A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈

he/him | 1st gen
Postdoc studying #PeptideTherapeutics @Moorelab
Silence is not golden

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@fried_lab Congrats!!!!!!

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

I am so happy to have @drdre4000 starting off the first full day of #NOBCChE50. Check out both of his talks. 🎉🔬 Exciting insights ahead! #STEM #ConferenceKickoff

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@RenASRobinson1 I see the horse Madam President Renãssaince 👑🐝

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

Reading these examples of so many successful journeys is just what I needed to see #postdoc #firstgeneration #academia

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

I was 36 when I finished grad school.

37 when I got the job at Rhodes.

39 when I got on the tenure track.

43 when the book got published.

44 when I earned tenure.

Just putting this out here for the young heads on this journey worried about trajectory.

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

I'm excited to read about CRT in chemistry

[Terrell Morton, PhD @DrTRMorton]

A great “pre-birthday” gift.

I am excited to share “#CriticalRaceTheory and it’s Relevance for #Chemistry”

Published in @NatureChemistry

Use this link for free access to the article & supplemental text:

https://t.co/TQOdagepK7

#CRT #Science #STEMEd #ChemistryEd

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

saving this for my future self😅

[Becca Mason | PhD | Certified Coach | she/her @beccamasonphd]

What's the biggest mistake that I see pre-tenure assistant professors making?

It looks like this:

#AcademicTwitter #TenureTrack #AssistantProfessor #OnTrackforTenure

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@drstarbird This month's ASBMB magazine was a welcomed surprise

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

#IRACDA 2023 was a blast. For any #gradstudents looking to pursue a #postdoc in biomedical research, I highly recommend institutions with an IRACDA program https://t.co/fVn888l81J

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

My peptide babies being gently rocked and cleaved in 88% trifluoroacetic acid, 5% triisopropylsilane, 5% milliQ water, 2% phenol 👨🏿‍🔬
What's your usual cleavage cocktail? #peptidesynthesis #peptide

[Ghost in the HTML @OmarHolmon]

#AcrossTheSpiderverse still got me thinking bout how Hobie and Margo's Black solidarity helped Miles where Peter and Gwen's conditional allyship hindered him and had to write it up https://t.co/w0eBSROd2B

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@lab_shenanigans @drdre4000 this is so adorable

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

She made so many good points. Ultimately black and brown folks earned their positions at their schools and workplaces

[Dr. Virgo @DrVirgo1981]

Best response

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@IR_SP8 entering your dzaddy era

[The Lesbrary @Lesbrary]

June always brings a deluge of recommendations of LGBTQ books, but often this coverage is very white. In this list, I want to highlight some of the Black authors writing swoonworthy adult F/F romance novels. https://t.co/AkohCAAH04

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@Chem_Diva read us. I still can't fathom typing a dissertation on a typewriter (not saying that was you)

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@luxxnoirlondon iconic!

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

@samsanders I need a thread with all the black people who listen to hoobastank/incubus/the calling/ fefe dobson because I felt like the only one in high school

[A'Lester Allen🏳️‍🌈 @ALesterA1]

What are great questions to ask during one on ones when you're interviewing for faculty positions? @natblackpostdoc @PhD_Genie @OpenAcademics