Carson Smith

PhD student at Case Western Reserve; she/her; budding immunologist, quilter, and serial book collector; ready to chat about vaccines and learn fun facts

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

@imleeanna I usually send a little letter with like stickers or photos or something else tangible and then just say "I saw this and thought of you, here is a specific question I thought of so you can reply to me however; mostly however I was thinking of you" just so they get a lil treat

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

I officially graduated today after defending my PhD in Pathology in May! I've loved my time at @CWRUSOM, but as of today, my (final) degree is conferred!!

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

Dad and I spent 30 minutes drinking coffee and looking at the engineering drawings he has for the beach house redesign so guess who gets to sit through my pitch for native plant restoration at lunch

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

It's not about the water supply, which is not in short supply on the eastern US coast, but it IS about supporting pollinators, reducing the amount of time spent on lawncare, and most importantly, not spending literally thousands of dollars on sod that is actively trying to die

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

Me, at the beach, staring judgmentally at people watering their lawns: you know there's native ground-cover plants that support pollinators and can survive in salty, sandy soil without watering once established right-

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

My parents have been subjected to multiple PDFs of native plants and a point-by-point comparison on what plants would be best where, it's my summer post-graduation project along with getting free pine straw from the right-of-way for landscaping beds

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

@KaitlynSchiess Super excited to read another book by you!!

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

"What's the purpose of a zoo/aquarium" okay, what's my word limit here, I am very opinionated about this particular issue-

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

I found out that the aquarium accepts volunteers and the application asks what conservation issue(s) we're passionate about. This so kind, thank you for giving me a space to infodump about bivalves and water filtration-

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

A heart transplant recipient was arrested after a dispute with a neighbor over WiFi. Jail officials refused to let him take his transplant medication for two days. He’d waited 12 years for a heart. His body rejected the heart, and he died.

https://t.co/c6ZfNSL2r4

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

I tried to show my friends the RNA sequencing data I had just lovingly made into a high-res figure and both of them said that it crashed their device, which honestly is extremely fair

[Amy Silverstein, author @ajsilverstein16]

I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile:
My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon https://t.co/9ko3Eu53oK

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

Me: This TENS machine is the best thing my mother ever gave me, after my mitochondria
My coworker: I'm...glad you're happy with your mitochondria?

[Sen. Michael Garrett @MichaelKGarrett]

The day after the school shooting in Nashville, every NC Senate republican voted to override @NC_Governor’s veto abolishing our state background check system in NC, making our communities, families, and children less safe. Heartbreaking and shameful.

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

Super excited to take my mom to the Cleveland Film Festival when she comes to visit this weekend!

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

This is the first major scientifically-based pictorial representation of prehistoric life. Based on fossils found by Mary Anning, it depicts prehistoric Dorset, as imagined in watercolour by geologist Henry De la Beche in 1830, At R, later revised lithograph by George Scharf

[Pathogens & Immunity @paijournal]

Dr. Ruby Hirose was a Japanese-American biochemist who worked on blood clotting and vaccines. While her family was sent to internment camps in 1942, Hirose was then living in Ohio and continued her work on polio vaccines.

For more about Dr. Hirose: https://t.co/suA6oiq4yZ

[Lindsey Prather @PratherForNC]

Hi 👋 I've voted against this bill twice now, as a member of both the House universities committee and community colleges committee. I'm also a former US History and Civics teacher. 🧵 #ncpol #ncga

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

The man suffered through watching exactly (1) attempt to answer it before he said "this cannot stand"

[Carson Smith @wordswithcarson]

Friday office vibes: my boomer boss teaching his two millennial staffers (me and my lab mate) how to use the office phone we've both been happily ignoring for over a year