Fun acquiring and analyzing data for microscopy workflows and discussing core facilities and microscopy optimization with UNC PREP scholars! Very excited to have them on campus and hopefully back at the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core soon! 🔬🖥️🤩

My PhD thesis is due in a couple of weeks. With so many things to take care of, I have adopted more effective to-do lists to manage my tasks and I am never going back! Here are my tips for best practices to improve output (1/n)#phdlife #AcademicChatter #phdvoice #AcademicChatter

Highly recommended to anyone else healing from institutional racism: “Scholars of color are often pushed out of traditional disciplinary departments, forced through bullying, harassment, & hostile work environments… [R]aising problems becomes translated into being the problem.”

I'd like to hope that the nitpicking of these figures means we are inching toward "almost done".... And by "almost done" I mean just starting the journey of peer review 😅

Many congrats to this rising star Rubén García-Reyes !!!!! Truly the most deserving future Dr!

Is it normal to feel the urge to quit the closer you get to the supposed "end"? Like am I going to finish this degree at some point or is it going to finish me first? 🤔

Submitted!!!! This is only the beginning but at least one step closer to my first first-author paper! (Let the headaches begin...)

A mindmap for PhD students struggling with their thesis structure

Coauthors agreeing to write a “quick” and “simple” article that takes 5 years

When you're supposed to be reimbursed for a conference you attended in May by July, you follow up in August, and find out they never filed it so now you have to wait until September/October <<<< 🫠🫠🫠

Can someone please confirm whether chronic exhaustion is a thing and if that's normal for a (now) 5th year PhD student? Bc it's FDOC and I'm feeling the burnout from submitting a manuscript and juggling a summer internship... Any advice on how to shake this would be nice 🥺

First draft: “I’ve almost finished it” Final draft: “it’s almost finished me”

There are lots of questions, frustration, judgement, and name calling going around about masking so I just wanted to share some things I’ve learned as a person who’s been masking since April of 2020 🧵 And of course, if this doesn’t appeal to you, feel free to scroll on by 🍃

After 5 long weeks, I got my first official paper rejection today and saw this immediately after reading the email on my way to the 🐁🏠... Accurate description of how I'm feeling. Disappointed to say the least, but not defeated. But any advice would be great 😭

How do I express that I’m concerned about the people of western NC and I’m also concerned about the potential future global economic disaster because Spruce Pine is the sole producer of ultra pure Quartz for crucibles that all global semiconductor production relies on?

Sibelco announces it has "temporarily halted operations" at its Spruce Pine quartz mine after Helene severely damaged the surrounding NC county. The mine makes the purest quartz in the world, a crucial component to making semiconductor chips and solar panels.

When the job description was "grad student" but you're feeling like mini PI... 💀

Wow! Feeling so grateful today… for all of the support I have received that have led me to a job I love to do… and brings me into contact with incredible communities and people I get to interact with each day 🙏🔬💗

Tough day to be a physician in America. Tough day to be a scientist in America. Tough day to be a woman in America.

Heading on over to the 🟦☁️