katie❕katiefurman.bsky.social

this is just to say, i’m no longer gonna be using this platform at all. I’m having a way better time on bluesky, and you should follow me there!!! @.katiefurman.bsky.social 🦋

thank you!!! So excited to finally have this out there!

special shoutout to Lorelei Baron, Hannah Lyons, Timothy Cha, Jack Evans, Jayeeta Manna, Limei Zhu, Joanna Mattis, and my wonderful PI Christian Burgess for making this work possible :)

We're hoping that the final, peer-reviewed manuscript will be available soon. In the meantime, feel free to ask me questions on here! I'm super excited to finally be able to share this work with everyone :)

If you're looking to read about my thesis work, you can now check out my bioRxiv preprint (and hopefully soon, my first peer-reviewed first-author paper)! We were interested in Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons, and their role in the rewarding aspects of feeding. 🧵

we didn't it joe

It is more important than ever to spend time talking to people about science. Communicate its value, and its objectivity. Talk to your neighbors, your bartenders, your barbers, your congressmen. Talk kindly to people whose political views differ from yours. Protect science.

here’s how bernie can still win

credit @ jamesapearson on ig

Tough day to be a physician in America. Tough day to be a scientist in America. Tough day to be a woman in America.

🧪 What I wish I'd known about lab notebooks in year 1: A thread about what has actually worked for me (learned the hard way...) 🧵

I see people saying “why should we give free lunches to schoolchildren?” and I think some folks truly have no idea what it’s like to grow up in poverty, never knowing where your next meal is coming from, forever being one paycheck away from eviction. Let me explain some things.