Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬
@audreydrotos.bsky.social
auditory neurophysiologist/professional mouse dj @ UPenn • founder @your.neighborhoodscientist.org • she/her • my views are not penns
My nonprofit @your.neighborhoodscientist.org is looking for scientists to share their stories with us in 2026! Is your New Year's resolution to communicate & interface more with your community as a scientist? Send us a pitch at audrey@neighborhoodscientist.org ! 🧪🧠🇺🇸
December 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My nonprofit @your.neighborhoodscientist.org is looking for scientists to share their stories with us in 2026! Is your New Year's resolution to communicate & interface more with your community as a scientist? Send us a pitch at audrey@neighborhoodscientist.org ! 🧪🧠🇺🇸
I am excited to share this workshop on science advocacy that will be run by the @sfn.org advocacy team for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology on Jan 13 at 3:30PM EST on zoom! Sign up if you're an ARO member to learn more about advocacy best practices & how to meet with your legislators!
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I am excited to share this workshop on science advocacy that will be run by the @sfn.org advocacy team for the Association for Research in Otolaryngology on Jan 13 at 3:30PM EST on zoom! Sign up if you're an ARO member to learn more about advocacy best practices & how to meet with your legislators!
As part of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology I am co-hosting this panel on science communication in January (Jan 13 at 12:30PM EST)! Sign up to hear from myself, Dr. Kelsey Anbuhl, and Dr. Alli Coffin about how to communicate your science to a non-science audience!
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
As part of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology I am co-hosting this panel on science communication in January (Jan 13 at 12:30PM EST)! Sign up to hear from myself, Dr. Kelsey Anbuhl, and Dr. Alli Coffin about how to communicate your science to a non-science audience!
Hi! Does anyone here have experience doing neuropixels recordings from young mice (before p28)? What methods do you use? Headbar + record the same day?
October 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hi! Does anyone here have experience doing neuropixels recordings from young mice (before p28)? What methods do you use? Headbar + record the same day?
Our pup Marvin went for his very first trail run today and he was pretty pumped about it! It is very hard to be a scientist right now, but Marv only cares about getting to hang out with the people he loves, and sometimes that’s a good reminder.
September 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our pup Marvin went for his very first trail run today and he was pretty pumped about it! It is very hard to be a scientist right now, but Marv only cares about getting to hang out with the people he loves, and sometimes that’s a good reminder.
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This week’s neighborhood scientist is Charity Robbins! Check out the link below to read Charity’s rules on how to build the perfect scientist (yes, really!!) neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/l...
Lessons from an Undergraduate Researcher on How to Build the Perfect Scientist (Yes, Really!) – Your Neighborhood Scientist
science news for everyone
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September 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This week’s neighborhood scientist is Charity Robbins! Check out the link below to read Charity’s rules on how to build the perfect scientist (yes, really!!) neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/l...
If you're in the Bay Area, @your.neighborhoodscientist.org is having our first in-person event, "Brains, Biology, and Big Pharma", on September 29. See flyer below and register here: luma.com/m51ug5x1 Great opportunity to meet w/ scientists & learn about the scientific process! 🔭🧪👩🔬
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If you're in the Bay Area, @your.neighborhoodscientist.org is having our first in-person event, "Brains, Biology, and Big Pharma", on September 29. See flyer below and register here: luma.com/m51ug5x1 Great opportunity to meet w/ scientists & learn about the scientific process! 🔭🧪👩🔬
Congratulations to Dr. Marina Silveira @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social on the first preprint from her lab! Seroronergic modulation in the IC abounds and I'm excited to see where her lab takes this. This work was completed by two talented undergraduate students--congrats Karen Galindo and Zoya Nazir! 🧠
Distribution of metabotropic serotonergic receptors in GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons in the auditory midbrain
The neurotransmitter serotonin modulates a variety of behavioral and physiological responses in the brain. Serotonergic neurons from the dorsal raphe nuclei send a dense projection to the auditory sys...
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Marina Silveira @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social on the first preprint from her lab! Seroronergic modulation in the IC abounds and I'm excited to see where her lab takes this. This work was completed by two talented undergraduate students--congrats Karen Galindo and Zoya Nazir! 🧠
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Shout out to @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @kelly.sova.cool, and Katie Furman for their hard work launching @your.neighborhoodscientist.org!
You can donate to their non-profit here:
neighborhoodscientist.org
You can donate to their non-profit here:
neighborhoodscientist.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Shout out to @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @kelly.sova.cool, and Katie Furman for their hard work launching @your.neighborhoodscientist.org!
You can donate to their non-profit here:
neighborhoodscientist.org
You can donate to their non-profit here:
neighborhoodscientist.org
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Really grateful to be part of a community of "helpers" & thanks to @nature.com for highlighting!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Really grateful to be part of a community of "helpers" & thanks to @nature.com for highlighting!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Honored to be working to defend science against authoritarianism alongside so many inspiring colleagues such as @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @bnwolford.bsky.social, @scott-delaney.bsky.social.
Often the news happens so quickly that there's little time for it, so we took a step back to talk about the stories of the researchers who have been fighting back against the Trump administration's assault on science.
w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social
w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social
Scientists take on Trump: the researchers fighting back
Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Honored to be working to defend science against authoritarianism alongside so many inspiring colleagues such as @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @bnwolford.bsky.social, @scott-delaney.bsky.social.
Excited to be featured in today’s @nature.com article about scientists standing up to Trump. I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines, especially when something I believe so deeply in—science funding that saves lives—is under attack. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Excited to be featured in today’s @nature.com article about scientists standing up to Trump. I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines, especially when something I believe so deeply in—science funding that saves lives—is under attack. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We’re doing a July 4 feature all week highlighting how funding science is patriotic (and the incredible researchers doing life changing, tax payer funded research!) Give us a follow!
Happy July 4th! Here at Your Neighborhood Scientist, we’re excited to highlight American patriotism in a way you might not always think about: scientific research.
neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...
neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...
July 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We’re doing a July 4 feature all week highlighting how funding science is patriotic (and the incredible researchers doing life changing, tax payer funded research!) Give us a follow!
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Happy July 4th! Here at Your Neighborhood Scientist, we’re excited to highlight American patriotism in a way you might not always think about: scientific research.
neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...
neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...
July 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy July 4th! Here at Your Neighborhood Scientist, we’re excited to highlight American patriotism in a way you might not always think about: scientific research.
neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...
neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...
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Out of the 356 drugs that were approved by the FDA from 2010-2019, NIH funding contributed to 354 of them, totaling $187 billion, only 2 were privately funded. From the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Out of the 356 drugs that were approved by the FDA from 2010-2019, NIH funding contributed to 354 of them, totaling $187 billion, only 2 were privately funded. From the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Share why doing and supporting science is patriotic at the poll below! 🇺🇸
This 4th of July, we're looking for scientists to share why they're proud to do science in the US. Or maybe you're not a scientist -- but you're proud of the work that US scientists do or you've benefited from US science research. Let us know in the survey below! forms.gle/j8gWMSggKVvJ...
Does your patriotism involve pipettes?
This 4th of July, Your Neighborhood Scientist is asking American scientists and non-scientists why they are proud of scientific research in the US.
Scientists: why are you proud to perform taxpayer-f...
forms.gle
June 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Share why doing and supporting science is patriotic at the poll below! 🇺🇸
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Everybody needs to read what is going on inside the NIH.
This is what independent journalism looks like, talking to real sources in the middle of a conflict; and not the billionaire-fluffing press paying influential op-ed writers to normalize and whitewash the actions of the current administration.
This is what independent journalism looks like, talking to real sources in the middle of a conflict; and not the billionaire-fluffing press paying influential op-ed writers to normalize and whitewash the actions of the current administration.
NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
www.importantcontext.news
June 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Everybody needs to read what is going on inside the NIH.
This is what independent journalism looks like, talking to real sources in the middle of a conflict; and not the billionaire-fluffing press paying influential op-ed writers to normalize and whitewash the actions of the current administration.
This is what independent journalism looks like, talking to real sources in the middle of a conflict; and not the billionaire-fluffing press paying influential op-ed writers to normalize and whitewash the actions of the current administration.
If you have some ~cool sounds~ and you’re okay with them being used as stimuli for research, we’re collecting natural sound recordings for a project! Bonus points if they’re sampled at 192kHz or higher 😊 send me a message if you have something like this we’d love to use it!
May 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you have some ~cool sounds~ and you’re okay with them being used as stimuli for research, we’re collecting natural sound recordings for a project! Bonus points if they’re sampled at 192kHz or higher 😊 send me a message if you have something like this we’d love to use it!
Good morning ☀️
May 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning ☀️
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NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.
I had SO much fun speaking about how amazing hearing is at Philly’s @pintofscience.us last night!! Thank you to my amazing lab @geffenlab.bsky.social & @mikelhaggadone.bsky.social for coming out to support! 🧠 🍺
May 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I had SO much fun speaking about how amazing hearing is at Philly’s @pintofscience.us last night!! Thank you to my amazing lab @geffenlab.bsky.social & @mikelhaggadone.bsky.social for coming out to support! 🧠 🍺
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Pint of science with @audreydrotos.bsky.social, Dmitrios Boufidis, & Jacqui Barker - all there to celebrate brains & brain research. Sold out; packed house. So fun!
May 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Pint of science with @audreydrotos.bsky.social, Dmitrios Boufidis, & Jacqui Barker - all there to celebrate brains & brain research. Sold out; packed house. So fun!
The Supreme Court could rule that today is Friday May 16 and Alito and Thomas would dissent
BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
May 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Supreme Court could rule that today is Friday May 16 and Alito and Thomas would dissent
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I am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4
May 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4
Everything seems terrible in the world but this is Marvin, a scared little shelter pup we adopted last week. We love him and his little tail wags and sweet kisses and goofy mannerisms so much. Thanks for bringing us a lot of joy in such a hard time, little buddy ❤️
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Everything seems terrible in the world but this is Marvin, a scared little shelter pup we adopted last week. We love him and his little tail wags and sweet kisses and goofy mannerisms so much. Thanks for bringing us a lot of joy in such a hard time, little buddy ❤️