ashley juavinett
@analog-ashley.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, educator, author of SO YOU WANT TO BE A NEUROSCIENTIST? (Columbia, 2020) & MIND OVER MATTER (Princeton TBD) // professor at ucsd // co-host of www.changetechnically.fyi with @grimalkina // www.ashleyjuavinett.com
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In a special edition of her “How to teach this paper” column, Ashley Juavinett @analog-ashley.bsky.social explains how to best educate students about how the business of scientific research actually works.
www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
How to teach students about science funding
As researchers reel over the uncertain state of U.S. federal funding, educating students on the business of science is more important than ever.
www.thetransmitter.org
Teaching citizens about science
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Teaching students about being a citizen
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Teaching students about being a citizen
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NEW:
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules.
The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules.
The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms.
calmatters.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
NEW:
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules.
The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules.
The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.
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Hearing a rumor that NIH/HHS may now plan to retaliate against other Bethesda Declaration signers.
I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research.
As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/
I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research.
As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Hearing a rumor that NIH/HHS may now plan to retaliate against other Bethesda Declaration signers.
I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research.
As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/
I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research.
As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/
Me waiting for everyone to come to town for #SfN2025
a man with a mustache is sitting at a desk with a nbc logo on his watch
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting at a desk with a nbc logo on his watch
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Me waiting for everyone to come to town for #SfN2025
The funniest thing about this to me is that if you want to shorten the strap, you have to buy an entirely separate sock
www.theverge.com/news/818328/...
www.theverge.com/news/818328/...
Apple made a $230 crossbody… sock
The iPhone Pocket isn’t really a pocket at all.
www.theverge.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The funniest thing about this to me is that if you want to shorten the strap, you have to buy an entirely separate sock
www.theverge.com/news/818328/...
www.theverge.com/news/818328/...
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Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Project structure for scientific coding projects
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 3
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Extremely niche invitation:
If you're coming to #SfN2025 and you want to join me and some of the top breathing experts in the world in a hypoxic workout gym downtown, shoot me a DM. 😮💨
If you're coming to #SfN2025 and you want to join me and some of the top breathing experts in the world in a hypoxic workout gym downtown, shoot me a DM. 😮💨
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Extremely niche invitation:
If you're coming to #SfN2025 and you want to join me and some of the top breathing experts in the world in a hypoxic workout gym downtown, shoot me a DM. 😮💨
If you're coming to #SfN2025 and you want to join me and some of the top breathing experts in the world in a hypoxic workout gym downtown, shoot me a DM. 😮💨
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Great tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025!
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Great tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025!
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
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The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers
We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!
www.sosaneurolab.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...
look as soon as i had the vision it had to happen
thank you for your contributions
thank you for your contributions
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
look as soon as i had the vision it had to happen
thank you for your contributions
thank you for your contributions
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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We are looking for a scientific computing associate interested in data-driven equation discovery here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. This is an alternative to a postdoc that you can use to move into academic or software jobs. Please spread the word!
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Scientific Computing Associate - Data-Driven Equation Discovery
Primary Work Address: 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is a pio...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are looking for a scientific computing associate interested in data-driven equation discovery here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. This is an alternative to a postdoc that you can use to move into academic or software jobs. Please spread the word!
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
When I was a postdoc, CSHL held a Burns poetry night, which Watson attended.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When I was a postdoc, CSHL held a Burns poetry night, which Watson attended.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
Neuroscientists of the bluest sky:
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Neuroscientists of the bluest sky:
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
Want to see the impacts of FY26 budget cuts to science on YOUR community?
Check out this incredible resource by @scienceimpacts.org which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
Check out this incredible resource by @scienceimpacts.org which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
scienceimpacts.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Want to see the impacts of FY26 budget cuts to science on YOUR community?
Check out this incredible resource by @scienceimpacts.org which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
Check out this incredible resource by @scienceimpacts.org which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation.
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation.
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Ok she’s my wife so she’s biased but she’s also not wrong 😁🫶
What Ashley's understating is she ran a free community event where scientists tell stories in one of San Diego's hopping neighborhoods and they absolutely packed the house of a woman-led business (Bivouac Ciderworks!) and the entire thing was a delight
Like 3x the people we expected showed up
Like 3x the people we expected showed up
I want science communication to contain narrative.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Ok she’s my wife so she’s biased but she’s also not wrong 😁🫶
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Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
I want science communication to contain narrative.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I want science communication to contain narrative.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
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Hi all, this headline does not give the right impression of what is going on with these notices.
(HHS employee here speaking in my personal capacity about matters of public concern that have been publicly reported—I am not sharing details from inside the agency.)
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(HHS employee here speaking in my personal capacity about matters of public concern that have been publicly reported—I am not sharing details from inside the agency.)
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Scoop: Some NIH employees told they won't be paid during furlough after all.
Earlier today, some NIH employees received emails stating that they will not be paid during the shutdown. This was an unexpected, and likely unlawful, change in federal government policy.
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Earlier today, some NIH employees received emails stating that they will not be paid during the shutdown. This was an unexpected, and likely unlawful, change in federal government policy.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Hi all, this headline does not give the right impression of what is going on with these notices.
(HHS employee here speaking in my personal capacity about matters of public concern that have been publicly reported—I am not sharing details from inside the agency.)
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(HHS employee here speaking in my personal capacity about matters of public concern that have been publicly reported—I am not sharing details from inside the agency.)
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my whole feed is anti-AI content that contains AI-generated content
modern day adversarial weapon supply
modern day adversarial weapon supply
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
my whole feed is anti-AI content that contains AI-generated content
modern day adversarial weapon supply
modern day adversarial weapon supply
Big Portland energy here in San Diego ✊🦖
October 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Big Portland energy here in San Diego ✊🦖
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BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...