It’s official: I'm defending my PhD thesis on April 10th at 1:30pm! It's been a long and exciting journey, looking forward to sharing my work and celebrating with you! The defense will be hybrid format, please message me for the link if you’d like to attend virtually.

“Chaos has no gender” #PhillyTransMarch I love Philadelphia more than you could ever imagine ❤️🏳️‍⚧️😭

We’re forming a union! Over 1,900 Penn doctoral, master's, and undergraduate student workers have signed union authorization cards, including a majority of all doctoral students and hundreds of other teaching and research student employees.

Helpful way to learn about the candidates and issues on the table. Philly folks, get ready, go vote May 16! phillymayorquiz.com

As part of the Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group, LTBGS@Penn & Lambda Grads @ UPenn #PrideMonth series, Stefan Peterson (@CAMBUPenn) highlighted Shane Coffield & Kolin Clark, Ph.D.'s recent science diplomacy efforts to improve data collection & address LGBTQ+ attrition in STEM🏳️‍🌈 rb.gy/r1com

The ASBMB opposes the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill that would cut NIAID’s budget by almost 23%, NINDS’s budget by 5% and both NCI and NIGMS’s budgets by almost 3%. asbmb.org/asbmb-today/po… #ASMBadvocates

So excited to see this for Swarthmore College! Would love for this program to come to Penn. Students, especially graduate students, would greatly benefit from this.

Congrats Kolin Clark, Ph.D. and Shane Coffield! Glad to see this important report out there. Thank you for all your work on this.

This amount of money could pay for 18,137 Penn students to have a $204 SEPTA UPass even before the discounts the university would get. It’s a shame it was spent on one person who was leaving rather than allowing students to take advantage of all the city has to offer

Will faculty allow ourselves to be used in an anti-union campaign against students workers in GETUP-UAW & UnitedRAsatPenn? We say no—and rebut Penn’s favorite law firm’s stale anti-union talking points thedp.com/article/2023/0…

My elderly parents in FL just received this absurdly misleading and potentially dangerous email from the Florida Department of Health Florida Dept. of Health and @FLSurgeonGenJoseph Ladapo. As a physician, virologist, immunologist, and Floridian here is the truth behind FL’s claims. 1/n

Last week, Penn submitted their response to our union election petition. Predictably, they want to exclude more than 1,000 graduate employees from our union. We’ll share testimonials from graduate workers who, despite Penn’s position, DO provide teaching and research services.

Check out my newest review, on models for Chlamydia infections, with Isabelle Derré! We discuss how different models have provided distinct insights into Chlamydia-host interactions and where we go from here. tinyurl.com/3b3w66px

Science Policy Folks! Join our team in building a science and technology policy fellowship for Pennsylvania.

So thrilled at how State S&T policy fellowships have increased since I’ve Deborah (Debbie) Stine been working with a team on this. Thanks to the Moore Foundation for helping establish programs in WV and PA this year. Stefan Peterson COPA-STEP Fellowship WVU Bridge Initiative Visit AAAS Annual Meeting booth 411!

WE WON! This week, over 2000 Penn grad workers cast ballots. After eligible votes were tallied, the final count was 1807 to 97. It's official. The majority of eligible voters turned out to the polls. Penn graduate workers have resoundingly declared: WE WANT A UNION AT PENN!