Lia Beatty (she/her)
@synapshotneuro.bsky.social
Neuroscientist-in-training // 🔬Intrigued by immunology, inflammation, & disease pathophysiology💥 // Drosophilist @ UUtah 🪰 // ⛰️🏃🏽♀️🌲🏕️📸🧠
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Hey disabled, queer, neurodivergent, womxn of color, and/or femmes in STEM! 🧪🌈✨
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
applying to science phds in the US in 2025:
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December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
applying to science phds in the US in 2025:
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Reposted by Lia Beatty (she/her)
Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
Crawling out of the grad applications bunker to signal-boost our lab's latest preprint ✨📄
1/ Hello Drosophila-philists and braino-maniacs! 👋🪰🧠🧪
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy!
Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Crawling out of the grad applications bunker to signal-boost our lab's latest preprint ✨📄
Rare can suck, but at least my treks up to Huntsman come w/ spectacular views! 😍 Pic from my run this AM on the BST just above HCI. 6 mo ago I could barely walk to lab. This month I ran 50 mi. 🏃🏽♀️ Wouldn’t be able to run like I do w/o access to the proper treatment. #RareDiseaseDay #DisabledInSTEM 🧪
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Rare can suck, but at least my treks up to Huntsman come w/ spectacular views! 😍 Pic from my run this AM on the BST just above HCI. 6 mo ago I could barely walk to lab. This month I ran 50 mi. 🏃🏽♀️ Wouldn’t be able to run like I do w/o access to the proper treatment. #RareDiseaseDay #DisabledInSTEM 🧪
usually I’d say we’re cooked, but I’m afraid I won’t have the money to cook after this 🫠
February 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
usually I’d say we’re cooked, but I’m afraid I won’t have the money to cook after this 🫠
Listening to #Substack posts = my ideal podcast. Distilled thought, unburdened by chatter. Mostly personal essays in my feed, valued for their incisive yet nuanced reflection often absent from podcasters’ extemporaneous musings. Any other Stacks I should sub to? (Don’t care for news/commentary.)
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Listening to #Substack posts = my ideal podcast. Distilled thought, unburdened by chatter. Mostly personal essays in my feed, valued for their incisive yet nuanced reflection often absent from podcasters’ extemporaneous musings. Any other Stacks I should sub to? (Don’t care for news/commentary.)
Mentoring a bright 9th grader on her science fair proj has been an absolute joy. Seeing so much of my younger self in the way her amazing 🧠 works reminds me how transformative the right mentorship can be. Being the mentor I once needed is both a privilege & a full-circle moment💖
Mentorship works! 🧪
Mentorship works! 🧪
December 18, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Mentoring a bright 9th grader on her science fair proj has been an absolute joy. Seeing so much of my younger self in the way her amazing 🧠 works reminds me how transformative the right mentorship can be. Being the mentor I once needed is both a privilege & a full-circle moment💖
Mentorship works! 🧪
Mentorship works! 🧪
#STEM is full of #neurodivergent 🧠s ...and yet, the field remains deeply hostile toward us. 😕 This hostility, in part, our own making? Have years of coerced self-denial—masking in the name of assimilation—perpetuated the burden reinforcing the very system that harms us?? How do we break the cycle?⛓️💥🧪
STEM's lack of support for #neurodivergent scientsts is causing it to lose out on so much amazing talent: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
@cenmag.bsky.social #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM #Neurodiversity🧪
@cenmag.bsky.social #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM #Neurodiversity🧪
The challenge of being neurodivergent in STEM
Neurodivergent scientists say STEM isn’t built for them, despite the contributions they bring
cen.acs.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
#STEM is full of #neurodivergent 🧠s ...and yet, the field remains deeply hostile toward us. 😕 This hostility, in part, our own making? Have years of coerced self-denial—masking in the name of assimilation—perpetuated the burden reinforcing the very system that harms us?? How do we break the cycle?⛓️💥🧪
1/ 🧪 Another callout to the #DisabledInSTEM community for advice/insight! ♿️
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
December 18, 2024 at 4:31 AM
1/ 🧪 Another callout to the #DisabledInSTEM community for advice/insight! ♿️
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
🔍 My PhD program search has inevitably shifted: from a pursuit of 'research fit'—curating my "Cool PIs" list, nerding out, & dreaming big—to, as of Nov 🗳️, more fundamental questions of where I will be safe and supported. /🧵
Reposted by Lia Beatty (she/her)
It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
October 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa...
Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
Hey disabled, queer, neurodivergent, womxn of color, and/or femmes in STEM! 🧪🌈✨
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
November 20, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Hey disabled, queer, neurodivergent, womxn of color, and/or femmes in STEM! 🧪🌈✨
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
How do you keep your sense of self intact while fighting to survive in the academic grind? 🦄🫠👩🏽🔬
Welcoming any and all advice, solidarity, and community to keep me going. 💬💖🫶🏽
#DisabledInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
Featured in my banner, the dog that ate my thesis. 🧪
![A screenshot from a Slack Channel. PI writes “this is my punishment for not immediately scanning in my comments on your draft and send [sic] them to you” and sends a photo of a chewed up stack of papers. PI writes, “will reassemble and send My dog ate your thesis…oldest excuse in the book”. Student responds, “Tragedy! But now doggo will be very smart”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tyzlnffui5ik62r7ra3h7drs/bafkreic6q74vonjosoasyrm6htzz67wte2532c2nasrgkjxvv65pksaf6y@jpeg)
November 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Featured in my banner, the dog that ate my thesis. 🧪