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Annapoorna P K (she/her)
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Impact Monger • Researcher • Writer • Sci commer • Feminist • Mental health advocate • Cat mom🐱

Work- Promoting impactful biomedical innovation in India 🇮🇳

PhD in neurobiology- epigenetics of depression

🗣️ Mental health • LGBTQIA+🌈 rights
Hello, butterfly people! I'm back here after a hiatus. Starting with some semblance of humour.

A fun conversation with a colleague. 👇🏼

#worklifebalance
April 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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When Stanley Plotkin speaks, I listen.

I think infectious diseases could not be more excited about the state of the US right now and in the time to come.
I put the ‘R’ in the MMR vaccine, and I’m scared that, like measles, rubella could make a comeback under RFK Jr. |Opinion
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to make the use of the MMR vaccine voluntary are not only letting loose measles but also will allow mumps and rubella to return to America.
www.inquirer.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I’m certainly not a superwoman but it’s so exciting to be featured in a comic that I grew up reading 🥳 😇

@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social
#TinkleMagazine
April 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Her answer to the question about how to reform the system (of funding) in the same interview is also telling. Everyone offering advice with virtuous confidence here and elsewhere about this topic could perhaps heed her humility and honesty:
October 3, 2023 at 7:11 PM
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Nobel prize winner and “the mother of mRNA vaccines,” Katalin Karikó:

“Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant…And it came back always ‘No, no, no.’”

“She also talked about being demoted in 1995.”

🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky
Pure science ‘crucial’, says von der Leyen after Nobel award - Research Professional News
Commission president voices support for basic research, with prizewinner having struggled for funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 3, 2023 at 6:32 PM
#PhDSky #AcademicSky

Me when someone asks how the PhD is going-
September 25, 2023 at 9:54 AM
#HiSciSky
Hey, folks! I'm a PhD student, & I study the epigenetics of depression. 🧠
Also a freelance science communicator, soon to take it up full time.
I unapologetically talk about mental health, pay parity & LGBTQIA+ rights in academia.
Looking forward to connect.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
September 24, 2023 at 7:12 AM