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.

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.

Why am I bringing this up now? I read the Dismantle DEI Act summary from the Heritage Foundation. And the language in point 3 “as the constitution intended” may as well have said “We tolerate others and that is our belief in inclusion”. Point 2 is inherently anti-trans.

So many #postdocsmalljoys this week! Helped an undergrad troubleshoot our anaerobic chamber, made media agar and poured my own plates, got funding for a project via an internal grant 💪🏾. Going into the weekend happy!

A new #PostdocSmallJoy:

Confocal plate readers to assess organoids morphology! Pictured is a single Matrigel dome containing 8 day old colonoids from adult mice.

Hi everyone! My name is Darian Carroll, and I am a PhD student in Nashville, TN studying the infleucne maternal diet and metformin intake during pregnancy on the insulin-producing cells in her offspring's pancreas! #MedSky #What'sScience