Ryan A Valdez
@BioSciRy
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Queer latine scientist; something approximating a microbiologist; they/he, in all my non-binary finery 🏳️🌈🌵🌱🦠
Joined February 2019
Just a broad reminder that I'm a "man" in the same way that a Muppet is a person. It's not. It's absolutely not. But I can see how you might be confused.
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I love my project. I love my lab. I am determined to succeed come Hell or high water. I am also determined to rest and spend time on the other things I love. I am determined to respect myself and the quality of my work by not pushing past my healthy limits.
@seis_matters So many of the responses apparently can’t conceive of a person who is excited about doing research and determined to be successful, even in exchange for some amount of personal enjoyment or free time. It is pretty hard to have a productive PhD with a clock-in clock-out mentality.
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I've been watching this gif on loop for longer than I care to admit.
In 2016 @AlbertoCairo produced the Datasaurus Dozen to make this point even more dramatically. It’s absolutely wild that 50 years later we still need to communicate this to folks who have recently awarded STEM degrees. Dataviz needs to be a fundamental part of data education
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RT @AdelitaMendoza7: I want to glue a worm (C.elegans) to a flow cell so that I can flow different concentrations of zinc over it. I want t….
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If that city is St. Louis. well, good luck.
the saddest thing is when you visit a city that’s not new york or chicago and they’re like “we also have a distinctive pizza style!”.
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RT @HarmitMalik: In all seriousness the debate over grad school rotations or not (assuming funding permits) is a debate between anticipatin….
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Rotations are a lifesaver. In fact, I generally recommend undergrads avoid applying to programs that don't do them. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and all that.
(Really) unpopular opinion: a year of rotations is a waste of time and resources. If your PhD is interesting you'll anyway collaborate with other labs and learns different techniques (and travel, and see how things are done elsewhere). I know no one agrees with me about this.
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RT @KaidenHPrice: @OdedRechavi Counterpoints: IMO the *most* important part of a rotation is giving students enough time in labs to recogni….
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The gay agenda is real and rainbow bacteria are a top priority.
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For just a dash of chaos, pronounce anole like canoli and refuse (under any circumstances) to say it any other way. This tweet brought to you by: I grew up saying it that way and now it's stuck.
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RT @sarahkendrew: My somewhat cynical take on bullies in academia is that they’re a feature, not a bug. I touched on this with an earlier t….
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The status of the presentation I'm giving Monday is "my car hasn't been this clean since I bought it".
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My path has been edu psych -> institional leadership -> carbon partitioning -> microbial ecology -> microbial physiology. All else equal, I think I would be just as happy doing a PhD in any of those other things. It's way more important to be curious than obsessed with a topic.
Unpopular opinion I find myself sharing with lots of undergrads lately: The “only pursue a PhD if you’ve found the topic that’s your One True Passion & keeps you up at night” advice is bs. I think I could have pursued several different paths happily.
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RT @JennysueKasiah: Thank you so GPC/GSS and SAC for making the continued effort to give stipend equality across all PhD programs at WashU!….
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My dog knows how to ask me to take her outside. But sometimes if I'm trimming her nails or doing something she doesn't like, she'll ask. Her ability to say "This is hard for me. Can we take a little break, please?" far exceeds most humans I know.
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One time, I told someone who organized a tutor "training" that learning styles, which were part of the session, were not backed by science and I was basically told "who cares if it's true?".
Had to give my students “the talk” yesterday. (About how learning styles are not a thing.).
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Really fun thing happening with my dog - she can't have walks rn for medical reasons, so instead she manifests the Devil's mischief at every opportunity.
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On the one hand, I'm working at the boundary of human knowledge with the hope of expanding it by some infinitesimal amount. On the other hand, I'm an adult with a backpack who uses a sticker chart to track experiments. I contain multitudes.
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