“High-density recordings for long-term electrophysiology in developing brain organoids with automated fluidics platform integration.” Jess Sevetson, PhD of the wonderfully named Braingeneers lab UC Santa Cruz, detailed their open-source reproducible microfluidic platform for feeding #organoids

I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up.

Hey #ScienceTwitter , I'm running my first set of interviews for grad school candidates this year. Any tips on good questions to ask, things to look for / look out for, best practices for being equitable when evaluating candidates, etc?

Tried to sign my name in a fancy script at the bottom of a letter, but the doc preview doesn't support that typeface so it just looks like I typed my name in an aggressively large font size🤦‍♀️

Submitting an academic travel reimbursement request the same week as my federal tax returns. SO: let's play "Which bureaucracy will pay me back first?" Early Bets??

Update: IRS has already accepted my return paperwork. Gotta say, it's not looking good for UCSC FA...

50 Black Women in STEM You Should Know About by Natasha Matta link.medium.com/nlTpz5O97wb BlackInEngineering Black in Robotics Black in Computing #BLACKandSTEM #WHM #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth

Idk the title, but the tagline would be: "Ehh, it's probably fine..."

A quick #academicWriting reminder that Oxford Commas are worth the space they take up. They make things easier to understand for your reviewers, undergrads and internet randos. (SWIDT?)

Asking youths in the lab if they wanna have a "lil journal clizzy" purely for the joy of watching their poorly concealed disgust. Randall Munroe had it right

Happy #WorldOrganoidResearchDay 🎉 IBSC_UCSC IRACDA Fellow & Braingeneers member Jess Sevetson, PhD is using #BrainOrganoids to uncover how genetic changes enhanced the human brain's computing capacity during primate evolution 🙉 Learn about the Braingeneers: braingeneers.ucsc.edu

Professorship #goals ...actually, I have no idea what kind of offhand, slightly unhinged comments I'd find. & I'm only like 80% sure I want to know 🤣

Students asking me what I'm doing for spring break

Did you know that NIH, through, NOT-OD-21-134, allows trainees who have been adversely affected by unsafe or discriminatory environments to rapidly transition into new safe research environments that are safe and supportive to complete their training? orwh.od.nih.gov/career-develop…

Having a festive DNA day at UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Baskin Engineering at UCSC !!

A brief return to Twitter to update my poll-takers: 1) the IRS had my refund to me in <2 wks 2) I received my @UCSC reimbursement on Wed June 28, 146 days after request 3) the holdup for the >$1k refund was confusion about a $5.72 bagel. (& yes, the receipt WAS itemized!)