My mom is a first gen college student and first in the fam to get a PhD.

First gen stories really effect me because I understand from experience how pivotal that first step is and how it can impact GENERATIONS.

Going to college for me and my sister wasn't even a thought.

Using a new experimental infection assay, researchers studied evolution of Staphylococcus aureus in macrophages to reveal a conditional adaptation that promotes bacterial survival in the cells, as well as resistance to vancomycin. mBio: asm.social/1QY

#Gambia has 1 neurosurgeon & 1 #neurosurgery unit 4 a pop. of ~ 2.5 mil. Challenges 4 the unit include EQUIPMENT scarcity. Pls consider donating any equipment that u or your dept is no longer using. It will do lot of good.

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Super excited to be invited to Medical Research Council Exec meeting. Thank you Sarah Goler-Solecki 😊 Inspirational talks and a privilege to be at Dr Mona Suleiman's inaugural Excellence Fellowship talk on Inclusivity in Parasitology 🙌🏽 Wellcome Sanger Institute Stephen Doyle -proud PI 😃

I am looking for a candidate to apply 2 the competitive KAUST Global Fellowship Program, which offers excellent conditions (75K $ stipend, 40K for research, free housing, school & travel/relocation allowances) maestrelab.blogspot.com/2024/05/we-are… Please note that this is not a job offer

Dr. Chi 🇳🇬 🇺🇸🌹 Academic Chatter™ I applied for NIH Loan Repayment grant and the public loan service forgiveness grant which significantly lowered the payment. NIH paid for 2 years and then I just paid like 10/mo. so that monthly payments were registering.

It's a true honor to join the Schmidt Science Fellows community of early-career scientists dedicated to pioneering interdisciplinary science 🧬✨! I look forward to connecting with everyone involved and making the most of this incredible experience 🙏💫 forbes.com/sites/michaelt…

Look forward to speaking at this summit tomorrow. New partnership just announced between Wellcome Novo Nordisk Foundation Gates Foundation to address complex societal challenges including climate change, infectious diseases and cardiometabolic disease

Closing out my first year as an assistant professor at New York University 🪻🗽!

#onyenedumlab officially built ✔️
Grants submitted ✔️
Awesome manuscripts cooking ✔️
Designed and taught new botany course ✔️
Cheers to faculty everywhere finishing the spring semester— we made it ☺️😆

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, and across all #science disciplines, as shown by these 'scissor-shaped curves' ✂️

So how can we achieve #gender #equality ?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary.. 🧵

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Lecturers when no one laughs at their joke:

Dr Socé Fall - DrMed, PhD, FFPH
Breaking News today 🚨
🌍 Global Report on #NTDs 2024: Working together, we make strides towards 2030! Highlights:
🎯 Progress on 2030 targets from 'Ending the Neglect to Attain the #SDGs .'
📉 1.62 billion still need NTD interventions—down 26% since 2010 but…

Please join us at the 1st seminar of the Cambridge Sustainable Design Group Seminar Series on
🎯Digital Image of the City
📜Speaker Arianna Salazar-Miranda Yale Environment 360
Register -sustainabledesign.arct.cam.ac.uk/projects/digit…
Arch Cambridge Selwyn College Cambridge University Cambridge Zero Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery

I am currently on the hunt for postdoc fellowship with the focus on neuroendocrinology and neuroinflammation along blood brain barriers. I have experience working with mice colony maintenance/behaviors, cell culture, and team assembling/maintaining. #neuroendocrinology #postdoc

New partnership of the world’s largest health foundations will support science for equitable health solutions:

ft.com/content/6218d8…

We are extremely excited to announce the 3rd edition of the EvoBio Crash Course! 🥳

We focus on providing a thorough course on the basics of #EvoBio and tips to build a career in the field directed to students from the Global South 💚

Register here: forms.gle/tJ9kaM9GsM86mx…

Solutions start with scientific discovery.
And if we work together, we can improve health faster.
That’s why I’m excited for Wellcome to partner with Novo Nordisk Foundation and Gates Foundation on this $300 million initiative. wellcome.org/news/novo-nord…

Do bakers daydream about leaving their job to do a PhD in molecular biology?

We need a faster response to the next pandemic. A new #vaccine technology from Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. Cambridge University of Oxford and Caltech protects against a broad range of coronaviruses - even ones that haven't emerged yet. 💉

Read more👇
bit.ly/4a0KSJC

A free online two-weeks crash course in evolutionary biology for students who did not have much exposure to evolutionary biology yet. Ideal for applying for a PhD or Master. evobiocrashcourse.github.io. Run by an excellent team of grad students on 10-21 of June. Register by 4 June.