🏳️🌈Neuroscientist studying glia alterations to blood brain barriers through neuroendocrinology and drug effects on tripartite synapses (He/Him/His)
Louisiana, USA
Joined March 2022
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Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
It is with great sadness that we share the passing of our DCNS participant, James S. Brown. He was an intelligent young mind who was extremely passionate about research and is missed dearly. Please consider donating below to help his family honor his life
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Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
Congratulations to @jessica_fiser and @skyeashmore_ on graduation!!! Ya'll are going to do great in grad school.
Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
Please clap for @jessica_fiser, one of 15 honors cord recipients from the Fall 2024 graduating class @ULLafayette. She presented one of the research projects she performed with @JStagray in the Smith Lab. Tomorrow, she crosses the stage with her classmates. 👩🎓🥳
Had an amazing “secret Santa” from Snell Lab this year. Check out these cute coffee gnomes!!! I absolutely love them! Thanks Maddie! @HeatherDSnell
Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
The road of a premed student is long and hard. Getting into med school is exhausting, and then the REAL work begins. I hope that all my former students find fulfillment in a job that can be very rewarding, but very challenging as well.
If you think physicians are overpaid, maybe you should take the necessary course work in undergrad, take and pass the MCAT, apply for med schools, pay hundreds of thousands for tuition, learn for 4 years in a very high pressure learning environment, then pay thousands more to apply for a training job that you may or may not get, then if you do get it, you get to work 80 hours a week making $15/hour for 3 - 9 years wherein more than one day off in a row is a rarity, all the while many normal life events and processes get pushed to the side, then you FINALLY get a “real” job that’ll pay very well but you’ll realize your patients are not your customers (the insurance companies are), they are the product, and you’ll realize you have a lot to learn about the business of medicine in order to advocate for your patients and for yourself in order to be okay.
Then YOU can say “no thanks I don’t deserve to make that much.”
Or you can just skip all of that, realize now that the insurance and hospital system complexes are trying to hoodwink you, and appreciate the life work and care physicians commit to all of us, recognizing that while all things in medicine play a role in what we see today, physicians themselves are not the villain.
They are on our side.
Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
HHMI rejection.
What to do?
Well…
(It’s actually ok - I am becoming desensitized!)
Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
A day late, but yes, science belongs to everyone! My lab supports students with Disabilities.
Just submitted my application materials for the Yale Neuroscience Kavli Postdoctoral Fellowship award. Now all that’s left to do is wait. Fingers crossed!
Just want to give a thanks to those who helped me with letters of recommendation composition @HeatherDSnell @KarenMSmith_bio.
Also want to give a special shoutout to @HeatherDSnell for helping with the refining process for my documents composition.
Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
5 paper rejections, 1 grant rejection, 1 missed award, and too many midnight snacks later...I got my first research grant as a PI! 🥳🥂 Champagne is figurative tonight (newborn duties call) but the celebration is real. Let’s get to work!...after updating my CV real quick 👀🏃🏃
Happy gobble gobble day everyone. I hope you all are out there having a day full of fun, love, and food.
Jacob Stagray PhD retweeted
At barely 18 years old, I was kicked out of my house for being gay. I was given no warning. Before I went to work that day, I broke my key in the door lock. When I got off of work, I called my mom to let me in & she wouldn’t. After many times of being hung up on, she finally put 2 garbage bags of my stuff on the porch. That’s how I left the house and ended up on my own. With garbage bags of rumpled clothes.
I was a brand new freshman in college at the time & I ended up having to drop out. I had to learn how to take care of myself at a young age and learn how to pay bills. I had to work all the time at the pizza place I worked at to survive & afford a place to live.
2 years later, I finally made my way back to college. I worked very hard and also worked several jobs at the time to be able to afford it. I ended up graduating in 4 years with honors.
Disaster would strike again 6 months after I graduated. I had a house fire that destroyed all of my stuff and left me homeless for 6 months. That put my plans for law school on hold indefinitely. I lost everything again.
2 years later, I ended up getting into law school. I would study for the LSAT while waiting tables and bartending. Always having my LSAT book at work and working through the logic problems during down time. I worked from 4-4 a.m. 6-7 days a week back then. But I pulled it off anyway.
I’ve had a rough ride in my life. I’ve had to work very hard to get where I’m at with many setbacks that were out of my control. I would lose everything again 6 years into my legal career when I became disabled. I came back from that too.
My point is that I am an incredibly strong person and have endured a lot of hardship. But I never stop trying to overcome it. I’ve never let it stop me from my ultimate goals.
If transphobes and TERFs think they are going to come at me, they should think again. I’m a very formidable opponent. I’ve had a lot of unthinkable things happen to me and I survived them all and came out stronger each time. When I write the book about my life one day, maybe I’ll finally make sense to the world.
