Neuroscientist 👨🏾🔬 | Assistant Professor @UCLA 🐻 | @SCglobalbrain TTI Fellow | @NIH DSPAN F99/K00 scholar
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2018
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Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
We're ranked the #1 public university in the nation! This is a win for every Bruin who makes UCLA extraordinary. We couldn’t have done it without you. 💙💛 ucla.in/4he2HL2 #1UCLA
ALT Blue graphic featuring UCLA's Royce Hall and a bear statue in the background. Bold yellow text reads "#1 Public University."
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
What happens when the brain loses its ability to experience pleasure? At @dgsomucla Austin Coley studies anhedonia: the inability to feel pleasure, a debilitating symptom of depression, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders. By uncovering how stress and brain circuits alter our capacity for reward, his work could help pave the way for more precise treatments for mental illness. neurobio.ucla.edu/people/aus…
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Neuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that, @AustinAColey explains.
thetransmitter.org/craft-and…
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In these difficult times (all grants frozen) it is good to recognize the good that science can do. Very proud of our new paper on open-source 2P miniscopes! They can image dendrites in cortex and dentate granule neurons through an intact CA1. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Applications are now open for the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–26 academic year. The SURFiN program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research opportunities. The paid fellowships will run from Sept 2025 - May 2026. Deadline to apply: May 1. For more info: bit.ly/4l2YAlY
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Over 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 @claulopezneuro @callimcflurry
thetransmitter.org/funding/a…
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
As the world’s leading public research institution, UC depends on @NIH funding for scientific advances that save lives and improve healthcare. UC has submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit to block NIH cuts. bit.ly/4hs4pY0
President Trump is unlawfully decimating funding for medical and public health research that helps to develop new cures and treatments for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.
We’re suing.
oag.ca.gov/news/press-releas…
ALT I will not allow the Trump Administration to jeopardize the extraordinary work being done right now by scientists, scholars, medical professionals, and other workers
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
The winner of the 2025 Pradel Research Award is Anne Churchland of @UCLA! She is being honored for expanding understanding of the neural circuits that support decision making. Learn more about her discoveries: nasonline.org/award/pradel-r… #NASaward #neuroscience
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
🤩 Wow! A @Pixar show on which I (wearing my sleep research hat) consulted, Dream Productions, has been released to the world early! Yesterday! I haven’t watched yet. Please watch 👀and tell me what you think. I’m so excited!!!!
ALT Dream Productions by Disney Pixar, from the world of Inside Out. At the studio inside Riley’s mind, a dream director faces a nightmare: creating the next hit Dream.
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
We're thrilled to announce that the National Black Postdoctoral Association (@natblackpostdoc) was awarded $119,700 from the Simons Foundation (@SimonsFdn) to sponsor our NBPA Leadership Symposium this fall at @UTSWMedCenter! 🙌🏾✨
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
This summer marks 5 years of #StoriesOfWin!! 💜
Thank you to our team, our interviewees, and our listeners who have made Stories of WiN possible! To celebrate, we would love to know which episode has been your favorite and why? #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInSTEM
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Women are consistently under-cited in neuroscience. @anne_churchlandand and @FDavatolhagh share tools that can help assess citation diversity.
thetransmitter.org/publishin…
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. simonsfoundation.org/2024/05…
ALT Photo of James Harris Simons, credit: Beatrice de Gea
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Video data are enormously useful and growing rapidly, but the field lacks a searchable, shareable way to store them.
By Robert Froemke
@Froemkelab
thetransmitter.org/open-neur…
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
I enjoyed being a panelist at the Diverse Inclusive Scientific Community Offering a Vision for an Ecosystem Reimagined (DISCOVER) symposium @salkinstitute to share about postdoc life. Thank you @kaymtye for hosting + panel: @AustinAColey @krissylyon Callum Walsh and Yuening Liu!
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor researches how the sensation of touch happens in the skin and in the brain. In an interview with Quanta, the molecular biologist discusses his journey to this work and his hopes for its future. quantamagazine.org/pleasure-…
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@AustinAColey: "Moving away from rigid diagnostic categories toward a spectrum-based approach can revolutionize our understanding and treatment of these conditions."
Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Graduate school applications are due soon. So here are my tips for how to craft a strong statement for a neuroscience PhD program
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Austin A Coley, PhD retweeted
Graduated in December 2022 but finally got the chance to celebrate my B.S. in Neurobiology! 🥳
Next: Neuroscience PhD applications this fall! Thank you everyone who has supported me throughout the years 🙏
S/O Tye Lab for helping me grow into the scientist I am today 💕
