PerU๐ต๐ช / PhD in DevBio @UChicago / Notch endosomal trafficking & signaling / Former URM Team Lead @UCGRIT & Former National Liaison @ucsacnas / ๐งฌโฝ๏ธ๐๐ปโ๐ฑ
PhD programs are pausing admissions to graduate school due to NIH indirect cost cuts. See the growing number of programs here: https://t.co/3j759AlhGL
How is science supposed to advance with fewer trainees, less $ for research? This is devastating.
So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?
And why should we care? A ๐งต on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.
A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N