Kyobi Skutt-Kakaria
@_kyobi
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Juggler, Biologist. Former above average Rhino player. Current postdoc of fruit flies with The Michael Dickinson
The university of caltech
Joined September 2013
New profile!! Dr. Z Yan Wang (@ZYanWang) discusses octopuses, bumblebees, & striving for change as a university professor 🐙🐝 Check out her profile below & listen to the interview on our podcast! #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM
https://t.co/B11y4LMLEV
storiesofwin.org
studies the neurobiology of aging, senescence, and death
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Update: I’m officially an Asst Professor! 🤓 Grateful for fantastic colleagues in @UWPsychology + @UWBiology, looking forward to building the lab and teaching students next week! So excited to begin a new journey at the UW 💜
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So thrilled to have this project out, after lots of work with a fantastic team! And I am in love with this beautiful illustration of the forest/prairie ecotype inversion, many thanks to the talented @HuWantsToKnow!
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MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:
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A terrible day. Roe was a weak mechanism to protect individual autonomy. Pass a federal law.
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I'm truly humbled and grateful for this new financial support of my lab and so excited about the work that we can do with it. I'll be posting job ads for postdocs and PhD students soon, but please DM me if you or others may be interested in joining!
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📣Part 1 of our quest to better understand the brain was @DeepLabCut. 🔥🦓Now Part 2: Introducing #CEBRA to jointly model neural dynamics & behavior with self-supervised learning. Hypothesis- or data-driven, highly consistent, decodable neural latents https://t.co/fEiaTSVO2L 🧵👇
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Excited to share our new preprint! A brain atlas of the camouflaging dwarf cuttlefish. We used MRI, histology & deep learning to build a 3D brain, full histological atlas, 3D body atlas + beautiful, interactive website to host the data: https://t.co/h32YIVddq6 🐙1/2
A brain atlas of the camouflaging dwarf cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis https://t.co/SdMddpCZ7C
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Thrilled to announce I will be joining BioE and Genetics at @Stanfordmed and @StanfordEng as an Assistant Professor in 2022. My lab will be part of @StanfordBioX and @czbiohub and I look forward to joining such incredible communities of colleagues, trainees and new friends! 1/
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I’m excited to share our new paper on the enchanting cuttlefish! 1st part is perspective on why the cuttlefish is such an exciting model organism. 2nd part is description of embryonic development for our fave - dwarf cuttlefish 🐙✨ https://t.co/Do0DXQWyD3
@HHMINEWS @AnatomyOrg
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My friend is putting together a program to bring together a "top-notch" chef & a marine conservation scientist to co-lead a sustainable seafood cooking demo w/a follow-on talk about ocean conservation. Any of you marine conservation scientists interested? You will be paid.
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This is disgusting. Bibi created this crisis because he was days away from losing power. Everyone in Israel knows this. Bibi is committing war crimes. And President Biden is cheering him on. Unconscionable.
Today the President spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, reaffirmed his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket attacks from Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza, and condemned these indiscriminate attacks against Israel.
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Being a PI seems extremely taxing. Some parts seem great like the science, teaching and mentorship. But the time investment seems all-encompassing. Is it possible to be the PI I would want to be, without so much personal sacrifice, or is it better to do something else?
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As a Jewish constituent, I am so profoundly grateful to our @RepPressley for these words of solidarity with the people of Palestine, who are facing unending state violence, funded & supported by our own government.
We can't stand idly by when the United States government sends $3.8 billion of military aid to Israel that is used to demolish Palestinian homes, imprison Palestinian children and displace Palestinian families. Our government should not fund state violence in any form, anywhere.
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Chauvin is the 7th on-duty cop to be convicted of murder since 2005, out of around 15,000 police killings in that time.
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The violence committed by Chauvin is the product of an uncaring and racist system. What he did was just slightly break the rule of suppression that was intended. Justice is too rare so this is a good outcome. But we are being terrorized. Invest in the people, defund the police.
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I'm proud of my former graduate student, Monique Brewster! She is such a good teacher and advisor. It is a privilege to co-teach with her and learn from her some new-to-me best pedagogical practices.
Staff Spotlight: Monique Brewster, Associate Concentration Advisor
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How do animals avoid getting lost when exploring an environment in complete darkness? By combining computational modeling and experiments in a specialized arena, we found that fruit flies perform local search by carefully measuring how far they walk.
biorxiv.org
The ability to keep track of one ’ s location in space is a critical behavior for animals navigating to and from a salient location, but its computational basis remains unknown. Here, we tracked...
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