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Zeena Rivera ✨they/them✨ has a poster @ SfN & is defending soon👀
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Zeena Rivera ✨they/them✨ has a poster @ SfN & is defending soon👀 @zeenarivera.bsky.social · 19d
Had to change all of my "in press" citations in this talk this morning 🤩 #MechanisticBasisOfForaging2025

www.eneuro.org/content/earl...
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$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!

For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!

I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!

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leslievosshall.bsky.social Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 1d
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
thanks 2 everyone who made the time to stop by 🥲

if you missed it (or you want to reminisce lol) it's also up on @sfnjournals.bsky.social #eNeuro #sfn #sfn2025

right here: www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
come thru for my poster at HH2 from now-ish to 5 today thx @sfn.org #sfn #sfn2025
Zeena holding up their poster tube in front of their face and looking to the right
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
the prize for bingo is friendship 🥰 #sfn2025 #sfn

i'm making sure I say hi to people I don't get to see too often @sfn.org
a very blurry picture of a sheet with the words "SFN Friends Bingo" on it with a cute axolotol and frog and rat on it. Behind are some booths at society for neuroscience 2025
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social
Looking forward to SfN in San Diego ☀️ Come visit our posters and Nano talk!
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event.

It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us!

It's free. Register here.
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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artologica.net
All the artists showing work at #SfN25, now with pictures! #sciart
SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
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November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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thebalelab.bsky.social
Really disappointing that our #NIH colleagues will NOT be at @sfn.org this year, will NOT be discussing science, will NOT be advising us on grants, will NOT be sharing results or advancing research. 🤐
markhisted.org Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16d
Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.)

This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
sfn.org Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 16d
Enjoy a broad range of lectures and network with experts in the field at #SfN25! 🧠

Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.

Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner

🔗 vist.ly/4de72

#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
It's conference season! #SfN2025

See my poster from the @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser labs @sfn.org on Tuesday @ 1-3pm.

☀️ DM me to meet up in beautiful San Diego ☀️
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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brainapps.bsky.social
Next @zeenarivera.bsky.social from UCLA for the first blitz talk on a progressive ratio task using effort.
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
Had to change all of my "in press" citations in this talk this morning 🤩 #MechanisticBasisOfForaging2025

www.eneuro.org/content/earl...
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
any other neuroscientists with narcolepsy out there?
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social
What a great lineup of speakers! Glad that @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellow @zeenarivera.bsky.social will present a blitz talk next week 🇬🇧 👏🏼 (data from a collab with the Wikenheiser lab)
October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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markdhumphries.bsky.social
🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨

Speakers
@mkflugge.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social
@davidrobbe.bsky.social @dlbarack.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social

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Home - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging
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October 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
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This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible: Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed) Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar) Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded. Not be a current NSF employee. Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.
September 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
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August 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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August 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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elife.bsky.social eLife @elife.bsky.social · Jul 20
🌎 🐸 Frog dads on taxi duty aren’t just giving their kids a lift, they might be passing on microbes too.

New research suggests parental care could shape the skin microbiome in amphibians.
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#Microbiome
Photo of a poison dart frog with blue and yellow stripes
July 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
remember when emily came in clutch to be my independent study professor after i dropped out of a required senior seminar class in my humanities college in progressive seattle where some of my peers referred to the filipino & the mexican students as The Colored people 🤪

preorder her book already !!!
July 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
and definitely won't be ur last ❤️ proud of u
July 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
but actually what a fascinating way to engage with studying animal behavior.

my guide asked me if the prevalence of fly fishing has changed fish foraging patterns over time. i told him i'd look into it, and now i'm texting him that--yes!! (at least some) fish do some social learning to avoid lures
zeenarivera.bsky.social Zeena Rivera ✨they/them✨ has a poster @ SfN & is defending soon👀 @zeenarivera.bsky.social · Jun 30
learned how to fish. when does my lifetime supply of food get delivered
Zeena in a hat and a black tshirt holding up a 5 inch tilapia that they caught in a park.
July 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
zeenarivera.bsky.social
learned how to fish. when does my lifetime supply of food get delivered
Zeena in a hat and a black tshirt holding up a 5 inch tilapia that they caught in a park.
June 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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thanhneville.medsky.social
A friend who works at Harbor-UCLA just told me that ICE was on the premises. Harbor-UCLA is a safety-net hospital & a level 1 trauma hospital. People are going to die because of these actions. This makes me so angry.
June 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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celestepewter.bsky.social
Per CNN and ABC News: LAPD has declared all of downtown as an unlawful assembly, telling all demonstrators to leave the area immediately.

Everyone covering/protesting, please stay safe.

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LAPD declares all of downtown an unlawful assembly
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June 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM