Emily Summerbell

I help biomedical postdocs do awesome stuff | Alumna @EmoryUniversity @VanderbiltU | postdoc affairs | sci admin | I'm very into cats | views = mine | she/her

[Emily Summerbell @esummerbell]

1/ Alright the people have spoken and they want more cat genetics. So, I present to you all "Cat Coat Genetics 101: A Tweetorial", feat. pics of many real life cats (for science, of course...this baby is Caterpillar).

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

🧪 What I wish I'd known about lab notebooks in year 1:

A thread about what has actually worked for me (learned the hard way...) 🧵

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

People: What productivity software do you us?

Me:

[Emily Summerbell @esummerbell]

If you’re on the Bethesda campus of NIH, the Nerds In Harmony a cappella group will be singing TODAY at noon in the courtyard outside of the B1 cafeteria in Building 10! Come hear some music while you eat lunch!

[Batool Rizvi @neurobatool]

Got a reviewer commenting that my writing should be proofread by a native English speaker. I hope this reply I’m drafting isn’t too much! 😬

[Emily Summerbell @esummerbell]

So thrilled for this news!!

[American Society for Cell Biology @ASCBiology]

Mary Munson has been elected to serve as President of ASCB in 2025. Munson, a Professor in the Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology at UMass Chan Medical School, will serve as President-Elect on the ASCB Executive Committee beginning in 2024. R https://t.co/quyEjQxyn3

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵

[Gina Lloyd @GinaGoesOutside]

it finally happened. I got to be the first person to tell a kid why the barbed wire fence in his backyard is always covered with impaled lizards

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

I said uL not mL

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it.

But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*

Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:

[David Dranow 🇮🇱 @GntlmnScientist]

PhDs is trending so I want to remind the world you don’t need a PhD to be a scientist.

[Emily Summerbell @esummerbell]

I cannot adequately explain to you all how excited I am to now have an ACTUAL PERMANENT DESK in the office and to see my name on the wall above it. It’s the little things that make you feel like you belong ❤️

[Emily Summerbell @esummerbell]

Wholesome educator content, I love everything about this thread ❤️

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

This weekend, my lab tried a new experiment: we wrote a paper in one day! Inspired by @JnfrLTackett, we blocked out a whole Sunday, & in <8 hours, we cranked out a surprisingly decent full-length draft. Plus, we had fun, ate a lot of snacks, & fit in a Starbucks run. Here's how!

[Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek]

Me to 10-year-old: Want to talk about your day?
10 yo: No. Let's talk about cat genetics.

[liv ☮️ (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @liv_laugh_lab]

I’m an autoclave.
I’m an essential machine widely used across many fields.
This is my daily routine:

[Jordy Wolfand @JWolfand]

Found this nugget hidden in student code comments😭

[James Briscoe @briscoejames]

Really excited to launch @Dev_journal "Pathway to Independence Programme"

Are you, or do you know, a dev bio or stem cell researcher planning to apply for their 1st PI position in 2023?

Then this scheme is for you. See how to apply:

https://t.co/67HkzXmRif

[Shai Bel @Mucus_Man]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees "single cells" before realizing it's "jingle bells"

[Emily Summerbell @esummerbell]

Public opinion question of the day: With the current postdoc crisis at the front of mind, fair postdoc salary is one of the first issues that we talk about. But what would a fair postdoc salary actually look like?? Throw some numbers at me, either here or DM me!

[Dr. Jeff Amato @ZirconsForever]

A couple of weeks ago we had an icebreaker during my graduate seminar and the question was "What is your irrational fear?" My answer was "hammerhead sharks". And today in class I walked in and saw this: