Joy Nyaanga

Senior Bioinformatician @LurieChildrens 👩🏾‍💻 | PhD @NorthwesternU | #RStats enthusiast

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

And just like that, my final publication from grad school is out in the world 🥲 Really proud of the work we did 🐛

[microPublication @Micropub7n]

Characterization of larval growth in C. elegans cuticle mutants #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Celegans #PhenotypeData #NewFinding https://t.co/yqaMAuYkMB

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@JCUXCTF 💙⚡️

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

But yesterday I ✨officially✨ joined the academe, earning those 3 coveted letters that <2% of the WORLD gets to hold. So I just have to say…

You, me,
WE first gen,
we immigrants,
we black kings and queens
are always always ALWAYS *enough*
#WomenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #PhD #PhDone

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

I spent so much of my life feeling like I wasn’t *enough*. Not smart enough, successful enough, ~resilient~ enough...

[Jamie Pei, PhD @heyjamiepei]

Spend time looking for rhe right supervisor. Surround yourself with supportive friends/colleagues. Enjoy the #researchjourney + process. That's totally allowed. I'll say it again:

You don't have to suffer+struggle in order for your PhD to be valuable and excellent n/n

[Dr. Monica Cox @DrMonicaCox]

I don't criticize academia because I can't handle academia.

I criticize academia because I expected a lot more from academia.

I can't tell you how many times I've asked, "Is this it? Why is there so much hype?"

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@bobbierath @PhDVoice @PhDForum @PhD_Genie @AcademicChatter Wow, I wish I had a resource like this when I started the journey of making my website!

Took a bit to get here but mine is built with the ever powerful {blogdown} #rstats package and deployed with @Netlify. Tons of great how-to blogs out there! https://t.co/HUqZNYmuOn

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@ashhhpowell With thesis defense ya!

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

😯🤔 T-5 weeks

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Nature does open access

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

Academia is (still) so incredibly inaccessible you cannot convince me otherwise

[zeeshan🇵🇸 @shibuyaevening]

mendel's law of inheritance

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@Sara_Martinko 🥺☺️

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

I’m very excited to share this preprint! Over the past few years I’ve come to love the R language and couldn’t be more thrilled to contribute to this awesome community #RStats

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

easyXpress: An R package to analyze and visualize high-throughput C. elegans microscopy data generated using CellProfiler https://t.co/GpnPYeSsKw #bioRxiv

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@sam_widmayer Thank you Sam! It was quite the feat but well worth the sleepless nights!

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

... Academia, we must do better.

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

Grad school is hard. But not feeling heard or seen makes it infinitely harder. @RelationshipGAP stirred up deeply buried feelings of inadequacy & frustration from my first grad school experience. I feel for those sitting alone in their pain to avoid the stigma of “failure” ...

[tgsatnu @TGSatNU]

The Graduate School's Office of Diversity & Inclusion will host "Retention of Underrepresented Graduate Students of Color" as part of the Let's Talk Diversity dialogue series on Thursday, November 12 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM CST.

Learn more & register: https://t.co/qrWvOjgfML

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@ashhhpowell @flemmyspankins Only close friends have the pleasure

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@Sara_Martinko Oh my look who's lifting arms now

[Joy Nyaanga @j2wrld]

@saluann14 @Austin_Mac96 When the girlfriends away, the boyfriend comes out to play