Shereen Chew
shrn-sci.bsky.social
Shereen Chew
@shrn-sci.bsky.social
3rd year BME PhD candidate at JHU studying GLB axis. Prev a tech at UCSF studying the retina. What's next?
I did my thesis proposal meeting yesterday!
May 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I'm in a lecture about eye development and it truly is a beautiful organ. Hope to work with it again in the future
May 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Hey we won Best Science pod at the iHeart Awards among some fierce competition. Thanks to everyone who listens & thank you to our small but mighty team.

If you want to convert someone to an Ologite, but don’t know where to start, ologies.com is like a menu of topics.

Science matters. Like, A LOT.
March 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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This week’s Ologies episode is about protest art. The tl;dr is make stuff.

www.alieward.com/ologies/wond...

And @sarahmackattack.bsky.social is doing a free Zoom on the same topic in Monday 3/3:

lu.ma/53ks8h33
March 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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In times of revolution, many things change. If we are able to rebuild our research bodies, one thing we would Iike to see change is for-profit scientific journals.

Scientific publications should be open access if government-funded and journals should at minimum be non-profit.

💙 Aaron Swartz
How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress
www.thenation.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It's not the prettiest IF images I've ever made, but it's a start for my project.

Also if anyone has tips on reducing background from matrigel, much appreciated!

Green - tyrosine hydroxylase
Red - actin
February 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Academia is gazing wistfully at a growing pile of unread books and neglected Chrome tabs while procrastinating on a grant progress report by doomscrolling
February 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The trick, my friends, is to go on living your life, full of love and passion, as powerfully as you are able.
December 3, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Hate calculating media recipes for the hundredth time? Stick your tablet onto biocabinet and hope that it didn't fall down
January 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Also I want to 'sneakily' make retina organoids on top of the midbrain and intestine and liver organoids I've been making
January 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I guess the only major update I have is that I have somehow weaned myself off coffee and have become unable to drink it unless I want to climb on walls at 2 am with my brain going way too fast.
January 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hi again! Been a minute. Not sure what to really post since I'm still lost in my PhD research and it's been 2 years 🫠

Is the sky still blue?
January 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM