Susy Kohout
@susyk.bsky.social
Biophysicist, neuroscientist, cell biologist. Fascinated by cells using electricity (!!!) to communicate. Opinions are my own.
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My department at UCLA is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics - Please RP! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09913 #biostatistics #statistics #datascience
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics: 2025 DataX
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
October 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM
My department at UCLA is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics - Please RP! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09913 #biostatistics #statistics #datascience
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Many scientific awards end up concentrated in a few institutions in a few states. You can spread important scientific awards if you try--40 NIH New Innovator Awards, 29 institutions, 18 states. There is great science in every state! 🧪
commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator...
commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator...
October 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Many scientific awards end up concentrated in a few institutions in a few states. You can spread important scientific awards if you try--40 NIH New Innovator Awards, 29 institutions, 18 states. There is great science in every state! 🧪
commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator...
commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator...
Just found out about this great funding 🤑 opportunity for institutions in low- and middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank, to support junior faculty investigators involved in aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) from these institutions. #LatinInSTEM 🧪 👩🔬
October 3, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Just found out about this great funding 🤑 opportunity for institutions in low- and middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank, to support junior faculty investigators involved in aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) from these institutions. #LatinInSTEM 🧪 👩🔬
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Reminder to evaluate the grant on its scientific merits and the suitability of the investigator to do the research, rather than just cite the PI’s pedigree as a surrogate for its quality.
September 23, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Reminder to evaluate the grant on its scientific merits and the suitability of the investigator to do the research, rather than just cite the PI’s pedigree as a surrogate for its quality.
Good thread for keeping up with what is going on with Sabatini. 👩🔬
1/New court filing from David Sabatini (dkt#213) includes a letter from HHS, saying a debarment is being considered. It says generally debarments are for three years or less.
September 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Good thread for keeping up with what is going on with Sabatini. 👩🔬
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I'm thinking this would be a useful resource for hiring searches and also any DEI efforts. YES! DEI is still a thing and I support it. #academicsky #science #medsky
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists
The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists is a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.
www.fredhutch.org
September 17, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I'm thinking this would be a useful resource for hiring searches and also any DEI efforts. YES! DEI is still a thing and I support it. #academicsky #science #medsky
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
I am humbled to be listed with some many other inspiring Hispanic/LatinX scientists. It is a privilege and an honor to be recognized!🧪👩🔬 #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth #biophysics #LatinInSTEM
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists
www.fredhutch.org
September 16, 2024 at 4:40 PM
I am humbled to be listed with some many other inspiring Hispanic/LatinX scientists. It is a privilege and an honor to be recognized!🧪👩🔬 #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth #biophysics #LatinInSTEM
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
www.fredhutch.org/en/about/abo...
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If she weren't a woman of color, this would be called competence.
Reporting that being prepared for a meeting with someone as important as the Vice President is stressful because Harris is competent is a problem that really sums up the wholly deserved imposter syndrome fears of Big Journalism.
September 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
If she weren't a woman of color, this would be called competence.
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🚨 Registration is LIVE for our FIFTH annual Black In Neuro Week, happening this July 29-August 4th! We’ll have seven days packed with FREE programming that’s open to all. 🥰🧠
Register today!! ➡️ blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5771083
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BlackInStem 🧪
Register today!! ➡️ blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5771083
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BlackInStem 🧪
July 26, 2024 at 1:11 PM
🚨 Registration is LIVE for our FIFTH annual Black In Neuro Week, happening this July 29-August 4th! We’ll have seven days packed with FREE programming that’s open to all. 🥰🧠
Register today!! ➡️ blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5771083
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BlackInStem 🧪
Register today!! ➡️ blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5771083
#Neuroscience #Psychology #BlackInStem 🧪
These are so awesome! They capture the crazed type of motion that my cats have always displayed.
Doing some reference searches and tripped over the best art of a cat I've ever seen.
Credit: Léo Forest, a France-based artist
Credit: Léo Forest, a France-based artist
July 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM
These are so awesome! They capture the crazed type of motion that my cats have always displayed.
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New NIGMS Bridges to the Doctorate just dropped. We’ll have a webinar August 8th (deets in blog post 👇) loop.nigms.nih.gov/2024/07/new-...
New Bridges to the Doctorate Funding Opportunity and Upcoming Webinar
Feedback Loop alerts researchers to NIGMS funding policies, trends, plans, and more.
loop.nigms.nih.gov
July 23, 2024 at 3:38 PM
New NIGMS Bridges to the Doctorate just dropped. We’ll have a webinar August 8th (deets in blog post 👇) loop.nigms.nih.gov/2024/07/new-...
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Neuro folks, I have a new SABV perspective/opinion piece out in TINS. As SABV becomes the new norm, we’re learning about the limits of our behavioral tasks—what do we do when expts seem not to “work” in females? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Behavioral neuroscience’s inevitable SABV growing pains
The field of rodent behavioral neuroscience is undergoing two major sea changes: an ever-growing technological revolution, and worldwide calls to cons…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 22, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Neuro folks, I have a new SABV perspective/opinion piece out in TINS. As SABV becomes the new norm, we’re learning about the limits of our behavioral tasks—what do we do when expts seem not to “work” in females? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Of all the mistaken orders I've put it, making this mistake would have been fun! 🧪
July 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Of all the mistaken orders I've put it, making this mistake would have been fun! 🧪
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Just a reminder to tag your posts with #WomenInSTEM or a woman scientist emoji 👩🏻🔬 to have them show up in the Women in STEM feed. 🧪 🐡 🍎
July 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Just a reminder to tag your posts with #WomenInSTEM or a woman scientist emoji 👩🏻🔬 to have them show up in the Women in STEM feed. 🧪 🐡 🍎
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#WormWednesday Our @PlantNeuro team turned off-the-shelf equipment into a platform that can study how C. elegans roundworms respond to dozens of chemicals in <2.5 hours. 1/4
July 18, 2024 at 6:13 AM
#WormWednesday Our @PlantNeuro team turned off-the-shelf equipment into a platform that can study how C. elegans roundworms respond to dozens of chemicals in <2.5 hours. 1/4
US citizens or permanent residents from an under-represented group!
You can contact any NIH-funded researcher you admire & suggest applying for this supplement to join their lab! High school thru postdoc/faculty.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
You can contact any NIH-funded researcher you admire & suggest applying for this supplement to join their lab! High school thru postdoc/faculty.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
PA-23-189: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-23-189....
grants.nih.gov
July 17, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously agrees to toss out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills — saying the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case failed to show they had been harmed.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA's approval of mifepristone
The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffere...
www.npr.org
June 13, 2024 at 2:24 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously agrees to toss out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills — saying the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case failed to show they had been harmed.
Really interesting read. I would love it if universities would actually implement restorative justice in the face of harassers. I won't hold my breath though.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How restorative justice could help to heal science communities torn apart by harassment misconduct
Could a programme used by police to tackle repeat offending be used in academia? Some institutions are keen to find out. Could a programme used by police to tackle repeat offending be used in academia...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Really interesting read. I would love it if universities would actually implement restorative justice in the face of harassers. I won't hold my breath though.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So happy that these results are finally seeing the light! 🎉It was a collaborative project with many undergrads, grads and postdocs contributing. The S1 helix in the voltage sensing domain does far more 💪 than most give it credit for!
rupress.org/jgp/article/...
rupress.org/jgp/article/...
Hydrophobic residues in S1 modulate enzymatic function and voltage sensing in voltage-sensing phosphatase | Journal of General Physiology | Rockefeller University Press
Rayaprolu et al. investigated how hydrophobic residues impact the function of the voltage-sensing phosphatase. They mutated different positions in the S1 h
rupress.org
May 31, 2024 at 1:16 PM
So happy that these results are finally seeing the light! 🎉It was a collaborative project with many undergrads, grads and postdocs contributing. The S1 helix in the voltage sensing domain does far more 💪 than most give it credit for!
rupress.org/jgp/article/...
rupress.org/jgp/article/...
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BRAIN Initiative folks, please check your notices if considering June applications. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-MH-24-275: Notice of Cancellation of the June 07, 2024, Application Receipt Date for RFA-MH-24-280 "BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-S...
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Cancellation of the June 07, 2024, Application Receipt Date for RFA-MH-24-280
grants.nih.gov
May 6, 2024 at 7:02 PM
BRAIN Initiative folks, please check your notices if considering June applications. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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I propose that PIs should expect universities to provide this disparity between NRSA amounts and institutionally defined stipends and tuitions, especially since they are the ones often negotiating/defining these amounts without faculty involvement
May 3, 2024 at 5:57 PM
I propose that PIs should expect universities to provide this disparity between NRSA amounts and institutionally defined stipends and tuitions, especially since they are the ones often negotiating/defining these amounts without faculty involvement
Postbac opportunity in cognitive aging, Alzheimers and other neurodegenerative diseases now live at UF. Great opportunity for recent graduates who want some research experience before applying to grad school. neuroscience.ufl.edu/training/pos...
Postbacc Program (GATORAADE) » Department of Neuroscience » College of Medicine » University of Florida
Gators Advancing Through Opportunities in Research For Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Education (GATORAADE) Program What is GATORAADE? The University of Florida’s Gators Advancing Through Opportunities...
neuroscience.ufl.edu
May 2, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Instead of suspending students and sending in the cops to beat and arrest people at Palestine/Gaza solidarity encampments, more university administrators should follow the lead of Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth.
May 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Instead of suspending students and sending in the cops to beat and arrest people at Palestine/Gaza solidarity encampments, more university administrators should follow the lead of Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth.
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one constant in protests are the well-meaning people who haven’t spent much time around cops and try to reason with them, only to be met with immediate violence
April 26, 2024 at 5:23 AM
one constant in protests are the well-meaning people who haven’t spent much time around cops and try to reason with them, only to be met with immediate violence