@OceanExplauren

Sensory biologist researching shark olfaction & ink 👃🦈🦑| NSF PRFB at @FAUscience and @MarineBiol_FHL | @miss_elasmo stan| she/her/ella #LatinasInSTEM

 Boca Raton, FL
Joined April 2015
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The research people care about: 🔪❣️🦈SHARKS SMELLING BLOOD!!! POOP INK SHOOTING WHALES!!! 💩😤🐋 The research that’s my favorite: 🥰✨💜 Inky slug friends 🥰✨💜
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With my new position, @tricialmeredith let me brainstorm a title. I enlisted @CornOnTheKnaub for help and we mad a list of five options. I am now the “Research and Biological Imaging Specialist” but Jamie got me a desk plaque with our favorite pick 😍
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Science Friday@scifri2 Jun 2024
"Sharks are especially interested in fish blood, squid blood, shrimp blood. But on that note, I will say that sharks are smart. They are like us. They can modulate their behavior," says @oceanexplauren sciencefriday.com/segments/s…

Blood In The Water: Shark Smell Put To The Test

Despite their reputation as super-smellers, sharks don’t have a better sense of smell than other fish. One researcher investigates.

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Jasmin Graham (she/her)@Elasmo_Gal10 Apr 2024
Update, we did it! We raised $5,000 in 24 hours. Special shout out to our Program Coordinator Norah Mendoza who truly went hard in the paint and camped out in a park for a full 24 hours to make this happen. #CarryingTheTeam
Jasmin Graham (she/her)@Elasmo_Gal10 Apr 2024
For the next 45 minutes donations between $25 and $100 are being matched. Here is a chance to double your donation to MISS. We are trying raise $800 in the next 45 minutes can you help us?givingchallenge.org/organiza…

Support Minorities in Shark Sciences Inc | Giving Challenge

I’m ready to support Minorities in Shark Sciences Inc on April 15, 2026 during Giving Challenge . Learn more about Minorities in Shark Sciences Inc and all the other organizations participating in...

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Dr. Catherine Macdonald@dr_catmac4 Apr 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 GRFP winners, but I’m out here to celebrate the much larger number of students who got bad news today (💙) 🧵
Dr. Catherine Macdonald@dr_catmac5 Apr 2022
This thread is for students who didn't win the GRFP today. Who are wondering if they actually belong in science, or scrolling through a bunch of tweets that start "So excited to announce..." with a little spurt of bitterness they aren’t proud of. 1/9
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So you’re telling me that being underpaid with no job security and often no benefits is not appealing to people who just spent the last 5++ years living paycheck to paycheck as a graduate student? Shocked!
News from Science
@NewsfromScience28 Mar 2024
New data released by the U.S. National Science Foundation underscore concerns that the academic community is facing a postdoc shortage and that early-career scientists are increasingly favoring higher paid positions outside academia. @ScienceCareers scim.ag/6nW

Fewer U.S. scientists are pursuing postdoc positions, new data show

The biological and biomedical sciences have seen the sharpest drop

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Vince Buffalo@vsbuffalo31 Mar 2024
Being a postdoc is working pretty much non-stop on both actual science, and suppressing the feeling that it will be all for naught if you never make it into a permanent job.
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DEVASTATED. When I see the thresher, it’s on sight
Jasmin Graham (she/her)@Elasmo_Gal1 Apr 2024
#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.
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Jasmin Graham (she/her)@Elasmo_Gal1 Apr 2024
#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.
Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS)@MISS_Elasmo1 Apr 2024
Drumroll please! 🥁 First of all, thank you to everybody who followed along and casted a vote during #sharkmadness2024. It’s our goal to bring you something educational through the month while also bringing you something fun, and we hope we did that! It’s been a blast!
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FAUHS Research@fauhs_research27 Mar 2024
We are so excited to have Dr. Simonitis joining our team! 🦈🐙👃🔬🥼👩‍🔬
Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸@OceanExplauren26 Mar 2024
Really excited to announce that after my National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ends in May, I will be sticking around @ADHUS_FAUHS as the Research and Bioimaging Specialist! TLDR: I got my dream job
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Really excited to announce that after my National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ends in May, I will be sticking around @ADHUS_FAUHS as the Research and Bioimaging Specialist! TLDR: I got my dream job
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5) I get to keep working with the amazing team of researchers and educators I have had so much fun with these last 1.5 years. Special shout out to @tricialmeredith who I am so lucky to continue working for.
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This may not be the typical academic route, but it's exactly what I want to do with my career. I am so excited to continue looking at fun stuff, asking interesting questions, and building my research program in this new role all with incredible students. So thankful. So pumped.
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nat clarke@natclarke817 Mar 2024
With this method, we are now able to look inside these animals in a way that was previously impossible and ask questions about how their bodies are organized, how their nervous system is wired, and more.
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nat clarke@natclarke817 Mar 2024
What does the nervous system of a sea urchin look like? Can we study intact organ systems in calcified animals? I’m excited to share this preprint (with @FormeryLaurent and @lab_lowe) on whole-body tissue clearing in fragile invertebrates, where we tackle those questions.
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid15 Mar 2024
Check out @scifri TODAY for some GARish living fossil conversation with @ChaseBrownstein, @iraflatow, and me! sciencefriday.com/segments/g…
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