Round 2, Pittsburgh-- let's make it a good one! ✊️

Thanks again to the wonderful organizers at @standupforscience.bsky.social and @50501movement.bsky.social for their hard work in making things happen. 💕

#StandUpforScience
#StandUpforScience2025
#MutualAid

Yesterday, my first undergraduate mentee successfully defended her honors thesis. So incredibly proud of her hard work and growth over the last ~2 years in the @spfarris.bsky.social lab!

Look out, world, here comes Remy Frawley, B.S.!

Continued my annual service tradition of judging the Senior Biology Division of the Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair!

3 years and counting, and the high school students continue to blow me away with their work.

#thekidsarealright #sciencerules

What an honor to see Nobel laureate Drew Weissman speak at my institution about his work on mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics, and yet what a heartbreak to hear at the beginning of his talk that just yesterday did he receive a grant termination notice due to studying vaccines.

Scientific research is the lifeblood of Pittsburgh. My heart is full with all the support shown in my city today, including from the incredible @summerlee.bsky.social!

We the people #StandUpforScience

Ready to #standupforscience on Friday in Pittsburgh!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Science doesn't care who you are or what you believe; It is the pursuit of truth for the good of humanity, and it is being threatened by catastrophic funding cuts.

Now is the time to show your support.

standupforscience2025.org

A very powerful session at the Bridging Connections in Addiction Research (BCAR) retreat at Pitt today.

A panel of substance use counselors and members of the community discussing how we can work to translate research into real action and vice versa.

Just a cool cat doing some cell culture 😺👩‍🔬🧫

We grad students made it an official Farris and Homanics Labs pajama day!

A lovely evening with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon hosting Dr. John Ngai, director of the BRAIN Initiative! 🧠🔬🧪

There is so much to mourn today. I've been reminding myself though there is always hope: In community, solidarity, and kindness we share in the face of hate.

We will never go back and will never stop fighting. There will never be a world without trans people.

💙🩷🤍🩷💙

#TransgenderDayofRemembrance

My new morning coffee buddy and co-author 🧡🖤

Congrats to my first undergraduate mentee, Remy Frawley, for presenting her first ever poster showing her honors thesis work so far at #ABRCMS yesterday! Feeling like a proud scientific "parent." 🥲🥰

She will be graduating from Pitt with her B.S. in Biology this Spring.

#H2P #theygrowupsofast

AHHHHHH I'M SPEAKING AT THE ALCOHOL GRS

The floor postponed judging for the decorating contest because I set the bar too high, so we had to raise it higher 😜🎃

Welcome to the haunted alcohol research laboratory... the grad students are gone, the PI is a skeleton, and the rodents are drunk and running amok! 😱🍸🐀

The Farris & Homanics Labs' submissions for the 6th floor BST3 bench decorating contest!

ft. ParaNORMAL film and Daniela's Desk of PhD Student Horrors 👻😱