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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 years

Mom at her citizenship ceremony! My entire 1st gen immigrant family is now officially U.S. citizens ^_^

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

asking for new research proposals from candidate postdocs during the interview process is asking for free labor

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

5 months

1. pay undergrads to do research, even if it's their first research experience 2. if you recruit them for the summer, be proactive in finding ways to get them paid during the academic year 3. but not a lot of funding mechanisms exist that fund academic year research for UGs...

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“It is time to reconsider the culture of volunteerism in undergraduate research” by @LuskingL 👇👇👇

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 months

Looking for Spanish-speaking, San Diego area biomedical scientists (biology, neuro, etc) who would be open to giving a talk on their research, in Spanish, at UC San Diego in 2024!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

took the iconic Salk Institute picture again, except now I actually work here! happy first day of postdoc to me🎉

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

Excited to announce I am a @NINDSDiversity #DPSAN (F99/K00) Scholar! I could not have done this without the unwavering support from my PI, Dr. Tina Gremel, plus @UCSDNeuro 's @brendabl00dg00d @bradleyvoytek @emukamel and Dr. Tim Gentner. Thank you for believing in me 😭!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

10 months

Big news! This September I'll be starting a 2nd postdoc with Dr. Bradley Voytek at UC San Diego! My project will continue a collaboration with Dr. Alysson Muotri that aims to bridge human cortical organoid physiology with human behavior and EEG🧠🧫⚡️

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

It's done! Dr. Cazares

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

OH SNAP I got the 2023 @NIH OSNAP ! best acronym around (Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program), can't wait to visit and present my work at Bethesda this November!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

I absolutely love seeing people in positions of power publicly advocate for UC worker's rights, @kaymtye set a high bar by leading our lab to the picket line and speaking at the rally today! to the other faculty, what are you waiting for?!?

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

Hey @salkinstitute in what world is this acceptable from one of your employees?

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 years

@pollyp1 the truth doesn't have to be unique

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

In a couple of months I'll be starting a postdoc position at the Salk Institute working with @kaymtye ! Grateful that I'll have the opportunity to do research on the cortical circuits governing social behaviors 🐀

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

ayoo #DSPAN K00 approved! 🥳

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 months

Thanks to my PI, Brad Voytek, @tinagremel and @joann_trejo for supporting my application!

SD IRACDA

@SD_IRACDA

3 months

More great news! SD IRACDA Fellow, Dr. Christian Cazares ( @fleabrained ), was awarded the UC San Diego Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship! Woot woot! Congrats Christian!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

manuscript accepted🎉 parents are in town, celebrating tonight!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

wish I had read this earlier! absolute 🔥 commentary from @yael_niv on the importance of behavior in neuroscience. Having come up in the time of fancy neuro techniques, I have wondered what it is all for if we don't establish first what cognitive process a behavior is reflecting

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

you got what you paid for?

Pankaj kapahi

@kapahi_pankaj

2 months

I asked a prospective postdoc to send me a one page proposal of what they plan to do in the lab. I sent them some topics to think around. I got an AI generated proposal and it was bad …. Should I not entertain the postdoc anymore or give another chance?

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

neurocientificos 🇲🇽🧠 en #SfN2022 , so proud of the space we are carving in neuroscience 😁

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

8 months

we did it 💪

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 years

Got to speak at our program's faculty executive committee meeting, and after an unanimous vote UCSD Neuroscience will no longer be requiring the GRE as of the Fall 2019 application cycle. Huge thanks to the faculty who spoke up in support! Can't wait to spread the news at ABRCMS!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

Got super emotional as @tinagremel presented me with the Leon Thal Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Graduate Research! For over 5 years, Tina has been my role model for rigorous and creative science, I will always cherish our time working together!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

future of neuroscience! #DSPAN @NINDSDiversity too many successful people to tag, glad to be part of this community 💙

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

nuestra comunidad neurocientifica representanda orgullosamente en #OptoGRC2022 ! 🇸🇻🇲🇽🇦🇷🇬🇹🇵🇪 (y faltaron mas! 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇵🇷🇨🇴)

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

In 2019 I applied to the @kibm_ucsd Innovation Research Grant as a grad student and was not selected. I got bummed out 🥲, but! ~3 years later (and lots learned about grant writing from @kaymtye !), our collab with @mikio_aoi was selected this round💪!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

7 months

Delighted to be selected as a @KeystoneSymp Fellow! Looking forward to explore topics outside my neuro comfort zone and building bridges with the biological and biomedical research community !

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

10 months

Share this with your department chairs and faculty serving in your graduate program's admission committee !

Científico Latino

@cientificolatin

10 months

Out now in @CellCellPress ! Historically marginalized student representation drastically drops from undergrad to grad school. Are underrepresented students unqualified? Or are grad school admissions unnecessarily confusing, costly, & gatekeeping? 1/🧵

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 month

UCSD just canceled the annual student music festival in a blatant move to pit the student body agaisnt protestors...btw they 1. hire outside security for this event every year and 2. there were like 2 security guards outside the protest area as of yesterday...this is just sad

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 months

HHMI application submitted! huge thanks to @analog_ashley @joann_trejo @tinagremel @MariMelonPan and of course Brad Voytek for their feedback, time to nap 🫠

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

Paper is out in @CurrentBiology @CellPressNews 📰! Thanks to coauthors @tinagremel @SchreinerDrew @marielatonin , together we show that lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) contributes to action-related information used in volitional control of behavior.🧵

Orbitofrontal cortex populations are differentially recruited to support actions

The ability to use information from one’s prior actions is necessary for decision-making. While orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been hypothesized as ke…

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

Tye lab postdocs! They are my role models 🤩 keep an eye on these future research faculty !

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 months

So proud of Maribel, in the last 10 years I've seen her accomplish everything she's set her mind to ❤️ Super happy (and relieved!) we get to continue our journey at her top choice, UCSD 🥰 !

Maribel Patino

@MariMelonPan

3 months

Staying at @UCSanDiego for psychiatry residency! 😻 #Match2024 Wahoooo! 🥳🎉

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

Feels weird announcing all the good news recently, but I really want to shout out my PI Dr. Christina Gremel for her support. Yesterday I got the @SfNtweets 2020 Trainee Professional Development Award #TDPA to present at the upcoming #SfNConnectome21 See ya on the internets!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

yooo my grad program giving us financial COVID relief before the government get its shit together 🙌

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

I LOVE TALKING IN SPANISH WITH OTHER NEUROSCIENTISTS

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 months

amazed by the interest, there's a huge demand for US-based events to present research in Spanish! everyone that is based in San Diego area was added to a list that we will follow up with. Everyone that is within commuting distance (or virtual), stay tuned, ironing details

Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 months

Looking for Spanish-speaking, San Diego area biomedical scientists (biology, neuro, etc) who would be open to giving a talk on their research, in Spanish, at UC San Diego in 2024!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

K00 application submitted😅 #DSPAN

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

my dad when I told him my paper was rejected: "well you're still getting paid right?" haha thanks for the reality check dad

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

Chalk-talk style presentations at the Tye Lab retreat! Really useful exercise, I learned I need to improve my drawings of mice 😅

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

from plan to reality, we visited Calexico High School today to do comparative neuroanatomy, neurological exams, and a career panel! proud of our team ( @AlexandraG_07 @MariMelonPan @girl_almighties ) for the inaugural BrainBorders, we will be back next year!

Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

we were just awarded an ASCB COMPASS Outreach grant for this activity!! im digging this arc

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

dissertation sent to committee, defending June 15th 😁

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

@NSFGRFP I don't understand, why the priority? The NSFGRFP does not require students to carry out their proposals, since incoming 1st years usually don't know what lab they'll be doing their thesis in. What is the rationale behind this?

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

8 months

out here

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

see ya at the Salk this September!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

My first paper is out in #eNeuro @sfntweets ! Together with @SchreinerDrew & Dr. Christina Gremel, we show that alcohol dependence changes activity of the orbitofrontal cortex during different aspects of decision-making. @UCSDNeuro @UCSDPsychology

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

small victory: did my first intracranial surgery, unsupervised, in my new lab 😊 no more having to ask people where every little thing is and how to use (new to me) equipment 😅

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

Working on a piece of writing that aims to move away from using "underrepresented minority (URM)" and more towards "historically excluded and marginalized" when describing students from said backgrounds, has anyone encountered an acronym for the latter?

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

rejected from brain initiative trainee spotlight! posting the Ls too

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

8 years

Facts are not attacks #ToneDownForWhat

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 months

if i see that nasty ass frontiers figure on the timeline again im going to LOSE IT🤮 straight up body horror

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

5 months

bad grant and manuscript news within the same hour, im rdy to be a PI! 🥲

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

Overt and explicit racism is not what always drives minorities outside of academia, it can be the inaction and indifference that occurs during coded attacks. What professional environment allows for someone to believe they can say this with impunity?

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

In Behavioral Neuroscience's special issue: The Magical Orbitofrontal Cortex, Ege, Dr. Gremel, and I discuss the advantages and current progress for using unbiased bottom-up approaches (as seen in visual system research) to elucidating OFC function.

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

I knew my college days of helping organize parties would pay off someday 😅

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 months

Cooking up something with @minicontreras @iachaim Ricky Lozoya and Isabel Mejia! Science seminars in Spanish at UC San Diego! If you replied to the other thread, I have your email, expect our interest form soon so we can begin organizing our 2024 lineup 😄

CaSAS_UCSD

@CaSAS_UCSD

4 months

Our team is organizing a seminar series of science in Spanish, starting March 21st! Our first speakers will be @minicontreras and @iachaim , but keep a lookout on a interest form if you want to be a speaker!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

neuroscientists looking at the Sabatini story on the sidelines 👀 fyi there's no acceptable levels of sexual harassment

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

7 months

see ya at #SfN2023 ! -diversity poster sesh and reception - #DSPAN meeting and social - @SimonsFdn social - @NINDSDiversity Building up the Nerve -BRAINS booth - @cientificolatin social

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

Out here at @BRAINSbites #DSPAN ! @krissylyon @coryjwhite @SikoTree @HectorArcinie18

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

@TrackingActions can this be conveyed in initial cover letter? like on the job ad, asking "What do you enjoy working on?" is a ton more reasonable than asking for a new research proposal that is not generalizable to the job search

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

Finally doing the thing! Only took half a year for me to read outside at Salk 😅 I should be more grateful 🥲

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

8 months

second time being a mentor judge for the research presentations @SACNAS #NDiSTEM , this time for graduate students 😄

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

We started a paid summer research program! Application opens January 2nd and a link will be provided at , we are super excited to take what we've learned mentoring undergraduates over the last 4 years into a structured research experience!

CoB-KIBM Scholars Program

Applications for Summer 2024 are now open! DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications will close on April 1st. Late applications will not be accepted. Colors of the Brain, in collaboration with The Kavli Inst…

colorsofthebrain.com

Colors of the Brain

@UCSD_CoB

4 years

Announcing the CoB-KIBM Scholars Program! This neuroscience-focused, 10-week Summer program will award historically underrepresented students at @UCSanDiego a $5,000 stipend to conduct full-time research with @UCSDNeuro @salkinstitute faculty mentors.

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

9 months

Manifesting collaborations with researchers in Mexico in my future ❤

Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

@SfNtweets

9 months

“We are the bridge to make this happen” – Christian Cazares ( @fleabrained ), NSP Alum. Get to know more Hispanic neuroscientists this month! Follow us throughout this month as we continue to highlight Hispanic neuroscientists at SfN! #neurotwitter #HispanicHeritageMonth

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

Our 2.5 gpa GPA minimum for @UCSD_CoB means we sometimes award students near academic probation. Sometimes they're "super-seniors" too. But in reading their responses and listening to their interviews, we believe they can succeed in neuroscience research. Excited for cohort 4!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

at the stage of my career where SfN is just socials and I am loving it

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 month

my brother never go to vegas

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@bcrypt

1 month

in case youtube takes it down

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

how tf am I going to give an interview talk for postdoc, write my paper, write my thesis, write grant transition application, in half a year

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 month

grant rejection! it is what it is, onwards!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 months

We submitted a @kibm_ucsd Innovation Research Grant! Krissy @krissylyon and I met through the amazing @NINDSDiversity DSPAN and @BRAINSbites communities, now we hope our proposal on astrocyte's role in shaping cortical local field potentials in Rett Syndrome gets funded! 🤞

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

Accepted into the interactive track of #NeuromatchAcademy ! Thanks @neuromatch !

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

7 months

thanks @NIH OSNAP for having me ! Met with Gremel lab alumn, old and new DSPAN friends, and learned a ton about careers and funding opportunities at the NIH 😁 Consider applying to this award and reach out if you have Qs!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

thesis defense date scheduled🤯

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

@KordingLab twitter sucks for nuance but scientists claiming science should be apolitical do so in ignorance of the ways in which science has been used to harm marginalized communities for political motivations

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

7 months

Taught my first college lecture at SDSU 🤓 "Neuroscience of Social Behaviors" thanks to @SD_IRACDA ! finally get to rest after sfn 😴

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 months

I'll chat about the trial and error involved in balancing PhD duties with @UCSD_CoB , which came down to selecting an empathetic thesis advisor and learning how to ask for help from colleagues who share similar goals. I'll also share resources for those with different needs.

Sonya Neal

@Neal_Lab

2 months

For graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at UC San Diego, please save the date for the 2nd installment of the @SIPBURUCSD seminar series, which is on May 8th at noon! The topic is on the "Balancing Act" featuring our special and amazing guest @fleabrained !

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@fleabrained

5 months

Working on HHMI app and wrote about this experience, showed up to the meeting with printouts of the research agaisnt use of GRE hoping that seeing data would convince faculty 😅

Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

6 years

Got to speak at our program's faculty executive committee meeting, and after an unanimous vote UCSD Neuroscience will no longer be requiring the GRE as of the Fall 2019 application cycle. Huge thanks to the faculty who spoke up in support! Can't wait to spread the news at ABRCMS!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

The caravan protest today was nuts, not even coming out of the parking lot after EDC matched the car numbers I saw, thank you to the organizers! #BLMSanDiego

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

9 months

adjusting to transitions is hard, grateful for my family and partner who are showering me with patience and love

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

We started the CoB-KIBM Scholars program because at some point, someone took a chance on us despite having no prior research experience. As the program comes to a close, I am proud of our four scholars, they impressed us with their research presentations!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

looked back at my acknowledgement slides for my dissertation defense and it reminded me of my support system outside academia🥰 I really needed it

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

Come hear about the CoB-KIBM Scholars Program at #SfN2022 @kibm_ucsd @UCSD_CoB @ResearchbySana @MariMelonPan @JC_Gorman we have lots of recommendations for running a Summer Undergraduate Research Program! Nov 12 SDCC 16 2:30-4:00 PM

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

We got renewed! This Summer 2022, we'll expand to fund up to six undergraduate students!

Colors of the Brain

@UCSD_CoB

2 years

Announcing the 2022 CoB-KIBM Scholars Program! Our neuroscience-focused, 10-week Summer program will award historically underrepresented students at @UCSanDiego a $5,000 stipend to conduct full-time research with @UCSDNeuro @salkinstitute faculty mentors.

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@fleabrained

5 months

submitted in time 😅

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

@BWFUND

5 months

Deadline today for the Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program #bwfpdep

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@fleabrained

7 years

Born in Mexico, my family immigrated legally into the US, got my brother and me an education, now researching the brain #immigrantexcellence

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

@dontTRPM8 what I've learned is to only take on DEI work that has immediate impact on students lives, e.g. mentorship, career development, resource sharing, over DEI work that involves making committees to decide the committee for the committee to maybe do a thing 3 years from now

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

see ya at Switzerland 👀🏔️for the Modulation of Neural Circuits and Behavior GRC!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

"Everything. Everywhere. All at once" name of great movie or someone doing work on cortex-wide calcium dynamics

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

we were just awarded an ASCB COMPASS Outreach grant for this activity!! im digging this arc

Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

High school admin got back to me, this is happening!🥳

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

5 months

the awesome @KeystoneSymp fellows 🌟 !

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 months

from idea to reality in only a couple of months, shout out to @iachaim for bringing us all together, and @minicontreras for giving one of my favorite talks ever (invite her to your seminars!!)

CaSAS_UCSD

@CaSAS_UCSD

3 months

¡Gracias a todos los que asistieron a nuestro seminario inaugural! No podemos esperar a ver crecer esta comunidad🎉🧪nos vemos el siguiente mes!

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

10 days

translating my slides into spanish for @CaSAS_UCSD this June! I'll be recording the presentation and uploading it with a transcript if people want to find out how to talk about electrophysiological signals originating from scalp EEG, organoids, and mice in spanish 😋🇲🇽

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

11 months

Uncertain about what to do about a research career after graduation? I was there once! Come hear our advice and feel free to reach out to me if you want to follow up on any of it!

NINDS Diversity

@NINDSDiversity

11 months

If you're struggling with what to do next after your bachelor’s degree, don't miss this week's episode for great advice & resources! Join us for #NINDSNervePod Season 4 Ep 2 w/ guests @chylew , @fleabrained & @gtbgomez ! #NINDSDemystifies Coming Friday at:

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

Editing CV and I've been doing neuroscience research for 10 years ???

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

by far my favorite sfn, the most wholesome for sure

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

4 years

Hey look I'm finally in Nature "The lack of diversity in the three new priority fields — only 18.8% of US computer-science [BAs] went to Black and Latinx students [....] — means that the move will perpetuate already-existing disparities"

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

1 year

my body doesnt know what time it is but i am here in switzerland for @CircuitBehavGRC 🇨🇭🧠💤

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

Stuff I do as a grad student ranked by how much I find them enjoyable: 1. Data analysis 2. Training/Mentoring 3. Collecting behavioral/brain signal data 4. Presenting research 5. Research proposal writing 6. Manuscript writing 7. Paper reading 8. Histology

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

ever since defending I feel a huge sense of relief, like I'm on vacation or something, even when I'm doing surgeries and finishing up experiments, I am taking my time and enjoying the moments real vacation in less than a week tho 🥳

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

3 years

We are graduate student led and founded! 47 applications, 11 interviews, 4 scholars. Programs where having no previous experience is encouraged are NEEDED. Excited for our first cohort of undergraduate research scholars, keep an eye on these rising stars!

Colors of the Brain

@UCSD_CoB

3 years

Announcing the Summer 2021 Research Scholars! This is a diverse cohort of fellows across several dimensions, from research interests to life backgrounds, and we believe that our program will be a much-needed springboard towards future research opportunities in the future.

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Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠

@fleabrained

2 years

one of my favorite parts of conferencing is meeting scientists from South/Latin America or getting to speak in spanish about science! shout out to @mariajoseoc2 @julieta__lis @mstackmann @dcardozopinto @rimenez at #OptoGRC2022 !

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