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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)

@mahoney_kc

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Postdoc in Mark Cookson’s lab/NIH | Ph.D. from Laura Volpicelli-Daley’s lab/ UAB. Coffee addict, UAB RoadMap Alum #neurospicy #firstgen opinions = own

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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
Guys. It happened. Today, on August 23rd, 2023, I finished a roll of parafilm.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 months
First day on the new job! Overall, Mark seems cool, and therefore, I will come back tomorrow😆
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
I did the thing☺️ thank you SO MUCH to everyone for their support. I couldn’t do it without it🥰
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
4 months
Congratulation to Dr. Casey Mahoney-Crane for defending her thesis dissertation and earning her PhD today! It was an honor to have her in my lab. Watch out NIH! @mahoney_kc
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 months
I did a thing you guys!!!!
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
2 months
UAB graduation day! @uab_neurol
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Well… it’s official! I have earned the F31 Diversity award (A0)! I am so honored and excited to see where my research leads! I’m incredibly thankful for those who have supported and helped me along the way! @lvolpic @constanza343 @uab_neurology @UAB_NeuroRMS @NINDSDiversity
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
WELL. After significant consideration, I have decided to pursue my postdoc in the lab of @MarkRCookson1 at the NIH! Get ready for more trolling for the next ???? years!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
3 years
So thankful and honored to have earned the T32 in Neurodegeneration at UAB!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
It is SUCH an honor to receive this prestigious award 🥹🥹🥹 I’m so thankful and still speechless.
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
2 years
Congratulations @mahoney_kc ! for being awarded the 2023 UAB Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies at the Doctoral Level. "You exhibit, perseverance and passion for your research, and demonstrate compassion for your fellow students and broader UAB community"
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
I am absolutely thrilled and honored to share that I received the “GBS Student Mentorship and Teaching Award” from @UAB_GBS . I’m beyond thankful for my personal mentors and all of the mentees whom I’ve been able to mentor and teach! & thank you @nm_ilieva for the photos☺️
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
😁😁😁 First, first-authorship publication! VERY thankful to everyone who made a meaningful contribution to the project!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
😍😍😍 I’m so excited to see where this goes! Also, very thankful to work with amazing people too😊
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
2 years
Congratulations to @mahoney_kc for her paper being accepted in Journal of Neuroscience. Showed high levels of glucosylsphingosine in brains AND plasma of GBAL444P Het mice. Also vulnerability of hippocampus
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
11 months
The real question is….. Is this mouse trying to be a ghost for Halloween?
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
5 months
Obligatory last day of behavior selfie! Feat. my favorite window in the ZRB building & sweatshirt that says girls just wanna have funding for scientific research 🤪
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
I let one of the undergrads rename my images, so I was blinded for analysis…. This is what I got🤣😂 @lvolpic
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Off to a GREAT start for day 1 of CSHL: Neurodegenerative disease: Biology & Therapeutics meeting!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Had such an amazing time at Cold Springs meeting great people, talking science, and (of course) trolling @MarkRCookson1 . #CSHLDEGEN
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
3 years
I’m SO proud of my exceptional Ph.D advisor Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley! @lvolpic She was awarded UAB Graduate Dean’s Excellence in Mentorship Award for 2022. 😁
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
So Michael & I did a thing. Welcome to the family Luka! Luka is a 2yr old border collie (mix? Not sure) rescue, full of energy and love🥹☺️ I have like 37 serotonin molecules.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
@miniapeur @lvolpic reminds me of paranormal distribution. 😂
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Just got word! Mom is out of surgery and all went well:) Thank you all for your support!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
GUYS. One of my friends, Alex Raynaud, drew this. She needed ideas for a project, so I mentioned the hippocampus to which she took that and ran with it. It’s a hippo fishing for knowledge- so freaking cute🥹
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Well- my mom is officially scheduled for surgery on March 1st to remove a mass from her colon. The doctors think it may be malignant based on size and shape, but likely localized and early stage if so! I would greatly appreciate all your thoughts and prayers during this time❤️
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
3 years
Before moving to Alabama, I was like oh gosh a TORNADO WATCH?! Now it’s like, okay what does suspender man say? Am I safe? Do I need to take shelter? #JamesSpann
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
WOW. Officially heard back from my mom about the pathology result from her surgery. She was diagnosed with Stage 2a colon cancer with a T3 tumor😳. HOWEVER, the surgery was successful and everything was removed such that chemo is not necessary! 1/2
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
25 days
It’s below 60 (or was earlier)! You know what that means? That’s right! Sweater weather 😄🤪
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 month
I will neither confirm nor deny the possible identification as the “new postdoc”… but you gotta admit- it’s so adorable!
@MarkRCookson1
Mark R Cookson (he/him/his)
1 month
Hey @MeganDuffyPhD a new postdoc joined the lab who loves trolling and googly eyes This is day 2 It’s going to be a long year
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
I never realize it’s a federal holiday until I’m on the phone with my mom & she asks why I’m going into lab….to which I respond “I’m trying to graduate.”
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 months
We had such a blast! ☺️🥹
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
2 months
Lab outing at one of the best restaurants in BHM @ChickenEugene (post with correct tag this time)
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
6 months
Thank you!! So honored and thankful to receive this award! ☺️ Also, Sumedha and Harshita are amazing!! I’m so proud of them both!
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
6 months
Honored to present the UAB Outstanding Graduate Scholastic achievement award to Casey @mahoney_kc ! Also happy to see lab undergrads get award for Trailblazers! All enthusiast hard workers!!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Update: We are still safe! Lost power, but we do have a generator. There is a curfew in place which is just fine because I wasn’t planning on going anywhere. There are a couple of trees down & high winds around, but thankfully no flooding inside the home. We are truly thankful❤️
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
I have decided to run away to Hogwarts! ((unless my PI ( @lvolpic ) thinks that’s a bad idea….)) in which case- I will run away to a galaxy far far away instead😄
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
11 days until halloween! 🎃🎃👻 @lvolpic
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
First authorship publication!
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
2 years
Neuronopathic GBA1 L444P mutation accelerates glucosylsphingosine levels and formation of hippocampal alpha-synuclein inclusions
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
@lvolpic I have full awareness of this and will still choose chaos every time 😈 but next time I’ll just @ you @lvolpic
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Update: my mom’s surgery is now scheduled for tomorrow! Praying everything goes well! 🙌
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
The fur babies enjoyed the dog park yesterday! I think we successfully wore them out.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
10 months
What if I want to do it tho?
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Hugh Kearns
10 months
Shiny new project. Do you have the time? No: --> Don't do it. Yes: --> No you don't.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Sorry @lvolpic - gotta cancel our meeting, my baby girl needs me 🥹🥹🥹
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
10 months
So it turns out- not much has changed when striking a pose in front of my poster between 2018 & 2022 🤣🤣🤣
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
I think printed out protocols are my security blanket.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Rather than work on my journal club presentation tomorrow, I spent the morning looking at houses for sale in Dublin, Ireland. I still stand by this decision.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
20 days
I just got my PhD diploma in the mail 🥰😍 Happy Friday- even if it is the 13th
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
5 months
Dear universities, In what world do you think Ph.D students can afford Ph.D regalia? Sincerely, Every Ph.D. student ever
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 months
To all the haters who thought it couldn’t be done or was too much- @ me we just packed our entire apartment in two full days😎
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
9 months
Me (circa 1 hour ago) at the moment I found out that my viral vector worked
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
SUPER interesting paper about age-associated transcriptomic changes across different cell types!! Great job @MeganDuffyPhD !!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
…. My code worked AND I have significant data?! …
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
This year for Halloween I’m going as a p-value of 0.0530
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Just submitted my first first-author manuscript! I guess now I wait. 😬🤞😅
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
@MaluTansey ’s so cool. I recommend her talk if you’re able to attend!
@ScienceofPD
ScienceofParkinsons
1 year
Wednesday afternoon - WBSP2 - (3:30 - 5:00) Talk 1: Bringing the immune system to #Parkinsons - by speaker Malú Tansey (USA) @MaluTansey (one of the best in the business!)
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
6 months
I would like to take a moment and publically thank @lvolpic . As many of you can imagine, today was a rough morning when I woke up to the realization that we were out of coffee. So thank you Laura for having coffee in the lab.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
6 months
Here’s to enjoying the eclipse in Bham!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
In case anyone needs some extra serotonin molecules today, here’s a video of my dog having full on zoomies!
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Oh my gosh. I’m over here like “LOOK AT MY RESEARCH”.
@UAB_NeuroRMS
UAB Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program
2 years
3 shark tank finalist! Be sure to vote for your favorite! #UABRMS
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
Perk of living downtown— getting to listen to “Symphony at the Park” 😍🥰
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Too good not to share😂🤣
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
When the experiment you were dubious of works😎🎉
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
Watch out world! Casey had espresso and a doughnut for breakfast today and is ready to break physics.🤗
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
In case anyone was concerned, our lab plants (mainly Fred)- is thriving.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
21 days
Guess you can say I hit the ground RUNNING as a postdoc🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ but I had such a blast running in the NIH Relay Race! Congrats to all of us who didn’t trip- it’s a true accomplishment:)
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 years
My first experiment of this year was a western blot... and now I’m ending this year with yet another western blot... if my net velocity is 0, does that mean I’ve done nothing all year?
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
11 months
If anyone wants, feel free to check out one of my amazing undergrad’s, Sumedha, poster presentation! Tomorrow 8-9am 😊 details below👇
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
@catgyoung I know I’ve already seen a couple AMAZING women in STEM tagged such as @lvolpic & @MaluTansey But I would also add @constanza343 @FLUBINLAB @HarmsLabUAB @narayan_pri
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
Two times during my Ph.D career. . . What does this mean? I don’t know how to fathom such a scientific feat. @lvolpic
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
I swear- the more data I get for my thesis, the more I turn into Charlie from Always Sunny🤣🤣🤣 @lvolpic
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
She did such a great job!! It is such an honor to work in her lab!
@DavidStandaert
David Standaert MD, PhD
1 year
Great talk by @lvolpic on alpha-syn/LRRK2 interactions. #WPC2023
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
5 months
Go Laura go!
@WorldPDCongress
WPC 2026
7 months
Save the date for the next research spotlight with Dr. @lvolpic on April 23, 2024. Learn more & register: Research Spotlight series made possible with support from @Supernus_Pharma and @MTPA_US .
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
Wow I feel this-
@Dr_Meming
Dr Meming
1 year
Me trying to piece together my data and understand what the heck is going on
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Oh my sweet baby boy Asher- We had to put him down at 4am this morning, and it was such a painful decision to make. We will always cherish the sweet memories made, and rest assured that you are catching all the voles and eating all the food in doggy heaven. Love and miss you❤️
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
She will just need consistent follow ups for the next 5 years to be considered in the clear. So thankful that there was NO lymph nodes involved or any metastasis! Thank you all for your support ❤️❤️❤️ 2/2
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
You know the opening scene from The Incredibles where Mr. Incredible is fighting villains & he says, “Yeah, I still got time” as he runs late to his wedding? Yeah- that’s me on the daily, especially now as I see how many mice I can run in behavior before lab meeting.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
Today’s Casey has been sponsored by Metallica. Just thought everyone should know this. Okay carry on.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
11 months
How does one “take time off”? Asking for ideas/things to do cause I’m really bad about it 🤣😂
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
11 months
I interrupt your day to show you Luka, the master baby🥹
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
If you have to go into lab on the 4th, at least go in with friends! 🎉🎆
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
28 days
Congrats Laura!!! 🥳🥳🥳
@lvolpic
Laura Volpicelli
28 days
Got the official word that I was promoted to Full Professor! Let's Go UAB!! Thanks go to my husband, kids, parents, trainees and mentors that supported me along the way! 🐲
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Family trip to the Barons game here in Birmingham ❤️
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
I figured it out! Grad school is one good western blot, then graduating. @MeganDuffyPhD
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
My weakness this holiday season- thanks @lvolpic 🤤
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
7 months
I think my PI ( @lvolpic ) started a war with me by ending one of her emails with “Go UNC!” 😤 All I can say is….
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
10 months
Have we, as scientists, figured out how to implement DND tactics of “taking a long rest and restoring 100% HP” yet?
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
3 years
I’ve now reached the point of socializing where if the answer is “no” to “can I bring my dog?”, then I’m not going. #Dogmom
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
…. It wasn’t until I arrived at the behavior core this morning when I realized I had forgotten the most precious thing…. My coffee…. I never thought this day would come. I’m this gif- except without the coffee mug 😔
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
It’s me- sorry @lvolpic
@TheStrugglingS4
The Struggling Scientists Podcast
1 year
Every F*cking time 😂
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
11 months
I’ve done it. I’ve accomplished my New Year’s resolution. I have learned how to fold a fitted sheet. So…. Naturally the next step is world domination, right?
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
A work of art👌😂
@Dr_Meming
Dr Meming
2 years
The more I think about it the more The Lord of the Rings really resembles a PhD journey
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Wholesome doggo picture: my boy Asher (right) with his friend Clover 🥹
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
I just love trolling people- it’s so much fun and brings a lively and comedic atmosphere to the work place @lvolpic 😇
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
Me with that 0.0525 p value
@TheStrugglingS4
The Struggling Scientists Podcast
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
@MeganDuffyPhD Here’s a picture of my sleepy fur babies to provide maybe a singular serotonin molecule-
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
Just another day of #LabShenanigans with some door chocolate 😁 @lvolpic
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
1 year
HaLp. My undergrad is giving me a headache by talking to me only using Gen Z vocabulary
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
Guys- Zoey just melted my heart. I just thought I would share. Carry on.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
4 months
🤣🤣🤣 it’s me
@TheStrugglingS4
The Struggling Scientists Podcast
4 months
I just want to do a stupid T-test 😭
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
5 months
Somebody in the LVD lab woke up and chose violence.
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
2 years
When your PI ( @lvolpic ) thinks you’re still out of town, so you think about actually going out of town again rather than doing the work planned, but instead you decide to dramatically reveal your location (UAB) via Twitter
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
11 months
Absolutely
@Dr_Meming
Dr Meming
11 months
Me doing anything these days
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Casey Mahoney(-Crane)
5 months
That’s when it’s time to buy another bookshelf :D
@career_re
Re-energising Your Career
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