I really don’t like the direction this website is headed in, so I’m going to try to start posting more somewhere else 🔵☁️ (name redacted so the algorithm doesn’t come for me). All the info below ⬇️

I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well. Neither do you. Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” -George Orwell, “Animal Farm” (1945) nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opi…

Alright, poll time (doing it here since 🦋 doesn’t have polls yet): what’s the best pipette brand? There is a correct answer.

Absolutely horrifying how people are now emboldened to send hate and literal death threats to a woman for simply posting about earning a PhD. I hope Dr. Louks has been able to celebrate her amazing achievement with family and friends despite all of the nastiness.

It will always be an honor to be a mentee of Casey. I’m so deeply grateful to all the wonderful scientists who took the time to record these lectures to honor his memory and to make science more accessible to everyone. Special thanks to Shweta for making this all happen!

Today is the 4th anniversary of my first ever thesis committee meeting and absolutely no other noteworthy events…

It’s me I’m on the disabled train at Davis 🙃

Vulnerable moment for me, but I too have struggled with OCD for most of my life. I think it’s extremely cool to have such a public-facing person like a professional athlete be open about it- it reduces the stigma and shows that OCD isn’t just about “over-cleaning”

That game had me STRESSING but my journey as an insufferable Philly fan in Boston CONTINUES. GO BIRDS 🦅🦅

Commanders: *Long, calculated 20 play drive to score 3 points* Eagles: *Gives the ball to Saquon Barkley once*

Writing and submitting an F31 was by FAR the most grueling part of grad school, and to know these students will not even have their work looked at because of their identity is sickening. Our government is being run by evil, evil people

Referring to the 13% of Americans who take antidepressants, myself included, as addicts and claiming that we are more likely to become school shooters is not only asinine and unfounded, but it’s also dangerous and contributes to the mental health stigma that puts lives at risk.

Mind you, mRNA vaccines won the NOBEL PRIZE in physiology/medicine less than 2 years ago

2 years today since we lost Casey. In a way year 2 was harder than year 1. He should have read my thesis and celebrated at my defense, and we should be getting beers at ASHG in Boston to talk about all the cool things I’m doing in my postdoc now. We all still miss him.

"When I feel myself drifting toward despair, I think about what I learned during the pandemic, the first crisis of my Ph.D.: Build community and keep sharing the value of science." This week's #ScienceWorkingLife. scim.ag/4iqGTeA

So happy to see this finally out! Max Dudek

This is why we keep pushing forward despite the attack on science, for people like KJ, for improving human health. They cannot and will not stop us.