Carolina I. Castro-Rivera

I like neurons and oxygen || 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈🧠 || Neurobiology PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago studying oxygen homeostasis and hippocampal physiology

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

A PI just asked if mice sleep

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Nothing is working today 😭

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

This is an ongoing issue and has been for YEARS

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@UChicago I’ve been wearing my coat in lab because the heating in this building sucks so bad. Help :p

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

@UChicagoMed @UChicago it would be a lot easier to run my experiments if the heater in lab actually worked and I didn’t have to wear my coat indoors

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

My depression is cured because my experiment worked

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

The Email Requiring a Response-induced hyperventilation is strong this week

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happy pride! you should always use they/them for quantum computers because they're nonbinary

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Wtf is up with the wifi and cell signal in hyde park lately? I’m going insane

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@UChicago I’ve been wearing my coat in lab because the heating in this building sucks so bad. Help :p

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

The fact that I had to buy a car and move more than 20 min away from where I work means that I’m subsidizing the school’s cost of me working there.

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

Some older grad students say that at this point they’re finishing their PhD out of spite.

I’m finishing my PhD for the sweet old uber lady who started crying because “you don’t see enough brown/black women pursuing higher education”.

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

in ariana grande’s voice:

🎤 ain’t got no nails left to biiite 🎶

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

Aim 1:

Rationale & Justification:

I intuit it.

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

I did simple (very simple) math in front of my mentor this week and used my fingers to count.

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

what if society just a maladaptive evolutionary response ?

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

I wonder if ribosomes ever feel like procrastinating

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This speaker is saying “as you can see here” over and over while pointing with the laser at the computer screen that only they can see

[Carolina I. Castro-Rivera @caro_cientifica]

an absolutely gorgeous ending to One Of Those Days™️is getting the key to your collaborators scope room stuck in the lock box