Dr. Tracy Bale 🟧🧠
@TheBaleLab
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CU Anschutz, Professor. The Bale Lab investigates the impact of stress and trauma on neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. President of IBRO.
Joined January 2018
Colleagues and friends - we have officially moved to #Bluesky. Come follow us there. Seems to be a great platform full of #science, #brainhealth, #community and #advocacy, similar to X but minus the Elon factor. Hope to see you there! @thebalelab.bsky.social.
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We’re looking for postdocs! Come join our team in the beautiful Rocky Mtns. We have new translational grants on molecular mechanisms of stress in neuropsychiatry in humans and mice. Come be part of an inclusive and engaging team.
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Congratulations to Drs. Julius and Patapoutian! Without taking anything away from their success, but highlighting that only 4% of Nobel Prizes in science go to women, I wanted to also give a big shout out to @EllenLumpkin for her incredible work in this field. Check it out.
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We're here @CUAnschutz & hiring! Our Lab of Translational Psychiatry (LTP - credit @sthom003) studies mechanisms of stress and trauma on brain development and fxn: germ cells & placenta to neurons and circuits. Science to advance novel therapeutic targets in mental health
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👸🏻Presidents of @SfNtweets, @IBROorg, and @FENSorg. My absolute heroes 🤩 in brilliant and talented leadership and integrity #WomenInNeuro. Fabulous Dr. Irene Tracey and @MarinaP63 🧠
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Got to celebrate my Anschutz Endowed Chair 🧠 tonight @CUAnschutz with all my favorite CU colleagues and friends including my favorite colleague @sthom003 🥰. Such a privilege to do this work.
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Can’t imagine any career more exciting than being a neuroscientist! Fabulous Opening performance at #FENS2022.
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Excited to share our paper now online @NatureNeuro. @neuroeldin used a C-section method to manipulate the colonizing microbiota & show that maternal vaginal microbiota partly mediates lasting effects of prenatal stress on the gut and hypothalamus in mice:
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Arrived @CUAnschutz! We are getting the band back together @NeillEppersonMD! Crazy big things to come and all kinds of research and community impact on stress and trauma. The incredible energy and vibe already felt being on campus. So excited to get to work building.
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Saying goodbye to the first piece of equipment I purchased as shiny new Asst Prof @Penn over 20 yrs ago - Farewell dear friend. You’ve served us well. 🥲
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The Red Room in the @WhiteHouse with incredible and inspiring women in science and research leadership driving forward #WomensHealthResearch Drs. Montgomery Rice, Mazure, Jacobs @JillMGoldstein @sabraklein1998
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“As moms we are expected to work as though we do not have children and raise children as though we do not work.” Well said, Shannon Sneed. The eternal guilt of the working mother, X1000 during COVID. Wishing all moms around the globe a Happy Mothers’ Day! @NickKristof @COHIntl.
To honor, in solidarity, our strength and perseverance, this is my Mother’s Day letter to all moms across Baltimore City.
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We moved our paternal stress mouse model into humans! In a large-scale collaborative effort repeated sampling within- and between-subject bioinformatic modeling with perceived stress reports, we identified specific sperm sncRNA in the sperm transcriptome
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Extremely excited and honored to step into this position and continue making IBRO impactful for neuroscience around the world.
New IBRO officers announced at #IBRO2019: @TheBaleLab from @UMmedschool was elected President, Sung-Jin Jeong from the Korea Brain Research Institute elected Secretary General Elect, and Jerome Sanes from @BrownUniversity elected Treasurer.
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My annual reminder that only 4% of Nobels in science and medicine have gone to women.
The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Learn more:
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In science, most awards are bestowed by self-promotion or politics, neither favors women. The US has won more Nobel prizes than any other country, but only 4% went to women. In celebration of women’s successes and achievements everywhere, nominate a deserving woman for an award!.
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Devastated. Our hero and model of justice and equity, our advocate and guardian of women’s rights. We owe her everything for we stand, and in her name we must continue, accepting nothing less than respect, inclusion, truth and facts. #RBGRevolution
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An emotional and hugely historic moment for all women, all little girls, all Americans. Congratulations @KamalaHarris
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Proud to be awarded this Top100 Women in Maryland. But honestly, there are so many incredible and deserving women serving in the Baltimore community, giving their all toward justice and equity, who should be acknowledged. #Humbled #TDREvents.
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What a day at the @WhiteHouse @sabraklein1998! Let’s get some great work in #WomensHealthResearch done and move forward on health for 50% of the population! 🤜🤛
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What an inspiring talk by @Huda_Akil1 at #SfN2023! An incredible career and well deserved Gruber Prize 🏆. Congratulations Huda! Hope for engaging around mental health for all.
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When giving a talk or teaching, take a 2nd look at your slides. Are your stock photos and images diverse and representative of race, gender and abilities? Here’s a great site for some options 👇👇👇.
Happy #BrainAwarenessWeek! Black is beautiful and more representation is needed in medical art. #RepresentationMatters #neurotwitter #medicalillustration See more of my work at:
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And we are LIVE! @sthom003 and I finally have our lab website. Check out the Laboratory of Translational Psychiatry and all the great work by our team. 🧠Research, Training and Community. Thanks to @stellatecomms for their ingenuity on this.
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And we’re off!! Headed to #SfN2023 with @sthom003 and can’t wait to see everyone. 🎉 All our NeuroPeeps! Loved @SfNtweets since I was a PhD student. Always get the best new creative ideas and inspiration 🧠. See you soon!
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The very best part of my job? Watching your former trainees succeed. Nothing better. @neuroeldin and @DocKatiePhd running their own labs and training the next generation. 🥰 So proud.
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Taking time to celebrate big successes and hard work in the lab this week. 2 papers and 2 grants! NPP paper for @DocKatiePhd, NRSA for @YasmineCisse, K01 for @neuroeldin and a huge NatComm paper for @chanjeneration and Chris Morgan. We miss you Jen!
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Favorite part of #SfN2023 has to be catching up with star 🤩 former lab members @DocKatiePhd and @chanjeneration and hearing about their fabulous science 🧠. After a day of sitting in mtgs, really makes me smile! 😁
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Women are diagnosed 2 YEARS later than men for the same disease. Fabulous Keynote by @LiisaGalea on mechanisms of sex differences at #StressAllostasis2022 in NOLA.
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Waiting for @FLOTUS to arrive at @CUAnschutz to hear about the @LudemanCenter #WomensHealthResearch today! So honored and excited to stand with colleague @NeillEppersonMD to discuss the importance of #WomensMentalHealth
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As a nation, let us never take for granted the power of education. A well-educated population cannot be fooled, cannot be swayed by fear tactics, and can use critical thinking skills to see what is right, what is true and what is fact. Education = Equity.
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This brave and brilliant #BrainBee finalist @neurosciencegh listened to my whole talk and then raised her hand and asked a great question in front of an audience of neuroscientists. The future is bright! 🤩 @SONAorg
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Never get tired of celebrating their stardom 🤩 @Cate_cholamine and @DocKatiePhd. Absolute best part of my career. 👏🏻 #ACNP2022
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My new office view. Because we can all use a little beauty and a little pride right now, I present to you the Pride of Baltimore in all her regal sails. @Zeke_Cohen @UMBaltimore @baltimoresun @PrideofBalt
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Huge congrats to the amazing @Cate_cholamine for winning the @SfNtweets Early Career Award 🏆 at #SFN2024! Superstar 🤩 So very proud!!!
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Those who know me, know that my home is in Baltimore, but my veins run purple with MN. The recent tragic events in my home state #GeorgeFloyd, and the recent history of my home city #FreddieGray, have left us all questioning what and who we are as a nation. In the last 3 yrs, I.
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Our collaboration with @TJovanovic_PhD team found distinct proteins in extracellular vesicles from women based on timing of their childhood trauma. Turns out the skin is a key component of stress! EVs as biomarkers of PTSD. @DocKatiePhd
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Just spent the last 3hrs packing food for the at-risk in Baltimore. Take a look at the list and ask yourself, “could my family survive on that for 2weeks?” This is hard for all of us, but almost impossible or many. The need is great. #givenow @Zeke_Cohen @chefjoseandres @sthom003
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Our earliest career stage investigator, Eleanor Kvarta, from the @mkvarta and @LeGatesLab collaboration, studying the effects of pizza intake on ice cream consumption at #ACNP2023. Expect a poster next year with results. She claimed to need time to increase her N.
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So nice to see our @GDunnArt original art piece depicting how life experiences impact the brain hanging in our hallway at @CUAnschutz. Science needs beautiful art.
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We need basic animal research to ask the mechanistic and causal questions that are key to understanding the brain.
First #nppjournal editor's pick for July: The critical importance of basic animal research for neuropsychiatric disorders. Collaborative effort by @TheBaleLab @sthom003 @bita137 @TedAbelneuro @EricJNestler @Huda_Akil1, Carlezon and Ressler #biomedical
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Fabulous lecture by @Huda_Akil1 at #SfN2022 on history of stress field. Talk about Giants by a Giant 🤩. So many brilliant minds who have developed this field and recently passed away: Mary Dallman, Bruce McEwen, Elizabeth Young, Ron Duman, Wylie Vale.
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Here they are - the 2023 Brain Bee 🐝 winners and future neuroscientists 🧠 in Johannesburg SA. They will be attending the Society of Neuroscience Africa @SONAorg 2023. Look for them at a future neuroscience mtg.
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“IBRO changed our life”. Our Iranian colleagues received @IBROorg funds to train in Germany with @TheNeumannLab. And then were able to utilize an IBRO Return Home fellowship to build their lab in Iran. 🌏 #IBROSuccessStory 🤩
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Some incredible news to brighten an otherwise stressful news week: HUDA AKIL AWARDED the NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE has championed research in mental health 🧠 her entire career. Incredible research! 🎉🤩 Congratulations @Huda_Akil1.
Congratulations to University of Michigan’s own Huda Akil for winning the National Medal of Science today for her seminal contributions to brain biology 〽️
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@FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden visited @CUAnschutz @LudemanCenter to discuss with us and recognize importance of #WomensHealthResearch. So incredibly exciting to have @POTUS and Dr. Biden support and advocate for women.
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I don’t brag on my lab nearly enough so had to send this out. My awesome grad students, techs and admin hosted a sweetfest celebration of our amazing postdocs for postdoc appreciation month. Everyone likes to feel appreciated. Celebrate your Postdocs!!
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Today is #EqualPayDay2021 which is the number of days into 2021 that women have to work (82) to earn the same pay as a man in 2020. Are you earning your equal pay? Equity matters.
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Amazing story at #ACNP2022 by @dr_gomesfv from São Paulo who won a @ibroSecretariat return home fellowship and used it to start his exciting lab in Brazil. Yeah! 🎉
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It's been a rough year, but we're so fortunate to be back doing lab meeting in-person and able to celebrate birthdays with cake! Excited for all the great science to come and to engage in discovery. #LabPride @HZierden @neuronickole @kristenium @SciKylie @resiliencisse
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Honored to have been invited to the @SONAorg conference in Ghana. These amazing colleagues from Nigeria include an undergrad @FrancisIkumosam who traveled for 3 dys by bus, sleeping on park benches at night, to attend the meeting and meet other neuroscientists. #inspiring
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5 yrs ago when I started @CERCH_UMB we began working with children and families in Baltimore. I had the incredible privilege to meet amazing people working in the schools, the community, and public service to make Baltimore a healthy, safe, and equitable city for all families.
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Congratulations to Eldin Jasarevic @neuroeldin for exciting news today on his K01 award! Watch for incredible data coming out from his humanized mouse microbiome with @jac_ravel. @PCMicrobiome @UMBaltimore.
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Calling all junior faculty and trainees! This is a rare opportunity to engage in a live discussion during the #FENS2020 forum with some incredible scientists, who happen to be women! Hoping to capture a diverse and engaging audience for this open theater. Spread the word & join!
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Just heard the fabulous news that @EAHellerPhD is now tenured Assoc Prof Heller at Penn. Congratulations 🥳🎉
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Had a great discussion on Fox45 News this morning about the impacts of trauma on the brain with @Zeke_Cohen and how powerful the #BaltimoreTraumaSummit was in bringing community and science together in the importance of healing @HealingBmore.
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How can we still be at a gender pay gap of 24% in 2023?! 😳
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Presidents unite for ALBA morning breakfast at SFN! Promoting women and diversity in neuroscience. @network_alba @mossy_fibers @carmensandi10 @ibroSecretariat #sfn2019 @SfNtweets
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Best feeling: watching your former trainees continue on incredible trajectory of dazzling success. #sfn2022 superstars 🤩. Loving it 🥰@DocKatiePhd @Cate_cholamine @resiliencisse @chanjeneration
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Inspirational former Vice President of Costa Rica and women's rights and mental health advocate, Dr. Epsy Campbell Barr, will be speaking in the Presidential Lecture @IBROorg World Congress. "If you always invite the same voices, you will always come to the same conclusions."🧠
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Could not be more proud and more excited of @FLOTUS @DrBiden for advocating support for #WomensHealth and @POTUS executive order to fund it 👇👇
Republicans are up in arms because @FLOTUS @DrBiden attended a cabinet meeting today to talk about women’s health. Let that sink in—a First Lady focusing on something that actually matters, and somehow that’s controversial. I’m proud we have a First Lady who’s a professional,
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What a lovely evening and best way to end #sfn2023 with incredible friends and a huge toast to kick off @MarinaP63 @SfNtweets Presidency! Can’t wait for #sfn2024 in Chicago 🎉@mossy_fibers JaneTaylor 🧠
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New paper from the lab online in @NatureComms. @Dr_Bridget shows that female offspring are resilient to prenatal stress insults in a manner that is dependent, in part, on placental H3K27me3:
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Huge congratulations to my postdoc, Eldin Jasarevic, for receiving a prestigious ACNP Travel Award @ACNPorg Well deserved! Congrats to this year’s awardees! See you all in Orlando.
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Best moments as a PI are when your former trainees as successful independent PIs rock their talk! So proud. @DocKatiePhd at the #StressAllostasis2022 identifying chromatin mechanisms responsible for stress during adolescence intersecting with pregnancy risk.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist, Dr. Leymah Gbowee, will be speaking at the Presidential Lecture @IBROorg World Congress. A world leader in peace and women's rights, founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Fdn, "It's time for women to stop being politely angry."
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Celebrating in Baltimore!!! So many important firsts. Let’s embrace this day. Inclusion and diversity matter. Representation matters. America, we’ve got a lot of work to do. But today, we celebrate our potential.
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Profoundly important study from @RRHDr and team at UMN. We need to understand the factors contributing to increased infant and maternal mortality for Black moms and babies. Incredible work by Dr. Hardeman.
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Amazing talented and passionate @WorldWomenNeuro leaders Drs Edward’s and King. These fabulous neuroscientists 🧠 mentor and support women across their careers and around the world 🌎 Kudos to their hard work 👏👏👏👏
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Here’s how you make the best of canceled flights back to US 🥂 And celebrate @DocKatiePhd lab’s first accepted paper! Cheers!
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Talk is cheap. We need action. Equity and inclusion are critical to our success in scientific discovery and training future generations of scientists. #Action #Accountability @network_alba.
IBRO President @TheBaleLab at launch of @network_alba #ALBADeclaration @SfNtweets #SfNConnectome21: "Take stock in this moment that is so incredibly valuable that with the launch of this document we take action. We don't just say the words, but we put action behind it."
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Honored to be part of the discussion this morning on the importance of neuroscience and learning and how literacy changes the brain with the Director of the International Bureau of Education, Dr. Marope. @ibroSecretariat @CERCH_UMB @UNESCO
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Could NOT be more proud of newly minted Dr. Moon @neuronickole 🤩!! Fabulous defense - brilliant talk on omics data from mice 🐭 and men for life adversity and current stress to impact germ cell fxn and brain development 🤯. Now on to finish her MD🩺 @NIMHgov
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Saying goodbye is always bittersweet! @neuroeldin is off to run his own lab at @MageeWomens at Pitt. Huge congrats, Eldin! Thx for all the incredible work defining the importance of mom’s microbiome on the developing brain. @NIMHgov @NIDDKgov 🦗
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Like I always say…most important part of the brain 🧠 😉👇👇👇👇.
The #hypothalamus plays a large role in coordinating the array of neuronal signals that are responsible for keeping the body in a stable state. A special issue of Science unpacks this key brain region’s impact on physiological and behavioral homeostasis.
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Finally!!We’re doing science @CUAnschutz. 🤯 Nothjng is as exciting as scientific discovery. @neuronickole working on stress and sperm motility. Changing how we think about embryo and brain development 🧠
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Elegant studies by @Bangasser_Lab at #ACNP2021 reveals lasting effects of early in life adversity on reward behaviors and brain development that are wildly sex specific. Not all experiences or exposures are the same!.
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We are recruiting multiple postdocs to work on funded projects related to translational models of preconception stress. If you are interested and will be at #SfN18 this year, stop by our lab posters on Tuesday morning VV16-VV20 - happy to talk more!.
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No better day than today to recognize the critical importance of mental health. Dedicate your research pursuit today to your mom, your sister, your partner, your daughter, your friends and all the beautiful amazing women around the world. We see you. #WomensHealthResearchDay
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This % just went down again today. Women and minorities have made substantial contributions in science and medicine. Surely we can do better in awards and our inclusion. #ItMatters @ibroSecretariat @NobelPrize @theNASEM.
In science, most awards are bestowed by self-promotion or politics, neither favors women. The US has won more Nobel prizes than any other country, but only 4% went to women. In celebration of women’s successes and achievements everywhere, nominate a deserving woman for an award!.
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Outstanding computational modeling lecture by @KanakaRajanPhD to kick off @SfNtweets 2023! 🧠 Cutting-edge tools from AI are rapidly changing our knowledge 🤩
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So incredibly excited for the opportunity to work with this fantastic leadership power-team, building collaborative translational research and community engagement around women’s mental health! @LudemanCenter @NeillEppersonMD @CUAnschutz
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#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience def a day to celebrate the achievements made by talented women trainees, colleagues and trailblazers 🤩 from around the world 🌎. We see you, we support you, and we applaud you! Check out @IBROorg funding of diverse and inclusive programs 👇👇👇.
Today, 11 Feb, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, IBRO reconfirms its firm commitment to #gender #diversity and #equity in #neuroscience. 👉 Read more about the DEI projects we support: . @TheBaleLab @rachaeldangare1 @ElfarrashSara
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As Program Chair for the @ACNPorg 2024 meeting, I think it's important to address this thread in support of the incredible work the Program Comm put into reviewing the nearly 150 submissions for 54 slots in this year's program. These types of social media threads are rarely.
Extremely disappointed by @ACNPorg for another rejected proposal, but this time I want to say something as the @ACNPorg LGBTQIA2S+ Subcommittee chair, an @ACNPorg Associate Member, and #WomensHealth and #SexDifferences researcher… 1/.
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Happy holidays to all our colleagues around the globe! Hoping for peace, health and discovery in 2024!.
IBRO would like to thank the entire #neuroscience community for a great 2023! Our very best wishes for a wonderful 2024, full of neuroscience. Read our President’s message: Happy 2024! 🧠 🎊 🎆. @TheBaleLab @APalacio_s @JLLanciego @desiretshala
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Great talk and reminder from @women_neurosci at #ACNP2021 that males and females can end up at the same place via different mechanisms and can end up different places via similar mechanisms.
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“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — RBG #RBGRevolution.
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Agreed!! AND that this was an award honoring incredible science by an incredible scientist who happens to be female. Nudging up ever so slightly that 4% of Nobels to women. 🤩.
Today's Nobel is a reminder to focus on the work and not the journal. The key publications cited by the committee were published in Immunity, Molecular Therapy, and Nucleic Acids Research. Respectable journals, but not the Big 3. The discoveries are what's important, not a name.
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