A favorite Buddhist expression is if a single tree is sick, take care of it but don’t forget about all of the other healthy trees. Thus, in spite of bike sadness, I’m celebrating the completion of my very 1st single cell mito seq prep 🥹! So grateful to DFCI’s Claudia Barr program for their support!

Part of why I was commuting on Furiosa was because I had retired her from racing but still loved the way she rode. She’s one of the funnest bikes I’ve ever owned and as weird as it sounds, I felt happy every single time I started my commute b/c of her. Would 100% take her back no questions asked.

Boston - pls be on the lookout for my bike that was stolen from this exact rack on Longwood Ave today. 2021 Specialized Diverge Expert Carbon, size 52 cm, raspberry and blk with studded tires. Yes I know it’s too nice for commuting but ya know, we ride what we got and I spend a lot of time commuting

Any recommendations for a hematologist in the oncology department at Stanford who excels in bed side manner? Need a very sensitive MD or at least someone who won’t express surprise or disbelief when their patient is crying.

I don’t regret doing a postdoc in Boston but a little foresight into the weather when experiment planning MAY have saved me some trouble 🥶 Celebrating a successful day in lab thanks to my amazing labmates @cynthiamoncadareid.bsky.social @yichiahuang.bsky.social 🫶 #SequencingScienceSisters

If you could have any science super power what it would it be? I’ll start: knowing exactly how long something will ACTUALLY take to achieve.

Sending tremendous thanks to everyone working hard to clear the snow tonight 💓💓💓

On the idea of leaving academic research: one of the hardest ideas for me to grapple with is stepping away from the science that I love. I’ve spent years focusing on a carefully chosen topic. The (potentially false) idea is that I can’t find a TT job, I have to give up that study & that hurts…

Your written protocols and lab notebooks are a love letter to your future self (whether it’s you or a future lab member). Please be kind. Here are some critical things I have frequently noticed missing: (feel free to add yours in thread 🧵)

Has anyone started putting together statistics on this year’s TT job search? I learned an expression about a certain event having the same probability of occurring as a turtle sticking its head in a yoke that’s floating in the sea and it’s giving strong TT job search vibes.

The point of waking up early isn’t do that you can start work early. It’s so that you can have a nice morning before going to work.

No one even bike commutes in the winter. Just so grateful for these studded tires making my winter commute that much easier.

Like many other postdocs who faced endless rejection after endless effort, I’m finally parting with the attachment to the TT job path. Please send thoughts and prayers — or just share practical advice that might inspire other ways of looking at future career prospects 💓🙏💓 …

On rejection in academia, for those dealing with it — like me: it’s not easy to keep going in the face of rejection. It is easy to feel like a “failure” and normal to worry about “if not this then what next?” Nothing can change the pain, but I hope you can at least be proud of yourself for trying.

Was inspired to break my Bluesky silence so that I could share my awesome new book (thx to my wonderfully generous lab mate) with @christlet.bsky.social — this is a fun language challenge for me!

Are you working on #CancerNeuroscience and presenting at #SfN? Let me know! I want to come see your talk or poster and the app is really not helpful for locating your info 🤓. Drop it in 🧵 please 🙏

Only on a flight from Boston to #SfN do you hear the flight attendant say "I’ve never seen so many posters in my life"

Who all is presenting at @sfn.org ?! 💁‍♀️ I’m getting excited about seeing the community & want to start bookmarking sessions! Add your info in 🧵 pls 😇 #Science #Neuroscience #SfN2025

@sfn.org virtual posters are live starting today, including mine! I’m presenting this work in the Aging: Models & Mechanisms nanosymposium &, thanks to being awarded a TPDA, at the Early Career Poster Session. But you can also check it out online before your SfN schedule gets packed. See you there!

I love how my entire sense of what is "warm" is based on how C. elegans would respond. (things I think of while setting my thermostat in a country that uses Celsius instead of Fahrenheit)

@dropbox.com "See Version History" has now saved me so much, and is so easy to use, that I have to give it a public vote of support. 🗳️

Very grateful to @icfo.eu MINDLAB workshop organizers for inviting me to share my research & visit the institute. I may have gone more bio for my postdoc, but my love of engineering has yet to fade & my passion for photons grows with every experiment. Feeling very inspired by this community 🔬 💗

It was such a Happy Halloween. Elated that, thanks to an awesome team effort, the Goodrich Lab took home the win in the "Super Scientist" category for our "Gourdier Transform." The best part was getting to see others in the depart share the excitement for our science. #CochleaLove #AuditoryScience

Even after 18 yrs of bike racing, it never ceases to amaze me what the human heart 🫀 can achieve. Oh, I guess I should also say thanks 🫁 .

It’s not easy coming back from vacationing in the best parts of Europe, but Boston’s automnal beauty certainly softens the blow.

Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line

One final vacation day before heading back home & it’s a big one: racing UCI Gravel World Championships. The course traverses some of the most beautiful farmland I’ve ever seen through Zuid-Limburg. Today is 100% all about just pushing myself to the absolute limit to see how hard & fast I can go.

Was given a very special chance to present our work at the Institut de l’Audition in Paris. It felt like such a magical experience & I don’t fully have the words to describe my gratitude other than to say: bless the PIs that give lil ole trainees like me big ole opportunities like this 😭.

Sharing some #auditory highlights from my visit to the Natural History Museum in Paris for all my fellow inner ear enthusiasts out there 🐌. I’m especially taken with the how they managed to show « les labryinthes osseux »

Une obligatoire Américaine dans Paris truc.

Les vacances commence maintenant. Happy to report that everyone has been very kind and welcoming of my desire to practice speaking. Ce n’est pas facile et je suis très timide mais je l’aime vraiment beaucoup. Alors, j’essaie d’être courageuse 😇.

Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!

And since we’re chatting MBL, #MyMBLMoment was getting to see a hair cell dance thanks to Dr. Jonathan Ashmore at the Biology of the Inner Course… also fitting for #MicroscopyMonday

Applications for the Grass Fellowships at @mblscience.bsky.social are open! This is such a cool opportunity to work on an independent project at what is effectively the best science camp in the world. Something I wish I’d known about earlier. Reposting from the other place grassfoundation.org

Looks like @dacolon.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc. Reposting here from the other place because this is truly a great opportunity to do very exciting work with a renowned mentor.

#NewKitDay Just 15 days till gravel world championships. Want to support my journey? Help me reach my PMC fundraising commitment by donating before October 1st -> profile.pmc.org/JF0546

Funding op for grad students copied from the other place. Non X link to the app info: bit.ly/HF-application

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Re tips for student researchers applying for programs: a big part of your app is describing the work that YOU performed in very specific terms but there’s often little guidance on how to articulate these ideas. Simply saying "I was the sole researcher" doesn’t tell the reviewer what YOU DID… 🧵

Weeps quietly in October NIH R01 deadline.

Ok one more for #MicroscopyMonday b/c it was a very fun afternoon. This is from live tissue. Auditory neurons in magenta & their friends (including satellite cells) in green. Big thx to @jessdixonneuro.bsky.social for being generous w/ reagents #ScienceSisters Imaged on FLIMmer @ HMS MicRoN core.

Something different for today’s #MicroscopyMonday. Learning about VKH (a rare autoimmune disorder in which immune cells attack melanocytes) reminded me of this. VKH causes hearing loss because there are melanocytes in the cochlea! You can see them as the dark speckles in this pic from my iPhone

I finally figured out why I can’t bring myself to use AI for writing: I just don’t want to outsource one of my defining qualities to a machine. I am a writer. I love writing and it’s ALWAYS played a huge role in my life. Even if AI can do it better, I have zero interest in giving up my voice.

How exactly is any sort of scientific forum supposed to "avoid politics" when science is currently being systematically dismantled by a political party?

TT job in Neuroscience at Asst or Assoc level. Come work with us! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

New position: Research assistant in the Manzano Lab at Binghamton... early life development, reward seeking and inhibition and single neuron imaging in behaving mice... please repost! binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

The phrase « a-t-elle » has stumped me for awhile so I finally dug into it a bit and learned something very cool about grammar that perfectly addressed the issue bothering me: why the extra t? Because it’s an "ephelcystic nu." It exists purely to make the words sound better & easier to say 😍

That didn't take long

Sounds like it was a mistake to put hatred against bike lanes on the ballot. Congrats to @mayorwu.boston.gov!