Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸

Sensory biologist researching shark olfaction & ink 👃🦈🦑| NSF PRFB at @FAUscience and @MarineBiol_FHL | @miss_elasmo stan| she/her/ella #LatinasInSTEM

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

The research people care about: 🔪❣️🦈SHARKS SMELLING BLOOD!!! POOP INK SHOOTING WHALES!!! 💩😤🐋

The research that’s my favorite:
🥰✨💜 Inky slug friends 🥰✨💜

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

With my new position, @tricialmeredith let me brainstorm a title.

I enlisted @CornOnTheKnaub for help and we mad a list of five options.

I am now the “Research and Biological Imaging Specialist” but Jamie got me a desk plaque with our favorite pick 😍

[Science Friday @scifri]

"Sharks are especially interested in fish blood, squid blood, shrimp blood. But on that note, I will say that sharks are smart. They are like us. They can modulate their behavior," says @oceanexplauren

https://t.co/9zPq0UoKSi

[Jasmin Graham (she/her) @Elasmo_Gal]

Update, we did it! We raised $5,000 in 24 hours. Special shout out to our Program Coordinator Norah Mendoza who truly went hard in the paint and camped out in a park for a full 24 hours to make this happen. #CarryingTheTeam

[Dr. Catherine Macdonald @dr_catmac]

Congratulations to the 2024 GRFP winners, but I’m out here to celebrate the much larger number of students who got bad news today (💙)
🧵

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

@soFISHtication I gotchu anytime bb 💕

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

So you’re telling me that being underpaid with no job security and often no benefits is not appealing to people who just spent the last 5++ years living paycheck to paycheck as a graduate student?

Shocked!

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

New data released by the U.S. National Science Foundation underscore concerns that the academic community is facing a postdoc shortage and that early-career scientists are increasingly favoring higher paid positions outside academia. @ScienceCareers https://t.co/Xu9t7BN0f9

[Vince Buffalo @vsbuffalo]

Being a postdoc is working pretty much non-stop on both actual science, and suppressing the feeling that it will be all for naught if you never make it into a permanent job.

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

DEVASTATED. When I see the thresher, it’s on sight

[Jasmin Graham (she/her) @Elasmo_Gal]

#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.

[Jasmin Graham (she/her) @Elasmo_Gal]

#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.

[FAUHS Research @fauhs_research]

We are so excited to have Dr. Simonitis joining our team! 🦈🐙👃🔬🥼👩‍🔬

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

This may not be the typical academic route, but it's exactly what I want to do with my career. I am so excited to continue looking at fun stuff, asking interesting questions, and building my research program in this new role all with incredible students. So thankful. So pumped.

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

Really excited to announce that after my National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ends in May, I will be sticking around @ADHUS_FAUHS as the Research and Bioimaging Specialist!

TLDR: I got my dream job

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

5) I get to keep working with the amazing team of researchers and educators I have had so much fun with these last 1.5 years. Special shout out to @tricialmeredith who I am so lucky to continue working for.

[nat clarke @natclarke8]

@FormeryLaurent @lab_lowe With this method, we are now able to look inside these animals in a way that was previously impossible and ask questions about how their bodies are organized, how their nervous system is wired, and more.

[nat clarke @natclarke8]

What does the nervous system of a sea urchin look like? Can we study intact organ systems in calcified animals? I’m excited to share this preprint (with @FormeryLaurent and @lab_lowe) on whole-body tissue clearing in fragile invertebrates, where we tackle those questions.