Natasha Hesketh
@natashahesketh
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PhD student ~ cell biology, neurodegeneration ~ (she/her)
Joined July 2011
Temple grad students on main campus get paid $19K, adding dependents to their health insurance is prohibitively expensive, and are given 5 days of parental leave… all while working as TAs on top of working on their projects.
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Ways to support TUGSA include signing their petitions and donating to their strike fund (esp since those on strike have lost their tuition remission)
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RT @TUNeuralScience: Well done, Natasha. Also a big congratulations to Gareth Thomas @_ThomasLab for being selected by the students for the….
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RT @Caroline_Bartma: I love academic science because you are a “young investigator” until you are like 50 and also as an adult at a profess….
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RT @oliviastowell: the thing about academia is that no matter how “successful” you become you will always be an adult wearing a backpack.
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RT @andreavbecker: Very excited to finish my PhD so that I can reply to emails like:. “ok. Sent from my iPhone”.
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RT @_ThomasLab: How do signals from damaged axons stay active on their long journey to the cell body? New work from our lab provides some i….
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Palmitoylation-dependent colocalization of two kinases mediates retrograde signaling from injured axons.
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RT @AJGTempleSurg: This is important and impactful research coming from our @TempleMed faculty. Congratulations to Dr. Gareth Thomas and hi….
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RT @meganfrancis: Disgruntled faculty member at one of the many jobs I didn’t get —told me rest of faculty felt “more comfortable” with som….
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RT @ravenscimaven: #BlackintheIvory Showing up early for work on my first day as an assistant professor of biology and someone giving me a….
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RT @daughterofzora: A WW asked how my hair grew so fast. I replied "We don't comment on Black women's hair anymore." She cried while anothe….
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RT @DrShardeDavis: #BlackintheIvory. Being told that I was too “abrasive” and “defensive” during my dissertation defense. operative word….
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RT @iHartEricka: #BlackintheIvory I was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in my masters program. I took a summer class to try and stay….
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RT @theemdphd: A white security guard who's met you before calling the @Yale police on you, being harassed by ~5 cops in lab as they "verif….
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RT @elizabhinton: “You’re not going to get the Harvard job. But if you do, it’s because you’re black. And you won’t get tenure there, but i….
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RT @AlissandraReed: you ever just. completely snap on your dean at the suggestion of joining another committee. ? just me?#BlackInTheIvo….
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RT @CapricePhillips: I bought cotton scented air fresheners for the undergrad physics lounge and they were thrown away by my peers, and I w….
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RT @PublicHealthy: When you are the only Black tenure track/tenured professor in your entire School and after 8 years being asked (this wee….
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