Since graduate school applications are due soon, I'm reposting my tips for a strong personal statement. OG thread and new tips below👇

📣Calling all undergrads! 2024 Irvine Summer Institute in Neuroscience apps NOW OPEN! ➡️$700/week for 10 weeks ➡️Travel, housing, meals covered ➡️Work w incredible faculty & students at UC Irvine UCI CNLM ☀️All in sunny SoCal!☀️ 🔗cnlm.uci.edu/summerinstitute #NSF_REU #UC_HBCU U.S. National Science Foundation

UCI Brain Camp Registration is NOW OPEN! 6th-12th graders are invited to join us next summer for 2 wks of neuroscience fun! 🧠🔬🧬 Featuring hands-on workshops, laboratory activities, and experiments working with faculty & students at UCI. Learn more ➡️ cnlm.uci.edu/braincamp

So very proud to celebrate Dr. Miranda Chappel-Farley (⁦@mgchappelfarley⁩) who successfully defended her PhD today. Pictured here with co-mentor ⁦Bryce Mander⁩ ⁦UCI CNLM⁩ ⁦YassaLab⁩ CONGRATS!!!

New on BioRxiv! 5 yr work led by Annabel Short Ali Mortazavi Laura glynn &. Predicting executive function in children exposed to early-life adversity using uniquely CHANGES in DNA methylome profiles between 2 samples from the same child. 'Epigenetic scars' or, in resilience, 'kisses?'

Heyyy QTABS community! Here are the events we have planned for this quarter 🌟 can’t wait to see you all there! #qtabsuci

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Consider being an author! Share widely!! 📚📚

Can we diagnose anhedonia in INFANTS? is infant anhedonia predictive of adolescent #mentalhealth? see novel, easy, validated instrument sciencedirect.com/science/articl… from contecenter.uci.edu . kudos to Laura Glynn & team.

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QTABS UCI discussion of LGBTQA+ media and representation in said media was a great experience. I love these types of discussions and they are 100% needed. We will continue to increase visibility and provide a safe space for queer people and in particular queer scientists 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Vote for Baram Lab in round 2 of STAT madness! 😲

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a fun and/or restful spring break. We are gearing up for another quarter of great events, especially the third iteration of our Community Symposium on June 7th—more on that later! #qtabsuci

it's UC Irvine UC Irvine School of Medicine Annual Graduate Student Day, and the Theme is #Superman We're here to support Rachael E. Hokenson, PhD 🐀🐭 UCI Epilepsy Research Center and the gang as the slay it with inspiring elevator talks and posters!

Register now for the 3rd Annual QTABS symposium 🥳 Posters! Lightning talks! Community! And don't forget meals and t-shirts! Register now: tinyurl.com/QTABS-symposium QTABS UCI UCI Graduate Division UCI Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences

Our third annual community symposium is approaching!! The registration deadline has been extended until Thursday, May 23rd. Click the link in our bio to register to attend, give a poster presentation, and/or a lightning talk! See you there 🫶 #qtabsuci

Congrats Annabel Short, Tallie Z Baram and the team 🎉

Next step is to actually finish my dissertation and defend it, but we're almost there 🫡 Tallie Z Baram UCI Graduate Division #phdhooding

With colleagues at ALBA Network, I'm running an international climate survey for #LGBTQIA+ people in #neuroscience (including #psychology, #psychiatry, etc). It takes 10-20 min & you can enter a drawing for gift cards. Please repost & share w/colleagues. tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro

What is QTABS? We are a collective of LGBTQIA+ and allied graduate, post-doctoral, and staff researchers within the biological and biomedical fields at UC Irvine. Events center around the unique needs and interests of LGBTQIA+ researchers & are held regularly throughout the year!