Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽🔬🇭🇷
@doctheagrif.bsky.social
UC Davis |👩🏽🔬 Sensory <—> Motor 💪🏽| Women’s Basketball Fan | Award-winning Children’s Book Author 🧫📚 🧬 | she/her www.thegriffithresearchgroup.com
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UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
health.ucdavis.edu
I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
Most of us aren’t the “dress up for Halloween” types 😇 but the Griffith Lab (and some members of the Contreras Lab!) had a fun Halloween Bowl 🎳 👻🎃 gotta find that joy in the madness.
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Most of us aren’t the “dress up for Halloween” types 😇 but the Griffith Lab (and some members of the Contreras Lab!) had a fun Halloween Bowl 🎳 👻🎃 gotta find that joy in the madness.
Mark your calendars! October 30th 2pm EST/11am PST The @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host the JUST-B Fall Seminar! Now it’s more important than ever to support our trainees as they share their awesome science.
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Mark your calendars! October 30th 2pm EST/11am PST The @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host the JUST-B Fall Seminar! Now it’s more important than ever to support our trainees as they share their awesome science.
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
Register here: my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.
creators.yahoo.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
lol
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At risk of spreading fear, I'm retweeting this without looking into the details
🚨🚨🚨⏰🧪 heads up to USA scientists with H1B visas who are currently abroad. This seems to be yet another way our government is destroying science. Call your immigration lawyer NOW!!
September 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
At risk of spreading fear, I'm retweeting this without looking into the details
I had an amazing experience at my first @hhmi.org Science Meeting! It was very fun to hear about the cool work done by HHMI labs across disciplines. It was also very interesting to see the commonalities and differences in approaches used by scientists from diverse fields.
September 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I had an amazing experience at my first @hhmi.org Science Meeting! It was very fun to hear about the cool work done by HHMI labs across disciplines. It was also very interesting to see the commonalities and differences in approaches used by scientists from diverse fields.
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Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...
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Look at these masked losers. This morning on 10th and Harrison.
August 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Look at these masked losers. This morning on 10th and Harrison.
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Trump is acting like a Chinese Communist Party asset: Trying to kill the American clean energy industry — ensuring an energy shortage & skyrocketing costs — as China smartly rockets ahead with massive clean energy expansion.
August 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trump is acting like a Chinese Communist Party asset: Trying to kill the American clean energy industry — ensuring an energy shortage & skyrocketing costs — as China smartly rockets ahead with massive clean energy expansion.
Major milestone achieved Wednesday: my very first grad student delivered his exit seminar. Dr. Cyrrus Espino is a science rock star and I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to contribute to his development. Very excited to see what’s to come in what will surely be a successful career. Cheers Doc!
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Major milestone achieved Wednesday: my very first grad student delivered his exit seminar. Dr. Cyrrus Espino is a science rock star and I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to contribute to his development. Very excited to see what’s to come in what will surely be a successful career. Cheers Doc!
Happy to share the my lab's latest preprint, where we investigated sensorimotor circuit formation in the developing spinal cord. We show that proprioceptive axons target motor neurons in neighboring spinal segments to give rise to intersegmental reflex responses.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Activity-driven proprioceptive synaptic refinement in the developing spinal cord by complement signaling mechanisms
Proprioceptive group Ia afferents detect muscle stretch to guide effortless and purposeful movement and make monosynaptic connections with spinal α–motor neurons to mediate reflexes, such as the stret...
www.biorxiv.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy to share the my lab's latest preprint, where we investigated sensorimotor circuit formation in the developing spinal cord. We show that proprioceptive axons target motor neurons in neighboring spinal segments to give rise to intersegmental reflex responses.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If you sent me an email in the last few weeks, my bad. This is how it found me 😎 promise I’ll get back to you soon.
August 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you sent me an email in the last few weeks, my bad. This is how it found me 😎 promise I’ll get back to you soon.
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Happy August 5 to all who celebrate! 😊🙌🏾#Alabamabrawl #Fadeinthewater #Thebruhsdonotplay #Aquamayne #IYKYK
August 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy August 5 to all who celebrate! 😊🙌🏾#Alabamabrawl #Fadeinthewater #Thebruhsdonotplay #Aquamayne #IYKYK
Notes my daughter took during my talk at the 2025 @faseborg.bsky.social Ion Channel Regulation Meeting 🥰🥰🥰
August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Notes my daughter took during my talk at the 2025 @faseborg.bsky.social Ion Channel Regulation Meeting 🥰🥰🥰
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Bloomberg argues Zeldin’s plan to revoke EPA’s 2009 greenhouse‑gas finding is fiscally reckless: it might save ~$1T in compliance but risks ~$87T in climate damages.
Legally shaky and economically absurd, it shifts massive costs to the public, on top of massive health risks.
zurl.co/Evupj
Legally shaky and economically absurd, it shifts massive costs to the public, on top of massive health risks.
zurl.co/Evupj
The $87 Trillion Bill That Comes From Denying Reality
Even putting aside science, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to reverse the finding that greenhouse-gas emissions are a danger to the public makes no economic sense.
zurl.co
August 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bloomberg argues Zeldin’s plan to revoke EPA’s 2009 greenhouse‑gas finding is fiscally reckless: it might save ~$1T in compliance but risks ~$87T in climate damages.
Legally shaky and economically absurd, it shifts massive costs to the public, on top of massive health risks.
zurl.co/Evupj
Legally shaky and economically absurd, it shifts massive costs to the public, on top of massive health risks.
zurl.co/Evupj
There are Black people in the future 👽
August 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
There are Black people in the future 👽
On our way to the FASEB Ion Channel Regulation Meeting! Passed by a lovely exhibition at SFO. Surprised to see it still standing! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 @drcontrexin.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
On our way to the FASEB Ion Channel Regulation Meeting! Passed by a lovely exhibition at SFO. Surprised to see it still standing! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 @drcontrexin.bsky.social
Yesterday I had the chance to let @mikethompson.house.gov know just how important it is he continue advocating against the destructive federal research funding cuts. I spoke about the importance of our research and how the cuts are affecting future generations of scientists.
August 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yesterday I had the chance to let @mikethompson.house.gov know just how important it is he continue advocating against the destructive federal research funding cuts. I spoke about the importance of our research and how the cuts are affecting future generations of scientists.
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Texas Republicans, at Trump’s request, are redrawing their Congressional district lines to steal FIVE additional seats.
They’re undoing democracy to keep themselves in power. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
They’re undoing democracy to keep themselves in power. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats
The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.
www.texastribune.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Texas Republicans, at Trump’s request, are redrawing their Congressional district lines to steal FIVE additional seats.
They’re undoing democracy to keep themselves in power. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
They’re undoing democracy to keep themselves in power. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
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Large-pore channels: the Transformers of membrane proteins, versatile, dramatic, and never just selective or passive conduits.
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
Current advances in large‐pore channels: From structure–function to physiology and disease
Click on the article title to read more.
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Large-pore channels: the Transformers of membrane proteins, versatile, dramatic, and never just selective or passive conduits.
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.
Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!
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"NIH, EPA, & now NASA. The federal government’s scientists & science-adjacent employees are in open revolt against an administration that wears its disdain for such work and expertise on its sleeve..."
Support the brave #NASA employees here ➡️zurl.co/jHKbx
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#VoyagerDeclaration
Support the brave #NASA employees here ➡️zurl.co/jHKbx
zurl.co/zhiwg
#VoyagerDeclaration
'Catastrophic Impacts': NASA Employees Join Parade of Agency Dissenters
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"NIH, EPA, & now NASA. The federal government’s scientists & science-adjacent employees are in open revolt against an administration that wears its disdain for such work and expertise on its sleeve..."
Support the brave #NASA employees here ➡️zurl.co/jHKbx
zurl.co/zhiwg
#VoyagerDeclaration
Support the brave #NASA employees here ➡️zurl.co/jHKbx
zurl.co/zhiwg
#VoyagerDeclaration
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The problem with this headline writing style is now that it is possible for a vehicle to actually do this without human guidance it’s actually a problem that AP refuses to say that a person drove their vehicle into a crowd
Which is terrible
Which is terrible
BREAKING: A vehicle has driven into a crowd of people in East Hollywood, injuring more than 20, the Los Angeles Fire Department says.
A vehicle drives into a crowd in East Hollywood, injuring more than 20 people
The Los Angeles Fire Department reports a vehicle has driven into a crowd in East Hollywood, injuring over 20 people. The incident happened on Santa Monica Boulevard.
bit.ly
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The problem with this headline writing style is now that it is possible for a vehicle to actually do this without human guidance it’s actually a problem that AP refuses to say that a person drove their vehicle into a crowd
Which is terrible
Which is terrible
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More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests.
We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.
We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.
July 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests.
We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.
We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.
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If you see AI videos of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask speaking and pretending to be Anonymous, those are fake and are being generated by MAGA. Be aware and know the signs.
It's cringe, don't fall for it.
It's cringe, don't fall for it.
July 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you see AI videos of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask speaking and pretending to be Anonymous, those are fake and are being generated by MAGA. Be aware and know the signs.
It's cringe, don't fall for it.
It's cringe, don't fall for it.
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Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
July 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
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Meet Kyndall Nicholas, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Meet Kyndall Nicholas, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.