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Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @Diff_Journal . Tweets are my own. #NeuralCrest
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4 years
Who am I if Iโm not a
#DevelopmentalBiologist
? A (long) thread. Today for
#BlackInDevelopmental
, I would like to tell you how I got here. I am a
#FirstGen
college attendee and graduate. I was raised in a single-parent household. We struggled financially when I was growing up. 1/
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4 years
Imposter syndrome is hitting hard this morning. I recently found out that graduate students have been told by more established PIs that I am a โred flagโ because I have not yet secured external funding and because I havenโt recruited other graduate students. 1/
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4 years
Something that always lifts my spirits? The axolotls! In the midst of everything thatโs going on, I am happy caring for our animals. Meet โChonkโ our largest younginโ. Weโre pretty sure he ate a sibling once.
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4 years
I was thinking about some of the comments I received on my F32 NIH postdoctoral fellowship application from 6-7 years ago. Itโs surprising how frustrated I still get when I think about it. A thread... 1/
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4 years
To increase inclusivity in academia, we will need to re-define our metrics of excellence, which may be consciously or subconsciously biased and based on a less than perfect system. We are not a monolith and there are many successful paths to academia. 7/
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4 years
For those of you reviewing grants and grad school applications, please try to think about people who come from different circumstances. Not everyone has parents who understand the system and help them navigate or enough cash to flow through the system without interruptions. 6/
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4 years
Overall- if you are trying to retain committed, talented, passionate junior faculty- some of whom have added service tax as URM or women- maybe think- would you have phrased your comments that way if you were talking about a white male junior faculty member? Not OK. 5/
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4 years
Happy Thanksgiving. I will be working all week and weekend to ensure that my papers and grants are written, animals are cared for, figures are made, and my traineesโ are ok. 6/
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4 years
Third- instead of suggesting that the research in a Junior PIโs lab may not be โimpactfulโ enough to get a grant, please offer to read their grants and coach them on grantsmanship. Maybe we had different resources than you and only learned to write grants as a faculty member. 4/
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3 years
I am ECSTATIC to announce that I have been awarded an
@NSF
CAREER award to study the role of transcription factors and cell adhesion in
#NeuralCrest
cell development and differentiation in avians (๐, quail, and ๐ฆ)! 1/
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2 years
@jreneebad
Iโm so sorry for your loss. ๐I can empathize with your story, and having a โtouchstoneโ is sometimes just what we need to keep from repeating the cycle.
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4 years
First- I arrived to Davis one year ago and 6 months of this time was pandemic. I wasnโt recruiting students last year because we didnโt even have a lab yet, and I donโt believe itโs the job of a grad student to set up a lab. Also, someone has to be โthe firstโ. 2/
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4 years
Second- I arrived at UC Davis after having a thriving lab at CSUN for 3.5 years. I am not new to mentoring although I have not yet had a PhD student. Also- I am a champion for my students. It is my goal to ensure success and opportunity in a supportive environment. 3/
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1 year
In Aug. of 2003, I moved across the country to attend grad school
@GUBiology
. I was 24, had no idea what to expect, and had little confidence in my own ability. This week, I received news that I will be promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure
@ucdavis
in July 2023! 1/5
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1 year
I received notice that I would be promoted with tenure months ago, but itโs technically not official until 7-1-23. However, Iโm not waiting until tomorrow for this.
On July 1, 2023, my tenure and promotion
@ucdavis
@ucdavisvetmed
are official!
#tenure
#promotion
#DevBio
๐๐ช๐ฝโค๏ธ
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4 years
I love the fact that my son will always consider a strong Black woman who is a scientist, a normal thing. To him, I am what a scientist looks like. Shoutout to all the people out there normalizing change for the next generation.โค๏ธ
#DevBio
#MommyScientist
#AcademicMom
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3 years
Dear colleagues,
Iโm sorry to report that I will not be attending any welcome events, orientations, happy hours, or other non-mandatory thing in person until my child can be vaccinated. I get emails everyday about these things like the world is back to normal. Itโs not.
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2 years
We are not taught how to run a lab when we train to become scientists. We are not taught how to budget, details of grants administration, nor specifics of cost breakdowns. When we get jobs, we are integrated in the system with little information about the inner workings. 1/
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4 years
One reviewer said that my 3.0 undergraduate GPA was subpar. I had 2 part time jobs in undergrad to survive. They reduced available study time. Keep in mind, at the point of the app I had defended my PhD with distinction and had published 4 grad papers and 2 postdoc papers. 2/
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4 years
Another reviewer said that it was appalling that it took me 8 years to finish my PhD. It didnโt. It took me 5.5 years. The NIH bio sketch only asked for the date of completion. I wasnโt able to go straight from undergrad to grad school and had to work in between to save money. 3/
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4 years
If they didnโt like the science or felt like the approach was bad, they could have provided those comments. Instead they focused on their interpretation/opinions of my path to the PhD and how I didnโt deserve to be supported by the NIH. 5/
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4 years
I'm in an image analysis course and I am immediately enamored with the "find edges" function in FIJI. ๐
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4 years
Further, I didnโt even know grad school was an option when I was in undergrad. No one ever suggested I should apply nor explained what a PhD was. No one saw me as a potential scientist. I discovered grad school quite by accident. 4/
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4 years
Hello! Iโm Crystal Rogers, an Assistant Professor
@ucdavis
in
@ucdavisvetmed
. Iโm a developmental biologist studying the molecular mechanisms that drive the formation of
#NeuralCrest
cells in vertebrate embryos.
#BlackinCMDBioRollCall
#BlackinCMDBio
@BlackinCMDBio
@___SDB___
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4 years
@StephenKing
Please write a story about the evil politicians that were marked. Because... the fly knows.
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3 years
In the Pfizer โ3rd shotโ booster trial now! Iโm happy to be a study participant so you donโt have to! Itโs double blinded and placebo-controlled to test the efficacy of a 3rd shot (or placebo) to new strains of COVID. Hoping I get the vaccine instead of placebo!
#BoosterShots
๐
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3 years
Spent some time imaging
#axolotl
embryo (tailbud) tails today. Itโs such a lovely feeling when experiments actually work! ๐๐คฉ
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3 years
As I approach 7000 followers, I would like to re-introduce myself! My name is Crystal D. Rogers, and I am an Assistant Professor at UC Davis. I am a
#FirstGen
college graduate, had a relatively rough and tumultuous childhood, and yet I have made it here to the
#IvoryTower
. 1/
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2 years
What is this and why was it in the bag with my breakfast at the hotel? If itโs salt- this is not a cute way to present it to a scientist who uses these in the lab. If itโs notโฆ. ๐ฌ
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2 years
The absolute privilege that I have to work with these amazing animalsโฆ and dress like them. Iโค๏ธaxolotls.
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3 years
Itโs my birthday today, and I am celebrating it by sharing two of the *1000* selfies I have taken with my dog Roxie ๐. Itโs been a difficult year, but I am so lucky to have a loving family, great job, supportive community, and hope for the year to come. โค๏ธ
#May28
#42
#Birthday
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4 years
I am
#DevBio
and the
#AmericanDream
personified. I am
#BlackInDevelopment
.
@BlackinCMDBio
@___SDB___
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3 years
Oh hi! Just in case you need some axolotl cuteness in your life today... here you go! May you find a few minutes of stress relief this weekend.
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3 years
Itโs official! We want to welcome Tess Gibson and Colton Baumler from the
@BMCDB
grad group to the lab! They will be the first PhD students in my lab
@ucdavis
. Iโm so honored they chose me to accompany them on their journeys! Now to get them on Twitter...
#RogersLab
#DevBio
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3 years
Huge thank you to the
@ucdavis
@BMCDB
graduate students for giving me a 1st Year Teaching Award! This recognition means so much to me! I am sad that I was not there to receive it, but look forward to seeing everyone in person soon! ๐๐๐
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4 years
Hi! My lab is interested in understanding processes controlling early
#NeuralCrest
development and how genes and environment can alter those processes. Our lab uses chick, quail, and axolotls as our
#ResearchOrganisms
.
#Chonk
says, โsupport research!โ
#BlackModelOrganism
#DevBio
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4 years
I am so heartened by all of the positive responses to my thread this morning. Thank you all for your support! Make no mistake- suggestions that I may fail or that Iโm not good enough only light a ๐ฅinside of me- thereby ensuring my eventual success. Watch me. ๐ฏ
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@Erika_K_Wilson
Yep!
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4 years
Yay! Paper acceptance email today! It will be the first publication out of my lab
@ucdavisvetmed
and is the first pub ever for the
#Squad
: Subrajaa Manohar,
@StemCellBerto
, and
@CamiloE_
! All
#FirstGen
college students who graduated from
@csunorthridge
.
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4 years
Although I am a developmental biologist who generally views my system at tissue and organism levels, nothing beats the beauty of viewing
#NeuralCrest
and other cell types at the cell level.
#CellBio
#DevBio
#BlackInCell
@BlackinCMDBio
@___SDB___
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2 years
When I was younger, I would never have predicted that I would be the PI of my own lab at a great university where I would study ancestors of dinosaurs (๐) and water dragons (
#axolotls
)โฆ ๐๐คฉ What even is this life? Itโs pretty amazing.
#DevBio
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2 years
@DrSakiyama
@AlaskaAir
Wow!! Thatโs super high. The highest mine has risen was about 2300 on planes lately. Were they just trying to knock everyone out on the plane? ๐ฌ
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2 years
Happy Valentineโs Day! ๐
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3 years
This grant was my 3rd and final attempt at the CAREER award. The first two did horribly. I finally spoke with a PO and also asked 4 people to read this grant and help me improve my grantsmanship.
If at first you donโt succeed, dust yourself off and try again.
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3 years
I am ECSTATIC to announce that I have been awarded an
@NSF
CAREER award to study the role of transcription factors and cell adhesion in
#NeuralCrest
cell development and differentiation in avians (๐, quail, and ๐ฆ)! 1/
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3 years
My origin story is not filled with collecting butterflies or following in my parentsโ footsteps. Rather, I always loved science, but was fascinated by addiction and wanted to โcureโ it. It started with my fatherโs persistent substance use disorder. 1/
I am so bored of reading about biologists' childhoods (or let's be honest, boyhoods) spent running around the countryside collecting insects. Like that's nice and all, but some of us grew up in cities. Can we get some alternative biologist origin stories?
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3 years
Yaaaaasssss! Pfizer vaccine for the little. Thank you to all the scientists, docs, and government officials that made this possible for us! I almost cried, but kept it together. โค๏ธโค๏ธ
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@DanRather
Wow! Thank you so much
@DanRather
! I canโt believe such an amazing journalist has retweeted my story. Iโm in a bit of shock.
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1 year
Happy birthday to me (and the other May babies)! This is 44! Another trip around the the sun. Itโs been an amazing year full of adventures, and I canโt wait to see whatโs next! โค๏ธ๐
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2 months
How overworked, overwhelmed, over-committed am I? Wellโฆ we are taking our lab pics today so I dressed up and wore different shoes than normal and somehow didnโt realize that Iโm wearing two completely different shoes until I got to work. Sheesh. ๐๐ฃ
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4 years
I moved my axolotl colony from LA to Davis in March myself because they are so precious. This is what
#ChonkTheAxolotl
and all of his siblings looked like when I moved them! Just little ones! Who knew he/she would grow into a mammoth sibling-eating cutie?
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4 years
Since people find joy in
#ChonkTheAxolotl
, Iโll share a video of him eating from a week ago. Note 1) how much bigger he is than his siblings and 2) how much he grew in a week compare this vid to last post! Also- he has not eaten any siblings since the first one.
#axolotl
#Chonk
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I was on board with this thread until I hit this tweet. As sympathetic as I am to spousal hires, to suggest that spending money on DEI instead is โdisturbingโ is not it. I NEVER had a Black professor during training, yet there were always spouses in the departments I was in. ๐ฌ
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1 year
Stages of academic grief:
1. Imposter syndrome and sadness.
2 Anger at my โwasted timeโ.
3. Frustration at doing so much for so little in return.
4. Donโt ask me for anything right now. ๐ท
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
5. Resolve to focus on science and keep writing until the grants are funded.
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3 years
The axolotls amaze me everyday. How in the world did these adorable magical dragons come to be? I feel so lucky to share the world with them.
#ChonkTheAxolotl
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I was unblinded today! Itโs official! I received the Pfizer vaccine in the trial! Yay! Also- that second shot is a doozy. Plan to feel crappy for a day.
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I will continue making science jokes and bringing levity to talks and question sessions until I die. That is all. ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป๐ฆธ๐พโโ๏ธ
Women may actually be harming their presentation outcomes by making jokes.
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2 years
I was scared to attend
#Scialog
during a COVID surge. However, upon arrival the organizers asked everyone to mask indoors, arranged to have all meals outside, and provided everyone with 3 antigen tests so we can test each day before meeting with colleagues. Thank you
@RCSA1
! ๐ท
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3 years
Teaching a graduate student how to perform functional experiments in chick embryos today! Exciting! ๐ฃ ๐
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2 years
I donโt want my trainees to be as poor as I was in grad school. It sucks and is traumatic. I donโt believe in hazing (โif it happened to me it should happen to youโ). I want them to thrive. I want the
@UofCalifornia
to engage in fair bargaining with
#UAWonStrike
to ensure equity.
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5 months
This advice rings true for academia as well. We are NOT all going to be Nobel Prize winning scientists who only publish in Nature and have $15,000 speaking fees, and thatโs OK. You can be a good, working, successful scientist by participating and engaging in the process. ๐ค
Amazing advice on perspective from Carl Weathers! RIP
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2 years
Very fancy! Thanks to
@ucdavisvetmed
for featuring our lab in the new issue of Synergy magazine! ๐คฉ
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3 years
Looking through data always amazes me. Science is so pretty! This is a transverse section from a developing chick spinal cord with
#NeuralCrest
, ventral somites, and notochord in orange, neural tube in pink, and neurons in green.
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3 years
Academia can be a difficult place for someone like me. I am resilient, donโt get me wrong, but I hang a lot of my sense of self on being a scientist who is also a mom/wife/friend/mentor/etc. I have had a roller coaster of a life, and I have dealt with some ridiculous adversity.1/
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2 years
Great lesson here.
Letโs be these kinds of academics. When one of us is struggling, we can all lend a hand to help each other succeed. Letโs not be the โeat your youngโ kind. โBe the change you want to see,โ right?
One thing Twitter has taught me is how smart and compassionate so many creatures on this planet are. ๐ข ๐
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Guess who has axolotl care duty this weekend? ๐ Itโs me! These sweet water dragons get to enjoy some 90โs R&B while I check their water and feed them.
Introducing one of our youngest ladies born exactly one year ago! She doesnโt have a name yet. Any suggestions?
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3 years
This is the outfit Iโm wearing to take care of the axolotls today. Do they know itโs Christmastime at all?
They will! Have a festive and joyful day everyone!๐๐๐
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3 years
Iโm happy to share a new โฆ
@biorxivpreprint
โฉ from my lab โฆ
@ucdavisvetmed
โฉ! This was a serious team effort! We were interested in characterizing spatiotemporal expression of endogenous
#NeuralCrest
proteins during embryogenesisโฉ. 1/
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3 years
Holy molyโฆ someone put in SOME WORK! None of my axolotls has ever laid this many embryos in a single day before. It was either
#Chonk
or one of her siblings. Of course it was. Something about the Davis water I guess. Babies are mature now! ๐ญ๐
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Happy
#LovingDay
from our little family to yours! May love always win. โค๏ธ๐๐
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4 years
Congratulations to
@NikolasMW
who won best undergrad poster at
@___SDB___
#2020SDB
!! You are such a rock star! You represent our lab so well! Thank you to the organizers and judges for your work. Please help me recruit Nik to
@ucdavis
for grad school! ๐ฏ๐
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1 year
Congratulations to
@heddy_menendez
and
@VertizJohnny
on being awarded
@NSF
GRFPs!!!! Our lab is showing out! Heddy is a second year
@BMCDB
graduate student and Johnny is a PREP
@UCDAVIS
student who will be headed to grad school in the fall!! So proud of you two! ๐๐๐
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Pretty stuff in the lab today. When things work, itโs easy to remember why I science.
#DevBio
๐
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Oh hey, you purty
#axolotl
embryos... how you doinโ? ๐
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Huge thanks to the
@UCDMINDINST
for awarding our lab an
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pilot grant to study relationships between transcription factors and adhesion molecules in CNS development!
#DevBio
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2 years
Itโs official! I made it to
@MBLScience
for
#Embryo22
! I was told I needed a
#PieInTheSky
pic or it didnโt happen! ๐๐คฉ
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Happy holidays! May your grants be funded, papers be published, and experiments be successful! Cheers to the end of 2020.
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Iโm truly irritated everyday that this pandemic weight, which I spent 2 years carefully curating with wine, snacks, and sitting at home, has not immediately removed itself from my person when I started barely exercising and changed my diet a tiny bit. ๐๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
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For me, the benefits of my job far outweigh the negatives. No one in my close family has/had a โcareerโ, they have/had jobs. Jobs that paid the bills and they did because they had to. I have a career that I chose, and I do it because I love it. My favorite things about it: 1/
The algorithm favors negativity, and there are plenty of things to be negative about in academia, but I just want to put this out there: I LOVE my job as a tenure track assistant professor!
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โDress for the job you want,โ they said...
Me... waiting on those powers. A little strength and energy would work for me right about now. ๐๐
๐ฝ
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Professional rejection sucks. It sucks to have papers rejected and it sucks when grants arenโt funded. But you will never publish a paper you donโt submit, and no one is handing out grant money without an application. All we can do is our best and live to submit another day.
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I realized that I was watching life happen in real time, and I was hooked. It was
#DevBio
for me forever
#DevBio4Life
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1. Paper revised and resubmitted (congrats to 1st auth.
@Tess_Leathers
).
2. Grant NOA arrived!
A wonderful way to start the weekend! So pleased that
@NIDCR
has funded our R03 aimed at understanding links between microtubules, cadherins, and
#NeuralCrest
development! ๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐
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I know what hunger feels like and have had the lights turned off. I know what itโs like to have holes in the bottom of my shoes from wear. I know what it is to love science. I have been a scientist since childhood. Collecting snails, thinking about how the world works. 2/
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Another moment of zen from the lab. A video of the relaxolotls.
#Chonk
and the siblings are chillin. Happy Saturday! May you get a quiet moment to flap your own gills. ๐
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@DrBWillingham
The cat in the unicorn costume is everything. ๐
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Our capitol has been stormed by terrorists, and they should be treated as such. Period.
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So here I am. A faculty member at a fantastic school, studying a topic that I love, working with great people and mentoring great people. Knowing how lucky I am to have avoided all of those pitfalls that my parents fell in. I think about this everyday. This is my origin story. 9/
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But I had grit, I was stubborn, and I wasnโt inherently stupid, I just didnโt understand HOW to learn to be a scientist. I rotated in an animal behavior lab, an immunology lab, and a
#DevBio
lab last. I started looking at Xenopus embryos under the microscope. 10/
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How exciting! I just hit 6,000 followers! Thank you everyone! A re-introduction. I am an Assistant Professor
@ucdavisvetmed
who studies
#DevBio
. I am
#FirstGen
. I โค๏ธ science, Iโm passionate about mentoring, and I post a lot about
#Axolotls
, my
#BullDog
Roxie, and my lab folks. ๐
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Iโm having a conversation about social inequities and injustice today at lab meeting before we talk about science. This weekโs events have pushed me past my limit, and science doesnโt happen in a vacuum. Think about speaking with your own groups. You never know whoโs affected.
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In spite of my parentsโ inability to help me with schoolwork, I always did really well in school. I actually liked going. Partially for the normalcy it provided, partially for socializing, but mostly because I was curious and I was good at it. 3/
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3 years
Prepared for in-person teaching with goggles and a kn95! Sheesh. This will be my first time teaching in person since January 2020 and itโs a little scary. I had hoped we would be coming out of the pandemic by now. Please
#GetVaccinated
and
#WearAMask
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@KizzyPhD
Iโm a participant in one of the vaccine trials right now. I wanted to ensure that Black people are represented in the study subjects. I am a scientist who read the literature and Iโm willing to โtake one for the teamโ to get our world back to normal. Hell yes Iโd take it.
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I had a 3.0 and zero undergraduate research experience. Georgetown gave me a chance. They interviewed me and someone (likely
@elenalab100
) fought for me to be accepted. I struggled so hard in my first year and a half. 8/
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Growing up, my dream job oscillated between becoming a physician or veterinarian because I had no idea that there were other options in science. I didnโt know what a PhD was, and I had no idea that there was a thing called graduate school. I got into UCLA (dream school). 4/
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1 year
Hello! I am Crystal Rogers. I had to re-take molecular biology in college because I truly didnโt understand it and I was failing. I am now a molecular, cell, and developmental biologist!
Flex your lowest academic low score.
To remind us that almost everyone fails at some point in life but it isn't the end of the road. Just a memory in the end.
Mine was 27/100 in Engineering Math 2, just a year after I'd scored 99 in 12th boards. Much needed kick in my butt.
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2 years
Same. No GPA requirements to join my lab. I would never exclude someone from an opportunity that I myself would not have qualified for. That wouldnโt make any sense. Also- high grades do not automatically equate to good scientists. Science is more than that.
GPA requirements for joining a lab?! Not in the Starbird Lab. Weโll be hiring soon (stay tuned!) and looking for that driving spark of curiosity and people who know how to overcome obstacles.
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3 years
I didnโt realize how much anxiety and stress I was holding onto until I saw the word, guilty. I am so used to being let down by these trials that I was expecting it here too. Even with all of that evidence. George Floyd deserved to live, and his life was taken from him.
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2 years
Eight years ago today, I was hospitalized with preeclampsia. My BP was high, and my doc made the decision that I needed a C-section that day. This little guy made it safely into the world, and I made it safely back to normal BP. Grateful for everyday with him. Happy birthday son!
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3 years
True to my word! Happy Halloween! Definitely rocking the chicken costume for neighborhood trick or treating. Itโs not even a little flattering, but itโs a lot comfortable!๐
โBe your study organism.โ ๐
#DevBio
#Chicken
#Halloween
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