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Used ChatGPT to find and save SACNAS Chapter contact information to an excel file. Then used it to share The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists to all 150 chapters across 46 states and territories and to 125 board members! #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth

The front page of today's paper. The DEl edition, features 27 stories and columns all with a DEl angle, hoping to provide context on DEl in the UNC system, UNC and North Carolina. Check out the online version of the issue here: dailytarheel.com/article/2024/0…

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 #MooDeng, the baby Pygmy Hippo from Thailand, has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize!🏅The Nobel Committee recognizes her groundbreaking achievement in inspiring millions to achieve their dreams of #napping all day and staying #moisturized . 🦛✨#NobelPrize

Excited to share our protocol to build a system to integrate Calcium-imaging, Pupillometry, and Locomotion-estimated Tracking (CaPuLeT) in head-fixed mice. Shout to Mariamagdalena Ortiz-Juza and Jovan Tormes Vaquerano for leading these efforts in collaboration with UNC-Optics. star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/3752

An absolutely bonkers stat from this Nature article on Nobel Prize winners. "702 out of 736 researchers who have won science and economics prizes up to 2023 are part of the same academic family" nature.com/immersive/d415…

UMass Chan Medical School researcher Victor R. Ambros, PhD, shares the 2024 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of microRNA, single-stranded RNA molecules that play a critical role in post-transcriptional gene regulation: direc.to/mmJ6 #NobelPrize

Online now: Protocol for an open-source system to integrate calcium imaging, pupillometry, and locomotion-estimated tracking in head-fixed mice dlvr.it/TFZj7J #protocol #starprotocols #cellpress

I had the opportunity to attend Reality Fest hosted by Carolina AR/VR. It was a privilege to be a part of the XR Systems Panel with Jade Kandel, Bryce Ikeda, and Dr. Richard Marks (Founder of the PlayStation Magic Lab, developing AR/VR technologies for the PS2, PS3, and PS4!).

First time in the West Coast, attending the SACNAS #NDiSTEM2024 Conference! Excited to share work from my first co-1st authored publication in STAR Protocols and attend all the amazing talks / workshops. Poster Session - Thur. 10/31 (10:30 am - 12:30 pm) Number: THU-GR526

A UNC startup is redefining mental health treatment w a promising eye-tracking technology which is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between APS professor Nico Pegard UNC-Optics, Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera & Ellora MacTaggart. Story: aps.unc.edu/home-page-news…

A new wearable patch promises to transform the way skin diseases are diagnosed & monitored, according to a paper published in Science Advances. Senior author Wubin Bai Wubin Bai says the patch brings together the best of optical & mechanical tech. Story: aps.unc.edu/home-page-news…

Hey UNC-Chapel Hill PhD Students! Want to support access to science in high school classrooms? Fill out this survey to help shape an initiative I am designing. Let’s work together to share our science with our communities! forms.gle/fXHiX6twWpe61U…

Tar Heels are helping to expand mental health treatment using eye-tracking technology. Researchers in the College's APS @ UNC and UNC School of Medicine's psychiatry department, alongside alumna Ellora McTaggart, are behind the innovations. aps.unc.edu/home-page-news… UNC-Optics

Representation matters - in your peers, in your mentors, and in the stories that shape the spaces you're in. Seeing yourself reflected in science, leadership, and beyond is important. Please help us spread word of this Index & nominate any Inspiring Black Scientists you know!

Had an amazing time at the llama de orgullo: embracing the fire within ❤️‍🔥's La Conferencia 2025. I presented two sessions and had great discussions with next generation of educators, scientists, and professionals. Thank you to my co-hosts!

“I am here because of DEI…if [my father] hadn’t gone to school, I probably wouldn’t be here today.” - Dr. Victor Ambros, winner of the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology/Medicine #StandUpForScience2025 . Excited to meet UMass Chan Medical School Professor Dr. Ambros as a UMass Boston graduate!

After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results! We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in visual cortex in a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy. To systematically characterize neuron function, we built the first

I presented at the 2025 SACNAS Gathering at Yale University, sharing the work me and jp flores (he/him) have done to map the research careers / scientific contributions of those featured in The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists! SACNAS #scicomm #DEI #Latinx #LatinxAtlas