G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️

U-M EEB PhD Student 〽️| Broadly interested in the evolutionary genetics of insects | Just a social butterfly who studies actual butterflies 🦋 (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

Dearest gentle reader, it is with much pride that I present to you my very first scientific publication. So happy to finally get my MS work out there! A huge thanks to everyone who pitched in to make it happen!! Harrison et al. has a nice ring to it 😎https://t.co/jzX5VJtv0T

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@LCMcHenry Your defense presentation was phenomenal!! Had me all in my feels 🥹 Congratulations Doctor, you’re an absolute rockstar 🤘🏼!!

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@fervasquezval Literally could not have happened without you! 💜

[Dr. Abigail M Hayes @ArthropodAbbey]

DNA Extraction question! 🧬
I'm ISO a good kit that is cost effective, works in plate format, and will provide good yields from whole-body single individual Drosophila samples 🪰. Our lab previously used the Axygen kit but they don't have enough in stock rn. Plz RT

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@TomKuhar This is amazing 🤣

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@TheBugChicks All credit to Steph Benbow for their incredible work generating those figures! I'm utterly hopeless with all Adobe and Photoshop softwares 🤣

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

Dearest gentle reader, it is with much pride that I present to you my very first scientific publication. So happy to finally get my MS work out there! A huge thanks to everyone who pitched in to make it happen!! Harrison et al. has a nice ring to it 😎https://t.co/jzX5VJtv0T

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@ArthropodAbbey Tysm!! 😁

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

p.s. If you just wanna see pics of the cool soil-dwelling arthropods that we found, check out the first supplementary material file 😉

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

Biology in nature does not always fit into neat little human-created boxes like “female” or “male”. Sad to see the hate and bigotry being so casually thrown around right now. As a biologist and a lover of sport, disheartening to say the least. #Olympics2024Paris

[Elise A. Mitchell @byeliseam]

But, individually, we can conquer imposter syndrome - because people are really out here submitting first drafts. Don't do that. But, don't pursue perfection either. A lot of revising happens between acceptance and publication.

Perfect is the worst enemy of good enough.

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

June marks the start of #Pride, and we couldn’t be more excited to announce the publication of A Little Gay Natural History!  (1/2)

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@UMBS is a truly special place. So thankful for the opportunity to live and teach here for a good chunk of the summer. Got up here just in time to catch the dragonfly larvae eclosing on the shore 🌅〽️

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@lovetheants Thanks so much 😌🏳️‍⚧️

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

It’s teaching evaluation season for those of us who taught this past semester. Just gonna drop this ✨gem✨here as a reminder that students hold all sorts of biases and that existing as a queer scientist is not “inappropriate for the classroom” 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@ArthropodAbbey Greatly appreciated 😊!

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@ArthropodAbbey Definitely worth the effort. I know folks who have received blatantly xenophobic responses in the past as well, so def not an isolated occurrence! Appears there’s 0 filtering whatsoever. Direct from the students’ fingertips to our screens 🤷‍♀️

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@UMichEEB 🎉 well deserved! Cheyenne you rock! 🤘🏼

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@ravkitley These are classics! My personal favorite is the Vampire Rock one with the Hex Girls!

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@ArthropodAbbey Thank you so much for the kind response 💙 that was my first thought as well. We live in an age where we can analyze whole genomes with a few lines of code but we can’t filter out blatantly ignorant student responses from surveys??

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@apis_melliferal We never had so much as an uncomfortable moment throughout the semester regarding my pronouns. I’d maybe understand if I had said “ok class, repeat after me. Gender is a societal construct!” each morning but I suppose just my identity and existence was problematic enough 🤷‍♀️

[G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️ @BugCatcherG]

@LCMcHenry thanks for the love Laura ❤️ I had gotten used to this sort of thing in the south but this is definitely the most egregious experience I’ve had up here so far