Mary Madera

UC Davis PhD student. Strawberry researcher. Host of Plantae's Grad Perspectives Collection. Outreach enthusiast.

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

@may_gun Fair, and I totally hear that and agree, but I always run events with a $0 budget and know auto-captions aren’t good enough. So perhaps there just aren’t any free resources? I wonder where those may be developed??

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

@may_gun Haha I still find Twitter and its inner-workings to be quite confusing!

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

@may_gun From my experience running events its a funding/resource issue. Do you have a list of free and reliable interpretation/ability resources for webinars/zoom meetings/ live symposia that small student groups can be using to address this issue?

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

@may_gun (For more context) the spotlights feature new UCD plant faculty who weren’t spotlighted the previous year and the new faculty this year were 2 white men. As hiring decisions are coming out about now, hopefully next year this won’t be the case!

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

https://t.co/89jf1KqvdH Although it was live to 5000 kids, its now on youtube if you or your kids missed it!

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

#bts from CA Ag in the Classroom Virtual Farm Day! Excited to rep #strawberrybreeding and demo DNA extractions to 5000 kids! #outreach #farmday @SiltWineCo @LearnAboutAg

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

#virtualhangout We had a cake #bakeoff challenge via zoom! Amber was our judge but we all win because now we all have cake. Except Anna I guess who apparently hates cake?

[William Crawley @williamcrawley]

I don’t know who this is, but he’s made my day.

[Fay Lin, PhD @xiaofei_lin]

It says a lot about academia's toxic culture if the immediate response to "how are you?" during a pandemic is related to research productivity. #justsaying

#AcademicTwitter

[Fay Lin, PhD @xiaofei_lin]

Whenever I ask other grad students how they're doing with #COVID19, the most common response is about lack of productivity.

A global pandemic is NOT normal. It's OK if you're not productive. It's OK if you're just making it through each day. Prioritize your wellness. #phdchat

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

@CapSciComm @TriviaWithBens Thanks!

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

@CapSciComm @TriviaWithBens Slow down! And you skipped 6

[Alyssa Phillips @Plant_Phillips]

It’s trivia night with @CapSciComm! The Plant H8rs are ready to rumble💪🌱 @phdperspectives @cryan4plants @lettuce_fan

[Science Says at UCD @SciSays]

Our March #newsletter is out now! Coming up is our #bookclub, storytelling workshop, and @ucdavis Picnic Day 2020! https://t.co/jbBG1ORVxt

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

I usually view my twice weekly #physicaltherapy appts as healthy mental breaks from research...until they start scraping up my scar tissue with a glorified butter knife

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

Why #scicomm matters: Just re-explained to my fairly science-literate mom that organic farmers can use pesticides & only certain types are banned. She felt the nomenclature was misleading. Yes & no; the rhetoric is just very confusing on all sides.

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

Quick #scicomm read. Lessons learned: Don't argue with beliefs. Listen. Learn what people really think. "A willingness to show vulnerability...that we science folks are willing to listen and receive criticism, boosts credibility...". Thanks @plantaximena https://t.co/Qshd0ew9Kd

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

#DEB263 Live oral polio vaccines are given to quickly halt outbreak transmission abroad, but can mutate and cause the disease in small number of cases. Injections don't run this risk, but cost more. Medicine isn't perfect, but is saving the masses. https://t.co/MH6zXmTkg2

[Science Says at UCD @SciSays]

Join us at Dunloe Brewery tonight for our fundraiser! Open until 9, stop by any time. 🍻

[Mary Madera @phdperspectives]

#DEB263 Great out-of-my-field talk from @tinajeoh @CIFAR #futurefood conference about new "CoCo Process" of preserving bioactive compounds in dehydrated microcapsules for shelf-stability and scalability. Potential for drug delivery, microbiome work, etc. https://t.co/AoCNwfTg5e