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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

4 months

I am happy to announce that I have accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I'm going back home! Thank you to the many mentors, friends, and family who got me through this epic journey.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

Folks! I am excited to share that I have been selected for the K99/R00 MOSAIC award! I have worked so hard toward my goal of becoming an investigator and it feels so good to be acknowledged by the #NIH . A big thank you to my mentors who support me! #NIHMOSAIC

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Well, I’m going on the job market this year. No more saying, “I’m not ready”. I’m preparing my vision for the Mendoza lab and putting faith in myself and my training. The next several months are going to be insane. Send me all your good juju, and better yet, send me your favorite

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 month

CU gave me back my old email address from when I was an undergrad there. Upon reactivating it, I was welcomed into my inbox with 13k old messages that accumulated since 2011. 😬

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Dats me!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

11 months

Oh yeah!!!! Manuscript accepted!!!!💪🏾

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I've been seeing a lot of talk about mentoring on here lately so I wanted to give my comments. Also, because being selected for the Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award gave me a lil' boost of confidence to discuss my viewpoint at this point in my life. So- a 🧵

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 months

Being a first-gen scientist can be interesting sometimes. Been scraping by financially my whole life. Now as an (almost) asst. prof who is suddenly spending a ton of money on professional and personal purchases is just wild. My instinct to ration is really kicking in hard.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

9 months

I have a faculty candidate interview next week! Can anyone provide any advice to help me knock it out of the park?

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Been digesting @drstarbird 's post about merit and I want to expound on my thoughts about two things, which at face value seem innocuous, but IMO are actually code words for exclusion. The words merit and productivity fly around quite a lot in our biz, huh? We have assigned

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

9 months

Me at my chalk talk today. 🤣🤣🤣

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Hey science peeps! Can anyone recommend a human cell line that are large cells? I’m looking to image the cells with the biggest lysosomes I can find. Wondering if there is anything bigger than what I see with HEK293’s. Please RT.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

This is how I try to do my part to make academia a better place. Feel free to discuss or disagree, but please be kind. 1. Prioritize people before science. Find out what they care about, what their goals are, and what they need to achieve them. I encourage spending time with

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

9 months

OUT NOW!!! My latest paper with the Kornfeld lab, Lysosome-related organelles contain an expansion compartment that mediates delivery of zinc transporters to promote homeostasis. A 🧵

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Cellfie!!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I am very happy and humbled to be recognized by @NIH for my work in zinc metabolism and lysosome remodeling. I am grateful for all of my mentors near and far who support me. I’m ready to dig in. #firstgen @WUSTLnews @WUSTL @DiwanLabWustl @WUSTLPostdoc

NIGMS Training & Capacity Building

@NIGMSTraining

2 years

We are pleased to announce the newest NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program scholars, supported by @NIGMS @NIHAging @NIMHgov @NINDSnews and @NIDDKgov ! #NIHMOSAIC

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

I’m really happy to be accepted as a Next Gen Leader. I can’t wait to meet members of my cohort! Look at us go!

Duke Next Generation Leaders

@DukeLeaders

1 year

It's my great pleasure to announce the phenomenal 2023 @DukeLeaders cohort! Please join us to learn more about their research & scientific vision as future faculty & welcome them to campus. So excited to host you & become part of your path to the professoriate! @DukeMedSchool

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Just Toby with his antibody tunnel.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

In my fantasy, reimbursement for travel expenses for conferences that I have to pay up front doesn’t exist. In my fantasy I have a card with a direct line to grant accounts. The invoice never hits my personal bank account. Oh well. There is probably stuff wrong with that too.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

One thing trainees need to know about being a scientist is that you need to be able to talk about your research to anyone, any time, anywhere. Communicate it according to your audience. Capitalize on that opportunity!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

@ADiaz_PhD Me!! I’m Adelita and I study the role of lysosomes in zinc homeostasis using C.elegans and human models systems. I use advanced imaging, genetics, and molecular biology, and x-ray physics techniques in my work.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Rough day yesterday. I watched my husband who uses a wheelchair, get hit by a van. It happened so fast. He was pushed over by the van and he hit the pavement as he crossed the street. He’s scraped up, but ok. Hold your loved ones close. 😢🥺

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

My anniversary. Five years ago Northwestern said I could be a doctor. I’m still not used to being called Dr. Mendoza. I look good in purple.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

WTAF!! Oh yeah let’s continue to fund a known sexual harasser. I love it that nearly all the donors are anonymous.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

11. I don't strive to be perfect (anymore). I strive to be teachable and encourage that in others.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

4 years

I'm happy to share that I have been selected to participate in the NASA STAR (Spaceflight, Technology, Applications, and Research) course STAR-21 pilot cohort! I will get to learn how to prepare experiments for spaceflight! #wormsinspace #zinc #celegans

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Saw this tweet on FB and it really resonated with me. When I walk through spaces I know that I don’t just represent myself. Never give up. #firstgen

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

9 months

Feeling confident in myself as my interview approaches in one week.😎

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

just reality. 3. I pay attention to how they react to stress. Trainees might shut down, dig deeper, or be just fine. If I see a stress reaction, we sit down and talk about it. No suffering in silence! We strategize! 4. I think because of my intersectional identity, I pay

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

@davidvanvalen Right. Members from underrepresented communities have to be extraordinary to be respected and seen. Maybe that’s part of the reason why it feels like we carry so much emotional weight.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

expect trainees to be focused, prepared, and ready to work hard. To succeed in academia, you have to work hard. There is no way around that. If you are part of an underrepresented community, you are judged on how you perform on your worst day. It's not fair. It's not right. It's

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I previously tweeted my thoughts on mentoring. Now I want to discuss being a mentee/trainee because it is a role we pretty much find ourselves in automatically when we step into a research lab. How can we make the mentee experience an enriching one that can benefit us?🧵

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

6. I don't judge them by their skill deficiencies. The point of being in this environment is to teach them and grow their skills, not expect them to have them already. 7. I have buffered trainees from racist and sexist comments. They don't need that shit.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

attention to the mentee’s family situation, culture, financial needs, health needs, and ability to communicate with me about any of those things. It is critical that communication is open and honest. Build that bridge!!! 5. Whenever possible, I teach by the show one, share one,

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Come hear my talk tomorrow at 10:53 am!! I will be discussing lysosome-related organelle zinc-dependent remodeling, a novel expansion compartment, zinc transporters CDF-2 and ZIPT-2.3, and their role in zinc homeostasis! #CeDev2022

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

family and doing other things that are not lab-related. It's not my place to tell them how to live their lives or to think that lab is the most important thing they have going on. In my book, health and family are #1 , not the dang qPCR. 2. While they are in the lab though, I

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

do one method. We walk through the protocol together while I demo. Next, they do the protocol with my supervision. Then they are on their own with me close by for questions. It's some version of that depending on how quickly they catch on or how complicated the protocol is.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

It was such a privilege to participate in the @DukeLeaders symposium! Big thanks to the organizers! Fellow scholars @ChenshuLiu , @smriti_sangwan , @MariangeBravo , @shaneice_phd , @jayeperview ,and @LuisHN20 are all so inspiring! Look out world, here we come!!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

who has a disability, so I am a wife in an interracial relationship and a caregiver. I operate at multiple intersectionalities. I am now 41 at the end of my post-doc. I have mentored and trained over a dozen hs, undergrad, graduate, MD's, and post-doc trainees.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

Someone articulated how I feel.

Dr. Bryan Leyva

@DrBryanLeyva

3 years

We need to extend more grace to the Black and brown folks doing DEI work. Half of those folks are burnt out and simply trying to survive. The other half are traumatized from being the token. It’s not their fault they are the token, it is that of the system which tokenized them.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

That’s a wrap on #CellBio2022 ! It was my first time attending and I had a blast. I was happy to finally meet mentors and colleagues face to face that I had originally met on this bird app and in other spaces. I particularly noticed the efforts made to support ECR’s. So long DC!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

8. I emulate the positive aspects I experience with my own mentors. I have a VILLAGE of mentors. I mean it. 9. I share my personal success and failures. 10. Set clear expectations and timelines! They need to know where they stand.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 months

This. You better believe when we achieve anything in lab we’re gonna party like it’s 1999.

Harmit S. Malik

@HarmitMalik

3 months

What I don't get about academia is the chronic lack of celebration. It is hard to get & maintain grant funding, hard to get papers accepted without Faustian bargains, hard to be a great mentor, & hard to maximize trainee success. All of it is hard. We should celebrate everything.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

6 years

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Women are an important part of scientific discovery, however, less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. If you know a woman scientist, talk to her about her research! #WomenInScience #UN70212

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

could EAT. I am hungry though, to make this career work. I will do what I have to to get to where I need to be. Folks, the world isn't the same for all of us and this merit and productivity TRAP is edging towards being weaponized. Don't fall for it.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Before I say anything I need to tell you about the lens through which I see things. I'm a #firstgen , Chicana. I did community college and earned 2 BAs from a public R1 institution. I was a lab tech for a year. I started my Ph.D. at age 29. While doing that I met my now husband,

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

Late post, but I did a thing! My first triathlon!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Two job apps down! A million to go!!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Back in Chi town doing my thing.

ChicagoWorms

@ChicagoWorms

1 year

… Adelita Mendoza ( @AdelitaMendoza7 , Kornfeld Lab), talking about fate specification in the nervous system, dendritic branching, parasitic worm drug resistance, and zinc storage. So much great science!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

@drstarbird I saw this figure today on this bird app and this is one piece of the problem. I hate how merit is used as as though all things are equal. They are not. It really hits hard when I think about how much shit we had to overcome.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Hs helping me prepare job apps. Surely, I’ll get an interview with his help. 😇

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I did 3 important things today. I voted. I napped. I ate tacos.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Kirkwood Triathlon in the books. That heat is a killer!!!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Ice bucket or tortilla warmer?

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

6 months

@NeedhiBhalla I’ve been on the receiving end of this “constructive criticism” and it sent me to therapy for the past 3 years.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

9 months

Exercise is my lifeline. I was feeling anxious about my job talk practice presentation until I knocked out my endurance workout while running through the slides in my mind. Now I feel ready.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

11 months

I’m not looking at that Future PI Slack job spreadsheet again. My heart can’t take it.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Are zinc sparks during meiosis conserved in invertebrates? Find out in my final paper from the O'Halloran, Woodruff, and @monospolarpindl labs in collaboration with the @advancedphoton . Thanks to @AriellaStudies for the GA! @BiolReprod @OxfordJournals

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Wishing my sister and new SIL congratulations on their new life together!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I’m a 5th year post-doc today. Send help. 🤣

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@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

😬❤️ My heart is lifted.

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@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Lysosomes4eva

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

for reduced productivity and the perception by others that members of underrepresented groups got their spot just because of their (pick your favorite BS reason) and not their talent. Some of us make it through, despite this pile on top of us, but it still comes at a cost.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

Hey! It’s me!! Thanks @docbowie for putting this together. I’m so grateful for the exposure.

American Society for Cell Biology

@ASCBiology

3 years

Meet Adelita Mendoza @AdelitaMendoza7 , a postdoc @WUSTL for this edition of How Cell Biologists Work. Click thru to find out how persistence and passion has fueled her scientific career

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

I feel like crap but I’m getting it in anyway.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

The quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “what I need is a strong drink and a peer group”, reaaaallllyy resonates with me now, lol.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

11 months

Omg

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

11 months

Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light. So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.

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@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

Sometimes we put the worms down and celebrate the summer. @lhwh1208 @PatecHunt

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 month

This transition to my faculty position means I have a ton on my plate. Behold, my plate.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

5 months

One of my favorite things about being a microscopist is showing trainees fluorescently labeled proteins in worms/cells for the first time. Watching their heads explode and the smile form on their faces is so fun. I should start making reaction videos.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

Stylin’ and profilin’.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I was today years old when I learned that the person who discovered lysosomes in the 1950’s nicknames them “suicide bags”.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

and productivity what we start doing is binning people into categories and those categories are of members from excluded populations. Things like familial socio-economic status, family educational background, parenthood, and disability (affected individuals and caregivers) have

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 months

Enjoying myself in Ann Arbor.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

I am a caregiver. To keep up with the demands I take my work EVERYWHERE. I've worked on presentations and grants while my spouse was in surgery and docs appointments. I am in therapy to deal with all of these things. I had to work a side hustle when I started my post-doc so I

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

I love mentoring. It’s my jam. It fills my heart.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

@drstarbird @DisabledStem It’s instances like these that we realize what we are up against. We wrestle with wanting to stay and fight the good fight and make change for the benefit of others or leaving and saving our sanity. All I can say is you are not alone. Some of us are here fighting too.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

6 years

I’m so excited to have been selected for the Communications and Outreach subcommittee!

Genetics Society of America

@GeneticsGSA

6 years

GSA is excited to announce the latest cohort of students and postdocs joining the Early Career Scientist Leadership Program! They will serve on committees working to understand the needs, interests, and challenges of our #EarlyCareerScientist members.

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@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Can we just talk for a minute about the emotional investment we make when we do our research? I just put every last drop of my energy/hope/excitement into it every day, knowing that I have to check myself and be realistic about how long experiment optimization takes? How long

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@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

It’s my birthday. Help me feel the love like this dog!

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@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Just realizing that I have mentored enough students/trainees this year to form my own soccer team.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I have fully decided that future Mendoza lab will celebrate May the 4th with a Star Wars party and cosplay.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

a profound impact on how we conduct science day to day. Now layer on top of that other external factors (the isms- racism, ableism etc.), the competitive environment, the workload, and the fact that trainees are underpaid and sometimes exploited by PIs and we now have a recipe

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

Happy Loving day to the best guy!!! @spin_nin 🥰

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@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

That feeling when you finally send out the manuscript revision because that manuscript was a beast!!!

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@AdelitaMendoza7

7 months

Me, when I can’t find something in my bench.

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@Whotfismick

7 months

"WHO TOOK MY?!!!! ohh found it"

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2 years

Please keep my Cucuy in your thoughts. She is very sick and I am scared I will lose her. I am devastated.

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2 years

It’s a beautiful day @HHMIJanelia !!!!

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@AdelitaMendoza7

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Similar for me. I couldn’t afford to take time off. It even got worse because of the moving expenses I had to deal with thereafter. I had to take a second job at the start of my post-doc to pay the bills. It was stressful, and a bad start.

Dr. Tara C. Smith

@aetiology

1 year

Yep. I went directly into my postdoc from PhD. Only had 2 weeks from postdoc to professorship because the change was over Christmas break. Being first gen with no family money/support is tough.

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I've confronted this myself multiple times in multiple facets of my work. I am doing well, and when I said it comes at a cost I meant it. I deal with bad anxiety that conveniently surfaces when I give public talks. I deal with casual sexist and racist comments from others.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

5 months

I watched the first 20 minutes of the Netflix movie Mother of the Bride. I quit watching it because within the first 10, the mother, who is a research scientist renewed her grant over the phone by complaining to the person on the other end of the line. I guffawed uncontrollably.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

1 year

songs that pump you up and keep you fighting. I'm making a playlist!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

I am always grateful for my amazing mentors and their guidance. Some days I just sit back and reflect on how lucky I am to be doing well, and that my mentors really support me.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

After receiving really good tips for clothes shopping I just purchased some great stuff. Watch out! Dr.Mendoza’s brand of professional style is loading!!!!

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

5 months

Pipetting the top layer for RNA isolations.

Christophe Leterrier

@christlet

5 months

When you carefully remove the trypsin supernatant over the E18 hippocampi that took 1 hour to dissect

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

4 years

Considering a career in #scicomm ? Check out this upcoming panel hosted by GSA featuring panelists with careers in SciCom.

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@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

Please share!!

Disabled in Higher Ed - #DisInHigherEd

@DisInHigherEd

3 years

Special Announcement We're creating a disability accommodations database! How can you help? Fill out our anonymous google form to document your accommodations (both official and unofficial) to help us construct this database. #DEHEM21 (1/3)

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

4 years

Today is my anniversary. Each year I take a minute to pause and reflect on it. I do this because academia can be brutal. It is hard to distinguish yourself and easy to compare yourself to others. This photo helps me reset and remind myself that I am

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

3 years

@ashgomez03 It’s amazing that she has the fire to fight for you. Not all mom’s do. I imagine she will be in the front row at your graduation just beaming.

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Dr. Adelita Mendoza

@AdelitaMendoza7

2 years

@CterminiPhD you inspired my to share my concha pillow lol. I wish I had a real one rn!

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