@seejenscience

Microbiologist working on becoming a geobiologist. PhD studying cyano evo in Geological Sciences @CUBoulder. she/her/hers ladyHD PC @alana_thurston

 Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute land
Joined September 2016
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So the annual reintroduction for #DayofScience! I'm Jen, I'm a 4th (?!) year PhD candidate (flex) in Geological Sciences @CUBoulder. But! I'm mostly an evolutionary/microbiologist when it comes to my lab work/research.
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You know what sucks about being a woman in academia (and even more for every other minoritized identity)? I spent > 10 hours this week dealing with a harasshole situation despite the fact that I am very much in the nosebleeds of the situation. #WomenInSTEM
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And this is a case where I have great confidence that the people with the power to actually do something will do their damnedest and try to protect against retaliation.
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So did I make progress on any of the 4 major deadlines I have in the coming week? Only a little. But how important is a first author paper, a postdoc fellowship app, a conference talk or a conference poster anyway?
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hey nice paper. have you considered a) collaborating with people who are actually qualified to do this (sociologists) b) not assigning gender by name (this is absolutely trash methodology) c) that people outside the western gender binary actually matter (don’t get me started)
Hunter Wapman@hneutr21 Sep 2022
1/ New paper! nature.com/articles/s41586-0… with @_szhang @aaronclauset @DanLarremore. 🎓 We analyzed all 295K tenure-track faculty at US PhD-granting universities in 10,612 departments over 10 years to quantify hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention. 🦥 A summary:
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The #PinkTax is such bullshit, I went looking for cuticle clippers @Target and found these two options from the same company. By all the info on the packages, the only difference is the color, but one of them costs $0.99 more. Oh no, I guess I can't get the pink version!
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International collaborations are great, meetings ending at 8pm gives me a great excuse for why I didn't start work today till noon. Of course now I have to convince myself it doesn't mean I can stay up to the wee hours... #ScienceTwitter
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Despite being furious for most of that lab session, I am happy to announce I just started the last *planned* experiment of my PhD. I guess this means I really do need to spend more time writing! #PhDAlmostDone
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An undergrad researcher in lab is helping me with keeping an eye on cultures this month. They successfully determined I was left-handed from the order in which I put my cultures in the incubator. Both wow that's some observation skills and wow that's a new way someone has noticed
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I really love the days when I need to take a few minutes to get my anger out before starting lab work. Brought to you today by a friend who searched through their messages to "figure out what I'd done" to receive flirty messages over months from a teacher/mentor. Just fuck this
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Fun fact: I often don't tweet these moments bc this isn't an anonymous account and I work in a small field, but this is literally so common that I have no fear of anyone but the friend themselves knowing who this is specifically about.
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Since I'm thinking about #ADHD and the #Dentist, a few tips that have helped me be more consistent and manage my anxiety:
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Something is better than nothing. You know what habits work for you. I cannot make flossing stick, but I can make using a WaterPik pretty consistent. These days I try to be honest about my routine, and clear that yes I know flossing is better, but this is what I will actually do.
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And since the shame accumulates easily: showing up for an appointment after a while of not going in is a win! You showed up and made the change, don't let your past struggles minimize the success now.
Thread: Until recently I thought I didn't mind going to the dentist as much as other people. I've realized that from a young age I took the fact that I was liked as a patient to mean that *I* liked the dentist. #ADHD #Dentist
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I defined my feelings around the dentist based on how they felt about me. Since my diagnosis I've been realizing how much of my experiences I allowed to be shaped by other people's feelings instead of my own.
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This morning it was made obvious how much anxiety I experience at the dentist when I picked up my knitting to keep me occupied while waiting and my hands were shaking. I've been denying my own anxiety because I was determined to be an "easy" patient, not that I am difficult now.
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