Join @sufsseattle.bsky.social for this month's "Beer Reviewed Science," an evening of science, community, and advocacy to #StandUpForScience Featuring @neurochemequeen.bsky.social speaking on "Friends, Foes, and Finding Ways to Treat Brain Disease" 📆 Tues. May 26, 6:30-8:30 pm 🍻 Obec Brewing
Sydney Floryanzia 👑
@neurochemequeen.bsky.social
Chemical Engineer 🧠 Blood-brain barrier (BBB), neurovasculature, & microfluidics research. HHMI Gilliam 🌱, NSF GRFP, GEM. SciComm + STEM Ed. Certified rat tickler 🐭 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0508-8510
Second- or third-year PhD student in biological or biomedical sciences? Get ready — applications for our #GilliamFellows Program open Sept. 1! Robust research support, incredible scientific community, & tailored professional development that can transform a PhD journey. 🧪 bit.ly/4bjdTmr
🧠 Celebrating #OpenScienceWeek, by highlighting my favorite (and my most used!) open science tools from the Allen Institute 🐭🧠🌐 @alleninstitute.org #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #microscopy
Full house tonight for @carlbergstrom.com + Kevin Gross at Smarty Pints talk in @burkebrewing.bsky.social ! Lots of great Qs from crowd. #research #academics #mistrust @sufsseattle.bsky.social Enjoyed with @neurochemequeen.bsky.social @seattlescienceguy.bsky.social + @ellenkuwana.bsky.social
📣EVENT ALERT! Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you! Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN @burkebrewing.bsky.social
Sharing to help folks find each other! There are a lot of people and groups sitting at intersections in this moment that need to be connected so that they can share resources and maximize reach. If you're disabled and/or in STEM follow this account and resource them to the best of your ability. 🫡
Since the US politics have decided to target DEI spaces, I’ve seen a huge drop of engagement in #DisabledInSTEM Disabled, disability and accessibility are part of the list of banned words for grants too really really highlights that these identities are being specifically targeted to be silenced.
Since the US politics have decided to target DEI spaces, I’ve seen a huge drop of engagement in #DisabledInSTEM Disabled, disability and accessibility are part of the list of banned words for grants too really really highlights that these identities are being specifically targeted to be silenced.
So excited to share that I am one of the new @hhmi.org freeman hrabowsi scholars with so many other amazing new PIs. Check out the full list here www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
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Why #labs support #research that saves lives. @sufsseattle.bsky.social
Rock star @neurochemequeen.bsky.social spoke up at #Seattle event today. @sufsseattle.bsky.social Support from @nswa.bsky.social
Our recent #BBB publication was featured in this article by @uofwa.bsky.social ChemE - which was highlighted in the "UW Today" News email! 💜 www.cheme.washington.edu/news/article...
Looking forward to sharing about why #SCIENCE matters to me and why it should matter to YOU!! 🧬 🥼 5/18 @ the #Seattle waterfront 🌊 🛥️
I'll be in a booth Sun. (5-18) answering Qs as part of @nswa.bsky.social at the RALLY. Be there, or be a square root. 9-11 a.m. on the overlook. SIGNS, banners. Tell me you are coming! 🧪 Thanks @neurochemequeen.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social #StandUpForScience
A new #FluorescenceFriday for today! ✨🔬🧠 My 1st time assembling a full #BloodBrainBarrier in a #microfluidic device. 🔴 Claudin 5 (endothelial protein) 🟡 ZO-1 (endothelial protein) 🟢 GFAP (astrocytes) 🔵 DAPI (cell nuclei) 🟣 NG2 (pericytes) #neuroskyence #neuroscience #bbb #microscopy #confocal
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾🔬👨🏽🔬
Sydney Floryanzia is a neuroengineer & science communicator ✨ As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠 She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞 #BlackInNeuro
Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠 The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭 #BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social
Want to learn more about brain-imals??? What is it? How did it start? How could you use card games to engage the public in your research? Then register for our panel with @neurochemequeen.bsky.social next week on the 26th at 9am PST/noon EST zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We are super excited to hear from @neurochemequeen.bsky.social and @g-fmcn.bsky.social about how they are using card games to spark scientific interest and conversations!! Can't wait to see you all on zoom next Wednesday the 26th
Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at mwadman@aaas.org or on Signal: meredithwadman.13
Recovering is working! Resting is working! All thinking is working! It’s just like those little incubation steps in protocols. Inaction is a necessary part of the process.
“That past includes decades of warnings from climate scientists that we are heading into a more turbulent and destructive era.” - “the future is being reshaped by human-caused climate change, and we do know exactly what to do about it and who is preventing us from doing it. “
The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
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Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!
In case anyone needed an excuse to take a breaak for the next couple days! 🧠 www.linkedin.com/posts/ted-co...
TED Conferences on LinkedIn: "Take a break, stare out the window, and know that by doing nothing, you… | 39 comments
"Take a break, stare out the window, and know that by doing nothing, you are actually being your most productive and creative self." Watch Manoush Zomorodi's… | 39 comments on LinkedIn
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🧪✨Emerald City of #Astrocytes: My 2024 year in review as a #BBB researcher, Ph.D. candidate, & chemical engineer. 🧠⚙️ May 2025 #defy expectations and be filled with #unlimited potential for good ✨🧪 #neuroskyence
If you’re a researcher, you know that you’re much more likely to disprove your hypothesis than validate it, but there aren’t a lot of incentives to go out and publish your failed experiments. One journal is trying to change that attitude.
What To Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish!
In an effort to learn from scientific failure, The Journal of Trial Error only publishes “negative” results.
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🎶 We wish you a merry MICrONS, we wish you a merry MICrONS, and a happy new year! 🎶 Thank you to neuroscientist and MICrONS user Amy Robinson Sterling for sharing these festive neurons! #neurosky #neuroskyence
New publication Alert: Delighted to share our latest work. We describe a unique relationship between electrical and Calcium signaling; 'Electro-Calcium Coupling' in brain capillary endothelial cells. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In our study we showed how angry neutrophils are massively entering the brain after #COVID infection, which is associated with Blood-Brain-Barrier disruption & Neuroinflammation. The photo below shows neutrophils infected with SARS-CoV-2. More data coming! www.cell.com/cell-reports... #NeuroCovid
“Neutrophil dysfunction in children with Long Covid syndrome may be part of the disease pathogenesis or a predisposing factor," concluded the authors of the study published on November 27. Not a coincidence, neutrophils are the cells I see massively entering the brain after Covid infection.
Glialovers: pls see our recent review on „Brain stars take the lead during critical periods of early postnatal brain development: relevance of astrocytes in health and mental disorders“ for @molpsychiatry with Eugenia Vivi - hope you enjoy the reading 🙂 rdcu.be/dYVTL