Britt DK Gratreak 🖖 @Britt@qoto.org

'Thank You' cards are my favorite thing ever. They sustain me. I'm so glad to have helped someone on their path. This card filled me up with warm fuzzies after a long day. 🥺💖 I've come to collect 'Thank You's-- one day I aspire to have a whole wall of them in my future office!

I'm so proud of this person!!!!

#Academia #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Neuro #Neuroscience #MedMastodon #MedicalEducation #UndergraduateResearch #Congratulations

Tomorrow morning at 10:30am PST, I will be speaking at the fourth annual Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine at a session titled 'Navigating Disability Identity and Activism in Medical Social Media Communities'. Please share if you can!

I have certainly gained a lot (and lost some) due to my outspokenness and honesty on social media as a disabled student-- but it's been a net gain, for sure! Come hear me talk about it!

I will be joined by fantastic co-panelists:
- Andrea Dalzell MSN-ED, RN
- Chase Anderson, MD, MS
- Anna Valdez, PhD, RN, FAADN, FAEN

And wonderful moderator Zoey Martin-Lockhart, MA!

Please don't miss it! I have been looking forward to this for a long, long time. We have nearly 1000 people registered and I would LOVE to see that number hit 1000!

Register here: https://med.stanford.edu/smadie/events/4th-annual-disability-conference.html

This photo is from my presentation at Research Day 2023 at the University of Arizona last month. :)

#Academic #Disability #MedMastodon #Disabled #Conference

The baby to be protecc'd:
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Korsakoff protecc his baby at all times!

This cat is really something else.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

It's #FollowFriday, so let's share a thing that we are proud of doing this year!

For myself: I'm proud that I attended #SfN22 and presented my early research in-person. I've wanted to go to Society for Neuroscience since I was an undergraduate but never had the opportunity since I worked all through college to stay afloat.

I just joined my lab earlier this year and still managed to have something to talk about and contribute to science. I also had a new chronic illness kick in late this summer, so navigating the extra fatigue, pain, and symptoms was something I was unsure about. Wrapping IcyHot around my legs, taking meds, resting and accepting my physical limits without collapsing or falling into posterboards was a major plus. There is so much more I wanted to see, but I hope next year I will be able to catch up and make up the difference.

It helps tremendously to have a lab that always has your back!

What are you proud of this year, #Academic / #Science mastodon?

#NeuroscienceMigration #Neuroscience #TwitterMigration #RIPTwitter #MedMastodon

Hey #SfN / #SfN22 / #SfN2022 people!

If you missed my post-7-hour-drive exhausted and crusty Saturday night poster presentation, you have another chance to come see it on Wednesday afternoon! Poster L11 (opiod section) 3-4pm!

Come find me! I'll be less tired!!

Also please send me a message if you'd like to meet up at Society for Neuroscience!

#Neuroscience #Neuro #NeuroscienceMigration #disability

Hey #NeuroscienceMigration and #Neuroscience folks! I'm presenting pain relief (opioid, Hsp90, and phospholipase C-focused) research at #SfN22 / #SfN2022 in 2 poster sessions! I'm really excited for my very first SfN & this will be my first poster since switching to a new lab earlier this year. Put me in your itinerary! ✨ Let's network and have a couple dozen cups of coffee!

Saturday: 6:30-8:30pm L1 TPDA Trainee Professional Development Award session
Wednesday: 3-4pm 711.03 Opioids/Pain

Here's the link to my abstract:
https://abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10619/presentation/65376

Investigating the role of phospholipase C in enhancing opioid pain relief during Hsp90 inhibition

Session Title: Opioids and Pain
Presentation Number: 711.03
Presentation Time: Wed Nov. 16, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

I normally put my Twitter @ on my posters at conferences so I can connect with people I meet, or if someone wants to get in touch about my poster later they have an easy, relatively informal way to do so instead of email. Is anyone else considering putting their Mastodon handle on their conference posters?

As I do some last-minute work on my poster for Society for Neuroscience next week, I'm considering putting this with my email address. How about y'all?

#TwitterMigration
#NeuroscienceMigration
#SfN
#SfN2022