Michael Borja
@mikeborjatweets
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current 3rd year PhD @ucsc PBSE MCD || former @czbiohub genomics SRA || biased towards sequencing & transcriptomics 🧬 || Welcome 2 my Science Twitter ✨
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2022
Happy to announce that I’ve finally started my PhD program at @ucsc PBSE under the Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology track. Thank you to my mentors & colleagues at @czbiohub SF for the massive encouragement and preparation for this journey! 🍌🐌 #UCSC #PhD #GradStudent
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Hi! It’s me. I’m the biologist using AI. Thank you @ChatGPTapp & @github copilot for assisting in my learning!
1/ AI won't replace you. But a biologist using AI will. Especially in bioinformatics, where the questions never stop coming.
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How much stuff do I need to know and how much stuff I don’t know … the answer to both has been “no one really knows” .. This has been the main theme of this process #PhDQualificationExams
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The comments section under here is making me realize idiocracy was actually a prophetic level of cinematic masterpiece
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration Are you thinking about leaving? https://t.co/FP1WlVTryq
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Qualifications Exam era of my PhD has been stressful as hell not only because of the exam but it just feels like the world isn’t in a good place as well
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Thanks again to @SZMD84 for allowing me to help you with this project. I absolutely learned a lot.
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Worked on this for almost the entirety of my time at @czbiohub! Glad it’s finally published. .. Single-cell analysis reveals Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-1–mediated accumulation of permissive macrophages in infected mouse lungs | Science Advances
science.org
Single-cell profiling reveals that M. tuberculosis ESX-1 drives recruitment and manipulation of immunoevasive macrophages.
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Today I was encouraged to restart my science vlogs and make it more specific to genomics
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this one has been cooking in the lab for awhile but its finally published! great job @Shruthi94Vijay
So happy that our protocol paper which optimizes obtaining great quality single cells from a single Zebrafish embryo is finally out! Thanks a lot @Merlin_Lange @loicaroyer @mikeborjatweets for all the help!!😊 https://t.co/rCxDUwTxEb Our application : https://t.co/o9cE6jgY1C
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Ok I need to be plugged in with more #AgingResearch … to whomever sees this, pls tag and/or DM me
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Current experiment is on Run #9 version 2 and it still failed … version 1 also had 9 runs .. I guess this is PhD shenanigans #LearningToFail
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I have a long way to go with coding but I’m a lot further than I was even from a year ago 🫡
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UAW strikes & divestment encampment … what a very dramatic ending to my first year of grad school 😖
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yep … right about now I’m feeling the gnarliest grad school exhaustion that I’ve frequently heard about
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Teaching is a rewarding experience. The logistics of teaching isn’t.
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As a grad student TA, it’s so funny to be on the other side of these midterms cuz mannnn I’m seeing the agony and joy of students … that used to be me way back then
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The things that scared me now in present time in grad school is fleeting because of what I know of the life beyond the borders of academia … I guess that’s what feels reassuring
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pretty dope
Scientists from @AllenInstitute have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in #Neuroscience: A comprehensive, cell-by-cell map of the entire mouse brain! Explore what this means for future research in this @TheScientistLLC article https://t.co/18mBfh6TQe
#MouseBrain #BrainResearch
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