At #SfN25 ? Come by my nanosymposium “Decoding pain mediated shifts in social behavior following neuropathic injury in mice” on Tuesday at 10:30!

With the game this lopsided and the Chiefs shut out you have to think Harrison Butker would’ve found more satisfaction and purpose and happiness if he’d just stayed home and raised his kids and done domestic chores

My heart goes out to all the other postdocs right now trying to write their transition grants and trying to compartmentalize while the government burns everything we work for to the ground.

What better demonstrates that ‘biological sex’ is but a social construct than the u.s. president needing to declare it to be binary by political fiat in order to uphold its legitimacy.

Y’all, I am scared.

For my students. For our communities.

For how much harder this is going to make it for folks who have already had to surpass insurmountable barriers.

Never going to forget or forgive a single fucking person who supported him.

My reflexive language when having to write about myself for a grant : “through the aid of my friends, mentors and deities I completed xyz experiments”

My language at 1am after reading my male colleagues past applications : “you’re never gonna believe this, but I actually invented neuroscience”.

Them : make your grant more interesting, you need a hook!!

Me, a failed creative : bet. “The year is 1821, the scene is Victorian England, and the subject is Thomas De Quincy, a relatively unremarkable man of little importance excepting his addiction to Laudanum and his penchant for journaling...”

Have officially switched over from twitter, where are all my fellow scientists at 🤗