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Angie Voyles Askham @avaskham

senior media relations manager @ Stellate Communications

Joined August 2010
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Alison Preston@AliPrestonPhD
Jun 4
We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠
Preston Lab, University of Texas at Austin. Now recruiting 1–2 postdoctoral researchers in learning, memory, development, and flexible behavior. Methods: behavioral experiments, fMRI, computational modeling, and naturalistic stimuli. Apply with CV, research statement, and 3 references to apreston@utexas.edu. Photos show the lab group smiling together, members working at a table, and members at a celebration.

ALT Preston Lab, University of Texas at Austin. Now recruiting 1–2 postdoctoral researchers in learning, memory, development, and flexible behavior. Methods: behavioral experiments, fMRI, computational modeling, and naturalistic stimuli. Apply with CV, research statement, and 3 references to apreston@utexas.edu. Photos show the lab group smiling together, members working at a table, and members at a celebration.
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I have long written and spoken about the many ways US immigration policy harms international students and scholars. This has been true for as long as I can remember, including when I first came to the US on a single-entry student visa more than 20 years ago under a process formerly known as muslim registry program. But the current administration has gone much further, through arbitrary policy changes, travel bans, and broad visa processing pauses that leave folks unable to work, travel, or train. These policies affect a minority of scientists, and in the current state of the world they can be easy to overlook. But we should not let that happen. I wrote about the quiet loss of Iranian scientific talent in US labs for @TheScientistLLC: the-scientist.com/the-quiet-…

The Quiet Loss of Iranian Scientific Talent in US Labs | The Scientist

US visa freezes cause catastrophic career and personal isolation for Iranian researchers, leading to immense talent loss to competing nations.

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Hesheng Liu
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Lesion network mapping (LNM) has been powerful in linking symptoms and brain functional circuits, but ongoing debates highlight that it is still hard to isolate symptom-specific effects. We came up with a new method, robust LNM (rLNM) — a unified framework combining null models and selective specificity to reveal reliable, symptom-specific networks from background structure. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… @bttyeo @foxmdphd @ndosenbach @club_scan
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
May 21
Researchers at a national primate center in Oregon have formed a grassroots nonprofit to argue against the center becoming an animal sanctuary, a transition the facility’s host university has been exploring since February. By @callimcflurry thetransmitter.org/nonhuman-…

Oregon primate center scientists fight proposed sanctuary transition

A group of employees has launched a series of campaigns to advocate for their work and argue against the center’s potential transition to an animal sanctuary.

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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
May 8
Salaries for workers across universities in Argentina have dropped 30 to 40 percent since Javier Milei took office, creating a scientific crisis that has driven researchers to the streets. By @natmesanash and @claulopezneuro thetransmitter.org/funding/f…

Science defunding in Argentina sparks new wave of protests

Scientists are protesting the government’s failure to restore previously cut scholarships and update salaries as required by a 2025 law.

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Big news!! I'm so excited to be on this team!
Stellate Communications@stellatecomms
May 4
Welcome @avaskham! 🥳 Angie joins us to lead media strategy & engagement across our clients. She is a former reporter & neuroscientist, with previous work spanning digital & radio journalism, writing, and scientific publishing. Learn more about our Team: stellatecomms.com/team
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Apr 22
Thank you to Jesse H. Neal Awards for naming @_TheTransmitter the winner in the best news coverage and profile categories. Explore our award-winning content at thetransmitter.org. Congrats to all of the winners!
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Apr 10
We are honored to have been named winners of seven 2026 AZBEE Awards in various categories. Congrats to all of the winners! Explore some of our award-winning content
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Apr 2
A new preprint shows that deep learning can make a fly walk realistically using a worm’s brain — exposing a fundamental problem with how connectome models are being built and sold to investors. By @natmesanash thetransmitter.org/systems-n…

‘Digital sphinx’ raises questions about connectome models

The sphinx, with a worm’s brain and a fly’s body, illustrates the potential pitfalls of using deep-learning techniques to model biological processes.

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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Mar 31
The requested boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams, which will result in a $195 million drop in funding for fiscal year 2027. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/funding/l…

Letter asks Congress for nearly $500 million to sustain BRAIN Initiative

The boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams.

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Mark Histed@HistedLab
Mar 14
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
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Feb 27
“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-o…
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RT @deniswirtz: Source for this data: NIH!
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
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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-o…
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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!
Are there any traditions or practices from the labs you trained at that you will implement in your lab? I plan to use a “slide stack”—a practice that worked well for me when I was a trainee. Basically, every trainee will maintain a running Google Slides document, and every week, the trainee can add updates about their projects. This allows me to preview everything before one-on-one meetings, making them more efficient. For the trainee, the slide stack will act as an archive of checkpoints—which is helpful for “debugging” things throughout the projects—and as a template for making polished materials for talks and papers.

ALT Are there any traditions or practices from the labs you trained at that you will implement in your lab? I plan to use a “slide stack”—a practice that worked well for me when I was a trainee. Basically, every trainee will maintain a running Google Slides document, and every week, the trainee can add updates about their projects. This allows me to preview everything before one-on-one meetings, making them more efficient. For the trainee, the slide stack will act as an archive of checkpoints—which is helpful for “debugging” things throughout the projects—and as a template for making polished materials for talks and papers.

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And I love this from @dlevenstein as a way to build community in the lab!
Are there any traditions or practices from the labs you trained at that you will implement in your lab? I did my Ph.D. in György Buzsáki’s lab. Whenever anyone left the lab, György would give an awkward speech about the story of the person’s time in the lab. The person leaving would, in turn, give their own speech from their perspective and talk about what they learned from György and the other lab members. It was all quite touching, and I think it really helped the lab feel like a community that valued the people who came through and the time they spent there. It also showed new lab members just how nonlinear research can be—no one ended up doing the project they had planned when they joined. I’ve seen a lot of amazing speeches, and I hope to have a similar “celebration of the time in the lab” practice in my own group. The other thing I’d like to carry forward is that the lab always has lunch together. Both my Ph.D. and postdoc labs did this, and it’s quite nice for building a sense

ALT Are there any traditions or practices from the labs you trained at that you will implement in your lab? I did my Ph.D. in György Buzsáki’s lab. Whenever anyone left the lab, György would give an awkward speech about the story of the person’s time in the lab. The person leaving would, in turn, give their own speech from their perspective and talk about what they learned from György and the other lab members. It was all quite touching, and I think it really helped the lab feel like a community that valued the people who came through and the time they spent there. It also showed new lab members just how nonlinear research can be—no one ended up doing the project they had planned when they joined. I’ve seen a lot of amazing speeches, and I hope to have a similar “celebration of the time in the lab” practice in my own group. The other thing I’d like to carry forward is that the lab always has lunch together. Both my Ph.D. and postdoc labs did this, and it’s quite nice for building a sense
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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Feb 4
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…

Crafting tales of science with Theanne Griffith

A lifelong passion for writing helped the neuroscientist 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.

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Feb 4
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/…

Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted

A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.

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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Jan 27
“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-a…

‘Peer review is our strength’: Q&A with Walter Koroshetz, former NINDS director

In his first week off the job, the former National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke director urges U.S. scientists to remain optimistic about the future of neuroscience research…

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The Transmitter@_TheTransmitter
Jan 23
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-a…

After NINDS director ouster, 40 neuroscience organizations press U.S. Congress for oversight over...

A letter signed by the 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.

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