Heather Snell

What's a holiday song you could listen to on repeat for the next 16 days? Mine is The Carpenters Christmas Waltz!

If you're at @sfn.org and are in need of some pre-clinical mouse trials. Go by booth 2804 and learn more about MuriPhys! It'll be worth it!

heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->

Sosa Lab - Postdoctoral Researchers We are seeking postdocs to start in 2026!

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum.

If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

The Leading Edge community has been a life-line as I navigate *points to everything*.

Zara was such a shining light of wisdom and warmth. She will be sorely missed, but her legacy will continue in everyone who had the utmost privilege to interact with her.

Apply, apply, apply!!!!

YouTube video by Yale Medicine Cerebellum, Motor Impairment & Electrophysiology - The Snell Lab at Yale School of Medicine

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FR2x...

Honored and privileged to conduct our research.

Happy Halloween from the happy garden Snell Lab.

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs
Editorial @nature.com this week
And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/d41...

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BIG MOOD. Still got my R21 submitted though. 🙆🏾‍♀️🙆🏾‍♀️

Ugh the fact that second year grad student can no longer apply to the nsf-gfrp is so devastating to my students. They purposely didn't apply last year. They could have announced that they would enforce the change next year to allow for some heads up and buffer. Just ridiculous.

So Tylenol is going to sue for defamation right?

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I'm convinced.

The Snell lab is seeking a Postbaccalaureate researcher and Postdoctoral associate to join our team. More details here:
www.snelllab.org/contact-2

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Department of War?!

Our faculty job market series continues tomorrow. In this session, we will discuss Teaching Statement & Other Docs.
Joining us to speak on this topic will be Ben Vincent, PhD (Cal State LA), @heatherdsnell.bsky.social (Yale), @lydiagrmai.bsky.social(Yale) and Duc-Huy Nguyen, PhD (UW-Madison).

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Idk the term "deportation depot" just feels so wrong and max IcKKKy.

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney

Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

What a day that was! I love this picture! Ha we need to get together and take an updated pic!!!

a red button inscribed with “never forget 5 aug 2023, montgomery, al” and featuring a folding chair

never forget 🫡🫡

Today is brought to you by this family of four getting donuts living their best pup lives and enjoying the cooler weather.

Well this looks quite useful right about now 👀😂

Brightly labelled pyramidal cells in the mouse retrosplenial cortex. Blood vessels are visible of various thicknesses in darker colours.

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience!

Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia.

Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer!

Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!

20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

Purkinje Cell spike patterns do not correlate with nuclei cell spike patterns in mouse models for cerebellar disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654856v1

Saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read "Crying but Trying" and I feel like that sums up the past few months. 😭💪🏾

Next Generation Leaders The Next Generation Leaders program at the Allen Institute aims to support emerging and diverse early-career researchers in bioscience who will contribute to cultivating new ideas to make a broad, tra...

"It's been such an honor to interact with the brilliant scientists at the Allen institute and the other NGL members. I've gained so much and will continue to benefit for the rest of my career!" - @heatherdsnell.bsky.social

Apply for our NGL program by 6/3!

More: alleninstitute.org/about/people...

Sahay lab (www.sahaylab.com) is seeking applications for a 10 week long summer research internship from undergraduates (US Citizen/ F1 Visa holder) for 2 Center for Curiosity funded "Curiosity Scholars in Neuroscience”. 1/n

First American Pope?! 😲

Memo outlines Trump administration plans on resettling white South Africans NPR speaks with Katya Schwenk, a reporter at investigative news outlet "The Lever," about a memo outlining the Trump administration's use of a refugee fund to resettle white South Africans in the U.S.

This is WILD!!!
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...