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Valerie Tsai

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Neurosciences PhD Student @ Stanford 🌲 NSF GRFP fellow | prev: NIMH postbac, UW undergrad | ML & social behavior & patching ✨🐭 | I write, sometimes... vtsai881.github.io

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🚨: Mark your calendars! SNAAP is hosting a virtual Q&A panel led by current Stanford Neurosciences PhD students for any and all last minute grad school application questions!✍️RSVP here with this link (forms.gle/AErxr4rPr1Wz...) or by using the QR code below! ⏬

16.11.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

!!! huge congrats Raaj !! super excited to see what awesome science you and your lab get up to πŸ₯³

13.11.2025 05:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior πŸ’ƒπŸ•Ί in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky πŸ§ͺ
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25.09.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 9
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

25.09.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 67
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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com βœ“ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

08.09.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific β€œbehavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

04.09.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
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Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in β€ͺ@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

03.09.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 12
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Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats Urban rats are highly adaptable, thriving in the dynamic and often inhospitable conditions of modern cities. Despite substantial mitigation efforts, they remain an enduring presence in urban environme...

New preprint!



tl;dr β€” We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧡

w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

25.07.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

Apply to this program and share with students in your networks! We will work 1:1 with you on your applications, CVs, interviews, etc bsky.app/profile/stan...

09.07.2025 20:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

30.05.2025 05:32 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain Although topographical maps organize many peripheral sensory systems, it remains unclear whether olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) choose which of the ~1100 odor receptors (ORs) to express based upon t...

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.πŸ‘‡πŸ‘ƒsee more details belowπŸ‘ƒπŸ‘‡

09.05.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us. A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.

Please spread the word!

06.05.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Not sure how to practice for your PhD interviews? Check out our guide below ⬇️

31.01.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stanford Neuro Application Assistance Program Welcome! Please choose a mentor to schedule an interview with. Please try to book >48hrs in advance to give us time to coordinate with mentors in case there needs to be a switch-up

🚨: SNAAP Mock Interviews Office Hours are now OPEN! πŸŽ‰

Our office hours consist of mock interviews and advice sessions for those currently applying/interviewing for Neuroscience PhD programs (including Stanford)!

Sign-up for a slot using our Calendly (link in bio)!

#neuroscience #PhDSky

28.01.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4