Dr. Bryan H. Juarez (He/They)
@bhjuarez
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PostDoc | Chicano | Bilingual Ciencia | Health, Equity, Happiness | Stats Connoisseur | 🏳️🌈🇲🇽. O’Connell & Hadly Labs.
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In a showing of sheer grit and determination: my whole dissertation is now published!!
Check out my Open Access paper in JEvBio on Ecology, sexual dimorphism, and jumping evolution in anurans
AND my research made the cover of
@JEvBio
😃
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PhD stress be leaving you like "am i actually doing a great job or is everyone lying to me"
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Enough with the surveys already. I guarantee your dept. and university have DEI issues which need to be addressed. Hire professionals. Provide funding. Build a network of resources. Grads (etc.) can't be expected to do all this work for free in addition to science and courses.
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The faculty job search season is finally over for me. I applied to 25 positions, got 9 Zoom interviews, but no offers.
It has been REAL HARD doing this academic thing while financially supporting my parents at the same time. I am not sure how much more of this I can handle!
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I disagree. It's a vacation for underprivileged students 🙌🏽.
In the 10 years I've been a scientist conferences have been my only vacations. Last month was the first month I ever took a "real vacation".
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Look at this cute frog (Hylarana erythraea). So pointy.
That is all.
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People can be both great scientists and racist assholes at the same time. Saying "we have to judge them by the standards of their time" is gaslighting
POC trying to succeed in Bio, yet we CAN'T separate racism from the very thing we're trying to make careers of
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I uncovered a dark history at this year's
#2022PLI
@sacnas
#2022NDiSTEM
which helped me to understand how systematic racism has affected me.
I thought I was one of few, but I was just just one among many.
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I am BEYOND exited to share the news that I recently accepted a PostDoc position in the lab of
@alaurenoconnell
@LOB_SU
at Stanford! I will research behavioral evolution of some of the *best* organisms in the world 🐸🐸. (details to come). The thing is...
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My PRFB was funded 🥰!! I will be working with
@sacnas
at
@Stanford
to develop practical tools for stats programming, and with
@alaurenoconnell
and
@LizHadly
to understand the role of AQUAPORIN proteins, breeding behavior, and climate in the diversification of 🐸🐸
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Some academics will not cite someome bc they disagreed with them 20yrs ago then turn around and be like "we must listen to different (racist) views, everyone's opinion matters"
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🚨 New preprint!! Very happy to present my first postdoc project with
@alaurenoconnell
. "Climate Ecology as a Driver of Global Breeding Periods in Anurans".
We found a latitudinal reproduction gradient in breeding period across 497 species, HOWEVER...
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I'm on the job market!!
If a Chicano from LA who does lab and computational research at the interface of organismal biology, society, wildlife, and global change would make a good addition to your department, let me know!!
CV here:
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Today I gave my first conference talk in Spanish. It was not perfect. Mistakes were made. It was challenging.
Nonetheless I see this as a necessary and important career milestone. The Evolutionary Ecology session I was in was FANTASTIC.
@clevol1
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It’s official. All 3 of my dissertation chapters are at least submitted. (((😘🐸)))
2 weeks before the start of my postdoc. Ahhhhh feelings.
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As part of my NSF PRFB, I recruited expertise from Latina/o postdocs and grads to provide current PhD and Master's student the tools for success: ***data skills for publication***.
The goal is to diversify STEM at the postdoctoral level and we hope we will do just that!
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Twitter name updated!! 🤩
One thing I learned during PhD: "The more you know, the more you know you don't know"
Second thing: I did NOT need to know all those SAT and GRE words to succeed 🙌🏽🙌🏽
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PLEASE RT. 🚨New paper🚨 "Evolutionary allometry of sexual dimorphism of jumping performance in anurans"
Highlights:
1. New proxies for jumping
2. Test new hypos. for size and jumping dimorphism
3. Discuss 'many-to-one' mapping of selection to fitness!!!
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If I get to be somewhere new AND advance my career. That's a vacation. Sure, we work hard. But I would encourage EVERYONE to think about how privileged we are relative to people who truly don't have any disposable income.
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We don't GET the privilege of just ignoring the racism and idolizing them. It's also demeaning and belittling telling us we have to judge them by their time when our otherwise potentially would-be idols would have hated our POC guts.
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It started here for me when I was an 8 yr old.
This week, after about 20 yrs, I visited
@NHMLA
again, but this time as an evolutionary biologist conducting research. I wrote about my childhood visits to NHMLA in my grad and GRFP apps, and I can say it paid off. Thank you!
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Super excited and proud to present my dissertation (Apr 1); the first study of sexual dimorphism in jumping and related morph traits. I infer processes that generated each.
My dissertation title is:
Macroevolution of jumping performance, sexual dimorphism, and habitat in Anura
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Hello world, this frogologist (tm) will be defending his PhD on April 1. Details to come, get ready for some biomechanics, sexual dimorphism, and allometry of jump performance.
It’s CRAZY what happened after saying “ya know, I bet we can estimate jumping from museum specimens”
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It is INSANE to me that I published a new friggin' methods paper!! (Tools and Techniques). Am I a biomechanist now? I missed half of 6th grade because I was homeless. I was mad as heck that I could not learn any more math! Comin' in hot in grad school
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Same quote confounds their scientific ability and views of people. When we say "X is racist", we aren't saying X is a shitty scientist.
Why do people feel so threatened when we identify racist behavior??
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You know all this voice amplifying we've been doing? This is how academia needs to be, always. I don't wanna see it go back to the way it was, so don't let it.
The support, encouragement, and excitement are what we need to succeed.
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I am officially a published scientist y'all! If you're interested in
#eyes
,
#geographical
#gradients
, or
#ostracods
, this paper is for you. Context‐dependent evolution of ostracod morphology along the ecogeographical gradient of ocean depth. Evolution.
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We need diverse groups of people in Academic spaces. If you don't understand why, then 1) you're out of touch and 2) you're ignoring decades of research. Simple as that.
Fin
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ecoevojobs needs a salary column. Min and max is fine too.
case uses: 1) know when I a salary does not meet my financial needs and goals, 2) rank jobs within a state by salary, 3) remove chair jobs etc where chair is listed under subject instead of rank
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If this happened to you and you want to be involved in a pub documenting these issues and discussing mitigation strategies for our communities and in academia, please respond or DM me.
Scope includes all bilingual people (trilingual etc too)
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Academic Latinas/os have no choice but to bring their full identities into white academic spaces. Why? Because if we don't then no one will tell our story.
Because White academics often take advantage of their privilege and don't care to learn much about us. To support us.
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Congrats new
#PRFB
fellows!
Advice for unwritten stuff 🧵:
1) read thru the $ section of your admin guide and process paperwork well ahead of your start date on the 1st of a month.
2) can pay quarterly taxes on your stipend
3) you can use your allowance for a retirement fund
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It disproportionately affects those of us who are already disadvantaged and used much time to build our networks here.
I don't have the physical or mental capacity to start that process all over.
I am seeing lot of scientists ditch Twitter/X. I get it, I also want to.
But as an ECR with papers coming out and networking being paramount...I'm worried.
It feels like this is gonna hurt those of us pre-TT the most.
Anybody else? What's the fix?
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So excited to have been selected as an Associate for the Yale Intersections Science Fellows Symposium!!
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Hello SACNISTAS! In an effort to highlight student posters related to evolutionary biology the Evolution socities are interested in sharing student posters. If you would like to be included respond to this tweet or DM me or
@Eco_evo_danny
#2023NDiSTEM
#EcoEvoPresents
@sacnas
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As I have said, my story is intertwined with my family’s. If I may, a creative dedication to my roots, after a successful defense!! : “I dedicate this dissertation to my family. Jaylene: you are the kindness and dedication, the joy and the laughter
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Meeting with a therapist today. I'm not okay. Yes, I talk openly about mental health 🙋🏽♂️.
Literally the most stressful semester and birthday month ever. Somehow I've managed to make *some progress in the last week.
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Placing students in classes that do not match their competency is inappropriate. But to do this through surveys which target minority communities is explicit racism. It's meant to keep us down. Prevent us from learning.
It's heartbreaking. It's infuriating.
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My non-academic partner has reminded me to 1) stop worrying about whether I've worked enough and 2) to not say things like "I accidentally took the weekend off"
Just thought I'd share those nuggets with y'all as I try to avoid falling into these academic doomhole traps
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Writing today has been a success. 😁
Stick around for a new pre-print on the drivers of the breeding period in frogs
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Some of the cleanest data I've ever had! Hoping to submit this study by the end of summer.
All I will say now is this project is frog related!!
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Naturally, some parents see this as a benign survey. They want to know what language is spoken at home so the school can improve our education, right?
Instead of improving our education, asking what language is spoken at home was used to CREATE BARRIERS. AND THIS STILL HAPPENS.
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Cool mutant
#frog
with eyes in its mouth, apparently infected by a
#trematode
. Posted by pipistrellus on imgur.
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What others often don't understand is that they cannot know our experiences simply from attending one or two one-hour diversity trainings. It's impossible to fully understand what we went through and how it affected our lives in 2 hours of training.
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My hot take is grades don't matter as much as everyone is led to believe. They have 0 standardization (the thing we value as scientists), yet some scientists hail them as the end all be all.
Stop trying to compare people's lives and abilities using simple sliding scales.
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It took 3 months for teachers to advocate for me to get the administration to place me in classes which were appropriate for my learning level.
The dark history? I met MANY people who this happened to this week. Not just in California, same as me, but in other states as well.
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I was one of 20 Postdocs accepted to this year's
#2022PLI
@sacnas
#2022NDiSTEM
.
I'm so excited to learn more about myself to better support future mentees, meet other folks, and most importantly network with support all the amazing undergrads+grads here.
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Just registered for
#SICB20
@SICBtweets
. It's so refreshing to have a society where a clear effort to minimize student costs has been made for several years. Registration was only ~$100 AND I was able to opt out of receiving a silly hardcopy program book.
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I'm so excited for the ISU EEB recruitment symposium! Each year we invite two keynote speakers, an EEB program graduate and a second exceptional researcher.
This year the current grads chose to host Dr. Stacy Lindshield and Dr. Martha Muñoz (
@marmmunoz
)
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#EcoEvoPresents
C Lawrence III's study "Using Jaw Morphology to Identify Ecomorph Affinities in Jamaican Anolis lizards"
#EvolSACNAS
#2023NDiSTEM
@SACNAS
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Today is the first SACNAS meeting at Stanford. I've been looking forward to this for two weeks.
Side note: my department awarded me $500 in funds to hold statistical programming workshops to promote diversity. Will be in beautiful
@stanfordjrbp
. STAY TUNED.
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It’s happening. I’m writing a blog for ESA on my dual language dissertation defense.
What questions do you have for me? Please let me know below! I’ll try to give an answer in the blog post.
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While I have you, DEI work takes MONEY. Expecting volunteers to do work is neither equitable nor sustainable.
At worst: your volunteer-basis DEI committee can lead to even more inequity, proportional to the work underrepresented folks put in to catch you dept. up with the times
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The common denominator is our identities. We all spoke Spanish at home. You see, when enrolling children in school in the United States, schools ask you what language is spoken at home. Limited options are given and parents are forced to pick one.
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I figured out part of the puzzle y'all.
Through high school, first-gen students are presented with standards and expectations. This is part of how we navigate the world. This starts going away in college and can disappear in grad school. 👇🏽
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This.
In my faculty apps I describe a similar feeling as leaving behind the bit (of yourself) you need to survive when moving away for grad school. It's just too huge a life change, and mentors need to understand these feelings of ours
I'm feeling a heavy heart tonight, and tears keep streaming down my face because I miss my family immensely. I find myself struggling to fall asleep, consumed by thoughts of the sacrifices we must make when we move away to pursue our careers.
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The Adams Lab (my PhD lab) has an open PhD position to develop independent reasearch on GM methods, macroevol, and evol/stat theory
I would ABSOLUTELY do my PhD again with Dean
Please reach out to me if you have questions and are considering applying!!
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When I was on the phone with my dad he said "finalmente llegaste hijo, al topo de la escalera que has estado subiendo" "you finally made it son, to the top of the stairs you've been climbing". *fights back tears*
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Below I share a very honest take of my experience being Hispanic in academia. I think it's important for others to continue to read our stories, to become better mentors. Understanding is half the battle.
@Eco_Evo_Danny
thank you so much for the important work and the invite.
Week 2 of the Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month Newsletter dropped today! So many great resources here on mentorship but if you only have time for one thing, check out the cuentos/contos -
@bhjuarez
@Formorphology
@Anemone_Padawan
share their wisdom
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That sweet, sweet moment when you get the first experimental results as a postdoc.
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I spoke Spanish to my parents and aunts/uncles and I learned English from my siblings and cousins. I was advanced in both languages for my age.
Yet, throug grade school, I was placed in "English learners" or "English remedial" classes. Sometimes for up to 3 months at a time
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My mind just threw me back to the time I was reading a well-known DEI resource and it had a section saying "diversity is challenging".
Diversity itself is not challenging. Diversity is life. It's people who create issues, distrust, and barriers who create challenging situations
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Hi hello, a few weeks ago I learned I was neurodivergent.
I'm sharing this because it really helped put a lot of my interactions with people (especially in academia) into perspective. It's another layer on the complexity of feeling as an other.
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Yay 700 followers! For the new people, I tweet about science, DEI, and I try to give underprivileged people a voice.
Mostly though, I've had it with this inequity BS and I'm trying to use my relative privilege as a postdoc to help others.
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I am VERY proud of my sis! She wrote an award-winning essay on
#decolonizing
#Academia
and the importance of seeing infrastructure through the lens of anthro to know how power is kept and distributed. She discusses implications for keeping accurate histories
#UCSB
#receipts
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It's tough out there and this is what we've been saying.
Academics have a bad habit of not "believing" us or placing much weight on our experiences unless we're "studied" by white scientists.
I said what I said.
608 PhD students were studied during their first year of grad school.
Those from lower SES backgrounds felt less integrated as they struggled to make academic friends, lost non-academic connections, felt misunderstood inside and outside of academia.
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Just submitted my
#JMIH22
Abstract with
@alaurenoconnell
@LOB_SU
.
"Climate Ecology as a Driver of Amphibian Breeding Phenology Evolution"
I'll have a special surprise for the new people I meet 😁. Stay tuned.
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To privileged people, grad pay is nothing. To low-income students, grad pay is a godsend. It's amazing that I can do science and get paid. We can't expect privileged people to do the outreach to make this common knowledge in low income communities, we have work to do!
Why isn't it common knowledge among undergrads that you can have a PhD paid for, and even be PAID to go?? I didn't know this until my 4th year of undergrad (neither did a lot of my friends) and I wonder how it would have changed my decision making around this time
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Opportunities to publish as an undergrad is the new "WW = diversity".
Some departments haven't thought too deeply about DEI. They're still using privilege as a proxy for future success and excluding great applicants.
Yuck… glad we’re still pushing a broken system. Meanwhile applications from disadvantaged backgrounds can get tossed in the trash.
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Stop making diversity statements 1 page.
Either 1) make them longer to weed out the fakers and give people with real DEI experience a chance to elaborate or 2) exempt the diverse talent you are trying to work with from having to prove their struggles meet YOUR standards.
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#EcoEvoPresents
D. Canseco's study "Into the Spider Bite: Exploring Morphological Variation and Evolutionary Shifts in Chelicerae"
#EvolSACNAS
#2023NDiSTEM
@SACNAS
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F it, doing it early this year cause last post made me mad.
May 5th, mostly celebrated by Americans (not Mexicans), is not an excuse to make caricatures of Mexican people and act a fool. Thank you.
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The 🐸 is out of the bag. My goal is to design a new framework to link behavioral evo and physiology/molecular evolution in a phylogenetic comparative context!!
RT if you'd be interested in this research! I'd like to know more people doing behavior and physiology work!
I just finished making a lecture on the kidney and vasopressin and aquaporins and now I’m so excited for
@bhjuarez
to figure out how all this related to reproduction in 🐸s
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Today's a good day to prepare a
#bilingual
dissertation presentation, para que mis padres me entiendan.
#AcademicChatter
anyone have any ideas or tools to help? I can't be the only one who has tried this before
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I am lucky to have them and recognize that not everyone has a supportive family. This, among other reasons, is why I think one of the most important things scientists/educators can have is my favorite word: empathy. Thanks for coming to my
#MExTalk
🇲🇽
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Would y'all be interested in knowing what I learned about making dual language presentations? Cause it was hard 😂.
Calling it dual language now cause I had to balance audience understanding in both languages and I cannot speak in both languages for all slides.
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I'm two weeks into living in the bay area. Despite all the terrible in the world, my mental health is TOPS right now. I love my new job.
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Great day today. 1. Retina problem is improving. 2. I got Mexican goodies and sweet bread in Des Moines. 3. I'm fully vaccinated now!!
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Got a request to review an article today. Confidence boosted 💯💯%
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Relative to what? If we try absolute numbers, BIPOC grad students make up less than 20%. The number is closer to 30% for undergraduates, but 66% students still come from the top 20% of the richest homes in the country.
Stanford still has a VERY long way to go.
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#slowmotion
vid of a
#CricketFrog
(
#Acris
) jump. Actual time of vid is 0.206 secs! 🐸 caught by Dr. Daniel Moen from Oklahoma State U and myself. Am using this 🐸 and ~140 others for my
#biomechanics
research!! 📏📏📏
@IASTATE_SACNAS
@sacnas
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1/N. A few notes on my first publication: Publishing this first paper was HARD. Luckily I have had great mentors at all stages, great funding, and great opportunities. Reaching this point was hard because juggling Bachelor's through PhD work has been *quite* challenging.
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I fkn get this. We're forced to be cautious and "play the game" much more.
"I realized then that marginalized groups face a dilemma in science: The cautious strategy they adopt to succeed can ultimately be a hindrance, keeping them from reaching the upper echelons of science."
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GG Simpson had Imposter Syndrome. "I was intensely interested in evolutionary theory, but for about my first ten years there I did not think I knew though to judge extant theories well or perhaps even to add something to them". From "40 Years Later" section in Tempo and Mode
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One of my student evaluations referred to me as a patient and inviting instructor that allows them to learn and thrive in the class. I needed this today 😳😄😭😭
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PSA: Thru grad skool others have assumed me to be an undergrad, a janitor, and I've been referred to by the name of the only other brown person in the department (MANY X's)
Now I'll add "international postdoc" to the list 🙃. Don't assume if... if nothing. Just don't assume 🙂.
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New paper!! Interested in water uptake and water loss?
@LOB_SU
@csuci
developed a conceptual model for the effects of water and temperature intxns on water loss.
We also report new water loss and uptake data for Phyllobates terribilis, cane toads, and Xenopus tropicalis!
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Proofs submitted!!
Happy to finally have my whole dissertation out there.
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I'm happy we can connect and this is exactly why representation matters!!
OMG another Latino scientist from the Inland Empire/San Bernardino!!! SO excited to come across this interview. Thank you for sharing your story about what it's like to be a Latino in STEM
@bhjuarez
#LatinoHeritageMonth
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Thanks all for having me!
@frogsicles
@atrox10
. It was my first external presentation in person since the pandemic
Such a great group and received great feedback 😁
We were excited to welcome
@bhjuarez
to the
@MVZUCB
for
#herpgroup
seminar last night. He touched on one of his recent publications benchmarking the use of morphological measurements to approximate jumping function in frogs. Great use of museum specimens!
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Cross country driving to the new postdoc = Meteor Crater, AZ.
It's one of the largest impact sites in the US at 170m deep and a diameter of 1.19 km. It was great going back to some of my geology roots to say the least.
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What's the common denominator? How is it that a bunch of Latina/o academics had the same experience in multiple states? How is it that the same "mistake" or selection of classes was made several times in different school districts and in different states.
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