Alyssa Ash

Neuro PhD Candidate @UBC in the Snyder Lab, studying adult neurogenesis and learning/memory circuits in disease models.
Sci comm: @ubcbrainbytes

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

Relatable. 'Slowest student in the world' finishes UBC degree 54 years after he first enrolled | CBC News https://t.co/jjm2vpo7u0

[MATRIX-N Cluster UBC @MatrixN_UBC]

Hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and are ready for todays #TranslationalTuesday!

Today we highlight work from UBC’s own @jsnsndr2! This study found sex differences in intermittent theta burst stimulation within the hippocampus of mice.

See more in our video!

[European Journal of Neuroscience @EJNeuroscience]

Check out the latest installment in our Image of the Week series!

From: https://t.co/EB2gDPfL1m

@FENSorg
@WileyNeuro
@jsnsndr2
@DMCBrainHealth

[Jackson Schumacher @catecholameme]

Here, I fixed it...

[Gina Poe @doctorpoe]

Hard-science grad stipends started in the Cold War when the US public demand more scientists. Congress used scholarship $ to lure smart folks to do science PhDs. When the Cold War ended, the $📉. We still need a diverse science workforce for the nation’s (🌎) health.⬆️PhD👩🏽‍🎓💵 1/3

[UAW Local 5810 @UAW5810]

We, the Postdocs, Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees, & Graduate Student Researchers at UC announce a multi-unit strike starting November 14.
United with @sruuaw & @uaw2865 we will make
@UofCalifornia stop their unlawful conduct & bargain in good faith.

[nature @Nature]

‘We can barely afford rent’: PhD students in Ireland seek funding boost https://t.co/4K73h4pKxF

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

Without living wages being offered, you are narrowing down the student population that can feasibly afford to be a graduate student. How does that help encourage EDI? @ubcequity

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

This article has some very important real talk all universities should care about. If you value your grad students and their success/mental health-stop setting funding minimums for LESS than minimum wage and stop charging full tuition for research-based degrees

[nature @Nature]

85% of respondents to Nature’s recent grad students survey worry about having enough money to buy food and pay rent https://t.co/j9MOEvZFYm

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

Such helpful resources and support I've personally received from @UBCGradSchool and @UBC include "You could try our campus foodbank" and "can you ask family for money?"

[Sumeet Gulati @sgulati]

We, the employers of our students should to support this cause. On its part, @ubc must raise its allocation to university graduate student scholarships and support research on campus.

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

@GregoryRupik @UofT_IHPST @UofT @UofTArtSci @RotoRub @KLIAustria @mvbz_fuberlin @goethe_jw Congrats Dr Greg!!!! 🙌🙌

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

AND thanks to Behavioural Neuro Seminar (BNS) series organizers @m_salehzadeh and @catecholameme for helping put together the seminar (and all their other work organizing the series). It was fun to host, thanks for letting me go rogue! ✌️

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

Thanks to our amazing speakers for the SciComm seminar last week @VanessaHrvatin, @UBCPsych's @jsnsndr2 and @ZoologyUBC's Sylvia Heredia.
Check out the article about the event from @UbysseyScience's Sophia Russo for tips on communicating your research! 📝
https://t.co/OnnWmDGwUV

[Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health @DMCBrainHealth]

Congrats to the trainees who won the "Best Trainee Talk" prize at the 2022 DMCBH Research Retreat!
🥇Megan Liu (@kiranksoma lab)
🥈Elsa Cyr (@Gordonflylab & @BenMatthewsUBC labs) and Brittany Zhang (@jsnsndr2 lab)

Thanks to all our trainees who gave talks and presented posters!

[A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research @AMiNDR_podcast]

We are presenting at #SFN21! Check out our poster on Podcasting as a Science Communication Tool presented by our very own @MsEllenKoch -- it's J009.10 :) Come chat live tomorrow at 3:30-4:30 EST (12:30-1:30 PST). #scicomm #neuroscience #AcademicChatter

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

SO impressed with our Psyc undergrads that presented tonight! You all crushed. Thanks for having me as a judge @ubcneurosciclub Great work Snyder lab students @briedungate and Sara Singh 🔥

[UBC Psychology @UBCPsych]

Tomorrow! Attend the virtual @ubcneurosciclub's UBC Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Conference (NURC) 2021 at 5:00pm PST! For more information, visit: https://t.co/xcuHAn0Ve3

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

@DMCBrainHealth @jsnsndr Shoutout to these great sci comm initiatives at UBC 🎉 @her_science @brainbuzzpod @AMiNDR_podcast

[Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health @DMCBrainHealth]

It's tough for scientists to present research in a way that's digestible for the public, but good #scicomm is very important! Check out our blog from PhD student @alyssaaash in the @jsnsndr lab for tips and sources to improve your SciComm skills!
https://t.co/ENgay4ywEP

[Alyssa Ash @alyssaaash]

Solid workshop on Imposter syndrome, with a full house of perceived imposters. Goes to show how pervasive this is at all levels of career training 👿 @Neurosci2019