This Barbie is an academic going into lab on a Saturday

Me at my desk every morning recently

“You’re a chemist?” “Yeah” “Can you make…” “No.”

If you work in a chemistry lab, I dare you to read “Rookie Mistakes” on Not Voodoo and wince at the times you have done EXACTLY that…all of those things listed in the tabs on the left (I haven’t done ALL of them but WAY more than I want to admit) chem.rochester.edu/notvoodoo/page…

Me on a Friday night vs me coming into lab on a Saturday morning to feed my cells

Thankful that I got to present the work I've been doing at the Graduate Research Symposium! 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬

Testing out the eclipse glasses before Monday! #wecool 😛 ☀️🕶️

So grateful to win the Best Poster Award at the Rochester ACS Collegiate Research Symposium!!! 👩🏻‍🔬💃🏻

That's my mentee 🥹

That's my bestie 🥹

Thankful to Rush Rhees library during qualifying exam prep 😎🙏💀

the #NorthernLights from my apartment in Brooklyn, NY. awesome

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

As a research mentor, it’s common to see someone whose project is not working but they are doing all the right things to troubleshoot. Don’t underestimate the power of saying “Even though your experiments are failing, you are still succeeding at research.”

Chemistry is so red, white, and blue coded (feat. my column that didn't work) 🤪😫🎆

You may not like it, but this is the ideal body of a scientist. This is what peak performance looks like.

The friends you make along the way. That’s not a joke.

Brat summer in the Partridge Lab! Hannah Claus Alex Lazaro Parbhat Kumar

Chill group meetings call for lots of snacks, fun facts, and flash research updates!!!