Despite trying my best to work while manage my health, it hurts to hear from others that I don’t work as fast or my research output is lacking 🧪🧬💻

Sometimes I feel like I’m working twice as hard with physical and nerve pain, brain fog, and exhaustion … but none of that counts 😭 🥲

#AcademicChatter

I’m taking Letrazole now and the side effects are so bad?! 🫠

As somebody with two herniated discs, a surgically fused SI joint, and general nerve damage in my legs, the additional bone and joint pain doesn’t help 😭

It’s hard to focus when my body is actively working against me all the time … 🥲

WHOLE ?! That’s diabolical 😭 But I do applaud her for trying to make something 🥲

I feel like the dismantling of government-funded scientific resources has really made me rethink whether or not I want to continue being a scientist 🫠 It's disheartening ...

Also -- Thank you to you, @samjscience.bsky.social, and other members of the Tiny Matters team for the good work you do! 🥹

One of the themes of our new police state is the sheer lack of professionalism. They can't do the basics, and when challenged, double down. A dysfunctional organizational culture deeply suspicious of the society they are tasked with controlling.
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Out of curiosity ... How does one get into the profession of fact checking? Is there a certain background that people look for? 🤔

It was also posted on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! So many different feeds for papers 😅

Side Note: Ke & I met in “Pathways to Scientific Teaching” taught by Prof. Diane Ebert-May! We sat beside each other on the first day and bonded over the struggle of studying non-traditional model organisms 🤣 😭

📝 So, the fellowship actually ended up removing the Diversity Fellowship as one of the formal requirements without notifying people! 🤔🧪

I still ended up submitting my statement by adding it to the end of my research proposal because it definitely influenced my scientific direction 🫣👩🏽‍💻

Pinning this for later! 📌 Thanks for all of the educational posts as always 🤩

My parents keep pointing out parallels between what has /already happened/ in the Philippines and the resulting aftermath versus what's going on in the United States today 😬

... And comparing that to why they left in the first place during the Marcos' regime 🫠

Oh wow, this is super cool work! 🤩 I'm excited to look deeper into the paper 👀

Tagging with some emojis and whatnot so that it gets on the #SciSky 🧪 feed too! 🧬💻✨