Alex Calderon (@spicyscientist) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Calderon

@spicyscientist

Post-doc in the @WangLabJAX at the @jacksonlab. Studying Leukemia therapy resistance and relapse. Originally from CA. Mexican. Socialist. Views my own.

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Been having a great time at #ASH22 but gotta say I’m disappointed in my colleagues who consistently leave trash around. Please think of the staff here who have to clean up after you

Been having a great time at #ASH22 but gotta say I’m disappointed in my colleagues who consistently leave trash around. Please think of the staff here who have to clean up after you
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She calls herself a biology believer but I think as academics we should try harder to not less people use pseudoscience to justify their transphobia

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Idk why y’all act like he’s the only smart person on Earth. He didn’t personally make every discovery of the lab. A team of students and post docs and technicians do the leg work. For every Sabatini there are 20 women who left academia who could do a better job.

Emily Kawaler (@emilykawaler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey look, it's the paper I spent the last year and a half of my life working on! I recommend reading it! Or at least looking at the pictures?

Bernie Sanders (@sensanders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No graduate student worker should be living in poverty while the University of Michigan sits atop a $17 billion endowment. These 2,500 workers deserve safe working conditions and living wages. The University must bargain a fair contract immediately.

Nick Vitanza (@vitanzanick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve never been under anesthesia and I’m still relatively new at running a lab, but I assume this message to my team is the standard approach?

I’ve never been under anesthesia and I’m still relatively new at running a lab, but I assume this message to my team is the standard approach?
Kareem Carr, Statistics Person (@kareem_carr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Publicly shaming an Ivy league school for claiming credit for the success of a women scientist whose work it disrespected and rejected is one of the best uses of community notes I’ve ever seen.

Publicly shaming an Ivy league school for claiming credit for the success of a women scientist whose work it disrespected and rejected is one of the best uses of community notes I’ve ever seen.
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News: NIH to increase pay levels for pre- and postdoctoral scholar NRSA recipients at grantee institutions nih.gov/news-events/ne…

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It’s not just administrative overhead, it pays for core facilities as well as proper waste handling and disposal and trained staff for animal vivariums and any other person who helps indirectly with research.