Never underestimate the power of ideas coming from someone with less experience and more imagination than you. Radical change comes from folks looking beyond what is feasible to change and demanding what NEEDS to be changed.
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Not to be that guy but this should be the biggest news out there right now
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Pablo asks βhave you shown someone you love them today?β
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Many people seem very concerned with the legacy of their work, but in reality the biggest legacy most of us will leave behind is through the people whose lives we touch.
So thankful today for all the kind and caring people who have touched my life π₯°
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Hey, well-intentioned tenured faculty of Twitter:
Iβm just saying, Iβd love to see even a fraction of the outrage directed towards that pro forma UCLA βjobβ ad channeled towards your own institutions on behalf of the contingent teaching faculty already employed there.
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If you identify as a woman, in what percentage of space occupying interactions with male pedestrians does the other person defer, or prepare to defer in some way, to you?
- 80%3.9%
- 50%8.6%
- 20%40.1%
- N/A, show47.4%
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Just to clarify, this is not about UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics, which has been a wonderful home to me for the past few years and does not, as far as I know, abet harassers!
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When a professor who forced trainees to work in secret during Covid shutdowns, has a history of sexual harassment of trainees, and has HR complaints about sexism, is still allowed to take graduate students? Thatβs a toxic fucking department culture!!
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itβs been a weird couple of months but i finally listened to enough music to pull together a 5x5 Friday
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The managed to run a massive editorial allegedly dissecting free speech issues ailing our country and completely missed Americans actually losing their livelihoods over political speech that the governments doesn't like, i.e. advocating for Palestinian human rights.
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3.I used to think that if I read a paper & didnt understand most of it that it was my fault, that I wasnt smart enough. Im afraid that for many young scientists this way of thinking is common. Now I look at it as a failure on the part of the authors to make the paper intelligible
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When people go around saying pronouns and I'm the only "they/them/theirs" it really makes me *not* want to share my pronouns tbh...
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Many of our professional accomplishments are a unique combination of opportunity AND hard work and I'd LOVE academic science to move in a direction where we all could acknowledge that
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An esteemed colleague/mentor pointed out that women scientists often say βI was lucky.β She discouraged me from using this phrase and, instead, to recognize all the pieces/work/effort that had to align. I think of this advice often
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Remembering a career discussion with two PIs (a man and a woman). I acknowledged the role luck would play in me achieving my goals. The woman nodded knowingly. The man flipped out, incensed at the idea that he had achieved his position through anything less than complete merit π§
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Fellow academics PLEASE acknowledge how you got where you are. I am so done w folks who I KNOW had major help getting where they are acting like their success is purely merit-based. Only two things can happen when you do this. You will make life harder for people around you who
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best reaction to me coming out as trans goes hands down to my pal who said "oooooh, that makes a lot of sense!"
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You misspelled $0.
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Out-of-pocket insulin costs should be capped at $35. Period.
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A new study identified that nondisclosure of queer identities is associated with reduced scholarly publication rates, again highlighting the importance of our environments and work culture on members of our community.
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Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions
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This list was obviously not made with affordability in mind. Most GEO members pay 40-60% of our salaries towards rent and struggle to afford the high cost of living ($15 burger w/o fries?!).
AA is only a good place to live if you can afford it π
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you will have to pry the shitposts out of my cold, dead scholarly hands
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David Bromwich: academics posting on Twitter βgoes against the vocation of being a scholarβ: chronicle.com/article/an-ela
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I can say with 100% certainty: any analysis code the author thinks is "valuable" because they have worked on it for years in private is an absolutely incomprehensible dogshit volcano
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When you ask the authors of articles in ScienceΒ? to share their data, which the journal told you was mandatory when you submitted your article, the response very often boils down to GFY. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1
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Delete everything except the adverbs
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How do I reduce a 13,500 word manuscript down to 10,000 words?
Wrong answers only.
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what food do you miss so much that it has taken on legendary status in your brain?
for me, it's 100% the burger from Butterjoint in Pittsburgh, PA
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More amazing work from et al! These receptor-associated signaling domains make so much sense! Gives a whole new way to conceptulaize receptors like Gpr161 that has it's own AKAP recruitment motif...
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I pose a challenge for those of you writing and reviewing papers. Can we please increase the standards for methods sections? Improving methods to be very descriptive is the easiest way we can all help others follow on our work.
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I guess itβs not particularly surprising that these idiots would rather have the death and disabling of their constituents on their hands than be uncomfortable for a few hours.
But seriously, what the fuck??
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Senate votes 57-40 to revoke the mask mandate for public transportation.
DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED YES
Bennet (re-election in 2022)
Cortez-Masto (re-election in 2022)
Hassan (re-election in 2022)
Kelly (re-election in 2022)
Manchin
Rosen
Sinema
Tester
REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED NO
Romney
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Data from 1st 7 weeks of Tenderloin state of emergency:
33% of people arrested or cited were Black; 39% Hispanic. (Source SFPD)
Use of force almost doubled in comparison to the same period last year.
Half of those subjected to the use of force by police in the TL were Black.
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I need people to understand not all cultures communicate the same way. In my culture, itβs very normal for people to talk over / interrupt each other & is not automatically considered rude. Stop attributing personality flaws to people bc they donβt share your cultural norms.
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Yeah, imagine if a capital city of world-historical importance was bombed into ruins by a superpower engaged in an illegal war of aggression. Like Baghdad, say?
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I know that Rowling is never going to hit the tipping point that makes society in general care about her collapse into hate, but boy howdy do I feel increasingly uncomfortable around people who continue to worship the Harry Potter books.
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yβall remember that time Nirvana was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame and only invited women to stand in for kurt? truly wonderful
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I hate these in-between timesβ¦everyone believing with their whole hearts the pandemic is over, while over 10,000 Covid deaths are reported weekly, survivors disabled & quietly dropping out of society, all as we prepare to be steamrolled again. βBack to normalβ is an illusion.
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Hereβs some education from a Scot.
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This article on building student-faculty trust in academic spaces is very necessary. A great idea and simple, replicable process to add student input to faculty hiring committees. Thanks for doing the work and writing about it!
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I did a thing!! Please check out my article detailing a program I designed to increase student and underrepresented voices in falcuty hiring. twitter.com/NatRevChem/staβ¦
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I donβt know who needs to hear this, but you donβt need to keep the boxes your apple products come in.
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Letβs be clear. The new report βMeasuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientationβ by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (@theNASEM) is NOT best practices.
Itβs shockingly incompetent, recommending questions that are nearly a decade outdated.
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#sciencetwitter folks β I get requests on a daily basis for our Mammalian Toolkit (MTK) as one library from β¦β© (versus one plasmid at a time). Today, I finally got the email. It is now available β¦β© : The Mammalian Toolkit ππ addgene.org/kits/el-samad-
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Thank you for drawing my attention to this. I know people who were involved in this process but this is not at all good from a measurement perspective or ethical perspective. Here are some reasons why?
1) transgender as a separate gender identity from male and 1/2
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