Adriana Prada
@adrianaprada.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in the Turrigiano Lab @ Brandeis | Neuron photographer 🧠🔬 | Cat snuggler, avid reader | she/her
https://www.turrigianolab.org
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Alex Pretti was a 37 year old ICU Nurse. Alex was just murdered for filming ICE and protecting his neighbors.
And because he had a legal firearm securely tucked away while shielding them from pepper spray, 2A supporters will say he deserved to die.
He did not.
Abolish. ICE.
#AlexPretti
And because he had a legal firearm securely tucked away while shielding them from pepper spray, 2A supporters will say he deserved to die.
He did not.
Abolish. ICE.
#AlexPretti
January 24, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Alex Pretti was a 37 year old ICU Nurse. Alex was just murdered for filming ICE and protecting his neighbors.
And because he had a legal firearm securely tucked away while shielding them from pepper spray, 2A supporters will say he deserved to die.
He did not.
Abolish. ICE.
#AlexPretti
And because he had a legal firearm securely tucked away while shielding them from pepper spray, 2A supporters will say he deserved to die.
He did not.
Abolish. ICE.
#AlexPretti
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Kidnapped in Minneapolis.
Used as bait.
5 yr. old #LiamRamos has reportedly been taken to TX detention facility by terrorist group I C E.
I should be drawing my own 5 year old, just for fun… not someone else’s that this administration is using as a pawn in their game of cosplay-confederacy
Used as bait.
5 yr. old #LiamRamos has reportedly been taken to TX detention facility by terrorist group I C E.
I should be drawing my own 5 year old, just for fun… not someone else’s that this administration is using as a pawn in their game of cosplay-confederacy
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Kidnapped in Minneapolis.
Used as bait.
5 yr. old #LiamRamos has reportedly been taken to TX detention facility by terrorist group I C E.
I should be drawing my own 5 year old, just for fun… not someone else’s that this administration is using as a pawn in their game of cosplay-confederacy
Used as bait.
5 yr. old #LiamRamos has reportedly been taken to TX detention facility by terrorist group I C E.
I should be drawing my own 5 year old, just for fun… not someone else’s that this administration is using as a pawn in their game of cosplay-confederacy
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Democrats have been debating how to handle next week's vote on a bill that funds ICE.
With today's shooting, that debate should be over. Standing up and using every iota of your limited power is not just the right thing to do; it’s the righteous thing to do.
www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-democr...
With today's shooting, that debate should be over. Standing up and using every iota of your limited power is not just the right thing to do; it’s the righteous thing to do.
www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-democr...
Why Democrats Must Block the ICE Funding Bill
Some fights are worth having no matter the outcome
www.messageboxnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Democrats have been debating how to handle next week's vote on a bill that funds ICE.
With today's shooting, that debate should be over. Standing up and using every iota of your limited power is not just the right thing to do; it’s the righteous thing to do.
www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-democr...
With today's shooting, that debate should be over. Standing up and using every iota of your limited power is not just the right thing to do; it’s the righteous thing to do.
www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-democr...
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The grief the grief the grief.
And the rage and love.
We have it in us to be so much better than this.
And the rage and love.
We have it in us to be so much better than this.
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The grief the grief the grief.
And the rage and love.
We have it in us to be so much better than this.
And the rage and love.
We have it in us to be so much better than this.
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, US citizen, was murdered by a Domestic terrorist today. The terrorist group goes by “ICE”.
Kristi Noem and her fascist army must be held accountable.
#JusticeForReneeNicoleGood
#Minneapolis
Kristi Noem and her fascist army must be held accountable.
#JusticeForReneeNicoleGood
#Minneapolis
January 8, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Renee Nicole Good, 37, US citizen, was murdered by a Domestic terrorist today. The terrorist group goes by “ICE”.
Kristi Noem and her fascist army must be held accountable.
#JusticeForReneeNicoleGood
#Minneapolis
Kristi Noem and her fascist army must be held accountable.
#JusticeForReneeNicoleGood
#Minneapolis
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BTSP in V1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Plateau potentials are instructive signals for behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the neocortex
Learning occurs via the adjustment of synaptic weights across a variety of timescales. The mechanisms supporting these processes, from single-shot to iterative learning, are unclear. The prevailing mo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
BTSP in V1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!
Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
Wei, you probably won’t see how much of an impact you’ve made until you land! But just want to say thank you for being such a wonderful lab mate and friend. The lab won’t be the same without you.
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wei, you probably won’t see how much of an impact you’ve made until you land! But just want to say thank you for being such a wonderful lab mate and friend. The lab won’t be the same without you.
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Nothing like a good cry over my morning coffee as Wei heads out 💔. The US is crazy to not do everything possible to keep and treasure people like her. I know she will do wonderful things where ever she lands - this is our loss
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Nothing like a good cry over my morning coffee as Wei heads out 💔. The US is crazy to not do everything possible to keep and treasure people like her. I know she will do wonderful things where ever she lands - this is our loss
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵
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Very happy that this work is finally out in @pnas.org! We show that synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity sense distinct aspects of network activity, and can thus be independently recruited by distinct network functions. A thread:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Modular arrangement of synaptic and intrinsic homeostatic plasticity within visual cortical circuits | PNAS
Neocortical circuits use synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity to
stabilize key features of network activity, but whether these di...
www.pnas.org
May 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Very happy that this work is finally out in @pnas.org! We show that synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity sense distinct aspects of network activity, and can thus be independently recruited by distinct network functions. A thread:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
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Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, just said this of US research into the causes of autism:
“I read the literature and it just looks like people haven’t really asked the question in a deep and honest fashion…what we’re going to do is give an answer that grounded in truth”.
“I read the literature and it just looks like people haven’t really asked the question in a deep and honest fashion…what we’re going to do is give an answer that grounded in truth”.
May 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, just said this of US research into the causes of autism:
“I read the literature and it just looks like people haven’t really asked the question in a deep and honest fashion…what we’re going to do is give an answer that grounded in truth”.
“I read the literature and it just looks like people haven’t really asked the question in a deep and honest fashion…what we’re going to do is give an answer that grounded in truth”.
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This apparently has to do with the fact that Grants Management Specialists now have to justify every payment (not just every grant, but every reimbursement) and the process for managing this is not yet set up (or at least that it my current understanding)...
Second (takes deep breath)
It appears that PAYMENTS FOR ALL GRANTS THROUGH THE PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARE BEING FROZEN.
If this is correct, then no funds will be transferred to any grantee institution, at least at this time.
It appears that PAYMENTS FOR ALL GRANTS THROUGH THE PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARE BEING FROZEN.
If this is correct, then no funds will be transferred to any grantee institution, at least at this time.
a cartoon of a chicken with its mouth open and a drop of blood coming out of it
ALT: a cartoon of a chicken with its mouth open and a drop of blood coming out of it
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April 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This apparently has to do with the fact that Grants Management Specialists now have to justify every payment (not just every grant, but every reimbursement) and the process for managing this is not yet set up (or at least that it my current understanding)...
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Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
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The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
April 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
April 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...