Toni Devincci (she/her/ella)

☕ Comadres y Cafecitos (CC10) The Comadre Effect — Part IV: Sustaining the Bonds Mentorship, but make it chisme y cariño.CC10: The Comadre Effect — Sustaining the Bonds ☕💃🏽The glow-up isn’t solo—it’s shared. We lift, we tease, and we laugh louder every year. ✨

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Do you have your conference homies and real talk science besties? 👯

Crazy to believe I’ve been a mom this long

Makes me laugh every time!!

This hits hard.

Little did I know this would be the last time I’d see my graduate advisor.

I’m so thankful i got these photos.

And little did i know i am wearing the same pants and having a giant grant go in today!!

She always believed in me.

Definitely channeling her energy today!!

☕ CC6 — The Mentor Mirror Tranquila, mija—growth takes grace and office snacks.

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What lessons did you learn from your mentors that you took with you or abandoned as you moved into being a mentor?

☕ CC5 — The Quiet Wins Success hits different when it’s silent

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The Story
There was a time I thought hustle was the point — the 80-hour weeks, the back-to-back deadlines, the proof that I was “serious.”
That time is now buried somewhere around 2019, right next to my tolerance for instant coffee and unnecessary meetings.
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Woman looking sleepy 🥱

Anyone else?

Tenured and Tardy Bells | Toni | Substack Mid-career professor, three kids, too much coffee, and a carline with opinions—welcome to the mayhem. Click to read Tenured and Tardy Bells, by Toni, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

Idk why I disappeared from this platform.

I think life as an associate chair took over.

But an update.

My 3 kids are in 3 different schools and I’m still doing all the things.

I started a blog so you can follow along

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Follow along for all the shenanigans!

☕ CC3: The Collaboration Mirage Some “collaborations” build careers 💼 — others build trauma bonds over Google Docs.Choose wisely, mija. 💅🏽

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Anyone else bogged down with too many invitations to collaborate when all the set really wanted was someone to carry them?

Especially early on in the tenure track?

☕ CC2: The Visibility Trap Academe says “be visible.” I say, “be strategic, mija.” Quiet work counts—even when it doesn’t post well.

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Here’s another one.

Were you taught you always had to be visible to be counted as working?

CC 1 – The Myth of Perfect Timing Perfect timing is fiction, mija. Do the thing anyway — preferably before your coffee gets cold.

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Antoinette else can relate to this?

It’s times like this that makes me miss my graduate advisor even more!!

When did we start spending $50 on undies for our kids?

Jurassic World at that…

Times have changed from when we were excited to have the $5 pack that listed the days of the week!!

I remember the days (even last year) when I would wait for an invitation to review manuscripts.

Now I get multiple a day multiple times a week…

Does this mean I have leveled up?

Dog

Dog

Love these puppers!!

So it finally happened…

I was looking at the profile of K1 when they enter standing next to me and for a split second I saw myself!

It’s happened to me before when I
Saw my mom in the mirror.

Now I’m seeing me in my cold…

Creepy…

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
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Every time I start making big edits to my grad students proposal she starts to have anxiety…

Poor thing…

But she’s done such a phenomenal job with her synthesis of the literature!!

Super proud!!

Novel reactivity phenotype mediates long-term consequences of cocaine exposure during adolescence and adulthood in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Individual differences in novelty seeking behavior often predict locomotor responses to psychomotor stimulants, an effect that may have a lasting impact throughout adolescence. The present study exami...

Continuing to honor the legacy of my late graduate mentor Dr Kirstein Cheryl by posting more of our unpublished work on biorxiv

I’m especially proud of this work conducted by Dr Ricardo Raudales and Dr. Rosalynn Amante

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Developmental Differences in Novelty Reactivity in Adolescent and Adult Male and Female Rats Adolescence is a time of high-risk behavior and increased exploration. This developmental period is marked by a greater probability of initiating drug use and is associated with an increased risk to d...

Honoring the legacy of my graduate mentor Dr Kirstein Cheryl by posting some of our unpublished work on biorxiv

I hope these unpublished findings continue to support the legacy her lab and our work contributes to the field of adolescent addiction

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14 years ago I became a Dr!

Can’t believe it’s been that long.

Definitely missing my graduate advisor Cheryl Kirstein for IT annual celebratory chat…

Lazy puppies

Short-term high-fat diet elevates oxidative stress in male but not female A53T mice without altering striatal dopaminergic markers High-fat diet (HFD) consumption influences the risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD), with effects varying based on exposure duration. This study examined …

I am excited to share our newest article that has been published in Behavioural Brain Research

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I am excited to share our newest article that has been published in Behavioural Brain Research | Antoniette Maldonado-Devincci, Ph.D. I am excited to share our newest article that has been published in Behavioural Brain Research Direct link: https://lnkd.in/egBe3N7Q

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It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 years since my mom’s trip to the ER and her summer downward spiral.

When you’re stuck under a sleeping child with an ache that FINALLY fell asleep…

Don’t you love it when you have to do the the mental math calculation of time differences to call your kids when you’re traveling.

11 am here…
1 pm there…

Nope can’t call yes bc they’re still in school.

Goes wait till the next break…

Happy gotcha day to my Greysei Mae Devincci!!!

It’s officially pool 🏊 season!!

Sleepy puppy