Anu(radha) RC

Computational Biophysics + Structural Biology 🔎 Ribosomes. Biochemistry PhD student @UArkansas. Neurodivergent. Mental Health Advocate. Teacher.🐢

[Anu(radha) RC @atomcellplanckl]

Our first paper from the lab ! Had a lot of fun working on it and learned a ton from @DylanGirodat. So thankful for a mentor and advisor like him.

[Dylan Girodat @DylanGirodat]

Check out our new review on MD simulations of translation elongation! Congratulations to Anuradha and Divya for their hard effort on the paper.
Conformational changes of ribosomes during translation elongation reso... https://t.co/h1MrlUInDv

[Anu(radha) RC @atomcellplanckl]

Another year of science, ideas, career inspiration/ advice & fun at @BiophysicalSoc meeting! #bps2025
Been a great time meeting people. I am honored to receive the travel award this year & look forward to more volunteering opportunities! Grateful for my PI to make this possible.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Do you take tea breaks with your colleagues?

A Nobel Prize laureate who really enjoyed his afternoon tea was physicist J.J. Thomson. Thomson established a daily tea time welcoming all research students for a tea break at University of Cambridge.

[Janet Iwasa @janetiwasa]

Just published - check out this Snapshot and accompanying animation describing the biogenesis of the 40S ribosomal subunit. Animation was a collaboration w Jochen Bassler & Ed Hurt (U Heidelberg). View the supplemental movie for version w narration! https://t.co/YHlb7UMG4S

[Smart Biology @SmartBiology3D]

Just how big can proteins get? Wow!
Learn more at https://t.co/rZjuFXgP1n
#biology #3D #science #animation #protein

[Anu(radha) RC @atomcellplanckl]

#goals

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

When presenting scientific posters sometimes less is better. Unless it's cartoons where more is always better, especially on scientific posters!

[nature @Nature]

‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers https://t.co/qWVQpfjTdS

[Anu(radha) RC @atomcellplanckl]

Scales are awesome.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

And my daily routine:

I wake up at 5 am.

Get to the gym at 5:30 am.

While working out, I listen to a science podcast for 1h.

Have breakfast and respond to emails at 7:30 am.

Reach to my lab at 8 am. 

Work until 6 pm.

Have a dinner at 7 pm.

Read research reviews for 60 mins.

Read a book for another 60 mins.

Write down the work plan for the next day.

9 pm: I’m in bed, thrilled to start another super-day in 8 hours.

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Sounds perfect, right?

Except that this is not real. It’s NOT about me.

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In real life:

- I can get sick of office work

- I can get sick of writing grants, papers, reports

- I can get sick of working in a lab (hell, yes!)

- I can get too tired for a gym

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My life as a scientist is not about productivity. 

It’s about creativity and fulfillment.

Such a daily routine can quickly exhaust us, mentally and physically.

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As a student, postdoc or faculty:

Do NOT feel guilty when you get sick of your lab duties.

Do NOT feel ashamed of your slow writing process.

Do NOT get upset by your mental and physical fatigue.

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Your strength is in your personality and curiosity. Not a productive daily routine. 

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Phd

[Anu(radha) RC @atomcellplanckl]

@Rainmaker1973 Today!

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Academia or industry?

[Gautam R. Desiraju🇮🇳 @GautamDesiraju]

See my 2008 article:
https://t.co/v4dnY3tFo6
Teaching without research is like a pond of stagnant water. It becomes stale and contaminated. Research without teaching is like a mirage. We imagine that there is water in the pond.

This morning:
https://t.co/ZjWTGk2Gtk

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

Here’s an extra @RoySocChem #RSCPoster cartoon we drew for the community prize winner @LC_Sherlock, they’ll be getting their very own mug with a cartoon on as a prize :)

[Anna Schueth, PhD @SchuethAnna]

So true. #NeverStopLearning

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

- Rabindranath Tagore, awarded the 1913 #NobelPrize in Literature.

#WorldBookDay

[Scientific American @sciam]

In Scientific 'Merica’s special April issue we reveal the surprising way ChatGPT creates sophisticated language, and explain those mysterious balloons crossing North American skies.

Read it now: https://t.co/JtQ6FihNBG

📷 Floria Chu/500px / Getty Images

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

A growing number of firms want to offer psychedelics to staff, either for the sake of mental health or to organise a mind-bending corporate retreat https://t.co/u2DjH66UVi

[Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) @FromPhDtoLife]

I mentioned my favorite band in my PhD dissertation acknowledgments. Did you thank anyone or anything surprising in yours?

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"You can find the role models you are looking for."

2022 chemistry laureate @CarolynBertozzi shares an important message to all who don't see themselves represented in mainstream science. Who is your role model?

#IWD2023 #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience

[Anu(radha) RC @atomcellplanckl]

@Theholisticpsyc And it’s so scary. Like you are undergoing the process of disintegration, so feels like life is ending or will end soon.