Zeena Rivera ✨they/them✨ is looking for a postdoc position

18 years ago a childhood friend of mine died of neuroblastoma when we were 11. we found out in 1st grade when she came to school with a mysterious black eye

Starting my last year of my PhD in neuroscience, I think about her often & how I learned about disease and community and living and dying

This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible: Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed) Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar) Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded. Not be a current NSF employee. Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.

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Congrats! Very exciting work

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remember when emily came in clutch to be my independent study professor after i dropped out of a required senior seminar class in my humanities college in progressive seattle where some of my peers referred to the filipino & the mexican students as The Colored people 🤪

preorder her book already !!!

and definitely won't be ur last ❤️ proud of u

but actually what a fascinating way to engage with studying animal behavior.

my guide asked me if the prevalence of fly fishing has changed fish foraging patterns over time. i told him i'd look into it, and now i'm texting him that--yes!! (at least some) fish do some social learning to avoid lures

Zeena in a hat and a black tshirt holding up a 5 inch tilapia that they caught in a park.

learned how to fish. when does my lifetime supply of food get delivered

A friend who works at Harbor-UCLA just told me that ICE was on the premises. Harbor-UCLA is a safety-net hospital & a level 1 trauma hospital. People are going to die because of these actions. This makes me so angry.

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LAPD declares all of downtown an unlawful assembly

Per CNN and ABC News: LAPD has declared all of downtown as an unlawful assembly, telling all demonstrators to leave the area immediately.

Everyone covering/protesting, please stay safe.

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Hotline for Immigrant Law Defenders:
213-833-8283

Legal representative line for CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles):
213-201-3797

ACLU Rapid Response Hotline for LA County:
888-624-4752

So on one hand Los Angeles is having to fight back against ICE and state violence and on the other hand Israel just abducted everyone aboard the Madleen including Greta Thunberg and confiscated all aid so everything’s pretty fucking bad

f atimaaa 2 minutes ago STARK RAVING GRAD Fatima Mohammed @fatima m7md Ordinary people resisting empire aren't trying to build careers in activism or anticolonial theory - they're fighting because their families are being torn apart and trampled by a machinery of death that has no conscience & if you can't afford the courage to fight back in real ways, then at the very least, don't demean those who do. Bless their hands, their hearts, and their unshakable resolve.

Fatima Mohammed @fatima_ m7md If you won't stand with the most militant parts of the movement, you're not here to end violence - you're in pursuit of absolution. You just want to feel clean. you think you're going to sing your way into liberation? maybe even sell merch when the last domino of violence falls? insufferable and regressive.

yep and super yep about the absolution part which allows most ‘good’ people to detach and ignore the contradictions. thats who it quiets down the ppl should be pissed

every day it’s ignored it’s quickly normalized as a ‘policy issue’ while the killing continues under the headlines

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

protect your eyes, protect your head. "less lethal" munitions are lethal when fired directly at a human being and cops love to use them this way. pepperballs will take your eye out, a tear gas canister can fracture your skull.
cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.

SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity. Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement: "SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody. "We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it. "We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."

BREAKING

The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

If you live in LA, call your City Council: lacity.gov/directory#el...

Fellow Californians, here's who to call after today's ICE raids in LA:

1. Call your MOC: (202) 224-3121 (switchboard)
2. Call your STATE assemblymembers/senators: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
3. And call/email Newsom: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

yay thank u! rlly glad we could land on something that was the best of both lab's interests.

A progressive ratio task with costly resets reveals adaptive effort-delay tradeoffs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657635v1

First first-author manuscript out as a preprint! Look at our cool new effort & delay cost task. 🐀💕 🧠

Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To my colleagues at Harvard with recently terminated NIH and NSF grants, please, please report them below.

We’re told of at least 200 NSF grants and widespread NIH terminations.

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

And please spread the word 🙏

hello foundations, compliance wont save you 🙃

Local LA protest is happening on Friday March 7th at Noon on Wilshire and Veteran! @latimes.com Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I really, truly believe you should watch this with the sound on