Savannah Weaver

MCB PhD candidate at UArizona in the Baltrus lab. Interested in microbes and why they do the things they do 🧫🧬

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

@the_real_KVD Congratulations!! 😊

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

When your first paper, first submission gets accepted with minor revisions 🥳

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

My daughter started full time daycare yesterday. I’m missing those few extra hours with her, but looking forward to seeing this really cute face later today.

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

Super cool that my 5 month old has mastered rolling over onto her belly… not so cool at 3:30am when she can’t roll back over and gets mad 😆 I might be a little extra tired today

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

Had a few hiccups in the lab last week due to some inconsistencies with growth medium and such. Time to start fresh today and hopefully get somewhere with my planned experiments 🤞

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

@SciVirusGuy It seems like my now 5 month old has been sick with some new “cold” every few weeks since she started daycare at 2 months and I’ve gotten sick too as a result 😅 she bounces back a lot faster than me, though!

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

@MorganCarterPhD Finally the mystery is solved 😆

[Müge Sak, Ph.D. @muge_sak]

It should be illegal to ask ‘When are you graduating?’ to PhD candidates. #phdvoice #phdlife

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

Getting the preprint finalized and submitted to a journal today 👍 This is a more tedious task than expected.

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

The plus side is that as a grad student researcher, my hours are flexible and I can go into the lab when my partner gets home from work and we can hand off baby duty. Not having another childcare option or family around is an inconvenience, but we make it work!

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

No one prepares you for what to do as a PhD student when your daughter’s daycare provider has a COVID case and you have no backup childcare so you have to make the decision to take her anyway or take a “work from home” day 😅 (daughter had COVID ~3 weeks ago)

[serat ali @SerateAli]

It’s been a year since I left academia. I now work in sales for a biotech. Here’s some thoughts and experiences I’d like to share with you:

1) Leaving academia isn’t easy. It’s a prestigious field and you’re literally making breakthroughs (small or large). (1/9)

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

Any financial tips on how to budget as a PhD student whose stipend can’t compete with current inflation? #AcademicChatter

[Savannah Weaver @SavWeaver_]

Still feels kinda surreal that my first, first author paper is preprinted 🥳 Huge thanks to @surt_lab for helping me get to this point and for the hard work of @mclark753BC and the Ravishankar lab that helped make this a cool story!

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

Interspecies Killing Activity of Pseudomonas syringae Tailocins https://t.co/PxKN5T6OWN #biorxiv_micrbio