Alicia Boyd

Biology PhD student @UF @Whitney_Lab

[Brent Foster @_brentmfoster]

“Simple, compassionate validation can help frame rejection notifications as a real and socially accepted loss, thereby granting us space to grieve and offering the first round of social support we need to find closure.”
https://t.co/UNM6cYYN00

[Brent Foster @_brentmfoster]

3 years ago, my PhD applications were rejected. I couldn’t find the words to express my loss until I attended #SciWri22 as a @CASW Fellow and heard @StJudeResearch social worker Erica Sirrine speak of disenfranchised grief. Her words gave me space to heal. This is my story.👇

[Lauren Kunselman @_lauren_k__]

Last week while sifting worms (Capitella teleta) in lab, I found one with 2 tails! Never seen in the Seaver lab before! #WormWednesday 🪱

[Lauren Kunselman @_lauren_k__]

Immunolabelled my 2-tailed worm! Green=Nervous system &Ventral Nerve Cord (VNC), Red=Muscle, Blue=Nuclei. Separation of the 2 VNCs surprised me! What happened here? 🤔#wormwednesday!

[Whitney Laboratory @Whitney_Lab]

Capitella eat marine mud. They like their mud strained. Here is the #SeaverLab getting muddy for their annelids! #WormWednesday @capitELa4 @_lauren_k__ @evopolychaeteo @EvoDeva

[Lauren Kunselman @_lauren_k__]

Check out this great article about the cool regeneration research me and @EvoDeva are doing @Whitney_Lab! Written by the talented @_brentmfoster!
One segment at a time: Scientists at Whitney Laboratory study regeneration in marine worms https://t.co/nXlM4DJ1XT

[Dorothy Mitchell, PhD @Doro_grace]

Super excited to share a fixation technique that I serendipitously discovered and developed with @_AEdgar_. We hope that others will give it a try https://t.co/uZgRj3cXp3

[Lauren Kunselman @_lauren_k__]

That feeling when you're worried your experiment failed because you don't see a positive result, but then you realize you're scoring your controls and they SHOULD look that way @EvoDeva #gradschool #gradlife #WhitneyLab

[Whitney Laboratory @Whitney_Lab]

#SeaverLab and #MartindaleLab contribute to study: "Genes with spiralian-specific protein motifs are expressed in spiralian ciliary bands" published in @NatureComms https://t.co/qJJasY8Bdk #wlpubs @capitELa4 @longjunwu

[Katie Feerst 🪱 (they/them) @evopolychaeteo]

The Seaver lab just updated Capitella teleta’s wiki page! We added some info about its morphology, ecology and some of the awesome research our lab and others have done over the years! Check it out: https://t.co/FTsswGGWsR
@EvoDeva @AlexisLanza @capitELa4 @_lauren_k__

[Whitney Laboratory @Whitney_Lab]

We’re celebrating the Global Women’s Breakfast this morning! Thanks to Elizabeth Kaweesa and @LoesgenLab for organizing! #GWB2020

[Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin]

Coding is just like riding a bicycle would be if every time you didn't ride for a while you completely forgot what a bicycle looked like

[Alicia Boyd @EvoDeva]

What do you do when a neighboring lab has mannequins for no apparent reason? You set them up around the building after work with your advisor and lab mate to surprise unsuspecting coworkers. Obviously. @Whitney_Lab @evopolychaeteo @capitELa4 #gradlife #WomenInSTEM

[Alicia Boyd @EvoDeva]

@capitELa4 got a new lab tech overnight! Looks like she still has some PPE safety training to do, but she should be fine around the chemicals, right? #WomenInSTEM #labshenanigans #labpranks @evopolychaeteo

[Whitney Laboratory @Whitney_Lab]

https://t.co/jPfV7b0ybw - APPLY NOW!

[Monterey Bay Aquarium @MontereyAq]

North Pacific bigeye octopus getting a shrimp snack and playing a little bit of tug o’ war

[Alicia Boyd @EvoDeva]

Animals RULE!!! #ufbiology #biologyretreat #gradlife

[Alicia Boyd @EvoDeva]

Let the battle BEGIN!!! #itshouldbefun #ufbiology #biologyretreat #gradlife

[MBL Cephalopod Lab @mbl_cephlab]

Yes, that’s a real paper clip, and yes that’s a real Euprymna berryi 😍 When the Hummingbird bobtail squid hatches, it’s smaller than a grain of rice 🍚 📸 @timbriggsphoto

[Katie Feerst 🪱 (they/them) @evopolychaeteo]

Happy #WormWednesday ! Our lab works on Capitella teleta, an adorable polychaete that lives in the mud! This morning was mud collecting day for our colony (and the best weather I’ve experienced so far in Florida). @EvoDeva @capitELa4