Anusha Allawala, PhD

Postdoc @ChangLabUCSF | BME PhD @BrownUniversity | iEEG + behavior in psychiatric neuromodulation 🧠⚡️ | @NIH DSPAN K00 fellow

[aya 🍉 @bayareadirtbag]

i would die for my country the san francisco bay area

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

We've ranked #1 in NIH funding again, marking more than 20 consecutive years as the nation’s top-funded neurosurgery program! 🎉 This milestone reflects our team's commitment to advancing the field and reshaping patient care: https://t.co/3ZXpbbcR9z
#UCSFProud @UCSF

[Betty Yu @bett_yu]

Hundreds gathered at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to form a human banner reading “It Was Murder 🇺🇸 ICE Out,” protesting the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.

Demonstrations took place across the Bay Area Saturday, from Oakland and Berkeley to San Jose, as residents condemned shootings by federal immigration agents and broader Trump administration actions. @KTVU

🎥 Inti Fernandez

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

Grateful to our entire team @UCSF for our department's amazing year! From personalized deep brain stimulation for chronic pain and Parkinson’s gait to new immunotherapy targets for brain tumors, check out the top stories of 2025: https://t.co/UDMyNTlWQl
#UCSFProud #YearInReview

[Anusha Allawala, PhD @neuronush]

I'm so sad and angry about what has happened at Brown. This school was my home away from home for the better part of a decade and I can't imagine being in there while all of this was unfolding. My heart goes out to those poor kids and their families.

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of two deceased victims from the active shooting situation at the Barus & Holley engineering building. There are eight additional victims in critical, but stable condition at the hospital. There remains a shelter in place order. https://t.co/mwhwoxv2Cv

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

As you process the devastating news that another tragic shooting may have taken the lives of innocent students at Brown University, remember the shooter didn't act alone.

He was assisted by 220 House members, 53 Senators, 6 Supreme Court justices, 1 President, and the NRA.

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

New in @Nature: @ChangLabUcsf shows that the superior temporal gyrus plays a key role in simultaneously processing both the basic building blocks of speech across all languages and the specific words of one’s native language. https://t.co/DJyk38xn6V
@bhaya_ilina @matt_k_leonard

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

This new paper finds that people from groups underrepresented in science tend to have lower trust in science, and those from low-trusting groups have higher trust in scientists who share their characteristics.
https://t.co/XAjnj8bmGN

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Can internet use become addictive?

A 2022 #SciencePerspective discusses the addictive potential of the internet and how it can be best conceptualized and evaluated. Learn more: https://t.co/Fv3BzuPSR4 #ScienceMagArchives

[Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah]

save for some caveats, i agree with this. i find solace in the fact that biology is unforgiving and if your tech is built on bs hype it will eventually show. sad part is the wasted resources and ultimately, the false hope given to consumers of biotech products.

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

A growing wave of Bay Area restaurants will provide free meals to people on federal food assistance when SNAP benefits run out Nov. 1. https://t.co/Dd9LLqweuo

[ra¢hel @rachdele]

san francisco 2025, on fujifilm that expired in 2003

[Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami]

An example of biased media these days, dehumanizing one side: Iran killing civilians (which of course is tragic) vs Israel hitting military sites.

No, Iranian civilians have been killed in every Israeli attack since Friday (in hundreds so far). Don't rebrand it.

#StopTheWar

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

This study by Cao et al. shows that human amygdala and hippocampus neurons encode visual facial features, bridging perception and semantic representations.
https://t.co/YAcsLT2MNI

[Isaac Kauvar @ikauvar]

Emotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑. But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers @ScienceMagazine. A big team effort and debut paper from @Stanford's new Human Neural Circuitry program. https://t.co/FbbJIjky2c

[Salman Qasim @QasimEtal]

I have ANOTHER postdoc position open here: https://t.co/DvE8ao8cau

Please get in touch if you are interested in intracranial research into human cognition.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

UMass Chan Medical School—a public school in the University of Massachusetts system—has rescinded all offers of admission to biomedical graduate students for the 2025–2026 school year

[ksa 🏴‍☠️ @kosa12m]

Most rigorous ML paper

[Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah]

lotta “I stand up for science when someone comes for my grants, but won’t stand up for my students and colleagues when my university scapegoats them and tries to quash their right to political speech and their academic freedom” going around

[ChangLabUCSF @ChangLabUcsf]

Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is published! See a brief summary below and the original paper linked to the post at the bottom.