Darian Carroll, PhD
@betacellbelle.bsky.social
Magical Black Girl| Clemson '18 | Vanderbilt ‘24 | Ideas are my own.
"Desk rejections based purely on linguistic grounds waste valuable knowledge and silence the diversity of voices essential for scientific progress."
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Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen
For decades, EAL researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Desk rejections based purely on linguistic grounds waste valuable knowledge and silence the diversity of voices essential for scientific progress."
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1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy.
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🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
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September 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
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I 100% agree! When we notify authors that their preprint has been reviewed, the ones that respond are generally receptive!
Why hasn't Preprint Peer Review caught on more?
I discovered a small, but simple reason - authors are missing out on the JOY of getting feedback because they aren't notified when feedback occurs.
more in thread below!
I discovered a small, but simple reason - authors are missing out on the JOY of getting feedback because they aren't notified when feedback occurs.
more in thread below!
September 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I 100% agree! When we notify authors that their preprint has been reviewed, the ones that respond are generally receptive!
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Holy moley — just flagrant violation of court orders
there need to be sanctions and enforcement
put NIH under an external receiver?
there need to be sanctions and enforcement
put NIH under an external receiver?
May 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Holy moley — just flagrant violation of court orders
there need to be sanctions and enforcement
put NIH under an external receiver?
there need to be sanctions and enforcement
put NIH under an external receiver?
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Went to primary care doc today and broke down crying as soon as they asked how are things in my life right now. Just to illustrate how scientists/academics are doing despite our game faces.
May 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Went to primary care doc today and broke down crying as soon as they asked how are things in my life right now. Just to illustrate how scientists/academics are doing despite our game faces.
Sharing an actual communication sent to a student that applied for an F31 Diversity Fellowship. This is an unnecessary, targeted attack on this student and thousands of trainees in similar positions.
May 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sharing an actual communication sent to a student that applied for an F31 Diversity Fellowship. This is an unnecessary, targeted attack on this student and thousands of trainees in similar positions.
About to cry emo tears cause a RA in another lab was venting about how stressed they are to their PI and she said “If it’s weighing on you, take the weekend [to decompress]. There’s nothing important that we need around here and I hope that we haven’t made you feel like you have to push yourself”
April 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
About to cry emo tears cause a RA in another lab was venting about how stressed they are to their PI and she said “If it’s weighing on you, take the weekend [to decompress]. There’s nothing important that we need around here and I hope that we haven’t made you feel like you have to push yourself”
“In this transitional stage of my career, I don’t have 4 years to hunker down and wait it out.”
"Despite the narratives currently rampaging in the United States that people of color are 'DEI hires' lacking merit, I am finally confident in my abilities as a scientist. However, perseverance can only take me so far." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4jbwsff
April 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“In this transitional stage of my career, I don’t have 4 years to hunker down and wait it out.”
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Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
April 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
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Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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April 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.
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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
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After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
Flyover Country
What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
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Just a reminder that these actions by the admin violate the 1A as surely as the exclusion of the AP from the WH press pool does. Is any academic institution going to fight back? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Just a reminder that these actions by the admin violate the 1A as surely as the exclusion of the AP from the WH press pool does. Is any academic institution going to fight back? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
Postdoc Small Joys: Seeing the results of an experiment that used a technique that you recently learned.
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Postdoc Small Joys: Seeing the results of an experiment that used a technique that you recently learned.
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I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
You want to know the best way to show thanks for chairing a study section? Early the next morning sent them a termination notice for their PREP training grant.
Just completed day 2 of chairing a NIH study section. Brain is tired after intently listening and leading discussions of ~40 apps. So fulfilling to hear the passion people have for others' science, and heartwarming to see so many people who care about the training and environment of others 🫶 (299!)
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
Something that makes me happy? Being so collaborative in my approach to science that I meet my daily steps goal walking across campus to partner labs.
March 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Something that makes me happy? Being so collaborative in my approach to science that I meet my daily steps goal walking across campus to partner labs.
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People being abducted on the street.
Science being obliterated.
State secrets being shared.
Federal agencies being dismantled.
There you’re caught up. Get angry. Do something.
Science being obliterated.
State secrets being shared.
Federal agencies being dismantled.
There you’re caught up. Get angry. Do something.
March 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People being abducted on the street.
Science being obliterated.
State secrets being shared.
Federal agencies being dismantled.
There you’re caught up. Get angry. Do something.
Science being obliterated.
State secrets being shared.
Federal agencies being dismantled.
There you’re caught up. Get angry. Do something.
New paper out from the Skaar lab!
#midweekmicro🔬
A thiouracil desulfurase protects Clostridioides difficile RNA from 4-thiouracil incorporation, providing a competitive advantage in the gut
@cellpress.bsky.social #microsky
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A thiouracil desulfurase protects Clostridioides difficile RNA from 4-thiouracil incorporation, providing a competitive advantage in the gut
@cellpress.bsky.social #microsky
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A thiouracil desulfurase protects Clostridioides difficile RNA from 4-thiouracil incorporation, providing a competitive advantage in the gut
Clostridioides difficile is a master scavenger. Munneke et al. discover a pyrimidine
analog in the vertebrate gut, and 4-thiouracil can be used by C. difficile as a nutrient
to outgrow neighboring bac...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New paper out from the Skaar lab!
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Glad to see this paper on the role of #mitochondria in #ageing from Alberto Sanz lab finally out, cool story that was in development for a long time. As always a pleasure to collaborate!
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Developmental mitochondrial complex I activity determines lifespan | EMBO reports
imageimageTemporal manipulation of CI function reveals development as critical window where
reduction of CI produces short-lived and stress sensitive adults characterised by
maladaptive transcriptomic...
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March 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Glad to see this paper on the role of #mitochondria in #ageing from Alberto Sanz lab finally out, cool story that was in development for a long time. As always a pleasure to collaborate!
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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By Arthur Caplan:
"many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."
"the only way forward is speaking truth to power."
"many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."
"the only way forward is speaking truth to power."
March 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
By Arthur Caplan:
"many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."
"the only way forward is speaking truth to power."
"many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years."
"the only way forward is speaking truth to power."
Something I’ve been thinking about coming out of February is how many scientists that study chronic diseases have told me that they think they’ll be fine after all the NIH dust settles because they don’t study infectious diseases or cancer or gender, as if we are not on the same burning boat.
March 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Something I’ve been thinking about coming out of February is how many scientists that study chronic diseases have told me that they think they’ll be fine after all the NIH dust settles because they don’t study infectious diseases or cancer or gender, as if we are not on the same burning boat.