Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤

Be unapologetically enthusiastic. she/her

(Microbial) Ecology & Evolution PhD student studying endosymbiosis in diatoms @ University of MT. views are my own.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

Hi friends! My PhD project involves culturing lots of #diatoms from Rhopalodiaceae. If you know there's some in a local area to you, I'd love to get samples from you! Shipping costs can be paid by our lab funding. Pls pass this along to your #algae and diatom friends if you can!

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

My best hot writing tip is have word read your writing out loud to you to catch silly little mistakes. Your ears are way better at it than your eyes, especially later in the editing process.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

if ur on my committee and see this shhhh🤫

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

Hi ADHD STEM/academia friends, how do you finish the last 10% of something? Asking for me and my writtens being due in 3 days 🥲😬 #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

@_Toukana Any updates on adding touchscreen support for PC? I love the game, but don't want to sit at my computer to play after all day computer work too! I'd love to be able to play on my surface.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

Science friends, do you have a favorite field of scientists that is not your field in the slightest? Or is that just me? I freaking love physicists. Could never be one, though.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

@JumpingGenomes Super interesting. Maybe I've just been in endosymbiosis land too long to remember! You've certainly given me a fun idea for a question to ask everyone and all of my classes for the future now 😂

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

Endosymbiosis people - y'all okay?

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

@JumpingGenomes Interesting! Why mutualism as the most common? Just the misconception that symbiosis = mutualism/good? Or some other reason?

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

Inktober but it's just my notes and sketches while doing comps

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

Every time that “annoyingly earnest social activist” character shows up, clock that you’re being served propaganda intended to make folks more afraid of being embarrassing than of living thru the life threatening fallout of state violence and neglect.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

@hankgreen As a patron of the same target and their game section, honestly I appreciate this.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

I'm not going to shut up about this photo for a very long time. #diatoms #limnology #microscopy #SciArt

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

Working from home has really let me live my ADHD life and it's honestly great. The hardest part was letting go of a "traditional work structure" in my own brain. Now I just kinda bounce around and do whatever my brain wants, but I get way more done overall.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

@CharlotteJD @AcademicChatter Zotero!! I use their in-app pdf reader/highlighter and take notes in onenote as needed. I'll add a short summary to the pdf notes in Zotero if it's particularly important. I used to use Mendeley, but made the switch to Zotero as they're open source and not owned by Elsevier.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

How many separate things have to go wrong in a day before I can just give up and start again tomorrow? Asking for me.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

@JediShropshire it is not, but maybe I brought one home with me hahaha

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

I have a fruit fly just flying around my head constantly that I can't seem to catch and I'm losing my cool RAPIDLY

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

I hope that any devices currently listening to me know that the threats I am uttering into this empty room are all towards this fruit fly.

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

At least the story has a happy ending!

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

The idea that someone might one day have to go through my lab notes is absolutely hilarious to me like

[Heidi Eliza🔬 💜🖤 @cyanochic]

The idea that someone might one day have to go through my lab notes is absolutely hilarious to me like