That’s my labmate! 🤩🫀

i think leap day should be a internationally observed holiday - you’re telling me we get an extra day every FOUR years and we have to work?? that doesn’t sit right w me

Warmest congratulations to Dr. Dra. Ana Maria Porras Corredor for receiving the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science! 🏆

Acabo de ver una hija despedirse de sus padres en el aeropuerto. Todos llorando. Me conmovió. Tener que emigrar lejos de tu familia debe ser una experiencia dura. Ojalá y la vida devuelva el esfuerzo a aquellos que han tenido que dejar todo por un mejor futuro.

International (non-UK citizens) early-career researchers within 7 years of their PhD, check out the The British Academy International Fellowships: 24 months at a UK institution, up to £12k research expenses, up to £8k relocation costs: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/intern…

Two weeks left to apply for UCSD Engineering and UC San Diego Bioengineering's Biomaterials Research to Increase Diversity and Graduate Enrollment (UCSD-BRIDGE) program is accepting applications through Feb 13th. Apply at: be.ucsd.edu/reu

Tips— Preparing for Graduate School Interviews (thread 🧵)

1. Research the Program
Learn the details about the program that is interviewing you. This includes research opportunities, faculty, students, research cores, exchange programs, financial support, culture, etc.

The irony is that I’ve actually been having to constantly push back on preemptive conclusions that my symptoms are “just anxiety” the whole time I’ve been here.

In conclusion, it is exhausting being a woman and having to advocate for your health. I am begging y’all to do better.

Bored in the hospital so I put all my symptoms into ChatGPT & asked it to list the most likely dx’s in order. Of course, anxiety was at the top of the list. So I ran it again but as a male pt, and to absolutely no ones surprise, anxiety wasn’t even ON the list of possible dx’s 🙃

The nominations for our board are live HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… and are DUE TODAY!!! Come join us on our efforts!

Full house this morning for our 29th Annual Breakfast with Industry! Thank you Mr. Dooley for your wonderful and personable keynote address!

“Yo puedo mudarme de PR pero PR de mi alma nunca se podrá mudar” not me sobbing #NADIESABELOQUEVAAPASARMAÑANA

Hands down an AMAZING symposium! It was so exciting to hear so many people talk science in ✨Spanish✨ and be surrounded by inspiring Latines in BME! #LatinXinBMESymposium2023

Our special keynote opening presentation was given by Daniel Gallego-Perez from Gene Therapy Institute at Ohio State University followed by a great Q/A #LatinXinBMESymposium2023 #HHM #BMES2023

My wildest research ideas were funded w the NIH Director’s New Innovator DP2 Award!! 🤯 The #AguadoLab will determine how sex chromosomes regulate ❤️ fibrosis using biomaterials. We won’t rest until sex-specific treatments are a reality! #NIHHighRisk NIH Common Fund UCSD Engineering

🌎 ATTN International Students applying to US STEM Grad Programs!

Check out our guide for international students, by Nuri Jeong (Nuri Jeong) & Mariella Quispe-Carbajal (@mqcarba89)!

➡️cientificolatino.com/international

And the recorded webinar here! 📺youtube.com/watch?v=vSsoBe…

Join our Vice President, Valentina Dargam Valentina Dargam, during the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Friday, October 13th for her poster presentation! #LatinXinBME #HispanicHeritageMonth #HHM

This Puerto Rican island was used by the U.S. Navy as a training ground for war over decades.

On International Day against Nuclear Tests, half of Vieques is a toxic Superfund site because the Navy is still cleaning up their leftover bombs – by exploding them. Dena Takruri reports.

What can you, your department, or your institution do? Here are suggestions for various levels of graduate program operations.

Remember...
*do not depend on grad student labor (esp. from underrepresented backgrounds) to fix problems w/ your program or admissions process*

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It already happened in Puerto Rico so they have every right to believe this.