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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

9 months

Clearing the air in lab meeting

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Katie MacGillivray

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19 days

Traveling for a conference

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 months

I’ve lost 75 lbs now and I’ve never felt better ☺️

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

You vs the retat she tells you not to worry about

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

Holding a séance to contact my dead bacteria and ask what killed them

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 years

Is this what people mean when they say “stack overflow”? Idk I’m a wet lab biologist

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3 months

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

POV: you are presenting in lab meeting next Monday and need data

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

@existentialcoms Call that Rule 34 & 3/4

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

Yeah I’m into Dune 2. Dune 2 experiments at once to finish this PhD

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 years

Ladies, if he: - is toxic - stabs you in the back - changes his behavior if the boys are around - is found in 25% of all Gram-negative bacteria species He’s not your man, he’s the Type VI secretion system

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

Can’t wait to get to work for my second day as an editor at Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology! Hope I get to learn more about senctolic stem cells today ☺️

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Katie MacGillivray

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10 months

My labmate forgot the word "hypothesis" so he was just telling me about his "head canon" for one of the mutations he identified

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@MNateShyamalan Wow ok, unfollowing now. I absolutely love her when she smiles, was not aware she cried a river and drowned the whole world

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@a_afpyatt @Coll3enG

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3 years

@fxckjoshy3 @ebrolaa Mario does not avoid pipe

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

Nanodrops should keep a high score list

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3 years

@disxpix

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 months

When the PI is away

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 months

Social faux pas? This woman wore earrings representing the wrong mathematical constant on Pi Day

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@Shen_the_Bird Same for my boy Winnie the Pooh

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Katie MacGillivray

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1 year

New undergrad is very relatable

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@AndyLevang @rachel_kaly @theninjagreg Lmao even the papers that look like they’re about to fall

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

Nanodrops should keep a high score list

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

This is what Francis Crick saw when he dropped acid

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Katie MacGillivray

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8 months

When you’re an Atlanta-area microbiologist

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9 months

Name a better duo than a brand new ultra thin sharpie and the lid of an eppendorf tube. I’ll wait.

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@LPCrowther @PhilipLeftwich But RNA loves Britain, why else would it put the letter U where no one else does?

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

6 months

Another last-minute push for data. But this time it’s for both a committee meeting and a departmental seminar, so the stakes (and the stacks) are higher

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Katie MacGillivray

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7 months

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

8 months

When you’re an Atlanta-area microbiologist

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Katie MacGillivray

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@MorePerfectUS

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

3 years

M.C. Escher-ichia coli

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Katie MacGillivray

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1 year

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1 year

Favorite tweet of your own?

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Katie MacGillivray

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1 year

“I literally just yeeted my gel onto the floor” -undergrad in the lab I love Gen Z!!

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

4 months

@SwansonFineArts Thank you so much! My biggest things were quitting drinking and also filling my free time with hobbies so I do less bored snacking lol

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

8 months

Microaggressions? You mean like the type VI secretion system?

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

4 years

@DarkWinter2020 @CT_Bergstrom @Newsweek Are you literally saying the difference between “less than” and “greater than” is splitting hairs? Shoulda left this one in the drafts, man

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@theashleyray

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5 months

Been going to therapy. I'm still a huge asshole but I use the word "boundaries" a lot more

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

Do you think if I use lab equipment as a ring light I can become a science influencer?

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

Me trying to figure out which bacterial mutations have a phenotype

silly goose qua silly goose

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5 months

Analytic Philosophy

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Katie MacGillivray

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10 months

@westcoastwinter Imagine still printing it after she got that uncomfortable

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

3 years

@KortneyRaeCarn @knowngaslighter Perhaps the counseling either way, then

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3 years

@kristoferthomas

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

3 years

I’m a PhD CANDIDATE!!!

Joshua Weitz

@joshuasweitz

3 years

Today, @QBioS_GT Thesis Proposal by @KAMacGillivray Advisor: @wc_ratcliff (BioSci) Co-advisor: Dr. Brian Hammer (BioSci) Cooperation and Conflict: aggregative multicellularity and defense against the T6SS 9/13, 11:00 am More info:

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Katie MacGillivray

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6 months

@Prokaryota He was a plater boy, she said CFU later boy

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

9 months

I am 9 months alcohol-free today and feeling better than ever! (I’m not pregnant, just making better life choices)

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

9 months

Me in lab meeting

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

9 months

I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it

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@KAMacGillivray

5 months

“It’s never too early to drink spent media” - @wc_ratcliff when I brought kombucha to 9:30 am lab meeting

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@Rezllen Me at the Wisconsin state fair, so... yes

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@WhyVeeES

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

REALLY hope I didn’t make any mistakes yesterday

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

I made vegetarian crab cakes Benedict out of lion’s mane mushrooms I grew myself so I suppose my role in the apocalypse would be to make sure we’re still having bougie brunches

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

@BrotiGupta Bend and snap!

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4 months

You can tell I'm going through it in the lab when I include this image in my lab meeting presentation

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

@McsSeamus @alex_abads MARTYR-LIKE

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 months

Call my bacteria cheaters because they are NOT cooperating!!

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

3 years

I got the Pfizer vaccine and my husband got the Moderna. We haven’t decided yet which traditional we’ll raise our kids in

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Katie MacGillivray

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6 months

Gave an important talk on my thesis research today

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

5 months

10 g tryptone 5 g yeast extract 10 g salt 1 liter water

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5 months

Category is: best high-protein recipe–GO 👇💪 #Instacart #WellnessWednesday

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

I'm a joker. I'm a smoker. I'm a micro-poker

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3 years

@HollyontheMove @Jlewis99_13 @Phil_Lewis_ How is there already a baseline price for this procedure?

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 years

@EthanLeeWriting @randypaint I’m getting a PhD in biology. There’s a difference between sex and gender.

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Katie MacGillivray

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8 months

My first, first-author paper is now out in iScience! Check out what I put those poor E. coli through, and how they became stronger for it.

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8 months

Hey, we have a new paper out! In collaboration with Brian Hammer's group, we examine how E. coli evolves to *resist* being killed by the Type 6 Secretion System (basically a microbial poison-tipped spear attack).

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

My first ever conference talk was a success! I received lots of questions at the end, and it felt so good that people were so engaged in the research I was presenting 🥰

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8 months

@zachsilberberg

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9 months

@AlanPlotzker @BadMedicalTakes Right! Pain is subjective, but how are you gonna say they’re not messy?

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

Happy flannel season to all who celebrate

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@kirkpate @jamieloftusHELP

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 months

@edzitron @TheWapplehouse My “I’m not guilty” post in the Facebook Complaints Center group has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the post

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4 months

Experimental evolution

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Help! I Started a Project and Now I Have to Keep Working on It:

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

@caitiedelaney The adage industry is struggling

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Katie MacGillivray

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19 days

My weird little cactus is flowering and they’re huge!

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11 months

@JUNlPER No wonder they’re constantly freaking out about the gas price

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 years

@KylePlantEmoji All other instruments: we love putting our music on the treble and bass clef, and sometimes both! Viola: not on my watch

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 months

@WeirdMedieval Baby Jesus looks like one of those skin mites

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

Nice try, but putting the materials and methods before the results isn’t gonna make me read them

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Katie MacGillivray

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8 months

Just slipped on a singular glass bead like some sort of Women-in-STEM retelling of The Princess and the Pea

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Katie MacGillivray

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10 months

I’ve lost 50 lbs over the last 3 years and I think that’s pretty cool :) Dec. 2020 —-> Oct. 2023

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Katie MacGillivray

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3 years

Just me and several thousand of my besties

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

She’s accepted!

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11 months

POV: the nightmare is over

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

@asagriffin_ @meena There are also married people who do not want to get pregnant and cannot support a child

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5 months

Might have to start another evolution experiment

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

I guess this is probably the last winter that my pandemic avocado tree can join us inside for the winter

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

The lab tape said “trans rights”

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Katie MacGillivray

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I leave a piece of me in every lab I’m lucky enough to be a part of. In this case it’s one of my blue hairs waxed to the floor

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Katie MacGillivray

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5 months

@zachsilberberg Lmao

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Katie MacGillivray

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8 months

I’m keeping track of who likes my tweets for when I write my thesis acknowledgments

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Katie MacGillivray

@KAMacGillivray

3 years

I paid $1,500 in student fees just this semester as a grad student at Georgia Tech. They are proposing to raise our health insurance fee by over $300 a semester starting in the fall. Just don’t give me a stipend if you don’t think I’m worth the money. Jesus Christ

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 months

@Prokaryota Me as a 31 year old PhD student with the students who started right after undergrad

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@MCRossIsNotAPun What A weird dude

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8 months

Prokaryotes refuse to elect a powerhouse of the cell. Anarchist vibes

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Katie MacGillivray

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8 months

It is lab inspection day, friends!

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@SiestaSocialist @JUNlPER JBP said “Women are my favorite guy”

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4 months

@dieworkwear You know the neighbors in the yurt above you are gonna be stomping around

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Katie MacGillivray

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2 years

@gramnegativity Did you see the post yesterday where someone was blaming eppendorf for their tubes getting sheared when it was clearly unbalanced?

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 years

She’s only a doctor if she comes from the obstetrician region of France. Otherwise she’s just a sparkling expert on education.

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Katie MacGillivray

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4 months

I've evolved a strain of bacteria with enough intelligence to evade my checks for cross-contamination. A strain that respects me enough to sneak around.

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Katie MacGillivray

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9 months

I lost 25% of my body weight! Hope I never find it!

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