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We just had our first day of field work as a lab. Chipmunks and mosquitoes on deck 😍
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We just had our first day of field work as a lab. Chipmunks and mosquitoes on deck 😍
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"I don't know why people have such a hard time getting papers accepted. Back in my day I published in Nature all the time."
Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
July 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"I don't know why people have such a hard time getting papers accepted. Back in my day I published in Nature all the time."
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Going to a conference and hope someone posts about your talk? Make it easy for the posters!!
Tips:
1. Include your handle at beginning and end
2. Make clear what is published/not
3. Have a conclusions slide with key message
4. Highlight new preprint or publication if relevant
#AcademicSky 🦠🧪🧬
Tips:
1. Include your handle at beginning and end
2. Make clear what is published/not
3. Have a conclusions slide with key message
4. Highlight new preprint or publication if relevant
#AcademicSky 🦠🧪🧬
July 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Going to a conference and hope someone posts about your talk? Make it easy for the posters!!
Tips:
1. Include your handle at beginning and end
2. Make clear what is published/not
3. Have a conclusions slide with key message
4. Highlight new preprint or publication if relevant
#AcademicSky 🦠🧪🧬
Tips:
1. Include your handle at beginning and end
2. Make clear what is published/not
3. Have a conclusions slide with key message
4. Highlight new preprint or publication if relevant
#AcademicSky 🦠🧪🧬
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For those that haven't spoken with grad students openly lately: we are not okay
We are watching our futures be gutted (in both industry in academia), while becoming 'overeducated' for other jobs too.
Seeing post docs being suddenly dropped, we know that money isn't coming back soon enough...
We are watching our futures be gutted (in both industry in academia), while becoming 'overeducated' for other jobs too.
Seeing post docs being suddenly dropped, we know that money isn't coming back soon enough...
July 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
For those that haven't spoken with grad students openly lately: we are not okay
We are watching our futures be gutted (in both industry in academia), while becoming 'overeducated' for other jobs too.
Seeing post docs being suddenly dropped, we know that money isn't coming back soon enough...
We are watching our futures be gutted (in both industry in academia), while becoming 'overeducated' for other jobs too.
Seeing post docs being suddenly dropped, we know that money isn't coming back soon enough...
Who is headed to ASV next week ?
July 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Who is headed to ASV next week ?
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as an epidemiology student at the time i can assure you my dictatorial powers would have made WILDLY DIFFERENT CHOICES than the politicians
Not dunking on OP but just to be clear, this is precisely what happened. Public health experts issued guidance and politicians decided what to do. The fact that we had such disparate approaches across the US is proof that this debate did happen and epidemiologists weren't given dictatorial powers.
Now, once the epidemiologists and public health officials had laid out their recommendations, I could certainly see a debate about how best to manage the social, psychological, and economic fallout from those recommendations
But it would need to take public health policy as its point of departure
But it would need to take public health policy as its point of departure
June 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
as an epidemiology student at the time i can assure you my dictatorial powers would have made WILDLY DIFFERENT CHOICES than the politicians
The gangs all here! 12 new Biogent GAT2 and 4 BG-Pro traps ready to go. Hoping to find some Aedes triseriatus, japonicus, and cantador this summer.
June 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The gangs all here! 12 new Biogent GAT2 and 4 BG-Pro traps ready to go. Hoping to find some Aedes triseriatus, japonicus, and cantador this summer.
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Sooooo… ICE now has a bigger budget than the NIH which funds almost all of the biomedical research in America.
This is precisely where the priorities of this administration lie.
This is precisely where the priorities of this administration lie.
The House bill increases funding for ICE but $45 billion which is 5 times their current budget of $9 billion. We are seeing the rise of a fascist police state with the ICE gestapo as its vanguard.
May 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sooooo… ICE now has a bigger budget than the NIH which funds almost all of the biomedical research in America.
This is precisely where the priorities of this administration lie.
This is precisely where the priorities of this administration lie.
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academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
Fact Sheet: Maintaining student status when an SEVP certified school closes or loses its certification to enroll F-1 nonimmigrant students
www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis...
www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis...
www.ice.gov
May 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
The lab's FIRST EVER research protesters were presented last week at CURE symposium! Somika Kc and Aria Grizzle both seniors at Towson took an independent research course with me this spring and presented their results. Congratulations on a job well-done!
May 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The lab's FIRST EVER research protesters were presented last week at CURE symposium! Somika Kc and Aria Grizzle both seniors at Towson took an independent research course with me this spring and presented their results. Congratulations on a job well-done!
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If you are zeroing out graduate education funding and cutting undergraduate education funding by 71%, this isn’t about subject matter or “woke” or whatever other excuse is being used - this is a systematic attack on science education in the US. This should not be a partisan issue.
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you are zeroing out graduate education funding and cutting undergraduate education funding by 71%, this isn’t about subject matter or “woke” or whatever other excuse is being used - this is a systematic attack on science education in the US. This should not be a partisan issue.