Killian Campbell (he/him/his)
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PhD candidate in Barber Lab at U Oregon IE2 Moonlight as a microbial ecologist with the Bohannan Lab He/Him
Eugene, OR
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My boyfriend dropped me off at lab this morning and said "tell your bacteria I said hi”
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STEM Grad students only know two things about their campus: where the lab is and where the coffee shop is
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I have a friend who is a math PhD student and I asked how he does his homework/ if he uses computers. he said oh god no. so I said, how do you do it? And he said he just sits and THINKS and stares at the math and lets it roll around in his head until he gets. i could never
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My boyfriend asking me to explain my research to his parents because he's so proud of me?!? Fuck, I'm lucky
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fly biologists are so weird. They always be like "shh, I'm counting virgins". Like uhh, okay excuse me while I call the authorities
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Publish? No I'd rather perish thank u very much
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Dude post docs and lab managers do SO much to keep labs running. I would not be where I am today without being able to ask knowledgeable and kind post docs all of my dumb questions. So much intellectual and technical wisdom in these folks.
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Some big news: I am so excited to announce that I got engaged today! I had no idea it was coming. Love you Ben!
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feel very, very in between and it is uncomfortable. Don't have nearly enough quantitative abilities to a real evolutionary biologist, not nearly enough microbiology experience to be a micro person, not nearly enough modeling, coding, naturalist knowledge to be an ecologist...
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We did it! My partner Ben and I are homeowners. Reposting with a diff pic to maintain privacy lol
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set up an 8kb pcr today this is against god's will we were not supposed to live this way
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first time running a gel in grad school (lol) and the first time also doing a pcr in 3 years and 1) I spilled molten agarose on the table when casting it and 2) when I finished running my sampled i dropped the gel on the floor and it broke LOL
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Woo I passed a 1000 followers on here! Happy pride month! My name is Killian Campbell. I'm a PhD student in the Barber lab at U Oregon. I'm interested in microbial
#evolution
and
#ecology
, and studying microbial adaptation to new envs. I'm
#outinstem
and proud as well. 🏳️🌈
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happy
#LGBTQSTEMDay
!!!
Today and every day I am proud to represent my identity and the identities of my community in STEM. It is important to acknowledge the importance of representation and creating equitable spaces in STEM
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What organisms give off the most goth vibes? If I open a lab I want my study system to be GOTH
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My boyfriend cooked his finest Caucasian cuisine tonight. His people's food is so interesting!
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So may have also gotten a dog today. Bc a PhD, exams, and a new house weren't enough.
Meet River!
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Flying out for my FIRST PhD interview tomorrow 😳.... I can’t believe that this time is here. Feeling excited, emotional, and fortunate for everything thus far.
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Really proud to announce that I was awarded a spot on the NIH training grant in genetics here at UO. Super happy and excited to do more science. Time to get to work!
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me in a breakout session as the TA
student: "what does X do again?"
me: *types super loudly*
student: "Killian I could've googled it, but I want to know what you know"
Me: silent, uh.....
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Not to flex on y'all but this is the drip of the century right here. Thanks Malik lab!!!
@HarmitMalik
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Just asked my bf what type of person I am and he responded and he said I am "angry socialist scientist"
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Inside of us all are two chickens. One is gfp positive, and the other is wild type
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No one:
Isme host introducing opening reception keynote speakers
"We have two speakers, one male one female, just to be safe"
🥴🥴🥴🥴
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love filing taxes as a PhD student without a W2 it is so fun and not all annoying
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Not to be a negative person/asshole but this is so irresponsible and I can't believe how ISME essentially ignored the reality of covid. I did not feel safe at this conference. And I really don't feel confident visiting my grandparents later this week. I masked and stayed home 1/2
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Dude I love Eugene. I'm getting vaccinated in a concert hall with a disco ball and grateful dead playing and volunteers dancing.
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I asked a question to a PI at a talk for the first time ever on front of everyone and I feel so brave LOL
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Living with depression is really hard. Some days you feel really motivated and just fine. Other days you feel sh*t and have no motivation for no reason... Unfortunately, it's something that we academics don't talk openly about enough
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I picked the worst paper in the history of papers for journal club I feel so bad omg
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Moved across country ☑️
Came out as gay to family and friends ☑️
Brought my partner home to family and friends ☑️
Starting a new PhD program ☑️
Dealing with the mental stress that a pandemic brings ☑️
Learning how to be a virtual student ☑️
This last month has been insane
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you ever read someone's paper and are just speechless? That they came up with this idea, that they designed an experiment simple enough to understand but also sophisticated enough to generate the data to answer their original question completely? Just had one of those WOW moments
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I have my quals in like 4 weeks. I'm terrified. Tell me about how your quals went
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God give me the confidence of a 1990s nanodrop telling me I have over 100 ug of DNA in my sample
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I wanna get back in the lab so bad I've started doing this to some of my seasonings
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fucking it up
Tell me something about your research that you’re actually really good at 😌
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Baby's first isme (and poster presentation at an international conference)
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I really struggle tremendously with my body my body image, and my relationship with food. This is my truth. We don't talk about personal struggles a ton in academia, but this is me. We need to talk more about the whole human
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What are your paper writing tips? Because this is hard
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My lab is all girlbosses and me (also a girlboss)
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My other question is: who else ever felt this way when in grad school? Or for ppl that are past of grad school, do u still feel that way? current grad students do u feel this? What helps?
feel very, very in between and it is uncomfortable. Don't have nearly enough quantitative abilities to a real evolutionary biologist, not nearly enough microbiology experience to be a micro person, not nearly enough modeling, coding, naturalist knowledge to be an ecologist...
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Congrats Harmit from all of us!. Although my time in this whole science world is young, I can’t imagine a mentor that would be more deserving. Well done and well deserved. I feel exceptionally lucky to be in your lab!
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offer on a home accepted... fingers crossed the rest of the process goes smoothly 🎉 🤞
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going on vacation to markov chain monte carlo
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Excited to announce that I have officially joined my thesis lab! I have joined Matt Barber's lab in the ecology and evolution dept. At the U of Oregon. Excited to study all things related to the evolution of host-pathogen interactions with this amazing group
@bioBarber
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Happy LGBTQ in stem day 💖 I'm here and I represent my people with pride
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What ppm atmospheric CO2 were you born at? Mine is 360 :(
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I present to you... Dr. Anthony Fauci, the crocheted doll
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Thread of posts about a very touching interaction I had with a stranger today: Today, a quiet old man approached my boyfriend and I at Costco. He quietly said from under his mask, my husband and I would like to say hello. At first I didn’t quite understand what he was saying, 1/n
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I wanna get a mechanical keyboard for my home set up so I can aggressively type and run code just so I can feel like a crazy hacker
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ggplot look so good call me a ggTHOT
sorry, send me to twitter jail now
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oh, Eugene doesn't have culture? Then what's this, swety?
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My partner came home from a garage sale and said he "had a present for me"
The present is a 20 inch, 10lb wax hippo /candle
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My family and friends: wow, doing a PhD in science just be so interesting and exciting! The forefront of knowledge
The PhD experience: writing alone in my freezing apartment in my fleece robe
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My boyfriend got a job offer in the field he works in doing a job he wanted!!!! I'm so ecstatic!!!! Even during covid the job search here has been light-years better than in New England
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Lol uo just proposed a *2%* stipend increase to grad workers.
My stipend is $28,700 BEFORE taxes.
This is laughable.
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POV: you're in my office hours, except you're not bc no one shows up
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I have the coolest friends ever!!! Thank you
@DanicaSchmidtk1
for this ridiculous and awesome sweatshirt
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Officially a passport-holding Swiss citizen! Feeling really proud
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so easy to concentrate on classes, multiple phd program exams coming up, teaching, and maintaining a healthy exercise, diet, and sleep schedule when there's a fascist coup attempt happening at our capitol. you should try it!!!!
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ME learning about hierarchical modeling in R after not knowing a single *lick* of R just two months ago??? It's more likely than you think!!! (seriously tho, super proud of myself. The learning curve was steep but I am proud that I have pushed myself and learned cool things
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My 1872 copy of origin of species. Scored this for $0.25 at a library garage sale. One of my favorite things I own
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My grandparents passed on to me their 4-piece vietnamese mural of people picking rice. It is made of hundreds of thousands of smashed eggshell pieces that are painted and lacquered. The detail is incredible and this is art I'll cherish forever
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Spotted at my parents' house just south of Spokane. So cool. Look at those guys!
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The first time I've ever put a pride flag up. A little late, but I'm happy
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thesis proposal is due TOMORROW, besties. Then I have to start making my talk, then take a midterm. life is STRESSFUL.
quals in 2 weeks y'all
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My parents are opening a brewery! It's in Spokane Valley, WA and set to open ~ Sep 1. If anyone is there or passing thru, please give it a try. It's called 45 degree brewing. All the wood you see is from the forest around the house I grew up in, and was milled by my dad.
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Hi I'm here just living proof that you can get shitty scores on SAT + GRE math sections and still be a mediocre scientist in a phd program. that is all! Don't let these things hold you back! Revel in your mediocrity sis
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quals on Tuesday quals on Tuesday quals on Tuesday there are still things I don't know ksjfhdsjkfhskjhsfEEFHFHSFDKDFDFGJKHDFSJDHG
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One minute you're doing microbiology and trying to buy a home and the next minute you're feet away from a drive by shooting in downtown Portland.. really scary shit... Life is precious
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I will wake up early and finish my lab meeting slides
ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
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I'm the proud owner of a 2001 Volkswagen Passat station wagon. I love her and her name is D'Brenda. This is my first car ever
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TEACHING IS SO HARD. WHY DID I EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT MY PROFS. IT IS HARD. THEY DO SO MUCH
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I am *so* excited that tomorrow Bali Kitchen, an Indonesian food truck opens downtown in Eugene. I cannot wait to get a little taste of my family's cooking here in Eugene. They have nasi goreng, mie goreng and even gado gado
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Celebrating getting vaccinated and having sunshine. Life feels great right now
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Feeling good and loving this sick new fade I got
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Being a grad student is interesting bc at first when you get In, you feel smart and invincible.
Then you start doing thesis work and think, this can't be the same brain that got me into grad school
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Hearing Kamala talking about her mom coming to this country as a 19 year old Indian woman, and now her child is making history. makes me think of my own mother, an indonesian woman, coming to america at age 18. Immigrant women y'all. They're strong. I'm emotional. I'm proud
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the supercomputer cluster thing at UO is called 'talapas' and I just referred to it as 'the tilapia' to my rotation mentor
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The weirdest thing about being in an EEB dept is that like half of the people think about genetics from a purely pop-gen/pop-genomic scale, and the other half don't think about genes at all
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This bad boy just came in the mail for me today.. I can finally be the gay coding queen I was meant to be. I guarantee my productivity in my R stats class will increase due to just this keyboard
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