Ashlea A. Morgan, PhD 👩🏾🔬
@AshleaIsHere
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Medical Writer • Neuro PhD from @Columbia 🧠 • @NSFGRFP Fellow • Blogger✍🏿 • Co-founder & editor @Sci_sub •
Joined July 2019
Happy #BlackinNeuroWeek2021! I'm a 6th yr soon-to-be-PhD graduate @Columbia studying how serotonin signaling impacts cognitive flexibility. I'm also a writer, poet on #Medium, & @Sci_Sub co-founder ! These 365 since @BlackInNeuro has been a wild ride. Psyched to see what's next!
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I wrote a letter demanding our leaders take action TODAY to put an end to plastic pollution. Join me and write a letter too!
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Super psyched! Our manuscript is available to read now. 📚
🗣️ Happy our manuscript is taking shape! "Serotonergic input into the mPFC regulates cognitive flexibility" @AshleaIsHere @mark_ansorge Another great collaboration with @LambeLab! Check it out on BioRxiv. 👇 https://t.co/NXFo1uPppx
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Excited to present our work at #SfN2022 🧠 in San Diego. 👉 Tuesday 11am-12pm Medial prefrontal serotonin input regulates cognitive flexibility in mice (XX6) 🗣 Come by our poster if you are interested in hear more. @AshleaIsHere @mark_ansorge @SaigePower @d_sargin @LambeLab
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Interesting read.... "The Uselessness of Phenylephrine" i.e. the decongestant used in Dayquil and Sudafed-PE
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The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
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I encourage any postdocs here to shout out to their universities if they get retirement benefits! This will provide institutions that haven’t caught up yet with more potential resources to turn to for information.
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Black women shouldn't be dying at 3x the rate of White women giving birth. Racism is deadly
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And we're out! 👏🏿 Marlin Lab's 1st annual Sabbatical week. A week at the end of the summer where I kick everyone out of lab to rest &/or do something fun. The goal: Recreation for Re-creation. Take a breather & reset before starting a new academic year 💆🏿🪁🧘🏿⛳️🏄🏿📚
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Are you an aspiring or practicing neuroscientist who wants to learn Python for free? Dr. Mark Kramer and colleagues @BU_Tweets developed a great intro virtual book that uses Jupyter Notebooks with neuro data included. A🧵 of the topics included: @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter
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We're looking forward to this year's #BlackInNeuro week events! Many Shades of ALS team member and I AM ALS community member Bernie Okeke (@BernadineOkeke) will be a featured panelist for a conversation on NeuroRacism. Check back here for more updates! #BINW22
GET EXCITED!! Black In Neuro Week will be back soon and better than ever. For the third time (yes, already year 3!), we will have our week long community programming of science, professional development, networking, and Black joy. Save the date #BINW22 : July 25-31, 2022
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"An additional bonus: Reading and responding to Twitter threads sparks creative inspiration for my blog posts" - @AshleaIsHere
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Five strategies I’m using to branch out beyond my social bubble and why
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"Regardless, my point is this: Pre-COVID, we had many more coincidental opportunities to talk to each other (both friends and strangers) and thus combat these pre-conceived notions of who other people are." - @AshleaIsHere
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Five strategies I’m using to branch out beyond my social bubble and why
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"To tackle this belief, I ordinarily have the natural interactions when I bump into and talk to people from different departments, friends of friends at a party, or strangers on a stalled subway train. (" - @AshleaIsHere
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Five strategies I’m using to branch out beyond my social bubble and why
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"Science is a human endeavor, but it was designed with a built-in mechanism for self-improvement. Science doesn’t accept any single result as truth but always requires further investigation. " - @AshleaIsHere
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We are in the midst of two insidious threats to life. One of these, COVID-19, is new, [but disproportionately affects the Black and Latinx…
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Hope you're enjoying your weekend 🖤 Join #WEOC Sunday at 12 PM EST live on #TwitterSpaces for our special #Juneteenth2022 Writing For Change Speaker Series https://t.co/5tsXg9bnpg
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Interested in #scicomm? Want to know how to engage the public in science? 🧑🔬🧪🎙️ Join us this Saturday for a special seminar where @Latasha_Science will share her expertise in science outreach & communication! RSVP at https://t.co/s9tlWsVEr4 for zoom link or join us in person
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Thrilled for our first @Sci_Sub workshop on science communication and public outreach 😎 with @LeslieSibener @AshleaIsHere @mstackmann
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"Unclipped wings return to the nest, unpressed, and taking time for rest.” @AshleaIsHere
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"Author’s Notes: I’ve always found it unfair that our world can be shattered on what was previously the best day of our lives or that perfect weather outside can accompany turmoil inside our homes. Life isn’t fair in this way." - @AshleaIsHere
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