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#BlackInNeuro Starter Pack v1! Let us know if we missed you. #BlackInSTEM #Neuroscience

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#BlackInNeuro Starter Pack v1! Let us know if we missed you. #BlackInSTEM #Neuroscience

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@NicoleCRust one thing in favor of twitter I did not see discussed is that the scientific community remains more diverse there than on Mastodon. There are more scientists, scholars, academics, and activists from marginalized groups still active on twitter. For example the #BlackInNeuro community is much more active on twitter with very little activity on Mastodon, which keeps me on twitter because that’s where a lot of folks I want to follow are.

@elduvelle in my experience Mastodon is much whiter (due at least in part to hostility people of color have reported when trying it out), and twitter still has a larger active presence of people I want to follow. For example, there’s little if any #BlackInNeuro activity on Mastodon except what is automatically mirrored from twitter, so following a lot of Black scientists, scholars, and activists is one thing that keeps me on twitter. In that sense I find Mastodon siloed in terms of a less diverse community actively participating here.

#PhD project for #BlackInNeuro students on the role of disgust in #menstruation stigma at #Bristol! The project will entail electrophysiological recordings of #brain and #stomach, and a pharmacological intervention. It's supervised by Dr Kayleigh Easey and myself, and part of an internal funding round for UK home students with Black heritage.

More info: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-understanding-and-reducing-menstruation-stigmatisation-by-measuring-and-manipulating-neural-and-visceral-physiology/?p162113

Excited that registration opens soon for the Park City Epilepsy Meeting - to be held again this year from Oct 15-17th. Check out our speakers at www.parkcityepilepsy.com. Travel awards too! #epilepsy #neuroscience #blackinneuro #wasatch

Thought today might be a good one to re-post something I'd put on another social network about #SolomonCarterFuller, often celebrated as the 1st Black psychiatrist, but whose place in #neurology and #neuroscience is underrecognized.

As a med student, Fuller attended a key event in the history of US neuropsychiatry: neurologist S. Weir Mitchell’s address to the AMPA (precursor to APA). Mitchell harshly critiqued the absence of a research program in asylum medicine. Asylums responded by setting up new labs; as autopsies were uncommon in the US compared to Europe, Fuller recognized that this new field presented more open opportunity to him as a Black MD, and came to lead a pathology lab at Westboro Hospital.

Like many US docs then, he sought more training in Europe. He studied German and in 1904 went to Munich, where he worked in Alzheimer's lab alongside Frederic #Lewy. He was treated more equitably there than in the US.

After his return to the US, Auguste D died in 1906 and #Alzheimer presented her case; that year Fuller presented one of the first accounts of neurofibrillary pathology to the AMPA. In 1912 Fuller published the 1st review of #AlzheimersDisease cases (including one of his own, the 9th overall) and the first English translation of Alzheimer's work.

In 1909, Fuller was invited to speak at #ClarkUniversity 20th anniversary; other invitees were a “little-known Viennese neurologist and his Swiss colleague” (Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers)—a turning point in US psychiatry. Fuller took interest in psychoanalysis & maintained correspondence w/ Jung, Meyer & Adler.

Fuller trained a cohort of Black psychiatrists, who mentored others. He led the #BostonUniversity dept of neurology for 5y but underpaid and untitled; when a white assistant prof was named chair ahead of him he went into private practice. His death was commemorated by James B Ayer: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM195401212500316

In addition to these scientific connections, Fuller enjoyed close ties with other important historical figures. His wife Meta was herself an important sculptor championed by Rodin & they were close with other leaders like W.E.B. DuBois & Paul Robeson.

Neurologists and neuroscientists should celebrate Fuller as our colleagues in #psychiatry do. I recommend Mary Kaplan's lively biography Where My Caravan Has Rested, including an oral history that Fuller dictated to his son, to all. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackInNeuro

Hey! New to mastodon. Hoping to connect to folks posting about #neuroscience, #academia, #antiracism, #BlackInNeuro, #BlackInSTEM, etc. I did my #phd in #computationalneuroscience and am a #postdoc in an #NIH #IRACDA program at #JHU researching cognitive control and decision making through modeling behavioral and intracranial EEG data. I am teaching at Coppin State University, an #HBCU in #Baltimore. Interested in science and activism.

#BlackInNeuro is recruiting new members to join our organizing team! Positions in multiple areas (website design, social media, community building + more) are available! Non-black allies to the community are also welcome to apply.

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Re-introducing myself

I’m Monica, an #immigrant and #scientist, more specifically a neuropharmacologist turned “whole body” pharmacologist and public health worker.

I post #MedicineMonday, #PharmPhriday, and of course, #caturday, as well as other things I find interesting.

I love #neuroscience, #pharmacology, drug development, and volunteering with #BlackInNeuro (check out https://blackinneuro.com!)

So I figured I would post an introduction as I just joined this server. I am an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and I study synaptic protein complexes and protein phosphatase signaling in the brain. I am really interested in how this signaling mediates neuroadaptations within the brain. Also as an underrepresented minority in science, I am passionate about enhancing diversity in all STEM fields. I am also a husband and a father of 2 younger kids who keep me grounded (and busy). I am still learning this whole mastodon universe but wanted something beyond what the bird/fowl site has become (I can also be found @ajbaucum@universeodon.com).

#neuroscience #BlackInNeuro #pharmacology #academia

JOB ALERT
My lab at University of Maryland-Baltimore is hiring a postdoc!

Consider applying if you are interested in cellular regulators of excitability #ionchannels, mouse brains, CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing , and behaviors
(more info here: https://thejuarezlab.com)!

We are dedicated to the promotion of diversity and inclusivity in science.

We can also connect at #ACNP2022 in December!

#neuroscience #neurojobs #PDjob #URMinSTEM #BlackinNeuro #DSPAN #HHMIGilliam #NeuroMastodon

Let me introduce myself! My name is Ilenna Jones, I am a computational neuroscientist with keen interest on how dendrites contribute to a singular neuron's ability to compute functions and learn tasks. I build biophysical models of neurons in #pytorch and use #deeplearning principles to investigate how #neuron models can learn and compute given their biologically realistic constraints.

I'm looking for postdocs right now! Feel free to connect if you're looking for someone like me!

I'm very interested in helping other students find resources and guidance as they consider science and #neuroscience in general. Feel free to connect if you're looking for advice/perspectives!

#computationalneuroscience #theoreticalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuralcomputation #learning #modeling #BlackInNeuro #FirstGen #Questbridge

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@DaniBeck #Neuroscience #Neuro #BlackInNeuro

It hasn't been that long, and the Society for Neuroscience conference is in San Diego next week. They have probably the most active community hashtag of any discipline (#BlackInNeuro does amazing programming), so I'm watching to see if/when they start migrating over.

Looking for #BlackInNeuro #SocietySpark #ABPSi #BlackInPsych #WiCS peeps on #mastodon