Christopher Drozd

PhD Candidate @ UC Riverside. 🌿🍊🦠
I study how citrus tree microbiomes can be engineered to promote plant health! || he / him 🏳️‍🌈 || #blacklivesmatter

[Christopher Drozd @microbe_manager]

Applying to grad school: I want to pet every dog!
PhD proposal: I would like to pet 10 chihuahuas
Dissertation: I shook hands with a cat

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨

The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠

Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/vZgaOPjKWo

1/15 🧵

[Jason Stajich @hyphaltip]

Citrus Disease on @PBS with @microbe_manager https://t.co/BctiiSRQrt @UCRCNAS

[Christopher Drozd @microbe_manager]

@ellstrand @UCR_ScienceNews @PBS @hungryplanet @UCRiverside @ChrisDrozd Thank you Dr. Ellstrand!

[Christopher Drozd @microbe_manager]

Thinking about doing my PhD defense on Prezi just to feel something

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

So @UofCalifornia is doling out double-digit raises to administrators while campuses are announcing cuts to the academic workforce? Where are @UCPrezDrake's priorities?

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

We are not waiting around for UC leaders to value our labor. We are bringing our fight to their offices and to their mansions. And we'll keep coming back until we win fair contracts. #UAWonStrike

[Fabi Pulido-Chavez @Pulido_Fabi]

Can't nobody take us down,
Can't nobody hold us down, oh, no, we got to keep on striking. 🎶 (That is until we get a fair contract). #UAWStrike #FairUCnow

[Fabi Pulido-Chavez @Pulido_Fabi]

But where will the money come from? Says #UC, and silent & unsupportive PI’s. Given how much money UC takes from PI grants, u’d think PI’s would be more upset at UC for these raises & more supportive of us who do all the work on the grants.@UCRCNAS #FairUCNow

[Fabi Pulido-Chavez @Pulido_Fabi]

@UCRCNAS @kathrynuhrich told PIs to call👮‍♀️on strikers. We then picketed her building & the dept is now LYING. Saying strikers were “aggressive, confrontational & threatening staff.” How did we threaten you! (1/2) #UAWonStrike https://t.co/3hQBJfnwFq #AUWonstrike #FairUCnow

[Matt Haney @MattHaneySF]

Standing with @uaw2865 @sruuaw calling on the University of California to bargain in good faith and deliver a fair contract for the nearly 50,000 researchers, teaching assistants and instructors that are still on strike at UC.

[Fabi Pulido-Chavez @Pulido_Fabi]

Since our money cannot afford us housing we have taken over Hinderaker Hall @UCRiverside & have even put up a 🎄(unfortunately the #UC grinches have taken all the happiness from it). Come by & camp with us in this very fancy building. #UAWonStrike #FairUCnow #SiSePuede

[Student Researchers United-UAW @sruuaw]

When UC says they've made their final offer and they're done negotiating, we wake up before dawn to tell the regents: We're not done! #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow

[Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics]

If you are a member of the University of California Academic Senate please consider signing the following open letter to the UC Academic Senate

Start here with some background: https://t.co/OUU6afb7wx

And see this Tweet for a little more background https://t.co/t8WZE1WiUr

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

Workers are peacefully occupying the lobby of the UC Path center in Riverside, but @UCRiverside called the police! Why is this institution so afraid of the people who carry out its core mission?

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

.@UofCalifornia told the LA Times their compensation proposal would make grad workers 'the highest paid among comparable public and private institutions.'

We ran the numbers - That's a bold-faced lie. UC's proposals are uniquely low. @UofCalifornia can do better.

[Katie Porter @katieporterca]

We are now entering week two of unfair labor practice strikes by UAW-represented academic workers at the University of California. Their talent is what enables UC’s world-class research.

I’m leading colleagues to call on UC to reach a resolution and bargain in good faith.

[Jess Trinh @jess_trinh]

✨Cosplayers for fair contracts!✨ Happy Strike Week 3, folks -- let's keep fighting for the wages we deserve! 💪 @uaw2865 #FairUCNow

[UAW 2865 – Riverside @uaw2865UCR]

Hundreds of @uaw2865 @sruuaw @uaw5810 academic workers, faculty, and community members showed up in full force on Monday to kick off our second week striking at UC Riverside for a #FairUCNow!

[Student Researchers United-UAW @sruuaw]

Good morning, and welcome to week II. We are unstoppable. #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow