Lori Pradhan
lpradhan.bsky.social
Lori Pradhan
@lpradhan.bsky.social
PhD Student @ LSU, studying growth-defense tradeoffs in plant pathogenic fungi and occasionally crafting 🎨✂️🧶
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Legend says the ancient Babylonians once tried to sequence and annotate God's own genome, and for their ambition and hubris they were forever cursed to have different annotation formats and standards so they could never do genomics with ease again.
July 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just landed in Palm Springs…didn’t realize how serious they were about the palms
July 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The Dowell Lab is headed to #Botany2025, come check out some of our amazing talks to see what we’ve been up to!
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
holding back my impending sense of doom with this post
I'll share what I conveyed to a grad student recently:

There is much that remains unknown and out of our control right now. The future is extremely uncertain. Multiple job markets have already imploded. Focus on what you can control. Can you finish the dissertation? Then finish the dissertation.
March 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
while I can’t make it to the event itself, I was happy to make this contribution to my fellow scientists who’ll be at @standupforscience.bsky.social tomorrow!
March 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM