Manny J C Acosta

A message from my mentor, supervisor, and the president of the Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org

"There is great strength if these major institutions stand together, and great risk to the enterprise if they choose to remain silent."
#SpeakOut

www.sfn.org/publications...

Found out this weekend that I should be a DJ or a bartender

Man Irish people are so sick

One canonical fact about me is that I cry to the movie Coco at least once a week. It always pops up on my TikTok for you page and I have to sit there with tears in my eyes. Yes I use TikTok.

I remember by Keyshia Cole sounds so damn good on AirPods Pro. They put something crispy in this song. Sorry for cursing

Another good drag name. Ella Gonza

Even though, as scientists, things are really scary in our corner, we have to keep advocating for other groups and people who are losing their identities and are being forcibly displaced.

This attack on science is just one part of a giant list of things that is happening. Trans and non-binary people have been disenfranchised, immigrants are being deported in horrible conditions, and genocide is still occurring in Gaza/the West Bank and is being ENCOURAGED by the administration.

Labmate just said “multiplexing” instead of multitasking and I was like I need to put this on bluesky right now

Professor Rachel Arey

Prof. Rachel Arey wrote for The Herald Banner in Texas about the cancer treatment that saved her dad: “The therapies that helped him were discovered by a scientist right here in Texas”. 🐎
🧪🧬🔬🏠

www.heraldbanner.com/opinion/colu...

Thank you to my biggest fans

My iNeurons are doing great right now despite me giving them virus, I sure hope they don’t dieNeuron

If young thug is not in your top 10 rappers don’t even talk to me

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WORLD MAMA?!!!

I killed my iNeurons this week, I guess you could call them byeNeurons! Jajajajajajaja

It’s always a pleasure to attend the @bcmhouston.bsky.social neuroscience retreat. I’m so proud of my cohort for the progress we’ve made so far and looking forward to all the great science we’ll get to share next year.

#NowPlaying

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey

I’m obsessed with Ethel Cain

Remind yourself that everytime they say they’re trying to get rid of “cultural Marxism” in our institutions it’s not even a nazi dog whistle it’s straight up almost the same phrase that the Nazi party used

They’re not even taking a page out of the fascist workbook anymore they’re taking the whole thing and using it to run this government

Cmon

I want my latte art to be better than Ardem’s but Alex keeps telling me it looks like an onion

Ask me how this ended

Breaking my foot at the genetics department retreat is the single funniest injury that has ever happened in my life second to my parkour knee ligament tear

Great scientists know how to make great coffee ☕️

I love airyscan so much. I wish I looked as picture perfect as my cells. I would marry airyscan. Airyscan, will you marry me?

“If you have not spent months doing a pointless experiment, it is not a PhD” anonymous

Rupaul and Ethel Cain dropping albums within the same week is exactly what my sassy tissue culture or mini prep sessions needed