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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! Does anyone here have experience doing neuropixels recordings from young mice (before p28)? What methods do you use? Headbar + record the same day?

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 11d

Our pup Marvin went for his very first trail run today and he was pretty pumped about it! It is very hard to be a scientist right now, but Marv only cares about getting to hang out with the people he loves, and sometimes that’s a good reminder.

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Your Neighborhood Scientist @your.neighborhoodscientist.org · 14d

This week’s neighborhood scientist is Charity Robbins! Check out the link below to read Charity’s rules on how to build the perfect scientist (yes, really!!) neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/l...

Lessons from an Undergraduate Researcher on How to Build the Perfect Scientist (Yes, Really!) – Your Neighborhood Scientist

science news for everyone

neighborhoodscientist.org

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 14d

If you're in the Bay Area, @your.neighborhoodscientist.org is having our first in-person event, "Brains, Biology, and Big Pharma", on September 29. See flyer below and register here: luma.com/m51ug5x1 Great opportunity to meet w/ scientists & learn about the scientific process! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to Dr. Marina Silveira @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social on the first preprint from her lab! Seroronergic modulation in the IC abounds and I'm excited to see where her lab takes this. This work was completed by two talented undergraduate students--congrats Karen Galindo and Zoya Nazir! 🧠

Distribution of metabotropic serotonergic receptors in GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons in the auditory midbrain

The neurotransmitter serotonin modulates a variety of behavioral and physiological responses in the brain. Serotonergic neurons from the dorsal raphe nuclei send a dense projection to the auditory sys...

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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 28d

Shout out to @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @kelly.sova.cool, and Katie Furman for their hard work launching @your.neighborhoodscientist.org!

You can donate to their non-profit here:
neighborhoodscientist.org

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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 28d

Really grateful to be part of a community of "helpers" & thanks to @nature.com for highlighting!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 28d

Honored to be working to defend science against authoritarianism alongside so many inspiring colleagues such as @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @bnwolford.bsky.social, @scott-delaney.bsky.social.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 28d

Often the news happens so quickly that there's little time for it, so we took a step back to talk about the stories of the researchers who have been fighting back against the Trump administration's assault on science.

w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social

Scientists take on Trump: the researchers fighting back

Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.

www.nature.com

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 28d

If you want to support the work we do, you can donate to my nonprofit @your.neighborhoodscientist.org here: neighborhoodscientist.org

Your Neighborhood Scientist

cultivating community-based conversations around science, science policy, and scientists

neighborhoodscientist.org

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to be featured in today’s @nature.com article about scientists standing up to Trump. I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines, especially when something I believe so deeply in—science funding that saves lives—is under attack. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · Jul 4

We’re doing a July 4 feature all week highlighting how funding science is patriotic (and the incredible researchers doing life changing, tax payer funded research!) Give us a follow!

Your Neighborhood Scientist @your.neighborhoodscientist.org · Jul 4

Happy July 4th! Here at Your Neighborhood Scientist, we’re excited to highlight American patriotism in a way you might not always think about: scientific research.

neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...

Greetings from the Unites States of America, the world's largest funder of biomedical research!

The background lists government agencies that fund biomedical research including NIH, NSF, USAID, DOE, DOD, NASA, EPA

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Your Neighborhood Scientist @your.neighborhoodscientist.org · Jul 4

Happy July 4th! Here at Your Neighborhood Scientist, we’re excited to highlight American patriotism in a way you might not always think about: scientific research.

neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2025/j...

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Joseph Q Jarvis MD MSPH @drjqjarvis.bsky.social · Jun 30

Out of the 356 drugs that were approved by the FDA from 2010-2019, NIH funding contributed to 354 of them, totaling $187 billion, only 2 were privately funded. From the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · Jun 27

Share why doing and supporting science is patriotic at the poll below! 🇺🇸

Your Neighborhood Scientist @your.neighborhoodscientist.org · Jun 27

This 4th of July, we're looking for scientists to share why they're proud to do science in the US. Or maybe you're not a scientist -- but you're proud of the work that US scientists do or you've benefited from US science research. Let us know in the survey below! forms.gle/j8gWMSggKVvJ...

Does your patriotism involve pipettes?

This 4th of July, Your Neighborhood Scientist is asking American scientists and non-scientists why they are proud of scientific research in the US. Scientists: why are you proud to perform taxpayer-f...

forms.gle

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Philipp Markolin, PhD @philippmarkolin.bsky.social · Jun 2

Everybody needs to read what is going on inside the NIH.

This is what independent journalism looks like, talking to real sources in the middle of a conflict; and not the billionaire-fluffing press paying influential op-ed writers to normalize and whitewash the actions of the current administration.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Jun 2

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.

The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.

www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya

Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

www.importantcontext.news

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 23

If you have some ~cool sounds~ and you’re okay with them being used as stimuli for research, we’re collecting natural sound recordings for a project! Bonus points if they’re sampled at 192kHz or higher 😊 send me a message if you have something like this we’d love to use it!

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 23

Good morning ☀️

Scruffy grey dog laying on a green couch with a yellow and blue pillow

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · May 22

NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.

Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · May 22

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 22

Your talk was amazing!! So great to meet you!!

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 22

Also—I direct the science communication nonprofit @your.neighborhoodscientist.org ! Check us out at neighborhoodscientist.org 😊

Your Neighborhood Scientist

cultivating community-based conversations around science, science policy, and scientists

neighborhoodscientist.org

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 22

I had SO much fun speaking about how amazing hearing is at Philly’s @pintofscience.us last night!! Thank you to my amazing lab @geffenlab.bsky.social & @mikelhaggadone.bsky.social for coming out to support! 🧠 🍺

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · May 22

Pint of science with @audreydrotos.bsky.social, Dmitrios Boufidis, & Jacqui Barker - all there to celebrate brains & brain research. Sold out; packed house. So fun!

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 22

Amazing talk Nicole!!

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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · May 16

The Supreme Court could rule that today is Friday May 16 and Alito and Thomas would dissent

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · May 16

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · May 16

I am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4

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