May in the @contamclub.bsky.social calendar is extra special to me because it features a picture I took of this super cool contaminant!! 🦠

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Just explained the Hardy-Weinberg principle to my 18yo brother and he understood 😭 feel so worthy of having a PhD 🥹

It took four days from submission to publication, and nearly five years from publication to retraction. After campaigning by many, many scientists, and an investigation by Elsevier, an infamous paper on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment has been retracted. 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

So proud that my fantastic undergraduate mentee Emily Larkin will be giving her first-ever talk at #cellbio2024 TOMORROW! 8:55am in the Highlighting Excellence subgroup (room 31B). She will share the first-ever glimpse of kinetochores in our favorite amoeba, Naegleria gruberi!

Dropped a drop of protein extract on my bench and this is how it dried! So spiky 🧪

How do organelles fit together inside a crowded cell? Answering this question requires a way to image many organelles in a whole cell at high resolution with high throughput. Our new preprint shows how to do this in yeast using soft x-ray tomography
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A round up of my favorite cookies I’ve baked for the Zanders lab through my time here 🍪 ✨🤤 starting with these chocolate peppermint chip cookies

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

A lot of basic biological functions—which are widely conserved between species—involve genes that evolve rapidly and vary from species to species. What this tells us: maintaining those functions involves continual adaptive innovation!

PSA for new people: I pay my bills by selling original art, so I would be super grateful if you bought some artologica.etsy.com #sciart #scicomm

I wrote a short post on how I leverage design principles to improve my scientific presentations... Long story short, it's more than making things pretty. Effective design can add so much more to your talk/poster! tinyurl.com/designforsci...

Happy deepavali to those who celebrate 🪔✨

My toxic trait is making elaborate illustrations for talks😅Garter snake+rough skinned newt!

Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.