Being the first in your family to go to university is a huge deal, nothing beats that look of pride from people who have no idea what academia pays

Extremely excited to share our work at the Orthopaedic Research Society!! Please come visit our presentation and posters!! #ORS2024 Gulzada Kulzhanova 🇺🇦🇰🇿 Eloise Fadial Eliya T Tashbib Rochester CMSR University of Rochester

Excellent presentation by @aecnichols in the #ORS2024 “Metabolic Dysfunction in Tendon Disease” symposium breaking down all that is known (and largely unknown) to highlight avenues for future investigation in the field! ORS Tendon Section

Congratulations, Alayna 👏👏👏

Happy birthday to the fearless leader of the @nichols_lab, @aecnichols and our awesome undergrad Elsa!!! How cute are these tendon themed cookies!!??

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The ORS Tendon Conference took place May 30 - June 1, bringing 129 thought leaders and community members from across disciplines to discuss needs and guidelines for #tendon investigation. Congrats to the award winners who were honored at the event: bit.ly/4172nVO

Tendon injuries can be life-changing, often requiring surgery. The latest #URochesterResearch out of the Alayna Loiselle used nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery, dramatically improving healing and reducing scar tissue in one treatment. More: urmc.info/1Do

Goal: consensus annotations for the betterment of tendons everywhere 🤓😁 #teamtendon #transcriptomics #RNA

when you make a mistake in work and then see the “hi everyone, just a friendly reminder” message

PI: is your thesis proposal ready? Me:

Walking out after passing my qualifying exam

firm believer that its possible to be sweet & compassionate, and also a relentless hater... i've dedicated my life to proving this by example.

you need to be grad school-maxing. you need to be downloading PDFs. you need to know the catering status of every event within a 5mi radius. you need a mild to moderate substance abuse problem & a subclinical but chronic untreated mental illness. you need to be grad school-maxing

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

Scientists, researchers, and advocates recently gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Stand Up for Science rally. Voices from Johns Hopkins and across the globe spoke on the importance of continued investment in scientific progress. bit.ly/3DFmgMs

Halfway done my PhD and I feel stupider than ever

"are you seriously going to cry just because you're stressed?" me: