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Kay M Tye PhD
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Mom. Neuroscientist. She/Her. BLM. ted.com/speakers/kay_t… hellobio.com/blog/gender-bi…
UCSF/Stanford/MIT/Salk-HHMI
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Feb 25
    Our new review is out today!! Perfect timing right before the #SocialGRC
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    Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis: Dynamic Range Plasticity
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Sep 22, 2022
    Here’s a hot take that might lose me some friends 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it seems obv: Grad students are the lifeblood of academia. We must raise their stipends above the poverty line so they can focus on research instead of survival. When the union strikes, we (PIs) should strike with them.
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Dec 4, 2017
    Got an email from Dept Head that says I officially got tenure! My daughter wants to know why alerts of congrats texts keep preventing her from watching videos on iPad. Me: Mommy gets to be a scientist forever! Her:🙄#notimpressed Hopefully I’ll be able to celebrate at #acnp
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Dec 8, 2022
    No matter who we are, our roles as mandatory reporters is real. Disappointed in ⁦@jonykipnis⁩ Alleged sexual misconduct and support system failures cause graduate student to drop her WU PhD degree - Student Life
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    Alleged sexual misconduct and support system failures cause graduate student to drop her WU PhD...
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Jul 2, 2019
    Opinion: Scientist authors — please stop referring to other papers in your methods instead of just telling us your methods. Making readers navigate obfuscated referencing and (worse) multiple paywalls to figure out what you’ve done is like a big 🖕
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Sep 23, 2021
    Thrilled to be selected to be an HHMI investigator @HHMINEWS and most of all grateful to be working with this amazing team and to keep doing what we have set out to do in dissecting the neural mechanisms of Social Homeostasis @salkinstitute!!
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Aug 22, 2021
    Thank you for saying this. Every situation is different but even now as a senior faculty member, I feel a visceral reaction to any tone dismissing or discrediting sexual harassment. 1/n
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Apr 2, 2019
    “If sexual harassment, misconduct, and retaliation are the firing squads that assassinate individual careers, then implicit bias is the lead in the water that poisons the entire town.” #BiasAwareness #MeTooSTEM #WomenInScience #SAIDinSTEM hellobio.com/blog/gender-bi…
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Sep 20, 2020
    Any other neuroscientist read this and think to yourself: “Wow, I like his cars, but... ...this guy sounds like a total dick”
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    Elon Musk
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    Sep 19, 2020
    Replying to @elonmusk
    A prior track record of exceptional achievement in engineering *is* required, but *no* prior experience working on the brain or human physiology is required. We will teach you what’s known about the brain, which is not much tbh.
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Aug 14, 2018
    I am excited to announce that the Tye Lab will be moving to the Salk Institute (taking students through UCSD) in 2019!
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Aug 5, 2021
    Lab Meetings are Sacred to me Evidence: I have never missed a single lab meeting in ~10 years, at least 300 lab meetings. Philosophy: This is where we honor our team members with our shared attention and thoughtful engagement, and they honor us with their preparation. 1/n
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Nov 19, 2020
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    Jen Heemstra
    @jenheemstra
    Nov 19, 2020
    As a PI, my top priority is to support the students and postdocs in my group As a female PI, the fact that biases in publishing could hurt their opportunities just kills me Seeing a paper published recommending that the answer is they should work for men instead is...no words😡
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Jun 14, 2021
    To anonymous reviewers: If you wanna provide constructive criticism-thank you!! If you wanna hate on me - go ahead, let it out. BUT if you wanna be rude with no suggestions for improvement and dishearten my trainees I will request editorial intervention for abuse of power. 1/n
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    Kay M Tye PhD
    @kaymtye
    Mar 5, 2020
    I gave a TED talk! Hope to convince you that understanding how neural circuits control behavior should be a top priority for everyone -- because 50% of people will be affected by a mental health disorder, and the mental health crisis affects us all. ted.com/speakers/kay_t…
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