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Stefanie Robel
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Writing a book for research teams. Associate Professor Neuroscience. Riding horses in my free time. Helping PIs to create low-stress lab & mentoring systems @glia-leadership.
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If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...
Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing - cee.mit.edu
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), together with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candidate...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
Open Rank Faculty Position Artificial Intelligence in Biological Sciences
Position DescriptionThe School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) seeks to fill multiple open-rank (Full, Associate, or Assistant Professor) tenured/t...
jobs.utdallas.edu
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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When we push students to always choose the highest-ranked programs, we make it easier for those programs (or their faculty) to get away with treating students badly. Since that push sends the message that students should just be grateful to be there, no matter the cost.
There's some good advice in this thread, but I'm going to offer another take on #6 here:

The "best" (i.e. most prestigious) program you get into might not be the best fit for you, and you can still have a great career, even if you decide not to put status above everything else.
6) If you are offered the opportunity to do a PhD or a master at Oxbridge, Harvard or Yale don’t thing twice. Go!

7) Smart work exists in academia as well. Just look for it.

8) Paradoxically the pace of innovation at work can be slower in academia than other
businesses.
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious.

Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy.

1/ 🧪#NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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U-Miami has a postdoctoral mentored research training program in Alzheimer's / neurodegeneration, with 2 years of funding for fellows. If you're interested in my lab and applying cognitive neuroscience and precision neuroimaging methods to studying AD, please reach out! mbi-umiami.org/training/
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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During your PhD you learn to do science...but not to lead people. And later, you're too busy, so just keep going on autopilot.
Join us in a FREE class with @glia-leadership.bsky.social + @stefanierobel.bsky.social all about lab leadership & team success.
👉 buff.ly/AzDWf09
#NewPI #TenureTrack
From Good To Great Research Teams Free Webinar
Free webinar for PIs and future PIs: hire right, prevent conflict, raise standards without burnout. Practical tools you can use immediately.
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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As hard as it sounds...Not every lab member is a good fit 😅
Learn how to spot red flags, raise standards, and lead your research team without burnout.
We're hosting a free class with @glia-leadership.bsky.social + @stefanierobel.bsky.social
👉 buff.ly/AzDWf09
#NewPI #TenureTrack #AcademicSky
From Good To Great Research Teams Free Webinar
Free webinar for PIs and future PIs: hire right, prevent conflict, raise standards without burnout. Practical tools you can use immediately.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’ll be riding an endurance race in Mississippi on No Kings Day. So I made a shirt. Hope everyone is planning on showing up on 10/18!
October 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A response from MIT rejecting "The Compact"...

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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October 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Looking forward to this session on cultivating great teams. Thanks @anapineda.bsky.social for hosting us!
October 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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148 clinical trials have been impacted, with 138k patients due to be enrolled or already enrolled.

Once research stops, some won't pick up where they left off. Even when terminated funding was reinstated, things do not go back to normal.

There is so much waste happening.
🧪 archive.today/Rii7f
The damage done - Nature Medicine
When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.
www.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
We’re hosting @anapineda.bsky.social from I Focus and Write tomorrow at noon ET. Join us for a walk through 4 mistakes grant writers make.
One hour. Four fixes.

Fewer rewrites. Ana Pineda @anapineda.bsky.social walks us through the top mistakes in grant writing and shows practical swaps you can use this week. Free Zoom, Mon Oct 6, 12:00 ET / 18:00 Amsterdam

Register here👇

ifocusandwrite.lpages.co/glia-class-g...
FREE class to get funded 🎊
An online event with the FREE class Getting funded: 4 mistakes to avoid when you write your next grant.
ifocusandwrite.lpages.co
October 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Last chance to join us today at 1pm ET. Link in thread.
I invite you to let your #NewPI & #FuturePIs know:
Tomorrow I’m running a short session on building a lab that can hold up in “winter”—the season when paylines are tight, rules keep changing, and hiring/approvals slow down.
a picture of a man with the words winter is here below him
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October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I invite you to let your #NewPI & #FuturePIs know:
Tomorrow I’m running a short session on building a lab that can hold up in “winter”—the season when paylines are tight, rules keep changing, and hiring/approvals slow down.
a picture of a man with the words winter is here below him
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October 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Have you are a New PI and recently thought:
"This isn’t the dream I thought it would be." Been there, done that! And you have it way harder right now. But you don't have to do it alone!

📅 Oct 3, 1:00 pm ET
From New PI to Tenure: 3 Moves to Launch a Research Program That Survives
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September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🔬 New PIs: this one’s for you. When I started my lab 10 years ago, I thought I knew what I was getting into. I had the training, the passion, the drive.

But the reality hit harder than I expected.
September 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Penn State Psychology is Hiring!

Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social

Questions can be sent to:
SSRIQuant-CompSearch@psu.edu.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology.

Our department is amazing - come join us...

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Assistant Professor-Neurobiology
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September 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level!

Applications Due by October 15, 2025

We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels.

lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...
MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...
lsa.umich.edu
August 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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May 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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When I was a kid, due to either neglect, trust in the tv, precognition, or a combination, my parents left me alone to watch 1954’s animated version of “Animal Farm.”

I was six.

I consider the experience of watching Animal Farm alone as if a Disney cartoon it was, a keystone of my upbringing.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars!

stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
Science Fellows
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Got my Labwork to Leadership book by @jenheemstra.bsky.social today! Can’t wait to dive in #researchteams #researchleadership #PIs
August 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM