I missed most of #BINW24 while cruising the Mediterranean 😭 but it was full of #BlackJoyInNeuro! I can’t wait to follow-up on all the talks on YouTube. Here is a photo of me in Lisbon to make up for my absence.

Still on a high from a lovely Boston #BlackInNeuroJoy meetup. Thanks to everyone who came out and excited for the community to grow! A great way to wrap up #BINW24

Incredibly fortunate to receive the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant for the Coley lab🥳 🫡 BBRFoundation I'm so excited for this journey!

🚨LAST CALL Postdocs!!! There’s still time to apply for our #postdoc seminar series NE𝗨𝗥O YES! 🧠 Deadline: August 15th! APPLY NOW➡️neuroyes.urmc.edu Join us and share your science with the University of Rochester community! Black In Neuro 🧠 BRAINS Women and Minorities in Science at SIO URochester SMD

The upcoming #NIHLRP application cycle opens in 3 weeks. If you’re planning to apply, be sure to reach out to an NIH Loan Repayment PO before submitting your application ⬇️🔎💻 #AcademicChatter

Finally got to meet my #neuroethics twin, the inimitable Olivia Matshabane, in South Africa! We met through Tim Brown on a International Neuroethics Society panel on Scientific Oppression, Biological Reductionism, and Neurotechnology. Definitely a collab cooking up 🤩🧠 #BlackInNeuro #Africa

Inspired by Barack Obama, here is my list of favorite books I've read in the past months. Cool to see we've enjoyed at least one book in common.

From my #twitterless rising star 💫 -- Hi! I’m Emma, a rising senior at Harvard concentrating in Neuro and RA in Dr. Ferguson’s lab, where I study the neural mechanisms in attention for my thesis. Excited to join in more Black In Neuro 🧠 activities! #BlackInNeuroRollCall #BINW24

Our fearless co-founders are very resourceful 🤓☔️

I see how she snuck that last line in there 👀😂 But Ashley is a BRILLIANT scientist and would be a phenomenal postdoc addition to any lab 👇🏾👇🏾 y’all better jump on recruiting her ASAP ✨❤️ #BlackInNeuro #HireBlackInNeuro #RecruitBlackInNeuro

Thank you to Bowie State University for welcoming NINDS to meet the SRPP (Scientific Research Preparatory Program) Scholars yesterday! Bowie State University NINDS's Dr. Michelle Jones-London and Dr. Rita Devine enjoyed meeting the students from this NINDS-funded program and touring Bowie!

Presenting the 4th cohort of the UCI CNLM Irvine Summer Institute in Neuroscience and the most recent additions to our incredible alumni network of over 60 neuroscience scholars! I’m honored to have played a small part in their journeys and am so inspired by them.

Thank you Dr. Lauren Whitehurst for inviting me to be the keynote speaker for the Univ of Kentucky’s UNITE Predoctoral Retreat 💖 We love initiatives that support the professional development of our historically marginalized trainees 🙌🏾👏🏾 #BlackInNeuro

Diversity and inclusion. This Volunteer application is open to all women who are passionate about Neurosçience and want to bridge gender inequality

Poster day with my summer research intern, Eliana Randazzo Riley! Thanks to the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute NeuroCC program for matching me with an incredible mentee. Over 8 weeks, she learned how to do research, how to code, and how to do sci-comm. I’m so proud of her! #BlackInNeuro ❤️🧠

It’s finally September✨ Which means in a few short weeks, I’ll be hosting these brilliant #BlackInNeuro Scientists for the first #BlackExcellenceInNeuroScience symposium 🎉 This two-day in-person event is a labor of love 💗 Thrilled to see it come to fruition 😍 University of Minnesota Neuroscience 🧠

I snagged this hat last year at SACNAS as a PLI alumni to manifest my #PDEP application for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. It’s almost a year later, and I finally get to wear it in the airport as a PDEP awardee. I’m on my way to the #DivSch24 Conference in SoCal. 🐢 #blackinneuro

Next week, on September 10, our book, The Black PhD Experience: Stories of Strength, Courage and Wisdom in UK Academia will be released.🥳 It has been a labour of love and determination by fellow editors Dr. Madina Jacqueline William Ackah, Dr. Wayne Mitchell & I. A 🧵1/15👇🏾

Can. Did. Ate 🥂🧠 Proud to be the Elizabeth Nance lab’s ✨newest✨ Ph.D. Candidate after passing my General Exam. Looking forward to the work ahead! #BBB #bloodbrainbarrier #newbornbrain #microfluidics