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 athens, ga
Joined July 2015
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I often fear the outcome of speaking out but I can’t be quiet about this. I’m horrified. Flyers hanging up in my department’s hallways. Not sure what kind of sick sense of humor someone feels in degrading women in STEM (1/2) @UGA_CollegeofAg @universityofga @UGAGradSchool
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@Nature23 May 2022
Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and department in the US, according to crowdsourced data go.nature.com/3GcrZ9e
PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

Nature - As inflation rates soar, new data on the finances of US graduate students spark calls for action.

nature.com
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Group picture at the #Agrobacterium2021 meeting. It was great! See you all next year! @Agromeeting
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Someone needs to stop my lab and I
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He would be proud today.
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@repjohnlewis26 Jul 2016
The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society. We must use it.
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A taser is not a deadly weapon. A gun is. Adrenaline and irritation are not the same as mortal fear. Running away should not be punishable by death. Public safety must mean the public is safe. All of us. #BlackLivesMatter #AtlantaShooting #RayshardBrooks
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The last person going to the lab
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Don't miss this week's seminar! "Breakfast bonanza: how biotechnology betters banana" presented by Gary Orr @TallfescWho Thursday, March 5| 4:00 PM 128/130 CAGT Athens 102 SLC Griffin 125 NESPAL Tifton live: zoom.us/j/925100801 #IPBGG #UGA #seminar #biotechnology #banana
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Me trying to pretend that I don’t have any work to do today
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SyRI, find me rearrangements in this genome. @itsmanishgoel, Schneeberger and co present the Synteny and Rearrangement Identifier (SyRI) which identifies structural variants by performing pairwise alignments. Any non-syntenic region are, by definition, SVs genomebiology.biomedcentral.…
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Very proud to let you know that the next Agrobacterium conference will take place in Leuven, organised by colleagues @BarbaraConinck and Hans Rediers. Save the date, and see you there!
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"Committees shouldn’t expect students to provide lavish spreads ... Our research should be enough." This week's #SciMagWorkingLife. fcld.ly/jegxz4k
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Grad school, before and after.
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I knew it way back then and I’m absolutely convinced of it today — you’re one of a kind, @MichelleObama. Happy Birthday!
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gone@gone100437 Jan 2019
There is no scientific basis for jim watson’s claim racial differences in intelligence. Some people are just racists.
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All I'm saying is, if I were a billionaire, I'd tell all my aspiring rivals that the secret to success was getting up at 4am.
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This is the amount of acorns that woodpeckers can store into a telecom antenna: nearly 150 kg bit.ly/2HIPokd
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The major origin of seedless grapes is associated with a missense mutation in the MADS-box gene VviAGL11 ($) plantphysiol.org/content/ear…
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Its taken us a decade to pull this dataset together and the message is clear. Moving wildlife around the planet is a *very bad idea* unless you know *exactly what it is that you are moving*. Which we don't so we shouldn't science.sciencemag.org/conte… @fisher_lab @MRC_Outbreak
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Defended to the Nines: 25 years of Resistance Gene Cloning Identifies Nine Mechanisms for R Protein Function plantcell.org/content/early/…
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