Ashley Juavinett, PhD is a neuroscientist, educator, and writer. She currently works as an Assistant Teaching Professor at UC San Diego, where she is developing novel approaches to teaching and mentoring folks in neuroscience.

Six lifestyle tips from parasitic bees

Here's the guide you didn't know you needed to being a successful cuckoo bee

There might be some problems when we try to make babies in space

Biologists sent brain organoids to the International Space Station to figure out how microgravity will affect developing babies

Produced in partnership with ASU Center for Science and the Imagination

It's time to focus on the connection between biology and consciousness

Neuroscientists must be willing to develop imperfect descriptions of how we work

Neuroscientist Kale Edmiston on why biological bases of being trans shouldn't matter

'We should haven’t to prove that we’re really a certain gender in order to be treated like a person'

Building a Massive scicomm effort

We’re talking to other scicomm leaders to understand how we can improve our efforts

5 facts about Frances Hamerstrom, wildlife biologist, hunter, and savior of the prairie chicken

As a kid, she dissected blue jays and built a garden whose path was lined with poison ivy

People ask about my experiments on mice. The answers are … complicated

Behind most breakthroughs is animal research. Let's stop pretending otherwise

Why designer mental health drugs are still elusive

The fruitless, decade-long search for DREADDs has a silver lining

Want to learn how brains go awry? First, we must learn how they work

We set out to make neurons deep in the brain glow bright so we could see their role in vision