Amanda Simon

PhD Student at @WeillCornell. @Dartmouth Grad. Aspiring Neuroscientist studying Disorders of Consciousness 🧠 She/Her ✝️🇯🇲🇺🇸

[Amanda Simon @amanda_neuro]

I am happy to announce that I will be defending my doctoral thesis this month on October 31st! I am exceedingly thankful to @LabCalderon, my thesis committee the graduate program, my family and friends and everyone else who has supported me on this journey 🥳 #blackinneuro #phd

[God bless @God_blessMerika]

We did it. We killed neuro twitter and it's resuscitation it's happening somewhere else.

Come join us!

https://t.co/E4aEGyOlvf

[Amanda Simon @amanda_neuro]

Hello everyone! I'm now on Blue Sky at: https://t.co/gCQkfNRgKm

Come add me there if you can and I'll follow back!

[Derrick Johnson @DerrickNAACP]

The Haitians in Springfield, OH arrived legally and deserve respect and support, not dehumanization.
#VPDebate2024

[Amanda Simon @amanda_neuro]

.@GovParsonMO, please do not let Missouri execute
@innonence @the_MIP client #MarcellusWilliams, an innocent person — where there is overwhelming evidence that his trial was constitutionally unfair — on 9/24. https://t.co/m1bfzICgUu

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalise them for not being able to stand up under the weight.” —Malcolm X

[Ni-ka @Enlight_Visuals]

Happy #BrainAwarenessWeek! Black is beautiful and more representation is needed in medical art.

#RepresentationMatters #neurotwitter #medicalillustration See more of my work at: https://t.co/9CdayI0p5x

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Also in the Alabama ruling on frozen embryos is this:

“Doctors must create just one embryo at a time. Each embryo, no matter how poor its quality, must be transferred. Only one embryo may be transferred at a time. If the cycle fails, the whole process must start all over again.

IVF patients would have to accept the transfer of a single low-quality embryo that is certain to fail—and to do so one embryo at a time. Each transfer requires months’ worth of expensive medication, including injectable, both before and after the procedure. And each failed cycle requires the patient to start all over again. Most states (including Alabama) do not require insurance to cover IVF, and each cycle can cost up to $30,000. This would force patients—the ones who can afford it—to undergo doomed, single-embryo transfers, one by one.”

If you know ANYONE who has been through IVF, you know exactly how fucking cruel this is.

[Brent Faiyaz’s Disciple ❤️‍🩹🥀 @itsjoebro_]

*stares DIRECTLY into the camera as a Black American*

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

Most of our science PhD students will go on to careers that involve more than just science, and so we need to provide them experiences beyond just research.

A PhD should also be about learning communication, leadership, project management, and a whole set of professional skills.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.

More than 60% of the world’s cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.

Western countries are providing financial military aid to invade regions filled with reserves and in the process millions are getting killed and millions homeless.

Multinationals mining companies are enslaving people especially children to mine. #CongoIsBleeding

[Katalin Kariko @kkariko]

In Pfizer's Superbowl commercial I appear together with scientists including, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Marie Maynard Daly and Rosalind Franklin 💫🎉 It can't be better than that
https://t.co/pLyf1bf4Gj

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Slavery was Legal.

Colonialism was Legal.

Jim Crow was Legal.

Apartheid was Legal.

Legality is a matter of Power, NOT Justice.

[✨Kei$ha✨ @GlamazonJay]

I want this ran like an ad every five minutes on every television station.

[Tarik Endale | ታሪክ እንዳለ @Tarik_Endale]

Devastating