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Gilp

2 years

This is finally the moment that none of you have been waiting for & the countdown that absolutely no one asked for. I WILL NOW RANK EVERY SINGLE NICOLAS CAGE FILM FROM WORST TO FIRST.

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Gilp

@The_Gilp

2 years

When your post doc finally ends

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@The_Gilp

2 years

How to be a scientist: 1. Open 50 PDFs 2. Never save or read any of them 3. Restart computer 4. Repeat

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1 year

Optimizing dopamine loops

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Critique of a fellowship application for FIRST YEAR graduate student: "Weakness: The candidate has no first authored papers" STOP DOING THIS SHIT. Not only is it unreasonable, it disadvantages people that could not spend their undergraduate career getting a first author paper.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

We’re looking for a new post-doc with low intrinsic motivation & very few skills to work on a side project that I’m not really that into. Please RT!

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3 years

Proposing 22 years of work in a 5-year grant

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3 years

@xkcd Allow me to tag the entire field of neuroscience

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3 years

ACCEPT. NO REVISIONS.

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2 years

Data on the left … Figure on the right

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@The_Gilp

5 years

If you’re a PI and you want to avoid panic attacks, be sure to not: 1. Create a document with a list of all the half finished projects in the lab 2. Open that document

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Hopefully, after I die, people will cite the work from my lab, since they clearly refuse to do it while I'm alive.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

I’m starting a rehabilitation center for people that use slides with a dark blue background and yellow/white text. I used to be one of you. I promise you can beat this.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Opening reception of scientific meetings “after the pandemic”

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3 years

😂 🤣 😂 🤣

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@The_Gilp

3 years

What bothers me most is that they are fucking assholes

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

3 years

I think the thing that bothers me most about non-maskers is that if they’re right we’re all ok. If they’re wrong I might die due to their decision. They won’t die due to mine.

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@The_Gilp

5 years

When the dance floor opens up after the closing dinner at a scientific conference.

RobinsonOUZO

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5 years

Windows 95 Launch (1995)

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2 years

Don’t worry my dude, soon you’ll be a mid career royalty.

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@The_Gilp

5 years

I am excited to announce that I did not receive an NIH Innovator Award or a Director’s Award or a HEAL initiative award.

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@The_Gilp

4 years

I was recently asked to give on talk on lessons learned in academic science. I am sharing the nuts and bolts of it here. These are the opinions of 1 person based on the experiences of 1 person. They are not universal or comprehensive. Feel free to add your own. Thread 👇

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5 years

*watching Duke* Zion dunks. Commentators: Wow! Hoo boy! Zion dribbles twice. Commentators: Wow! Hoo boy! Zion ties his shoes. Commentators: Wow! Hoo boy!

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@The_Gilp

5 years

It will be embarrassing for me when I win the Nobel Prize and only have rejection letters from journals with impact factor less than 5.

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@The_Gilp

5 years

What benefit do academic mentors see in treating their mentees poorly? 1. News travels fast to colleagues & candidates 2. You don’t share in your trainees’ future successes 3. Your science suffers You can’t take those glam papers to your grave. Don’t be a shithead.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

About to be submitting papers like “Due to Covid, animals were tested between 3 and 57 weeks after surgery.”

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@The_Gilp

2 years

We have finally moved to the production stage on this book project. It should be available in late 2022 or early 2023. I hope you'll consider using it for advanced undergrad classes & early grad school classes on the topic. An incredible list of contributors that include:

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Gilp

@The_Gilp

5 years

Received news of promotion to Full Professor today. I am but a product of the outstanding mentors, trainees, leaders, collaborators & support staff I have been lucky enough to work with along the way, so THANKS to all of you in formal roles & behind the scenes.

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@The_Gilp

9 months

Is this a tweet from the year 1960?

Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli

@NIHDirector

9 months

#NIH -funded research in mice at @NorthwesternU found that dopamine, which affects the reward center in the brain, also helps to control movement. This finding could lead to new research targets for neurological diseases like #Parkinsons .

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Rand Paul described my research program as “spraying alcoholic rats with bobcat piss.” How would he incorrectly summarize your research program in 10 words or less?

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Cheat sheet for decoding #SciTwitter Thrilled = Relieved Delighted = Relieved Excited= Relieved Impressive = Unimpressive Fascinating = I don’t believe your data Intriguing = Your data are wrong Looking forward to = dreading Can’t wait = I’m dead inside

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@The_Gilp

4 years

I don’t care how many times this grant is not discussed, I will literally never stop re-submitting it.

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@The_Gilp

5 years

I’m proud to announce that I did not receive any awards at #SfN19 and I also had a paper rejected this week.

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@The_Gilp

4 years

The six types of grant tweets: 1. Microsoft Word sucks. 2. I submitted 8 grants this month. 3. I’m clicking refresh on Commons. 4. Reviewers are morons. 5. ND 😢 6. 3 %ile!!!! 🎈🎉 🍾

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Went to lab meeting then realized I canceled lab meeting.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Eliminate grades as a criterion for @NIH fellowships. It is completely useless as a measure of scientific acumen or as a predictor of future scientific accomplishment.

Prof. Lola Eniola-Adefeso

@Lola_UMich

3 years

THIS. Students from traditional excluded groups are more than their grades @NIH . Most don't have the luxury of just "doing school" due to systemic structures that lead to their underrepresentation to begin. We MUST fix this otherwise we are fooling ourselves re-increasing the #.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Thrilled to announce that I didn’t submit a grant. I didn’t get a grant. I didn’t get an award. I didn’t get a fellowship. I’m not an innovator.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Every time I serve on study section I marvel at the thoughtfulness and fairness of reviewers and Every time I receive a summary statement I marvel at the cluelessness and ineptitude of reviewers.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

@schoppik @nanopharmNC I disagree with that position. You can note a 1st author paper as a strength for one applicant without noting the absence of a 1st author paper as a weakness for another applicant.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

My home is still there.

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3 years

No Time to Dye

Mirror Celeb

@MirrorCeleb

4 years

Daniel Craig is the first ever James Bond to have grey hair in new 007 film

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@The_Gilp

4 years

Me reading the scientific literature.

COLiN BURGESS

@Colinoscopy

4 years

1 minute before the museum closes

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Dear neuroscientist: You have entered a realm in which people who do fancy tech shit make up their outcome variables as they go. This is the path of darkness. Are you going to let this happen? Because it will unless you stop it.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

PIs getting R01s funded with scores in the 40th percentile

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Gilp

@The_Gilp

4 years

Excited to officially start in my new role as Vice Chair of Research for the Physiology Department at LSUHSC. Helping other scientists develop their research programs is my favorite part of my job so this is a dream role for me.

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@The_Gilp

1 year

Using optogenetics to replicate a finding from the 1970s

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@The_Gilp

2 years

“Harvard & Yale & MIT are everything that is wrong with academia… I really hope they give me an interview!!!”

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@The_Gilp

2 years

If you can’t access one of the articles from my lab, please reach out. I’ll be happy to email you a copy for $11,390.

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@The_Gilp

4 years

@Giants just signed this cat to a 4 year $35M deal #DALvsNYG

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@The_Gilp

4 years

If you review fellowship grants, do NOT dock scores for applicants that devote time & effort to outreach & advocacy. And if someone else on your study section does it, call them out. We should be elevating these individuals.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Y’all motherfuckers gonna make me quit science & run for office.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

In faculty life we don’t say “I love you” we say “that doesn’t require a meeting, we can just handle it by email” and I think that’s beautiful.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

I’m 3 years late but holy shit, this HBO Chernobyl series is incredible.

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@The_Gilp

9 months

A neuroscientist, Huberman, and another neuroscientist

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@The_Gilp

2 years

The John Candy of pro football

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

2 years

John Madden has passed away at the age of 85. Rest In Peace, John…

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Akeem the Dream Etonics!!

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

3 years

What was the first pair of sneakers you bought with your own money? Adidas Top-Tens. 1979. I was 12. Had to have them. Mowed a lot of yards to get them. Isiah Thomas made them legendary in 1981. While. In. College…

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@The_Gilp

3 years

To everyone reaching out with concern & well wishes, thank you. I evacuated & I’m safe in Texas. Now, like many others, I’ll sit on pins & needles watching the #Ida coverage. The majority of my friends & colleagues stayed. Will be thinking of them, my home, my city, my life.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

When you put 4 asterisks on every bar in the graph

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@The_Gilp

3 years

There is no power in NOLA, temps are in the 90's, leaving little choice but to evacuate. The financial stress for lab trainees is very high. I started a GoFundMe to defray trainee evacuation costs: Thanks for considering. Please RT. NOLA will be back. N

Gilp Lab Ida Evacuation, organized by Nicholas Gilpin

Hi all: I am a neuroscience professor in New Orleans. Most Gilpin lab personnel (students,… Nicholas Gilpin needs your support for Gilp Lab Ida Evacuation

www.gofundme.com

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Thrilled to announce our new chronic unpredictable stress model that combines global pandemic + random power outages + street closures + hurricanes + car jacking + construction + potholes + bad data + PI that’s always on vacation + freezer stopped working + grant rejection + …

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Women receive 50% of fellowships but only 32-35% of research @NIHgrants grants. That seems... not good. FY 2016-2020 # of funded PIs by mechanism & gender:

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@The_Gilp

8 months

🚨🚨 BOOYAKASHA 🚨🚨 Just in time for Friday happy hour: "Adolescent alcohol exposure produces sex-specific long-term hyperalgesia via changes in central amygdala circuit function" A true team effort that unveiled a pretty cool sex differences story:

Adolescent Alcohol Exposure Produces Sex-Specific Long-term Hyperalgesia via Changes in Central...

Exposure to alcohol during adolescence produces many effects that last well into adulthood. Acute alcohol use is analgesic, and people living with pain report drinking alcohol to reduce pain, but...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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@The_Gilp

1 year

Me attending an 8 a.m. conference symposium

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@The_Gilp

1 year

Consenting partners or just any kind?

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Gilp

@The_Gilp

6 years

Home alone in #NOLA this week and decided to take the opportunity to eat & tweet my way through the city. First stop: Le’s Baguette Banh Mi Cafe. Part of the strong Vietnamese food scene here. Pictured: 5-spice BBQ pork belly on Dong Phuong French bread + veggie egg rolls. Nom!

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@The_Gilp

6 months

Among the many frustrations inherent to running a lab, not being allowed to pay people what they’re worth is probably number one on the list. How do we fix this retention problem? Uh, pay people. It’s not rocket surgery.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Oh, baby

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Grant reviewed Thursday... still no result posted... getting antsy.

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3 years

PI

rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

3 years

what’s the word for when you’re very smart but can’t remember anything and know literally nothing

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2 years

Congrats to these 2 guys for pulling off a hell of an amazing #CannabinoidGRC meeting in literally unprecedented times

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2 years

Research, teaching & service

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9 months

Setting up the Ephys rig after a lab move

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@The_Gilp

3 years

I am happy to announce the publication of Volume 157 of the International Review of Neurobiology focused on the "Neurobiology of Addiction & Co-morbid Disorders." This volume was co-edited with @TheErinCalipari in what was a great collaborative experience.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Don’t forget to set your clock one year forward to March 2022

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@The_Gilp

4 years

My Chair invited the entire department to faculty meeting today & we talked about what is going on in this country. A lot of honesty & a lot of tears. I am extremely thankful to have a Chair that created this safe space for open discussion. I hope others are doing the same.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Stay tuned for my 22-tweet 🧵 explaining all the reasons why I may or may not be leaving academia, which will have many points not raised in the 3 million other such threads.

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Gilp

@The_Gilp

2 years

Simply get an Assistant Professor job with a starting salary of $200k at an institution with 100’s of millions in philanthropic dollars, then pay grad students and post docs whatever you want. It’s easy, jeez.

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Gilp

@The_Gilp

2 years

Oh cool let me just go ahead and “optimize my dopamine” real quick 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

@hubermanlab

2 years

The key thing to optimizing dopamine is to be sure that the reward you experience is scaled with the effort involved to obtain it. It’s also a good idea to just randomly delete the reward every once in a while. Effort for efforts sake is truly (& positively) transformative.

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2 years

I’m just a boy standing in front of the entire neuroscience field asking you to operationalize your dependent variables and stop saying that rodents have complex and uniquely human mental health disorders & that you “solved” them in every paper you publish.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

I thanked someone for stopping at the crosswalk & they leaned out the window and yelled “I ain’t your friend! It’s the law!” #NOLA

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@The_Gilp

4 years

I’m really glad that none of us real neuroscientists ever over-interpret our data or oversell the impact of our work.

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@The_Gilp

1 year

This shit getting meta y’all

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@The_Gilp

4 years

Is there anything better than receiving a grant NoA while on the road? This career ain’t easy, but you have to appreciate the good moments. Happy to keep on keeping on. P.S. We are hiring!

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1 year

@RexChapman Bruh … literally.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

How have I never seen a gut brain axis symposium called “shit for brains”

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Can I just tell you how much I love @triciajanak #GRCAlcohol2022

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@The_Gilp

2 years

@TheErinCalipari Hi. I’m a middle aged white man wallowing in mediocrity. My favorite hobby is demanding perfection of teenagers that play basketball.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

The thing I may never get used to about this job is the way that waves of good news & bad news crash over you one after the other, days or even hours apart, relentlessly, forever.

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Who are the funniest scientists on Twitter? I need to follow more funny scientists.

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@The_Gilp

2 years

Anyone got an available neuroscience position somewhere other than earth? 🪐 🪐 🪐

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@The_Gilp

5 years

When you finish a PhD in neuroscience they take you into a special room and tell you that every time you tell people what your job is, they will just assume you are a neurosurgeon, and eventually you won’t even correct them.

Jeff Lazarus

@jlazarus001

5 years

When you finish a PhD in political science they take you into a special room and tell you that no matter how long you study politics or how deep your expertise everyone will think the 20 minutes they spent watching CNN makes them more of an expert than you.

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2 years

New year New knee … time for a Nic Cage movie marathon.

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@The_Gilp

8 months

Fund more grants that shine blue light on 3 cells in a tiny brain region that no one has ever heard of.

David McCartney

@DocDavidM

8 months

Alcohol-specific deaths were higher than drug deaths in 2022. Now what are we going to do about it?

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Dear #ScienceTwitter : I am proud of the result of this collaboration with @effatma examining Racial Inequity in Federal Grant Funding. I regard it as the most important thing I have written in science. We hope this kickstarts a long overdue conversation.

Dr. Bates

@BatesPhysio

3 years

Very excited to find a preprint from @effatma and @The_Gilp on psyarxiv on inequalities on @NIH funding. Going to do a little reading... CC @haack_kkv @BlackInPhysio @APSPhysiology

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@The_Gilp

3 years

Fuck this noise. Scientists constantly impress me with their passion for their work & developing the next generation. The majority are data geeks. The system forces scientists to constantly eye the next opportunity. That doesn’t make us “careerists.” It makes us adaptable.

Ekaterina Damer, PhD

@ekadamer

3 years

I’m just going to say it: Academia is full of careerists who don’t actually give a shit about science.

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4 years

During the 2022 @GordonConf meeting on Alcohol & CNS, @triciajanak & I will include a forum for discussion of **Racial Equity in Science** that will focus on data, expert input & solutions for change. We encourage *ALL* chairs of upcoming GRC meetings to consider doing the same.

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@The_Gilp

1 year

If you name drop the journal when chatting about your published research, I’m sorry but we’ll never be friends, and honestly we’ll probably be enemies.

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2 years

Fixed it

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2 years

May I suggest that if you are asking me to lecture in person with 3 masks on that perhaps it is a good idea to not ask me to lecture in person?

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3 years

In this piece, @effatma and I explore ways in which the biomedical research enterprise (1) has contributed to health disparities and (2) can contribute to the solving this problem. Thank you @SfNJournals for the venue and for working with us on this.

Toward an Anti-Racist Approach to Biomedical and Neuroscience Research

Racism is a threat to public health. Race is a sociopolitical construct that has been used for generations to create disparities in educational access, housing conditions, exposure to environmental...

www.jneurosci.org

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Lol whoever this reviewer is, seriously fuck you: "Although the following sentence is phrased as a hypothesis, this is technically not a hypothesis & as such the application is technically not hypothesis-driven. A hypothesis should be an if/then statement."

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Not the way I envisioned it, but I’d like to give a very warm welcome to the newest member of the LSUHSC Physiology faculty! Rajani Maiya, Ph.D. studies the molecular mechanisms underlying Alcohol Use Disorder using genetic, molecular, pharmacological & whole-genome strategies.

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