Olivia Hon

No more throw-to-turn-off chainsaw? Sounds lame

Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!

Those are nice trees!

Some good science news for a change- MBF Bioscience is hiring! Looking for a microscopy aficionado to join our scientific support team in Williston, VT or San Diego, CA. Please share and feel free to reach out with questions. Link here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

good morning friends and colleagues where the sky is blue! Excited to share with you our latest preprint examining #xylazine and #fentanyl! here's a short 🧵of what we did and found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

K.M. Costa Lab - Join Join

Funding updates coming soon, and the lab is looking to recruit motivated postdocs, grad students, or postbacs with expertise in rodent behavior, stereotactic surgery, and neural data analysis. Come help us figure out the neural mechanisms of learning and cognition! See link:

www.kmcostalab.com/join

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will hold a full committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget on May 14, 2025, at 1:30 pm ET. ☎️ CALL YOUR SENATORS and tell them how vital #NIH research is to America’s health 👩🏽‍⚕️🏥🧠

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Icon of a computer mouse with rodent mouse ears

Asked ChapGPT to make me a mouse icon and I guess I wasn’t specific enough about what kind of mouse. And yet, it brings me joy!

Ooh just downloaded, looking forward to reading!

This was me. Terminated from #NIMHBSC with no explanation. Complete gov interference in the #NIH intramural research program oversight and review - telling NIH researchers what science they can do and who can do it. Not a positive outlook for scientific discovery, innovation, or health. 👇👇

The lab has had a hell of a month and I’m excited for some upcoming announcements…

…but for now please enjoy these pics as we move step-by-step towards simultaneous ephys and two-photon imaging with our flexible & semi transparent electrodes

Ok that’s what I thought- matches what I read online. Not planning to eat them though but excited by the idea that there are morels just growing in the yard - this is the third time!

Mycologists- what did I just grow in my backyard? cc @nanopharmnc.bsky.social

Free Webinar: Fundamentals of Fiber Photometry

Join Dr. Olivia (@ohon.bsky.social) for a practical session on getting the most from your fiber photometry experiments.

✅ Core concepts
✅ Biosensor selection
✅ Design tips & troubleshooting

📅 April 30 | 12 PM ET
📝 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

What a good record to bury today

my NIH grant was terminated today - the grant that pays my rent and my bills and my loans and my health insurance - because I study how to improve the lives and wellbeing of queer people #episky #medsky

I guess by sharing this, I am making my situation worse but, baby, that ship has sailed...

We need to organize--let’s help each other.

NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.

I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.

Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

Big crowd standing up for science at UC San Diego!

Energized seeing how many French scientists showed up to Stand up for Science in Paris. Now it’s our turn. Stand up and show up today! San Diego- we’ll be at UCSD at noon

See you there, SD!

Omg I love this

Protecting the Future of Biomedical Research: A Call to Defend NIH Funding Join us to defend science—write, call, and speak up. Biomedical research must be protected; the cost of inaction is too high for human lives.

The NIH budget freeze & cuts threaten medical breakthroughs—stalling projects, disrupting labs, & pushing early-career scientists out. Cutting diversity programs worsens the impact. We must act! Call policymakers & protect research funding.
www.mbfbioscience.com/.../protecti... #NIH #ScienceMatters

Sign the Petition Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify
Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk
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@yasharali.bsky.social

this is a very interesting slide deck from Ropes & Gray, one of the most prestigious & high-caliber law firms in the US

tl;dr we have very good litigators on this issue