Happening today!!!

Hey San Diego!! Come Stand Up for Science on Friday!!!

UCSD @ noon and then downtown @ 2!! 🧬🔬🧪✊🏼

Just taking a moment to remember how happy and hopeful I was (despite being absolutely freezing!!) on Inauguration Day 2009. We arrived before sunrise to get a spot on the mall! The crowd and the vibes were 💯

For 9ish years I’ve been making an effort to choose a diverse group of authors, so here are the authors to keep myself accountable. Honestly didn’t do quite as well as I thought this yr. Please send recs for books by Asian authors!! Read several Asian authors last yr, idk what happened this yr 🤦🏻‍♀️

2024 book roundup! Consumed 28 books this year (my dad tells me I can’t say “read” since they’re audio books 🙄).

Always looking for recs so please let me know your faves! I tend to read mostly fiction and memoirs, but some non-fiction too

Post a picture of yourself from a different era ✨

Jumping on this trend. Here’s me on the first day of school (I think pre-k4). Little did I know, I’d be a student for >25 more years 😂💀

Achievement of the day. Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

I think this is my favorite of all the ones I’ve gotten

I think @ardemp.bsky.social needs to start wearing this piezo hat to lab meetings 👀

Fun part of the L’Oréal award ceremony was meeting the emcee, astronaut/super mom/scicommer Kellie Gerardi. She’s returning to space in 2026 & you can now propose experiments for her team to do in space! Proposals due in Jan 👇

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Thanks Ardem 😊

And since “everyone” is asking hahah, here are some pics. L’Oréal went above and beyond! (They prob could have spent more on research funding and less on the gala, but it was a fabulous time!)