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Alberto Roca
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Exec.Dir., DiverseScholar. Editor, MinorityPostdoc.org & SciCommDiversity.org. Helping PhDs network w/diversity recruiters & opportunities in STEM fields. Am #LatinxInSTEM & ally: #BlackInSTEM #NativeInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #VeteranInSTEM
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On 10/30 led my #NDiSTEM2025 session on #Postdoc Fundamentals w/(lft 2 rt) Fernanda Palominos, Nancy Paniagua, Astrid Zamora, & Robin Sugiura. Session at 2025 @sacnas.bsky.social conference whose mission supports #LatinxInSTEM #NativeInSTEM & is open to all. www.minoritypostdoc.org/events/2025-...
Photo of panelists from "Postdoc Fundamentals" session all standing from left to right Roca, Palominos, Paniagua, Zamora, and Sugiura. Roca is older with gray hair wearing glasses and blue guayabera shirt. Palominos has shoulder-length brown hair and is in a red shirt. Paniagua has shoulder-length brown hair and is wearing glasses and an orange cape-like sweater. Zamora has long brown hair and is wearing a white shirt with buttons. Finally Sugiura has shoulder-length blond hair while wearing glasses and a black blouse.
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On 10/30 led my #NDiSTEM2025 session on #Postdoc Fundamentals w/(lft 2 rt) Fernanda Palominos, Nancy Paniagua, Astrid Zamora, & Robin Sugiura. Session at 2025 @sacnas.bsky.social conference whose mission supports #LatinxInSTEM #NativeInSTEM & is open to all. www.minoritypostdoc.org/events/2025-...
Photo of panelists from "Postdoc Fundamentals" session all standing from left to right Roca, Palominos, Paniagua, Zamora, and Sugiura. Roca is older with gray hair wearing glasses and blue guayabera shirt. Palominos has shoulder-length brown hair and is in a red shirt. Paniagua has shoulder-length brown hair and is wearing glasses and an orange cape-like sweater. Zamora has long brown hair and is wearing a white shirt with buttons. Finally Sugiura has shoulder-length blond hair while wearing glasses and a black blouse.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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in Cleveland OH 4 my 24th @sacnas.bsky.social conference! Society 4 Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science has #LatinxInSTEM #NativeInSTEM mission & is open 2 all. My #NDiSTEM2025 session on #Postdoc Fundamentals w/Stanford is today! Find funding: www.minoritypostdoc.org/resources
Alberto Roca in blue guayabera shirt & glasses in front of SACNAS green banner. Sign alternates between “SACNAS” in white font and New Mexico glyph logo in black. At Alberto’s side is cardboard cutout statue of 2025 themed antlered deer colored in white, brown, and light blue pattern.
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Happily attended #LatinxInBME Symposium. Has been amazing seeing this @latinxinbme.bsky.social community grow under leadership of @brianaguado.bsky.social & @anamaporras.bsky.social. This 1-day event occurs before annual BMES meeting & is inclusive welcoming all such this biochemist 😀. #LatinskySTEM
Selfie of Alberto Roca in white guayabera shirt. He is standing next to poster of LatinxInBME poster that has logo of big black "x" with "Latin" and "in BME" (in red font) each in 2 quadrants of "x" shape while remaining 2 quadrants are filled with flags from North, Central, and South American countries. Same geographic continents are pictured behind logo as background. Poster also has text "A community of Latinx biomedical engineers that connect through scholarship and friendship".
October 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Ending Pride month w/essay w/ ronbuckmire.bsky.social "Queer Science Blogs: Reflections on Public Communication Before Age of Social Media". Our #QueerInSTEM #SciComm essay originally appeared in 2023 book _Queering Science Communication_ // 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Queer Science Blogs: Reflections on Public Communication Before the Age of Social Media
Before the ubiquity of social media, people interested in sharing their thoughts and experiences on the Internet mostly relied on blogging. This essay reflects on the STEM and queer issues blog The Ma...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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At #ABRCMS2024 conference = Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists. Today speaking w/NPA panel: Pursuing a #Postdoc While Balancing #Diversity Values. Find funding resources on my career portal:
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Selfie photo by large sign that spells out ABRCMS in blue letters. Sign also has their logo which is circle of white background interspersed with red, green, blue, orange wedges. Roca is smiling at camera; and, he has gray hair, wearing gray sweater, and conference name badge.
November 16, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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During pandemic, wife & I puzzled 2 distract frm news & 2 spend time together. "Lion" by Bob Coonts part of "Precious Animals" Heye series. Our home's way of supporting artists since can't afford fine art. Was 1st time had extra duplicate puzzle piece cuz life ain't perfect...
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Photo of 1000 piece puzzle depicting an illustration of the side profile of lion lying in tall grass. The artist's painting style has many geometric shapes filling in the yellow and orange grass blades. The lion's fur coloring is interpreted as jagged patches that range in color from grey-brown to tan in the animal's face while the mane is colored dark orange to red to dark green. The background is a blue & purple tinted savannah evening sky where the artist has triangle, square, and circles in the top left corner in various colors such as green red that match the colored tips of the foreground grass that is reaching to the sky above the lion's head.
November 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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My non-profit is known for career portal MinorityPostdoc. Learn more from article about our #DivSch23 event. I had used other site as official institutional comms; but, here I’ll be more personal since these next years will be difficult for justice efforts. I’ll need a space for fellowship...
DiverseScholar Conference Supports Diversity Postdoc Communities
Natalie Ringdahl and Alberto I. Roca, Ph.D.
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November 13, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Hello bsky world! Am exploring new SocMedia outlet for news, distraction, & community. Happy to find #SciComm & #ScioX colleagues here. I’m Latinx (Peruvian-American) & trained in biochem (some bioinfo). Since 2012 hv led tiny DiverseScholar non-profit for STEM diversity that supports PhD trainees.
November 13, 2024 at 4:51 PM