Carlee Toddes, PhD

Very excited to share the published manuscript my graduate cohort and I wrote regarding the limited science and twisted history of tear gas use in the united states. Have a yourself a tea as we spill the tea on shoddy regulations and attacks on first amendment rights. 👇 👇

Officially moving to Bluesky and getting off this app. Find me at @toddesca.bsky.social 👋🏻

@BrainOfZedZed Congrats Zach!!!!

Grateful to be nominated for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research! Overwhelmed by the quality of research and postdocs in my field, let alone across all disciplines. So great to have to have such a bright community

She’s getting an award today!! ✨

@JohnStreicher1 Honestly, this is so absolutely horrifying and so demoralizing for probably everyone in the STEM fields who’ve dedicated their lives to research and innovations aimed at enhancing the lives of people like this quack with his brain worm.

"Nothing will change", huh?

Thrilled to share the culmination of my PhD work in the ⁦@BartolomucciLab⁩ out today in ⁦@NatureAging⁩ We show that chronic social stress increases markers of cellular senescence, particularly in hippocampal and cortical neurons! nature.com/articles/s4358…

Reminder that science is political whether you like it or not. Politics define how we are funded and what we are funded for. Politics define what we are able to study. Politics define who will be allowed in our labs and workplaces. Politics define with whom we can collaborate.

Do not turn on Kamala Harris and start trashing the campaign she ran. She ran an amazing campaign. Put the blame on half of America who voted for hate and a daddy dictator who they think will take care of them, but who doesn't give a damn about them.

voting against human rights is a character flaw

please keep the “we survived him once, we will do it again” tweets in the drafts or better yet delete them. millions of people did not in fact survive him, and millions more will not survive him again.

ethel cain on the election: "if you voted for trump, i hope that peace never finds you. instead, i hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you've done and who you are as a person."

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

hey boss sorry I can’t come in this week I’m waiting to see if democracy disintegrates

Huge shoutout to all coauthors (both on twitter, and not) @EmiliaLefevre , Cassie Retzloff, @laurynzugs , Sameer Khan, Erin Myhre, Elysia Gauthier, Ezequiel Martin, Brigitte Kieffer and of course @perothwell

The final paper of my PhD is up on BioRxiv!! I’m so excited to see this out in the world! We conducted multiple genetic manipulations to uncover which NAc cell pop is necessary for opioid receptor modulation of social behavior. *spoiler* it’s not the population you expect!

Trump wants to put RFK Jr in charge of the National Institutes of Health. 👁️👁️ Please Vote.

Philadelphia! Don Cheadle and I are at Rittenhouse Square for the next hour handing out Harris/Walz swag. See you there!