Myron Evans, PhD
@myron_evansPhD
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Assistant Prof @uw pediatrics/PI @seattlechildren | #epigenetics #chromatin #development | @stjuderesearch @hatleylab postdoc| @dukedscb grad| @fiu ugrad alum
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The
@EvansBrainLab
hits the map with our first preprint! Can’t thank my co-authors enough for all of their help!
Now let’s get it published and the real celebration starts.. big shoutout to
@kate_amato
,
@pbtrfseattle
,
@UnravelCancer
, and
@NCICancerBio
for the funding.
CTPS1 inhibition synergizes with replication stress signaling inhibition in MYC-amplified Group 3 medulloblastoma
#bioRxiv
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After every Zoom meeting on the planet, I’m excited to announce that I will be starting this Fall as an Assistant Professor and Career Development Awardee in the Department of Pediatrics at
@UW
and
@seattlechildren
research institute!
@EvansBrainLab
coming it ya this fall
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The Evans Lab will be a reality... Whew never that would ever come out of my mouth.... Can't say where yet because I haven't made a decision on the offers but ITS COMING!!
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Just tell the next generation of female scientists you could care less about them and the terrible shit they might go through.. its cool
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Took waaaaay too long for this to show up in my Commons account, but its finally here so who cares... First NCI grant of hopefully many
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Finally decided I should use my professional twitter.. I’m Myron Evans and I’m a postdoc
@StJudeResearch
studying the role of epigenetic regulation in neurodevelopment and tumorigenesis
Missed out on
#blackinneuroweek
so decided I’d hop on over here to
#BlackInGeneticsRollCall
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Oh its
#BlackInNeuroRollCall
.. Let me get in then.. I'm Myron, a senior postdoc
@StJudeResearch
and soon to be Assistant professor
@seattlechildren
studying the epigenetic regulation of CNS development and brain tumor formation
#BlackInNeuroWeek2021
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I took the lab out for coffee this morning (my treat) but now I really need somebody to bring me some water..
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The Evans Lab is hiring!! Looking for postdocs and senior scientists to take on some exciting projects in epigenetic regulation of development and tumorigenesis!
@seattlechildren
is a fantastic place to work and you get to join an awesome team in our center
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It’s been a crazy old ride
@StJudeResearch
but I couldn’t have asked for better lab mates and mentors!
And just like that
@myron_evansPhD
leaves the
@hatleylab
. Can’t wait to see
@EvansBrainLab
do amazing things in Seattle!!!
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Sometimes you have a bad week and you call
@CterminiPhD
to come get a THICK pretzel with you
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Having mentors that keep reminding me “Its a whole pandemic out there” when I think about how little I’ve done with my lab is lifesaving.. especially for an “overachiever” like me
But also I get a package every day now so ITS HAPPENING
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11 years ago today was my first presentation in a lab meeting as a grad student and today was my last one as a postdoc..
@seattlechildren
here I come!!
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Please RT: Looking for a postdoc! Come study developmental neuroscience, epigenetics, and/or therapeutic development for pediatric brain tumors with us:
DM with any questions! Hopefully some of the replies vouch for the cool science and good mentorship 😃
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I'm not gon' say nothing... I know y'all see it (x2)
Photo session with the 2023 Nobel Committee. The hard work has begun.
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Couldn’t have done it without my awesome mentors!!
@hatleylab
and the twitterless Martine Rousseau.. true powerhouses in science and mentoring
Ps..
@hatleylab
is hiring so come postdoc with some of the best people I know
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Today’s the day I pack up and move again for hopefully the last time for a while. Excited for Friday and the start of the career I’ve been working towards for 16 years.
@seattlechildren
here I come! Catch you later, Memphis!
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In other unsurprising news.. it’s cold outside in Seattle in December
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The speed I read the left column at was INSANE.. I need this for scientific papers ASAP
A new type of typeface might be beneficial to neurodivergent readers! 🤯
It's called bionic reading — the first few letters are bolded, making it easier for readers to glide through text and stay focused.
(links in reply)
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Money secured for the lab, lunch with my awesome team, NO grant writing (although I did get an LoI accepted)...
Could not have asked for a better day to end another trip around the sun
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Did you really just refer to blackface as “a fancy dress costume”?!
🙄🙄🙄
This is insane. Julie Overbaugh is among the most kind, generous, upstanding researchers in our field. If you can stand by while her reputation is dragged through the mud because of a fancy dress costume so that
@UWMedicine
can burnish its woke credentials then shame on you
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4% of
@theNCI
goes to pediatric cancers and I think I speak for everybody* when I say kids deserve more
*if you’re not in that everybody ✌🏾out
Seattle Children's Dr. Eric Tham’s op-ed in the
@seattletimes
calls for more federal funding to pediatric
#cancerresearch
and address extreme disparities that persist.
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I want you to think long and hard about how doors work.. unless this is a cry for help that you’re stuck in your office
The pandemic is like a doorway. Once you pass through, there is no going back
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Prob a dumb question: anybody know a tool where I can throw a gene list and get hits on possible small molecules that would antagonize?
This is a gene list upregulated in surviving cells after treatment with one drug and looking for rational combos
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Also this dropped.. excited to join the editorial board
@CommsBio
this year. Send over your stuff and I promise a fair review
looking at you
#neuroonc
#epigenetics
#cnsdevelopment
communities
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@cterminiPHD
Build a good network of other new PIs so you can vent to somebody who is going through the same things you are and don’t have experiences from YEARS ago that aren’t applicable anymore
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BLACK KIDS ARENT THE REASON YOUR KID DIDNT GET IN!
And I kinda love this ruling cause what will you blame it on next year?!
I don’t think my kids should have to work 3x as hard to get into the same school.
That doesn’t make me a supporter of white supremacy,
@jemelehill
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Well theres one good piece of news today
BREAKING: David Sabatini has withdrawn his name from consideration for employment at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, according to his spokesperson, calling the allegations of sexual misconduct “false, distorted, and preposterous.”
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Living my best construction worker dreams with
@SiobhanPattwell
checking out our new lab space and offices on JMB8
@seattlechildren
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Bring snacks you can hide in a bag or your pockets.. i swear every place forgets what a break looks like during interviews
What advice do you have for those going on the academic job market?
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Hey! That’s me! Thanks to the team at
@NICHD_NIH
for this feature
Meet Dr. Myron Evans II, Ph.D.,
@myron_evansPhD
, assistant professor of pediatrics at
@uw
and a principal investigator at the
@seattlechildren
’s Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research.
#NICHDResearch
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Highs and lows of
#newPI
life:
first pre-clinical modeling experiment in the lab was a success even though we had to scramble for drugs after a mistake in shipping
two grant rejections in two days
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Y'all..... I almost just tweeted something so reckless at somebody who said something dumb and had to unplug my router for a few minutes
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Over-educated women of the world.... I applaud you and stand with you
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Say out louder for the people in the back
PSA: There are brilliant people at not fancy places. I got my PhD in a dept ranked 28th at the time. I turned down a top 5 program to go there. Why? None of Fac I wanted to work with at the "fancy" place looked me in the eye at recruiting weekend. Not all bout rankings for URMs.
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Walked into my office this morning to a present with no name complete with the brown paper bag.. I can't be mad but come tell me if this is from you!
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Yep… “the blacks” took your spot.. at Berkeley which
*checks notes* prop 209 and no affirmative action
You just didn’t get in so quit whining bro
Asian-American student with 1590 SAT score and 4.65 GPA rejected by 6 elite colleges, inc
@UCBerkeley
— blames affirmative action
@FoxNews
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ABSOLUTELY NOT
“It’s the freedom for me” is up there as one of the worst things I have EVER seen in my life
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Since y’all seem to be so damn confused.. who’s this kid dressed up as? Quickly
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I will officially be on this energy in all meetings from now on…
Prepare yourselves
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This! Every damn day I walk in the room.. and then I’m the “angry one” when I have to remind them that I’m the PI and am a full doctor
I know I belong in my current role, but that doesn’t change the discomfort I feel walking into rooms and realizing I am “the only”. I power through, make my presence known (though, not always heard) but it’s f*cking hard. Sometimes I just wanna cry, but I just keep going.
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So the serial abuser didn’t abuse every single person he came into contact with.. guess it’s ok then
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Come check out this cool podcast and hear about some awesome developmental and cancer biology from yours truly
#blackincancer
#blackinneuro
#epigenetics
This weeks episode is with
@myron_evansPhD
where he discussed his research in cancer epigenetics & his recent publication in Nature Communications exploring how Ybx1 fine tunes PRC2 activities in embryonic brain development!
#genomics
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Thanksgiving is normally the time you give thanks for stuff but heading into 2022 I wanted to give a big shoutout to this amazing team
@seattlechildren
who welcomed me with open arms and have and will continue to be amazing colleagues
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I’m not even looking but I know they are RIPPING you up in the QRTs cause this is trash advice
I’m not about to play respectability politics just to get tenure and watch the game not change AT ALL when I finally have a say
1) On TT - Be the fuzzy bunny nobody wants to kick - advice my academic big sister gave me when I started on TT. These people will be voting on your future. You can be the game changer after you get tenure.
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Submitting a grant a day early on the beach out of the country with a drink in my hand.. Who have I become?!?
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Looking for a tech position with two of the coolest new PIs at
@seattlechildren
:
Come work with me and
@SiobhanPattwell
on projects in developmental biology, neuroscience, and neuro-oncology
Feel free to reach out by DM/email with questions
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This just saved me so much future anguish
If you spend a lot of time copying text from PDFs into Word like me, I hope this tip might be useful! If the PDF ends up broken up over lots of lines, there's no need to fix it manually. Just go to find and replace, type ^p into find, and one space into replace. Pics below :)
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Paper accepted! For those of you in review during quarantine... good luck and just keep working!
If anybody knows of any faculty listings or places to look I’m hitting the job market ASAP!
#epigenetics
#naturecommunications
#BlackInGenetics
#nowletsgetafacultyjob
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Big loss for the epigenetics field… RIP to the king of chromatin
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved colleague and friend, C. David Allis. Aside from his groundbreaking contributions to biomedical science, David will be remembered for his warmth, humility, and relentless optimism.
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Tell me you’re not a developmental biologist without telling me
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Best night of my month every month.
Junior CNS tumor PI club with
@SiobhanPattwell
&
@myron_evansPhD
is definitely my most fun and most productive monthly meeting.
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Am I allowed to participate in this event every year?!? And if anybody else wants me on stage my fees are LOW (just feed me lunch)
But seriously a great opportunity to support
@seattlechildren
and the work that all of our guilds do for the kids
Dazzled by science today courtesy of researchers/doctors/heroes from
@seattlechildren
. Their passion and expertise reminds me why I NEED to fund this work.
#hope
#firetofundraise
#kickchildhoodcancer
#4sweetjane
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Couldn’t have asked for a better team
@seattlechildren
… bowling wednesdays
Yes you’re jealous.. it’s okay
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Interested in pediatric bench and clinical research? Come join us at
@seattlechildren
Feel free to DM with questions!
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Had a great time at
#SNO2021
with my musketeers
@SiobhanPattwell
@VitanzaNick
hearing about all the awesome work going on in the field. Hopefully next year I’ll be up there giving a talk too
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That
#firstgen
convo hit hard… but so did the rest. Love that I found my seattle family
(paging
@VitanzaNick
@SiobhanPattwell
@RRonsley
) for a big photo op
Towndogs out for Saturday shenanigans ♥️
Convo topics:
-R01 Specific Aims
-Mentorship
-Being
#FirstGen
-Conference stuff (lol)
Anyone wanna plan a
#NewPI
retreat with
@myron_evansPhD
? Let us know 😀
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Ok who’s gonna start reading my grant reviews with me?
Good or bad I will provide bourbon and baked goods
After a long break from an initial look at my R01 reviews (rev, discussed, not funded), I reopened them and took a look with Rick McGee, a legend
@NorthwesternU
who among many roles, runs a grant writing group. Rick said, "you shouldn't read grant reviews alone." I now agree
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What a great night of baseball!
Ready for
#HomeRunDerby
with
@myron_evansPhD
THANKS
@SU2C
for sharing the great seats. So proud to partner with you and
@MLB
to move
#cancer
#research
forward
@seattlechildren
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Gotta shoutout
@Lawlorlab
for putting my eyes on
@seattlechildren
How could I turn down working with her,
@VitanzaNick
,
@SiobhanPattwell
and the rest of team at BTCCCR
After completing training at a prominent children's hospital in TN, Dr. Evans moved x-country to join Seattle's exciting research community and the cutting-edge brain tumor research at
@seattlechildren
.
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@dude__itsme
@AcademicChatter
I switched from cancer to developmental neuroscience and now get to do both.. I just leveraged the skills I had as new perspectives for their research..
the learning curve was steep and a little scary feeling like I should know more as a postdoc but you just gotta work hard
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I don't think my jaw could drop any lower than it is right now
Dafna Bar-Sagi: "We don't police [ mentor/mentee ] relationships because people end up in very positive relationships, getting married, living together."
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Didn't even make it to the weekend post supreme court decision before somebody told me I was an affirmative action admit to grad school and a hire at my job.. lololol..
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Why can I not find any motivation to write this grant at all today? I need a little more sunlight Seattle maybe that'll fix this mood
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I need to people to fully understand that this energy runs DEEP inside me
I’m not as mean as I could be and I want people to be more grateful for that.
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I’m a prof as well.. what the shit is this?
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Look at the boss lady doing big things in DC! Excited to be a recipient of one of these awards and to work with
@AskTeendoc
at
@seattlechildren
ICYMI: Leslie Walker-Harding, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.S.A.H.M. from
@SeattleChildren
testified during the House Energy & Commerce Subcmte on Health in support of the bipartisan PACT Act introduced by
@RepJohnJoyce
and
@RepKimSchrier
.
🖥️ Watch the hearing:
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Excited to welcome Stephen to our awesome Neuro-onc team
@seattlechildren
and the
@EvansBrainLab
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Stephen Carney to the Invent
@SC
program! Dr. Carney will be joining Dr. Myron Evans’ (
@myron_evansPhD
) lab where he will study targeting epigenetic regulators in the treatment of CNS tumors.
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Let me tap in and offer some of my time.. DMs always open for the next generation
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The left is me. I won’t apologize for it
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@KYT_ThatsME
I don't like the looks of this.. I went straight in from undergrad with no publications and can't imagine I would even get a look now
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Congratulations
@ApfelbaumApril
!!
Editors, get in here and read this paper and let’s get it published. Also, April will need a postdoc soon (even though I just want her to come to my lab) so eyes open if you like good talent!
New insights into Ewing sarcoma. HOXD13 acts as a rheostat for activity of EWS-FLI1 - modulating mesenchymal cell state. Awesome work led by
@ApfelbaumApril
🔥👩🔬🧬
HOXD13 is a direct EWS-FLI1 target and moderates fusion-dependent transcriptional states
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Get you a
#newPI
friend like
@CterminiPhD
because NewPI happy hour was 🔥🔥🔥
Have you ever vibed with someone on Twitter, schedule to meet up IRL, and worry the vibe is gonna go away? Y’all…
@myron_evansPhD
is even better in person!
Also, Seattle
#NewPI
happy hour part 1 was a success - highly recommend finding/creating a local
#NewPI
crew!
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And bonus: Tony Fauci throwing out the first pitch of the game
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And notice what color his skin is and how you still managed to get the answer right
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Now folks... this is a good PI.. I'm not naming names or anything BUT
Several immensely talented postdocs will be leaving our lab within the next year. I wanted to make it clear (to folks involved in selection/grants committees) that they all *own* the work they've done here & they'll take it *all* with them, of course (it's theirs!).
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It’s so funny when I read academics (women) write about “imposter syndrome.” I had the exact opposite feeling, like I was the only insightful and serious person and everyone else was doing fake stuff. Seems like the imposter syndrome people should trust their instincts.
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Ohhhhh i get it now…
Slavery was an internship.. thanks you Big ‘ol dummy
Watters: No one is arguing slaves benefited from slavery. No one is saying that. It is not true. They are teaching how black people develop skills during slavery in some instances that can be applied for their own personal benefit
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We’re about to rock the world… oh
@VitanzaNick
yours is coming soon and then we need a 3 Musketeers photo shoot
Could not ask for a better scientist, person, and friend than
@myron_evansPhD
and
@EvansBrainLab
to start this journey at
@seattlechildren
and
@UWMedicine
with!
#firstdayofschool
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Wear your mask... please
“I wear a mask to keep everyone safe and protected.” – Dr. Myron Evans, postdoctoral fellow in Oncology. How you can participate:
#WearAMask
#postdoc
@myron_evansPhD
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First day of the rest of my life.. and i couldn’t be more excited to be here
Oh and shoutout to
@hhgustafson
for the cutest welcome card
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I knew exactly who it was before I opened the photo 🙄🙄
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I'm in my 30s and I can't honestly count the number of times I've had this conversation with my parents... Every headline just makes me tired in a way I can't explain to the people I work with
Does any other race have this conversation repeatedly w/ their loved ones? I know he is tired of having to reassure me. Every single time I hear of another case of
#Murder
by way of
#PoliceBrutality
it strikes me w/ a level of fear I can not explain. I don’t want another hashtag.
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Two days of meeting all my new colleagues finally. The
#ChildhoodCancer
dream team is really
@seattlechildren
in the Ben Towne Center
Wonderful 2 days connecting in person with colleagues from the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Research
@seattlechildren
! And the Seattle weather cooperated!
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No. No, bad, no, nope. Stop it.
And the doubling down in the replies is even worse
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I Stan…
Get peoples names right
this email I sent to my professor that kept misspelling my name was my girlboss moment
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@seattlechildren
did not come to play in DC for
#SNOpeds2023
Had a great time representing
@seattlechildren
with
@vitanza_nick
@myron_evansPhD
@ErinCrottyMD
and Sarah Leary at
#PedsSNO
. So impressed by all my dedicated, kind and intelligent colleagues far and wide! Thanks to
@ChildrensNatl
and
@FilbinMariella
for organizing!
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But only old white men do good science, John!
The rest of us are just diversity hires duh
NO. ONE. IS. ARGUING. AGAINST. MERITOCRACY. BUT MERIT IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER(S). NOTHING IS TRULY OBJECTIVE. ARGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
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A bunch of y’all got your medical degrees from Google University cause the hot tales are ROUGH
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I wish other reviewers agreed with this and weren’t expecting every junior PI to find a senior PI (I.e. somebody random at their institution) to co-mentor
I'd MUCH rather see a detailed training plan by a jr PI than a generic plan by someone whose trained 10, 20, 30, 40+ people. Quantity doesn't always equal quality when it comes to mentorship.
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Shoutout to
@VitanzaNick
and
@SiobhanPattwell
for taking such great photos with me
“I think most people know this about academia: It is not a 9-to-5. You’re constantly thinking about where your work is going…,” says Dr. Evans. “When you take time off, it’s really to take that time away, enjoy it, and spend it with people you care about.”
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