Santiago Correa 🏳️🌈 @santicorreaphd.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @ColumbiaBME | Postdoc @AppelGroup @Stanford | PhD HammondLab @MIT | BS @Yale . Self-Assembling NanoTechnologies for Immunoengineering. 🇨🇴🏳️🌈
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🤩 First day as faculty!
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Sharing some great news - I will be joining
@ColumbiaBME
as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2023! My lab will develop self-assembled nanotechnologies for immuno-engineering applications in cancer, autoimmunity, and infectious disease.
#newPI
#LGBTQ
#LatinXinBME
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I can't overstate how wonderful it is to have a Colombian bakery and restaurant two blocks away from my lab 😍😍😍🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
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just submitted my first faculty application... really surreal but also soooo exciting! 🤩🤞🏾
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I’m angry but not surprised to learn that my
@BMESociety
and
@SyisEu
colleagues are already seeing backlash to plans to spotlight
#LGBTQ
+ researchers for 🏳️🌈Pride month & even to a diversity *survey*
This isn’t just online trolls, but from members of both societies
A quick 🧵
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Our latest preprint is out!
We developed a new injectable hydrogel platform composed of liposomal building blocks! This biomaterial has tunable dynamic + extensional rheological properties – AND some really cool capabilities for multi-protein delivery
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The lab celebrated and welcomed our first postdoc today! The talented Dr. Robert Hincapie has officially joined us after wrapping up his PhD at GaTech. On the menu for his welcome lunch? Well, tandoori, curries and samosas of course.
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I’m really excited to share our review on Translational Hydrogels
@ACSPublications
@ACSChemRev
!! I hope that this will be a useful resource for folks who are either beginning or far along in their biomaterials journey
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First piece of equipment installed! Nanoparticle characterization unlocked, now we just need the equipment to make the nanoparticles 😅
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This month
@Irene_dLz
and I celebrated our 1 year of being faculty, and in true form we did so with a full birthday cake 😂 I'm glad I have my academic twin to help navigate this wild job.
#NewPI
Thanks
@ShawnMusgrave
for securing the cake 😍
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✨Happy✨
#PrideMonth
🌈🌈🌈 aka one of the funnest months on Twitter
I love
#Pride
because it's a time for the
#LGBTQ
+ community to come together and for allies to show support and also educate themselves about the community and it's struggles - both past and current
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Happy birthday
@BrianAguado
#BMES2022
#newPI
@DrRituRaman
@DrBethanyA
@DrBlackBoots
@DrErikaMoore
@AnaMaPorras
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I've been eagerly waiting since April to welcome our lab's ✨phenomenal✨ first cohort of PhD students! We've kicked off their semester with a delightful Central Park 🏞️ shawarma picnic. Welcome Artemis, James,
@HosnRyan
and
@sarahbortelll
!!!
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Immuno engineering GRC let's go!!
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I'm so proud of these superstars who just successfully organized the first ever in person
@LatinXinBME
symposium!!! Truly an inspiring event.
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In this installment of
#NomadicAcademic
I submit my very first grant as a
#newPI
from a very tiny coffee shop... Shawn also very relieved 😅
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Yesterday, my partner
@ShawnMusgrave
and I were walking back from lunch holding hands. A man passing us on the sidewalk saw us and growled a slur and insult at us and then kept walking (a 🧵)
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@FelixJBerrios
Hi! I'm Santiago Correa (he/him) and I'm a biomedical engineer working on nanobiomaterials that reprogram the immune system. Outside of the lab I'm a big foodie, I do ceramics, own too many plants and like to travel with my partner. Fun fact: I learned to ride a bike at 28
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How have I gone this long without coming to an
#SFB
Meeting? I think I found a new forever conference 😍
Carrying on the
@AppelGroup
selfie tradition 😎
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Today is a great day because
@Asher__Williams
and I finally got our tissue culture room 🎉😍😭🤩🎉 look at how excited the students are!!! Cell culture here we come 🧑🏽🔬🔬🧫
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Because, for my colleagues who are uncomfortable with these spotlights: 👏🏽THESE 👏🏽ARE 👏🏽NOT 👏🏽FOR 👏🏽YOU
These are for the queer kids and students who deserve to see people like themselves succeed and thrive across ALL disciplines
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Third major piece of lab equipment was installed today!
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Happy
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
from an
#academic
with anxiety and OCD tendencies. As many in the
#PhDlife
know, mental health issues are all but ubiquitous in
#academia
– so I’d like to share a 🧵of some things that have helped me over the yrs
#academicchatter
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Good morning
#RisingStars2023
what a gorge-ous bus ride up to
@Cornell
@KatieRHixon
@EvanBuettmann
@DrWoappi
@Dr_O_GradyBrian
@Kayla_J_Wolf
@DavidCastillaC4
@JiYiLight
@aerin_yang
@MarissaGionet
@MykelDGreen
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Celebrating ten years with
@ShawnMusgrave
♥️
We're in Portland, one of our favorite cities ever, highly recommend it!
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Excited to be back to help with the
#risingstars2023
workshop with this awesome group of junior faculty
@DrWoappi
@KatieRHixon
@joselmcfaline
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Just submitted the lab's first poster, with our first data generated in-house, to print. What an awesome feeling.
#NewPI
Shout out to
@sarahbortel_
@JeremyCheng97
and our collaborators in the
@ArinzehLab
for getting us to this milestone ✨✨✨
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if you're sending templated emails out to faculty to inquire about research opportunities, I recommend making sure the font is consistent between the copy paste and the tailored portion 😬🙄
...and make sure you change the recipient's name 😂
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I think the plants will like it here 🌇
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So something I've done (somewhat consistently) has been to log my time spent on writing/presentations. This is useful for looking at time spent of grants (like my thread on my F32, link'd at end).
Today I'll quickly summarize my time breakdown for my faculty applications
a 🧵
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We lost a good friend this week to an unpredictable cardiac event. They were young, healthy and about to start an amazing new chapter of life. The world is smaller without them.
Life is fleeting and fragile. Cherish those you love in the time you have with them.
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Exciting day in
#newPI
life, the first day of training the students on air sensitive chemistries!
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WOW.
#BMES2023
was quite the ride. Between the 1st in person
@LatinXinBME
symposium, the 2nd
#RisingStars
reunion, & the amazingly fun
@FIUbiomed
reception this was a very memorable meeting. Also what an impressive group of undergrads giving presentations, the future is bright!
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There are SO many options after the PhD, so come join us for our
@LatinXinBME
professional development panel this Friday 11AM PT to learn about 4 awesome paths outside of academia. Click on the flyer for our panelist bios!
#AcademicChatter
#phdvoice
RSVP
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PSA: Powerpoint doesn't store your fonts in the file! Why should you care? If you go to present your work from another computer that doesn't have your fonts, they'll be auto-replaced with something that might look funny/distorted
To be safe remember to embed your fonts like this
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Christmas came early with the arrival of my lab's first piece of equipment 🤩
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To end on a positive note, this initiative is really awesome and I am glad to see it and hope it inspires a lot of up and coming queer scientists and engineers - we hope to do similar with
@LatinXinBME
as well ❤️
📢 Attention TERMIS members 📢
We are partnering with
@BMESociety
for Pride Month in June to highlight LGBTQIA+ scientists in biomedical engineering & regenerative medicine!
Members of all career stages and professional backgrounds welcome
#LGBTQIAinBME
#OutInTERM
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️(1/2)
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And this is their incredible bakery counter
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I often think about how privileged I was to do my PhD with Paula, an incredible researcher and literally one of the most genuinely kind and thoughtful people I've ever had the opportunity to learn from. Congrats Paula on this award and thank you for everything you've done!
Paula Hammond delivers lecture for Killian Award, given “not only for her tremendous professional achievements and contributions, but also for her genuine warmth and humanity, her thoughtfulness and effective leadership, and her empathy and ethics."
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I had forgotten how bonkers expensive conferences are
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So for those care to self-educate I just direct you to
@JBYoder
’s elegant work showing how researchers who are closeted in their professional environment bear a consistent and significant productivity cost across their careers
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So great to have this story finally out!!!
Check out
@SantiCorreaPhD
's work leveraging our injectable nanoparticle‐based hydrogels to enable the safe and effective deployment of immunostimulatory CD40 agonist antibodies, out today in Advanced Science
@AdvSciNews
!
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Strong spring vibes in the city this AM
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A new
@LatinXinBME
Event!
If you're going on the academic job market this cycle join us for a panel discussion with
@CRinaldi_UF
@cosgriffhernan
and
@AppelGroup
to learn what search committees in Engineering Departments are looking for!
RSVP:
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For those at
@Columbia
medical campus who are curious, this place is called Salento on 165th & Amsterdam and this dish is the Paisita - a 'mini' version of one of our most famous dishes, the Bandeja Paisa! You will not go home hungry.
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Well, picture day was rained (flooded?) out, but we made the most of it with some new lab photos - and learned one of our new students is a very good photographer!
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Congratulations to our fantastic new board! Serving this community has been one of the highlights of the past year, I'm so excited to see what y'all come up with next 🤩
Can you believe it has been a year since our first board announcement? One year later, we are still growing, and so happy to announce our new board for 2022-2023 and introduce our awesome advisors! Stay tuned for personal introductions coming soon.
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The comments I’ve seen are gross, and honestly sound like an argument for a culture of ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ in science 🤯😡
People, you do not have the right to ask your fellow colleagues to make themselves disappear
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Last but not least, thanks to my indomitable partner
@ShawnMusgrave
whose love and seemingly endless patience and support kept me sane and functional over the course of the faculty job search and honestly the past 10 (!!) years. I can’t wait to start this new adventure with you.
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My first preprint! TLDR – injectable hydrogels have a lot to offer us in the local cancer immunotherapy game! Using them helps us make potent immunostimulatory therapies safer and more effective. ~1
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Finally got to meet
@kellystevenslab
in person! Made even more memorable as this was her first time ever having oysters 🐚🐠
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This Monday I'm thinking about the weekend food adventures in Queens with
@Irene_dLz
&
@ShawnMusgrave
... On the menu was Egyptian, Colombian (pictured) and Greek food. Irene, we're going to be dangerous at conferences 😅
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Last Thursday we had our first lab happy hour 😎 getting some well deserved R&R after fellowship season
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So excited to present at the Soft Matter for All symposium! This is a terrific event celebrating diversity & creativity in the realm of soft materials - and can be attended by ANYONE, ANYWHERE.
If interested, check out the schedule and register today!
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In my most charitable take on these comments, I’ll assume folks are ignorant of what the experience of being closeted – even if just at work – has on people
Folks, it is a terrible thing to have to hide your authentic self, it is corrosive on mental health and hurts the field
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Congratulations ✨DOCTOR✨
@abigail_kate95
! It's been such a pleasure collaborating with you and I look forward to all the amazing things you'll do next 🎉🎉🎉
Huge congrats to the newest
@AppelGroup
PhD
@abigail_kate95
!! What a terrific defense talk going over her research on injectable
#hydrogels
for biomedical applications in therapeutic cell delivery!
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Honored and excited to be part of this group! Looking forward to meeting you all in person in the Spring.
Congratulations to the 2021 class of PMSE Future Faculty Scholars! They will be presenting their work in the Future Faculty Scholar symposium at the Spring 2022 ACS meeting.
#ACSSpring2022
#PMSEFFS
#polymers
#RisingStars
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Thanks
@RPI_BME
for hosting me! Definitely one of the most beautiful venues I've spoken in
Dr. Santiago Correa from
@ColumbiaBME
will present his seminar, "Self-Assembling Nanotechnology for Immune Modulation" today at 2pm in the EMPAC Theater.
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@LatinXinBME
announcement! We are hosting an event next week (March 9th) in collaboration with an editor at Cell Press! Members, RSVP details for the event are in the general channel for LatinXinBME slack - looking forward to seeing you there!
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Now I understand why everyone loves the NY Botanical Garden
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Arches! National! Park! 🤩🤩🤩
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Reminder!
@LatinXinBME
is hosting an Academic Jobs Panel this Thursday! RSVP here:
We appreciate the interest so far in this event - but we must emphasize that we are prioritizing spots for members of the Hispanic/Latine/Black community ❤️
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I have sacrificed my beard in favor of having a proper seal on my N95
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Shout-out to
@naveedtavakol
who organized this 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Our DEI office hosted a fantastic event! The LGBTQIA+ Affinity in Academica featured panelists Emily Mace, PhD (
@mace_em
) and Santiago Correa, PhD (
@SantiCorreaPhD
), discussing inclusivity in biomedical research and their experiences navigating academia as LGBTQIA+ individuals.
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I feel we should celebrate that Stanford hosted a blowout inaugural
#drag
show last night, put on by the student Drag Troop, hosted by
@DeJaSkye
@hereisbosco
and featuring a performance by high level admins to ABBA 🌈🙌👏
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Conference night time beach celebrations for the inaugural
@grcimmunoeng
in beautiful Ventura, see y'all again in 2024
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dear science twitter - if you're a grad student considering applying to the Stanford PRISM postdoc program feel free to DM me and I'm happy to put you in touch with current PRISM postdocs and our awesome Office of Postdoc Affairs for advice
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Time to celebrate some great news – just got the NoA for my NCI F32! I’m honored to receive this fellowship and immensely grateful to my advisor, recommenders, and collaborators for making this possible.
Thread on tips and thoughts on the process
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Thanks
@Matter_CP
for this spotlight! Very excited to have our article featured in the June issue - which means it is free to access y'all!
Throughout 2022, Matter is spotlighting a first author every month.
Congrats
@SantiCorreaPhD
&
@Abigail_kate95
from
@AppelGroup
@StanfordMSE
@StanfordEng
, our
#MatterAuthorSpotlight
for June 2022!
Lab website:
Matter paper:
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Lastly, have some damn respect for your colleagues doing this service work – I can’t believe some people are choosing to spend their time right now sending this vitriol to the rockstars at
@BMESociety
@SyisEu
who are putting in the work
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I've been meaning to share some of the last ceramics pieces I made before I moved. Starting with a series of sgraffito decorated science themed mugs. Two are gifts for some important folks! IYKYK
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@SFBiomaterials
meeting in San Diego off to a great start with some delicious tacos with
@BrianAguado
@MorrisBioEng
@RyanMPearson
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The lab is shaping up!!!
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But realistically this backlash is coming from people who are just uncomfortable having to face their own prejudice, and it highlights exactly why this kind of work is so valuable
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What an absolute honor it was to come back and participate in this phenomenal event as an alumni. So excited to see this program continue to grow and evolve as a force for DEI in academia!
Hello from the 💫 2021 Rising Stars in Engineering in Health Workshop! Cheers to tons of knowledge sharing, new relationships, and an overall great time! Thank you to all the hosts and faculty
@JHUBME
@ColumbiaBME
@CUSEAS
@ColumbiaMed
and to all of our talented rising stars!!!
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YESSSSSS!! Congrats Eric so so well deserved! Tonight will be quite the celebration 🎉🎉 🎉
I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded tenure
@stanford
@StanfordMSE
! I'm so very thankful to all of the
@AppelGroup
members past and present for helping to build a vibrant, creative, collaborative, and fun community within the lab. What a day! (1/2)
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My partner is getting a new ACL today! Plz send good vibes, maybe in the form of cute animal pictures
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I'm ecstatic to work with this amazing team to continue building on the incredible community that
@AnaMaPorras
and
@BrianAguado
have assembled!!
We are SO excited to welcome our first
#LatinXinBME
Executive Board to kick off
#HispanicHeritageMonth
! They'll join our Co-Presidents
@BrianAguado
and
@AnaMaPorras
.
Congratulations Tania,
@SantiCorreaPhD
,
@VDargam
,
@Yan_CarlosP
,
@arcoiris_phd
, and
@AndrewRAcademic
!
#LHM
#HHM
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What an amazing meeting! Thanks
@grcimmunoeng
for a week of fascinating science and breathtaking views
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Thanks to
@AppelGroup
for the incredible postdoc experience I’ve had in the realm of supramolecular chemistry and translational hydrogels. Eric’s kindness and support have been everything to me this past year and I plan to savor every remaining moment working here.
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Thanks to not-on-twitter Paula Hammond for my phenomenal PhD experience. Paula opened the world of nanomedicine to me and exemplifies the power of compassionate mentorship in academia. She is the role model who I will look to every day in this career.
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So so SO excited to meet my fellow
@acspmse
#FutureFaculty
scholars today! Come check out our symposium at the Marriott Marquis, Pacific Ballroom Section 24 today and tomorrow
#ACSSpring2022
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I've been in San Diego for like an hour and I already found a taco shop that rolls their own tortillas
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people hate on writing the materials and methods section but honestly it is an easy place to get yourself going if you're experiencing writer's block
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I'm sharing this because I want people to know that being queer, even if you're in a "liberal" place, still means you need to constantly surveil your surroundings
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Super proud of
@sarahbortel_
for winning third place in the EIM poster competition! First time work from the lab has been presented by one of the students and she did an amazing job 💫
#ProudPI
#NewPI
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Tour of Pittsburgh eats with
@arcoiris_phd
🤩🤩🤩
Hard to believe this is our first in-person meeting after working for more than a year together on the
@LatinXinBME
board!
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Friendsgiving is a wonderful time to reconnect to people and cooking.... Also the time to find out how dangerously easy it is to make sea salt lemon squares from scratch 😅
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