Samantha Orchard

Biotechnology instructor fascinated by microbes.

[DR. ＶＩＪＩ ＳＡＴＨＹ @vijisathy]

I asked chatGPT to explain to me like I am 5 years old why "understand" shouldn't be used in a learning objective.

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

Today the @whitehouse issued an Executive Order to launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative. We applaud these efforts to ensure a sustainable, safe and secure American bioeconomy. https://t.co/hNJiZVkRK3

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

I’m very excited to get to know our new students over the next several years and to promote career options in biotechnology!

[Shane C Burgess @shanecburgess]

Our very 1st @UArizonaCALS students to earn their Applied Biotechnology degrees @UAZPlantScience at our UArizona campus @KozybayevUniver in Petropavl, Kazakhstan. 🇰🇿

[Bryan Dewsbury @BMDewsbury]

Let’s be brave and reduce content. I promise you. If done thoughtfully, and with the aim of centering humanism, the students will be more than fine.

Inclusive and active pedagogies reduce academic outcome gaps and improve long-term performance | PLOS ONE https://t.co/FAXZir5X59

[@IAmSciComm - On a Break! @iamscicomm]

A thread about using fonts/typography in presentations. Decisions about text matter. Just as you can speak the same word in many ways, the way you write text can affect communication, emotion, and attitude. 🧵1/19

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

The response is in!
Him: Oh, that’s not why I asked you. It was just that I have trouble setting up these types of meetings.

[Reader: in case you didn’t know this, this not a valid reason to ask the woman in the group to set up the meeting.]

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

Him: I need to meet with you and these 5 men [for work]
Me: Okay.
[We arrange a date and time]
Him: Please send the group a meeting invite with a Zoom or Teams link.
Me: I feel uncomfortable being asked to do the ‘secretarial work’ so I decline.
Him: [No response yet]

[Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @blacksciblog]

With 3 days left to apply, I’m calling all my allies who have bandwidth! You can be from grad student to PI to be a mentor. From PUI to research intensive, government or industry. Microbiology, immunology, or cancer biology. Come join #NSURP2022

[Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @blacksciblog]

NSURP is HIRING! Please share. Apply to be an ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. Come be a leader and help me expand @NSURPorg (with opportunities for growth in the position)! I am looking for MA & PhD grads in STEM or Ed fields. Apply today! #MeetThemWhereTheyAre https://t.co/zY5qnRvR7v

[Melina Walling @MelinaWalling]

One of the perks of this job: you get to see people like Rebecca Mosher doing what they do best. Then you get to ask them lots of questions about it.

This week, follow us and plant scientist @rm0sher to a greenhouse lab on top of a parking garage in Tucson…and beyond!

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

@surt_lab I’ve long ‘known’ it to be Coding Domain Sequence.

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

@surt_lab When my son was in daycare, a worker told me that the father of one of the other infants (!) told the workers to never use anything with pink on it (sheets, Boppy pillows, etc.) for his son.

[Dr. Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher]

Interested in agriculture in arid regions? Use lots of data to understand plant performance in hot/dry climates? We're looking for you!
@UAZPlantScience is searching for our next colleague. Tenure-track, all levels (full/assoc/assist)
https://t.co/QdaIXl19tf

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

@surt_lab Perhaps mentioning that they might be using the Amyris version made via GMOs will get them to stop?

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

@rm0sher @CedarWarman The 5th floor is unlocked, too :-)

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

@PlantPathSecret FedEx did not figure it out. PI had to drive to FedEx last night to pick up the package.

[Jeff Gralnick @bacteriality]

A postdoc position will be available soon in my group for someone with a strong background in electrochemistry and an interest in microbial physiology. Official posting soon, please contact me for details and RT @ISMETsociety @na_ismet @ElectricUfz @KorneelRabaey @ElectroMicrobe

[Nicole Grigg @NicoleSGrigg]

HELP FIND MISSING GEOLOGIST: Daniel Robinson has not been seen for 3 weeks after leaving a job site in Buckeye, Arizona.

The field geologist was testing ground water, before leaving his job site, and never being seen again.

Please help share his story:

[Samantha Orchard @sorchard]

One of my all-time favorite albums came out 30 years ago… when I was a teenager. Way to fuel the mid-life crisis! [A teacher played my cassette copy of it in the van on a field trip and kindly did not reprimand me for the swear word in Four Seasons (in strict S. Africa school).]

[Crowded House @CrowdedHouseHQ]

Crowded House • 30th Anniversary • Woodface: https://t.co/xwSGWCEjlQ