UC academic workers' strike update; 14 people were arrested yesterday protesting at the Regent's meeting at UCLA and a Physics professor at UCSD, Max Di Ventra, essentially fired a grad researcher for striking which is illegal

MIT grad workers demand real safety guarantees now!

All across the country, academic workers are ruthlessly exploited by very wealthy universities. But now they are standing up and fighting back.

Today, we are celebrating International Women's Day by highlighting some of our incredible UC Davis women graduate students who #EmbraceEquity in engineering. Read about each of the 16 women we featured ➡️ engineering.ucdavis.edu/about/diversit… #InternationalWomensDay

Strongest possible advice to early grad students: you need outside hobbies or projects that are meaningful to you. It is dangerous for your only source of value, identity, and friendship to be academia. You absolutely have to find something else to invest in, it’s just not safe

Demand for the FAA to Protect Plus-Size Travelers - Sign the Petition! chng.it/jLmJMYB6 via Change.org

Christiansen Lab in San Francisco! @ChristiansenLab Sophie Orr Priscilla Tjandra Kei Takahata

Our new publication out of the UND BiPed lab! Love to see amazing research opportunities continue to generate super cool projects. BiPed Laboratory Pablo de León authors.elsevier.com/a/1h8Fr7tX%7Eg…

Proud to welcome the ASBMR awardees to the #ECTSPhD training course! Great presentations and new friendships 🎉

Excited to be at the 9th Annual Int’l Weight Stigma conference! Still time to register if you want to join virtually to see @ChristiansenLab and I present tomorrow on our UC Davis course and BMI surgery cutoff justification study! #WSC9 Wt Stigma Conference

#wsc9 amazing stories from Shilo George at the Wt Stigma Conference, focusing on the continued pain and trauma colonialism causes in many forms and hopeful messages about self advocacy (among many, many things!)

Thank you!! Literally attended this conference because you encouraged me to submit an abstract. So grateful for you introducing me to this amazing groups of activists, educators, scholars and heath professionals who made Wt Stigma Conference such an empowering event. #WSC9

Come check out our lab's (@ChristiansenLab) posters and talks at #ORS2024! My studies are about bone-muscle crosstalk and anti-fat bias in orthopedics (see attached pics for schedule). Orthopaedic Research Society UC Davis UC Davis College of Engineering UC Davis Department of Orthopaedic Surgery UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group

Vote for your favorite Art in Science piece! Priscilla Tjandra and I have submitted a piece... any guesses? See you at #ORS2024

First time on the Amtrak Coastal Starlight! Always hoping to see Suzanne Brooks and Jeb Brooks when I’m on an Amtrak… someday! #amtrak

Amazing! I hope the US follows the EU’s example with sweeping AI regulations. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/13…

Congratulations to Sophie Orr Sophie Orr from @ChristiansenLab for receiving the Graduate Student Excellence Award in #DEI. We are proud of our outstanding team of lab members for making significant contributions not only in research, but also in important social topics. 👏

One week to go before the Int'l Weight Stigma Conference! I wholeheartedly suggest you grab an online ticket if you can't make it in person - this is one of my favorite groups of researchers & activists and their work is AMAZING!

Delighted to share our experience in creating and sustaining inclusivity in this new TheBiophysicist article "Empowering Women in Biomedical Engineering: A Departmental Pathway to Inclusion and Support" meridian.allenpress.com/the-biophysici…

Hot off the press! We (@ChristiansenLab ) surveyed orthopaedic surgeons in California to find out if/why they employ BMI cutoffs for hip/knee surgery. Is one of them bias? 🫣 rdcu.be/d8tLm #ucdavis #orthopedicsurgery UC Davis Department of Orthopaedic Surgery UC Davis Research