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gender is a performance and I'm on performance enhancing drugs

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I hate how science is asymptotically inching towards the requirement that you need a PhD to get into a PhD program

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Important:

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world's most valuable medicinal equine

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my main goal is to blow up

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People when I tell them I'm doing a PhD in Chemistry: "Wow, okay, you don't need to brag like that" Other PhD students when I tell them I'm doing a PhD in Chemistry: "I'm so sorry"

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Dating an artist is fun sometimes

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This is your reminder that marine sponges make some of the wildest natural products you'll ever lay eyes on

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Chemistry is so weird bc you'll fumble on a reaction for 3 weeks and then your PI will ask "What color shirt were you wearing when you set it up?" And then everyone in the group will nod and be like, "Ah, the classic beginner green shirt mistake"

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biochemistry and chemical biology are like she/they and they/she they look the same at first glance but have extremely different vibes

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Cell culture is literally just witchcraft. Fetal bovine serum? You mean “essence of cow?”

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I figured the chemical biologists were due for one of these

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"moiety" is just a fancy chemical word for "thingy" and I'm not sure if I love it or hate it

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@CentroLeaks Opponent: "Well at least they can't use this again next tu-" Tinkaton:

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Cheers to 2 years of my most unexpected google search

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Idk who Alexa is but I love her fluors

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okay but this is just industry vs academia tho

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Go home, Fisher scientific; you're drunk.

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Why's it always a His tag, huh? When are we going to get a Her tag???

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Biochemists love to be like "we synthesized..." except no you didn't, the enzyme did that. And the bacteria made the enzyme. You just made stinky chicken soup and ran it through a column

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Organic chemists love to be like "we synthesized..." and it's then it's just 5 named reactions in one sentence

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Yeah I’m a fan of DEI D pay E your I workers

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Okay biologists. Let's get something straight. Does a 1:3 split mean "add 1 part cells to 3 parts media" or "dilute such that the cells take up 1/3 of the total volume?"

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Thrilled to announce I have awarded the GRFP the highest possible honor I am capable of giving:

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Being in chem bio is being jealous of chemists when you’re doing biology and being jealous of biologists when you’re doing chemistry.

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@krishuponastar "We made 151 teenagers watch jujutsu kaisen season 2 in an MRI machine"

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@cephalopie The year is 2051. "If my kid can get two PhDs by 18, there's a chance they could get on the faculty track," you think. You throw your backpack on your shoulder, stepping onto your motorcycle as you head out into the apocalyptic wasteland of southern Illinois in search of water

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tell me where the lie is

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Did it hurt? When you realized you had to learn to code?

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@dykemelodrama This had to be my favorite response

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Molecular biology pep talk: your plasmid might be pBAD, but I think your cloning skills are p good ✌️

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Total synthesis papers be like: "A Novel 56-Step Synthesis of Impracticaldehyde"

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PI: "Okay, we've got a little extra money from this funding cycle we need to use up, any ide-" Me: "55 MICROSCOPES 55 MASS SPECS 55 HPLCs 55 PIPETTES 100 COLUMNS 55 LYOPHILIZERS 55 CELL LINES-"

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UC shows up late to the bargaining table every time and then decides to call a session at midnight? How can anyone possibly call this “bargaining in good faith?”

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I'm sorry, what?!?

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every time someone mentions fantasia I'm obligated to share that my ancestor animated the satanic orgy

Natalie Wynn

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Disney’s Fantasia depicts a Satanic orgy, a drunken Bacchanal, and Darwin’s theory of evolution. Ideal children’s entertainment, my favorite when I was 5 or 6. More of this please

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every time I get misgendered I increase the boldness and font size of my e-mail signature

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PhD students will force themselves to take a day to peruse the literature and then find an article they wish they'd seen 6 months ago

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You scabbed at the largest academic strike in US history, I played blitzkrieg bop to hundreds of people on the picket line, we are not the same

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Me: "Has anyone seen any IPA?" Undergrad: "Wait, you keep beer in the lab?" Me: "No, isopropyl- DO I LOOK LIKE I DRINK IPAS?!?"

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4 years

Don't make the GRE "optional." Get rid of it.

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2 years

Just sent an e-mail to 200 of my organic chemistry students informing them that I will be joining the @sruuaw strike next week. Graduate researchers, GSIs, ARs and postdocs are the backbone of this university, and it's time for the administration to know the value of our labor.

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Love the way I’ve embraced “what’s up nerds” as a gender neutral greeting

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Computational work counts as crossing the picket, I’m afraid :/

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@queermsfrizzle This is better than the time my labmate tried to remove the "R" in a protein sequence and instead removed every R in her entire presentation

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Inorganic chemists love to be like "we synthesized..." and it's just the most comically bulky ligand you've ever seen

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pls print this at the start of all organic chemistry textbooks

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Did my first synthesis in over a year today can we get a W in the chat

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3 years

You can’t tell me this is not witchcraft, inorganic chemists are practically speaking in tongues

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@bioeng_research brb getting this tattooed on my non-pipetting hand

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To people who use the terms womyn/womxn: please look up the history of these words. Listen to your trans peers when we say these terms aren't as inclusive or respectful as you might think.

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Lord help me they’re using DEI speak to defend war crimes now

Meng-meng Fu

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As an international journal, @eLife has a DEI mission. It should not be led by someone who ostracized an entire country of scientists by posting “F*** Israel”. That’s not inclusion. Would it be acceptable to post “F*** [any country]”? “F*** [any race/demographic]”?

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More molecular graffiti…folks, what am I looking at here?

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@TrevorProject Fifty points for Gryffindor.

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Organic chemists love to be like "we synthesized..." and it's then it's just 5 named reactions in one sentence

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Inorganic chemists love to be like "we synthesized..." and it's just the most comically bulky ligand you've ever seen

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Things I've learned in a graduate organic chemistry class: -Chairs are good. Does your transition state look like a chair? That's very good. -Want to make something enantioselective? Idk bro slap BINOL around a metal -The names of 50+ old white dudes

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“Boil, boil, toil and trouble, incubate and watch it double”

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did you know you can play space invaders on an agilent hplc

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YOU THERE. YES, YOU. WHAT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOSE THEIR SHIT?

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The kids at Berkeley are doing hormone graffiti now I see

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My PI: "I know you're not going to believe me, but you're actually in a good spot with data for your quals right now" Me: "Correct, I don't believe you"

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I love building silly little apparatuses it’s my favorite part of science

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Let me tell you how this goes: they'll use a sample size that's too small, play with their data until they find the tiniest shred of significance, and then wildly overstate their conclusions. All without consulting any trans folks, let alone trans scientists. What do I win?

Simón(e) Sun, PhD \ simonesun.bsky.social

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🤢🤮😐😑😠😡🤬

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@AlexanderRKlotz Every time someone says this we pump more nitrogen in

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imagine being cis in grad school. imagine being able to just focus on your research and like, rock climbing or something. wild

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"Yeah I'm into omics." "Oooo whatcha study? The genome? Proteome? Transcriptome? Glycome?" "Even better!"

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it takes 4 seconds

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Avert your eyes #chemtwitter . It's only a @Nature paper.

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“committed to keeping a UC degree affordable for students” is a real slap to the face for the rent-burdened grad students living paycheck-to-paycheck under UC’s pathetic wages.

Michael V. Drake

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. @UofCalifornia is committed to keeping a UC degree affordable for students. We've expanded our financial aid to cover more families, keep tuition stable, and create new paths for students to graduate debt-free. Learn more:

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october 5th is now national wear a band tee and blazer to lab day sorry I don't make the rules

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@daughter_ion I’ve gotten a few ads targeted at “tall women” (5’9” to 6’6”) even though I’m not in that range. But I do feel like it’s saying “hey, catch my drift? 😉”

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@Mich_MHA That's heinous...at least here at Berkeley, just getting into undergrad research is already a feat, and getting a publication out of that is a real roll of the dice depending on the project

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So this month I am preparing to host a discussion on LGBTQ+ professional inequities in STEM. I want to keep my sources public to allow for community input, so here's a thread---Also down to chat if you have specific advice! Take a look, and please comment with any good recs! ⬇️

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I hate the way we've established this language and I intend to say it the long way for the rest of my career to avoid confusion

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anyone wanna be a real ally and buy me some cells for a luciferase assay

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Since I can assume UC monitors my Twitter, I just have one message for their negotiating team: im in your walls I’m in your walls I’M IN YOUR WALLS I’M IN YOUR WALLS

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new bio

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Maybe it's just me, but when you decide to eulogize a prominent trans scientist, maybe don't have the 4th word of the article be their deadname

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Francis lab ftw

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Sometimes I'll feel guilty about being in lab for a day without setting up any experiments but then I'm like...no babe! You need to take time to read the literature and design *meaningful* experiments instead of trying to make yourself just feel busy!!!

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@cervixpiercer I have a friend who phrases his as “retransition,” because it’s not so much a rejection of his transition but another one entirely that builds off his growth from the first

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My organic students have their first lecture on chirality today, time to write some review questions

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And for the record, no, the GRE isn't going to fix this

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Regular reminder that the GRE is not a predictor of success in grad school

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Thrilled to announce I have not won any fellowships this cycle but I'm still getting WAY BETTER at proposing experiments compared to last year and the confidence boost is palpable

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well folks we made it through another application cycle

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@SarahBurssty I guess the court rejected their url change decree

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I am a: ⚪ man ⚪ woman 🔘 chemical biologist seeking: ⚪ men ⚪ women 🔘 a detailed explanation for how spherical nucleic acids enter cells via the endosomal pathway

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Like are we talking lawful good overnight 6pm - 9am or chaotic evil overnight from 11pm - 6am

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Pulling my hair out whenever a paper says something was done “overnight”

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Cal band came out to show their solidarity!

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Can we do away with the idea that Biology is an "inferior" science because people perceive it to require less skill than Chem/Physics? Honestly, this take is so stale it's attracting flies. (1/6)

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Okay, fine. I will bring the trombone tomorrow.

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If you want to be non-binary you can just be non-binary. That's it. You don't have to be androgynous, or use they/them, or have dysphoria. You are allowed to wander in your gender & have nice things. You're still not getting a photo of me pre-transition tho, those are for my alt

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Saw the AIDS quilt today in SF. I don’t think any other work I’ve ever seen in my life has made me feel so much pain.

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Physical chemists be like: ~you put the particle in the box and then you shake it all up~

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19th century lab notebooks must have been like, “Today I prepared a 0.2 molar solution of muriatic acid and ascertained the pH by taste. I do believe I made a calculation error, as I’ve not been able to taste anything since 10am. I am most hopeful the effect is temporary.”

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@xhimichka The glucose trick was always one of my favorites from biochem.

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Me since joining twitter: "I'm gonna need more hands"

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How many transgender scientists do you know? Can you count them on one hand?

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Analytical chemists love to be like "we synthesized..." oh actually the mass spec is down again. And the NMR too. Bummer. Guess we'll never know

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Biochemists love to be like "we synthesized..." except no you didn't, the enzyme did that. And the bacteria made the enzyme. You just made stinky chicken soup and ran it through a column

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Today is trans day of visibility #TDOV but I am personally tired of being seen. I want to be *heard*

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Oh, let me not forget about C-GEM

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@cephalopie the tea I could spill about academic nepo babies if I wasn't afraid of getting blacklisted

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One thing I can say is I’ve met a lot of trans women in science this year and all of them are sharp as a fucking knife

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bay area earthquake Twitter assemble

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