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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD
@heydrdukes.bsky.social
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✊🏾🧠 Founding President of #BlackInNeuro 🌍 📚 Neuroscience Professor 👩🏾‍🏫 #HBCUgrad ✨ International Invited Speaker 🇹🇹🇭🇹 ΔΣΘ🔺 she/her
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you! 🥰 and I like the idea of having a document in writing so we can both stay on the same page
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 5d
Absolutely planning to have a conversation about that! Thanks ❤️
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 5d
I hope they’re good with that because that’s all I can be 😂
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 5d
I like this one! Definitely hoping to do more “asking” than “telling”
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 5d
In a surprising turn of events, I now have a graduate student 🤗

I want to do this right. So I’m soliciting advice from the wise & experienced 😅 - what are your best tips for being a good advisor/PI/graduate student mentor? ✨
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 8d
I did! My arm was really sore that night and the next day but after I was totally fine 🤗
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 8d
It’s whatever you prefer! I’m right-handed and didn’t want that arm sore, so I did them both in my left arm 🤗
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 8d
We are #vaccinated for this season 💉✨

Reminder to make your COVID and flu shot appointments if you can! 😷
The arms of two Black people with two bandages each. There is white text on a black background that reads CVS has the newest vaccines and still accepts most insurances. Got our COVID and flu shots
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 11d
A few small desk changes for the first day of #SpookySeason 🎃
An office desk with colorful neuron artwork, a Black woman nutcracker figurine, and three small orange pumpkins underneath a small bookshelf.
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 11d
He always has been 🙌🏾✨
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 11d
That’s the plan 😂
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 13d
My husband kicked off his birthday by picking me up from the airport at 2:30am… with two dozen roses and no complaints 😭😍

Happy Birthday to the best husband I could’ve prayed for 😘✨
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 14d
The #BlackInNeuro community at the 2025 BRAINS Cross-Cohort Symposium ✨

Once in BRAINS, Always in BRAINS 🧠
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 15d
I took a long break from posting as often. Honestly social media was tanking my mental health.

But I was reminded the importance of sharing joy ✨ so I’ll post joyful things more. It doesn’t mean I’m not aware the world is a dark place for many of us. But I’m choosing to add in some light ✨
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 26d
TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!

#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.

Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
THE DOUBLE TAX IS FINALLY OUT Black woman in a yellow sweater in front of the Cambridge public library holding "The Double Tax" and covering her face
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · Sep 11
Happening now! You can tune in via our YouTube!

www.youtube.com/live/nz0_RQc...
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Sep 11
She really did!! 👏🏾👏🏾 @ashleyonthebrain.bsky.social
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Lindsay🧠 @neuromelody.bsky.social · Sep 10
The professional development workshops at the @blackinneuro.bsky.social conference are def whipping us academics into shape! We’ve been encouraged to grow our personal brands, be consistent on LinkedIn, & brainstorm ways to incorporate innovation into our work to maximize our impact as scientists.
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Brielle Ferguson @brielleryan.bsky.social · Sep 10
Happy #BINW25! What a whirlwind it's been since we started, but I credit so much of my progress to the community I've found through blackinneuro.bsky.social.

In honor of 5 years of #BIN, we'd love for you to share your Then & Now posts, just remember to use the hashtag #BlackInNeuroRollCall.
Text on a dynamic background with photos of Brielle in her lab as a postdoc and her lab at Harvard. The text reads, “Celebrating 5 years of diversifying the neurosciences. In July 2020, I was in the 3rd year of a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, studying attention dysfunction in epilepsy. Now, I’m an assistant professor at Harvard, leading a lab investigating circuit mechanisms of attention and cognition in health and disease. #BINW25 #5YearsofBIN
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Sep 11
#BINW25 Day 2 kicked off with an incredible panel on Science Communication & Ethics ✨

Great advice from our panelists:
•Ask the community what they want to learn!
•Be transparent about research (pros/cons, who has access, etc)
•Collaborate with others w/ similar passions

#BlackInNeuro 🧠
Four Black women panelists for the Black In Neuro conference. Three are in person seated on stage and one is joining on zoom. There is also a live ASL interpreter waiting to sign the event
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Sep 10
Our #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora panel has 3 #BlackInNeuro scientists from 3 different continents share their research 🧪 🌍

#BINW25

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#NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora - #BINW25
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · Sep 10
We’ve come a long way since 2020, and so have you! 🥳 Create your ‘then and now’ roll call post with the #BINW25 template using the link or QR code below.

Tag your post on social media with #BlackInNeuroRollCall

As always, we can't wait to connect with everyone 👋🏽

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Sep 10
5 Years of #BlackInNeuro Then and Now template ❤️✨

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BINW25 Rollcall Then and Now - Google Drive
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Sep 10
Happy #BlackInNeuro Week 2025!!! ❤️🎉

So much has changed over the past 5 years and we’d love to see how you’ve grown! Use the link below to make your own Then & Now post 🥰

#BINW25 #BlackInNeuroRollCall #5YearsOfBIN 🙌🏾 🧠
A Then and Now post with photos from 2020 and 2025. It reads CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF DIVERSIFYING THE NEUROSCIENCES. In July 2020, I was finishing my third year as a PhD student at UC Irvine. Worried about advancing to candidacy and hoping to teach someday. Now I'm starting my fourth year as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota! I teach multiple neuroscience courses, lead outreach, and direct programs that support our communities! The Black In Neuro logo is in the bottom left hand corner with #BINW25 #5YearsOfBIN. Colorful banners are across the top and bottom of the page.
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Sep 9
Thank you! We’re really looking forward to it 🥰 I’m hoping it’ll be very rejuvenating!