Leading authority on losing my wallet. Neuro PhD candidate, Burgess Lab @Umich. Memory, 2-photon imaging, data science. @GeorgiaStateU Alumna. She/her
Joined June 2019
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8 Apr 2021
have you seen a flashing brain today?
two-photon imaging of ai96 x CaMKIIa-Cre transgenic cross in Vis association cortex. Registered with Suite2p. >3k neurons over 30 minutes! #neuroscience #AcademicChatter #twophoton #systems #cortex
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Lex Faulkner retweeted
4 Oct 2023
After 5 years, it’s finally here! I am so excited to be defending my PhD in Neuroscience on Oct 19th at 2 pm ET. It will be available on Zoom if anyone is interested in attending (DM for details). Thanks to all who helped along the way 🥳
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Lex Faulkner retweeted
31 Aug 2023
The last paper of my PhD got finally published in #FrontiersInSystemsNeuroscience. This work shows that optogenetics can be used to excite two separated neuronal ensembles along the ICC tonotpy (1)
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Lex Faulkner retweeted
20 Apr 2023
GRADUATE WORKERS NEED YOUR HELP.
@UMich has preemptively decided to withhold all but $100 of pay from graduate workers for the month of april, putting many of us in precarious financial situations. please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at givebutter.com/GEOStrikeFund !!
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9 Apr 2023
It’s killing me that the strategies laid out by the CIA to sabotage organizations into being as inefficient as possible…. Is literally the standard organization of academia
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23 Nov 2022
In academia, PI’s don’t say ‘I miss you’
They say ‘where’s my goddamn data,’ and I think that’s really beautiful 🥰
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20 Nov 2022
My superpower is knowing when someone is waiting on me to do something.
I sense it’s literally every waking moment.
I’m at the top of my game.
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Lex Faulkner retweeted
16 Nov 2022
can anyone direct me to that one lab that does the gorgeous black tie lab photoshoots for their website? @alvinnchiu and i would like to propose something similar but we can’t remember the lab’s name!!
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6 Nov 2022
One thing they forget to mention about Sisyphus… guy took a lot of naps
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Lex Faulkner retweeted
22 Oct 2022
We can accelerate progress in AI by providing free daycare to all grad students and postdocs working on AI. Ask your funding agency to support daycare-inspired AI!
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17 Oct 2022
Sufficiently advanced understanding is nearly indistinguishable from magic
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17 Oct 2022
The most important lesson I’ve learned as a scientist is ~nothing~ works the first time
And if it does? It’s probably not real
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17 Oct 2022
Im here to chew gum and lose followers. And honey? We’re fresh outta gum 🤙
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Lex Faulkner retweeted
16 Oct 2022
I went to the total sweetie pie convention and everyone knew you
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16 Oct 2022
Buying the ~perfect~ gift for someone hits better than any drug tbvh 👌🏼
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