Sydney Floryanzia 👑

Check out these and other tools from the @alleninstitute.org and follow the tags #OpenScienceWeek and #ScienceForAll to see other resources! #openscience

I use these tools to ensure I know where in the brain I’m getting images from, since the brain is different from front to back and from top to bottom 🤯 with different regions contributing to specific functions.

🧠 Celebrating #OpenScienceWeek, by highlighting my favorite (and my most used!) open science tools from the Allen Institute 🐭🧠🌐 @alleninstitute.org

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #microscopy

Full house tonight for @carlbergstrom.com + Kevin Gross at Smarty Pints talk in @burkebrewing.bsky.social !
Lots of great Qs from crowd.
#research #academics #mistrust
@sufsseattle.bsky.social
Enjoyed with @neurochemequeen.bsky.social @seattlescienceguy.bsky.social + @ellenkuwana.bsky.social

It was a great night of discussion and brews! 🍻🧬

📣 Poster for a Stand Up for Science Teach-In on Monday, July 7th at 6:30 PM PT in Seattle, WA. Features bold red text “TEACH-IN” and includes guest speakers Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics). Discusses how science works as a social process shaped by norms and institutions. Statue of Liberty background and humorous image of a bird with caption "HOW science works, damnit!" Event held at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. QR code and logo for StandUpForScience.net at bottom.

📣EVENT ALERT!

Join us next Monday, July 7th at 6:30pm PT at Burke-Gilman Brewing Co. in Seattle, WA for a conversation on how science works with @carlbergstrom.com (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) - and you!

Find the event here & register➡️ zurl.co/nEQAN

@burkebrewing.bsky.social

YouTube video by West Seattle Indivisible From Lab Bench to Cure: The Power of Scientific Discovery (“Why Research Matters to YOU!” Part 1)

Learn how research today saves lives 10 years from now!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp9I...

Sharing to help folks find each other! There are a lot of people and groups sitting at intersections in this moment that need to be connected so that they can share resources and maximize reach.

If you're disabled and/or in STEM follow this account and resource them to the best of your ability. 🫡

Since the US politics have decided to target DEI spaces, I’ve seen a huge drop of engagement in #DisabledInSTEM

Disabled, disability and accessibility are part of the list of banned words for grants too really really highlights that these identities are being specifically targeted to be silenced.

Congratulations!! 🙌🏼🌱

👀👀 😂😂

Also @kimberlybennett.bsky.social !! The HHMI/BBB crew is growing 💪🏼🧠

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

So excited to share that I am one of the new @hhmi.org freeman hrabowsi scholars with so many other amazing new PIs. Check out the full list here www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Ahhhh congratulations! Looking forward to all the cool BBB research this will enable you to continue 🧠 🙌🏼

Why #labs support #research that saves lives. @sufsseattle.bsky.social

Rock star @neurochemequeen.bsky.social spoke up at #Seattle event today. @sufsseattle.bsky.social Support from @nswa.bsky.social

Isolation methods and characterization of primary rat neurovascular cells - PubMed Neurovascular cells can be isolated through our optimized protocols that minimize cell loss and encourage the adhesion and proliferation of isolated cells. By identifying timepoints of viable glia and...

🧠 Publication the article is based on! For all your primary #astrocyte and brain microvascular #endothelial and #pericyte needs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38992711/

It describes our motivations for writing our methods paper as well as a little sneakpeek into some of our upcoming future work 😉✨

Images of astrocytes with the text “a blood-brain barrier research roadmap” underneath

Our recent #BBB publication was featured in this article by @uofwa.bsky.social ChemE - which was highlighted in the "UW Today" News email! 💜 www.cheme.washington.edu/news/article...

Isolation methods and characterization of primary rat neurovascular cells - PubMed Neurovascular cells can be isolated through our optimized protocols that minimize cell loss and encourage the adhesion and proliferation of isolated cells. By identifying timepoints of viable glia and...

Publication the article is based on! For all your primary astrocyte and brain microvascular endothelial and pericyte needs! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38992711/

It describes our motivations for writing our methods paper as well as a little sneakpeek into some of our upcoming future work 😉✨

Looking forward to sharing about why #SCIENCE matters to me and why it should matter to YOU!! 🧬 🥼

5/18 @ the #Seattle waterfront 🌊 🛥️

A multicolored confocal microscopy image with blood-brain barrier cells in a microfluidic device on a black background. Red colored endothelial cells are in the left channel, green astrocytes, and purple pericytes are in the right channel. The channels are connected by small openings

Confocal microscopy image of endothelial cells highlighting their tight junction proteins in yellow (ZO-1) and red (Claudin 5) on a black background

A new #FluorescenceFriday for today! ✨🔬🧠

My 1st time assembling a full #BloodBrainBarrier in a #microfluidic device.

🔴 Claudin 5 (endothelial protein)
🟡 ZO-1 (endothelial protein)
🟢 GFAP (astrocytes)
🔵 DAPI (cell nuclei)
🟣 NG2 (pericytes)

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #bbb #microscopy #confocal

A Black history month flyer with a black background and brown fists in the air. Behind the fists are red, yellow, and green stripes with the Black In Neuro logo at the top center.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨

They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try.

So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

A collage of Sydney Floryanzia (a Black woman with twists) on the left crossing her arms and smiling for a professional photo, and two microscopy images of her research on the right.

Sydney Floryanzia is a neuroengineer & science communicator ✨

As a PhD candidate at UW, @neurochemequeen.bsky.social investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠

She’s also passionate about making STEM fun for kids to learn💞
#BlackInNeuro

Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠

The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭

#BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social

An infographic from brain-imals with a cartoon dolphin, human brain, rabbit, magnifying glass, and frog

Want to learn more about brain-imals??? What is it? How did it start? How could you use card games to engage the public in your research?
Then register for our panel with @neurochemequeen.bsky.social next week on the 26th at 9am PST/noon EST
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A flyer for the SCOPE virtual panel, sharing that Sydney Floryanzia and Gillian McNeil will be talking about games that spark scientific interest via zoom on February 26th

We are super excited to hear from @neurochemequeen.bsky.social and @g-fmcn.bsky.social about how they are using card games to spark scientific interest and conversations!! Can't wait to see you all on zoom next Wednesday the 26th

Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at mwadman@aaas.org or on Signal: meredithwadman.13

Recovering is working!
Resting is working!
All thinking is working!

It’s just like those little incubation steps in protocols. Inaction is a necessary part of the process.

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

“That past includes decades of warnings from climate scientists that we are heading into a more turbulent and destructive era.”

- “the future is being reshaped by human-caused climate change, and we do know exactly what to do about it and who is preventing us from doing it. “