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Why do our brains continually generate new neurons? -- Analysis of #neurogenesis "knockout" patients indicates verbal learning. -- Its loss is a milestone of #Epilepsy progression. Preprint w/ Aswathy, Luis; Charles Liu's and Jason Smith's groups: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/ New paper! nature.com/articles/s4158… with Sam Zhang is logged off @aaronclauset.bsky.social @DanLarremore. 🎓 We analyzed all 295K tenure-track faculty at US PhD-granting universities in 10,612 departments over 10 years to quantify hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention. 🦥 A summary:

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

The Benayoun lab is looking for a Research Lab Technician II to help us with our African turquoise killifish 🐟 colony/research projects! tinyurl.com/5by3f8tp Please RT/circulate to any who may be interested in joining our team!

I’m finally ready to talk about the experience of appalling mistreatment we had with peer review of one of our papers. This was by no means the only time I’ve had to contend with bias in academic publishing, but it definitely is the worst thus far. A 🧵 (1/n)

Sharing because a lot of people are on the postdoc market right now or approaching. Since publishing, this been read 17,500+ times and its contents downloaded over a thousand times. Hope some more people out there find it helpful. ubadahsabbagh.com/guide-to-postd…

23 tips to get in the best shape of your life in 2023: 1. Alcohol is poison. Minimize at all costs.

Our perspective article is now out Cell Stem Cell! Such a pleasure to work together with Se Hoon Choi Orly Lazarov @FitzFitzsimons Dr. Rudy Tanzi Lucassen lab University of Amsterdam 😊. NIN Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease: A roadmap to clinical relevance sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The UC strike resulted in grad students (deservedly) winning better living wages. As suspected, UC is punishing faculty & future students for it. Provost requested all grad programs decrease admissions by ~20% this year, anticipating decrease in # of TAships available #FairUCNow

#JobAlert We are looking for a new fish tech to help us with our #killifish colony USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology - if you have some #aquarist experience and a desire to participate in #aging research, please apply! (and if you may know someone, please RT!) usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/ExternalUSCCar…

All postdocs in my lab are paid in the range of 85-95K. One of the reasons I can't go beyond is (reverse) equity concerns from HR. I would ideally pay them 105-115K. I think that's how much I could afford based on funding I can pull in & reducing lab size to a functional minimum.

The academic urge to quit everything and live in a forest.

Heading into the long weekend like 🚲🌴☀️

This is what a #stanfordpostdoc looks like! It's National Postdoc Appreciation Week. We couldn't do what we do without our smart, talented, hard-working, innovative, and dedicated Postdoctoral Scholars. #NPAW2023 Thank you! Stanford Postdocs SURPAS - #StanfordPostdoc Association

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Do viral pathogens increase the risk of neurodegenerative disease? Recent analysis of more than 400.000 patients across different biobanks point to several straightforward conclusions: - Increased risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases persists up to 15 years after a

Long Covid and Impaired Cognition — More Evidence and More Work to Do | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Extremely proud of my 16-year-old son, who has created a 501(c)(3) nonprofit peer-tutoring service for high-schoolers, in any subject. See QR code below, and share with anyone who might benefit! 📘📝

The NIH budget would INCREASE by $400m — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — in a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray. "Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.