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People need to take what’s happening in academia much more seriously. Education control is a major step in fascism. This isn’t some ivory tower problem esp because state universities are much more at risk of control

Covid finally caught me, 3.5 years into the pandemic. One-way masking only goes so far. Curious why I tested negative at the height of my symptoms (48 hrs ago) and positive once they started to fade— has anyone else experienced this?

This is exactly how living in Houston feels this summer

So many people are coming back from conferences with COVID. They really should make people test before and have testing during, especially @ the smaller conferences. If nothing changes, there's a good chance SFN will be a super spreader event. I hope I'm wrong. I'm concerned.

I’ve been contemplating whether conferences are “worth it.” On the one hand, 3/5 of my latest conferences resulted in direct opportunities that I would not have happened from online events. It is also nice to meet people in person and have time to have discussions…

I just wished that our scientific community would collectively make a stance and decide that we will all mask as much as possible and test prior to arrival to minimize risk for everyone. It’s a small thing to do, but there is so much to gain. x.com/nih/status/169…

Excited to share my new op-ed in MedPage Today, addressing the tragic NIH decision to cancel investment into improving health communication. If there was one bipartisan sentiment that came out of the pandemic, it was this: the communication was terrible. medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

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what's even the point of being on this god-forsaken web site if there's no fat bear week? The right wing of the U.S. Congress wants to restrict our freedom to read AND our access to fat bears? Unacceptable.

The only media subscription that really feels indispensable to me is Dropout. Like, I could (easily) live without Hulu, but I watch something on Dropout every single day and feel great about the cost and the value proposition.

Looking for a job is intense and can be overwhelming. In our latest post, VanDerHeijdenLab shares her experience with entering the academic job market and what surprised her about the process, from response times to stimulating discussions in chalk talks. tinyurl.com/yc7jsf7p

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Congressional staffers say an onslaught of calls and emails asking for members to support a cease-fire has caught Dems completely off-guard. "I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is" huffpost.com/entry/calls-fo…

Israel’s Cabinet has approved a cease-fire deal with Hamas, bring a temporary halt to the war apnews.com/article/39f5ae…

It is time for ComSciCon Houston 2024! Applications are officially OPEN! ComSciCon Houston is a conference for graduate students and postdocs who are interested in science communication. If you live in Texas, check out our flyer and apply to attend now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🚨 new paper! This review delves in the literature to answer the question: do motor and social behaviors rely on the *same* cerebellar cellular, synaptic, and molecular pathways? The short answer? They don't. The full text, open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

“[A]ntifragile science requires not only that we accept the possibility of wrongness, but the inevitability of it.” My incredible wife (who also happens to be an incredible writer and scientist) wrote an incredible piece about embracing Uncertainty. 🥹 drcathicks.com/post/the-uncer…

"I’ve seen tweets from even the most committed Houstonians deliberating whether it’s time to move. Houston is an inventive, ingenious place. I want to have faith that the energy capital of the world can find a solution to keeping itself energized." theatlantic.com/science/archiv…