Kimberly 🧠🔬

Neuroscientist turned Data Engineer. PhD candidate @theflorey, data deep diving @camplexer, perpetually searching for coffee everywhere. 🌈 (she/her)

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

So absolutely thrilled to see my first paper out in J Neuro today! Here, my Honours work, with beautiful RNAscope from @Ongbaba96’s Masters, investigated gating mechanisms of somatostatin interneurons in the NTS https://t.co/b8nyv6EJ2U @SfNtweets @TheFlorey @UniMelbMDHS

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@Napaaqtuk The biggest change I found was that the business world “feels” very different to the academic world. Expertise and attribution of ideas or work are viewed differently, as can the emphasis on optimisation or polishing of work. I’m unsure how one prepares for that, though!

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@o_guest My favourite is the lucky dip each day between being a “five simultaneous tasks” kind of day, or a “one singular task and absolutely do not suggest otherwise” kind of day

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

Excuse me while I change all of my intro docs for new hires into emoji code. We now write in dogJSON only pls.

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

Acknowledgments got me crying at work @SynapticHolly ❤️❤️❤️

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

HUGE congratulations to @SynapticHolly on an absolutely beautiful oration!! 🎉 I am so ridiculously proud of everything this amazing woman has achieved. Without a doubt the most hard working person I know, it fills my heart to see you shine 🤩✨

[Dr Krystal Evans PhD @dr_krystal]

Leaving academia is not leaving research.
Leaving academia is not leaving science.
Leaving academia is not failing.

Not sure who needs to hear this today, but please believe it.

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@kylieeemac @docaustinlim @Caroline_Bartma The osmometer is gaslighting us all

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@angelina_fong Nah, just more disco

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

FYI: 12+ months later, a little bit of life flipping upside down, a few extra months in lockdown, an ADHD diagnosis, lowkey leaving academia, I’m finally on the home stretch #KimSubmitYourGoddamnThesisPls

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

Today in Ways The Universe Is Conspiring To Stop Me Finishing My PhD 🙃

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@angelina_fong Lab demonstrating boogies have transitioned to desk boogies, don’t you worry. I hope semester is being kind to you!

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@angelina_fong 🥰 thank youuu. Absolutely, I miss you and the phys fam!

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@chellebalez I believe! I mean I’ll surely have to come back for the comp neuro scene eventually 😅

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@MadeleineDiNat1 girl!! PhD candidate!! Ahh I am thrilled for you!

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@chellebalez Yayy!! Shame we can’t have a boogie at ANS to celebrate!
Haha ah yes, I know that feel. You’ve got this! Drs Kim and Chelle come 2022 💪🏼

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@guhou

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

Ever wanted to know what it’s like getting a tech job before submitting a wet lab PhD? Opening your two year old R scripts to see if they’re worth putting in as an appendix, and wondering if re-writing them in Pyspark would actually be faster than working out your baby code 🥺

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@chellebalez ☺️ thank youu! You’re close too, right?!

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

@ElieGottlieb I miss you too! Yes absolutely. I need to here more about your job! It sounds incredible having a bit of everything 👌🏼

[Kimberly 🧠🔬 @Technicallykim]

It’s pretty crazy that I’m already coming up to 6 months at @camplexer! What a nice milestone to be invited “back” to speak to @TheFlorey students about careers post research degrees (maybe I’ll even submit my thesis soon, too 😬)