Krisha Aghi, PhD
@phdoll.bsky.social
Neurology postdoc @ UCLA in the Aharoni lab
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.
Excited to announce that I am joining the Aharoni lab @ UCLA as a postdoc! Looking forward to building open source infrastructures for Miniscopes and more!!!
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Excited to announce that I am joining the Aharoni lab @ UCLA as a postdoc! Looking forward to building open source infrastructures for Miniscopes and more!!!
That's sister with SUCH a cool paper!!
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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September 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
That's sister with SUCH a cool paper!!
What can you even say at this point?
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
What can you even say at this point?
Bending over to promote a genocide at great expense and STILL losing their federal funding.... I have to laugh.
August 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Bending over to promote a genocide at great expense and STILL losing their federal funding.... I have to laugh.
Signed my IRACDA contract for the year only for NIH and NSF to pull some bullshit and suspend all grants to UCLA.... GIRL......
August 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Signed my IRACDA contract for the year only for NIH and NSF to pull some bullshit and suspend all grants to UCLA.... GIRL......
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Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.
July 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.
How it feels not wading into the JGP discourse on this Monday
July 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
How it feels not wading into the JGP discourse on this Monday
Funding restored for one more year
July 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Funding restored for one more year
Wtf is "brain on a chip" supposed to look like lmao. Ofc it's PETA backed too
The end of biomedical sciences has finally arrived: NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Wtf is "brain on a chip" supposed to look like lmao. Ofc it's PETA backed too
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L.A. TACO has confirmed that Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20yr-old US citizen taken by federal agents while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is being held at the federal building in downtown L.A. ~ Aisha Wallace-Palomares reporting.
June 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
L.A. TACO has confirmed that Adrian Andrew Martinez, the 20yr-old US citizen taken by federal agents while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is being held at the federal building in downtown L.A. ~ Aisha Wallace-Palomares reporting.
Pls not the 2016 "ur valid" approach!! Instead tell them one way or another we WILL make sure they get the access they need.
That we show them that we are trans adults and we almost invariably didn't have gender affirming care before puberty and we are loved and beautiful and happy. The story of trans joy and trans beloved community NEEDS to be louder than the story of trans suicidality today.
June 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Pls not the 2016 "ur valid" approach!! Instead tell them one way or another we WILL make sure they get the access they need.
🧪 The final work from my PhD is finally out today! We found that synapses at the larval fruit fly neuromusculsr junction (NMJ) were individually highly diverse in their synaptic release properties. However... (1/5)
Balanced synapse-to-synapse short-term plasticity ensures constant transmitter release
Basal synaptic strength can vary greatly between synapses. Aghi et al. find a similar
large variability in short-term plasticity between synapses of a Drosophila single
motor neuron. Strikingly, the c...
www.cell.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧪 The final work from my PhD is finally out today! We found that synapses at the larval fruit fly neuromusculsr junction (NMJ) were individually highly diverse in their synaptic release properties. However... (1/5)
Cat's out of the bag!!! Super excited to be a part of this incredible community!
We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
Learn more about these exceptional scientists:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
May 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cat's out of the bag!!! Super excited to be a part of this incredible community!
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**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...
Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...
Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...
Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...
Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
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It's still really unbelievable how the IDF just bombed Al Ahli hospital, the last standing hospital in Gaza, with its patients and doctors and there is not one post about it to be found on this website.
April 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's still really unbelievable how the IDF just bombed Al Ahli hospital, the last standing hospital in Gaza, with its patients and doctors and there is not one post about it to be found on this website.
OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.
April 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.
Well divas... I want to say it's over but my delusion says it's not quite over yet.
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
You want to know the best way to show thanks for chairing a study section? Early the next morning sent them a termination notice for their PREP training grant.
April 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well divas... I want to say it's over but my delusion says it's not quite over yet.
Lmaooo vindicated once again!
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Lmaooo vindicated once again!