Mary Arrastia

Postdoc @Stanford | Ph.D. @Caltech | B.S. @CalStateLA | Moving through academia one laugh at a time | She/Her

[Mary Arrastia @itscontrary]

Not a wordle, just my PhD thesis committee’s availability

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@_prashantbhat @Caltech @mitchguttman @uclacaltechmstp Congrats Dr Bhat!!

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@TheSquishyLab Huge congrats Sujit!!

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The food toppings were added as part of the reviewers’ comments 😆

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Nature Biotechnology papers

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@CeruleanFE I had jasmine milk tea ice cream last night and didn’t think it would have caffeine 🙃

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@CeruleanFE But if you buy the coin, then you literally will be made of money 😂

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Dear Disney, I love Baymax and your merch, but I'm very much questioning this...

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Precision vs Accuracy https://t.co/CzTKylCbAk

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Stanford football may be losing, but it was super cool to see them honor Carolyn Bertozzi for her Nobel Prize at the game live 😀

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Is guilt in academia a common thing? Basically, are you feeling like you’re trying fulfill a certain career role because others expect you to be that person or you feel like you owe it back to someone? How does one navigate around this? 😖 #AcademicTwitter

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Is this a Halloween-exclusive setting?

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When you think you’re being useful

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When you accidentally centrifuge live mammalian cells at 3000g instead of 300g

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It’s official, this IS the bad place

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Stanford confirmed to be the CpG island for In-N-Out

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Today is devastating day. I’m sad, I’m pissed, I’m frustrated. This is perhaps one of the biggest FUs to women’s rights. After all the progress made so far, we are now taking more than 2 steps back in advancing women’s rights. I’m scared for what’s next.

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This is LITERALLY me

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The professor is IN! Check out the newest Holowear for Slowbro in Pokémon UNITE

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Yikes you know it’s bad when SF is in the 90s 😬

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It’s the official first day of summer, and the Bay Area decided to celebrate this by being hotter today than the LA/OC area. I wish it didn’t. 🥵

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@AntonioTinocoV I’m earning now in my current postdoc than what my parents have ever earned in their jobs, but it’s definitely not enough to sustain both me and my parents down the line 😔 It’s so hard

[Mary Arrastia @itscontrary]

I love science and academia and the environment it provides. But seeing this poster today made me question a lot. How is it that I have a PhD but in a position that pays less than a general manager in the Bay Area?

Thinking about this shit hurts. Does it actually get better?

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@AntonioTinocoV I feel the same way. I’m also expected to support my parents in old age, but I’m not sure if I can do that in academia. My dad is retired now and my mom is getting up there.