Victoria Honnell
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Victoria Honnell
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Developmental Neurobiologist | Postdoc in the Amamoto lab at @harvardmed.bsky.social /MEEI studying regeneration | @stjude.bsky.social alum | NIH DSPAN | BWFUND PDEP
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Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis - Nature
HARE5, a human accelerated region enhancer, modulates cortical development by influencing neural progenitor cell behaviour, leading to an enlarged neocortex with increased functional independence betw...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...

I barely have words.

Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#ResearchRewind: Tree-dwelling salamanders placed in wind tunnels to study how they control their fall when leaping from great heights. cell.com/current-biol...

Christian Brown, Erik Sathe, Robert Dudley, & Stephen Deban
@currentbiology.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
April 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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SfN reversed their decision, THE WORKSHOP IS ON, it will center around communicating neuroscience to non-English speaking communities, see you at SfN 2025!!!!
Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.

Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM