Shiz Aoki 🔬🖌️
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Co-founder & CEO @BioRender . Medical Illustrator 🖋, Nomi’s mom 👧🏻and to #2 🤱🏻 @NatGeo @JHUMedArt @YCombinator alum
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@BioRender
Hi Michael - as a BioRender cofounder, wanted to thank you for the feedback and clarify that BioRender does not claim copyright to figures you make, only to the icons/templates made by the BioRender team. We’ll work to fix the wording so it’s much clearer 🙏🏼
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Beautiful real-time data viz (day in the life of 1000 Americans). Anyone else see apoptosing cells? lol 🔬🤓
#science
#infographics
#dataviz
#SciArt
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I had the honor of interviewing one of my idols,
@VirusesImmunity
(Dr. Akiko Iwasaki)! 🔬Thank you
@VirusesImmunity
for your time and for your continued support of the
#scicomm
community!
#immunology
#YaleMedicine
@BioRender
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I had the chance to sit down with the inspiring, award-winning (and super cool!) neuroscientist, Kay Tye PhD
@MIT
(soon to be
@SalkInstitute
!) 🎙️🧠 Check out the interview here!
@kaymtye
@BioRender
#neuroscience
#SfN2018
#SfN18
#neurosci2018
#BioRender
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Nobel Prize
@BioRender
-ized! 🥇🔬🖌️ Check out our infographic celebrating the groundbreaking work of 2018
@NobelPrize
recipients, Drs. James Allison and Tasuku Honjo!
#NobelPrize
#immunotherapy
#immunology
#infographic
#sciviz
#infoviz
#biorender
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Cool to catch
@BioRender
figure featured in
@TheScientistLLC
📚
Thank you
@chrisbaraniuk
, and to
@VirusesImmunity
for trusting us to help visualize your work!
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This is why I do what I do ❤ If we inspire just a few kids to fall in love w/ science we've done our job.. ☺🐳🔬🔭📚
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Excited to share that we’re hiring our first Chief of Staff
@BioRender
! This is a unique opportunity to partner with myself & our leadership team, with tremendous exposure & impact on a mission-driven, profitable, hyper-growth start-up! Full details here:
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Fresh off the
@CellCellPress
@ImmunologyAAI
!! Special Edition
@TrendsImmuno
with
@BioRender
cover art (by our sciart expert
@Elijahahahaha
). Lots of
@BioRender
figures inside too 😍
#AAI2018
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Honoured to have
@BioRender
ranked
#4
out of 430 companies by
@globeandmail
. Our passionate, dedicated team works hard every day towards a world where science is open, collaborative and accessible by all 🔬 Thank you for
@globeandmail
for recognizing this!
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‘Plein air’ oil painting is like chasing a sun dial on high speed - the lighting is constantly changing but that’s the magic of it. Tried to capture the last bits of winter while hiking the Bruce Trail near Georgian Bay 🎨
#pleinair
#pleinairpainting
#allaprima
#hiking
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'How SARS-CoV-2 stole Christmas'
Our
@BioRender
community is SO talented 🤯 continually blown away! 🎨
#MadeInBioRender
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Hi
@BillNye
! I'm a science illustrator w/
@natgeo
and I draw science so people can understand it ✏
#Billmeetsciencetwitter
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“The truth is, for every person who has ever doubted me, there were hundreds more who believed in me.. I promise you there are many more good people in this world, and they’ve been waiting to work with you.”
@Tracy_Young
who gave me the courage to launch
@BioRender
3 years ago
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The silver lining of giving a conference talk in 2020:
✅ live whiteboarding and no one’s head is in the way
✅ fitting 250+ people in room without being the headliner
✅ giving everyone equal chances to ask questions (no mic hogs🎤)
#CellBio2020
Thanks for hosting
@ASCBiology
!
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@VirusesImmunity
@BioRender
@JerryGuArtist
@JungHeeSciViz
Honored to have collaborated with you
@VirusesImmunity
! Thank you for your dedication to spreading the truth about COVID-19 and vaccines. You inspire us to do our part! 📢
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Just landed in Austin for
#AAASmtg
2018 and it is buzzing! 🌎 Come find me and let's chat how to boost
#STEM
#scicomm
thru
#sciencevisuals
! Join me tmrw (Friday 2pm) for a free seminar on how to
#drawthefacts
(i'll be giving away these rad stickers!) 😍
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The first predictive, comprehensive, 3D model of a live human cell! 😍 Super cool work by
@HopkinsMedicine
MedArt friend/mentor Graham Johnson
@AllenInstitute
(h/t
@sethbannon
) Check it out!!
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Growing up with a black sibling this is a topic that really hits deep 💔 As Canadians we pride ourselves in living by example but we also risk being complacent, to think that “it’s not as bad as the US” or we can’t change it or that it’s not happening in our backyard (it 100% is)
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Revisiting my Tokyo shops.. the stationary mecca that feeds my illustrator (and eternal student) soul 😍✍️🖊️🖋️📚
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@wc_ratcliff
@BioRender
Hi Will - BioRender cofounder here. Thank you for the feedback. Wanted to clarify that the original screenshot was taken out of context.
BioRender does NOT claim copyright to the figures you make, only to the individual icons and templates made by our internal BioRender team.
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.
@BioRender
+
@CureGear
= swag match made in heaven 💙
#scienceswag
#VaccinesWork
#AAI2019
#day2
@ImmunologyAAI
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When people ask me about the precision and ingenuity of Japanese engineering... ('magic' metal, processed to an accuracy of 0.003mm) 🤯🤯🤯📐
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I love seeing all the creative ways that scientists use
@BioRender
! Simple and elegant cover art for this month's
@ImmunityCP
, made in BioRender 💙 by
@arif_uzz_aman
and David Artis 👏
New issue online! Cover summarizes the Review article from
@arif_uzz_aman
, David Artis &co on the nutritional regulation of
#microbiota
-derived metabolites. Image by Mohammad Arifuzzaman & David Artis, created with
@BioRender
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The first booth that caught my eye.. obviously
#ReagentsWithAttitude
#biotech
#startup
#research
#sciviz
#lifesciexpo
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Day 3 of
#SfN19
kicks off! ✌️ Camouflaged here with much needed coffee in hand, excited to meet more scientists doing exciting & important research! 🧠🧠🧠 ☺️
#BioRender
#scicomm
#sciart
#scienceillustration
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So proud to celebrate fellow
#womenintech
@
#DevTO
#IWDTO
#IWD2017
w/ the brightest, humblest creators
#embracediversity
#rejecttokenism
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Best way to kickoff the morning! Celebating diversity in Toronto w/ game-changing women (not a bad view either)
#movethedial
#womenintech
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Thanks
@StanfordMed
#STAR
for inviting me to speak about infographics and making science approachable 🎨🔬 So much ❤ for
@BioRender
! (And your campus is so pretty it hurts 😃)
#STEM
#scicomm
#NatGeo
#BioRender
#SciArt
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No task is beneath you in a startup (or ever, as my dad taught me) 💪 excited for a big week ahead!
#boothsetup
#founders
#startup
#BioRender
#sfn2019
#sfn19
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Super excited to be here at
#ASMicrobe
2018! Come check out our
@BioRender
booth 2736 for cool stickers, tshirt swag and beautiful science figures! 😊🔬👕✨
#ASMS2018
#ASMmicrobe2018
#ASMmicrobe
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@wc_ratcliff
@BioRender
I’ll personally work with our team to clean up the wording so that it doesn’t cause confusion, but I hope this clarifies/alleviates concerns. Our
#1
goal is to help you accelerate and communicate your research, not to get bogged down by legal jargon. We’ll work to fix this 🙏🏼
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SO proud to welcome Dr. Iwasaki
@VirusesImmunity
@YaleMed
into the
@BioRender
community!
@ImmunologyAAI
2018 Career Award Winner & newest
@theNASciences
inductee. Congratulations and thank you for the shoutout! 😀👏🙏
#scicomm
#immunology
#AAI2018
If I can do it, you can do it (for sure)! Using
@BioRender
, I just made this graphics
#sciart
to explain our finding that CD4 T cells enable recruitment of CD8 T cells to the genital mucosa after
#HSV
infection. Took me 15 min.
@nature
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Halophilic archaebacteria thrive in high salt environments ie: me as a microbe...🔬
#relatable
#microbiology
@amiluu_scribble
@KatyaSht
@ASMicrobiology
#Microbe2018
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@biochemnerd
@BioRender
@biochemnerd
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We're sincerely sorry for this oversight, and goes to show how much we have to learn about Autism and the community.
Would you be open to working with us to design a new, inclusive icon? Will send a DM 🙏🏽
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Was honored to speak at
@fredhutch
today on the Science of Visual Communication. Thanks for filling the auditorium (on such a temptingly gorgeous day!). ☀️ First (albeit brief) time in Seattle and have fallen in love. Hope to be back! 👋
#scicomm
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Caught this post-rain 'avalanche' cloud engulfing our CN Tower 😍🖤☁️☁️
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"What's your name?"
"Shiz"
"Oh cool [not enough info] what's your last name?"
"Aoki"
"Oh, Japanese! OHAYOOGOZAIMASU!!"
"Haha yea.. oyaho.."
"I love Korean food. There's a place near my house that I go to a lot"
😑
“What’s your name?”
“Avidan”
“Abdo-ban?”
“Avidan”
“Octagon?”
“Avidan”
“Are-we-don?”
“Yes, we are done”
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Had a blast speaking at
@HarvardMed
to celebrate the official kickoff of
@BioRender
across HMS campus! 🎉 Thanks for the warm welcome and big turnout! 👩🏫
#SciComm
#sciviz
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Dr. Akiko Iwasaki
@VirusesImmunity
takes the stage
@ImmunologyAAI
to accept
@thermofisher
Career Award 🏆 Thank you for your inspirational research (and for the live shout-out to
@BioRender
!) ☺️🙏 #
#AAI2018
#immunology
#womeninSTEM
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When you get support tickets that are... compliments 🙏🏼
We have a lot of work to do, but notes like this remind us that we're improving every day and ultimately bringing value to scientists ❤️🔬
@BioRender
@KatyaSht
#loveourteam
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Excited to be here
@indbio
#DemoDay
. Innovative startups improving the world using bio as tech 🔬 Thx
@junaxup
for helping
@BioRender
in the early days too
#biofamily
#IndieBio
😊
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So much energy @ the
#RGDDT
2016! Top global designers for innovation in
#designthinking
✒✏💡
#tech
#design
#digitalinnovation
#productdesign
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Super excited to be here at
#BIO2019
! 🔬 17,000 industry professionals from 70+ countries 🌎 It's
@BioRender
's first industry/biotech conference and making lots of new friends 👩💼👨💼 Come visit booth
#2850
if you're here, would love to meet you! 👋
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@VirusesImmunity
@BioRender
@JerryGuArtist
@JungHeeSciViz
Thank you
@HironoriFunabi1
@danielkbronder
@VirusesImmunity
for pointing out this error!🤦🏻 (highlighted in red). Youtube link is edited, and it's correct in the BioRender gallery. Our sincere apologies - thanks to our community for the constant feedback loop 🙏🏽 Vaccines WORK!
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So. much. this. 👏👏 I always cringe when I hear titles like mompreneur, boss lady, girl-boss, she-E-O... Thanks to
@diegoarey
for sharing, and mentors at
@ycombinator
for truly supporting female and minority founders💪
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This has always bothered me, but I can't believe it still shows up as mandatory when I'm invited to talks. How are prefixes still mandatory? 🗿
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Honored to be featured alongside these outstanding women in STEM. Thank you Natalia Dolan and
@globeandmail
for the invite and opportunity. Happy International Women's Day! 💪🏼
#IWD2019
!
#WomeninSTEM
@CMMcgowan
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@simonduerr
@wc_ratcliff
@BioRender
Hi Simon - sorry I missed your email (I’ve been on mat leave since Dec and slowly catching up).
I’ll look into your questions further but to quickly reply here- we do allow figures you make in BioRender to be published in open access journals, including those w/ CC BY licensing
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Hey, Canada! 🇨🇦 I’ll be on
@metromorning
tomorrow at 6:40am to talk about my experience working in tech &
@BioRender
’s big plans to change how science is communicated 🔬🎙️ Tune in!
#BioRender
#IWD2019
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In SF for the
#JPM2018
#BiotechShowcase
😎 helping illustrate one
#biotech
pitch deck at a time. Msg me if you wanna chat!
#scicomm
#sciencefigures
#biorender
#scienceimage
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These past few weeks have shown me that I still have SO much to learn. I’m going to keep educating myself, try to lead by example, support and grow a diverse team, support black entrepreneurs, donate as much as I can to organizations that support black people and communities 🤲🏿
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Congrats to
@rahulvohra
&
@Superhuman
team! 🎉 This product has single-handedly removed the most anxiety-provoking part of my day - opening Gmail. Thx to
@KatManalac
@mwseibel
for the referral/tip. Can honestly say it's a joy to email now.
Excited to see the features to come!
📈 We just raised $33M from
@a16z
!
🤔 What will we do with the money?
—
❶ Make
@Superhuman
even faster!
❷ Build your feature requests!
❸ Secret unannounced projects!
Read more here:
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@Ehmee
@christineliuart
hey there! im a lead science illustrator
@NatGeo
and founder of
@Anatomize
and
@BioRender
I love scicomm! 🎨🔬🔭
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3 easy ways to help (welcome other suggestions)
Watch these curated talks on racism:
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Reunited at
@ycombinator
#FFC
! ♀"The market doesn't care what gender the CEO is.." #💯
#yc
#ycombinator
#FFC2017
#femalefounders
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@VirusesImmunity
@RMedzhitov
@BioRender
@YaleMed
This is cool! Our teammate, Ginny, was unwinding with a good book 📚 and saw that Ruslan was quoted in one section! What a coincidence!
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So excited to be here in DC talking with immunologists, science writers and
#policymakers
about
#immunotherapy
and
#scicomm
! 😍🌎🔬🔭💡
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@commnatural
@KOKeeffe12
@ESA_SciComm
@A_Hettinger
@priyology
@IBJIYONGI
@JacquelynGill
@duffy_ma
@drsrbayer
@DrHolly
@Ehmee
@eaweinberg
@ladyxscience
@KatherineJWu
@randajab
@vaughan_soil
@starfocus
@DrRubidium
@vivmn
@JaneLubchenco
@T_Carey3
@tmeghnaa
@JennMJack
Thanks for the mention! We're working hard to democratize
#scicomm
and allow anyone to make science diagrams (without the art skills). Would love your thoughts on our project
@BioRender
☺️🔬🎨✍️
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A day in the life of 8 successful entrepreneurs. 1 thing's for sure, they're masters of efficiency 👌
#lunchmeetings
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Looks like
#lightning
can strike 3x in the same place⚡⚡⚡ 🏅🏅🏅
#UsainBolt
#Rio2016
#Olympics
@usainbolt
@De6rasse
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Super inspired by former Creative Director @ the
#WhiteHouse
@ashleighaxios
on championing diversity for creativity💡
#RGDDT
#designthinkers
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Scientists Have Discovered an 'Off' Switch for the Revolutionary CRISPR Gene Editing Tool
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Opportunity to work with the most humble, smart and supportive scientist in a groundbreaking area!
My lab is looking for a project manager. If you are interested in a research associate position to oversee biorepository and manage cool
#longCOVID
immune profiling and
#neuroimmune
mouse projects, please apply below 👇🏽
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Live in 2 hrs!
@reddit_AMA
on everything
#scicomm
&
#scivis
! Come join us :)
@SciParty
@SciCommTO
@iamscicomm
@aaas
Join me tmrw
@reddit
@reddit_AMA
Thurs Mar 8th 2-4pmET to chat sci-comm with 15 million science redditors! 👩🔬📝🖌️
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June 2019 edition of
@sciam
is out!
Fun collab with
@JerryGuArtist
🖌️
Always love getting back to my drawing roots (and elevating/collaborating w/ fellow
@Anatomize
/
@BioRender
colleagues when I can) 💪👩🏻🎨👨🏻🎨
Illustrations can help us educate the public on diverse
#STEM
topics - and capture their imagination. Fellow
#scienceillustrator
Jerry Gu and I created this infographic for
@sciam
to visualize the
#dolphin
🐬 brain 🧠 & sleep
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Found my work perusing a book store in Tokyo! So cool to see it in my mother tongue. Another great collaboration w/
@canalesgraphics
@NatGeo
Finding your illustrations halfway across the world, translated into Japanese! 😄
#NationalGeographic
#NatGeoJapan
…
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Can I just say how much I love
@MayBerenbaum
and her insights on apis mellifera microBEEome? 🐝
#AAASmtg
#AAAS
#sustainability
#science
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‘Even more precise than Janeway 9th’ about
@BioRender
immunology templates 🤯 Shout-out to
@JerryGuArtist
for fearlessly leading this project.
Thank you again to
@VirusesImmunity
and
@RMedzhitov
for entrusting us with this initiative 🙏🏼📚
I have added a "COVID class" to the end of my undergrad Immunology course. This class has been my favorite to prepare for thanks to
@RMedzhitov
and
@VirusesImmunity
and
@BioRender
- I can't thank you all enough for the new templates! Even more precise information than Janeway 9th
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@VirusesImmunity
@BioRender
Thank you Dr. Iwasaki! Our team is so grateful that you entrusted us with your lecture material. We learned SO much in this whole process (and really enjoyed the image-creating work)🔬🖼️ We hope the students enjoy the visuals - they're very lucky to have you as a professor!
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So excited to be here in DC talking with immunologists, science writers and
#policymakers
about
#immunotherapy
and
#scicomm
! 😍🌎🔬🔭💡
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge..."
#DarwinDay
#ScienceMarch
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.
@NobelPrize
winner & President of
@royalsociety
Venki R. takes stage on pros/cons
#biotech
advances. 'Treatment or enhancement?'
#AAASmtg
Happening now in room 304 : Venki Ramakrishnan of
@royalsociety
delivers
#AAASmtg
topical lecture. Watch remotely:
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Glenn John Arnowitz of
@pfizer
"Stay focused, stay calm, don't compromise your integrity" Resonates so much with me
#RGDDT
#disruptivechange
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@lynnetye
@BioRender
@kaymtye
@caitvw
@TaliaLerner
@AndrewHires
@KatyaSht
Another perk of signing up as a lab - free, professional, custom journal art! 🎨 (as seen on the cover Cell Immunity, Nov issue)
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.
@Natgeo
illustrator here ✌️ Following all the fact-based goodness from Toronto for
#WCSFP17
- msg me if you want to chat sci illustration & visual sci-comm!
@NatGeoChannel
#NatGeo
#scicomm
#sciviz
#Science
#FactsFirst
#WCSFP
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"Spending time on PR before making something people want"
@jesslivingston
's list of distractions is
#gold
.
#ycfemalefounders
#yc
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Join me tmrw
@reddit
@reddit_AMA
Thurs Mar 8th 2-4pmET to chat sci-comm with 15 million science redditors! 👩🔬📝🖌️
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@JustinTrudeau
.. have raised almost $200k for the Oakville hospital to commemorate. We'd be honoured to have you attend our charity event!🇨🇦
@MyeRestaurant
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At the
@aaas
satellite march last month! There in spirit
@ScienceMarchDC
today & around the 🌎💚💙
#earthday
#ScienceMarch
#factsnotopinion
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When I moved to Baltimore, I saw the more rampant inequalities suffered by black people, particularly in the healthcare system. I’ll never forget witnessing black patients in the ER jumping out of hospital gurneys because they couldn’t afford the medical bills later.
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@365womeninSTEM
That's great! :) I would be honoured to be featured! Also
@SamanthaZY
@LPredster
@Scibrarian
@robot_MD
@yvonneychan
doing incredible work!
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