.@molly_przew and I wrote a review of Kathryn Paige Harden’s book, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality, for Evolution Journal: [pdf: gcbias.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/geneti… ] 1/6

Bioinformatics for beginners.

The Indige Tea 🧡 it keeps getting taken down

In order for us to build Indigenous solidarity across settler borders, it is important to understand the negative connotation of labeling Indigenous peoples south of the border as "immigrants."

Im in the habit of referring to PI's "Dr. [Lastname]" and recently my postdoc PI stopped me and said "just call me [first name], you have a doctorate as well!" 🤯

Cancel student debt. All of it.

You can what now?

Working your job while working on your mental health while working on your relationships while working on physical health while working on your family while working on sleep habits while working on self-care while working on exercise while working on personal goals while working

Got the opportunity to listen to Beronda L. Montgomery--@BerondaM at BSky speak about her work on phytocromes in plants as well as her Lessons from Plants talk and I am feeling dare i say... hopeful! The fight to make universities more equitable is always ongoing.

Plant nerds in thier natural habitat #cshlplantcourse

From yesterday's plant anatomy lab #cshlplantcourse #FTPS22

A masterpiece #ftps22

Comrades in plant science! #FTPS22

I'm pleased to share with everyone my most recent work on immune priming in Drosophila using E. faecalis (w/ the amazing @zebabw !) Read more for a story of survival, endurance (not resistance), and more! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

THERE’S NO REASON TO VALIDATE YOUR RNA-SEQ EXPERIMENT WITH qPCR. RNA-SEQ IS A FAIRLY UNBIASED APPROACH TO ASSESS TRANSCRIPT QUANTITY ACROSS THE WHOLE GENOME AND DOESN’T SUFFER FROM PROBE BIAS THAT CAN BE EXPERIENCED WITH QPCR PRIMERS

Just finished up at the #fullcircle conference and it was so beautiful to see other native and indigenous Scientists!

Reminder that I'm defending in a little over a week! (8/21 at 3 PM Pacific). Sign up to get details here: tinyurl.com/fairliedefense Thanks to Bryan (he/him) for the amazing poster and Narges Rezaie for coming over to take ridiculous pictures of me 🙃