Jess Sevetson, PhD

Postdoc: IRACDA & Chancellor's Fellow 👩🏼‍🎓
Tweets: Neuro/🧠 organoids, academia, & sass
👩🏼‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬 | #BiInSci🌈 | Any pronouns

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Not a full breakup (yet), but: between mass firings & increasing bugs, security concerns, rising hate speech, & Ukraine's country code being removed from 2FA...

I think it's time for Twitter & I to see other people.

https://t.co/bUzpOT5Wb0

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

A brief return to Twitter to update my poll-takers:

1) the IRS had my refund to me in <2 wks

2) I received my @UCSC reimbursement on Wed June 28, 146 days after request

3) the holdup for the >$1k refund was confusion about a $5.72 bagel. (& yes, the receipt WAS itemized!)

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Submitting an academic travel reimbursement request the same week as my federal tax returns. SO: let's play "Which bureaucracy will pay me back first?"

Early Bets??

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Having a festive DNA day at @ucscgenomics @BaskinEng !!

[Gabriela K. Popescu @PopStarLab]

Did you know that NIH, through, NOT-OD-21-134, allows trainees who have been adversely affected by unsafe or discriminatory environments to rapidly transition into new safe research environments that are safe and supportive to complete their training?
https://t.co/xvkxCiVeKT

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Students asking me what I'm doing for spring break

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@hangukhiphop @ShouldHaveCat A ceiling panel for the Hiss-tine Chapel.

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Professorship #goals

...actually, I have no idea what kind of offhand, slightly unhinged comments I'd find. & I'm only like 80% sure I want to know 🤣

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long.

[UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics]

Happy #WorldOrganoidResearchDay 🎉 @IBSC_UCSC IRACDA Fellow & @braingeneers member @jess7son is using #BrainOrganoids to uncover how genetic changes enhanced the human brain's computing capacity during primate evolution 🙉 Learn about the Braingeneers: https://t.co/R8PqqhNNwo

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@mbeisen @UCDflowerpower @DoctorZen Can I put this on a slide in my "how to read a scientific paper" intro lecture for undergrads?

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@denisekra @ravenscimaven Came here to say this. By every account I've ever read/heard, Ben was a sweet man and a champion for women in science.

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@brain_trader @BonetaMike https://t.co/seKZkM9eYX

Idk doable apparently

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@KevBell007 @YouTooBio Time to write, let it sit, go back and read through it with a fresh mind, to ensure it reads the way I intended and that nothing important got left out.

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Asking youths in the lab if they wanna have a "lil journal clizzy" purely for the joy of watching their poorly concealed disgust.

@xkcd had it right

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@DrVasshe If professors can't swear, I'm gonna be in some big fuckin' trouble.

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@esevetson @TedNesi @KimKalunian Wait stop how is she 20 😲☠️

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

So, DeSantis is seizing control of the higher education system & systematically censoring members of the intelligentsia distributing information that the government deems unacceptable.

Gee, where have we seen this before?

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

And THIS is the candidate a major American party is preparing to hitch their wagon to.

[Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung]

The text of DeSantis' higher education bill has been released. It's as terrifying as the press release suggested it would be. Florida HB 999 would enact the most draconian and censorious restrictions on higher education in the history of this country. https://t.co/mTsNuSryt4

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

Tl;dr

-Classes cannot teach "unproven theories" (aimed at humanities but will affect sciences)
-Faculty jobs in the hands of trustees (I have issues w/ the tenure system but this doesn't solve them, just makes things worse)
-NO taking grants w/ DEI component (most NSF/NIH $$)

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@PeonyScunthorpe @HopeJahren Came here to say this. I can overlook what is clearly an office joke gone too far, but I cannot and shall not forgive such blatant cowardice.

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

@AizenmanLab A determined student can still screenshot it 😬

[Jess Sevetson, PhD @jess7son]

A quick #academicWriting reminder that Oxford Commas are worth the space they take up.

They make things easier to understand for your reviewers, undergrads and internet randos. (SWIDT?)