PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins; feline adoration; 🏳️‍🌈; he/him

Johns Hopkins Homewood
Joined June 2019
*Charm City Science #1 is live!* keep your eyes peeled for the print edition, coming later today to a space near you... big thanks to our contributors @JacobBedke @astrobalmer & Martin Yepes Trujillo ! mailchi.mp/e9fa2465ebf1/char…
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Today CDC released data that 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth attempted suicide in the first half of 2021. When we discriminate against #LGBTQ ppl on topics like same-sex marriage, workplace discrimination, trans athletes, K-3 ed: queer teens are listening, internalizing, and suffering. – at Boston, MA
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Jacob Bedke retweeted
After years of delays, @NSF piloted LGBTQ questions for the US STEM census. The results? People have no problem with them. Yet @NSF still won't add them. @NSF is Congressionally mandated to address US STEM disparities. LGBTQ disparities are no exception. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Tomorrow! Don’t miss tomorrow’s seminar by Priya Shah & Nichole Link on the use of model organisms to better understand hereditary and viral microcephaly, a condition characterized by reduced head size. bit.ly/3fIqEeZ • @shah_ps @nicholeLlink
I’m excited to share our paper, out today in Current Biology! We present a study of the anatomical projections and physiology of the hundreds of dopaminergic neurons in non-mammalian vertebrates that express the tyrosine hydroxylase-2 (th2) isoform. disq.us/t/3rzqefy (1/9)
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