The research people care about: 🔪❣️🦈SHARKS SMELLING BLOOD!!! POOP INK SHOOTING WHALES!!! 💩😤🐋 The research that’s my favorite: 🥰✨💜 Inky slug friends 🥰✨💜

With my new position, @tricialmeredith let me brainstorm a title. I enlisted @CornOnTheKnaub for help and we mad a list of five options. I am now the “Research and Biological Imaging Specialist” but Jamie got me a desk plaque with our favorite pick 😍

"Sharks are especially interested in fish blood, squid blood, shrimp blood. But on that note, I will say that sharks are smart. They are like us. They can modulate their behavior," says @oceanexplauren https://t.co/9zPq0UoKSi

Update, we did it! We raised $5,000 in 24 hours. Special shout out to our Program Coordinator Norah Mendoza who truly went hard in the paint and camped out in a park for a full 24 hours to make this happen. #CarryingTheTeam

Congratulations to the 2024 GRFP winners, but I’m out here to celebrate the much larger number of students who got bad news today (💙) 🧵

So you’re telling me that being underpaid with no job security and often no benefits is not appealing to people who just spent the last 5++ years living paycheck to paycheck as a graduate student? Shocked!

Being a postdoc is working pretty much non-stop on both actual science, and suppressing the feeling that it will be all for naught if you never make it into a permanent job.

DEVASTATED. When I see the thresher, it’s on sight

#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.

We are so excited to have Dr. Simonitis joining our team! 🦈🐙👃🔬🥼👩‍🔬

This may not be the typical academic route, but it's exactly what I want to do with my career. I am so excited to continue looking at fun stuff, asking interesting questions, and building my research program in this new role all with incredible students. So thankful. So pumped.

5) I get to keep working with the amazing team of researchers and educators I have had so much fun with these last 1.5 years. Special shout out to @tricialmeredith who I am so lucky to continue working for.

4b) I'm especially stoked to start using the classroom as a laboratory and start integrating what teachers need with curriculum created by researchers. So if you've ever said you're going to develop curriculum as the broader impacts of your grant, let's chat and test those out

4) I get to help our K-9 teachers develop and deliver curriculum which integrates new scientific discoveries and relevant techniques into their lessons while meeting science standards.

3) I get to keep my research program going, looking at shark snoots, inking animals, and whatever else I can shove in a CT scanner, look at in a scanning electron microscope, or slice up with some histology

2) I get to manage our @fauhs_research Owls Imaging Lab which includes not just the amazing biovisualiztion equipment we already have, but all the new equipment that is accompanying our lab expansion and update! So pumped to work in the space I had the privilege helping design.

1) I get to keep doing the thing I love most about my work: training and mentoring student researchers. Extra bonus since I get do this at multiple levels- all the way from elementary to graduate students.

Really excited to announce that after my National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ends in May, I will be sticking around @ADHUS_FAUHS as the Research and Bioimaging Specialist! TLDR: I got my dream job

@FormeryLaurent @lab_lowe With this method, we are now able to look inside these animals in a way that was previously impossible and ask questions about how their bodies are organized, how their nervous system is wired, and more.

What does the nervous system of a sea urchin look like? Can we study intact organ systems in calcified animals? I’m excited to share this preprint (with @FormeryLaurent and @lab_lowe) on whole-body tissue clearing in fragile invertebrates, where we tackle those questions.

Check out @scifri TODAY for some GARish living fossil conversation with @ChaseBrownstein, @iraflatow, and me! https://t.co/DeZ20Wz27Y