Susy Kohout

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics: 2025 DataX University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

My department at UCLA is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics - Please RP! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09913 #biostatistics #statistics #datascience

NIH New Innovator Award logo

Many scientific awards end up concentrated in a few institutions in a few states. You can spread important scientific awards if you try--40 NIH New Innovator Awards, 29 institutions, 18 states. There is great science in every state! 🧪
commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator...

Screenshot of RFA-AG-25-031 funding opportunity from NIH.

Just found out about this great funding 🤑 opportunity for institutions in low- and middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank, to support junior faculty investigators involved in aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) from these institutions. #LatinInSTEM 🧪 👩‍🔬

Reminder to evaluate the grant on its scientific merits and the suitability of the investigator to do the research, rather than just cite the PI’s pedigree as a surrogate for its quality.

Good thread for keeping up with what is going on with Sabatini. 👩‍🔬

Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists is a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.

I'm thinking this would be a useful resource for hiring searches and also any DEI efforts. YES! DEI is still a thing and I support it. #academicsky #science #medsky
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Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists

I am humbled to be listed with some many other inspiring Hispanic/LatinX scientists. It is a privilege and an honor to be recognized!🧪👩‍🔬 #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth #biophysics #LatinInSTEM
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...

If she weren't a woman of color, this would be called competence.

As we kick off Black In Neuro Week 2024 we wanted to start with a message from our Board of Directors. BINW24: A message from the Board of Directors

For Day 1 of #BINW24, check out a message from our Board of Directors 🤗

#BlackInSTEM #Neuroscience 🧪

A colorful "Registration is open " announcement for Black In Neuro Week 2024. The design features an orange circle in the center with black text that reads "Registration is now open!". Surrounding the circle are colorful In the bottom left corner, is the Black In Neuro logo with text to the left that reads "Join us for #BINW24 July 29-August 4".

🚨 Registration is LIVE for our FIFTH annual Black In Neuro Week, happening this July 29-August 4th! We’ll have seven days packed with FREE programming that’s open to all. 🥰🧠

Register today!! ➡️ blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5771083

#Neuroscience #Psychology #BlackInStem 🧪

These are so awesome! They capture the crazed type of motion that my cats have always displayed.

New Bridges to the Doctorate Funding Opportunity and Upcoming Webinar Feedback Loop alerts researchers to NIGMS funding policies, trends, plans, and more.

New NIGMS Bridges to the Doctorate just dropped. We’ll have a webinar August 8th (deets in blog post 👇) loop.nigms.nih.gov/2024/07/new-...

Behavioral neuroscience’s inevitable SABV growing pains The field of rodent behavioral neuroscience is undergoing two major sea changes: an ever-growing technological revolution, and worldwide calls to cons…

Neuro folks, I have a new SABV perspective/opinion piece out in TINS. As SABV becomes the new norm, we’re learning about the limits of our behavioral tasks—what do we do when expts seem not to “work” in females? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Of all the mistaken orders I've put it, making this mistake would have been fun! 🧪

Just a reminder to tag your posts with #WomenInSTEM or a woman scientist emoji 👩🏻‍🔬 to have them show up in the Women in STEM feed. 🧪 🐡 🍎

#WormWednesday Our @PlantNeuro team turned off-the-shelf equipment into a platform that can study how C. elegans roundworms respond to dozens of chemicals in <2.5 hours. 1/4

#LatinInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #BlackInSTEM 🧪👩‍🔬

Congrats!

Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA's approval of mifepristone The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffere...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously agrees to toss out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills — saying the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case failed to show they had been harmed.

How restorative justice could help to heal science communities torn apart by harassment misconduct Could a programme used by police to tackle repeat offending be used in academia? Some institutions are keen to find out. Could a programme used by police to tackle repeat offending be used in academia...

Really interesting read. I would love it if universities would actually implement restorative justice in the face of harassers. I won't hold my breath though.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So happy that these results are finally seeing the light! 🎉It was a collaborative project with many undergrads, grads and postdocs contributing. The S1 helix in the voltage sensing domain does far more 💪 than most give it credit for!
rupress.org/jgp/article/...

BRAIN Initiative folks, please check your notices if considering June applications. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I propose that PIs should expect universities to provide this disparity between NRSA amounts and institutionally defined stipends and tuitions, especially since they are the ones often negotiating/defining these amounts without faculty involvement

🧪👩‍🔬 #LatinInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #BlackInSTEM

Letter to the Wesleyan student body from Michael S. Roth saying that he will not order the dispersion of the encampment so long as students remain non-violent and don't disrupt campus operations.

Instead of suspending students and sending in the cops to beat and arrest people at Palestine/Gaza solidarity encampments, more university administrators should follow the lead of Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth.

one constant in protests are the well-meaning people who haven’t spent much time around cops and try to reason with them, only to be met with immediate violence

The Federalist Society position: it is necessary to let a President break the law to remain in office because if you prosecuted presidents for that it would make them more likely to break the law to remain in office.

Today in on-the-nose photojournalism.

😱 I don't even know where to start....