For #WomensHistoryMonth, I’ll be tweeting about women making history in neural engineering and systems/computational neuroscience! This is a multi-year project. You can find past years by following this nested-thread. Join me this year and be prepared for amazing science.

Excited to be at AIMBE to learn from leaders in bioengineering and advocate for the importance of research on Capitol Hill with many of my UW colleagues 💪

Honored to receive a Sloan research fellowship. So many scientists I admire are among the Sloan alumni list, and it's a bit surreal to see my name there. A huge thank you to the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for their unwaivering dedication to supporting scientific research.

Is our brain infinitely flexible or constrained? Oby & colleagues cleverly uses BCIs to test what cortical activity can/can't be generated quickly. Highly recommend! https://t.co/EsYxKKBGBN And you can get a tl;dr + my takes on why this is exciting here:

Ah yes, the extra "in zone minutes" boost from adding a class lecture to my day 😂

After reading many grad school apps, I would be remiss not to give some advice: People can tell when a human put thought into an essay. It doesn't make a strong case for you, an applicant to a position that involves LOTS of thinking, when that effort isn't there

What do we mean when we say BCI? As neuro technologies mature, it's important for scientists to use cohesive language to talk about them with the public. Here's a nice commentary piece where Jacob Robinson and co. lay out a proposal. Just in time for the holidays 🎁

🚨 opportunity alert! 🚨

Honored to be part of the inaugural cohort of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Emerging Leaders! https://t.co/fU7aghgJoY So excited to learn from those shaping the future of medical and biological engineering as part of the program.

Think government ROI is low? In the ‘60s, #NIH-funded researchers Hubel & Wiesel studied how cats’ neurons process visual info—seemed trivial, right? Yet their work led to convolutional neural networks like Hinton’s AlexNet, sparking the AI revolution that’s reshaping the global

Year over year ROI from government investment in research is 30-100 percent. Far more than the stock market and most of the private sector. https://t.co/NcLAAVfTCz https://t.co/rxsG23fOwa

Let's do this, America. Today, I Dressed for the future I want.

Spring tends to get all the attention, but UW campus does pretty well by fall too.

I suspect a timeline cleans dog might be useful for some of y'all right now. So here's my dog living it up playing fetch after making it through a bit of a rough week:

Big opportunity alert! 🚨Jan's up to some very cool things.

Drafting a new talk and somehow started with an intro zooming all the way out to ideas of mass action vs. functional specialization. Definitely going to take some editing to home in on this narrative... 😅

My buddy as I work on a paper review has made his opinion clear - such a reviewer #2 😂

Come be my colleague! UW ECE has multiple openings for tenure-track faculty at both the assistant and associate level. It's a great, collaborative place with a very inclusive definition of electrical & computer engineering. https://t.co/LDQ27uD3ks https://t.co/V8lmH6l6ab

🤩CNC grad and @aolab_neuro lab member Katherine P. studies complex movement learning in monkeys (~39 sec). #SfN24 #Neuroscience

Sharing b/c: 1) If you're part of an underrepresented group & picked up on this - you're not imagining it. 2) It's sad to hear trainees describing familiar challenges. We can & must do better. These interactions tell you a lot about a field's culture. Let's improve it 3/3

Sadly, I've experienced this too both as a trainee and now. It's shifted over the years, of course. As people became more likely to recognize my name (or know me), and as a PI, it shifted interactions. But it's still common. 2/3