Born and raised on the island of 🇻🇨, Mom to the worlds 3 greatest sons, Science nerd, 🇺🇸Veteran, knitter, sometimes runner, Disney lover. Tweets are my own.
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29 Sep 2021
So thankful to my leadership for nominating me. Thank you. #blackinneuro
29 Sep 2021
Read the @CellCellPress resource from #FacesOfCell Dr. Delissa McMillen (@Delissa76): “A taxonomy of transcriptomic cell types across the isocortex and hippocampal formation” cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
ALT "I hope to inspire the next generation of Black and Brown boys and girls that they belong in science. I hope that the barriers I and others break down will make their path a little easier. Science is something, that for far too long, many Black and Brown people have viewed as something done to them." Delissa McMillen, Allen Institute for Brain Science
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“Sometimes you have to talk to the instruments or yell at them, and it’s much easier when they have names.”
Have you named your lab instruments? Get some inspiration in this lighthearted article by @metricausa for @naturemethods.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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Hello everyone! My team is expanding and we are looking for a person excited about Spatial Transcriptomics to join our team. Here is the listing please apply. alleninstitute.org/careers/j…
#neurotwitter
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2 Feb 2025
Sydney Floryanzia is a neuroengineer & science communicator✨
As a current PhD candidate at UW, her research investigates models for therapeutic particles to cross the Blood-Brain-Barrier to treat brain diseases 🧠
She’s also passionate about making STEM fun to learn for kids💞
ALT A collage of Sydney Floryanzia (a Black woman with twists) on the left crossing her arms and smiling for a professional photo, and two microscopy images of her research on the right.
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1 Feb 2025
We honor our Black and African American communities, cultures, and history. Join us this month in celebrating Black History Month on Sesame Street. 💛💚
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1 Feb 2025
Happy Black History Month ✊🏾. This month, as we do every month, we celebrate Black history and all the many accomplishments our people have made inside and outside of science.
We are all Black history yall. We love our community and wish you all joy and peace 🖤
ALT A black history flyer with a black background and brown fists in the air. Behind the black fists are red, yellow, and green stripes with the Black In Neuro logo at the top center.
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2 Feb 2025
Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠
The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭
#BlackInNeuro
ALT Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.
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2 Jan 2025
I did a little reading in 2024. Now to set my 2025 reading goal. If only journal articles counted.
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19 Dec 2024
The Next Generation Leaders program at the Allen Institute recognizes and supports emerging and diverse early career researchers in bioscience. We are happy to announce the 2024 cohort: alleninstitute.org/news/alle…
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13 Dec 2024
Great things are happening @AllenInstitute Spatial Transcriptomics team!! This came out this week. This is a computational tool developed to conduct an initial QC. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #TeamScience #openscience
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12 Nov 2024
Join us this Thu., Nov. 14 for a deep dive into the range of -omics tool our immunology teams are using to deeply profile the human immune system.
📆 Nov. 14, 10am PT
💻 Virtual
🎟️ RSVP at labroots.com/ms/webinar/huma…
📼 Register to be alerted when recording is available.
@labroots
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11 Nov 2024
#AtAllenInstitute, we're honored to work alongside those who have served in our armed forces. This #VeteransDay and every day, we thank you.
Pictured: @Delissa76 (@usarmy, @usairforce National Guard), David Liu (U.S. Army), Albert Glen (U.S. Army)
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Delissa McMillen retweeted
8 Nov 2024
This right here 👇🏾
“This country does not deserve Black women.”
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8 Nov 2024
I am tired. I will no longer fight for those who will willingly sacrifice me and my children. People should understand you can’t say you support or love me then vote for someone who doesn’t value my existence.
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5 Nov 2024
Normally our lab runs like a well oiled machine. Then something happens like a power outage. In these moments of chaos I think the #spatialtranscriptomics team shows that they can solve any problem with a little ingenuity and teamwork.
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One of the values @AllenInstitute is Creativity. Last week we had a power outage and we also lost vacuum. We did have a small amount of standby power. We still had one sample to start imaging. Our SOP uses a vacuum to sample prep. Listen to what Josh did.
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2 Nov 2024
Happy birthday, @MeCookieMonster! We brought you some cookies to celebrate! 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪 #HappyBirthdayCookieMonster
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25 Oct 2024
How does a cells go from histology lab to the Allen Brain Cell (ABC) Atlas?
On Oct. 30, hear from the experts during a live webinar showing the behind-the-scenes of our spatial transcriptomics experimental pipeline.
📆 Oct. 30, 9am Pacific
📍 Online
alleninstitute.org/events/ce…
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Thank you for everything, James.
A statement from George Lucas and Lucasfilm: strw.rs/6002W5kU8
ALT A photo of legendary actor James Earl Jones with the words 'In Memoriam. James Earl Jones. 1931-2024'
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Delissa McMillen retweeted
10 Sep 2024
May the Force be with you J. E. J.
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