Mariah Costa ♨️

PhD candidate in 129Xe Lung MRI @ Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Here to make more science friends - let’s connect :)

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Academic love language: “I saw a paper about that, let me send it to you”

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

“Brush your teeth with your left hand! Play brain games to increase plasticity and stave off the affects of aging!”

Doing a PhD is solving an ever increasingly difficult puzzle. Every day is a brain game

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

They say learning a new language helps your brain. My native tongue is MATLAB so I better get a few IQ points for learning Python

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Super neat way to look at trends in science. Talk about big data!

[Lista Redes @lista_redes]

The landscape of biomedical research - Interactive visualization of 21 million scientific papers https://t.co/gQt2LH4u83 #sna #ars

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”

-James Watson, The Double Helix

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

I’m reading The Double Helix - a memoir about discovering the structure of DNA

I recommend the read - Watson’s observations about life as a scientist in the 1940s are funny and feel so similar to my life as modern grad student

I’m going to try to tweet excerpts I enjoy

[Joey Plummer @JoeyPlummer4]

My friend and coworker, Abdullah Bdaiwi, just published his work on analytical B1-inhomogeneity corrections in 2D-spiral hyperpolarized Xe MRI! Will be a precursor for many more projects down the line. Check it out here: https://t.co/usRoVvlMnI

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

I asked ChatGPT for gift suggestions for a “25 year old woman physicist” and it suggested:

- high quality lab equipment like a centrifuge
- a subscription to a scientific journal
- a telescope

Yeah sure, AI is going to replace us 😂

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

I attended a wonderful conference this week. I’m fully convinced: if we allowed science deniers to attend just one rigorous scientific conference, they would have a change of heart. I’m talking naive, boomer parent type science deniers, not nefarious political types

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

My lab is preparing slides for a conference. Can’t wait to do my power move, catching all the non-colorblind friendly figures

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Today I showed our new post bac a few techniques for mouse studies that were very simple to me. He said “wow, I can’t wait to tell my mom about that.”
It’s all about perspective. It’s nice to be reminded that what I do is pretty freaking cool

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Our department is featuring our lab in their newsletter so we had a little photoshoot

Naturally, the photographer insisted we “pretend to do something sciency” in a few

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

I’m super late on this but I just wanted to shoutout Dr. Laura Walkup for winning her first R01 award on her FIRST try.

You inspire me all the time, Laura. Thanks for being my mentor ❤️

@LLWalkup

[Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith @LNivisonSmith]

Did you just join #AcademicTwitter ?

Congratulations! 👏🏿 Did tou know there are 385,000 other academics here? 🤯

Here's 7 academic accounts to follow 👌

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Had a great time at #ISMRM22 :)

Shoutout to the #XeMRI team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital!

[Joey Plummer @JoeyPlummer4]

Had an amazing time in London for #ISMRM22. Thankful for the awesome #XeMRI community. Next stop San Francisco for #ATS2022!

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

We must work very hard to normalise showing raw data, ugly data, noisy data in papers, talks, & grants. Right now it's terrifying showing data that isn't "pretty" because reviewers will focus on that to the detriment of the story. Let us represent biology in its full messy glory.

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

“If it was easy, it would have been done already” always makes me feel better after a failure

[Erin Winslow, PhD 🦀 @erinmwinslow]

How do you deal with academic burnout in 3 words or less GO:

Mine is 'just keep swimming' literally and figuratively 🥲

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat #phdvoice #academicburnout

[fruit flies like a banana 🍌 @DaniedmundsDani]

Doing a PhD in biology is like that bit in Harry Potter where you get to choose your pets, but rather than owl, cat, or toad, it’s C. elegans, Drosophila, or mice

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Nothing like finding a 30 page paper brilliantly conquering your research idea to turn your brain off for the day. Maybe a green beer will help

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Nobody told me so much of academia is playing word Jenga with abstract word limits

[Mariah Costa ♨️ @scientist_MC]

Who decided to give alveoli such a delicious sounding name?
One fettuccine alveoli please