Highlights from IID’s #Pride Celebration! 🌈 We fostered our dedication to solidarity within our community (and had some fun desserts and decorations, too)! #PrideMonth
This university has more than enough resources to pay our grads a living wage, make our healthcare accessible, and ensure that our workplaces are safe. We look forward to the University's response. 🧵
This proposal would incorporate ~$12M in funding already committed by UM under the Rackham Summer Funding plan into our contract, offering considerable cost savings to UM relative to our previous proposal while still ensuring that grads in our bargaining unit earn a living wage.
Absolutely obsessed with seeing my friends in other grad programs of various fields fighting for unionization, COLA, pay raises, and safer working environments 🥰🥰
Chimwemwe Mwase @MwaseChimwemwe works with donor epithelial cells that recapitulate many features of airways found in humans. When epithelial cells are exposed to asthma-associated stimuli, they release extracellular vesicles (EVs), which can deliver messages to recipient cells.
Chimwemwe Mwase @MwaseChimwemwe works with donor epithelial cells that recapitulate many features of airways found in humans. When epithelial cells are exposed to asthma-associated stimuli, they release extracellular vesicles (EVs), which can deliver messages to recipient cells.
Thread: 5 years ago I taught a new grad course called "Open and Reproducible Science". I shared the syllabus on the OSF as well as blog posts as lecture notes for each class. Well, I finally finished those blog posts/lecture notes after a few year pause. Here they all are...
So when you read about the tech layoffs and react with gratitude that you are spared those random acts of cruelty, don't forget to think about our own field's unique brand of cruelty.
I was talking to a lady at a MLK event in my hometown and she grabbed my arm and said "never in my 83 years of life have I met someone from here who is getting or got a PhD." then she told my mom how proud of me she was
A literal stranger 😭
Even the Black man who cleans our floor from time to time stops in the lab if I'm alone at night and will tell me how proud he is of me and he tells his daughters about me 🥺