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Truly an honor to give the NIH Director’s WALS lecture today especially as the last speaker under the leadership of @NIHDirector Dr Monica Bertagnolli
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Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم
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Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience I Founder of @moghaddamlab | author of KETAMINE mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542241/…
- Hey academia, please do not make social events for trainees mostly about booze/beer. Be mindful that some may suffer from alcohol use disorder or avoid alcohol for religious or cultural reasons.
- Replying to @DrNadiaChaudhri“Stand in the shade of me Things are now made of me You'll never be free of me He'll make a tree from me Don't say goodbye to me Describe the sky to me And if the sky falls, mark my words We'll catch mocking birds”
- Out: Lab Logo In: Lab Coat of Arms Presenting our lab's Coat of Arms beautifully designed by local artist and scientist-in-training Alina Bogachuk @alinachuck
- It is scientifically unsound for you (and @hubermanlab) to claim that oral L-Tyrosine increases brain dopamine. The rate limiting step for production of dopamine is tyrosine hydroxylase, not tyrosine, hence why individuals with Parkison's Disease are given L-Dopa, not L-TyrosineReplying to @jackmoses777L-Tyrosine L-Tyrosine is an amino acid required for the production of dopamine. You can get tyrosine from chicken, turkey, fish, peanuts, and avocados. But supplementing it will provide even greater benefits. @hubermanlab supplements L-Tyrosine. I suggest you do too.
- I was editing grants for young and seasoned PIs this morning and realized a major difference between the two camps: inexperienced grant writers aim to impress whereas experienced grant writers aim to explainTweeps, I need your help! I’m teaching a grant writing course for grad students. Please send your 🔥 grant-writing tips, dos/don’ts, & resources. I will compile & reshare.
GIF - I love my job and my lab. I leave town for the weekend and this happens on the whiteboard 😍
- Disappointed to hear a senior colleague tell an assistant prof that he may not get meeting speaker invites because he is a white man and organizers now have to worry about diversity But DELIGHTED by the response of the assistant prof: being a white man is the least of my problems
- About 150 @NIH study sections have been cancelled at the last min wasting ~200,000 hours of scientists' unpaid time Inefficient. Sloppy. Unprofessional. If NIH wants to change the system, then do it. Or pause till you know what you are doing - don't waste scientists' timeMy NIH Study Section (MABS) was cancelled a little more than 24 hours before the start. With 35 members, & 45 h of reviews/member, that wasted 1575 hours of scientists' unpaid time. @NIH, protect scientists right now & cancel all study sections until you get clarity. @NIHDirector
GIF - Replying to @DrNadiaChaudhriHe is the son of a Superhero He will be okay He will have all of universe inside him He is a beautiful pearl Pearls shine after the oyster shell is gone He is the son of Nadia He will be okay
- This breaks my heart 💔 Some of my most successful trainees were Pitt PhDs, and I helped run the neuroscience grad program for a few years - one of the best & largest in the country Scientific progress will halt if we stop training the next generation
- Young scientist parents who hear this sort of rubbish: ignore the morons and carry on. Take your kids to all the meetings and scientific events you want. I and the father of my children did. Our careers and the children turned out OK 😊Disappointing experience at @TheBSCCP ASM. As a mother unable to leave baby at home, publicly taken aside and made to feel very unwelcome by senior committee member. “We don’t want to set a precedent.“ they said. Such a shame that working parents must still endure this in 2019.
