Congratulations to Gregory Quirk, Ph.D. for receiving the Dolores Shockley Minority Mentoring Award! Check out the acceptance video https://t.co/Bl14dwnzNu and nominator (Dr. Joshua Gordon) video https://t.co/HwNjKSD4zj @medupr@NIMHDirector#ACNP2020
My bit about being a first gen and having a low undergrad GPA: I could only afford to take the GRE one time, I didn’t know about app waivers at all. I applied to 6 schools, I got in to 2, one being where I was a technician. When I reached out many schools said:
Paper of the week: excellent Biol Psychiatry (@SOBP) of Andrew Holmes & Veronica Alvarez labs on the role of ventral mPFC and its projections to NAc shell (but not BLA) in punishment-induced suppression of alcohol self-administration in mice
https://t.co/NJ4nqPBRdK
Husband: So how was your day?
Me: you missed the part of the day where I still had words. No more words.
Husband: but ...
Me: food, wine, sit. No words. Nope.
Husband: but ...
Me: Nope. Sorry. Nighttime now. No wordy words.
Commentary of the month: excellent commentary of Eve Marder on misuse of popular words in grants/papers evaluation: incremental, novelty, mechanism, descriptive, & impact. Our papers that had most impact were incremental, descriptive & lacked mechanisms
https://t.co/yZYLOMBYJ2
Thread :
I am on a search committee for leadership position at our academic hospital. Final meeting today. I am the only non-white person in the room.
I felt fear.
It’s strange to call it what it is. I had rehearsed many times what I would say about diversity and equity. 1/
Please RT! We're looking for a postdoc to study neural circuit mechanisms of memory in entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. Projects use high-density in vivo electrophysiology in behaving mice, optogenetics and memory tasks. Details coming soon...