Kelly Stevens
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Assoc Prof, @UW. Working to build artificial human tissues. 🏳️🌈 Disabled. #BLM. Diversity = Innovation, Impact, Power. Views my own. she/her
Joined December 2018
6 yo: “Why are my friends making fun of me for having two Moms?”. Me: . Me: 😩😭. Please teach your kids about different kinds of families. Thank you.
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Men are over-cited, women are under-cited and the curves are diverging. #CiteBlackWomen when writing that next paper.
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@NIH R01’s from White scientists are funded at ~twice the award rate as Black scientists. @NIH has known this for a decade. It has not been fixed. @nihdirector #fundblackscientists. Read our @Cellcellpress paper, w/ @Lola_UMich and more.
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David Sabatini has filed a defamation lawsuit attempting to character assassinate someone who he reveals WAS A STUDENT when he first had sex with her and…(drumroll) there are MULTIPLE other accusers. @mit how’s that tenure revocation case coming along? #IStandWithHer.
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Opportunity for $10,000 awards for Black undergrad & grad students and postdocs for an 800 word essay from @CellPressNews! Love seeing @MSEJAllen as an advisor for this.
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Truth. 👇. I was a postdoc w @snbhatia. I joined her lab bc I wanted to learn how she is SO successful while also balancing life. Here is some of what I learned:. 1. By far, the biggest reason: She is very smart. Like, mega smart. (Seems that should have been obvious but 🤷♀️😅).
One of MIT’s brightest ⭐️.
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New pub! If we wants to build organs, we need to know what these organs look like. We need better blueprints. Here is our first step towards this goal - a new technology for spatial transcriptomics across scales, with @coletrapnell and @JShendure .
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What is PRIDE? To me, it means learning to love yourself more than needing to be loved by others. It means pain, acceptance, strength. It means surviving, then thriving, then standing tall so others may do the same. To me, it says *this* is what some families look like. #PRIDE
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Filling out the @HHMINEWS Gilliam application (which is supposed to center DEI) as a thesis advisor, and this is the GENDER drop-down menu. 😱😭. Whose gonna tell them?
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Want to build liver? Culture liver cells? Check out our new paper by @sarahsaxton4 on 2D and 3D liver models
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We @UW could not be more EXCITED to welcome Dr. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @DrSakiyama to our @UWMedicine @UWBIOE community, as Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Education @UWMedicine @UWISCRM 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉.
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So excited about this - synthetic human organogenesis in a dish. I appreciate @AllenInstitute support and vision - funding potentially transformative ideas not likely to be funded by traditional sources. Look forward to working w @VallierLab and @RobSchwartzLab!.
Congratulations to @kellystevenslab on being named an Allen Distinguished Investigator by @AllenInstitute!✨She'll lead a project to explore the complex set of factors involved in liver formation & regeneration. @UWISCRM @UWMedicine @uwengineering .
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How can 3D printing and HEAT be used to drive genetic wiring of artificial tissues? .Check out our paper in @ScienceAdvances Work by #DanielCorbett @wesfabyan+,collab with @jmil @coledeforest at @UWISCRM @UWMedicine @uwengineering @BrotmanBaty @UWMolES
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Shame @BostonGlobe. Posting a victim of sexual abuse on your front page. Making the story seem two sided, when it is NOT. What horrid journalism. I'm embarrassed that I used to read your publication. This nonsense - only propagates the living hell that victims go thru.
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Hot off the press! Our new paper Uses #3dprinting to build entangled vascular networks. Fantastic collab with @jmil of @RiceEngineering. We print liver tissue that survives transplantation @UWMedicine @ISCRM @uwengineering.
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We are hiring postdocs! We are an inclusive and vibrant (and dare I say, fun!) lab. Pls email me to apply. @BlackInBME @LatinXinBME.
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We desperately need to hire a more diverse faculty to tackle our biggest challenges. Here are some pointers how. Proud to have played a role in this roadmap, which was led by @cosgriffhernan. Also thx to @potassiumwhale for highlighting this paper here
Equitable hiring strategies towards a diversified faculty.
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Check out our new review paper on Engineering Vascular Networks, with @DrErikaMoore @YingZhe47280253 and co-first authors Colleen O'Connor and Eileen Brady @NatRevMater
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1) First, CHILL. In my 1st year, I felt anxious. (Will I get the grant? Will I publish papers? The result was me frantically trying to do too much at once. Too many projects, collaborations, etc. Advice #1: CHILL. Trust yourself. You got this.
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Rainbow science images from my lab group to celebrate #LGBT+ #STEM #Pride. Images taken by @emilyolszewski5, Mary Regier, Daniel Corbett. @PrideinSTEM, @stemtrans, @LGBTSTEM, @OUTinSTEM, @UWISCRM
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Huge congrats to @TejalADesai for winning the @BMESociety Pritzker Award. Amazing to see this extremely prestigious award go to such an incredible scientist, leader, and role model 🔥❤️🎉
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Drum roll 🥁🥁. introducing #BMES2023 Track chairs for @BMESociety Annual Meeting 🎉aka the leaders who will make the magic happen. Hit follow on the names in🧵to keep up on #BMES2023 action and tracks. w @USCSysBio_Lab @Prof_Harley
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And that’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for making @BMESociety 2023 memorable. Special thanks to the hard working folks behind the scenes - here w @BMESociety comms director Stacey Santiago and events director Chanel Ricks, and co-chairs @Prof_Harley and @USCSysBio_Lab
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@Lola_UMich Lola Eniola-Adefeso is now at the helm of Graduate and Professional Education in @UMich COE. @BlackInBME @LatinXinBME GoBlue!!! @UMich is now the place to go to grad school. 🎉🎉👏👏🎉🎉
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Disability is a scientists super power. This is not simply due to strength, grit, or bravery. This is a common misconception. Disability is creativity. It means living fluidly. It is ingenuity and living beyond the box. It is being adept at inventing new paths to thrive.
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7) Again, trust yourself. Be yourself. You be you. Bring your full self to the table. Don't let others tell you how to live your career. Everyone is different. That means you need to decide your career route, activities, and what is important for yourself. Then you will shine.
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Huge congrats to @oliviapagedots Olivia Dotson for receiving the @NSF GFRP! Olivia is developing new bioink materials for 3D printing human tissues. Grateful to be a part of Olivia's "team" with @coledeforest and @Lola_UMich
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3) Don’t take bad advice. If the advice doesn’t “feel right” for YOU, it might be bad advice. [For me, bad advice is often "cookie cutter" advice, such as "you need a nature paper or X papers for tenure, you need an R01 or X grants for tenure". Yawn, eyeroll].
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If you haven't yet invited @PracheeAC to speak to you about publishing. do it. WOW. She is bringing down the house @AllenInstitute Symposium. Thank you @PracheeAC. Also, let's please make her President of Science everywhere.
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2) Follow your heart and your gut. Follow your passions. If your heart/gut tell you something is needed or missing (whether in your science or department), take it upon yourself to step up and fill that gap. Forget about trying to conform. Yuck. Be a leader, not a follower.
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It's as ifffff Sabatini got $25M, then realized this money is worthless w/o a lab (unless working in Mom's basement?). so they commissioned @BostonGlobe to write an article about giving him a second chance? 🤔 That's "convenient" timing @BillAckman! Well done.
I am pleased to announce that last night at @PershingSqFdn scientific advisors dinner, we announced that we found a 50% funding partner for the new Sabatini lab.The new lab now has $5m of funding per year for five years. David is now making launch preparations for the lab. Allez!.
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5. Don’t focus on the “next scientific hurdle” that everyone else is focusing on. Instead, skip that one and instead focus on what comes after that. make a leap, not an increment. Play leap frog.
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Team Pfizer! As an immune compromised person with little kids, this lifts a tremendous weight off my and my spouses shoulders. Thank you nanoparticle friends!!!.
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Spend your time doing things you are passionate about. Say no to busy work others might try to push on you. Build programs to support others coming behind you.
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Thank you to @genentech for listening to the call to #fundblackscientists. Delighted to partner with @Lola_UMich @EmilyLepner to build the Genentech Research Awards program, which will provide research funding for Black scientists. Stay tuned for our first RFA in coming months.
Today we announced the recipients of $16M in funding aimed at supporting groundbreaking solutions that address systemic racism in healthcare and STEM education pathways. Learn how we’re taking a different approach to giving to drive change:
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4) Not all mentors are created equal. Find smart mentors who give you good advice that works for you. Pay attention to the quality of a mentor's advice. Decide who to trust and who to ignore. If your Chair is not a smart mentor, this is a problem - find someone else asap.
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Amazing science @uwiscrm thanks to speakers @GerechtLab @GarciaLabGT @DrErikaMoore Beth Pruitt. 100% masking in auditorium, dinner outside, vax req’d, free COVID tests onsite made my immunocompromised brain feel both stimulated AND valued 🤩😍🔬
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That time you check your twitter notifications and you see your face on a rainbow 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈.
Prof. Kelly Stevens (@kellystevenslab) is an an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Pathology at the University of Washington. Her work bridges several facets of regenerative medicine. Check out the Stevens lab page on JEDIS (.
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We 3D printed sugar with lasers to create artificial liver tissue with @jmil and @nervous_jessica. Love this collaboration - we aspire to 3D print human organs. Ian Kistlinger @sarahsaxton4 and others did the hard work. @UWISCRM @uwengineering @BrotmanBaty @UWMedicine.
Excited to announce our new paper @natBME: We developed 3D patterns of sugar, using lasers, which enabled large scale vascularized tissues (you read that right!). First author Ian Kinstlinger and collab with @kellystevenslab and @nervous_system @Rice_BIOE.
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5) Your time is your most precious commodity. Where you put your time will determine your impact. Do you ENJOY doing xyz activity? (If not, STOP and change course)? Ask, how much IMPACT will this activity have? Don't spend your time on things you dislike or that will not matter.
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Many folks saying universities are to blame for poor pay. Let’s not forget that unis - esp public one’s - are funded by govts and govt support of universities and research has plummeted…to actually make change, we need to call out state and federal govts (data in thread).
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Bled my heart out for this question in particular so posting it here
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The response to this paper has been incredible and speaks to the compassion, vision, and foresight of our scientific community. Let us all together build a world that is more innovative, just, and inclusive. #fundblackscientis.
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2. Find unique intersections btwn two or more completely different fields and bam - scientific impact . 3. Recruit smart people. Delegate to them, a lot. Trust them and give them wings and permission to do their thing.
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Yesssss!!! @UWBioE welcomes Dr. Princess Imoukhuede as our new Department Chair.
Princess Imoukhuede has been named the new chair of @UW Department of Bioengineering @uwengineering @UWMedicine effective Jan. 1, 2022. She looks forward to collaborative efforts for innovation in medicine & other fields
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To all the incoming PI's. You do not need to do long lists before your PI job. Focus on the present. Live. Breath. Enjoy life this summer. Being a PI will be fun! It is a chance to fully be yourself, if you focus on yourself and not other PI's. Do what is right for *you*.
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6) Put yourself in a position where *sponsors* will find you (yes I said sponsor, not mentor). To do this, put yourself in spaces (e,g, networks, societies, social spaces, etc) YOU enjoy being in - where you will find like-minded people. If those spaces don't exist, build them.
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Such an absolute honor to host Dr. Shulamit Levenberg @LevenbergLab today. She has made *so many* seminal contributions to vascular tissue engineering. Here are just a few of my favorites (thread).
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Very excited and proud to share this huge honor with @MuyinatuBell.
"In the last 10 years, only 4 of the 1,500 fellows elected have been assistant professors". Congrats @kellystevenslab, you are a never-ending source of inspiration. Also, you are awesome.
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Introducing DR. Daniel Corbett. Big day! First PhD student to graduate from my lab. He built our scientific and cultural foundation - infinitely smart, creative, thoughtful, kind, fun. Thank you Daniel. Congratulations and we will miss you!
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The progress @aimbe has made for our profession is incredibly inspiring. The recent workshop for Diversifying Paths To Academic Leadership being one great example. Proud to join @aimbe ranks colleagues with incredible colleagues, and pay it forward.
Congratulations to Asst. Prof. Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab and Prof. Paul Kinahan on being elected to AIMBE! 🎉 It's a "tremendously rare" honor for an assistant professor, and we're so proud of both! @uwlabmedpath @UWRadiology @uwengineering @aimbe .
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6. If you have a paper or grant rejected, take one day to pout and lick your wounds. Then snap out of it and move on. 7. Be efficient with your time and energy. Crest boundaries and enforce them.
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Thanks for visiting us @UWBioE @BrianAguado (here also w @pmjboyle @berndtLab @coledeforest :)). @BrianAguado totally blew my mind on his visit…
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Congrats to DR. Sarah Saxton @sarahsaxton4 on her fantastic PhD defense today. She developed a new system for culturing human hepatic organoids.
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Whitehead Institute doubles down in court, reminds of their extensive investigation on the matter, and chastises Sabatini lawsuit. The Whitehead says clearly: #IStandWithHer.
David Sabatini has filed a defamation lawsuit attempting to character assassinate someone who he reveals WAS A STUDENT when he first had sex with her and…(drumroll) there are MULTIPLE other accusers. @mit how’s that tenure revocation case coming along? #IStandWithHer.
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"If science is to benefit all Americans, science first must be done by all Americans." #fundblackscientists. Check out this fantastic op-ed by @Lola_UMich.
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Loved seeing pioneer @snbhatia give a shout out to her work in DEI today at @ColumbiaBME Tissue Talks led by @gvnlab. Let's dig a bit more deeply into her slide.
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"Fund Black Scientists" in @CellCellPress was one of the 5 most popular scientific papers of Feb 2021. Now, let's #fundblackscientists . It takes all of us to make change. #fundblackscientists .
These are the 5 most popular scientific papers of February 2021 in the Nature Index journals.@Lola_UMich @duarteoceans @kellystevenslab @UofUBiology.@love_dalen @PatriciaChrzan.@T_vd_Valk
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Me: So, what did you wish?. 5yo: If I tell you it won't come true. Me: You can trust me. Our secret. 5yo: (sighs). I wished that your arthritis would go away so you don't hurt anymore. Me: . Me: . Me: 😯😢. There is love in the world, y'all.
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When one teases @coledeforest for always patterning in PEG, he takes the conversation up a "Notch". [Kidding, biomaterials folks, I too, (mostly) love PEG]. Now 3D protein painting in natural biomaterials, such as fibrin and collagen.
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Grateful to be among this amazing group pushing human organ engineering forward and for @WellcomeLeap vision and sponsorship. Our mission - a leap towards artificial liver with Ludovic Vallier @VallierLab and Kourosh Saeb-Parsy @Cambridge_Uni.
We're pleased to announce the selected performers for our $50M HOPE program. Learn more:
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Inclusion — being surrounded by friends and colleagues who notice when you’re a bit off in a mtg and take the time to check in, even if it was nothing. Thank you @coledeforest 😍.
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@Lola_UMich, first Black women to receive endowed professorship in @UMengineering says: . “It is always great to pause, acknowledge, and celebrate a glass ceiling being cracked. Being the ‘first,’ however, is richer only when one is not the last. "
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Friends, let's talk. Racial funding disparity is not just an @NIH problem. We, the individuals of our profession, are responsible for the racism that permeates it. Let's fix this, shall we? (thread).
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Congratulations to DOCTOR Eileen Brady (middle) on her successful PhD defense today! Eileen is our lab’s most recent graduate, and she will next continue on to finish her MD/PhD. We will miss her brilliance, encyclopedia memory and fun dry humor. Congratulations Eileen!!
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Thanks @DrAnneCarpenter for reminding us the Sabatini situation is about *more than one woman*. It was not only Knouse who came forward. Also reminding y'all of Dr. Capenter's previous tweet about her own experiences as a trainee in the Sabatini lab.
@CantlonLab It seems to be the goal of all the accounts and the overall PR campaign. To pretend it’s all about one woman’s relationship and then discredit her, to distract from the chorus of others. Otherwise they have to argue that we are all liars. Or we’re offended by a few profanities.
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Third, Black scientists have to write twice as many grants just to keep up, in addition to the extra DEI service we expect of them. This means they have less time for research, papers, and seminars. It also means they have less time to train, teach, and inspire Black students.
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More @MIT policy 🤔. It is interesting that David Sabatini was director of the Whitehead Fellows program and this individuals direct faculty mentor. Huh.
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Second, if we had more Black scientists, we might avoid deadly mistakes like this:.@nytimes @taraparkerpope. @DrBrittaniJ @uche_blackstock @DrOniBee @BerniceKing @RebeccaCokley @ruha9 @esglaude @DrSamiSchalk .
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Amazing piece by @DrAnneCarpenter. I appreciate it so deeply, as I also have psoriatic arthritis. Living with chronic disease doesn’t make one “weaker” (that perception is ableism!). Instead, it forces one to be more creative, intentional, and in the end, stronger.
2 years ago, everything was going great in my mid-career lab. Making a choice to reduce stress and prioritize my health turned out to have ripple effects - my colleagues, family, and friends are reaping the benefits, as am I. I tell my story in @eLife.
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Congrats to @MadeleineOudin and others on receiving the NIH Director's new innovator award!! 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏
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I miss daily chats w @BMESociety 2023 mtg co-chairs @USCSysBio_Lab and @Prof_Harley. Here's a fav pic for nostalgia's sake. 😁. Already excited for next year!
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Our most recent paper digs into how engineered liver tissues can grow inside the body after implant. Check it out here:. This work was led by Drs. Chelsea Fortin @cfortin888 and Tara McCray @UWBioE @UWISCRM.
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Huge congratulations to @SusanaPSB Susana Simmonds of @UWBioE on receiving the @HHMINEWS Gilliam Award!!!! Great honor for a great scientist.
🎉Happy Gilliam Day! 🎉We’re excited to announce the 50 new #GilliamFellows and their advisers who are committed to advancing equity and inclusion in science.
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Thanks for the love y’all. At least I get to be in hell for eternity with my wife. 😉. For real tho, I decided to stop caring about these comments long ago. My advice to the 🌈 trainees out there - stop caring what others think. You will be set free.
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Mental Check-list: After seminars, did I introduce women using « Dr. »? After writing each paper, how many women did I cite? When reviewing grants, how many women did I fund? Did I include Black and brown women in my mental images of « women »?.
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Let's remember that $32M would be enough to achieve racial funding equity and #FundBlackScientists. Unfortunately @BillAckman doesn't understand how he could actually use his money to "benefit humanity".
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Grateful to work w these amazing scientists. Lab celebrating Olivia Prado (lower left) and Susy Simmonds @susanapsb (lower center) passing their qualifying exams!! 🎉🎉
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Officially entering countdown phase - we are exactly one week from #BMES2023 abstract deadline!. BMES abstracts due May 1, 2023. Come join us in Seattle Oct 11-14, 2023
Drum roll 🥁🥁. introducing #BMES2023 Track chairs for @BMESociety Annual Meeting 🎉aka the leaders who will make the magic happen. Hit follow on the names in🧵to keep up on #BMES2023 action and tracks. w @USCSysBio_Lab @Prof_Harley
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Some queer scientists from history:. Alan Turing.Sally Ride.Leonardo da Vinci.Benjamin Banneker. #pride.
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4. Don’t take bad advice. This one is a gem. Hear it. Heed it.
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Thank you to @FolchLab of @UWBioE and @tdanino of @columbiabme for their vision and help in making the Art of Science exhibit @bmes a reality.
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Congratulations to DR. Colleen O'Connor, who defended her PhD thesis with flying colors this week. Colleen is absolutely meticulous, rigorous, and thoughtful scientist. She perseveres through all problems, big and small, and is an impactful finisher.
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Why is this disparity critically important?. First, we commonly use @NIH R01’s to gauge “success” of faculty when it comes time for tenure. Black faculty without an R01 may not get tenure. The pipeline “leak” is not a leak, but rather us pushing Black faculty over a cliff.
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Fortunate to work with these women:.@Lola_UMich @KristynMasters @dr_princess @drkahaynes @setton_lab @cosgriffhernan @MuyinatuBell @RangamaniUCSD @DrSakiyama @USCSysBio_Lab @WillitsLab @ANKoppes @CheslerLab K. Christman @MSEJAllen @profjoycewong @HanaScientist @TejalDesaiUCSF.
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Organismal mediated mechano transduction of mini golf balls reveals that @AdamEnglerUCSD was a pro in another lifetime @kumarlabucb @pruitt_research @AdamEnglerUCSD @MarissaGionet
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Huge congrats to @susanaPSB for receiving the NSF GFRP!!! Follow her y’all - trust me! Co-mentored with @jonliu123.
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Congrats to new AIMBE Fellows Princess Imoukhuede @dr_princess, Stacey Finley @USCSysBio_Lab, Padmini Rangamani @RangamaniUCSD, Tyrone Porter @doc_tmp, Mo Khalil @MoKhalilLab, Adam Feinberg @RegenBio, Kim Woodrow, Dan Ratner. So many amazing folks can't fit in a tweet!.
Congrats to all of the new 2021 AIMBE Fellows! Welcome to the AIMBE community!! See our press release with the full list of 174 Fellows here: Mark your calendar for their induction ceremony on March 26!
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@NIHDirector @NIH_EDI @NIHDirector I fear this message may hurt many of our Black colleagues. Their voices have been clear; @NIH has not listened. To celebrate Black scientists, @NIH must equitably fund Black scientists. For #allyship, @NIH must #fundblackscientists
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Delighted to speak in @JHUBME faculty meeting this morning about #fundblackscientists with @MuyinatuBell. #1 ranked @JHUBME "gets it" and will lead us into the 21st century - diversity brings innovation! #1 ranked dept for a reason. Thanks for the invite and discussion @JHUBME.
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Today is a good day. So proud of this brave person who got her first Pfizer dose - with @kellystevenslab
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Yeeeessss @TejalADesai BMES Pritzker Award winner 2023 @BMESociety. #Shero. You inspire so many @TejalADesai
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Grateful to mentors who inspired, taught, supported me more than I can convey over the past year. In particular, @Lola_UMich, whose brilliance continues to astound me. Also @JenniferALewis1, @TejalDesaiUCSF, @LabRegnier, @NPeppas and many more.
👏 Congrats @kellystevenslab on being named to Nat'l Academies New Voices! 🗣️ @UWISCRM . "It's a chance to. collectively push the field to become more inclusive, not just by expanding the pipeline, but by throwing the door open at the leadership level.".
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