Britt Chamberlain
@britt-chamberlain.bsky.social
MD/PhD candidate (Ahmari Lab) at the University of Pittsburgh | she/her
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My quote of the day
(A long one)
Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top.
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(A long one)
Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top.
1/n
April 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My quote of the day
(A long one)
Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top.
1/n
(A long one)
Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top.
1/n
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This makes me wonder if we might be throwing out some of the baby with the bathwater when we control for respiration artifacts in our brain imaging data.
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Synchrony between neuronal activity and the respiratory cycle has been observed in numerous brain regions and across many species. Tort et al. discuss the mechanisms by which brain activity is modulat...
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This makes me wonder if we might be throwing out some of the baby with the bathwater when we control for respiration artifacts in our brain imaging data.
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I'm excited to be matched to at @stanfordanes.bsky.social, an excellent program, and future home for me to continue my career as a physician scientist caring for the people from where I grew up. 🧑🏻⚕️👨🏽🔬 #doubledocs
March 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I'm excited to be matched to at @stanfordanes.bsky.social, an excellent program, and future home for me to continue my career as a physician scientist caring for the people from where I grew up. 🧑🏻⚕️👨🏽🔬 #doubledocs
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I did it, I’m a doctor now! It’ll probably take me some time to process everything that has happened. I am so incredibly grateful for my community near and far. And I’m so proud of myself for this accomplishment. I’m exhausted, but so full of love ♥️♥️
Huge congratulations to @glopez.bsky.social on her PhD thesis defense today! A wonderful presentation from a wonderful person, and a much welcome joyful celebration of the science that is possible when we come together to support each other ❤️
Dr. Lopez!!! Well deserved
Dr. Lopez!!! Well deserved
April 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I did it, I’m a doctor now! It’ll probably take me some time to process everything that has happened. I am so incredibly grateful for my community near and far. And I’m so proud of myself for this accomplishment. I’m exhausted, but so full of love ♥️♥️
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McCormick and Fetterman were supposed to do a book tour appearance in Pittsburgh, but canceled at the last minute because they heard people would be protesting. We showed up anyway. The book is about mentoring. As mentors, we are concerned. With @ahmarilab.bsky.social and @goldpainlab.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
McCormick and Fetterman were supposed to do a book tour appearance in Pittsburgh, but canceled at the last minute because they heard people would be protesting. We showed up anyway. The book is about mentoring. As mentors, we are concerned. With @ahmarilab.bsky.social and @goldpainlab.bsky.social
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Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying Nihilism.
Signifying Nihilism.
March 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying Nihilism.
Signifying Nihilism.
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Moving on from Pittsburgh @standupforscience.bsky.social to Senator McCormick’s office in downtown Pittsburgh (310 Grant St)- join us Yinzers!!!!! 💗💪🏼🧪
March 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Moving on from Pittsburgh @standupforscience.bsky.social to Senator McCormick’s office in downtown Pittsburgh (310 Grant St)- join us Yinzers!!!!! 💗💪🏼🧪
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Practical article by the talented @nytimes.com reporter @cdcaron.bsky.social Thank you for the opportunity to comment on "Letting Go of Sentimental Objects Is Hard. Here’s How to Start." 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...
Too Sentimental to Declutter? Start Here.
Decluttering experts share their best tips.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Practical article by the talented @nytimes.com reporter @cdcaron.bsky.social Thank you for the opportunity to comment on "Letting Go of Sentimental Objects Is Hard. Here’s How to Start." 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...
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If you’ve ever witnessed an undergrad use a serological pipette for the first time or look at a fluorescent cell under a microscope, you know that watching students start to love science in real time is one of the best feelings ever. The attack on NIH is just a Thanos snap for tomorrow’s scientists.
February 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If you’ve ever witnessed an undergrad use a serological pipette for the first time or look at a fluorescent cell under a microscope, you know that watching students start to love science in real time is one of the best feelings ever. The attack on NIH is just a Thanos snap for tomorrow’s scientists.
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Huge shout out to all of you scientists out there who are continuing to science in stressful times!!! 💪🏼🎊🧪🧑🔬👩🏻🔬👨🔬👩🏽🔬👨🏿🔬
Pictured: awesome postdoc @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social presenting super interesting data at lab meeting today re: neural circuits underlying active avoidance
Pictured: awesome postdoc @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social presenting super interesting data at lab meeting today re: neural circuits underlying active avoidance
February 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Huge shout out to all of you scientists out there who are continuing to science in stressful times!!! 💪🏼🎊🧪🧑🔬👩🏻🔬👨🔬👩🏽🔬👨🏿🔬
Pictured: awesome postdoc @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social presenting super interesting data at lab meeting today re: neural circuits underlying active avoidance
Pictured: awesome postdoc @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social presenting super interesting data at lab meeting today re: neural circuits underlying active avoidance
Spent this Valentine’s Day with @vincip.bsky.social standing up for science! I’m very grateful that she puts up with my shenanigans - today this included designing stickers with a QR code to contact reps about the current attacks on scientific research.
February 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Spent this Valentine’s Day with @vincip.bsky.social standing up for science! I’m very grateful that she puts up with my shenanigans - today this included designing stickers with a QR code to contact reps about the current attacks on scientific research.
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OK Yinzers- it's time to stand up for science!!! I will be at Schenley Plaza TODAY AT 5PM.
🙏 please join me there! We need to let people know what's happening!🙏
And yes, I know it's Valentine's Day #StandupForScienceWithYourSweetie 💗💕🧑🔬👨🔬👩🔬💕 💗
Please repost and do something similar at your campus!🧪
🙏 please join me there! We need to let people know what's happening!🙏
And yes, I know it's Valentine's Day #StandupForScienceWithYourSweetie 💗💕🧑🔬👨🔬👩🔬💕 💗
Please repost and do something similar at your campus!🧪
Not that it matters much, but ~1200 of these were from CDC. I believe the 5200 figure is actually HHS wide. Could be some at FDA included in this as well.
5200 people. They just received notices apparently.
February 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
OK Yinzers- it's time to stand up for science!!! I will be at Schenley Plaza TODAY AT 5PM.
🙏 please join me there! We need to let people know what's happening!🙏
And yes, I know it's Valentine's Day #StandupForScienceWithYourSweetie 💗💕🧑🔬👨🔬👩🔬💕 💗
Please repost and do something similar at your campus!🧪
🙏 please join me there! We need to let people know what's happening!🙏
And yes, I know it's Valentine's Day #StandupForScienceWithYourSweetie 💗💕🧑🔬👨🔬👩🔬💕 💗
Please repost and do something similar at your campus!🧪
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The ACNP has joined forces with other brain and behavior organizations in opposition of the NIH imposed standard indirect cost rate. acnp.org/about-us/st...
February 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The ACNP has joined forces with other brain and behavior organizations in opposition of the NIH imposed standard indirect cost rate. acnp.org/about-us/st...
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We’re doing this!!! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! 🧪
March 7th- I’ll be heading to DC!
March 7th- I’ll be heading to DC!
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
February 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We’re doing this!!! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! 🧪
March 7th- I’ll be heading to DC!
March 7th- I’ll be heading to DC!
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The illegal cut of NIH indirect costs will mean at least $115M cut to University of Pittsburgh @fetterman.senate.gov @davemccormick.bsky.social. This means huge loss of middle and working class jobs and research trials for breakthrough treatments for residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio, & West Virginia
Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
datawrapper.dwcdn.net
February 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The illegal cut of NIH indirect costs will mean at least $115M cut to University of Pittsburgh @fetterman.senate.gov @davemccormick.bsky.social. This means huge loss of middle and working class jobs and research trials for breakthrough treatments for residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio, & West Virginia
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Keep sharing your JOY ✨
Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things.
Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.
Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things.
Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.
January 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Keep sharing your JOY ✨
Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things.
Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.
Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things.
Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.
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Mentors and advisors, a very impactful thing you can do right now is to assure your mentees from all backgrounds that you will continue to support them because their worth is not contingent on any program or funding mechanism 💕
January 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Mentors and advisors, a very impactful thing you can do right now is to assure your mentees from all backgrounds that you will continue to support them because their worth is not contingent on any program or funding mechanism 💕
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Energized by all the great science at #ACNP2024 why not scale a mountain? @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Energized by all the great science at #ACNP2024 why not scale a mountain? @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social
Meeting @umarchatterjee.bsky.social was an absolute highlight of my week! #ACNP2024
It was a joy to meet many wonderful folks @ #ACNP2024 who genuinely wanted to learn about #RealOCD! Esp grateful for the openness＋curiosity folks had toward my livedexperience＋intersection w/research🙏🏾
For anyone interested in OCD＋my story—resharing NIMH’s article!👇🏾
www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science...
For anyone interested in OCD＋my story—resharing NIMH’s article!👇🏾
www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science...
My Life With OCD
Graduate student and mental health advocate Uma Chatterjee, M.S., shares her personal journey navigating life with OCD.
www.nimh.nih.gov
December 12, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Meeting @umarchatterjee.bsky.social was an absolute highlight of my week! #ACNP2024
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Reverse twinning from the Ahmari Lab avoidance circuits crew! @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social
👯♀️- see some of Britt’s work tonight at T249! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
👯♀️- see some of Britt’s work tonight at T249! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Reverse twinning from the Ahmari Lab avoidance circuits crew! @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social
👯♀️- see some of Britt’s work tonight at T249! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
👯♀️- see some of Britt’s work tonight at T249! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
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@britt-chamberlain.bsky.social @crodriguezmdphd.bsky.social @drlizziemanning.bsky.social
Amazing #OCD poster alley!!! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
Amazing #OCD poster alley!!! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM
It’s almost poster time! Looking forward to sharing my thesis work exploring mOFC single-cell and population representation of active avoidance learning in mice. Come say hi! #ACNP2024
December 10, 2024 at 11:34 PM
It’s almost poster time! Looking forward to sharing my thesis work exploring mOFC single-cell and population representation of active avoidance learning in mice. Come say hi! #ACNP2024
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Tidbit from the #ACNP2024 women's luncheon:
To be an effective leader, you need to develop the skill of having difficult conversations. This is done through practice.
To be an effective leader, you need to develop the skill of having difficult conversations. This is done through practice.
December 10, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Tidbit from the #ACNP2024 women's luncheon:
To be an effective leader, you need to develop the skill of having difficult conversations. This is done through practice.
To be an effective leader, you need to develop the skill of having difficult conversations. This is done through practice.