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Emily Summerbell retweeted
🧪 What I wish I'd known about lab notebooks in year 1:
A thread about what has actually worked for me (learned the hard way...) 🧵
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People: What productivity software do you us?
Me:
ALT A task on the list "NOW" that says "take out the trash" and under that it says "135 weeks ago."
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Got a reviewer commenting that my writing should be proofread by a native English speaker. I hope this reply I’m drafting isn’t too much! 😬
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Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
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it finally happened. I got to be the first person to tell a kid why the barbed wire fence in his backyard is always covered with impaled lizards
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ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it.
But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*
Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:
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PhDs is trending so I want to remind the world you don’t need a PhD to be a scientist.
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This weekend, my lab tried a new experiment: we wrote a paper in one day! Inspired by @JnfrLTackett, we blocked out a whole Sunday, & in <8 hours, we cranked out a surprisingly decent full-length draft. Plus, we had fun, ate a lot of snacks, & fit in a Starbucks run. Here's how!
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Me to 10-year-old: Want to talk about your day?
10 yo: No. Let's talk about cat genetics.
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I’m an autoclave.
I’m an essential machine widely used across many fields.
This is my daily routine:
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Really excited to launch @Dev_journal "Pathway to Independence Programme"
Are you, or do you know, a dev bio or stem cell researcher planning to apply for their 1st PI position in 2023?
Then this scheme is for you. See how to apply:
journals.biologists.com/dev/…
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A couple of weeks ago we had an icebreaker during my graduate seminar and the question was "What is your irrational fear?" My answer was "hammerhead sharks". And today in class I walked in and saw this:
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Hey all need some RT mojo! Evals of Neuronal Cell Biology faculty apps start soon Y'all can still apply! Want to use 21st technologies to unlock the thorniest questions abt how neurons work at the cell biological level? 👁️👁️the division's mission below URL:jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/…
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We are searching for a new faculty member in our Department @StanfordBiochem. Come join us! The description and application is here facultypositions.stanford.ed…
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I love my department-- Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago! And we're hiring! Please RT!
apply.interfolio.com/111205
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📢Preprint drop! -Are chromatin modifications a cause or consequence of transcription? (or both)
How do DNA motifs affect the function of marks? Can combinatorial modifications synergise?
We present our epigenome editing study, & unexpected findings👇+🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
