Liz Chrastil (@chrastil) 's Twitter Profile
Liz Chrastil

@chrastil

spatial neuroscience researcher, associate professor at UC Irvine, creator of virtual environments, lover of mazes
@chrastil.bsky.social

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linkhttps://faculty.sites.uci.edu/spatialneuro/ calendar_today10-09-2019 20:25:49

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Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My blood is boiling. This is appalling. Andry, the makeup artist deported to Trump’s foreign prison in El Salvador - without due process and under false pretenses - hasn’t been heard from in weeks. Members of Congress who went to El Salvador asked for proof that he’s alive.

Lisa Desjardins (@lisadnews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

President Trump has just written an executive order directing the Corp. for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for @pbs and NPR CPB is an independwnt entity and this funding was appropriated by Congress. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Dequina Nicholas (@quinascience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PSA. They are destroying education! Students need our support now more than ever. Get creative in how we help the most vulnerable in science. Get creative in how we educate the next generation to be STEM literate.

PSA. They are destroying education! Students need our support now more than ever. Get creative in how we help the most vulnerable in science. Get creative in how we educate the next generation to be STEM literate.
News from Science (@newsfromscience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced. scim.ag/3F9BeuO

Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social (@emilyjacobs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word💫

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word💫
Donna Wilcock (@wilcock_v2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A rare but honest statement from Alzheimer's Association about the dangerous myths being perpetuated by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Commentary only about Alzheimer’s disease and our incredible research and progress. alz.org/news/2025/kenn…

Roberto Bottini (@bottinirob) 's Twitter Profile Photo

More MSCA postdoctoral fellowships this year! Join our lab to dive into fMRI, MEG, intracranial EEG, eye-tracking, cognitive maps, memory, blindness & concepts. Plus our new research-line: Generative AI for neuroimaging. Ready to apply together? …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo…

Richard Hanania (@richardhanania) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Among the grants cancelled at Harvard, -study with 116,000 women going back to 1989 looking for the causes of breast cancer -similar study of men going back to 1986 -7 year project on the evolution of cancer -study on reversing ASL symptoms -project to reverse aging in mice

Among the grants cancelled at Harvard, 

-study with 116,000 women going back to 1989 looking for the causes of breast cancer
-similar study of men going back to 1986
-7 year project on the evolution of cancer
-study on reversing ASL symptoms 
-project to reverse aging in mice
Dr. Catharine Young (@catgyoung) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s a (not so) silent war being waged against biomedical research and the scientific community is losing. Not because it lacks power, but because we haven’t fully stepped into it. Here’s what every researcher needs to understand at this turning point we find ourselves at:

Chris Murphy 🟧 (@chrismurphyct) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

Dr. Catharine Young (@catgyoung) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are going to lose an entire generation of scientists. NSF, one of the largest federal funder of STEM education has seen an 80% reduction in funding, including support for trainees, so far this year. “You can’t have science without scientists”

We are going to lose an entire generation of scientists. 

NSF, one of the largest federal funder of STEM education has seen an 80% reduction in funding, including support for trainees, so far this year. 

“You can’t have science without scientists”
Nico Perrino (@nicoperrino) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security just told Harvard University it will lose its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't comply with a list of demands within 72 hours. Among those demands is an astounding requirement that Harvard hand over "all audio or video

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security just told <a href="/Harvard/">Harvard University</a> it will lose its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't comply with a list of demands within 72 hours. 

Among those demands is an astounding requirement that Harvard hand over "all audio or video