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Kay M Tye PhD

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Day 1 of DISCOVER was so inspiring!! Amazing talks from our #DISCOVER awardees🤯😇, and I was proud of our @salkinstitute faculty showing in the blitz💪 On to Day 2..!!!

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

2 years

Here’s a hot take that might lose me some friends 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it seems obv: Grad students are the lifeblood of academia. We must raise their stipends above the poverty line so they can focus on research instead of survival. When the union strikes, we (PIs) should strike with them.

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6 years

Got an email from Dept Head that says I officially got tenure! My daughter wants to know why alerts of congrats texts keep preventing her from watching videos on iPad. Me: Mommy gets to be a scientist forever! Her:🙄 #notimpressed Hopefully I’ll be able to celebrate at #acnp

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1 year

No matter who we are, our roles as mandatory reporters is real. Disappointed in ⁦ @jonykipnis ⁩ Alleged sexual misconduct and support system failures cause graduate student to drop her WU PhD degree - Student Life

Alleged sexual misconduct and support system failures cause graduate student to drop her WU PhD...

After what happened, Lila — a third-year medical student who requested to remain anonymous — decided to not pursue a Ph.D. at Washington University anymore.

www.studlife.com

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Opinion: Scientist authors — please stop referring to other papers in your methods instead of just telling us your methods. Making readers navigate obfuscated referencing and (worse) multiple paywalls to figure out what you’ve done is like a big 🖕

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Thrilled to be selected to be an HHMI investigator @HHMINEWS and most of all grateful to be working with this amazing team and to keep doing what we have set out to do in dissecting the neural mechanisms of Social Homeostasis @salkinstitute !!

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@kaymtye

3 years

Thank you for saying this. Every situation is different but even now as a senior faculty member, I feel a visceral reaction to any tone dismissing or discrediting sexual harassment. 1/n

Lisa Gunaydin

@lisa_gunaydin

3 years

If an investigation gets to the point of removing someone, you’d better believe it was an egregious offense. So few perpetrators ever face any consequences. Even faculty who sexually assault students often just get a slap on the wrist. 4/

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Kay M Tye PhD

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5 years

“If sexual harassment, misconduct, and retaliation are the firing squads that assassinate individual careers, then implicit bias is the lead in the water that poisons the entire town.” #BiasAwareness #MeTooSTEM #WomenInScience #SAIDinSTEM

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

4 years

Any other neuroscientist read this and think to yourself: “Wow, I like his cars, but... ...this guy sounds like a total dick”

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

A prior track record of exceptional achievement in engineering *is* required, but *no* prior experience working on the brain or human physiology is required. We will teach you what’s known about the brain, which is not much tbh.

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Kay M Tye PhD

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6 years

I am excited to announce that the Tye Lab will be moving to the Salk Institute (taking students through UCSD) in 2019!

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Lab Meetings are Sacred to me Evidence: I have never missed a single lab meeting in ~10 years, at least 300 lab meetings. Philosophy: This is where we honor our team members with our shared attention and thoughtful engagement, and they honor us with their preparation. 1/n

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Jen Heemstra

@jenheemstra

3 years

As a PI, my top priority is to support the students and postdocs in my group As a female PI, the fact that biases in publishing could hurt their opportunities just kills me Seeing a paper published recommending that the answer is they should work for men instead is...no words😡

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

To anonymous reviewers: If you wanna provide constructive criticism-thank you!! If you wanna hate on me - go ahead, let it out. BUT if you wanna be rude with no suggestions for improvement and dishearten my trainees I will request editorial intervention for abuse of power. 1/n

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

4 years

I gave a TED talk! Hope to convince you that understanding how neural circuits control behavior should be a top priority for everyone -- because 50% of people will be affected by a mental health disorder, and the mental health crisis affects us all.

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Well, you know I was genuinely surprised 😅😅 Such an amazing honor to be recognized with, thank you to my nominators and selection committee and I am so blessed to have an amazing team to carry out our research mission with!! 🙏❣️

NYAS

@NYASciences

3 years

Congratulations to the 2021 Blavatnik National Award Laureates! 🏆 Mircea Dincă @DincaGroupMIT @ChemistryMIT @MIT , Kay Tye @kaymtye @salkinstitute , Andrea Alù @andrea_alu @asrc_gc @GC_CUNY @GradCenterNews @CUNY #blavatnik2021

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Kay M Tye PhD

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4 years

Tweeps: can I get a RT if you agree? (I certainly do!) #Truth #phdlife #AcademicChatter ⁦ @lizandmollie ⁩ = wisdom

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

1 year

In case you like horror and are the type that just cant stop watching: (No this is not a GIF from the internet, this is real footage from my lab yesterday and our most active 2P in a room holding two 2Ps). Courtesy of 1st responder @science_is_hard

Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

1 year

This is real footage of the interstitial space above our 2P from today 😭😵‍💫🫣

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Pls RT if you agree: Dear @GordonConf : Please make #PowerHour part of the main program instead of part of “free time.” It suggests that diversity and inclusion is less important than the science, and this is not the right message to send. Sincerely, #AmygdalaGRC #GRCAmygdala

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

So blessed to be looking at this #sunset #sunsets

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

2 years

Ramon y Cajal's "Advice For a Young Investigator" was in my desk drawer all PhD, but... why was I following such toxic, misguided advice from a book absolutely not written for someone like me? We need a new version of "Advice For a Young Investigator." I'm working on it.

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

1 year

If by “immediately” you meant “6 months later, when he finished his manuscript for Nature” If by “support and protect” you meant “suppress, gaslight and traumatize” If by “remove” you meant “write a recommendation for faculty positions” Then I wouldn’t have to say STOP LYING

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Some people may read this thread and think “[enter dismissive thought here]” But for those of you that read this thread and see your own life in it, I say this: Stay strong. Stay true. And I BELIEVE YOU.

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Strongly disagree. Nearly *everyone* is biased against women in science, including women in science, including me. It is a daily effort to combat the biases I know I have. Those in denial of having bias are clearly *not* combatting it. #WomeninSTEM #SAIDinSTEM #MeTooSTEM

Jeremy

@JeremyPhilosoph

5 years

@batssiki @PaulRoundy1 @yael_niv Sure, but usually these things are just rebels fighting against an elusive and ill-defined "status quo" that everyone thinks they understand. When you unpack it, it isn't what it seems. No one is biased against women in STEM anymore. You have power and support. It's 2019.

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Kay M Tye PhD

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4 years

Sometimes forget to be grateful to be a US citizen, but got talking w @aa_fenton about how our parents immigrated to America, and it reminded me to hold on to the inspiration and courage our parents had: THREAD (1/n) RT with your story, if you have one!

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

6 years

Dear everyone! You don’t need to wonder if I reviewed your paper anymore. I now sign ALL of my reviews. Inspired by @pollyp1 who does this and I asked her why and she said “I decided to be ethical.” I do it to promote transparency, accountability and fairness. #openscience

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Starting a new thread that is hopefully (slightly) less depressing and more constructive. Advice to a younger version of myself: If anyone makes you feel uncomfortable and you either a) dont feel comfortable telling them or b) told them and they dont care RUN AWAY 1/n

Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Thank you for saying this. Every situation is different but even now as a senior faculty member, I feel a visceral reaction to any tone dismissing or discrediting sexual harassment. 1/n

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@kaymtye

3 years

GFAP is green And DAPI is blue You should love your neurons (And glial cells, too!)

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@kaymtye

5 months

Thrilled to announce the launch of our pilot run for the inaugural DISCOVER Salk Postdoc Symposium, where we invite potential postdocs to visit @salkinstitute , meet faculty, take lab tours, join career development workshops and seed new collaborative opportunities that would be…

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@kaymtye

5 years

Why wouldn’t a husband take a wife’s last name? Serious question.

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

4 years

Thrilled our paper "A cortical-brainstem circuit predicts and governs compulsive alcohol drinking" dropped in @sciencemagazine today! Team led by @CodySiciliano w/ @neuromany @caitvw @neurd_ @ekimchi @MIT_Picower @salkinstitute Thread below👇! (1/n)

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

6 years

Advice for a new faculty member: 1) read “at the helm” cover to cover 2) solicit advice from diverse people, you’ll get diverse answers 3) organize the order of grant apps before you apply. Foundation grants have very specified eligibility. 4) hire with care 5) learn to delegate

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

2 years

Brand new rig and ⁦ @KafuiDzirasa ⁩ very first patched cell!!!!! Sabbatical = Success

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

This is why I sign all my reviews. So then grad students (and PIs) can SASS ME BACK. Anonymity enables abuse by preventing any consequences. If you sign, there shall be karma. You will have to face the consequences your reviews invoke. Dialogue is good for science.

Takaki Komiyama

@takaki_komiyama

5 years

Dear reviewer. You don't like our paper. Fine. But there is absolutely no justifying your ridiculing it repeatedly in capital letters. Consider the impact on the trainee who poured years of their life in it. What the hell is wrong with you.

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1 year

As a mandatory reporter, it is wildly inappropriate to tell a student who is tearfully reporting something to you TO NOT REPORT IT. The moment they report it you are obligated to report it. FTR, I am making a big deal out of this bc IT IS A BIG DEAL.

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@kaymtye

2 years

Excited to announce @neurolabware and the Tye Lab are collaborating to throw an epic SFN party. When everybody is done talking, come to Parq to just DANCE all night after far too long!! All are welcome, hoping to see folks LIGHT UP THE CYPHERS with me! 🙏Pls RT 🍾🥳🪩💃🐬🕺🫶

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@kaymtye

1 year

Bringing the picketline to to the Chancellors door!! So inspired by this energy #FairUCNow

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@kaymtye

3 years

Deeply honored by this award and the most humbling and moving words from the @NIMHDirector 🙏❤️😭 Thank you Josh for your leadership!! Thank you @ACNPorg Daniel H. Efron Award Nominator Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. (ACNP 2020) via @YouTube

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@kaymtye

3 years

Reflecting on what I can be grateful for after a particularly trying day. I am so grateful for @triciajanak being the most incredible mentor anyone could ever dream of -- my first meeting with her began with me crying about how I should maybe drop out of grad school. 1/n

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@kaymtye

3 years

Haven’t said this in almost 3 years, but with our recent faculty jobs, K99 scores 🥳… I am looking at this horizon and realizing its time to hire new postdocs in the Tye Lab. Diverse expertise, perspectives and backgrounds are welcome! RT or forward!

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Well, gonna turn 38(!) in an hour I’m so grateful for all the amazing people in my life! My family (including my mom @BikTye visiting from Hong Kong), my friends, my lab, my colleagues, my tweeps...new science and new hobbies. ...feel so lucky to be living this life. 🙏❤️🥰😂

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5 years

So proud my 3yo and 6yo just sat through a whole talk ⁦ @salkinstitute ⁩ — and now are splashing in this architectural icon... overall gonna count this as a win for team mommy

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@kaymtye

5 years

Thrilled to announce our new @nature paper FINALLY dropped which is @caitvw thesis and co-led by @CodySiciliano and @ga_matthews !!

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@caitvw

5 years

It's been a long journey with this project & I am so excited to finally be able to share my PhD work! ✨ We find that dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex modulates the mPFC-dPAG circuit to promote aversive behaviors, particularly under conflict

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1 year

Having an unforgettable time with my lab in Big Bear. 11th anniversary of the lab, and we are having a retreat and 22 chalk talks and a focus on lab culture. Everyone worked so hard to prep so they can REP and I am SO FUCKING PROUD. ❤️🔥⛷️👩🏻‍🔬🔬 ♾️ gratitude for this group ♾️

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@kaymtye

5 years

1) Read At The Helm cover to cover 2) Write grants about every idea you can get excited about and resubmit them until they get funded 3) Don’t be afraid to spend startup, you need to turn $ into data, it does you no good in a spreadsheet 4) Hire w/ care, call refs and trust gut.

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@CaitAnne

5 years

If you could share one piece of advice on starting your own lab, what would it be? Please RT or reply with any helpful suggestions!

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Opinion: Academic career clock is brutal for parents. Childbearing years line up w crux of the climb in a very unfortunate way that probably serves as the main stake puncturing the pipeline to make STEM hemorrhage young parents just coming into the peaks of their careers.

Dr. (Lucia) Peixoto ([email protected])

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5 years

@kaymtye This thread made me wonder: has anyone looked at the relationship between low rates of application for some of the awards and motherhood? Maternal bias is real. Awards that have time limits are particularly problematic

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@kaymtye

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15 yrs ago, when entering graduate school, I was told in front of my whole class “well the admissions process is obviously pretty random... I mean, Kay’s here..?” 😳 Almost dropped out. But I didn’t.

Frederick Joseph

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5 years

Name a time you proved someone wrong who doubted you. Be as petty as you like.

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@kaymtye

5 years

Female PIs: How do you respond when you are asked “whose lab are you in?” (This happens to me a LOT and I’m getting bored with my 3 typical responses. Help me shake it up?)

My own...?

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

4 years

My dad grew up being told over and over again: “Money, power, business, titles, property... all can be taken away from you in an instant. The only thing nobody can ever take away from you is your education.” 6/n

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@kaymtye

1 year

How many more brilliant scientists like Lila do we have to lose before systems start working? Lila has been fighting this battle of reporting the issue for YEARS without support, adding to her burden. This one hits close to home. 😭 #MeToo

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@kaymtye

4 years

Totally. I spend 80% of my time granting on the figures and specific aims page. Once the aims page is perfect, the rest of the grant just writes itself. As a reviewer, if aims page is confusing or lacks clarity, it’s an uphill battle to slog through the rest...

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Warm welcome for ⁦ @KafuiDzirasa ⁩ ⁦ @salkinstitute ⁩ over here!!

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 months

Great to have the opportunity to catch up with THE one and only @hubermanlab and talk about the research happening in my lab these days. Thanks so much for having me ❤️🙏

Dr. Kay Tye: The Biology of Social Interactions and Emotions

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, my guest is Dr. Kay Tye, PhD, Professor of Systems Neurobiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a Howard Hughes...

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Actually, working moms today (on average) spend the same amount of time playing with their children as stay at home moms in the 50’s. And in MY experience, I have not had a single trainee where I felt that hours available for working was the limiting factor for productivity.

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5 years

@schoppik Being a good postdoc at a tier 1 school requires a lot of time, no getting around it. Being a good parent requires a lot of time, no getting around it. Being a good parent means you have less time for work, and a postdoc with kids who is a good parent is less productive.

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

6 years

Can’t believe this is gonna be my new home (well, not the Marriott, but San Deezy!) Can’t wait for this to be my everyday reality

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Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

3 years

Thank you to @zhangf for nominating me, @KarlDeisseroth and @NIMHDirector for their support, and to @salkinstitute for selecting me to represent!! Big BIG thank you to the talented team of scientists that have been and continue to be the best part of my research experience!!

Blavatnik Awards

@BlavatnikAwards

3 years

“Kay Tye is a trailblazing investigator who studies the neural circuits underlying emotions which are among the most complicated and fascinating circuitries in the brain” Congratulations 🎉 to 2021 Laureate Kay Tye 🥇 @kaymtye @salkinstitute #blavatnik2021

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Why? Because trauma does weird stuff to your brain. And bc there is a system in place to protect those with power and to HEAVILY disincentivize victims from reporting their perpetrators and holding them accountable. 11/n

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@kaymtye

1 year

Crossing these lines creates lasting trauma in victims that can make them leave that toxic workplace. Pls dont start with the: “But the PI didn’t do anything?” Because it was the PI’s JOB to do something. And we wonder why there is still a “leaky pipeline”??

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@kaymtye

5 years

Ok, go easy on me 2P experts... My very first ever GRIN lens implant/head plate and imaging that I’ve ever actually done with my own hands!! I did an experiment (sort of)!!! Inexplicably excited about it.

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4 years

We voted!! Hope you did too!

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3 years

Given this, individuals who report misconduct are my heroes. Every time I hear a story like this, it upsets me. Bc I feel guilty I didn’t report more. Bc I know how much they are risking to come forward. Bc I know how it feels to come forward and have people doubt you. 12/n

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4 years

My almost 4yo son just said “Mommy! You need to ask for consent before you kiss me!!” Telling myself this is a parenting win (instead of a fail).

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1 year

#NewProfilePic

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5 years

Get Stoked... This August I'm organizing #AmygdalaGRC19 with @superkash and it's gonna break the mold. It'll be out of the box, cutting-edge... and 50% female lineup. 🤩 #Social #addiction #PFC #hypothalamus #MentoringMonday #PowerHour

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7 years

Pls RT Neuroscientists in Puerto Rico who need a place to do research: our lab can host you. Write to tyelab_apply @mit .edu

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4 years

And while academia certainly isn’t perfect, they always loved their jobs, never once complained. After all, having job security to study whatever they want and the psychological safety that nobody could take away their education was their “American Dream”... What’s yours?

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@kaymtye

4 years

Not well. Besides thousands of hate tweets and dozens of death threats for my family story being grossly misinterpreted as a political statement which it is NOT, I’m dealing w/ a major animal protocol issue, and feeling guilty for being a bad mom. Definitely a tough week.

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For a second, I thought I wore my pants inside out to work. How’s your week going?

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6 years

Had honor of following John O’Keefe in the #WhatIsLife75 symposium today! Was mortified when he saw my presenters notes where I typed out “Thanks to the organizers for putting me after the brilliant John O’Keefe” and he busted out laughing at me. 🤭😳 #firstimpressions

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6 years

This Fall for the first time, I will be doing a “mock study section” in my upper level undergrad course on Neural Circuits. Why? Bc I wish I knew how study section worked about 10 yrs before I did...!

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3 years

EVEN NOW, as I sit in my ivory tower with my armor made of tenure and my army made of people who would believe me… …I still quake at the thought of reporting any of the many instances of sexual misconduct I have been subjected to. 10/n

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5 years

What have we been up to? Setting up the lab ⁦ @salkinstitute ⁩!! Such an honor to work w/ this incredible group of scientists! ⁦ @RomyWichmann ⁩ ⁦ @raymundomiranda ⁩ ⁦ @DrNancyPadilla ⁩ ⁦ @kenzieL6 ⁩ ⁦ @fergilmills ⁩ & more #TyeLab peeps not on Twitter!

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2 years

Officially dubbed @KafuiDzirasa a lifetime honorary Tye Lab member!!

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5 years

Having a blast at TED @NAS @TEDTalks : It’s like adult science camp on steroids as we all practice our talks together... learning about dark matter, near extinction, new planets, the code of oceans and other wonders of the universe. And apparently I’m a Mind-Brain Interpreter!

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6 years

I’m excited to join an institute actively engaged in a process of positive change wrt bias awareness and promoting diversity&inclusion. I am passionate about contributing to this effort while maintaining my team’s commitment to scientific excellence.

Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

6 years

I am excited to announce that the Tye Lab will be moving to the Salk Institute (taking students through UCSD) in 2019!

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5 years

"I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing." Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science” Celebrating the life of Sydney Brenner, a scientific pioneer in every sense of the word, and one of his many timeless quotes.

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3 years

Luckily found amazing mentors who both believed me and believed in me. And lets start there: If you don’t think people will BELIEVE YOU, you are utterly powerless. You are a prime target for victimization. 9/n

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2 years

Some people turn 40 and buy a sports car and party like they are 20, but I decided to buy a rig and do expts🤣absurdly fun 🤣 Super fun thanks to superstar support from @Kelly_nk23 and ⁦ @RomyWichmann ⁩ and props to patching Padawan ⁦ @KafuiDzirasa ⁩

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@kaymtye

5 years

The Salk Institute is hiring in three areas! 1) computational biology faculty(inc Neuro, genomics, pretty broad, any level) 2) cancer faculty (any level) 3) fellow(s) any area @salkinstitute has brilliant people, beautiful views, 1 of the best 🏄‍♀️ 🌊 spots in Cali. Apply!

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4 years

So my mom and dad both crushed at school and earned scholarships to get educated in the US. They met on the boat. They both got PhDs, got married @MIT . #nopressure 7/n

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Embarrassed to admit I have cried in the office of every PI i have ever worked for at least once. 😅😬😭😳 Think they were probably all at least ugly if not loud. Thought I was a freak, but seems pretty normal now that I’m a PI. Across genders, crying is not uncommon.

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A student cried from stress in a meeting with me today & then said they were embarrassed. I told them about the time I loud ugly cried in a prof’s office during my MA programme. They said knowing that helped. How many of y’all out there have cried in a prof’s office?

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Towards a future culture in Academia where service, outreach, and efforts promoting diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging will be incentivized and respected as much as papers and $:

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FLARE: a temporally-precise activity-dependent tagging tool for gene expression

New tool offers snapshots of neuron activity

MIT and Stanford researchers have developed a way to control gene expression in neurons when they become active, essentially providing a snapshot of their activity at a moment in time. This approach...

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A shot of @erichjarvis in my study perched in my thinking chair just before his authoritative seminar on the motor theory of the evolution of vocal learning today @salkinstitute Great start to the year!

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Sending warm and fuzzies to all the freshly minted @theNASciences members😎— with an extra special shout out to two incredible asian woman scientists who are also amazing mothers: One of my best friends @aliceyting And My MOM!!! @TyeBik #RoleModel #inspiration

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Million dollar question: *So what are we going to do about it?* Million dollar answer (for today) @salkinstitute is hiring fellows positions (aka skip-your-postdoc-straight-to-faculty job). I want a more diverse applicant pool... PLEASE HELP ME change the culture and RT. 1/2

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@kaymtye What if these great institutions commit to hiring some talented and qualified black faculty?

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So cool to have our work ( @praneethnamburi @caitvw @ga_matthews @anna_beyeler ) featured in the @MITMuseum alongside the most influential neuroscientist of all time Ramon y Cajal...! Beautiful work from @eboyden3 and Harnett Lab as well.

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Friend: “why don’t you just delete your Twitter account?” Me: “because it gives me a chance to hear all the stuff that people really think when they wouldn’t say it to my face, and it helps me see the blind spots that I have in my own implicit biases.” Friend: “... fair.”

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Making progress...⁦! After taking it apart and putting it back together... our scope is aligned imaging BLA dendrites in Kyle Fischer’s first surgery! @neurolabware ⁩ ⁦ @NeuroJENesis ⁩ ⁦ @JoshuaTrachten2 ⁩

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Let’s just take a moment to reflect on what this trend will do to our society and culture. We should not have to choose between family and science. Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom | NBER

Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom

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Neural Circuit Motifs in Valence Processing

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@mnitabach @jonykipnis During the zoom meeting i had to interrupt bc I had thrown up a little bit when he suggested that the abuser take a vacation and the victim finish his paper for him. You pretty much summed it up.

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To all the parents judging me for making my kids watch Contagion: Before: 4yo drinks water from the shower drain in a public locker room 🤢🤮 After: 4yo says “I’m not touching my face!” And “I have to wash my hands again...”

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This might be my favorite tweet of all time. Strongly agree.

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The smartest people I know: 1. Admit they know very little 2. Constantly seek more info 3. Encourage intellectual debate 4. Have strong opinions, loosely held 5. Are comfortable being wrong 6. Surrounded by best people 7. Realize life isn't black & white 8. Fear bias & arrogance

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So excited to be in Philly honoring @KafuiDzirasa today for the @franklin NextGen Award. To one of the most progressive and transformative members of the scientific community:: congrats, Kaf!! 🥂

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What is the BEST advice you’ve ever been given for the preparation of a very important talk? Pls RT or reply with your sage advice!

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Nothing like a mother daughter day of neuroscience talks and rock hopping at the cognition GRC! #scimom best day ever not even being sarcastic.

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The result of my reporting it directly to the PI without involving outside forces and enlisting powerful allies (of which I had none) was catastrophic. Lost my job in the lab. Lost authorship on a proj i had invested 2 yrs in Lost my letter of rec 7/n

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Back in the trenches with @KafuiDzirasa who learned all sorts of new things today 😉 from surgery to surfing (with sunset to bioluminescence!!)

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@yael_niv A key factor in a successful #PowerHour is just having a more diverse speaker lineup... here's our #BiasWatchNeuro -inspired gender audit for the #GRCAmygdala #AmygdalaGRC over the years. More diverse speakers reduces stereotype threat. For the 1st time, we have parity! 7/n

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Everyone has bias. Just as your saccade determines your field of view, what you look for determines what you see.

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Me to my 6 yr old daughter: “Hey Keeva! Need anything? Water, hat, snacks?” Keeva, with a daydream yy look in her eyes: “The only thing I need is Freedom.” She IS my daughter.

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