Miriam Ortega
@meortega.bsky.social
NSF GRFP fellow / PhD Candidate in behavioral neuroscience @ UCLA
All about reward learning + cue-motivated behavior 🌟🐀
All about reward learning + cue-motivated behavior 🌟🐀
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
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The order to restore grants applies to 300 NSF grants, not the NIH grant suspensions
BREAKING: A San Francisco-based judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of science research grants to UCLA, more than a third of the $584 million in funds the government has cut: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration must restore hundreds of UCLA research grants, federal judge rules
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Trump administration to restore hundreds of frozen National Science Foundation research grants to UCLA.
www.latimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The order to restore grants applies to 300 NSF grants, not the NIH grant suspensions
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The billion dollars is the least of it. It’s universities’ autonomy, independence, and integrity that Trump is really after. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...
www.cnn.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The billion dollars is the least of it. It’s universities’ autonomy, independence, and integrity that Trump is really after. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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First first-author manuscript out as a preprint! Look at our cool new effort & delay cost task. 🐀💕 🧠
Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
June 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
First first-author manuscript out as a preprint! Look at our cool new effort & delay cost task. 🐀💕 🧠
Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A progressive ratio task with costly resets reveals adaptive effort-delay tradeoffs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657635v1
June 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A progressive ratio task with costly resets reveals adaptive effort-delay tradeoffs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657635v1
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A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University
A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.
www.thenation.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
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The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
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A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
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Local LA protest is happening on Friday March 7th at Noon on Wilshire and Veteran! @latimes.com Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Local LA protest is happening on Friday March 7th at Noon on Wilshire and Veteran! @latimes.com Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
scim.ag
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
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Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.
MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
docs.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.
I finally ditched Twitter/X and am excited to be here and connect with other scientists 🥳
December 1, 2024 at 2:07 AM
I finally ditched Twitter/X and am excited to be here and connect with other scientists 🥳