Dr G 🔬🧬🦠

❤️ my work: AP biology & AP research teacher; Research affiliate @stonybrooku My PhD is in Science Ed. I tweet about science education, biology, & research.

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

Can’t hurt to enter! https://t.co/oz5A0OHGkp

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Do hard things.

Your body shifts its sensitivity to different feelings and experiences. If we don't experience discomfort for a while, the inner alarm rings earlier.

Experiencing pain or discomfort (i.e. exercising hard) helps to keep your inner world in tune.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

There's no shame in not knowing things! It's Okay to say "I don't know"

The only shame is to pretend that we know everything.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Making teaching a low-status profession will have prolonged negative ramifications for decades to come.

When you constantly demean a profession, and politicians paint you as "indoctrinators", you push talented people out & discourage the next generation of educators.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Development takes time.

Often, it's about staying in the game long enough to let your talent come to fruition.

Obsession over success & outcomes often causes people to lose their motivation long before their talent has bloomed.

Play the long game.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

• Study hard.
• What others think of you is none of your business.
• It's OK not to have all the answers.
• Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat.
• Knowledge comes from experience.
• Imagination is important.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Stay curious

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

An important thread that should be applied to teaching as well, especially in the pandemic when many of us are feeling burnt out.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

The great resignation is real. People quit their jobs in mass.

One reason, it was actually 'the great reshuffle.'

People realized their job sucks and searched for something better.

THREAD on why we're often miserable in the office & how to change it for the better 👇👇

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

6) Sleep at least 7 hrs
7) Practice self-discipline AND self-compassion
8) Read more books
9) In a world that loves speed, stay patient
10) Focus on pursuing your values—not too rigidly, not too flexibly
11) Be consistent
12) Build community
13) Protect time for deep-focus work

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

13 qualities for pursuing genuine excellence:

1) Focus on the process, let results take care of themselves
2) Develop routines—but don't get attached to them
3) Surround yourself wisely
4) Move your body often
5) Practice tragic optimism: accept what it is, move forward anyways

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

@panickedpostdoc @AcademicChatter @PostdocVoice 46 💪🏻

[Alex Ritter, PhD @AlexRitterPhD]

Small but mighty! This is a video of a killer T cell of the immune system destroying a monstrous ovarian cancer cell. I recently captured this data on a spinning disc confocal microscope.

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

@Pearwilliambaur It may be a practice tool for English language learners. Don’t judge.

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

Woohoo! Looking forward to seeing you at our #PP70k!

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

@MrWithersAHT No. Worked as a clinical exercise physiologist in cardiopulmonary rehab for 13 years.

[Dr G 🔬🧬🦠 @Biochemisme]

@NathanJonesBook Lord of the Rings

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

I love all the Winter Olympic events, sliding downhill on a piece of wood, sliding downhill on 2 pieces of wood, sliding downhill IN a piece of wood. All amazing.

[Frog and Toad Bot @FrogandToadbot]

'I will do it tomorrow,' said Toad. 'Today I will take life easy.'

[Dylan Burnette @MAG2ART]

A cell photographed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (purple), the endoplasmic reticulum (green), and the actin filament cytoskeleton (red) are shown.
#Science #Biology #CellBiology #Art

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Stop chasing outcomes.

Chasing leads to worry, fear of failure, & trying to force your way towards success. It never works.

Find things where your interests & talents align. Work your butt off at things that you enjoy the process of doing. The outcomes take care of themselves

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Remember that PROGRESS IS NON-LINEAR.

The notion of getting just a percent or two better every day sounds great, but it's often unrealistic, especially if you are already skilled to begin with.

Keep pounding the stone. Some days nothing happens, some days it cracks a bit more.