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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

7 months

🚨🚨 New Wassum Lab Paper Alert 🚨🚨 How does the brain enable the learning we need to make adaptive decisions? Is dopamine involved? Dr. Ana Sias & team discovered answers. Read on to find out. 🧵👇🏻 Published today in @NatureNeuro

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

I’m thinking about doing a “I was never taught how to do this” summer series for my lab meeting. Starting with citation best practices. Ideas for other topics?

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Big move by our department today to remove one unnecessary stressor from our students: Grad students are now disallowed from providing food/drinks for committee meetings. The department will provide the beverages.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

First draft of the manuscript Edited version after you realize there is a word limit After the senior author edits it

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

***New paper out from our lab*** @MelissaMalvaez discovered a critical brain circuit that regulates reward learning & decision making Here is what she found. Thread 👇 Free full text:

Distinct cortical–amygdala projections drive reward value encoding and retrieval

Nature Neuroscience - The value of an anticipated reward is crucial to adaptive decision-making. The authors delineate the neural circuitry supporting value encoding and retrieval, respectively, by...

www.nature.com

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

Graduate school applications are due soon. So here are my tips for how to craft a strong statement for a neuroscience PhD program thread👇

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

@DrCollins1312 What assholes, so sorry this happened. That response tho...

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Does anyone have any good recipes for the AutoclavePot?

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

7 years

How to wake a baby from a nap, instructions: Step 1: open computer to work on grant

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

For whoever needs to hear this: I am 💯 here to celebrate your accomplishments. I want to hear about your grants, papers, awards, advancements, sourdough... whatever you’re excited about, I’m excited for you. We are a community, we both celebrate and commiserate together.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

Having a hard time getting back to real life following study section, I’m rating all my husband’s jokes on NIH scale... so far he is not getting funded.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

Today is “wear your favorite superhero shirt” day at my daughter’s school. 👇 This is what she and her dad picked out and I can’t even @WomeninLearning

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Before submitting your review, take a few min to re-read each statement and ask yourself: 1. Is this necessary? 2. How would I feel reading this? 3. Can I word this is a more constructive way? 4. Am I the asshole?

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

Graduate school interviews are happening soon!! Here’s my advice on how to navigate them successfully. 🧵 👇 Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion based on my experience interviewing prospective students for mostly neuro & psych programs.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

1 year

GABA, dopamine, Glutamate

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

UCLA Psychology is waiving the GRE requirement for the 2021-2022 admissions cycle.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

7 years

YES! @eLife Every journal should give reviewers this reminder.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Tweeps, I need your help! I’m teaching a grant writing course for grad students. Please send your 🔥 grant-writing tips, dos/don’ts, & resources. I will compile & reshare.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

***New paper out from our lab*** Ana Sias & @ashkatemorse discovered a critical brain circuit that helps us learn to predict rewarding events so we can make good decisions about their pursuit. Here is what they found. 🧵👇 Published today in @eLife

A bidirectional corticoamygdala circuit for the encoding and retrieval of detailed reward memories

The bidirectional orbitofrontal cortex-basolateral amygdala circuit helps us to learn the details of predicted rewarding events and then to use that information to make good reward pursuit decisions.

elifesciences.org

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Congratulations to @TheErinCalipari for winning this year’s @NPP_Journal Neuropsychopharmacology Editor's Early Career Award (NEECA)!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Everyone and their dog does optogenetics now. It’s not as cool anymore. What’s cool now is behavior. @canna_brain #ACNP2019

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

“Just because we can elicit a behavior with optogenetics, doesn’t mean the stimulated cells actually regulate that behavior” 👏👏👏 @fergilmills #GRCamygdala

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

We’re all about to be subjects in a huge reversal learning experiment

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

Serotonin, Acetylcholine, Dopamine, Norepinephrine

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

My parents found the most AMAZING thing when they cleaned out my childhood room 👇

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

💯 conference swag needs to go. It’s wasteful and the $$ would be better spent on travel awards. Printed programs, too. Good riddance.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

As promised, here’s my primer & crowdsourced 🔥 tips on how to write a training grant 👇 ⛄️ Happy Holidays, Tweeps! ⛄️ #grantwriting #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

1 year

We’re recruiting a postdoc & potentially also a tech!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits that help us learn about rewarding events and use that info to make good decisions. More info👇

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

😍 A beautiful mug for a beautiful cause inspired by a beautiful person 👇

Jackie Gio

@Jackie_Gio

3 years

Sneak peak of this Thursday’s pre-orders! These new prints are 🔥🔥 Orders open Thursday 9/9 at 8am PT here: (they usually go pretty fast FYI) All proceeds are going to the @DrNadiaChaudhri Wingspan Award!

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

🚨 New paper out from our lab 🚨 @ntlichten & team discovered a critical brain circuit that enables the reward expectation critical for adaptive decision making Here is what they found 🧵👇 Published in the latest issue of J. Neuroscience @SfNJournals

The Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex–Basolateral Amygdala Circuit Regulates the Influence of Reward Cues...

Adaptive reward-related decision making requires accurate prospective consideration of the specific outcome of each option and its current desirability. Often this information must be inferred based...

www.jneurosci.org

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

Or… you could just put your paper on BioRxiv

Nature Neuroscience

@NatureNeuro

3 years

In this scenario, the cost of publication is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid at the time of publication. The APC for Nature Neuroscience in 2022 is €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

New paper out from our lab: @AnnieCholines discovered a critical system in the brain that reins in motivation. Here is what she found. Thread 👇

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

New paper out from our lab: I asked @MelissaMalvaez to come up with a simple side project… ...she ended up discovering a molecular director of habit. Here’s what she found. Thread👇 Free for 50 days:

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

What 5 y/o’s think a scientist is. Some accuracy here (see “eating chocolate”), but I’m a bit concerned my daughter thinks we mostly take pictures of each other 😂

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

New lab pic!!! Wassum Lab 2020

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

We’re recruiting 1-2 postdoctoral fellows and 1 technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits that help us learn about rewarding events and use that info to make good decisions. More info👇

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

2 years

📄🚨 New review from our lab 🚨📄 Just published in @eLife In this review, I discuss the cortical-amygdala circuitry through which we learn about rewarding events and use those memories to make adaptive decisions. Short 🧵👇🏻

Amygdala-cortical collaboration in reward learning and decision making

A review of a neuronal circuit architecture that helps us to learn about rewarding events and then to use that information to support adaptive decision making.

elifesciences.org

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Incredibly honored to have been elected and excited for the opportunity to serve our community. I am all 👂 to anyone’s ideas about how to continue to make this meeting inspirational, productive, and inclusive. #GRCamygdala #AmygdalaGRC

Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

5 years

Congratulations to @KateWassum on being elected #AmygdalaGRC vice-chair and I rest easy knowing the meeting is in good hands with @superkash !

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 months

Hugely grateful for this opportunity to take our lab in an exciting new direction!

BBRFoundation

@BBRFoundation

5 months

Congratulations to the 2024 Distinguished Investigator Grantees!

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Many academics are taking this time to write a review paper. Mine will be on the topic I‘ve spent the most time on lately: the imagery and thematic metaphor of Frozen 2 My 3 y/o has agreed to be a co-author. #Covid_19 #AcademicMama

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Oh you want to network and present your data at a major meeting, that’ll be $1,000... which we might reimburse in 3 months. This is a major issue, it’s gate keeping, and pushing people out of science/academia. I welcome any advice on how to solve it.

Dr. Julia C Lemos

@sciencejuls

5 years

People snidely gave me crap about mentioning the financial burden of hotel reimbursements for conferences....as a small issue. But it is the accumulation of these expenditures that pose a financial burden of students and PDs that do not have a financial safety net. 👇🏼

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

7 years

Is it really harder to be a woman in science? Yes, of course. But... 1. this isn’t restricted to science, so might as well do what you love 2. it’s slowly getting better 3. you can make it change faster

Denise J. Cai, Ph.D.

@denisejcai

7 years

Senior scientists: What pearl of wisdom would you tell your younger self about the academic pursuit? Younger scientists: What would you want to know about the pursuit? Love to hear your thoughts!

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

I just entered “get life together” in my calendar for December 17th. I’ll probably have to reschedule it.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

She said she’s interested in Neuroscience!!!

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

My 4 y/o just asked me if I use “potions” in my science... ... I told her yes, CNO. 😂

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Can I please just upload a letter of rec without having to answer a bunch of stupid questions? What does it even mean to be in the “Upper 1-2%” of emotional maturity anyways? 👎 🙄

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Midbrain dopamine projections to the basal amygdala contribute to the formation of fear memories 🔥 new paper out today in ⁦⁦⁦ @JNeuroscience ⁩

A VTA to Basal Amygdala Dopamine Projection Contributes to Signal Salient Somatosensory Events...

The amygdala is a brain area critical for the formation of fear memories. However, the nature of the teaching signal(s) that drive plasticity in the amygdala are still under debate. Here, we use...

www.jneurosci.org

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

7 years

Me: So I study reward processing in the amygdala... Psychiatry Resident: But the amygdala is for fear. Me: It also does reward. Resident:

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

2 years

. @TheErinCalipari begins her talks by promoting the work of women that informed her studies. An excellent example of using your platform to combat bias- in this case the under citation of women. #AddictionGRC

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

Congrats to Dr. @AnnieCholines Absolute tour-de-force of PhD work & defense. Watch out for this rising star and newly-minted PhD!!!

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

CELL. TYPE. SPECIFIC. PROTEIN. SYNTHESIS. INHIBITION. 🤯

Klann Lab

@KlannLab

4 years

Thrilled to share @prerana123 's latest work, published today @nature . Using cell type-specific protein synthesis inhibition, we show that de novo translation in distinct types of amygdala inhibitory neurons is required for memory of threat and safety cues.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

2 years

My daughter drew this on the back of one of my printed R01 proposal pages. I think she just invented the new NIH rating scale.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Of all her many books, my 3 y/o picked this one for me to read to her before bed. Before tonight we had not read it in months. She must have known I needed a bedtime story too.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Ditto for undergrads. Are you doing science? Then you are a scientist.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

You can now change your name on papers published in eLife 👏 👏 👏

eLife - the journal

@eLife

4 years

Today we are pleased to announce a new policy that provides a fair and unobtrusive way for authors, editors and reviewers to retroactively change their name in papers published in eLife

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

TFW you’re positive, but the rest of your family is negative, so you’re quarantining alone in your room for 2 weeks...

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: CDC announces that it is safe for fully vaccinated people to refer to dopamine as “The Pleasure Hormone”

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

Hand-scoring behavior from VHS tapes 😂

Josh Dubnau 🇵🇸

@joshdubnau

3 years

Name a bench skill set that you had as a PhD student or postdoc that is now so utterly useless that most people don’t even know wtf it is: I used to be able to find my insert by visually recognizing Xba1, Kpn1 and BamH1 sites in Sanger seq autorads. @themetzgerm

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

Roses are red🌹, pollinated by bees 🐝. Academic journals, please lower your open-access fees. #AcademicValentines

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

First 2 speakers at the #GRCamygdala are women who have been studying the amygdala for many years... but have never been invited to the meeting. Kudos to @kaymtye & @superkash for expanding the reach of the meeting and correcting the oversights of the past.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Today I spelled fluorescence correctly on the first try without using spell checker. I don’t think I need to tell you how big of an accomplishment this is.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Me: “My 2020 resolution is to drink less, eat healthier, and lose weight!” Also me: *opens wine at 2PM, makes ice cream, orders BBQ and Mac & cheese for dinner*

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Omg, “the drinker”. I feel seen.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

***POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY*** The Wassum Lab is recruiting a postdoc to work with us studying the neural circuits of motivation & decision making in health & disease. Topics & tools are broad. Start date flexible. Lab mates stellar. NIH-funded. Email if interested.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 months

Come work with us in sunny SoCal: We’re recruiting a postdoc!!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits that help us learn about rewarding events and use that info to make good decisions. More info👇

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

“Our hypothesis was that this behavioral effect is mediated by some neurons somewhere in the brain” #LEARNMEM18

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

This peaceful & productive flight brought to you by @disneyplus En route to Orlando for #ACNP2019

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Felt like this needed to go up this week. Poster from: Edit credit to @Jackie_Gio

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

My 3 y/o has been getting frustrated and giving up on things (doing a headstand, coloring in the lines, reading) lately. I’m trying to teach her about persistence... ...so today I explained the process to get an NIH grant 😂 #AcademicMama

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

The Pandemic Professionalism rules are out! Everyone alert your butlers & nannies to tidy your dedicated private office before all meetings, keep the children quiet and out of sight, and save all meals until after your Zoom marathon is over. 😂 😂 😂

Barry Rubin MD, PhD, FRCSC

@drbarryrubin

4 years

This is a MUST read for everyone doing video-based work calls. 1. Don't be late. 2. Turn on camera. 3. No eating. 4. Learn how to interrupt. 5. Close your door. 6. No multitasking. 7. Sit still. @UHN Seven Rules of Zoom Meeting Etiquette From the Pros

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

2 years

Congratulations to the newly minted PhD Dr. Ana Sias!!! Dr. Sias is a brilliant, creative, inquisitive, and rigorous scientist. I’m so lucky to have her as a colleague.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Me: Finally I’m in a great data analysis groove. This data is going to be 🔥! 👩‍💻 — 5 min later — Me: Sh*t! I have to go pick up my kid!🤦‍♀️

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

2 years

Of course we could take a ‘normal’ lab photo… but what fun would that be?

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

I’m so excited and honored (and tbh a little nervous) to speak about my life & career in science at the upcoming @WomeninLearning learning luncheon at the @PavlovSociety meeting!

Women in Learning

@WomeninLearning

3 years

❗ #WILwednesday Announcement❗ Our 11th Annual Luncheon will take place on Sat., 10/2 during the @PavlovSociety Mtg in Ann Arbor, MI. We're so thrilled that our Distinguished Speaker will be @KateWassum (UCLA)! It's never too early to register & donate:

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

6 years

Regarding finding neural mechanisms for psychological processes: “If you don’t understand something, you put it in the trash can of the brain, which is the prefrontal cortex.” -György Buzsáki @ICLMUCLA

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

Hey look I’m on Wikipedia! Huge thx to @kenzieL6 & @WikiWomenInRed for doing this and for increasing visibility of all the amazing women in science

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

Exciting things to come from this newly-minted PhD: Dr. Nina Lichtenberg @NTlichten

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

🚨 Spoiler Alert 🚨 I heard each episode will feature a different committee meeting and at the end of the season nothing will have gotten done.

anthony christian ocampo 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈

@anthonyocampo

5 years

Finally. A Netflix series about academia. Let the petty begin.

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

3 years

🚨🚨 We’re recruiting! 🚨🚨 We are currently recruiting for 1 possibly 2 lab technician positions. Join us studying the neural circuits underlying adaptive & maladaptive reward learning, motivation, & decision making. More info here:

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

You can’t just invite Black scientists to your board, committee, faculty etc, pat yourself on the back, and call it a day. You also need to change the culture to ensure they are welcomed, promoted, valued, and respected once they are there.

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

@IshmailSaboor

4 years

An added spotlight is now being shined on Black scientists/trainees (which is inherently good). Perhaps new opportunities and resources are even being provided (which is also good). However, will we now face an added resentment in the academy because of this?

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

5 years

We need to remember that most of the behavioral paradigms we use today were developed in males and may not well capture the intended process in females. Paraphrasing wisdom from @ShanskyLab #ACNP2019

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

2 years

Huge congratulations to @Jackie_Gio for winning the @UCLA_BRI Scheibel distinguished postdoc award!!! Watch out for this rising star!!

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@KateWassum

3 years

The CDC says it’s now okay to use yellow text & a blue background for slide presentations

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@KateWassum

1 year

What if scientists made friendship bracelets like the #ErasTour #Swifties to trade at conferences? Instead of song titles or albums, they would have your favorite brain regions, molecules, genes, neurotransmitters, methods, etc. @SfN_Events

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@KateWassum

5 years

How to describe your research experience in your grad school personal statement: - What did you know (and not know) - What is the question - What did you do (and why) - What did you find - What does this mean - What did/would you do next

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@KateWassum

5 years

Today UCLA finally got a campus-wide Matlab software license

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@KateWassum

11 months

New WassumLab Pre-print!!! We found a dual-pathway brain architecture through which stress promotes habits 🧵👇🏻

Jackie Gio

@Jackie_Gio

11 months

🚨 Pre-print alert! 🚨 Super excited to share with y'all what I've been working on in @KateWassum 's lab. 🧠🐭 In true Wassum Lab fashion, here's a tweet 🧵 on what we found!

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@KateWassum

2 years

*pretends to be shocked*

Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

@SfNtweets

2 years

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday, June 17 at 2 p.m. EDT.

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@KateWassum

5 years

Ditto!! I ❤️ the nodders in class, seminars, talks etc.

Prof. Chardon L. Murray

@SocialSciNerd

5 years

#AcademicTwitter : What academia-related things are you thankful for? I'll start. I'm thankful for "nodders". The students who nod as you lecture. They're so encouraging and awesome. Every class needs a "nodder"!

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@LoriKnacklab I was once accused of being self-aggrandizing in a review. 😠 In the revision I switched from “we found” to “the data show”. So the data were being self-aggrandizing, not me. ☺️

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@KateWassum

4 years

. @eLife makes a step away from the old ‘review→publish’ model towards a new ‘publish→review’ model. Starting July 2021, they will only review preprints & will work towards meaningful public reviews with the goal of eliminating journal title as the measure of research quality.

eLife - the journal

@eLife

4 years

We are pleased to announce the next advancement in our mission to transform science publishing. From today, we take the next steps towards exclusively reviewing preprints. Learn more about these changes in an Editorial from Editor-in-Chief Mike Eisen ▸

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@KateWassum

4 years

Headshots should not be included on a CV, and neither should DOB or marital status.

Martin A. Nuñez

@Martin_A_Nunez

4 years

Many people put their pictures on their CVs I found it strange but I have been seeing lots of academic CV lately and approx. 50% has them... Should we add pictures of us to our CVs? #AcademicChatter #academia

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4 years

I have a CNO joke, but it might have off target effects

Marina Picciotto

@MarinaP63

4 years

I have an acetylcholine joke, but no one is paying attention

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4 years

At 10AM this morning my daughter brought me a “cocktail” made out of play-doh. I’m starting to worry about what they’re teaching her at home school.

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@KateWassum

4 years

Checking era commons for your grant score

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@KateWassum

4 years

My 3 y/o has been walking around the house all day complaining that her baby doll is being too loud and driving her crazy... #AcademicMama #WFH

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@KateWassum

4 years

I feel seen.

Amy L Stone

@AmyLStone1

4 years

Academia is just saying “next week things should free up a little and not be so busy” over and over again.

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Comment by chair at #IDARS2019 : speakers should spend less time acknowledging the trainees. Going to have to hard disagree. Acknowledging the people who contributed the ideas and work is 💯 critical. Speakers should just stick to allotted time. It’s not hard.

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@KateWassum

5 years

Super excited to learn how we can make our lab more green 🍃🌍🔬 @My_Green_Lab

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Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

4 years

I did not know that many STEM PhD programs are funded until I was a senior applying to grad school.

Jackie Gio

@Jackie_Gio

4 years

For real! I am first-gen, I did not know this until my junior year of college and my reaction was similar. This is not an intuitive thing when you are accustomed to juggling paying-jobs alongside your education. #firstgen #firstgenPhD #firstgenscience

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