Jenn Kim

Grateful to have started my dream postdoc with @kr-maynard.bsky.social this week 🤩 Thanks to @martinowk.bsky.social @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and everyone for such a warm welcome, and so happy to be part of the team! Excited for all the great science and memories to come in this next chapter 🧠🎉

False positives in study of memory-related gene expression - Nature Nature - False positives in study of memory-related gene expression

Important 'Matters Arising' from @neurome.bsky.social and Zhaoxia Yu discussing false positives due to multiple comparisons in large-scale gene expression data. I applaud Eran and others who consistently raise these issues for discussion in the community.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Sustained in the brain: How lasting emotions arise from brief stimuli, in humans and mice Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, Stanford scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.

Grateful to work with amazing lead authors Isaac Kauvar, Ethan Richman, & Tony Liu, and brilliant faculty of our HNC program: Carolyn Rodriguez (@crodriguezmdphd.bsky.social‬), Paul Nuyujukian, & Vivek Buch, and many others spanning hospital and laboratory. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Government | Harvard University Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.

Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.

I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".

They even asked me my Gender.

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

I am very excited to join you all too! ☺️

Thanks Keri! See you on the east coast soon~

Congrats to us indeed, Dr. 😋 Keep in touch and hope to see u at future conferences and such!

Some of the graduating class of UBC Neuroscience PhDs at Grad 2025. Finally got to wear the floofy hat! Forever grateful for my time at UBC 💙💛 @bonniee-leee.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security.

More here:
medium.com/@eblissmorea...

Impaired parvalbumin interneurons in the retrosplenial cortex as the cause of sex-dependent vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease Altered function, connectivity, and survival of parvalbumin-expressing neurons in the retrosplenial cortex in Alzheimer’s disease.

🚨New paper from the Epp and Sargin Labs!🚨

We identified early sex- and region-specific impairments to parvalbumin interneurons (PV-INs) during Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) pathogenesis

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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National Letter Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...

Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY

I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.

It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.

based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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Thanks Bonnie!! Congrats to you too ☺️

NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

Grad student applicants from the US:
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

Stable, awesome environment!!

Microglia heterogeneity, modeling and cell-state annotation in development and neurodegeneration - Nature Neuroscience Microglia have key roles in CNS development and neurodegeneration. Here, the authors provide an overview of microglia heterogeneity, cell-state annotation and model systems.

I am so excited to share our review on microglial heterogeneity @natureneuro.bsky.social! It was a fantastic effort by the lab, led by @c9laura72.bsky.social and Alma Mohebiany. We provide a critical view on the plethora of microglial cell states in health and disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just a fraction of the protests that took place yesterday... Red counties, blue counties, big cities, small towns, old folks, young folks, people with experience protesting and people protesting for the first time!

INCREDIBLE TURNOUT with hundreds of thousands of people attending #HandsOff rallies around the US to protest illegal cuts and government corruption ✊

#nyc #newyork #boston #ma #chicago #il #stpaul #minneapolis #mn #saltlakecity #ut #washington #dc

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

🥼 Janelia researchers led by @boazmohar.bsky.social @nspruston.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social & @svoboda314.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social have developed a new imaging tool that maps brain-wide changes in neuronal connections. 🧠

🔗 www.janelia.org/news/new-ima...

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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Science Under Threat in the United States: The impact on undergraduate students Anti-science policies, funding cuts, scientific censorship and the US withdrawing from international commitments are worrying members of the ReForm Lab at the College of William & Mary.

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Integrating multimodal data to understand cortical circuit architecture and function - Nature Neuroscience This paper discusses how experimental and computational studies integrating multimodal data, such as RNA expression, connectivity and neural activity, are advancing our understanding of the architectu...

Advances in neuroscience have yielded massive, rich datasets from various analysis techniques and modalities. 🧠📈

In a @natureneuro.bsky.social perspective, researchers underscore the importance of an integrative approach to render a more complete picture of the brain.

Michael Lin (Stanford) reports his grant on anti-COVID meds was terminated.

Pandemics become endemic.
Endemic diseases require treatments.
Treatments require research.
Research requires continuity of support.
Continuity of support requires federal funding.

But the WH just doesn't get it.

Thank you! ☺️

Thanks Josh! Hope you’re doing well😊

Thank you! :D

Thanks Keri! 😊

Forever grateful to all the mentors, colleagues, and community that made my PhD such a formative and special time in my life! Sharing my two favorite slides from my defense talk 😊