Valerie Tsai
@val-tsais.bsky.social
Neurosciences PhD Student @ Stanford 🌲
NSF GRFP fellow | prev: NIMH postbac, UW undergrad | ML & social behavior & patching ✨🐭 |
I write, sometimes...
vtsai881.github.io
NSF GRFP fellow | prev: NIMH postbac, UW undergrad | ML & social behavior & patching ✨🐭 |
I write, sometimes...
vtsai881.github.io
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
🚨: Mark your calendars! SNAAP is hosting a virtual Q&A panel led by current Stanford Neurosciences PhD students for any and all last minute grad school application questions!✍️RSVP here with this link (forms.gle/AErxr4rPr1Wz...) or by using the QR code below! ⏬
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
🚨: Mark your calendars! SNAAP is hosting a virtual Q&A panel led by current Stanford Neurosciences PhD students for any and all last minute grad school application questions!✍️RSVP here with this link (forms.gle/AErxr4rPr1Wz...) or by using the QR code below! ⏬
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
1/12
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*
www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*
www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
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September 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*
www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*
www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
September 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
New preprint!
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats
Urban rats are highly adaptable, thriving in the dynamic and often inhospitable conditions of modern cities. Despite substantial mitigation efforts, they remain an enduring presence in urban environme...
www.biorxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New preprint!
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Apply to this program and share with students in your networks! We will work 1:1 with you on your applications, CVs, interviews, etc bsky.app/profile/stan...
Just a few more days until the deadline!
If you're planning to apply to Bio-based PhD programs this year, considering joining us at the Biology Preview Program where we'll walk you through the PhD application process and help you polish you application materials!
Apply here: bit.ly/4n4Nxtu
If you're planning to apply to Bio-based PhD programs this year, considering joining us at the Biology Preview Program where we'll walk you through the PhD application process and help you polish you application materials!
Apply here: bit.ly/4n4Nxtu
July 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Apply to this program and share with students in your networks! We will work 1:1 with you on your applications, CVs, interviews, etc bsky.app/profile/stan...
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...
May 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇
A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain
Although topographical maps organize many peripheral sensory systems, it remains unclear whether olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) choose which of the ~1100 odor receptors (ORs) to express based upon t...
www.biorxiv.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
Not sure how to practice for your PhD interviews? Check out our guide below ⬇️
In addition to Mock Interview Office Hours, we also curated a guide on
📌 "How to run a grad school mock interview"! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check out more advice for mentees and mentors on our website: www.stanfordaap.com
📩 Share this with someone you know interviewing for grad school
📌 "How to run a grad school mock interview"! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check out more advice for mentees and mentors on our website: www.stanfordaap.com
📩 Share this with someone you know interviewing for grad school
2024-2025: Conducting a Mock Interview (Public copy)
2025 Stanford Neuroscience Application Assistance Program: Conducting a Mock Interview How to Conduct the Grad School Mock Interview (adapted from: https://octresources.stanford.edu/mock-interviews/...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Not sure how to practice for your PhD interviews? Check out our guide below ⬇️
Reposted by Valerie Tsai
🚨: SNAAP Mock Interviews Office Hours are now OPEN! 🎉
Our office hours consist of mock interviews and advice sessions for those currently applying/interviewing for Neuroscience PhD programs (including Stanford)!
Sign-up for a slot using our Calendly (link in bio)!
#neuroscience #PhDSky
Our office hours consist of mock interviews and advice sessions for those currently applying/interviewing for Neuroscience PhD programs (including Stanford)!
Sign-up for a slot using our Calendly (link in bio)!
#neuroscience #PhDSky
Stanford Neuro Application Assistance Program
Welcome! Please choose a mentor to schedule an interview with. Please try to book >48hrs in advance to give us time to coordinate with mentors in case there needs to be a switch-up
calendly.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🚨: SNAAP Mock Interviews Office Hours are now OPEN! 🎉
Our office hours consist of mock interviews and advice sessions for those currently applying/interviewing for Neuroscience PhD programs (including Stanford)!
Sign-up for a slot using our Calendly (link in bio)!
#neuroscience #PhDSky
Our office hours consist of mock interviews and advice sessions for those currently applying/interviewing for Neuroscience PhD programs (including Stanford)!
Sign-up for a slot using our Calendly (link in bio)!
#neuroscience #PhDSky