Please read this extremely important thread! We have to consciously include disabilities in our equity and inclusion conversations and policies. This is not ok and it has to change.

Every single Black person, every single brown person, every single queer person I know was worried about THIS in 2016. Most of us were called crazy or hysterical.

This day has been foreshadowed by every hour of this Presidency.

I had the pleasure of working with the Stuart Rowan group on this manuscript, exploring how different dynamic morphologies give (wildly) different adhesive properties! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

I gave my first talk at WISC as a 3rd year grad student in 2018 and it was a great experience! Now I'm on the organizing board for WISC 2021 at The University of Chicago 🤗 Please share this with your science friends and I hope to see you there!

Curious about STEM jobs outside of academia? Register for WISC to hear from panelists Dr. Jill Chrencik (Merck), Dr. Erika Crane (AbbVie), Dr. Tina Li (CMC Materials), Dr. Rita Strack (Rita Strack Nature Methods) and Dr. Sadie Witkowski (Sadie Witkowski, PhD The University of Chicago) this weekend!

Do you need another reason to register for WISC 2021? Check out our fantastic workshops for the weekend, headed by Dr. Vera Dragisich (Vera Dragisich UChicago Chemistry), Dr. Briana Konnick (UChicagoGRAD) and Sarah Reitzes (UChicago Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team)! Registration ends TONIGHT at 11:30PM CT 👩‍🔬🧪

We just wrapped up the 2021 Midwest Women in Science Conference! It was such an honor to plan & host this conference, & I loved hearing all the incredible talks/posters, workshops, & panels! Thank you to everyone who attended & made this weekend possible! #WomenInSTEM

I'm going to start a thread of these incidents of insidious racism in the media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, because I've just been seeing so damn many. x.com/MissChisomo/st…

Check out my quarantine project! I wrote a perspective on AFM of polymers that has just been published in a special issue of Journal of Polymer Science 🎉 "Correlating polymer structure, dynamics, and function with atomic force microscopy" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

In light of the draft of a leaked majority Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, I want to call your attention to the people that would be impacted most by the end of legalized abortion across the United States. 🧵:

Graduate students and postdocs led fun, hands-on science demos for local CPS - Chicago Public Schools students at our first #MRSEC Outreach Day. #NSFfunded #STEMOutreach

If you are still observing #ColumbusDay instead of #IndigenousPeoplesDay today here is your annual reminder of what you are celebrating... CW: violence, sexual assault