Neuroscience PhD candidate in @anne_churchland’s lab at @UCLA. Studying how the brain make decisions. @NSF GRFP Fellow. Boricua 🇵🇷. él/he/him

Los Angeles/Puerto Rico
Joined May 2019
So happy to announce that I was selected to receive the @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year! Thank you to my amazing advisor @anne_churchland and all the other mentors that came before! #CienciaBoricua 🇵🇷
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Gabriel Rojas-Bowe retweeted
Sharing a quick video update (of me!) from my role as Neuroscience Theme Leader at @dgsomucla . More to come this week as we highlight the momentum building across our neuroscience community.
Building momentum in neuroscience at UCLA—new collaborations, new ideas, and more to come next week.
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Building momentum in neuroscience at UCLA—new collaborations, new ideas, and more to come next week.
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Apply to work with us! 🧠🦾
We're hiring a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA)! Application link in next post. We'll start reviewing applicants after August 25th Please RT 🔁
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Replying to @SuryaGanguli
I don't think that crane/weightlifter is the right metaphor here. Professional weightlifters don't compete with cranes for jobs. Professional Go players are already affected. They get less coaching jobs because students turn to AI.
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Gabriel Rojas-Bowe retweeted
Happy and honored to be a part of this huge team effort across different disciplines! Shout out to Dr. Nguyen Phi who's not on TWITTER for doing all the heavy lifting.
Thrilled to share our latest work in @Nature studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by @xzh_brain, Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with @JonathanCKao! Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euu5Z
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Our work is officially online now! 🥳🥳@MelinMaxwell @rojasbowe_ @anne_churchland Key points: 1st, we found that, consistent with previous studies, consecutive trials within behavioral sessions of a decision-making task can be divided into engaged and disengaged states. (1/8)
Online now: Spontaneous movements and their relationship to neural activity fluctuate with latent engagement states dlvr.it/TLg5tC
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Gabriel Rojas-Bowe retweeted
If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too. Anyone - left, right, or center - who has highlighted the importance of constitutional rights + free speech should be sounding the alarm now.
NEWS: Last night, DHS detained a Palestinian who helped lead Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-det…
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Gabriel Rojas-Bowe retweeted
Wake up babe a new PCR protocol for eggs just dropped
The perfect approach to boiling an egg, researchers found, was cooking it in 100°C water for 2 minutes, then 30°C water for 2 minutes, and repeating for a total of 32 minutes. scim.ag/4hEpmiK @NewsfromScience
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I uprooted my life to move to MD, took on significant debt to make it happen, and now, just weeks later, I’m left without income, health insurance, or stability. If you’re able to, please consider donating a few bucks gofund.me/a26407d0
Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health.
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Thrilled to share our latest work exploring new avenues for combining #Neuropixels with #Optogenetics! Congratulations to co-first author Anna Lakunina, the Neuropixels Opto Consortium and collaborators! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Just heard from colleagues in #PuertoRico that the pause in funding cuts to grants from NIH does not include US territories! Support for administrative costs (real expenses) @uprrp is going from 49% to 15%, a huge blow to a system already suffering staggering cuts by the @FOMBPR
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The winner of the 2025 Pradel Research Award is Anne Churchland of @UCLA! She is being honored for expanding understanding of the neural circuits that support decision making. Learn more about her discoveries: nasonline.org/award/pradel-r… #NASaward #neuroscience
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Sure is telling to see scientists up in arms about a few week delay in grant reviews but utterly silent about the cancelling of the diversity initiatives they’ve been trumpeting for a decade.
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Cutting it fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The 8th of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/2024-a-…
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Gabriel Rojas-Bowe retweeted
I'm very happy to share our new study on how corticothalamic circuits regulate motivated behaviors via depolarization block mechanisms. Shout out to the talented postdoc Guillermo Aquino-Miranda for leading this project and the co-authors for their key contributions. 👏🏽🎉🎊🥳🧠🐀
Online now: Functional properties of corticothalamic circuits targeting paraventricular thalamic neurons dlvr.it/TG1STB
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I'm thrilled to share this special professional development episode for PhD application advice. I interviewed a seasoned neuro PhD program director who has reviewed thousands of applications over >20 years. Please share this with prospective students and mentors.
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UCLA has an open search this year. Pls apply folks! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0980…
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