Alexis Wafer👩🏼🔬🧬
@lexwafer
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University of Cincinnati alum, OSU PhD candidate | she/her 🏳️🌈
Joined June 2016
Funding Alert! 🚨 Field Inclusive is now offering a $500 Research Grant to support field work in the natural sciences! The application is open & can be downloaded at https://t.co/tgdHRDLQzT. The deadline for this 1st grant is February 1, 2023. Please share this far & wide!
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On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died. Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization & more. A THREAD
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Hey white people- your experience of having your name mispronounced or misspelled is not the same as a person of color having their name mispronounced or misspelled.
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Do you want to estimate traits from herbarium specimens without destroying them? Check out our 🌟 new paper 🌟, open access in @MethodsEcolEvol! link and 🧵 below 1/
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Puerto Rico never recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria (2017). Now, the island is completely flooded and without electricity again. Please DO NOT DONATE to the Red Cross or FEMA. Instead, send support to trusted local organizations [THREAD]:
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Think of your Ohio ecologists this week as temperatures hit 90 before noon😅 and 95 by 2pm😵💫
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43 US-based Biology PhD programs, only 1 is paying a living wage.
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rising gas prices, cost of living, inflation… grad students are already stretched thin and denied raises because “we actually pay you better than other universities”, mask mandates lifting…. I am so tired.
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I’ll be defending over zoom next Tues, Nov 16, 12-1 EST! DM me for the link 🌱
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Happy Pride bbs! Remember Pride started as a protest against police brutality and was led by Black and Brown women. 🌈
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'I will do it tomorrow,' said Toad. 'Today I will take life easy.'
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First year of PhD done and a paper I worked on came out today (from undergrad research). Kind of a killer day!
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