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Scientist. Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience . Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute . Immigrant. she/her

Berkeley CA
Joined September 2011
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
29 days
Hope some of you are as excited about this new job ad @ArcadiaScience as I am to post it! I'm looking for a Chief of Staff, a partner to work closely with me on scientific operations and many different aspects of my role. I know I'm biased but I have one of the coolest jobs in
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Before saying yes to something, ask yourself: will I hate this with my whole soul when the deadline/event arrives
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First things first
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I have some jokes about faculty jobs but the same 8 of you will get all of them
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This but for scientists
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Caroline Park MD, MPH
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What the sign said
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
5 years
Despite these difficult and uncertain times, I have some big news: The Avasthi Lab is moving! I’ll be joining @GeiselMed @Dartmouth as Associate Professor of Biochemstry & Cell Biology!
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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#ScientistsTakeAKnee I’m taking a knee to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
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5 years
Confirmed: PIs everywhere are terrorizing lab members with their New Years energy and refreshed excitement. Hang in there folks! This too shall pass
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I love exclamation point email folks. They feel like my people
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3 years
I have a serious lifehack. This is the singular thing that has been a game changer for my professional life. Surround yourself with people who make you want to be better. Not more self-serving. Not more successful. But closer to who you hope you have the courage to be.
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@PracheeAC
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3 years
Young scholars, give yourself the unfair advantage of carving out regular time for reading & thinking. The limited experiments you can do with your hands can seem like the bottleneck to progress, but the bigger cumulative impact is from the unseen intellectual bottleneck
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but apply for that thing
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Pretending like it’s the hardest job in the universe
@Caroline_Bartma
Dr. Caroline Bartman
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what thing in academia would you like to make illegal?
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Lol you give your office for ONE DAY to @phylogenomics and he does this 😂
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6 years
Raise your hand if your 10 second thought experiment about winning mega millions involved funding your lab in perpetuity. 🙋🏽‍♀️
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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As former chair of the eLife board of directors, I have just signed this
@Nancy_Kanwisher
Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]
11 months
If you are a tenured professor in the life/neuro sciences who values open exchange of ideas in academia, please sign our new petition telling HHMI and eLife not to censure Michael Eisen for tweeting about the Middle East. @eLife and @HHMINews
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As a postdoc, I gave a well received talk at a GRC. As I stepped away for the next speaker, session leader Bruce Goode announced to the whole room I was on the job market & they should invite me out. The bulk of my faculty interviews came from that room. Small act, huge impact.
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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This is wild!
@SteveStuWill
Steve Stewart-Williams
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Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides. Video:
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Once again highlighted in response to a question at the announcement was no NIH R01 or academic tenure at Penn for Karikó but a VP position at BioNTech, a company that produced a highly effective vaccine
@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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So excited to share the final product of my experimental prioritization flowchart made beautiful by the AMAZING folks at @ibiology for our new course! Feel free to use and share! (CC-BY-NC-ND) Course:
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We invite you to write a book chapt...
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Man, I love my lab. Student was waiting on a critical result for something she tried to get working for a while. Lab was on such pins & needles that they all went with her to the imager to find out the outcome. Love it! What a supportive group of curious & invested scientists.
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You ever walk into your lab, find the lovely people sciencing + enjoying each other’s company and feel like the luckiest person in the world? 🙋🏽‍♀️
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Feels like most of us will never be as good at anything as @PeteButtigieg is at what he’s doing rn
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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It’s not that I didn’t see your job ad. It’s that I know too much to RT it.
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
5 years
I removed some private information so I can make our onboarding document public. Here’s where I send new lab members so we start off on the same page:
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Incredibly honored to be the awardee for the 2020 @ASCBiology WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research! 🙏🏽Thanks so much to all the nominators & selection committee! And congrats to the mid-career and senior awardees! ❤️
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Burnout isn’t just from overwork, it can be from lack of agency to affect outcomes. I think people often blame the former when the problem is the latter
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Past me: Why can’t PIs get their act together & be in charge of their own schedule without all the reminders to keep them from missing appointments. Current me:
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
2 years
Here are some slides I show sometimes with data (from ) on skewed journal citation distributions. JIF is a preposterous and inappropriate measure of individual article quality. Don’t get beclowned by the JIF
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
4 years
Complicated feelings about this given my impending departure but don’t want to erase the contributions of the many people from the lab, department, institution, & community (looking at you @NewPI_Slack ) + support from family & friends that went into this. THANK YOU! 💖
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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I’m a fan of formalizing what people are supposed to osmose though their training so I love these tweets on the #hiddencurriculum of academia. I’ll start with a thread on cover letters (specifically for postdoc apps since I’m currently looking for one):
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Couldn’t sleep until I took care of something last night. Snapped this on my way back to bed
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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5yo: Mom! We didn’t get to go to your work today to look at stuff! Husband: Don’t you want to go to Daddy’s work to look at flight simulators? 5yo: You don’t even have a microscope! My work here is done 😂😍❤️
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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I hate everyone and everything. Thank you for your support in this difficult matter.
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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🚨New Job Alert! 🚨 We’re looking for someone to lead our software engineering team at @ArcadiaScience ! At Arcadia, we’re using evolution as a shortcut to find innovative solutions and efficiently launch biotech startups. We’re not just a science company, but one reimagining how
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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We are underusing ChatGPT
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We are a year and a half into this pandemic and I still have the same fundamental question: how does anyone have the energy for virtual conferences
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That idiotic tweet opened a bunch of wounds and I’ve been pissed off all day. Not because of some retired fossil but the dinosaurs thriving among us
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Just so I stop getting contacted about it, this week I stepped down from the @eLife board of directors & as its chair. I’m proud of what we achieved together in my ~5.5 years there. Post preprints, friends. Reclaim your agency. A brighter future is in our hands. It always was
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This is also about something else. In publishing &science broadly, it’s alarmingly common that powerful scientists shamelessly abuse their connections to lobby for the status quo &against those who challenge it. This org was uniquely positioned to resist & was unequal to the task
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Michael Eisen
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I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.
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Man it's exhausting feeling like you're constantly both over & under-reacting to covid since no one else is in precisely the same place re: risk, risk-assessment, and risk-tolerance
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@PracheeAC
Prachee Avasthi 🪷
6 years
Learned today that NIH intends to fund my MIRA! This will fund us for 5 years to identify & dissect novel mechanisms of ciliary regulation. We’ll be keeping an eye out for enthusiastic new folks so, if our lab sounds like a good fit, please get in touch!
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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It’s here! NOTICE OF AWARD!!!
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PI broken record: you only know what experiments are left to do (and even how to prioritize them) once you start writing. Write now. BEFORE you think you’re done collecting data.
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Academia isn’t in trouble, it’s just experiencing a rapid unscheduled loss of postdocs
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Being a PI can be isolating, the schedule grueling, with more decisions than you think any human should have to make. But I love it. Here’s what I and a few others thought about the adjustment to running our own labs.
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I promise it’s not a direct attack on your way of life if someone makes a career decision that works for them but isn’t what you chose
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3 years
We are open for business at @ArcadiaScience !
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
4 years
🚨Some news🚨 I am honored to join the other officers as the new president of @asapbio_ ! These are huge shoes to fill of some of my heroes, founder/former president Ron Vale and interim president @dacolon . A little history & info in this 🧵1/
@ASAPbio_
ASAPbio
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We're excited to announce new officers of ASAPbio: @PracheeAC , @fraser_lab , @iaincheeseman , and @jenniferlin15 ! Read more:
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Problem isn’t so much this guy and those who broadcast this nonsense as it is all those lurking with the same belief behind closed doors and the scant support when openly pushing back (that silence is also a statement)
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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New ASCB Newsletter is out. ❤️🙏Thanks so much for the kind words and the nomination @WallaceUcsf & all those who supported it!
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Ha someone accidentally typed an extra “i” at the end of my name in an email and I think I should henceforth go by my species name, P. avasthii
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I want to live in a world where a cover letter and preprint are the only things needed for initial submission of a paper. All else requested upon the decision to send out for review. Who’s with me!
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A few months after I started my first academic lab, I told my postdoc PI @WallaceUcsf about how great it was he never did this kind of territorial nonsense. He said simply: “I’m not worried I’ll run out of ideas” And that, my friends, is the dictionary definition of a mic drop
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I feel attacked
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How many people do I have to know that went to conferences and got COVID for me to cancel my conference plans?
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House we bought sight unseen is lovely 😭😭😭😭 I’ve never been more relieved!
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So I guess this is what it feels like then. 10 yrs since my dad died. May you have someone in your life that believes in you the way he believed in me
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I have the strong suspicion that folks who want more peer review opportunities don’t know about this: Review any preprint, send us the link for the review/comment, and we’ll pass to the many journals that will use this info to broaden their reviewer pool!
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If I were interviewing for a postdoc position right now, *before joining* I would confirm I’d be able to preprint my work so I could list/share it for fellowship & job apps
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We’ve been together since I was 19 (lived on the same floor at UIUC). Now, married for 14 years! Happy Anniversary to us!
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Had our first in-person lab meeting today in 1.5 years. It. Was. Awesome.
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4 years
Some people have the luxury to "let their work speak for itself" & have everything they do get magically noticed. Most don't. It's also no one's job to follow your life's work. So get up in people's face, shake them by the shoulders, and show them what you've done
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Tatiana Mac
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What’s something you’re tired of explaining?
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Prachee Avasthi 🪷
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Thrilled to receive this award from @ASCBiology !
@GeiselMed
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
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Prachee Avasthi, PhD ( @PracheeAC ) one of Geisel’s newest faculty members, has received the 2020 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award for Excellence in Research from @ASCBiology .
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I just cancelled 5 talks + 3 flights and have never felt more alive 😂 Bring it. I’ll cancel anything.
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Apropos of nothing at all, harassers don’t harass everyone they know
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4 years
If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married. Happiness doesn't come from relationships, it comes from a cancelled meeting
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If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married. Happiness doesn't come from relationships, it comes from from a manuscript which is accepted with minor revisions
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Frankly I think this is total bullshit. The biggest threat to deep thinking for academics is not technological distractions or productivity mindset but rather all the credit-, fame-, visibility-chasing activities that eat at time thinking about and doing science: - journal
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The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset.
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Humbled by this opportunity to reimagine how we share science, I’m thrilled to share the our pub about the beginning of the @arcadiascience publishing experiment!
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Review articles often don’t “count” in academic evaluation, but I have learned so much & appreciate the contextual, historical information in review articles written by creative scholars. Such an important, yet devalued part of the scientific landscape
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One clove of garlic, ✅
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Special shirt for a special day
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I don’t really want advice from people who have made leaving a career path their entire personality, especially if they continue perpetuate elsewhere the dysfunctions of the thing they’ve left. That said, the beauty of advice (especially the unsolicited kind found on here) is it
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It’s true. I started my PhD over in a new lab/field 4.75 years in....profs kept telling me time lost was a drop in the bucket of a scientific life. This was hard to hear. Easy for them to say..what about my life plans? What about the gap I would have to explain forever? 1/
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Darin Weed
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but once you get your first position no one cares how long your PhD took. No one cares how long undergrad took you. We all have different journeys!
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Today I was telling friends about a prof who believed in me when he didn’t have to. I will never forget his kindness. Paying it forward is not a one time deal but forever
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Biggest eye opener for me as a #NewPI was that most decisions would be based on trying to keep everyone employed & achieve their goals within 5-6 years, using funding mechanisms that are usually staggered/shorter than that
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Science can be dark. Bad behavior. Bad culture. Bad incentives. But the creative, brilliant, bold, and deeply *good* people, looking to leave science better than they found it will fill your heart and soul.
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IME, if you are frequently the most junior or the only woman or WOC in a space, you have to become effective at making your voice heard...which often gets interpreted as too aggressive or egotistical in other spaces. The assertiveness tuning, difficult to perfect, is exhausting
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@RogersLabUCD I am struggling to respond because I could write a book on how I feel about this & how poor form this type of sabotage disguised as advice to students is. You are amazing, don’t let the assholes get you down, & feel free to reach out if you ever need an ear to rant
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Preprint review pizza party at @ArcadiaScience ! We read a ton of preprints here & since we want to live in a world where authors, reviewers, and readers all benefit from expert opinions, we’re posting a whole bunch public comments on preprints 🙌
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Just received the loveliest gift ever from my former department @KUMedCenter . May you all have as generous and wonderful colleagues as I was blessed with 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The strongest people I know are struggling & I implore everyone to let the hell up on the breakneck pace/overcompensation we seem to be doing despite unusual strain
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Behold my unapologetic nerdery! Yes this is my office chair with a Chlamy pillow and ciliate throw
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A lovely highlight about our lab. Learned this was live from my neighbor
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This right here is deeply flawed logic
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I continue to be blown away by people who started their labs during the pandemic. I did it twice: once the normal way & once during the pandemic after already rolling. The first time would have been *infinitely* harder under these circumstances. Hang in their folks. We see you
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Shout out to you established investigators who are using your positions of power to pull people up. Providing mentorship, advice, & amplification to junior folks to whom you owe nothing. We see you and we appreciate you.
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I remember feeling so isolated when starting the lab—alone & missing deep discussions about science. 3 years later, the lab is crushing it. Today has been full of stimulating conversations & exciting new data. What a privilege this is.
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It’s funny because it’s true 🤣
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Respectfully, if every single one of us took one tiny extra step forward (beyond what we're doing) to modify the reality we find so constraining in science instead of passing the buck or patronizing the young/vulnerable, things might be better. We are who we're waiting for.
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Here we are folks! @fraser_lab and I dressed up as a preprint & a public comment 🎉
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but your one risky activity doesn’t care how long you were good about COVID
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Maybe we should rethink the conference concept from the ground up for the pandemic era instead of just holding our breath, waiting to go back to the way things were at any moment
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Is it weird to ping someone you met one time & say you want to be friends? Asking for me
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New colorful things!
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Perhaps I can highlight a truly unique feature (one of my favorites) of the new @eLife system: author control. Let me explain…
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Impact score 23. I am shaking. And crying.
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Man I love exclamation point people! Some are stingy with their praise such that when they offer it, it gets everyone’s attention. But those who can’t contain their delight are my jam
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Being walking distance from this place is problematic
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