Anyone know what the tea is with the UC PPFP and the hiring incentive? What is going ON with the funding lines atm?!??! #AcademicSky
Krisha Aghi, PhD
@phdoll.bsky.social
Neurology postdoc @ UCLA in the Aharoni lab
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.
Excited to announce that I am joining the Aharoni lab @ UCLA as a postdoc! Looking forward to building open source infrastructures for Miniscopes and more!!!
That's sister with SUCH a cool paper!!
eartha mae@endoeartha.bsky.social · 10mo agoVery excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12
Bending over to promote a genocide at great expense and STILL losing their federal funding.... I have to laugh.
Signed my IRACDA contract for the year only for NIH and NSF to pull some bullshit and suspend all grants to UCLA.... GIRL......
Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.
How it feels not wading into the JGP discourse on this Monday
L.A. TACO has confirmed that Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20yr-old US citizen taken by federal agents while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is being held at the federal building in downtown L.A. ~ Aisha Wallace-Palomares reporting.
Pls not the 2016 "ur valid" approach!! Instead tell them one way or another we WILL make sure they get the access they need.
Cottagecore Spider Jerusalem@andyeyeballs.bsky.social · last yr.That we show them that we are trans adults and we almost invariably didn't have gender affirming care before puberty and we are loved and beautiful and happy. The story of trans joy and trans beloved community NEEDS to be louder than the story of trans suicidality today.
🧪 The final work from my PhD is finally out today! We found that synapses at the larval fruit fly neuromusculsr junction (NMJ) were individually highly diverse in their synaptic release properties. However... (1/5)
Balanced synapse-to-synapse short-term plasticity ensures constant transmitter release
Basal synaptic strength can vary greatly between synapses. Aghi et al. find a similar large variability in short-term plasticity between synapses of a Drosophila single motor neuron. Strikingly, the c...
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Cat's out of the bag!!! Super excited to be a part of this incredible community!
Leading Edge Fellows Program@leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · last yr.We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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It's still really unbelievable how the IDF just bombed Al Ahli hospital, the last standing hospital in Gaza, with its patients and doctors and there is not one post about it to be found on this website.
OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.
Well divas... I want to say it's over but my delusion says it's not quite over yet.
Ryan Hernandez@rdhernand.bsky.social · last yr.I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
Excellent article sent by a friend. Really highlights a number of fears and thoughts I have re: the legal deterrence during this time therealcornpop.substack.com/p/the-us-is-...
This is How the US Will End the Pro-Palestine Movement
The Trap is Set
therealcornpop.substack.com
Why the fuck would you publicly host instructions on how to cross ref federal records for trans identification? Do you not see how dangerous this is???
My incarcerated colleague Angel Ayala sent me this message from where he’s being held in solitary confinement. I’m sharing with his blessing—for me it connects deeply to @prisonculture.bsky.social ‘s wisdom that incarcerated people are the original victims of the fascism that’s engulfing us all.
REPORT: Information from the Ministry of Health database reveals that 73% of those killed in Israeli strikes today are children, women, or the elderly.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · last yr.WATCH | Australian medic Muhammad Mustafa describes the aftermath of last night’s attacks at Baptist Hospital in Gaza City: “It was just mostly women and children burned head to toe, limbs missing, heads missing…”