Alina Tu
@alinatu.bsky.social
(she/her) neuroscience phd student @UC Irvine | spatial navigation researcher | k-12 outreach chair
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Come see our lab's posters at #SfN2025!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Come see our lab's posters at #SfN2025!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
#SfN25 here I come!
I'll be presenting at SfN's first poster session today in San Diego (Saturday 1pm-5pm).
If you're interested or knowledgeable in human navigation, grid cells, entorhinal cortex, and/or path integration, I'd love to chat with you. (I have questions!)
PSTR043.27 / Board HH12
I'll be presenting at SfN's first poster session today in San Diego (Saturday 1pm-5pm).
If you're interested or knowledgeable in human navigation, grid cells, entorhinal cortex, and/or path integration, I'd love to chat with you. (I have questions!)
PSTR043.27 / Board HH12
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
#SfN25 here I come!
I'll be presenting at SfN's first poster session today in San Diego (Saturday 1pm-5pm).
If you're interested or knowledgeable in human navigation, grid cells, entorhinal cortex, and/or path integration, I'd love to chat with you. (I have questions!)
PSTR043.27 / Board HH12
I'll be presenting at SfN's first poster session today in San Diego (Saturday 1pm-5pm).
If you're interested or knowledgeable in human navigation, grid cells, entorhinal cortex, and/or path integration, I'd love to chat with you. (I have questions!)
PSTR043.27 / Board HH12
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🔬 Exciting News! I am approaching the end of my Ph.D. journey, and this means that I am actively seeking my next position. If you have any suggestions for positions, please DM me!
See the thread for more info about me!
#OpenToWork #Neuroscience #NonAcademicJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions
See the thread for more info about me!
#OpenToWork #Neuroscience #NonAcademicJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions
July 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🔬 Exciting News! I am approaching the end of my Ph.D. journey, and this means that I am actively seeking my next position. If you have any suggestions for positions, please DM me!
See the thread for more info about me!
#OpenToWork #Neuroscience #NonAcademicJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions
See the thread for more info about me!
#OpenToWork #Neuroscience #NonAcademicJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions
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Excited to be presenting my work on white matter structures supporting wayfinding in midlife adults tomorrow at #CNS2025
See me at poster B62 in the Back Bay Ballroom!
See me at poster B62 in the Back Bay Ballroom!
March 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Excited to be presenting my work on white matter structures supporting wayfinding in midlife adults tomorrow at #CNS2025
See me at poster B62 in the Back Bay Ballroom!
See me at poster B62 in the Back Bay Ballroom!
CNS was my 1st ever conference I attended and presented at as an undergrad. I'm now in Boston for an amazing #CNS2025, and I'm ready to talk science 😎🥼
My poster: "Uncovering the neural basis that distinguishes two path integration tasks: Triangle Completion & Loop Closure" (1/2)
My poster: "Uncovering the neural basis that distinguishes two path integration tasks: Triangle Completion & Loop Closure" (1/2)
March 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
CNS was my 1st ever conference I attended and presented at as an undergrad. I'm now in Boston for an amazing #CNS2025, and I'm ready to talk science 😎🥼
My poster: "Uncovering the neural basis that distinguishes two path integration tasks: Triangle Completion & Loop Closure" (1/2)
My poster: "Uncovering the neural basis that distinguishes two path integration tasks: Triangle Completion & Loop Closure" (1/2)
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From my PhD advisor @kenmiller.bsky.social at Columbia. These are the grants that funded my PhD.
March 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
From my PhD advisor @kenmiller.bsky.social at Columbia. These are the grants that funded my PhD.
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In California
NIH FUNDING:
$5.31 B
JOBS SUPPORTED:
55,949
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$13.55 B
KEEP IT GOING
NIH FUNDING:
$5.31 B
JOBS SUPPORTED:
55,949
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$13.55 B
KEEP IT GOING
In Connecticut -
NIH FUNDING:
$770M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
6609
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$1.68B
NIH FUNDING:
$770M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
6609
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$1.68B
In Georgia-
NIH FUNDING:
$780 M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
11,816
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$2.18 B
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH FUNDING:
$780 M
JOBS SUPPORTED:
11,816
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$2.18 B
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
February 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
In California
NIH FUNDING:
$5.31 B
JOBS SUPPORTED:
55,949
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$13.55 B
KEEP IT GOING
NIH FUNDING:
$5.31 B
JOBS SUPPORTED:
55,949
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$13.55 B
KEEP IT GOING
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The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
February 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found".
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
January 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found".
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
scim.ag
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
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Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
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For anyone hesitant on submitting grad apps, DO IT‼️
The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨
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I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏
ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾
The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨
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I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏
ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾
November 30, 2024 at 6:36 PM
For anyone hesitant on submitting grad apps, DO IT‼️
The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨
•
•
I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏
ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾
The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨
•
•
I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏
ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾
@chrastil.bsky.social's Spatial Neuroscience Lab posters at #psynom24 on Friday 11/22 7:45pm:
4075
4078
4081
4083
...and our posters are located among other cool and exciting spatial cognition/navigation research 🧭 😎 see y'all there!
4075
4078
4081
4083
...and our posters are located among other cool and exciting spatial cognition/navigation research 🧭 😎 see y'all there!
November 22, 2024 at 6:05 AM
@chrastil.bsky.social's Spatial Neuroscience Lab posters at #psynom24 on Friday 11/22 7:45pm:
4075
4078
4081
4083
...and our posters are located among other cool and exciting spatial cognition/navigation research 🧭 😎 see y'all there!
4075
4078
4081
4083
...and our posters are located among other cool and exciting spatial cognition/navigation research 🧭 😎 see y'all there!
my first paper and my first first-author paper 🥳 please feel free to reach out with questions/comments!
conveniently, #psynom24 is happening in one day. @chrastil.bsky.social and I will be attending and would love to chat with folks!
conveniently, #psynom24 is happening in one day. @chrastil.bsky.social and I will be attending and would love to chat with folks!
🚨 new paper alert! Does hippocampal volume relate to navigation abilities? What about hippocampal subfields?
@alinatu.bsky.social addressed this question that has been perplexing the navigation community. The short answer: yes, but it's complicated. 🧵 1/6
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@alinatu.bsky.social addressed this question that has been perplexing the navigation community. The short answer: yes, but it's complicated. 🧵 1/6
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do total hippocampus and hippocampal subfield volumes relate to navigation ability? A call towards methodological consistency
Despite the need for successful navigation, humans vary greatly in their ability to navigate, and these individual differences may relate to variation…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:56 AM
my first paper and my first first-author paper 🥳 please feel free to reach out with questions/comments!
conveniently, #psynom24 is happening in one day. @chrastil.bsky.social and I will be attending and would love to chat with folks!
conveniently, #psynom24 is happening in one day. @chrastil.bsky.social and I will be attending and would love to chat with folks!