Dearest shoalmates:
Please consider posting a comment to the NIH regarding the Strategic Plan that includes reducing funding for animal research. Responses from the research community are currently greatly underrepresented compared w/ advocacy groups opposing animal experimentation.
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Zebrafish Rock!
New review out now on precision medicine in #EoE. Big thanks to my co-author Caitlin Burk!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42134747/
Funny story…
Setting up our lab meeting schedule is tricky for a few reasons. The process we finally found is that i create a draft schedule and we edit it as a group, it takes about 10 minutes.
One student tried to get AI to make the schedule and it failed spectacularly. At making a schedule.
One fun pregnancy symptom is rhinitis due to increased blood flow at mucus membranes. Meaning I’m already congested, and it makes it hard to sleep. And my body already aches. And I’m already tired AF.
I don’t want so much as a common cold to make that worse.
Better believe I’m in a N95 on flights.
Good god I hope not. If my grad students are working 20 hours per day then we need an intervention.
Also, there’s no robot in the world that can do what we do. GTFOH.
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
#momademia in a nutshell 🤦🏼♀️
This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books.
We need more of this from our electeds.
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a common, chronic, immune-mediated disease of the esophagus, affecting approximately 1 in 700 individuals in the United States. Despite rising prevalence, clinical ma...
Since my first pregnancy was during COVID lockdown, this time I get to enjoy some *fabulous* symptoms that make being pregnant in academia truly breathtaking. Literally, presenting seminars when I can’t catch my breath.
Now it’s vision changes that make reading difficult.
#momademia 🧪 #newPI
Kinda feels like we’re saving our joy for one *particular* celebration that will outshine all national celebrations for the past 200+ years.
Alt: Animation of a pregnant woman lying on her back while a baby dances gleefully in her abdomen
Between being a parent and academia, sometimes we get so little positive feedback that when my hygienist said "your teeth are great, keep doing what you're doing" I almost cried 😅
Doing so will make research more reliable, trustworthy, and efficient, she said. “Robots work 24 hours a day. Your graduate students probably only work 20, so this is an advantage."
