Shruti Parikh

Find me @ on Bluesky,
Microbiology PhD Candidate, Seeker of Environmental Solutions ♻️

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

It is more important than ever to spend time talking to people about science.

Communicate its value, and its objectivity.

Talk to your neighbors, your bartenders, your barbers, your congressmen. Talk kindly to people whose political views differ from yours.

Protect science.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Climate progress is now truly up to us. With Trump in office, you can forget about action at the federal level. Our job is to figure out how to organize millions of people to keep driving the transition away from fossil fuels from the ground up.

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Biden should go all out on climate for the next 75 days.

Declare a climate emergency. Get all the IRA money out the door. Permit new transmission lines. Stop new LNG exports. Ban drilling on public lands.

Make a mountain of progress for Trump to try and undo.

[Reena Debray @DebrayReena]

Two weeks left to apply! ⬇️

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

What does one's lab do if the @invitrogen precast gels we've been depending and waiting on since early April are now backordered until October? (if we don't have the traditional molds and gel electrophoresis equipment to fall back on)

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@TLowePower @jrossibarra @klsywd Ah gotcha, so then it must have been NSF fellow specific.

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@jrossibarra @klsywd @TLowePower I think Kelsey's right. It was something written into grad group contracts that allowed them to work an additional 25% on top of the ~50% fellowship employment. I think the rationale being that students would get teaching experience without being restricted to their fellowship.

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@skryazhi @theboocock @UCSanDiego @UofCalifornia I'm not sure about other UC's but UC Davis Graduate Studies covers the pay difference for GRFP fellows for PIs. This also makes it so that students have access to "employee resources" that they weren't otherwise able to as external fellows. (I.e shipping, dry ice handling, etc)

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

Don't try to run a last minute PCR before your flight while leaving your brother unsupervised at home. Lesson learned.
Unrelated comment: Dish soap and detergent are two different things

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@jess_trinh Congrats Jess!!!

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@biocontrolbritt @Bayer4Crops @HALOdotscience Yay! Congrats Brittany!!!

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

I guess Twitter's now just going to serve as an endless reminder to pay my Xfinity bill🙄

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@malladapted The only tip I have 😅: https://t.co/kRJsyDBiyC

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

*Learns how to troubleshoot PCR by making every mistake possible and then some with new/high quality reagents*
2 years of avoiding PCR later...
*Performs PCR with expired master mix, ancient primers, and questionably old PCR-grade H20 on low quality DNA*

Clear bands appear...

[I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0]

So a bunch of really big media outlets very, very catastrophically botched their coverage of the #IPCC report today hey

(it is fossil fuel propaganda and an outright lie to state that climate change "cannot be stopped". Burning fossil fuels causes it, not doing that stops it)

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@caroline__daws @claire_willing @mykophile You could try prolonging the KOH step. I didn't figure out how to completely prevent the cell wall from staining, but the arbuscules and hyphae were very evident and had a darker stain so it wasn't problematic. I worked with wheat and soy mainly.

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@caroline__daws @claire_willing @mykophile Maybe try different sections of the roots if you are expecting to see arbuscules. They might still be there! Sometimes the finer roots stain better

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@caroline__daws @claire_willing @mykophile Yes, that does look like just the cell wall. (I've definitely had that happen) On the bright side, the roots are cleared really well and if there are AMF present you will definitely see darker stained structures in those regions.

[Allison Horst @allison_horst]

I basically think about all iteration as a monster parade

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@Mo2Dav Thermo Fisher's been pretty reliable: https://t.co/JcfJZTcw6T

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

@J_S_Francis If you ever happen to venture over to MU, it's actually really quick. They print it on the spot!

[Shruti Parikh @shrutip129]

Midway through my third year, big things happening:
1) Got the lab printer to finally connect to my laptop
2) Obtained my student ID card
#pandemiccohort