Lia Beatty (she/her)
@synapshotneuro.bsky.social
Neuroscientist-in-training // 🔬Intrigued by immunology, inflammation, & disease pathophysiology // ⛰️🏃🏽♀️🌲🏕️📸🧠
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Hey disabled, queer, neurodivergent, womxn of color, and/or femmes in STEM! 🧪🌈✨
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
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Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts
The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.
www.reuters.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
applying to science phds in the US in 2025:
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December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
applying to science phds in the US in 2025:
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Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
Crawling out of the grad applications bunker to signal-boost our lab's latest preprint ✨📄
1/ Hello Drosophila-philists and braino-maniacs! 👋🪰🧠🧪
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Crawling out of the grad applications bunker to signal-boost our lab's latest preprint ✨📄
Rare can suck, but at least my treks up to Huntsman come w/ spectacular views! 😍 Pic from my run this AM on the BST just above HCI. 6 mo ago I could barely walk to lab. This month I ran 50 mi. 🏃🏽♀️ Wouldn’t be able to run like I do w/o access to the proper treatment. #RareDiseaseDay #DisabledInSTEM 🧪
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Rare can suck, but at least my treks up to Huntsman come w/ spectacular views! 😍 Pic from my run this AM on the BST just above HCI. 6 mo ago I could barely walk to lab. This month I ran 50 mi. 🏃🏽♀️ Wouldn’t be able to run like I do w/o access to the proper treatment. #RareDiseaseDay #DisabledInSTEM 🧪
usually I’d say we’re cooked, but I’m afraid I won’t have the money to cook after this 🫠
February 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
usually I’d say we’re cooked, but I’m afraid I won’t have the money to cook after this 🫠
Listening to #Substack posts = my ideal podcast. Distilled thought, unburdened by chatter. Mostly personal essays in my feed, valued for their incisive yet nuanced reflection often absent from podcasters’ extemporaneous musings. Any other Stacks I should sub to? (Don’t care for news/commentary.)
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Listening to #Substack posts = my ideal podcast. Distilled thought, unburdened by chatter. Mostly personal essays in my feed, valued for their incisive yet nuanced reflection often absent from podcasters’ extemporaneous musings. Any other Stacks I should sub to? (Don’t care for news/commentary.)
Mentoring a bright 9th grader on her science fair proj has been an absolute joy. Seeing so much of my younger self in the way her amazing 🧠 works reminds me how transformative the right mentorship can be. Being the mentor I once needed is both a privilege & a full-circle moment💖
Mentorship works! 🧪
Mentorship works! 🧪
December 18, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Mentoring a bright 9th grader on her science fair proj has been an absolute joy. Seeing so much of my younger self in the way her amazing 🧠 works reminds me how transformative the right mentorship can be. Being the mentor I once needed is both a privilege & a full-circle moment💖
Mentorship works! 🧪
Mentorship works! 🧪
#STEM is full of #neurodivergent 🧠s ...and yet, the field remains deeply hostile toward us. 😕 This hostility, in part, our own making? Have years of coerced self-denial—masking in the name of assimilation—perpetuated the burden reinforcing the very system that harms us?? How do we break the cycle?⛓️💥🧪
STEM's lack of support for #neurodivergent scientsts is causing it to lose out on so much amazing talent: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
@cenmag.bsky.social #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM #Neurodiversity🧪
@cenmag.bsky.social #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM #Neurodiversity🧪
The challenge of being neurodivergent in STEM
Neurodivergent scientists say STEM isn’t built for them, despite the contributions they bring
cen.acs.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
#STEM is full of #neurodivergent 🧠s ...and yet, the field remains deeply hostile toward us. 😕 This hostility, in part, our own making? Have years of coerced self-denial—masking in the name of assimilation—perpetuated the burden reinforcing the very system that harms us?? How do we break the cycle?⛓️💥🧪
1/ 🧪 Another callout to the #DisabledInSTEM community for advice/insight! ♿️
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
December 18, 2024 at 4:31 AM
1/ 🧪 Another callout to the #DisabledInSTEM community for advice/insight! ♿️
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
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It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
October 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
Hey disabled, queer, neurodivergent, womxn of color, and/or femmes in STEM! 🧪🌈✨
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
November 20, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Hey disabled, queer, neurodivergent, womxn of color, and/or femmes in STEM! 🧪🌈✨
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
Featured in my banner, the dog that ate my thesis. 🧪
![A screenshot from a Slack Channel. PI writes “this is my punishment for not immediately scanning in my comments on your draft and send [sic] them to you” and sends a photo of a chewed up stack of papers. PI writes, “will reassemble and send My dog ate your thesis…oldest excuse in the book”. Student responds, “Tragedy! But now doggo will be very smart”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tyzlnffui5ik62r7ra3h7drs/bafkreic6q74vonjosoasyrm6htzz67wte2532c2nasrgkjxvv65pksaf6y@jpeg)
November 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Featured in my banner, the dog that ate my thesis. 🧪