Angie Michaiel
@angiemicha.bsky.social
neuroscientist & program officer @kavlifoundation.org | formerly @HarvardMed @IONatUO @ucdavis
🧠 born at 353 ppm
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Angie Michaiel
@angiemicha.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Program officer Angie Michaiel spoke with The Transmitter about her efforts to shepherd a burgeoning climate neuroscience subfield and the fruit she hopes it will bear.
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By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
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Building a climate neuroscience subfield: Q&A with Angie Michaiel
Michaiel, a program officer at the Kavli Foundation, shares what it took to cultivate research on the relationship between climate change and the nervous system.
www.thetransmitter.org
Grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @callimcflurry.bsky.social for highlighting my work at @kavlifoundation.org building a new subfield in neuroscience 🌍🧠
If you're at #SfN25 come check out this poster session on neurobiology in changing ecosystems
#KavliNeuro
#KavliNeuro
Interested in how nervous systems adapt to environmental change?
On Sun, 11/16, a poster session on "Environmental Stressors in Invertebrates” (PSTR131) - rows Y11-Z11, 1-5 pm.
Researchers in the community will answer your questions.
#SfN25 #KavliNeuro
On Sun, 11/16, a poster session on "Environmental Stressors in Invertebrates” (PSTR131) - rows Y11-Z11, 1-5 pm.
Researchers in the community will answer your questions.
#SfN25 #KavliNeuro
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If you're at #SfN25 come check out this poster session on neurobiology in changing ecosystems
#KavliNeuro
#KavliNeuro
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Will you be at #SfN25? Don’t miss these lectures:
📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN)
📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM)
📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM)
#KavliNeuro
📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN)
📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM)
📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM)
#KavliNeuro
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Will you be at #SfN25? Don’t miss these lectures:
📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN)
📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM)
📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM)
#KavliNeuro
📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN)
📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM)
📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM)
#KavliNeuro
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I’m excited to share how researchers we support at @kavlifoundation.org are using AI to open new doors in neuroscience — from tracking animal behavior to exploring how neural activity changes in Alzheimer’s.
🧠 Check it out: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
🧠 Check it out: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I’m excited to share how researchers we support at @kavlifoundation.org are using AI to open new doors in neuroscience — from tracking animal behavior to exploring how neural activity changes in Alzheimer’s.
🧠 Check it out: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
🧠 Check it out: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
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Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.
go.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
go.nature.com/4pNC96G
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
Calling all BRAIN tool, tech, and theory developers! The BRAIN Initiative Alliance is hosting the BIA Toolmakers Showcase at #SfN25. If you have a tool/tech to share with the #neuroscience community, apply by Friday: http://bit.ly/3W4GeWv
#studyBRAIN | @sfn.org
#studyBRAIN | @sfn.org
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Calling all BRAIN tool, tech, and theory developers! The BRAIN Initiative Alliance is hosting the BIA Toolmakers Showcase at #SfN25. If you have a tool/tech to share with the #neuroscience community, apply by Friday: http://bit.ly/3W4GeWv
#studyBRAIN | @sfn.org
#studyBRAIN | @sfn.org
"When scents vanish, they erase relationships between plants, animals, and people.” Great article in @atmosmag.bsky.social about climate change erasing the scents of daily life, and featuring @riffelllab.bsky.social
A wonderful article by Omnia Saed partly based on our work on atmospheric pollutants (funded by @kavlifoundation.org, @angiemicha.bsky.social, and NSF)
atmos.earth/science-and-...
atmos.earth/science-and-...
When the World Stops Smelling Like Itself | Atmos
Climate change is erasing the aromas of daily life. Farmers say the loss is already here—from Grenada’s cocoa to Egypt’s jasmine—and affecting relationships between all living things.
atmos.earth
September 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"When scents vanish, they erase relationships between plants, animals, and people.” Great article in @atmosmag.bsky.social about climate change erasing the scents of daily life, and featuring @riffelllab.bsky.social
🧠🌍 SO excited to announce this new set of grant awards in partnership with NSF. Awardees will investigate mechanisms of neural resilience to a range of anthropogenic stressors across a range of species. Congrats to the awardees!
The Kavli Foundation & #NSF announce four new NiCE grants to study how brains adapt to a changing world - linking genes, cells, behavior, and ecosystems.
From bees to bats to jellyfish, check out the 2025 awardees. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/4fYz8vK
#KavliNeuro #Neuroscience
From bees to bats to jellyfish, check out the 2025 awardees. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/4fYz8vK
#KavliNeuro #Neuroscience
Kavli and NSF Announce New Grant Awards to Advance Neurobiology in…
An initiative to explore how nervous systems function and evolve in dynamic natural environments
bit.ly
September 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🧠🌍 SO excited to announce this new set of grant awards in partnership with NSF. Awardees will investigate mechanisms of neural resilience to a range of anthropogenic stressors across a range of species. Congrats to the awardees!
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
I have an op-ed in @statnews.com today (with the incomparable Dr. Burcin Ikiz!) on the longterm neurological toll of wildfires: www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/w... (short 🧵 follows; not a story of 'climate anxiety')
The hidden neurological toll of wildfires
Disaster response systems are woefully unprepared to address long-term neurological health impacts.
www.statnews.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I have an op-ed in @statnews.com today (with the incomparable Dr. Burcin Ikiz!) on the longterm neurological toll of wildfires: www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/w... (short 🧵 follows; not a story of 'climate anxiety')
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field.
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.
Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu
#neurosky
Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu
#neurosky
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field.
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv
#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
Impeach, Remove, Make your voice heard.
Sign our petition here: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
Sign our petition here: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
August 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Impeach, Remove, Make your voice heard.
Sign our petition here: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
Sign our petition here: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
Excited for this webinar we're putting on with our partners at @sfn.org! 🧠🌍
Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.
Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu
#neurosky
Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu
#neurosky
August 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Excited for this webinar we're putting on with our partners at @sfn.org! 🧠🌍
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
Announcing this year's Kavli Institute Collaboration Kickstarter grants - innovative projects forging connections between researchers at different Kavli Institutes, even outside of the same field.
Learn more about the awardees http://bit.ly/4oh6r12
Learn more about the awardees http://bit.ly/4oh6r12
August 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Announcing this year's Kavli Institute Collaboration Kickstarter grants - innovative projects forging connections between researchers at different Kavli Institutes, even outside of the same field.
Learn more about the awardees http://bit.ly/4oh6r12
Learn more about the awardees http://bit.ly/4oh6r12
🎉 🧠Congrats to the organizers for another successful #NeuroDataReHack workshop, teaching scientists how to access and reuse precious neurophysiology #OpenData! 📈
Congrats on another successful #NeuroDataReHack!
Inspiring to see the creativity & collaboration around open neurophys data. Attendees are invited to apply for the Kavli NeuroData Discovery Award - a one-year grant supporting innovative #DataReuse.
Excited to see your ideas! #KavliNeuro #OpenData
Inspiring to see the creativity & collaboration around open neurophys data. Attendees are invited to apply for the Kavli NeuroData Discovery Award - a one-year grant supporting innovative #DataReuse.
Excited to see your ideas! #KavliNeuro #OpenData
NeuroDataReHack participants from all over the world are finishing up 10 exciting projects analyzing open neurophys data on @dandiarchive.org. Thank you @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for being amazing hosts as always! Stay tuned for the workshop report.
@chrishalcrow.bsky.social @mcelotto95.bsky.social
@chrishalcrow.bsky.social @mcelotto95.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🎉 🧠Congrats to the organizers for another successful #NeuroDataReHack workshop, teaching scientists how to access and reuse precious neurophysiology #OpenData! 📈
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
2025 Kavli-Grass Fellow Kyra Schapiro is spending this summer in the Grass Lab (@grassfoundation.bsky.social) understanding how environmental factors shape shell patterning in Zebra nerite snails and how the nervous system might control this process.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7
Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7
Do Light and Darkness Shape the Patterns on Shells? A Grass Fellow Investigates | Marine Biological Laboratory
Kyra Schapiro knows how to find a good shell. A self-professed sheller – “ Yes, it’s a noun,” she said – Schapiro has amassed hundreds of seashells. “It’s the patterns and the beauty” that compels her...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
2025 Kavli-Grass Fellow Kyra Schapiro is spending this summer in the Grass Lab (@grassfoundation.bsky.social) understanding how environmental factors shape shell patterning in Zebra nerite snails and how the nervous system might control this process.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7
Learn more here: bit.ly/4llySJ7
Grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @callimcflurry.bsky.social for highlighting my work at @kavlifoundation.org building a new subfield in neuroscience 🌍🧠
Program officer Angie Michaiel spoke with The Transmitter about her efforts to shepherd a burgeoning climate neuroscience subfield and the fruit she hopes it will bear.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/bu...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/bu...
Building a climate neuroscience subfield: Q&A with Angie Michaiel
Michaiel, a program officer at the Kavli Foundation, shares what it took to cultivate research on the relationship between climate change and the nervous system.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @callimcflurry.bsky.social for highlighting my work at @kavlifoundation.org building a new subfield in neuroscience 🌍🧠
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
Applications are open for the first Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference, to be held February 2026! Hope to see many of you there! 🐙🧠🔬
www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...
www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...
June 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Applications are open for the first Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference, to be held February 2026! Hope to see many of you there! 🐙🧠🔬
www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...
www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...
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🎉Congrats to the 5 early-career scientists receiving Kavli support through the #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems!
Their bold, cross-disciplinary research explores how brains adapt in a rapidly changing world.🌎
Read more here: bit.ly/3Hz2Avh
#KavliNeuro @rescorp.org
Their bold, cross-disciplinary research explores how brains adapt in a rapidly changing world.🌎
Read more here: bit.ly/3Hz2Avh
#KavliNeuro @rescorp.org
June 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🎉Congrats to the 5 early-career scientists receiving Kavli support through the #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems!
Their bold, cross-disciplinary research explores how brains adapt in a rapidly changing world.🌎
Read more here: bit.ly/3Hz2Avh
#KavliNeuro @rescorp.org
Their bold, cross-disciplinary research explores how brains adapt in a rapidly changing world.🌎
Read more here: bit.ly/3Hz2Avh
#KavliNeuro @rescorp.org
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
On #WorldEnvironmentDay we're here to remind you that open source research tools can be useful for monitoring environmental damage. Here's a short list of a few tools we've previously highlighted or used in our own investigations... 🧵
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
On #WorldEnvironmentDay we're here to remind you that open source research tools can be useful for monitoring environmental damage. Here's a short list of a few tools we've previously highlighted or used in our own investigations... 🧵
Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and team on this beautiful paper! 🐟👀
Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and Andrew Lesak on their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! They use HMM to identify two interaction states in #zebrafish: one visual for long-range interactions and one lateral line for quick, close interactions.
Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...
Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...
June 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and team on this beautiful paper! 🐟👀
Reposted by Angie Michaiel
A very nice article about our research on the octopus visual system, by @callimcflurry.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social
The octopus brain has teased researchers since the 1960s, but recording from it seemed impossible. Cris Niell and his team’s calcium imaging experiments finally “showed that this brain could be studied,” says Sam Reiter.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...
Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight…
www.thetransmitter.org
May 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A very nice article about our research on the octopus visual system, by @callimcflurry.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Congratulations to all of the awardees! I am so excited to see where this interdisciplinary science goes, to advance the growing area of Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems! #Scialog #KavliNeuro
Six cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the 1st year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @alleninstitute.org, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.bsky.social.
2025 Scialog Awards: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems
This innovative Scialog initiative catalyzes cross-disciplinary science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes.
rescorp.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Congratulations to all of the awardees! I am so excited to see where this interdisciplinary science goes, to advance the growing area of Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems! #Scialog #KavliNeuro
Join us for the 2nd installment of this series that explores how nervous systems cope with environmental challenges! #KavliNeuro
Have you registered for the next @sfn.org + @kavlifoundation.bsky.social webinar yet?
Claim your spot now: bit.ly/43lsrPJ
#NeuroSky
Claim your spot now: bit.ly/43lsrPJ
#NeuroSky
May 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Join us for the 2nd installment of this series that explores how nervous systems cope with environmental challenges! #KavliNeuro
What a great experience it was to put together this symposium and bring together researchers at the intersection of neurobiology and environmental change! Check out all of the inspiring presentations in the link below. 🧠🌍 #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience
Missed the Neurobiology in Changing Environments #NiCE symposium? Watch the full event on YouTube!
Explore how nervous systems respond, resist & recover from the challenges of a rapidly changing world. 🌎 🌊 🧠 🧬
#KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #Neuroscience
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Explore how nervous systems respond, resist & recover from the challenges of a rapidly changing world. 🌎 🌊 🧠 🧬
#KavliNeuro #FrontierScience #Neuroscience
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Neurobiology in Changing Environments Program 2025 - YouTube
www.youtube.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What a great experience it was to put together this symposium and bring together researchers at the intersection of neurobiology and environmental change! Check out all of the inspiring presentations in the link below. 🧠🌍 #KavliNeuro #FrontierScience