I recently interviewed a strong candidate. She generously credited other researchers whose methods enabled her research. This created a strong positive impression about her. Deservingly crediting others does not diminish our contributions. ◼️It frames them in a helpful context.

As I said, housing is preventative medicine. Without affordable & good quality housing, there is NO foundation upon which people can achieve health.

Lab flash talks at AGTD meeting 🙌🏼

petition to have journal submissions adopt the college admissions "common app" platform

Our raptureFISH method is live! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Yifang Liu Jake L. Potts Keqing Nian Caroline McCormick Northeastern University Bioengineering ACS Sensors 1/4

Me: I’m going to have a super productive day northeastern internet: you thought wrong

From personal experience, Arjun Raj is an awesome mentor!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Nothing makes me trust a paper more than if it's written cautiously, tries hard not to overstate or over-interpret the data, openly discusses weaknesses & alternative explanations. Tell me all the caveats, understate the conclusions, remind me that your model is speculative.

As someone who just formed my committee, IMO a descriptive email should precede a meeting. Mine included 1) a brief introduction, 2) abstract-esque research description 3) how this PI's expertise would be beneficial. Everyone's busy; let's be time efficient

Me realising it’s already august and I’ve procrastinated for too long

Have you heard the news? Our alumna Samantha Johnson '21 made the Forbes 30 under 30 Boston list for her robotic hand Tactile ASL Translational Use Machine (Tatum). Check it out: forbes.com/sites/forbesun…

Daughter just laughed and said to me “boys can be scientists too???” 😂

We got a DOCTOR IN THE LAB !!! 🧬🔬 congrats Sepideh Tavakoli on earning those 3 letters && congrats Sara Rouhanifard on your first PhD graduate!!

Congratulations to my first student Sepideh Tavakoli, for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!! I am so proud of you and all of your hard work!! 🥳

Finally a full group shot! Congrats ⁦Sepideh Tavakoli⁩ 🤗👩🏻‍🔬

First hooding ceremony as a faculty member—so fun!! Congrats to all grads!!

Latest preprint from recent grad (!!) Caroline McCormick Recently developed nanopore tools have identified psi modifications on mRNAs, but the functions remain unknown. From the list of candidate sites, we need to cull it down to the most interesting 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

IVT-derived unmodified human transcriptome paper is live! Resource for the #nanopore community. Congrats to the team 🙌🏼 gigabytejournal.com/articles/129 Caroline McCormick Miten Jain Northeastern University Bioengineering

I never thought I would say this, but I miss R. Excel sucks.

1/6 🧬New paper at @CellSytemsCP led by Sasha Fanari! What if the “fifth nucleotide,” pseudouridine (Ψ), in mRNA dynamically responds to cell state? We used nanopore direct RNA sequencing + Mod‑pID to map Ψ in a neuron‑like SH‑SY5Y line under “normal” and “perturbed” conditions