Saskia de Vries
🏳️🌈🧠🔬🚴♀️ Neuroscientist. Associate Director of Data and Outreach at Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Focused on how we do Science in the Open. She/her.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesURGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
- My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
- We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesI am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesAnother scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Saskia de Vriesif a man wanted free reign to attack women he wouldn't try to be seen as a trans woman he would try to be seen as, say it with me class a police officer
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesLast month, we organized #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.org (along w Karel, Saskia @sejdevries.bsky.social , David & Satra) with the theme "Integrating Scales & Modalities". See the videos📣👇 Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎥 Speaker: alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi... youtu.be/N1IMki0RnIc?...
- If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute.
- We're going to be at the @cosynemeeting.bsky.social! We'd love to meet you at our #Cosyne2025 posters, talks, and workshops. Some highlights below. 👇🧵
- How many authenticator apps does one person need?
- Reposted by Saskia de Vries“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesMy speech from #Chicago #StandUpforScience rally today. I wanted to write something that was about why I support science, not as a scientist myself, but as a citizen. This is dedicated to a dear relative, an arborist for the #NationalParkService. 🧵Photos from the rally in Chicago today by Mike Yen.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesThe temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesI always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesCompare and contrast the emails from McKnight (left) and Chan-Zuckerberg (right). Proud to be part of the McKnight community.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesOn this list: Spokane Not on this list: Seattle
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesOver the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr
- Reposted by Saskia de Vries“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
- Reposted by Saskia de Vries“It’s important to see the big picture... [The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪
- Reposted by Saskia de Vries“More generally, this new effort is a direct attack on universities—independent institutions that provide a location for developing ideas and information that do not accord with, and often promote dissent from, the goals of the current Trump regime.” ☝️☝️☝️ That one sentence all scientists must read.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesJust got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Saskia de VriesRegistration for the 2025 @mpfneuro.bsky.social Neurotechniques Course closes this Wednesday! Co-directed by Ryohei Yasuda & @denisejcai.bsky.social and led by an amazing team of experts, this hands-on course is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in neuroscience 🔬🧠
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesJoin us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/
- Reposted by Saskia de Vries663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!
- Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
- I biked 2250 miles this year. 591 was for recreation, the rest was commuting and errands. Compare this to 2951 miles that I drove (half of our shared car’s mileage, probably overestimating my share of the miles)
- Don’t applaud my low carbon footprint too fast, though. I also flew 56,453 miles.
- My running stats aren’t impressive - only 105 miles. But I did manage to run in 7 different cities: Seattle, Lisbon, Paris, Kigali, Woods Hole, Friday Harbor, and Chicago.
- Spotify managed to shuffle my running playlist such that one song was played every time I ran, leaving me with P!nk’s “Raise you glass” as my top played song, despite it not being remotely close to my favorite song. But the # plays matches my # runs exactly. Obviously I need a new running playlist!
- I am still not over Celine Dion’s performance at the Paris Olympics.
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- This was such a fun conversation on open science and collaboration! Thanks @grimalkina.bsky.social and @analog-ashley.bsky.social for having me on the podcast! 🧠🧪
- "Hope is other people" Our newest Change, Technically is about open science but it's also about distributed collaboration and how we get to the science of the future ❤️🚀 Featuring the amazing @sejdevries.bsky.social from the Allen Institute! www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
- Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesI don't think a lot of cis people, queer or not, realize that this SCOTUS case on healthcare this week affects us all, not just our trans siblings. Because at the core of this is a severe question: Can you ban healthcare? @msjpauly.bsky.social has an amazing legal breakdown to read on this 👇
- Evergreen tweet: whenever 🇺🇸 plays 🇳🇱 in soccer I never know which part of my identity to root for. Turns out I root for the part of me that is us a former goalie. Especially today!
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- Reposted by Saskia de VriesThis is due soon! #NativesInSTEM #BlackInMicro #BlackInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM #LatinoInSTEM (not sure if that last one is the right tag) #BIPOCinSTEM
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesIf you are a trans person in Illinois arrested, harassed, or discriminated against for using a public bathroom, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
- Check out these open positions! The neuro community at UW is amazing and I benefit from having awesome scientists and collaborators across the lake!
- NBIO is hiring. You should come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/155882
- Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. W.H. Auden
- There is a unique joy when you get asked to provide a reference for someone you think the world of.
- Van Gogh Museum Mass MOCA The Tate - specifically the Turner wing.
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesCome be my colleague! UW ECE has multiple openings for tenure-track faculty at both the assistant and associate level. It's a great, collaborative place with a very inclusive definition of electrical & computer engineering. apply.interfolio.com/156207 apply.interfolio.com/156210
- Reposted by Saskia de VriesThis is why no matter what people say about shared authorship, everyone will fight for first-first author!
