Jennifer Guo

DDS/PhD Candidate, Western University 🦷 | CIHR CGS-D recipient 🔬| Naval Warfare Officer, Royal Canadian Navy 👮 | Opinions are my own 🇨🇦

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

Honoured to have received my very first challenge coin during the Change of Command Ceremony.

Congratulations to Cdr @PGSHong for his exceptional leadership—you will be greatly missed. Best wishes to Cdr Mike Butler as he assumes his new role!

#RoyalCanadianNavy 🇨🇦⚓️

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

Connective tissue connects friends 😊

#CCTC2024 @CCT_Society

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

@BeierLab Happy retirement Dawn! We will miss you 🥹

[Kevin Zhou, DDS, BMSc @kevinxzhou]

Had a great time presenting at Schulich Dentistry Research Day on Oct 10th! Thank you @DrNGomaa for organizing this stimulating showcase of scientific innovation at Western University.

#research #westernu #schulichdent #schulichadvantage

[Siyuan (Steven) Wang @SStevenWang]

Our Asian Faculty Association at Yale has formed! We pledge to promote and protect our community members on campus with our organization and unified voice. Thank you our nearly 200 registered members for entrusting me with the inaugural secretary position! https://t.co/lJcjJxfuLH

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Not able to produce “favorable results” in the lab? You are a “loser”.

Stay in the shadows of those who can bring cool data to the Big Prof.

Sounds familiar? It's not only about this case at Stanford.

It's about academic culture in general:

- Keep pushing for metrics. Quantity over quality. Look for flashy conclusions.

- Skyrocket your profile. Build your research enterprise. Outcompete everyone in your field.

Isn’t it how academia works today? 🤨

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Albert Einstein remarked: “An academic career, in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts, creates a danger of intellectual superficiality”. 

Peter Higgs said he could NOT replicate his discovery in today’s academic climate: “Not enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964”.

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Wonder about the results of this “culture”?

1. Thousands of FAKE research articles are published. 30% of all scientific articles may be fake products of paper mills. There is even a special lengthy page on Wiki called “Replication crisis”.

2. Life-draining tenure requirements that fuel the rat race. Why? To ensure the university ranking and recognition is going up.

3. Most PhDs don’t see themselves in science anymore. In many places, you are not required to be creative and knowledgable. Instead, you should demonstrate you can win a race.

Everyone knows it but few things change.

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I am happy that Stanford showed courage and carried out investigation. It is an excellent example of HOW to react to manipulated papers and unhealthy lab dynamic.

It's just another reminder that:

We should STOP focusing on taking “professional selfies”.

We should STOP trading our passion for glory.

Focus on science instead

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

@DrNGomaa @MutumbaMargaret @westernuAfrica @VPRWesternU @SchulichMedDent Congratulations Dr. Gomaa!

[Muhammad Rizwan @MRizwanPhD]

I am looking for a #postdoc in the area of #biomaterials and #tissueengineering.
Apply here: https://t.co/ZHs79yVUik
if you join our team, you will have this 👇view from the lab (ok fine, from the building). Pls share. Thanks 🙏

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

@MRizwanPhD @NIH Congratulations Rizwan!

[Joy Wu, MD, PhD @JoyYWu]

Happy #LunarNewYear2023! 🧧🏮🧨

新年快樂
身體健康
出入平安
年年有餘

May the #YearOfTheRabbit 🐇 bring you happiness, health, peace and abundance.

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why https://t.co/mGBNc81hqZ

[Susanne Schmid @neuro_suse]

The increased cost of living is hugely affecting our graduate students @WesternU
https://t.co/dcO2JFwiiJ

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

It was so much fun working on this project! Thanks for the invaluable mentorship @MRizwanPhD @MollyShoichet 😁

[Muhammad Rizwan @MRizwanPhD]

In this latest @AdvSciNews paper, using engineered HA #hydrogel at @ShoichetLab, we showed, 𝟭 Viscoelasticity is key to liver bile-duct organoid growth, 𝟮 MMP-based matrix degradation is not required, 𝟯 immobilized Notch ligands induce 3D morphogenesis of tubular bile-ducts!!

[National Defence @NationalDefence]

Canada awards a contract for new Army pistols to M.D. Charlton Co. Ltd. for the Sig Sauer P320. This pistol will be lighter, more efficient and possess better ergonomics than its predecessor, the 9mm Browning. https://t.co/Pu7XWi3qoQ

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

Thanks Dr. Campbell @drsoup09 for her amazing talk and for sharing her project on https://t.co/446MTfnPD3.

Learned lots from @westernuCTL’s Fall Perspective lectures. Will definitely be using some of the strategies as a TA in the coming semester ☺️

[Schulich WesternU @SchulichMedDent]

First-year medical student Laney Beaulieu, a member of the Dene and Métis people, grew up in a small community in the Northwest Territories. Her Discovery Week experience took her back there to gain hands-on experience in remote medicine.
https://t.co/COfk7Jk0Ox

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

@BZhangLab @HoumanSavoji @LiME_Akbari Look forward to your talk!

[Jennifer Guo @cguo83]

@drsoup09 Looking forward to your talk Dr. Campbell!

[Kevin Zhou, DDS, BMSc @kevinxzhou]

I’m happy to announce that my open-access reference textbook is now available in over 50 countries on Apple Books. A true milestone in the shift towards #accessible knowledge & dental admissions equity.

#creativecommons #opensource #dentistry #standardizedexams #DAT #cda #equity