Andrew Kennard @askennard@social.cleverlibre.org

🔬First method-focused work from our lab is just out in Cell Reports Methods 🎉
Interested in multicolor SMLM? Check the open-access final version of Karoline Friedl's PhD work, with Sandrine Lévêque-Fort's lab and the Abbelight gang
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(23)00215-1

Nothing destroys a graduate career faster than help avoidance.

For all the folks starting their #PhD (or their master thesis) today - a reminder why your PhD advisor can solve a problem so "easily" ...

#astrodon #academia #AcademiChatter #research

New @biorxivpreprint manuscript from my lab that sheds light on part of the dark genome, unannotated or poorly annotated genes in the genome. In it, we show that the highly conserved HEATR5 protein is a component of two biochemically distinct protein complexes.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.24.554671v2

If you are a white leftist and you talk “both parties are the same they are both capitalist” you will loose most of your black audience. I think it ought to be obvious that this isn’t because blackfolks love Democrats (in most cases, there is always someone being simple in any group) —no. it’s because the difference between the parties is material and obvious and these are unstable times.

When I hear such talk I wonder if the speaker is working on voter suppression.

Fellow professors, if you're teaching an introductory course in graduate school, set aside some class time early in the semester for students to discuss their transition to your program. You'll find that they're struggling far more than you probably realized. You won't be able to solve all their problems, but opening space for them to voice their issues is more powerful than you can imagine.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon

@askennard @rspfau @lzvolk

Best advice. Read the pipettor manual they are actually amazing resources.

Eg:
'To attain maximum accuracy, set volume must be approached from a higher value. If the desired value is lower than the previous volume, adjust the value to 1/3 turn above the required setting..."

Also these two pages:

@rspfau @lzvolk @askennard

Absolutely! One thing I do now with everyone who joins my lab (even postdocs) is to do a how-to pipette session.

I think many of my early grad school failures were due to problems with pipetting.

I've started adding in, make sure to wear your glasses if you need them. Until I started needing reading glasses, I did not realize how much being able to see well is part of good pipetting. Now I realize that some ppl's struggles come from vision issues.

I strongly recommend this scholarly analysis of arguments over the status of the Neutral Theory

The sourcing is excellent, the logic is clear, and the analysis has a practical focus on facilitating science by achieving clarity (rather than adopting a partisan slant)

A minor disagreement: "The phrase ‘non-Darwinian evolution’ is a misnomer" (conclusion #6) is not justified in the text and is IMHO plainly wrong

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.13010?af=R

I saw a microbiologist today.

Much bigger than I expected.

@ricci You must have ordered that out of the back of my favorite book:

Want to know what my research is about? Follow this thread 🧵 based on a 10min talk I've drawn for a meeting.

The talk was aimed at non-specialist space science colleagues (not the general public!). The slides were built up step by step, but I'm omitting this here & showing only the final graphs, less this becomes a 34-part thread. 11 is plenty enough!

So: "Understanding Winds of Massive Stars Using High Mass X-ray Binaries"

#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #SciArt #scicomm #VicisAstro
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