Angie Voyles Askham

My travel to Cosyne was barred by the Trump admin, so I'm here on my personal dime. I care about the @CosyneMeeting community, I committed to co-chairing. And I always learn here. But the worst part about this travel ban is my lab colleagues—students and fellows—couldn't come./1

“In her obituary, her mentee, Catherine Veil, says that [Marcelle Lapicque] fought against the prejudices of her time … it may be that the prejudices included race and not just sexism,” says @OligoclonalBand. By @avaskham, Rebecca Horne thetransmitter.org/history-of-neu…

Source for this data: NIH!

Chances are you have not heard her name, but Marcelle Lapicque may have been the first Black woman neuroscientist in Europe. By @avaskham and Rebecca Horne thetransmitter.org/history-of-neu…

And I love this from @dlevenstein as a way to build community in the lab!

There are some really good mentoring tips in @_TheTransmitter's early career newsletter, Launch. This one from new PI @Qihong_Lu in today's edition stood out to me as being a useful idea!

A lifelong passion for writing helped rising star Theanne Griffith land a book deal and publish 15 chapter books for early readers, covering topics ranging from what the cerebellum does to how a cake bakes. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…

A journal has retracted the largest leucovorin trial in people with autism—one of just five randomized clinical trials assessing this treatment in autistic people. By @claulopezneuro thetransmitter.org/spectrum/large…

“As long as we can remain optimistic about the future of science and communicate that optimism to young people, we’re going to be fine,” says Walter Koroshetz, former NINDS director. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/science-and-so…

A letter signed by 40 neuroscience groups asks Congress to ensure that scientific expertise remains a priority in the search for a new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/science-and-so…

The bill includes a 33 percent budget increase for the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative, which has faced significant funding cuts over the past two years. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/funding/neuros…

A new method for delivering genes to the primate brain enables researchers to apply existing genetic tools across the monkey brain. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/spectrum/prena…

A mathematical glitch means that the lesion network mapping method, which aims to find condition-specific dysfunctional networks, produces strikingly similar results regardless of the condition being studied:

When this happened I turned to my husband and excitedly told him, "that's a pretty recent paper!!"

When your paper gets screen-time on Apple TV :P [paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…]

this is such a wild media story and just the latest reminder that we’re going to need so many new ways of verifying what’s real and not with AI thelocal.to/investigating-…

Harvard chemist and molecular biologist David Liu invented gene editing tools that can correct and rewrite defective genes. His research could one day help hundreds of millions of people with genetic diseases, including sickle cell and muscular dystrophy. cbsn.ws/4oyLApL

I don’t even have jokes anymore, I’m just so tired of politicians’ disdain for transit riders. Every day the Gateway tunnel project is delayed is another day rail riders are literally left stranded (including ME)

the kids are quoting Chaucer

Love this