Kendra Liu
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🥚 lil' egg head studying death in neurodev 🥚 || Neuro Ph.D. Candidate w/ @DrGlia18 @uvaneuro (past: @uarizona @hkust) || she/her || 🐈 mom || PoGoer
Monacan Land, Charlottesville
Joined November 2014
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration.
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Scientists and their supporters rallied across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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Check out this super cool paper by an even cooler scientist and person!! Congrats @addisonwebster0 and @AUGCsoup!
Proud to share our recent collaboration, which combines rabies tracing with single cell sequencing to identify a novel GLP1R-expressing pre-syanptic partner to AgRP neurons @AUGCsoup @michael_krashes
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The day has come!! Excited to announce my PhD Public Dissertation Defense 🎉 My friend and fellow cohort mate David Tyus is also defending, so it'll be a double doctor day!! Everyone is invited, DM for zoom info!
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The first opus of @mrbrown715's thesis work is now live in @glia_journal, exploring the role of enteric glial cells in antigen presentation!
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More proof that @uvaneuro and @uva_bims is the coolest! Congrats to David Tyus on his recent Cell Reports Medicine publication and his UVA Medicine in Motion Feature!!! 🎉🎉 https://t.co/3WVMCcoW8v
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Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds are not responsible for fixing issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. I repeat… 🗣️ Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds are not responsible for fixing issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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My thesis helps to create a gap in the literature and regress previous discussions on this question
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We’re all connected via @BlackInNeuro - a non-profit that supports Black scholars in neuroscience worldwide! 🧠🧠 Our annual #BlackInNeuroWeek is coming up 🤗 all events are FREE, virtual, & open to public! Register here: https://t.co/MxTGBypLxT
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🚨 Registration is LIVE for our FIFTH annual Black In Neuro Week, happening this July 29-August 4th! We’ll have seven days packed with FREE programming that’s open to all. 🥰🧠 Register today!! ➡️ https://t.co/87e7hjYmUL
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An unexpected observation in my second year turned into my ✨first first-author paper✨ with an extra surprise: across the pond @MadS100tist was seeing the same thing! Special thanks to @mayseless for connecting us at @CSHL Zebrafish Neurobiology!
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Weighing on me this morning that the reason we see less and less footage from Gaza, is because there are fewer and fewer people well-enough, able, even alive, to document the ceaseless violence on the ground.
Palestinians in Gaza are reporting that last night was one of the worst since the beginning of the genocide. Reminder; just because coverage has dropped in the mainstream media does NOT mean things have eased up. The genocide continues unabated and with international
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💼If you’re a ‘DISABILITY CONFIDENT EMPLOYER’ then please explain why it is that: 🌈 When a neurotypical person advocates for themselves it’s ‘standing up for what they believe in’ but when a neurodivergent person advocates for themselves it’s called ‘being demanding’. 1/8
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this town hall lead by faculty is bringing me to tears. Thank you to UVA faculty, staff, employees, and Charlottesville community members for protecting and advocating for UVA students. These are people who are doing it right.
Faculty members will be hosting an "Honest Town Hall" tomorrow that will use photo/video/written evidence to "dispel confusion and offer clarity about" Saturday. It's a response to "the lack of transparency and confusion that has been offered by University officials."
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thank you to faculty and staff in the SOM who signed this letter of support. No statement from SOM admin or program deans...
faculty & staff at the university of virginia schools of nursing & medicine, along with local medical professionals, are collecting signatures for their letter in support of dropping both criminal & university disciplinary charges against the protesters https://t.co/Y1hzwVMCFH
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