Student Award Alert! 🗣️
@mariabroering.bsky.social from the lab @nieminm.bsky.social earned the 2025 BMB Science Communication Award! This award is in recognition of her excellent scientific communication and reasoning during her first year as a rotation student. Congratulations, Maria!
Congratulations, Dr. Wei! And an additional congratulations to Natalie for graduating her first PhD student from the lab!! 👏
Happy #WomenInScienceDay 👩🔬🥼
Remember to support women in STEM today & every day!
Join us next Friday for a screening of Picture a Scientist - a documentary highlighting researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Feel free to bring your lunch, enjoy light refreshments, and engage in a discussion after the showing!
www.pictureascientist.com
Last week, some of our board members had a farewell dinner for Jackie to celebrate her new position and the impact she’s had on our department as the founding member of our Women’s Group. She will be greatly missed, but we're so excited for her in this next chapter! @pelhamjackie.bsky.social
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
“We need more women in STEM” advocates for equitable opportunities for women at all levels and fields through systemic action and changing perceptions of scientific careers. Improving gender parity will ultimately benefit both society and the economy.
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Thrilled to share our latest work "Recessive PPTC7 deficiency triggers excessive mitophagy to cause a severe inborn error of metabolism with hypomyelinating leukodystrophy" - a collaborative effort documenting the first cases of PPTC7 mutations in humans. 1/n
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/3Zfm0e8 #NationalMentoringMonth
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury."
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
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Natalie Niemi
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The mitochondrial phosphatase PPTC7 has emerged as a potent regulator of metabolism and mitophagy as its global knockout leads to perinatal lethality in mice. However, no known Mendelian diseases have...
In the UK, women represent just 26.7% of the STEM workforce, despite making up 47.5% of the working population. UK businesses lose around £1.5 billion per year due to STEM skill shortages. With the U...
A big day for the lab! Huge congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Jerry Wei @lianjiejerrywei.bsky.social for successfully defending his thesis! 🎓🥳🎉
Natalie Niemi
Three trouble spots facing women in science—and how we can tackle them
Many of the problems we discuss aren't new—in fact, they've been voiced for decades—but that doesn't mean solutions will elude us. #WomenInScienceDay https://bit.ly/4r0OQLU
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A sense of belonging is critical, our Letters to Young Scientists columnists write
