Toni Devincci (she/her/ella)
@neurotonimd.bsky.social
🧒🏽🧒🏽🧒🏽🐶🐶•Neuroscience•Psychology•sex differences•adolescent•alcohol•addiction• HBCU•Latina•🇲🇽🇺🇸•1st Gen•Associate Profesora •Public Service Loan Forgiveness 💸 • PI of neuromdlab.com ✍🏽 Creator of blog Tenured and Tardy Bells tenuredandtardybells.substack.com
I recently launched Things Nobody Told Me 📚 A new Substack about the conversations that usually happen after class, after the meeting, or over coffee. The things everyone seems to know…except the people who need to know them most. thingsnobodytoldme.substack.com
I have completed my challenge of 40 books! Just in the nick of time!
One of the best ways to end the year with a bang 🎆 !! I got to help 10 scholars as published authors. Definitely a turning point for my lab to spread our wings into alcohol & metabolomics Yes these data have been around for a while. But these projects walked through my grief journey and back!
open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Here we go! The 12 days of Christmas 🎄 Academia Style! Share and follow along as we learn how to create boundaries and live in our glow up era!!
✨🎄 CC20 — Day 1: The Boundary That Saved the Semester
Day 1 of 12: I protected my writing by putting my booking link in my email signature — and magically everyone else adjusted. 🎁✨
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For a while it felt like bsky was recapturing the prof involvement of science twitter but not the students (the former PhDs/postdocs of science twitter are the new-profs of bsky 😅). Lately it feels like a lot more students getting on the bus 🧪🦋🚌 🙌🙌🙌 #neuroskyence
open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... He’s gone now and I’m so thankful 🥹 we got to spend time together.
open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Do you have your conference homies and real talk science besties? 👯
☕ Comadres y Cafecitos (CC10) The Comadre Effect — Part IV: Sustaining the Bonds
Mentorship, but make it chisme y cariño.CC10: The Comadre Effect — Sustaining the Bonds ☕💃🏽The glow-up isn’t solo—it’s shared. We lift, we tease, and we laugh louder every year. ✨
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Crazy to believe I’ve been a mom this long
This hits hard. Little did I know this would be the last time I’d see my graduate advisor. I’m so thankful i got these photos. And little did i know i am wearing the same pants and having a giant grant go in today!! She always believed in me. Definitely channeling her energy today!!
tenuredandtardybells.substack.com/p/cc6-the-me... What lessons did you learn from your mentors that you took with you or abandoned as you moved into being a mentor?
☕ CC6 — The Mentor Mirror
Tranquila, mija—growth takes grace and office snacks.
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open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... The Story There was a time I thought hustle was the point — the 80-hour weeks, the back-to-back deadlines, the proof that I was “serious.” That time is now buried somewhere around 2019, right next to my tolerance for instant coffee and unnecessary meetings. …
☕ CC5 — The Quiet Wins
Success hits different when it’s silent
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Idk why I disappeared from this platform. I think life as an associate chair took over. But an update. My 3 kids are in 3 different schools and I’m still doing all the things. I started a blog so you can follow along Tenuredandtardybells.substack.com Follow along for all the shenanigans!
Tenured and Tardy Bells | Toni | Substack
Mid-career professor, three kids, too much coffee, and a carline with opinions—welcome to the mayhem. Click to read Tenured and Tardy Bells, by Toni, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Anyone else bogged down with too many invitations to collaborate when all the set really wanted was someone to carry them? Especially early on in the tenure track?
☕ CC3: The Collaboration Mirage
Some “collaborations” build careers 💼 — others build trauma bonds over Google Docs.Choose wisely, mija. 💅🏽
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open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Here’s another one. Were you taught you always had to be visible to be counted as working?
☕ CC2: The Visibility Trap
Academe says “be visible.” I say, “be strategic, mija.” Quiet work counts—even when it doesn’t post well.
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It’s times like this that makes me miss my graduate advisor even more!!
When did we start spending $50 on undies for our kids? Jurassic World at that… Times have changed from when we were excited to have the $5 pack that listed the days of the week!!