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cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchist, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. #NIHMOSAIC Scholar w/ @HanaScientist 🧙🏻♀️👩🏻🔬🏳️🌈⚧ she/her
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Never underestimate the power of ideas coming from someone with less experience and more imagination than you. Radical change comes from folks looking beyond what is feasible to change and demanding what NEEDS to be changed.
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We’re sorry to report that we can't keep executing our mission of public education and research because the grad students, postdocs, and researchers whose labor we exploit are demanding fair working conditions!
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If you run graduate admissions and you are expecting your applicants to already be exceptionally skilled scientists, you are not running a training program - you are recruiting cheap labor to be exploited.
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Did you know: instead of paying our workers enough to eat and afford housing, we have on-campus pantry events every week so that our grad students don’t die!
We’re so generous!! So why are they striking??
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Oh fuck our workers are really striking, what do we do now guys?
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it breaks my heart every time i hear of someone leaving academia because of their toxic adviser. we are losing so many talented and innovative scientists just because we refuse to hold bad actors accountable for their behavior.
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someone i talked to recently was worried that white male postdocs would never get faculty jobs in this climate and all I could think was "well if they put their heads down and focus on their science, I'm sure they'll be fine"
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i know the adage "an hour in the library can save you a week in the lab", but i'm also very fond of "an hour with an expert can save you a week in the library"
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Shoutout to faculty who, despite being skilled analytical minds in their fields of study, can’t figure out how to show solidarity with our grad students and postdocs without explicit instructions from multiple sources. You all really make this exploitation possible 😘
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real talk, team. are we really supposed to look at the global pandemic response, anticipate a similarly lackluster response to the looming climate catastrophe and just like... keep going to work?
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Getting in to top PhD programs now practically requires >2 years of research experience, middle authorship or higher on papers, and proof of independence at the bench. Sounds like these programs are just outsourcing the first two years of training!!
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my downstairs neighbor is using a kitchen timer and whenever it goes off I have the uncontrollable urge to wash a western blot
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folks are talking about losing productivity by hiring fewer postdocs or grad students, but I wonder how much greater each trainee's productivity would be if they didn't have to worry about having enough money to live...
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New buildings $5M
Chancellor wages $10M
Administrator wages $2M
Teacher wages $60
Researcher wages $40
Police $4M
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my workers can’t pay rent
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No doubt this strike will end soon - our academic workers definitely don’t have any experience persevering through difficult situations for long periods of time in order to achieve their goals!
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can't emphasize enough how great it is to have a lab manager. you tell somebody else when something is broken and then within days it's fixed!!
🙏🙏🙏 thanks to all technicians and lab managers (and senior grad students) out there who keep labs running!!!
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We started bargaining with UC fighting for a uniform wage across campuses, but as we start compromising it's important to remember that even our $54K ask isn't enough to equitably pay grad students across CA.
We need a cost of living adjustment or there's no contract!
#fairucnow
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at the people using the suppressed wages of professors to argue for continued suppressed wages for postdocs and grad students:
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this paper confirms what I have expected all along: CLONING IS A SCAM
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Pursuing academic science requires positive letters from your graduate and postdoctoral PIs at every career stage, even tenure. This power dynamic makes it surprising to see anyone, even an established PI, speak critically of their training environment.
We need a better system.
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Apparently NYU called their gaslighting event today a “listening session”, serving to remind us of the ways that institutions co-opt the language of movements for change in order to uphold the status quo
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Do you wonder how different cell types uniquely interpret the same signal to produce distinct behaviors? I sure do, and I’m excited that
@NIGMS
has decided to fund my work on this question and support my efforts to improve DEI in biomedical research with an
#NIHMOSAIC
K99 award!
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Wanted: highly skilled researchers and teachers who will work for abysmal wages in expensive cities!
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these nerds, together for 13.5 years and counting
Do you know any queer people who have been together for 10 years?
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hi!! your science? it's political. what you choose to do with your personal life? it's political.
your silence? it's political.
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The Regents of the University of California are meeting today. They will be served fancy hors d’oeuvres and fine wine. The strike is not on the meeting agenda - hard to make room when there’s so much other worker exploitation to plan instead!
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We’ve had some great suggestions about withholding pay during the strike. Unfortunately, our payroll system is so messy that we don’t know how we’d do this.
Luckily, we can’t pay workers consistently when they’re working, so it’s like we’ve already been withholding pay!
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Personally, I have felt a duty as a Jew this week to argue against the Zionist perspective on here and within my home institution. Jews are not a monolith, but from my perspective, there is nothing Jewish about a colonialists attempting to eradicate oppressed people.
Jews this week have had to do 2 things simultaneously: process the horrors of the attack and deal with anti-Israel/antisemitic sentiments plus the painful silence of most folks. It's been difficult but also frees us from any illusions we might have had on our status in the world
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science is fundamentally political, heavily affected by societal influence, and there is no such thing as objective fact generated by subjective observers
What is something about science that is in fact correct but many people disagree with?
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What’s an important scientific lesson you learned in grad school?
I’ll start: failure is an important step toward achieving success!
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a major factor for me in my job search is finding somewhere that I can lead a car-free life.
any car-free folks living in LA, Davis, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, or Boulder? Anyone live somewhere else in the US car-free that they love? I'd love y'all's thoughts!
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@ravenscimaven
thanks so much for your advocacy on this! i think it's also important to note that "sex at birth" is assigned, often based on nothing more than outward appearance, and does not account for dozens of factors that can produce physical intersex characteristics
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truly a bummer to see PIs whose harassing behavior is well known within their department publishing in Nature instead of being held accountable for their actions
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UC Professors: please don’t think too hard about the academic researchers' strike. We’d really hate for you to realize you’re in solidarity with them and the living wages they’re demanding are also in your best interest!
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To our undergrad students: please be reassured that despite recent strike-related difficulties we're doing all we can to ensure that your tuition money isn't spent on the welfare of your teachers! Thanks for your support in this fight against living wages for our employees!
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flow cytometry is just dumping your cells down the drain with extra steps
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If you live or work on a UC campus, please be very careful around our picketing workers. We don't pay them enough to properly feed themselves, so who knows what they will do to get food!
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if you think students and postdocs need to change their behavior to avoid harassment from faculty, you are absolutely missing the point and desperately need to read up on power dynamics
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@MartaGajowa
Heck yeah!! Look at that, we can empower our laborers while we impoverish them!
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To better support UC students interested in studying labor relations, we have organized a hands-on demonstration of how laborers react when they’re exploited and underpaid. Hope you all enjoy!
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brains are wild y'all - i'm unequivocally convinced that metrics for success that academics generally agree on are hot garbage, but i still find myself striving to meet these metrics
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yes i'm a scientist, yes i calculate my drug reconstitution in an excel spreadsheet titled "drugStocks(AutoRecovered) (1).xls" handed down to me from a rotation mentor in grad school, YES WE EXIST
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i got a
@dsgoodsell
print framed and hung it above my TV and I'm pretty sure this is the best decision I've ever made
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We’re really glad to see folks pointing out the obvious: as one of the largest employers in California, it’s a much more effective use of our resources to suppress labor organizing than to advocate for systemic change at the state or federal level!
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Postdoc pay increases need not come out of NIH grant budgets. Postdocs are university employees, universities can and should pay for more of their salaries, and PIs have the power to organize and demand this from their institutions.
not so friendly reminder to every institution hosting NIH fellowship recipients per
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i’m glad science twitter is always discussing academic and industry careers, but i think we often miss a key point:
our jobs have social and political consequences. if we’re not mindful of these, we may find ourselves furthering causes that don’t align with our values.
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me to my mentees: you are NOT a burden, I am here to support you! Please ask me for what you need!
me when I'm asking my mentors for what I need: ugh but I don't want to be a BURDEN maybe I can just DO IT MYSELF??
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is it a postdoc shortage or is it just private capture of the public research workforce in response to poor federal and state support?
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wow it's really upsetting to see how people who I know for a fact are toxic to their trainees have learned the language of DEI and are able to put on a face of advocacy in public while treating people like shit behind closed doors...
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sorry not sorry but i am never gonna stop posting these photos.
📸 by , flowers by
@ilsatalaya
, maroon suit by
@thistletoo
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When a professor who forced trainees to work in secret during Covid shutdowns, has a history of sexual harassment of trainees, and has HR complaints about sexism, is still allowed to take graduate students? That’s a toxic fucking department culture!!
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Engineered cells intelligently sense and respond to their environments with desired behaviors. We showed that de novo-designed protein binders can expand the sensing capabilities of 3 synthetic receptors, enabling new targets for engineered cells.
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Grad school interview —-> beginning of my postdoc. 7 years, a PhD, and a second puberty 😉
This hits a bit different for trans folk lol
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We built cellular biosensors that can detect SARS-CoV-2 Spike and respond with genetically encoded responses. We think these ‘sentinel’ cells have potential in drug development and as future therapeutics.
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For
#TransDayOfVisibility
I continue to be visible for the sake of all the trans people in science just looking to find a place for themselves.
I’m so thankful that I’ve found my queer community in science. I hope you can find yours!!
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kind of wild to see many of the folks who so readily co-opted "DEI" language in 2020 now attempting to enforce an ideological position that supports an apartheid regime on the verge of executing a genocidal campaign...
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On the last day of Pride, I'm reflecting on the transformative power of queer scientists. Our perspectives are going to transform every field that we work in. We look beyond dichotomies and hegemonic thinking and bring a new kind of scientific understanding.
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We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. That’s why we’ve made working conditions for graduate students and postdocs so untenable that marginalized workers have to band together and fight for a fair contract! Our bad contracts == community building exercise!
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huge shoutout to every early career researcher taking any kind of risk to make science a better place for us all. the future is bright, and built on your bravery
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you've heard about reimbursement culture for grad students, but what about reimbursement culture during faculty interviews!!! dozens of flights hanging on your balance with no urgency to reimburse you if they don't wanna hire you!!
another way academia selects for people with $$
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okay everyone it's time to STOP flurophore development!!! cell biology was never meant to have this many colors!!! OSER measurements?? photostability??? QUANTUM YIELD??? it's all made up!!!
just give me ONE red, blue, and green FP and CALL IT QUITS!!!
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*stares at my PhD*
What’s the closest you’ve ever been to being in a cult?
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2022 has really sucked for me so far, but for the first time in months I’m digging my look today so at least there’s that
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friendly reminder to UC postdocs who are not striking all their labor: the contract we win will be a direct reflection of how complete our strike is.
i'm going to keep sacrificing on behalf of my colleagues - I hope you will too!
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We’d like to apologize to other exploitative employers for creating the untenable working conditions that have led to a strike of 48,000 academic workers. We really hope this doesn’t lead to improved labor conditions anywhere else!
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I’m completely heartbroken to share that we had to say goodbye to our sweet boy Pablo. We love him with all our hearts and we’re so lucky he was a part of our lives.
He was a perfect angel and we’ll miss him forever.
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also fucking shout out to every single UC worker striking and fighting for a fair contract!!! when we fight we win, and these wins won’t just be for us but for labor as a whole!!!
SOLIDARITY FOREVER, MOTHERFUCKERS
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HHMI could prevent its investigators from publishing in for-profit journals and change research culture overnight, but sure this seems like a nice change too I guess
We're doing a thing! Speakers
@HHMINEWS
Science Meetings will no longer put journal names on their talk slides.
Instead display first author, year, PMID (or DOI) like
@ardemp
Why?
-end prestige-signaling
-people can actually find reference
#nojournalnamesontalkslides
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a modest proposal: at $54k, grad workers in expensive cities need $ to make up their cost of living but folks in cheaper cities (for now!) make a surplus.
what about equitable pay for equal work? a COLA salary would mean different salaries, but the same surplus pay for everyone!
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big shoutout to departments that actually send out rejections for their searches. honestly very humane
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this strike feels like an epic crossover event where all my forever people at UCSF, UCB, UCLA, and UCSD are coming together into a giant group chat to fight for a better life for every academic and it fills my heart
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Huge thanks to
@CarolynBertozzi
for receiving my (unnecessarily rude) callout with grace and offering to reach out to
@leslievosshall
and others at HHMI to push for more inclusive gender reporting ❤️
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To all undergraduates whose classes are canceled: pay no attention to your striking teachers! The incredible power of labor movements is not supposed to be part of your education!!
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academics don’t say “I love you”, instead they make fun of young scientists for dreaming big and i think that’s a fucking bummer
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Once again thinking about the men who told me “stop crying, it’s only 4 years” on November 9, 2016.
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loving all the advice to programs to better survey, evaluate, and foster mentorship
but I think there is a much larger conversation to be had about reworking biomedical research training so that trainees do not depend on one or two lab heads for their future career success
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48,000 people are fighting for wages that are adjusted for cost of living. But our bargaining team is already willing to sacrifice that goal only 8 days into our strike!
These folks are fighting for us - tell hem what matters to us! NO COLA, NO CONTRACT!
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Talking to folks as we prepare for this strike, it is clear that we as academics need a better analysis of who our labor serves.
Yes it drives our careers forward, but it also enriches the universities and companies we work for. And if we’re lucky, it serves the public too.
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does anyone know why IRESes have fallen out of favor as multicistronic elements? it seems like there are some really good IRES variants, and they don't leave vestigial tags on proteins like 2A elements do...
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In today's Biophysics class, we're Teaching The Controversy*
*is phase separation a biologically meaningful phenomenon?
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Fun fact: our financial system here is so complex that there’s actually no way for us to pay anyone except our Chancellors a living wage!
Of course, our silly little academic workers don’t comprehend this, but we simply CAN’T pay them more!
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I really wish I felt safe attending conferences right now. I hope by this time next year organizers will commit to masking and hybrid options to make conferences accessible and safe for all their attendees.
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just so we’re clear, nature’s morphine is uhhhh morphine
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happy 4th birthday to my PhD*, and also to the best photo ever taken of me (featuring the doctoral tiara my labmate gifted me)
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