Alexis D. Baldeon

PhD Canditate exploring nutrition and the gut microbiome 🧪💩🦠
Division of Nutritional Sciences. UIUC.
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[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

Helping someone to see and believe in what they are capable of is a gift that costs us almost nothing but can impact someone's life tremendously.

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

What people think about themselves is often reflected in how they treat those around them.

The people who are genuinely secure and self-confident are those who are able to celebrate with you in your wins and extend grace to you in your failures.

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

Imagine if all of our academic institutions placed as much value on kindness, inclusivity, and integrity as they do on grants, papers, and awards.

The culture will change when the reward system changes.

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

Today, I passed my qualifying exam for my PhD program. A milestone in the books, and so much gratitude for those who helped me get to this point. Now for some R&R before getting back to the rest of the PhD 😅
💩🦠

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Leila Shinn, PhD, RDN, FAND @NutriShinn]

The @DNSatUofI 2021 #NutritionSymposium organized by our Graduate Student Association happening Wednesday! We're excited to be featuring #research from our students, faculty, and keynote speaker! Check out the schedule of events below and register here: https://t.co/G0mh9XugoW

[Camara Jones @CamaraJones]

This just in from @CDCgov!

Racism and Health https://t.co/wJxRqWyVnZ via @CDCgov

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

Today, I met a stranger in a loading dock, looked them in their eyes, thanked them for their poop, and then proceeded to process their sample back in lab. Twice. 🦠💩 what has my life turned into? #gradschool #microbiome #research #AcademicTwitter

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

@drdairy50 And thank you for your time and advice today!

[Ryan (Adé) Fergusson @Ry_Ferg]

If you've got room in your semester, come learn coding in R for free!

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

My lab mate @NutriShinn doing work! 🦠

[Women Doing Science @WomenDoingSci]

.@NutriShinn is a #registereddietitian and PhD student in @DNSatUofI at @Illinois_Alma. Leila's background in nutrition informs her highly collaborative dissertation research examining how diet impacts the gastrointestinal microbiome in the @HolscherLab.

#WomenDoingScience

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

@SimiJuri @AcademicChatter Currently learning isometric log-ratio transformation to deal with microbiome CoDa. I've only had one statistics course in my life 😬

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

I made gold from 💩 today so I guess you could say I'm sort of an alchemist 🧙🏽‍♂️ #nhml #nutritionresearch

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

1. Never stop learning.
2. See failure as a beginning.
3. Teach others what you know.
4. Assume nothing, question everything.
5. Analyze objectively.
6. Practice humility.
7. Respect constructive criticism.
8. Love what you do.
9. Give credit where it's due.
10. Take initiative.

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

Eloquently 'tweeted', please give the thread a read (~3min read). At this point, keeping ourselves and our community 🏘 healthy is our best case scenario, even if it means we must #stayinside for weeks/months. We can do this #twitterverse 💪🦠

[Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung]

We can now read the Imperial College report on COVID-19 that led to the extreme measures we've seen in the US this week. Read it; it's terrifying. I'll offer a summary in this thread; please correct me if I've gotten it wrong.
https://t.co/AwE2cHIbeJ

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

@AAAS_GR @GradCollegeIL Thank you! Super excited!

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

Grateful to have been selected by the @GradCollegeIL to attend @AAAS_GR #MakingOurCASE workshop!

Can't wait to get an intro on #scipol and #advocacy 🧪

[Universidad UTE @UTEoficial]

#Medios | Esta noche les invitamos a ver el programa @DiaaDiaEc de @teleamazonasec, en el que nuestro director del Centro de Investigación Biomédica, Manuel Baldeón se referirá a las bondades del #chocho en la #diabetes. Hoy, a las 21h00.

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

It took one semester of grad school for #googlechrome to learn to autofill the letter "N" to https://t.co/LoeQY9CCCW instead of #netflix. Still trying to figure out if this is a good thing or not...😅

#phdstudent

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

"What did I just watch?", "Who cast the protagonist?", "Clearly this was made on a budget." - movie reviews if my first semester of graduate school was a film. Happy it's done and already looking forward the next one!
#phdstudent
#phdlife

[Alexis D. Baldeon @adbaldeon]

I'm sure at some point I'll unintentionally fall into one of these "don'ts", especially point #5 RE keeping records organized. Any suggestions as to how to keep papers, data, documents all organized for grad school? #phdchat #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/OgsRvtOKzv