Ben Filio

A tough choice was made, but I’ve officially committed to pursuing a neuroscience PhD under the NIH-Brown Graduate Partnership Program! Looking forward to what the next few years has in store for me 😊

Had my thesis defense yesterday and got my PhD in Neuroscience! 😎 Thank you @michael_krashes for your mentorship and friendship

This hallway at the NIH used to have posters of women and POC scientists but they just got taken down. But somehow this MLK poster made the cut.

@audreydrotos Congratulations Audrey! 🥳

You can call me doctor now! 💫 Yesterday, I defended my PhD and became Dr. Audrey Drotos. Grateful is not a big enough word. I’m so lucky to have spent the last five years working with and being supported by the most incredible lab, friends, family & partner. Thank you ❤️

@NGPMichigan SIREN-NURO family 🫶 #SfN24

You’ve heard of presenting your research to a general audience now get ready for… pigeon #sfn2024

updating my bio from 2nd year to 3rd year caused me just a little emotional damage

Interested in #graduateschool in #neuroscience? We are offering several opportunities to learn more about our Neuroscience Graduate Program @UMich. First up, @SfNtweets #SfN24 Grad Fair next weekend. Then, virtual open houses (register below) and in person @SACNAS & @ABRCMS. 🧠

Also nearly two months late but better late than never to announce I got a TPDA :)

Going to #sfn2024? Interested in the cerebellum, reward, or both? Come hear me talk about how the cerebellum encodes reward on Saturday, Oct 5 from 6:30-8:30 at poster H4, and then again Tuesday, Oct 8 from 8:00AM-12:00PM at poster H13!

You’re not demure, you’re in grad school

Trimming my SfN abstract for another poster session and the amount of typos I found in that abstract is flabbergasting 🤠

Reposting w/ alt text (sorry I forgot the 1st time) as a reminder that N95-only advocacy ignores intersecting issues of race & privilege & that for a variety of reasons lots of people simply can’t wear N95s. The best 😷is what fits your face/what you have access to where you are.

The Mayoral lab is hiring a research assistant! We are a cellular neuroscience lab studying glia-neuron interactions in the CNS. Come join our research team in lovely Providence, RI. Apply here: wd5.myworkday.com/brown/d/inst/1…

Got my first generic postdoc recruitment email…. hey at least it’s a step up from all the medical schools still sending me emails to apply!

@ivancedric_a I did this to the exact same person at an SfN social 😭

Someone came up to me after my talk today and I was like “do you work at the NIH also?” and it turns out he’s the director of NINDS

I’ve been staring at calcium imaging for too long because why do I see a smattering of bird poop on the sidewalk and think “hmm that looks like pretty good expression”

Now that I'm in the thick of science a bit more whenever I see a cool paper I always look at the received and accepted date... what do you mean papers can take at least a year+.... hahahahahaha

Another beautiful morning in DC!! Hi! I’m Anna, a 2nd year in the NIH-Brown GPP in Dr. Chris McBain’s lab, and I’m sharing my day today at #SfN2023 !! 🥳

Who knew that the best place to network at SfN is at the egregiously long coffee line

@manorlaboratory NIH to Science today: “The agency also expects to keep open PubMed, which holds biomedical research abstracts needed for health care, and the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, where reporting of clinical studies is a legal requirement.” science.org/content/articl…