Krithika Venkataraman
@kritvenks.bsky.social
currently:
Scientist, Neuroscience Collaborations at Simons Foundation 🧠👩🏻🔬
previously:
The Rockefeller University - Vosshall Lab Ph.D. 🦟 + Civic Science Associate RockEDU 👩🏻💻 // Smith College 👩🏻🎓
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Scientist, Neuroscience Collaborations at Simons Foundation 🧠👩🏻🔬
previously:
The Rockefeller University - Vosshall Lab Ph.D. 🦟 + Civic Science Associate RockEDU 👩🏻💻 // Smith College 👩🏻🎓
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views = personal
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We are so excited to include these new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows in the Simons Foundation fold!
Announcing our 9 new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows! These awards help senior postdoctoral researchers with fresh perspectives on autism & neuroscience transition to tenure-track faculty positions: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-announces-recipients-of-2025-fellows-to-faculty-awards/
Simons Foundation Announces Recipients of 2025 Fellows-to-Faculty Awards
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 class of Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows.
www.simonsfoundation.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We are so excited to include these new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows in the Simons Foundation fold!
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calling all neuroscience courses and conferences - request for applications open!
We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch
Simons Foundation Autism & Neuroscience Conferences and Courses Awards
The Simons Foundation’s Autism and Neuroscience division is accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences that align with our mission.
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
calling all neuroscience courses and conferences - request for applications open!
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We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch
Simons Foundation Autism & Neuroscience Conferences and Courses Awards
The Simons Foundation’s Autism and Neuroscience division is accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences that align with our mission.
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch
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Thrilled to share 'BuzzWatch', my post-doc work with Felix Hol and @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳
preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch
🧵⬇️
➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳
preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch
🧵⬇️
BuzzWatch: uncovering multi-scale temporal patterns in mosquito behavior through continuous long-term monitoring
Understanding the temporal dynamics of mosquito behavior is essential for developing effective interventions against pathogen transmission. However, limited knowledge exists about the environmental, p...
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thrilled to share 'BuzzWatch', my post-doc work with Felix Hol and @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳
preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch
🧵⬇️
➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳
preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch
🧵⬇️
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Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. Here we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form m...
www.biorxiv.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans
Mosquitoes enhance sensitivity to human body heat by a sensory compensation mechanism when their sense of smell is disrupted.
www.science.org
January 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
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1/ 🧵 Free resources for scientists
💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat
https://buff.ly/4f8vIpk
💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat
https://buff.ly/4f8vIpk
Learning resources for scientists · eLife
A collections of articles that provide practical resources and guidance for researchers and academics
buff.ly
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 PM
1/ 🧵 Free resources for scientists
💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat
https://buff.ly/4f8vIpk
💡 Covering research skills, careers, #SciComm, leadership, activism and more, everything in this thread appears on our Learning Resources page, with tips for researchers and academics at any career stage. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat
https://buff.ly/4f8vIpk
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2 new studies on brain aging with sex-specific findings
—Angiogenesis factors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
—Loss of gray matter
press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...
—Angiogenesis factors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
—Loss of gray matter
press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...
November 27, 2024 at 7:11 PM
2 new studies on brain aging with sex-specific findings
—Angiogenesis factors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
—Loss of gray matter
press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...
—Angiogenesis factors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
—Loss of gray matter
press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...
Hoping for some of this this week!
November 23, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Hoping for some of this this week!
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I am somewhat biased towards lantern bugs and often make little trips searching for them. Here's Pyrops pythicus, endemic to Sumatra. How many colours do you see?
November 23, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I am somewhat biased towards lantern bugs and often make little trips searching for them. Here's Pyrops pythicus, endemic to Sumatra. How many colours do you see?
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Here are some nice mushrooms
November 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 21, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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November 22, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB)
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
November 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM
A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB)
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
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This is an essential and immensely clarifying piece.
You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.
You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.
NEW FROM ME:
The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM
This is an essential and immensely clarifying piece.
You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.
You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.
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A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others.
Check it out👇0️⃣🧠
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
Check it out👇0️⃣🧠
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others.
Check it out👇0️⃣🧠
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
Check it out👇0️⃣🧠
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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In my latest newsletter, I'm excited to announce my 3rd book!
THE INFINITE EXTENT. A book about life at different scales--of size, time, geography, longevity, connectivity, individuality, & more.
I see it as the conclusion of a trilogy of books.
More details: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...
THE INFINITE EXTENT. A book about life at different scales--of size, time, geography, longevity, connectivity, individuality, & more.
I see it as the conclusion of a trilogy of books.
More details: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...
November 15, 2023 at 10:09 PM
In my latest newsletter, I'm excited to announce my 3rd book!
THE INFINITE EXTENT. A book about life at different scales--of size, time, geography, longevity, connectivity, individuality, & more.
I see it as the conclusion of a trilogy of books.
More details: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...
THE INFINITE EXTENT. A book about life at different scales--of size, time, geography, longevity, connectivity, individuality, & more.
I see it as the conclusion of a trilogy of books.
More details: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...
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Happy Halloween 🎃
Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭
Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭
October 31, 2023 at 3:30 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃
Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭
Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭
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I am hoping my 🟦 to be more science-y 😜 but hey, check this preprint out: median base rate for Indian women in STEM is 16.7% 🫢. Thrilled to spot biaswatchindia folks here 💪🏽
👀 Are there any south asian women scientists I'm not following yet? Feel free to say hi! Let's connect! 🧪🔬
#WomenInSTEM
👀 Are there any south asian women scientists I'm not following yet? Feel free to say hi! Let's connect! 🧪🔬
#WomenInSTEM
Hoping to start some conversations around Indian #WomenInSTEM with our work! @vaishananth.bsky.social and I founded BiasWatchIndia back in 2020 during the pandemic and started collecting both base rate and conference data.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Women's representation in Indian academia and conferences
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 30, 2023 at 7:19 AM
I am hoping my 🟦 to be more science-y 😜 but hey, check this preprint out: median base rate for Indian women in STEM is 16.7% 🫢. Thrilled to spot biaswatchindia folks here 💪🏽
👀 Are there any south asian women scientists I'm not following yet? Feel free to say hi! Let's connect! 🧪🔬
#WomenInSTEM
👀 Are there any south asian women scientists I'm not following yet? Feel free to say hi! Let's connect! 🧪🔬
#WomenInSTEM
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It's time to recruit for the 2024 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program, which is our fourth year!
Mentee form: forms.gle/tryM66LaKGM5...
Mentor form: forms.gle/ncCcoNxYkJhN...
Applications are due December and placements will occur by mid-January!
Reach out with any questions!
Mentee form: forms.gle/tryM66LaKGM5...
Mentor form: forms.gle/ncCcoNxYkJhN...
Applications are due December and placements will occur by mid-January!
Reach out with any questions!
October 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM
It's time to recruit for the 2024 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program, which is our fourth year!
Mentee form: forms.gle/tryM66LaKGM5...
Mentor form: forms.gle/ncCcoNxYkJhN...
Applications are due December and placements will occur by mid-January!
Reach out with any questions!
Mentee form: forms.gle/tryM66LaKGM5...
Mentor form: forms.gle/ncCcoNxYkJhN...
Applications are due December and placements will occur by mid-January!
Reach out with any questions!