DC 🧠✨
🗓️ It's time to save the date: September 10-12, 2025

Let’s celebrate 5 years of community, connection, and Black excellence in neuroscience!

More details to come soon!! 🤗

Quote from 5th Annual Rising Black Scientists Award winner Jheannelle Johnson: "In all my challenges and breakthroughs, my grandmother’s memory sings as a reminder of my greater purpose and commitment to changing the tune around Alzheimer’s for unrepresented communities."

Jheannelle Johnson (jheannellejohnson.bksy.social) is a development director for @blackinneuro.bsky.social and researches cell vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease.

Read her essay “The sounds of music: Tracing memories and pathways through research and resistance" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Headshots of the winners of the 5th Annual Rising Black Scientists Awards Jheannelle Johnson of Stanford and Howard University, Victor Ekuta, MD, of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Kenna Gloria Agbugba of Philander Smith University, & Nyasha Milanzi pf Michigan Technological University. Sponsored by Cell Press, Cell Signaling Technology, and the Elsevier Foundation

We are proud to announce the winners of the 5th annual Rising Black Scientists Awards! www.cell.com/news-do/risi...

Learn more about each winner and their essays now published in @cp-cell.bsky.social below. 🧵

Sponsored by #CellPress, @cellsignal.bsky.social, and @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

I am so honored to be a recipient of the 5th Annual Rising Black Scientists Award! I hope that my story will inspire others to share their journey to neuroscience because our voices are important to shaping the field forward.

Check out this replay of last year’s SURF panel with the Program Directors for the University of Cincinnati and University of Minnesota!

This panel also includes testimonials from students on their SURF experiences! Still time to register for the SURF Info Session! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/4mzjyz9 🧪

🧵 Pulse oximeters overestimate arterial oxygen saturation and provide more variable readings in people with darker skin pigmentations.

Despite guidance from the @fda.gov, the reporting of participant skin tones in pulse oximeter testing has been inconsistent.

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GOL DA ROMA

⚽️ Paulo Dybala
🅰️ Artem Dovbyk
Milan 1x1 Roma
🏆 #SerieA 🇮🇹

Affirmation of the week (courtesy of an IG post):

“You’ve been strong all year. So don’t finish strong — finish rested.” ✨

Webinar announcement

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Just let me be a scientist:
The experienced, highly qualified postdoc is a valuable resource.

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Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.

Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces. What other campuses followed this playbook?

If you are part of of know of a community group that is for or has Black researchers in biomedical science please wave or DM! You do not need to be formalised, just active. This is for the purpose of being added to a list for small grants funding to the group.

The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 126 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?

Thank you @jasooooon.bsky.social
This is the most comprehensive coverage Blacksky has received yet
Deeply grateful for @thezodiacheir.bsky.social and @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social for the deep expertise they bring to the #Blacksky team. And thank You if you're locked in with us and helping us build.

After being on the care team for a patient with tetanus (unvaccinated). No child should have to experience that hell. Sadly, it will take people seeing their own children in tetany (see below) to understand the importance of vaccines.

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A bunch of science themed enamel pins with a microscope pin and brown hand with blue pipette pin both in the foreground

Get your holiday orders in the next couple days!!

I hate being late in any context so we close the shop early to prevent the chance of any orders arriving late lol

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You’re not properly dressed for your conference without at least one item from @christineliu.art. And if you’ve seen me at a conference over the last years 10 years or so, you’ve seen one of her brain pins on my lapel.

To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread.
#sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

5th AfroBioTech Conference The 2025 AfroBioTech Conference will showcase the innovation, contributions and leadership from diverse disciplines that can advance biotechnology while also inspiring the next generation of diverse p...

Don’t forget to register for AfroBiotech 2025! The early bird rates will end today, Wednesday, December 11, 2024. www.aiche.org/sbe/conferen... #blackinSTEM #blackinengineering #blackinBME

Health and medicine publication STAT News lays off 11 employees - The Boston Globe The decision to lay off STAT employees comes after years of growth, including a significant expansion during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...

Yale Assistant Professor of Jamaican Descent Fighting to Narrow Digital Health Divide for People of Color Terika McCall, Jamaican assistant professor, is focusing attention on one of the most important aspects of mental health care: access to care.

As I wrap this year, I have been reflecting on what was accomplished and plans for the year ahead. One thing remains constant is my desire to continue to collaborate on impactful projects to promote health equity in the US and abroad.
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Nah these two are wiiiiiiild‼️

Camryn Bynum & Joshua Metellus
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#Skol

Congratulations to Michelle D. Jones-London, Ph.D., for being awarded the Dolores Shockley Diversity and Inclusion Advancement Award! #ACNP2024
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Just a little reminder that Black Europe is not a monolith. The concept itself poses problems for some. I will drop some news in the spring about Black Europe too. Stay tuned.

We had a wonderful time at this workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social!

If you missed seeing me & @shahana-ansari.bsky.social talk about how to give constructive & kind feedback on manuscripts, check out the recording – coming soon!

Huge thanks to the @blackinneuro.bsky.social team for having us! ❤️