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🧠 postdoc @ UCSF studying psilocybin 🎨 artist @twophotonart ⚗ let's make science accessible she/her

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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2 years

Yay! My first ever first-author paper is online! I am excited to share how nicotine aversion is encoded in the mesolimbic dopamine system and its inputs. Bonus photo of the "art" I created while trying to figure out the underlying circuit connectivity and receptor expression!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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7 years

Is it weird to name cats you meet on the street cause I'd like to introduce you to white truffle french fry

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Knitting is programming. Sewing is engineering. Baking is chemistry. Women have been STEM pioneers longer than they've received credit for.

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@olgabot I understand wanting to make your defense feel special, but co-opting a cultural tradition that isn't yours, that also belongs to a group traditionally marginalized and excluded from PhDs, is not the way to do it.

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3 years

A note to my younger self trying to figure out if I was "left or right brained": That's a myth. You don't have to choose between science and art. You can get a PhD in Neuroscience and become a tattoo artist, and you will! 🤗

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As a trained scientist and a self-taught artist, the strongest commonalities I see between science and art are the ways they teach and enable us to understand the world around us. Drawing hard lines between the disciplines denies their overlap. Many great scientists were artists

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There is no single way to be a scientist! In May I will be finishing my PhD in neuroscience and my focus will shift to art. Life is long and there's too much to explore to keep ourselves contained in tidy boxes. #ThisIsWhatAScientistLooksLike (Video: me painting a mural)

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

RT if you're a scientist who acknowledges that neither gender nor sex is binary, and would very much like TERFs to stop referring to science when attempting to justify their bigotry. 💖

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

There is no *scientific* reason that insulin should cost $300+ a vial. The Open Insulin Project is trying to bring it back down to the ~$15 it should be.

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Amanda Braley does science (she/her)🏳️‍🌈

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Just to be clear: humans have created bacteria that churn out vats of human insulin very cheaply. Vats. Since the late 1980s. These price increases are pure corporate greed. These companies have long since recouped their R & D on this product.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

NEWS FLASH: my self-expression does not exist for you. Do not police the way I choose to interact with others and share my existence because it makes you bitter. You do you, but don't write an op-ed about why you dont want me doing me.

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I hope it's sinking in that the distinction between a "legal" immigrant and an "illegal" immigrant is extremely arbitrary and should never decide the value of a human life. #AbolishICE

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

My first first-author publication won't be my thesis project but an activity book to make coding more accessible for kids and adults! Please preorder if you want to support our art and the creation of more accessible resources! 30% off with code PREORDER

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

How about we make professors on admissions committees take the GRE and see how they do before we assume it's a good measure of a good scientist

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Idk who needs to hear this but you can download the PBS app on your smart TV and get tons of free high quality documentaries about the history of the United States and catch up on all the things you weren't taught in school

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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7 years

Ta-da! Notebook for my undergrad students this semester in a class that focuses on understanding journal articles

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

Much of the relationship advice I give my fellow women in STEM is to find someone who admires your curiosity and intelligence, who will embrace your clever thinking and nurture you so you can achieve your highest potential. It's 2018, gender roles ain't shit.

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So last week, out of the blue, the man who asked me to marry him remarked as follows: “sometimes I wish you were just a teacher or a nurse because you wouldn’t think so much, it’s intimidating”

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4 years

Science is political

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Thank you everyone who supports me, my art, and my business!!! We've been able to give back over $10k to different causes and feel really secure about pursuing art after I finish my PhD 🥰💖🌟

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D

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Christine Liu runs a wicked successful science fashion business called Two Photon Art. Every time I go to a conference I see Christine's work all over people's bags or folks wearing her jewelry. I actually wear one of her necklaces every single day! Follow her! @christineliuart

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

For a long time, I thought I had to choose between art and science. My time in grad school has taught me there is SO much overlap! I also learned that I thrive at the intersection; doing both balances me out.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

People are often quite impressed with how I built a successful small business during grad school but I think a lot of PhD students would be great entrepreneurs. Research and entrepreneurship both require innovation, strategic management, risk mitigation, and claiming a niche.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

Such a privilege to have 15k people who want to see my tweets! To celebrate, I'd like to amplify others! Reply with a photo, an intro, and your favorite way to be creative and I'll retweet 😄 (Gif: cartoon cat smashing retweet and like buttons)

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

My daddy doesn't have a doctorate so when I get mine, which I worked hard for and will be a huge deal, I will go by Dr. Liu. First one in my family.

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Meghan Daum

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Guys, my father had a Doctorate, which he worked hard for and was a huge deal, especially given his background. He also felt that being called “Doctor” outside a specific professional setting was overkill and in that sense actually kind of diminishing.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

Social media is one of the only places I can connect and learn from people outside of my bubble. I've learned more about ableism, racism, sexism, and mental health stigma in academia via Twitter and Instagram than I have in my daily "real life" bubble.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

😔 I am both artistic and scientific! One does not come at the expense of another

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Dumpling dough is just flour + water and has endless possibilities for creativity, deliciousness, and fun! Whether you're working together as a whole family or making them yourself, the reward of fresh dumplings is so worth it!! Here is my how-to video:

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7 years

Undergrads interested in research: apply to summer research programs. Many schools have them and they PAY YOU THOUSANDS for 8-10 weeks of work

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7 years

This advice is applicable for all students that need to grind. Nothing smart about bragging who's hurting themselves more.

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Advice for freshman engineers: Don't give in to bragging who had less sleep and more coffee. Sleep more. Save money from buying less coffee.

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6 years

Was asked how I deal with imposter syndrome and found myself responding that I don't have it because I simply don't believe in the construct that there are people who do belong in science and people who don't. Researcher is a job requiring certain skills, not an innate identity

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Super stoked on my kitchen chemistry video that I’m editing this week🍝🔮⚗️ Make sure you’ve got some red cabbage, rice noodles, and something acidic like vinegar or lemon/lime juice if you want to try my COLOR CHANGING NOODLE recipe this weekend!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

Grad students are suffering and having a healthy work-life balance appears to be critically important for maintaining mental health. Students, it's time to take that balance under control. Mentors, it's time to change the culture of overwork.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Sharing this old article bc I want folks to recognize that bigoted comments like "you only got accepted because of affirmative action" make people feel like frauds. We sometimes call it imposter syndrome to cloak racism, sexism, and exclusion.

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Imposter syndrome isn’t the problem—toxic workplaces are

As young scientists, we are fooled into working harder and longer to live up to sky-high expectations and encouraged to feel inadequate.

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5 years

How to Get a PhD FOR FREE: 10 things gatekeepers don't want you to know (JK I just wrote a blog post on how poor folks can get access to research and PhD programs)

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How to Become a Scientist While Poor — Christine Liu

Science, for hundreds of years, was a hobby. From Darwin to Da Vinci, exploration and experimentation was reserved for the wealthy who had time and money to ponder life’s greatest questions. Today,...

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4 years

Anyone else ever think about how similar molecules and constellations are? Arrangements of energy, attracted and repelled 🌟✨ Astrochemists, watch out...someday I'm tattooing one of these on ya

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

People who tidy up shared google docs after a Zoom meeting are the same people who put back the chairs after seminars and I 💖 each and every one of you

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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I TOLD MY GRANDMA TO PACK LIGHT AND SHE TRIED TO BRING A DAMN RICE COOKER IN HER CARRY-ON

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4 years

URMs, tell me about the first time you learned that a PhD was an option for you. I'm thinking of making a series of videos to demystify the grad school application process, because not enough students learn about this stuff early on!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Science is and always has been political and anti-black. There is no such thing as true objectivity and neutrality when we do science. Silence and complacency is equal to tacit approval, and the devil doesn't need more advocates.

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Dr Esther Odekunle

4 years

A doctor took cancerous tissue from the uterus of a Black woman (Henrietta Lacks) w/o her consent. And scientists have used her cells and profited from it while her family (tricked & traumatised) have yet to be compensated. With your silence you have chosen a side.

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5 years

Evolution enthusiasts.... I've got a sneak peek for you too! Sign up for our newsletter if you want to be notified when they are available!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

One weekend in college, I had just taken a physics exam but my art major friend was visiting and I promised to spend time with her in the library. I decided to make some art too...kind of as a joke. Behold, the product of that day.

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6 years

Are you on Team Science? Because everyone should be! Buy this pin and $6 will go towards our scicomm small grant fund to support and catalyze the efforts of science communicators.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

Did ya know theres a total solar eclipse today that can be seen from South America? Why isn't there as much attention when things happen outside of the US? Idk but I made a shirt that celebrates all of the total solar eclipses in the near future!

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4 years

Keep her name trending until her murderers are arrested #BreonnaTaylor @LMPD ARREST BRETT HANKISON, JONATHAN MATTINGLY & MYLES COSGROVE

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One of the most important ways I've grown since starting grad school is shedding the desire to conform. This year I made a conscious effort to express myself fully without fear of judgment and it has paid off in ways I couldn't have imagined.

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6 years

Direct quote: "Time spent on Instagram is time away from research, and this affects women in science more than men. That's unfair. Let's not celebrate that." What's next? Let's not celebrate mothers because parenting takes their time away from the bench?

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4 years

New bobtail squid pins in the shop! These were designed with @SarahMackAttack in mind; she studies these adorable Hawaiian bobtail squid! 40% of proceeds from these pins will go toward @SkypeScientist , the organization Sarah created 💖

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5 years

Inability to recognize your own privilege doesn't mean you don't have privilege. Sure, neither of my parents have PhDs but they value education enough to understand why I may sacrifice a more stable, high-paying job to pursue it.

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7 years

Made a pipette pin that matches my skin tone. Sometimes you just gotta take representation into your own hands!

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7 years

The only time you should tell someone to leave academia is if they say "I need to leave academia".

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

I'd like to see every white woman who posted lists of sexist microaggressions against them to also post lists of racist microaggressions they've said to others 🧐

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

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4 years

That the immediate response to centring and uplifting Black scientists is to recentre the white experience through the guise of discussing sexism in STEM is extremely telling and also just further proof that white feminism is one of the biggest obstacles of progress

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Basically almost every woman you know has been sexually harassed or assaulted and what you say in defense about one sexual predator, we will instinctually extrapolate that you'd say the same thing about ours.

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HEY underrepresented undergrad science nerds! Did you know you can get paid to do summer research? Programs often fly you out, put you up, and give you a few thousand bucks as a stipend! 🎊🌈🦅🐆🐸🐙🕸️🦠🌿☘️

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5 years

Gonna make a line of comfortable dresses that are also very uncomfortable optical illusions so you can wear a dress and people will look at your face instead of your body

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Pro-tip for when someone comes to you to vent about a microaggression they experienced: Don't try to justify the microaggression e.g. "Oh I'm sure they didn't mean it that way" Don't try too hard to relate if it hasn't happened to you before Just listen and empathize

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6 years

This is another egregious example of a woman, unhappy with how other women live their lives, tries to control their behavior by standing on the shoulders of a prestigious publication. If you're truly concerned with gender equality, why punch down on how women express themselves?

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4 years

Got flour and green onions? Try making scallion pancakes! It's a perfect weekend activity with a delicious reward at the end 😄 I've sprinkled some chemistry education in the recipe too! ⚗

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Spending the day making Red Winged Blackbird prints to support #BlackBirdersWeek and @BlackAFinSTEM . Selling prints, 100% of profits will go towards organizers of #BlackBirdersWeek !

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4 years

Me, a cis het potato desperately trying to be interesting:

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

Next step for inclusive PhD admissions is accepting unofficial transcripts and unofficial translations until invitation for interview. Decrease upfront financial barriers and see more qualified, but marginalized folks apply.

@KarenPhysics

Karen⁷ Macías 🪐

5 years

Never anticipated I'd be doing this but I need help with grad school fees. The costs of applying are too high for international students from developing countries like me and official transcripts are around 25 dlls per page. Please RT? Thank you all #GRExit Feel free to DM me!

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We are always trying to come up with ways to support our community through our art. In addition to buying masks to donate, Two Photon Art will also be sponsoring some scicommers who are centering marginalized folks in their communications.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

Instead of arguing whether undergrads should receive credit for hundreds of hours of labor, maybe we should be debating whether PIs should get authorship for getting their lab manager to mail a vial of reagent 🤔

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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@alisoneroman I feel like you should have thought about that before calling Marie Kondo a bitch and a sell-out :(

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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7 years

Hi, young female scientist here. Alcohol is not the problem, creepy people with no boundaries are.

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David Hughes

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7 years

@giorgiogilestro Do you think perhaps it isn't your experience as you are not a young female? Many trainees report lechery of older male PIs. EToH=catalyst

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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Tbh it's so weird that when you leave academia with any other degree its called graduating but when you earn a PhD and leave some people consider it as failing. PhD means Doctorate of Philosophy, not Pre-Postdoc!

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Caitlin Vander Weele, PhD

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*Whispering to myself* I am not a failure fore leaving academia. I am not a failure for leaving academia. I am not a failure for leaving academia.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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5 years

Professor nominated for tenure Professor speaks out against sexual harassment New chair who drugs and rapes students decides professor shouldn't get tenure Tenure revoked, prof set to lose job in 9 days SIGN THIS PETITION

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Dr Hannimal 🇺🇦

5 years

Still some way to go - if you've not supported Mclaughlin @MCLNeuro yet then why not? Some have RTd but not signed - it's fantastic you've RTd but please take two minutes to sign as well. Be on the right side of this one!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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Absolutely agree. It took me so many years to undo the toxic idea that femininity and science aptitude were somehow on opposite ends of a spectrum. Femininity and STEM are not mutually exclusive.

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Aliyah Weinstein

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5 years

🤔 There's a reason I put on red lipstick when I wore my "this is what a scientist looks like" shirt yesterday. I am tiiiiired of the scientists can't be feminine message.

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I've eaten noodles with peanut sauce so many times the past few weeks because it ranks high for both ease and deliciousness! I also made a video so you can do the same, and of course I made sure to sprinkle a little scientific explanation in there too 😄

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normalize holding grantees accountable for their proposed "broader impacts"

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Find friends in grad school that don't want to compete against you, but lift you up as you support them too.

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All my dreams last night were about social distancing, except the one where I was going to craft a tiny laboratory so that my mice could do research on coronavirus??????????????????????

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5 years

I often tell people about the "bank account" my parents had me keep with them as a kid because this taught me a lot about managing money. But omg they really made me pay 25 cents every time I drank a soda at home??? 🤣🤣🤣

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Achieved an item on my bucket list: ✔ paint a mural in the mission Ok, its indoors at the Mission Science Workshop and still needs a bit more work but it counts! Gonna add more constellations and extend the sky far up to include the Voyager, but I'm already super stoked!

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This is one of my favorite stories in science. She did research during the communist revolution in hiding, read ancient Chinese medicine texts and noticed one step instructed to be performed at room temp, which was the key to making an effective drug.

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The STEM Squad

5 years

Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives worldwide. This feat is a significant breakthrough in 20th-century tropical medicine. In 2017 she received the top award for science in China.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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7 years

good night room good night moon good night puppy with a lil cat spoon

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

7 years

Critical reminder: Some of our most talented neuroscientists are women/POC/nonbinary etc. Read the full zine here➡️

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5 years

When a person exists somewhere on the spectrum that does not align with society's concept of sex or gender as binary, there are two options: 1. Accept the person and reject the binary Or 2. Accept the binary and reject the person Good scientists and (humans) would choose #1 .

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

6 years

Proud to be part of a wonderful community of #ScientistsWhoSelfie who focus on supporting each other because we each have a unique perspective worth sharing. I'm grateful every day for the scientists on here that encourage me to speak up for the greater good.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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I started doing brain surgery when I was 19 idk what could make me a badder bitch 💁🏻‍♀️ STEM is extremely badass, major in it and find out

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

6 years

How cool! Cornell will pay for travel and housing for underrepresented students to check out their PhD programs. Apply!!!

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Vaida Ona

6 years

Tweeps! Cornell is hosting Graduate Diversity Preview Weekend for first gen and underrepresented minority students to learn about graduate programs in STEM at Cornell. Travel, meals & housing included. Application deadline December 1. Pls share!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

7 years

"Political correctness" only applies to topics revolving around minorities, just called "respect" when white men demand it for themselves.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

7 years

You know #sfn17 is business by day, party by night. Get you a pin that can do both!!!!!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

As scientists and researchers it's our job to read and understand the nuances of a topic that is new to us before speaking out on it, so that's why I'm learning about defunding and abolishing policing today. Honestly, it makes a lot of sense.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

4 years

I’ve been doing more line drawings lately due to my dreams of someday learning how to tattoo... might compile all my drawings into a printable coloring book bc who DOESN’T want to color in cute little rats? (Video: timelapse coloring of rat sleeping amongst flowers)

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

6 years

Our ultimate goal is to make science accessible and we need all hands on deck. We recognize that many science communicators today have other full time jobs and can't always invest $ into their educational efforts. So let us give you some start up funds!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

6 years

If you are a graduating senior who gets the Pell Grant (aka low-income) you should start preparing fee waivers for GRE and grad school now. Even if you aren't sure about going to grad school right away, GRE scores last 7 years and you can defer enrollment in some grad programs.

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4 years

I made a something to make social distancing a little bit easier for some folks. 💖💖💖 Free print-your-own coloring pages! 🎨🖌️I will be making more, feel free to request ideas!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

7 years

Write everything down because you won't even remember existing two months ago, much less minutia of experiments

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David Schoppik

7 years

OK friends: what's one thing you wish someone had told you when you were starting grad school? Pls RT.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

6 years

Dealing with suicidal thoughts as grad student is normal. You are not stuck. You are in control of your life. Leave your PhD program or take a leave of absence but please dont be fooled into thinking your worth is equivalent to your academic accomplishments. You are so much more

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PhD Balance

6 years

If you or anyone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, WE BEG YOU to contact a healthcare professional or call your country’s suicide hotline @800273talk

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4 years

Plot twist: Instead of finishing my PhD this past May and taking a year to explore art, I've pushed graduation back a year and now I want to write a grant to prepare for a postdoc 🤗 Can anyone share an F32 transitioning from systems neuro to human clinical work with me & tips?

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

5 years

CW: suicide A PhD candidate died by suicide after feeling forced to publish falsified data. This is not the first time that the "publish or perish" academic scheme has led to death. We need to do something.

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@christineliuart

5 years

Started from shrinky dinks, now we've got cufflinks. Debuting at #sfn2019 ! Thank you everyone who has supported our little endeavor to make nerdy, shiny, brain jewelry!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

5 years

"April is the cruelest month" T. S. Eliot wrote these words even without dealing with April fools chaos and college/grad school/fellowship rejections. If spring makes you feel worse, you are not alone.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

5 years

Wow , entering the 6th year of my PhD sounds like the perfect time to get me some of those lisa frank folders I never got as a kid

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Dr. Emery Usher

5 years

I’m going into 19th grade but I’ll be damned if I don’t go back to school shopping 😬

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5 years

I worked super hard to be able to apply to grad school for <$150 yet applying to jobs is free. And yet we wonder why academia has an underrepresentation problem. Here's how to apply to grad school for free/cheap btw:

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How to Become a Scientist While Poor — Christine Liu

Science, for hundreds of years, was a hobby. From Darwin to Da Vinci, exploration and experimentation was reserved for the wealthy who had time and money to ponder life’s greatest questions. Today,...

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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6 years

I think a lot more collaborative, giving people would stay in research. Competition is one of the main reasons I want to leave academia. Competition doesn't drive me and never has. It's hard to feel good about getting a grant when I know how many others didn't.

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6 years

I wonder what science would be like if we all just worked to find answers rather than to out compete one another.

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

7 years

When will white men understand that prioritizing feelings of white men IS identity politics?

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

7 years

PI notices student isolating themselves from peers, becoming withdrawn, unable to meet deadlines - these are mental health warning signs

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Justin Kiggins

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"the student stopped scheduling meetings. I was too busy to notice for another six months"

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

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4 years

Here's a video highlighting the fact that you can get PAID to do a PhD. Is the thumbnail clickbaity enough? I need as many people as possible to know about this!!!

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dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

6 years

Meghan Wright has a more powerful platform, writing for @sciencemagazine , than many of the women on Instagram have COMBINED. Why criticize us for spending time on self-expression instead of implementing change at the institutional level when this is how she uses her platform?

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5 years

Sci-artists, show us your work! Reply with a few examples of your art, where to buy it, whether you take commissions, etc and I'll RT! This holiday season, shop for gifts from the #SciArt community! 🧠🎨

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