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3 months

"Licit use of illicit drugs for treating depression: the pill and the process" Our timely piece in @jclinicalinvest #psilocybin #MDMA #ketamine #OpenAccess

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Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم

@bita137

5 years

Hey academia, please do not make social events for trainees mostly about booze/beer. Be mindful that some may suffer from alcohol use disorder or avoid alcohol for religious or cultural reasons.

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3 years

@DrNadiaChaudhri “Stand in the shade of me Things are now made of me You'll never be free of me He'll make a tree from me Don't say goodbye to me Describe the sky to me And if the sky falls, mark my words We'll catch mocking birds”

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5 years

One of my favorite #Iranianculturalsites the breathtaking Persepolis

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5 years

Out: Lab Logo In: Lab Coat of Arms Presenting our lab's Coat of Arms beautifully designed by local artist and scientist-in-training Alina Bogachuk @alinachuck

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@bita137

2 years

It is scientifically unsound for you (and @hubermanlab ) to claim that oral L-Tyrosine increases brain dopamine. The rate limiting step for production of dopamine is tyrosine hydroxylase, not tyrosine, hence why individuals with Parkison's Disease are given L-Dopa, not L-Tyrosine

Jack Moses

@jackmoses0

2 years

L-Tyrosine L-Tyrosine is an amino acid required for the production of dopamine. You can get tyrosine from chicken, turkey, fish, peanuts, and avocados. But supplementing it will provide even greater benefits. @hubermanlab supplements L-Tyrosine. I suggest you do too.

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@bita137

5 years

I was editing grants for young and seasoned PIs this morning and realized a major difference between the two camps: inexperienced grant writers aim to impress whereas experienced grant writers aim to explain

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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5 years

I love my job and my lab. I leave town for the weekend and this happens on the whiteboard 😍

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5 years

Disappointed to hear a senior colleague tell an assistant prof that he may not get meeting speaker invites because he is a white man and organizers now have to worry about diversity But DELIGHTED by the response of the assistant prof: being a white man is the least of my problems

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3 years

@DrNadiaChaudhri He is the son of a Superhero He will be okay He will have all of universe inside him He is a beautiful pearl Pearls shine after the oyster shell is gone He is the son of Nadia He will be okay

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5 years

Young scientist parents who hear this sort of rubbish: ignore the morons and carry on. Take your kids to all the meetings and scientific events you want. I and the father of my children did. Our careers and the children turned out OK 😊

Sofi Elizabeth

@Mayhew1Mayhew

5 years

Disappointing experience at @TheBSCCP ASM. As a mother unable to leave baby at home, publicly taken aside and made to feel very unwelcome by senior committee member. “We don’t want to set a precedent.“ they said. Such a shame that working parents must still endure this in 2019.

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5 years

1/ Dear graduate students who did not get the @NSF #NSFGRFP grant: Social medial and your email will be filled with gleeful notes about students who got the award. It hurts to see that you were not chosen. Here are my three rules for dealing with grant failures: #PhDchat #Protip

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6 years

1/ Postdocs in my lab have had babies. My observation comparing their productivity over a couple of years to those not having babies is that there is no correlation! Yes, they are not physically in the lab as often, but they are more focused so fewer mistakes, and more efficient

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4 years

Excited about my first book!! And don't you love that cover design?

Ketamine by Bita Moghaddam: 9780262542241 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The emergence of ketamine--previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug--as a treatment for depression. Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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6 years

Oh good we can use the graphics of our rejected grants as wine labels

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3 years

I am truly humbled. Call it luck or karma, but excited about five more years of fun in the lab 😊

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3 years

Competitive R01 renewal for years 29-34 (yes TWENTY NINE😲) submitted. Review gods help me but even if this baby does not make it, I am overwhelmed by gratitude for being able to build on and advance concepts that I started when I was a puny (and pregnant) assistant professor

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7 years

I’ve been in academia 30+ years and TBH I am yet to meet a man who thinks they were chosen to give a talk or receive an award because they are men. They all think they deserve it. So fellow women, accept the invitation simply because you deserve it.

Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬

@KateWassum

7 years

I know my gender contributes to my frequent invitation to give talks... But I don’t mind because: 1. I ❤️ talking about our data 2. The chance to change the view of who can do science is totally worth the blow to my pride

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6 years

I am starting #FridayNeuroClassic series of neuroscience papers highlighting work by women scientists who influenced me. The only rule I am applying is that the paper was published before 2000. Feel free to contribute #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM

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5 years

“women tend to be over-mentored and under-sponsored.” SO TRUE! I am thoroughly tired of senior men bragging about mentoring many women but then sponsor their buddies or male protégés for powerful/meaningful posts, awards, etc.

A Lack of Sponsorship Is Keeping Women from Advancing into Leadership

Too few women are reaching the top of their organizations, and a big reason is that they are not getting the high-stakes assignments that are prerequisite for a shot at the C-suite. Often, this is...

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5 years

In reviewing graduate school applications, I am once again reminded that I could never get accepted to grad school these days

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6 years

As an editor I am finding more and more of a tough time finding reviewers. What is going on? Too many submissions or are scientists realizing reviewing is a thankless job that takes away from grant and paper writing?

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5 years

1/Many of us have worked hard to reduce sexual harassment & discrimination at our institutions and at scientific meetings. I am profoundly disappointed @ACNPorg to appoint Dr. Bonci to their "Diversity and Inclusion Task Force." May I remind them of this

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2 years

@mike_feigin Hobbies are overrated. Just do nothing. It is an art and super relaxing to do absolutely nothing, with zero expectations from yourself or the universe, for about an hour a day

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3 years

Profoundly grateful to be vaccinated so I can show up for this lovely young man’s PhD defense #ScientistMom

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1 month

Ketamine is a weak antidepressant Taking repeated high dose ketamine will not cure depression but can kill a bunch of your brain cells and damage your kidneys Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

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5 years

1/“Dopamine modulation of prefrontal cortex is MANIFOLD..” is out. Here is the story of why and how we did the study, and what we found

Dopamine Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex Activity Is Manifold and Operates at Multiple Temporal and...

Lohani et al. find that dopamine modulation of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is spatiotemporally diverse and is dictated by the pattern of dopamine neuron activation and behavioral state, thus allowing...

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3 years

14 years ago about this or last week we lost a badass scientist: Ann Kelley Those of you working on reward and learning and feeding and dopamine and striatum and opioids and amygdala and basically anything remotely interesting about behavioral neuroscience, look up her work

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7 years

A tenured prof asked me today, “why are the grad students so unhappy and anxious these days? We had fun and were so happy that we were getting a stipend to do what we loved.” I have a theory but wonder what others think

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2 years

In 1973 two Iranian physicians reported on the positive and sustained impact of a single dose of #ketamine combined with psychotherapy in alleviating symptoms of depression and anxiety doi: 10.1016/S0033-3182(73)71306-2 Psychosomatics 14:344

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What year was the first paper reporting on Ketamine's antidepressant effects published?

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3 years

Competitive R01 renewal for years 29-34 (yes TWENTY NINE😲) submitted. Review gods help me but even if this baby does not make it, I am overwhelmed by gratitude for being able to build on and advance concepts that I started when I was a puny (and pregnant) assistant professor

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1/n Some sincere reflections about this incredible honor I am senior enough to have had the privilege of receiving other awards including being the first woman to receive the Efron award from @ACNPorg but this particular award is truly special and humbling for several reasons

Neuropsychopharmacology

@npp_journal

10 months

Congratulations to @bita137 on receiving the #ACNP2023 Dolores Shockley Diversity and Inclusion Advancement Award from @ACNPorg You can watch Dr. Moghaddam's acceptance video here:

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1 year

I have been anointed the Ketamine Karen™️ I wear that honor with distinction. And I don’t need to ask for the manager. I am the manager.

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6 years

This is why I think the practice of giving “awards” to individual scientists is an outdated and frankly bogus practice. Lab heads like me come up with ideas but ideas are cheap. Without the expertise and resilience of our team of trainees and collaborators we accomplish nothing

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6 years

"I saw you were on twitter so was wondering why you had not responded to my email" Am I the only one who gets these complaints? For me, work email is WORK and I deal with it when formally working. Twitter is for when I am waiting on TSA/store lines, taking a tea break, etc

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4 years

It may be just hubs and me this year but tradition matters. Kookoo Sabzi, sabzi polo and fish for شب عيد #Nowruz

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2 years

The best way to alleviate this problem: PAY REVIEWERS for their work Nature publishing and Elsevier have profit margins of 23%-35% so they can probably survive if they pay you $100-$200 per review

Dr. Amanda Murdie

@AmandaMurdie

2 years

1/ Peer review is in trouble! So much of the knowledge we produce & share rests on the idea that our work goes through a rigorous review by experts. After serving as an editor-in-chief for 5 yrs. & an associate editor for 3 yrs., I'm worried that our system is in trouble:

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7 years

Junior faculty with >6 papers in 10 years more likely (p=0.0001) to succeed than those w <6 papers REGARDLESS of journal's impact factor

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Prediction of faculty success via @thePeerJ

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6 years

I have been asked to tweet about what I cook- not sure why I’ve avoided it so far because I cook often and mostly cook Iranian food, an amazing cuisine deserving of more attention! OK so this is what was for dinner: rice with perfect #tahdeegh and artichoke lamb khoresh

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4 years

Cost of a Supplementary Figure in 2009: a few thousand bucks Cost of a Supplementary Figure in 2021: an entire R01

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Supplementary Figures evolution... (same journals and field).

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5 years

PLEASE RT I WANT THE NAMES OF UNIVERSITIES THAT ARE NOT SHUTTING DOWN LABS #CollegeOfFools ignores #COVID19 Reply or DM the names 1/

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3 years

Joyful day after learning that this young man matched ⁦ @ColumbiaPsych ⁩

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7 years

Please RT: Neuroscience trainees & PIs in Puerto Rico, we can host you in Portland -our labs and class rooms are open to you DM @OHSUBrain

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With apologies for bragging, my kid’s first NIH grant got a better score than mine have ever gotten 😊 #ProudScientistMom #WorkLifeBalance

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3 years

1/My favorite دايى /uncle just died. I am heart broken 😢 I would not have made it as a little immigrant kid in US in the 70s without his humor, guidance, and ways of simplifying life for me. Here is a story about us...

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5 years

"In science, you not only have to have the stomach for failure, you actually have to enjoy the taste of it"

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4 years

Married 32 years today and life together remains fun especially after kids went off the payroll #FridayFeeling

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4/ Rule #3 Remind yourself that failure is not a mistake or fault of your project. It is often just what happens under certain circumstances even after you do everything right (like a soufflé not rising even though you followed the recipe!). The REAL MISTAKE is not trying again.

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2 years

Sobering difference in my Iranian and American #SciTwitter feed today: Iranians: don’t teargas and imprison my students Americans: I hate sci publishing but don’t change anything about it

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5 years

Just witnessed the most beautiful random thing on our afternoon walk: a front yard wedding 💞 Parents and guests were joining via video but enough walkers and bikers stopped by (staying appropriately distant😊) to provide a lovely live audience #covid19 can’t take away love 💕🎶

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6 years

4/ So young scientists, if you want children, have children and have as many as you want! Parenting is hard and a lot of work so have them early. You may actually become a better scientist because of them.

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7 years

When asked is it harder for women than men to do science, I am reminded of a quote by the late Ann Richards: “After all, Ginger Rogers did every step that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels” And oh, Ginger was paid less than Fred..

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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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7 years

Women of #SfN17 please do NOT do what "those men" do. Success for #WomenInSTEM should not be about them acting like men but about being accepted and respected for who they are.

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7 years

Women of #sfn17 - get in line at the mic first, then figure out your question second. Just like those men do!

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@bita137

6 years

We have a paper accepted with EIGHT women as authors, led by @SweytaLohani It will be a high impact paper as it shows phasic and tonic release of dopamine are a continuum but more importantly collaborations happened organically which is what happens when we have a critical mass

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3 years

Bad academic etiquette: reviewing a manuscript and suggesting a list of major revisions and when the revised manuscript is resubmitted, declining to re-review

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@bita137

7 years

Key to success for #womeninSTEM has consistently been 1) believe in how good you are 2) fight tenaciously those who undermine your abilities

Dr Becca, PhD 🐘

@doc_becca

7 years

THE PROVOST REVERSED HIS DECISION AND IS RECOMMENDING ME FOR TENURE

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5 years

Been coming to @SfNtweets meetings since 1983 and it remains a favorite meeting but #sfn2019 @Neurosci2019 is the most amazing of all because: 1) current trainees are presenting 2) I am presenting (albeit wed pm🙃) 3) previous trainees are presenting 4) My kid 👶🏻 is presenting

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4 years

Will Jill Biden be the first FLOTUS with a doctorate degree?

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5 years

What impresses me about this is that someone has saved a rejection letter from 1992 I started my faculty position in 1990 and now I am horrified by the thought of how many file cabinets filled with rejection letters I would have in my office, had I saved them

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3 years

"We will use equal number of male and female mice, total n=15"

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@bita137

1 year

when you don't have actual experts/scientists on the show and have to read off the teleprompter PS: please hire a factchecker

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@hubermanlab

1 year

New Huberman Lab podcast out now: KETAMINE: BENEFITS & RISKS FOR DEPRESSION, PTSD & NEUROPLASTICITY • How It Changes The Brain • Effects on the Opioid System • Biology of “K-Holes” • Dosage, R- vs. S- vs. R/S-Ketamine • Intranasal, Injectable, Troche

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1/n I know y’all have been wanting more disruptive science and @moghaddamlab is here to deliver! Our latest preprint suggests a different approach for behavioral modeling of the potential therapeutic effects of psilocybin!!

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6 months

@canna_brain Unfortunately it was not ALL neuroscientists and yours truly is the only one I know who politely declined to talk to him. A lot of “famous” neuroscientists were lured by his power/fame and gave him credibility by going on his show

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4 years

Lovely to be able to cook solid Iranian dishes for/with my (adult professional) kids On the menu: ashe reshte and kalam polo with crispy kalam tahdeegh #آش رشته # كلم پلو #PerisanMom #PersianScientistMaman

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7 years

Young scientists: an R01 is generally $250K direct/year. Do NOT ask for less. In fact, itemize and ask for more because you are worth it.

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6 years

Not in my department @BNeuroOHSU

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Women starting their first research labs tend to be paid lower salaries, have fewer staff and have access to less laboratory space than their male peers do.

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I had no choice because I was on student visa. Graduate school not working out meant deportation Reading the responses to @MarinaP63 tweet provides a solid list of the privileges that immigrant kids/students don't have #ImmigrantScientist

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Earlier this week students asked what kept me going through difficult times during my PhD. I had an "Alternate Career of the Week" so that I knew I had other possibilities and was making an active choice to stay in grad school. What's your favorite Alternate Career of the Week?

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3 years

The crowd that shows up in person at hybrid talks is definitely unique 😃

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5 years

Two emotional experiences today: 1) grad student telling me science & research are not worth it 2) a loved one diagnosed w a condition that was a death sentence 15 yrs ago but now has excellent prognosis Being a scientist and doing research is HARD but dammit, it is worth it

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Had the privilege/luck of getting the first dose of #CovidVaccine Response from my scientist kid: Mom! Do you realize your cells are at this moment translating nucleic acid code delivered by a nanoparticle synthesized by Pfizer/biontech?! #ProudScientistMom

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Inability to do simple math is #2 reason most serious scientists don’t go on his show

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in case youtube takes it down

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2 years

Saw that “Iranian women” is trending so to bring some joy to your TL here is a random picture of my lot of brilliant Iranian women at a wedding reception, circa 1957!! The outfits❤️the hair❤️and oh that mischievous “bring it on” look of being caught with a mouth full of grapes

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The time between a researcher starting an R00 award and receiving a major NIH award/R01 is 4.6-7.4 years, and is significantly longer for women and those who remain at their home institution

bioRxiv

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1 year

Analysis of NIH K99/R00 Awards and the Career Progression of Awardees #bioRxiv

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It takes me at least 16 hours (two days) to review one R01. If you have taken that much time to write it, it shows.

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5 years

Can we find a scientist to run for President?

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4 years

Date my thesis (hint: I built this and most instruments I used)

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10 months

Let's be clear that this sort of behavior and mindset are not uncommon in academia and are not unique to ACNP #ACNP2023

Steve Maren 🐀🧠💭😨

@StephenMaren

10 months

Proving the point at #acnp2023 : old white reply-guy uses his time at the mic at the Women's/DEI lunch to harass the moderator and declare he is the victim of discrimination

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3 years

Loobia polo and salad shirazi to feed the soul

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9 months

With so much negativity and bad/sad happenings around us, I have some good news: comfortable shoes for the mother of the bride are secured 😇🤩

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6 years

This took many years & persevering through many rejections to come out; I guess because it makes release dynamics of dopamine complicated - and when it comes to dopamine we want simple and happy 😉 Special thanks to @NPP_Journal editors who worked with us

Burst activation of dopamine neurons produces prolonged post-burst availability of actively...

Neuropsychopharmacology - Burst activation of dopamine neurons produces prolonged post-burst availability of actively released dopamine

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2 years

I may not be #SfN22 but my book KETAMINE made it. Go check it out @mitpress booth 3001 It is really a nice read, if I may say so 🤓, especially if you like history of psychopharmacology and drug development

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Dear PIs: uncertainty is a terrible stressor for trainees. Be flexible and thoughtful. That experiment that has to stop can get done later. Think about all the experiments that didn't work, and put #COVID19 -induced lack of data generation in that category! #AcademicChatter

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2 years

This is the product of a research culture that has, for decades, equated hanging mice by their tail to "depression" or giving bored mice access to drugs to "addiction." Interesting that some in psychedelic field are of the sudden raising concerns about precise use of terminology

Robin Carhart-Harris

@RCarhartHarris

2 years

I’m sorry, but I think we need to be more precise with our terms. “Psychedelic-like”[meaning “revealing/manifesting the psyche”] effects on neuronal growth when administered on cortical cultures”…. Is a statement that does not make sense….

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Last few weeks have been amazingly challenging. I am grateful for having the energy and the temperament to be useful in these trying times. Now time to pause and be grateful for #Nowruz #Norooz May the new year bring health and heppiness نوروزتان پىروزباد

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5 years

Senior scientists responding to concerns about performance of white man vs nonwhite man/woman young scientists : white man-"but he is so smart""he is a great guy""he just needs better mentoring" woman/nonwhite man-"do they have what it takes to succeed?" "does she read enough?"

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3 years

@KateWassum How to disconnect and take a complete break from doing or even thinking about work

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4 years

"The bottom line is if you have the same mostly white and mostly male leaders in the same institution running academia for 20, 30, 40 years, not much is going to change."

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Is ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects mediated by serotonin? Here is a classic paper showing that ketamine, independent of its (popular) actions on NMDA receptors, robustly enhances serotonin levels in the prefrontal cortex by inhibiting SERT

Subanesthetic doses of ketamine transiently decrease serotonin transporter activity: a PET study in...

Subanesthetic doses of ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) antagonist, have a rapid antidepressant effect which lasts for up to 2 weeks. However, the neurobiological mechanism regarding this...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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3 years

Happy #LovingDay Here we are before the pandemic in beautiful Lyon. Can’t wait to go back

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@bita137

2 years

Congratulations to @VincentCostaPhd and the team for this BEAUTIFUL paper! It is incredibly impressive for an assistant professor to lead such a NHP study in the midst of a pandemic! Keep up the excellent work Vinny! @OHSUNews is fortunate to have you

The neurocomputational bases of explore-exploit decision-making

How do humans and other animals make the decision to explore new options instead of exploiting familiar favorites? Hogeveen et al. find evidence for similar computations underlying explore-exploit...

www.cell.com

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5 years

Baklava cake! New hypothesis driven experiment using modified methods. Results so far look publishable. Stay tuned for the reviews

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4 years

Events of today were traumatic for the American democracy but let’s not lose sight of the fact that the state of Georgia, home state of John Lewis and Dr King, just elected a Black man and a Jewish man to @USSenate

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4 years

Dang! I have been married to someone whose last name starts with “B” for 30 years and had I known this and changed my name, I could have been somebody

Rafael Tinoco

@rafaelotinoco

4 years

Based on our exhaustive research, scientists will be more successful by choosing mentors and/or mentees whose last name starts with 'B'. Wondering where I could submit this...

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8 years

Young trainees please mentor your mentors by telling them to stop using white/yellow text on blue background for their talk slides #acnp2016

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7 years

Academia is a team sport. Players, coach & support staff all matter to your success. Find a good team, be good to your team, and work hard

David Schoppik

@schoppik

7 years

OK friends: what's one thing you wish someone had told you when you were starting grad school? Pls RT.

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8 years

In pantsuits and power pins, this immigrant scientist woman can't wait to start #sfn16 I wonder how many #ImmigrantScientists are attending?

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#MyNameIs Bita بيتا pronounced Bee-tah My mother picked my name before I was born In Persian it means incomparable, unique, unlike another My name connects me to my sister Mahta (Máh-tah) meaning beautiful like moon & my daughter Anahita (Ãna-he-tah) the goddess of water

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2 years

Many of us try to pay our lab members more but our institutions do not allow it. Heaven knows I have spent so much time in recent years to get approval to pay postdocs and my other lab staff more and my requests have been repeatedly denied by HR

Ashley Ruba, PhD

@ashleyruba_phd

2 years

I really want to see more tenured profs fighting to improve job prospects & salaries for post-docs, instead of explaining why they can’t (or won’t) pay/mentor us more. What good is tenure if you’re not using your privilege & job security to help your most vulnerable employees??

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2 years

Major issue for @ACNPorg that has all its future meetings planned in states that have outlawed abortion Time to consider new locations in NM (Santa Fe?) CA and going back to Puerto Rico

Richard Sever

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2 years

No biomedical organization should hold a conference in a state that outlaws abortion.

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4 years

#NewProfilePic #mood #BlueWave 💙🧿

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7 years

As a scientist woman in "leadership" role, Coco Chanel continues to guide me: I don't care what you think of me; I don't think of you at all

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RIP #MadeleineAlbright You were one of my badass immigrant women heroes and as a short woman, it was totally empowering when I met you and realized you are even shorter than me :)

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