Tara Raam
@tararaam_
neuroscience postdoc @UCLA 🧠 • reclaimed californian 🌞 • studying mouse collectives, concerned with the human collective 🐭 • @tararaam.bsky.social
big day!! so excited to share the preprint of my postdoc project in @TheHongLab 🥳🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼 we identified how prefrontal populations enable social groups to coordinate into huddles during thermal challenge! ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️
Neural basis of collective social behavior during environmental challenge biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
I have a new paper on "The Psychology of Virality" with @steverathje2 in @TrendsCognSci Similar psychological processes (eg preferential attention to negativity, social motives, etc.) drive the spread of information across online and offline: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The moment a baby elephant falls into the water… and the whole herd goes into rescue mode. Unreal.
Similar types of information (e.g., negative, high-arousal, or moral information) tend to spread both online via social media and offline via gossip. Check out our new paper on the “Psychology of Virality” in TiCS
🚨New paper in @TrendsCognSci 🚨 Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? @Jayvanbavel and I review the “psychology of virality,” or the psychological and structural factors that shape information spread online and offline. Thread 🧵(1/n)
Thrilled to share that my first REVIEW is online @NatRevNeurosci today! We highlighted the molecular and functional diversity of brain-to-body autonomic pathways 📖 Hope you enjoy reading it and find the resources helpful 🤗👇 rdcu.be/euEhn nature.com/articles/s4158…
Thrilled to share our latest work in @Nature studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by @xzh_brain, Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with @JonathanCKao! Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euu5Z
We’re excited to share our new preprint from the lab! PhD student @armorningstar_ investigated how Early Life Stress shapes sex-specific vulnerability to alcohol behavioral sensitivity, alcohol drinking, and alcohol's effects on social behaviors: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Preliminary program out now- GRC on Neuroscience of Social Behavior- March 2026! More talks chosen from the abstracts. Mark your calendars grc.org/the-neuroscien…
This should be required reading by all graduate students and postdocs | A brief guide to statistical analysis of grouped data in preclinical research nature.com/articles/s4225…
Question: What happens when you elect women to office? Answer: You get higher economic growth as a direct result. Why?: In part, because women are less likely to be criminal and corrupt and are less vulnerable to political opportunism. Source: "Women legislators and economic…
MIT News featured the origin story of Focused Research Organizations and @E11BIO coming out of @eboyden3's lab with @AdamMarblestone @SGRodriques @Andrew_C_Payne @tkalil2050 news.mit.edu/2025/former-mi…
After over a year of incubating, I’m excited to share a new project inspired by a ~decade of in vivo drug discovery experience 🧬 Artemis is a Focused Research Organization (FRO) to establish alternative, naturally physiologically human-like animal species for complex disease…
Without a doubt, the spread of scientific mis/disinformation may be one of the most serious public health threats of our time.
An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of tweets. That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions.
1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @fetzert is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav @Nature 🎉. Thread 👇
The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust:
Please join us for our End of the Year Luncheon! We will have time to socialize, eat, and reflect on the year! ⏰: Monday, June 9th at 12pm Gonda 1357
The way Rumi looks at Blue cuz she knows it's her time to leave and Blue is the one escorting her out 😭
E11 Bio is launching Volara: an open-source Python library for block-wise processing of large volumetric microscopy datasets! Built on top of Daisy (a lightweight framework from the Funke Lab at Janelia), Volara features block-wise task abstractions, making scalable image…
The NIH notified me yesterday that there is currently no policy that supports applying for a R00 that is associated with a terminated K99. So now, both the postdoc K99 (Harvard, $250k) and the R00 (non-Harvard institution TBD, $750) are BOTH effectively terminated.
Harvard notified me today that this K99 grant is terminated.
After 18 years as an editor at @NaturePortfolio journals and @ScienceMagazine , I am now a freelance editor. By being a step away from your work, I can take an objective view and give constructive feedback to improve papers and grant proposals. biosciedit.co.uk 1/n
I don't understand how someone can read this and not think that the American biomedical research system is a modern miracle that should be protected at all costs
In a medical milestone, a customized base editor was developed, characterized in human and mouse cells, tested in mice, studied for safety in non-human primates, cleared by @US_FDA for clinical trial use, manufactured as a complex with an LNP, and dosed into a baby with a severe,…