Cell biologist and geneticist, Professor, mom and consumer of alcohol. Those might all be related. I grind til I own it. She/her/hers. Lab tweets @BhallaLab.
increase in success rates for AA/B applicants from ~22% to ~43% for K grants and from ~12% to ~23% for R01 grants from 2013-2020
"still very small number of investigators"
"incremental improvement"
Feb 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
"without deliberate efforts to mitigate these disparities in NIH research grant funding, what mechanisms will ensure that these new PIs will experience the success that they rightfully deserve?" -@ASCBiology Public Policy Committee: ascb.org/science-policy…
provides important and necessary suggestions from two recent commentaries, one by a nationwide network of BME women faculty: #FundBlackScientistscell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Who is this dude and what's his fucking point?
I CANNOT RN
Feb 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Love this idea of @big_data_kane using his talk @ucsc@ucscgenomics to illuminate the ontogeny of his ideas and the evolution of his thinking to the learners in the audience: "I move as I am inspired."
This talk is both a discussion of the science in his lab and its foundation in personal history and interests: What effect does environment have on scientific processes? How does context affect protein evolution, viral transmissibility and who GETS TO DO science?
Nov 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
THAT paper is what happens when you don't recognize that gender bias is systemic and structural in academic STEM
LOOK: I have remained SANE in academic STEM b/c of my women mentors, both senior and peer, b/c we are honest about the reality of being women in STEM: the joy of doing science, the connection with trainees AND the persistent devaluation of our work, most evidently in peer review
Nov 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🤔 nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2020/11/16…
Is the NIH...unaware that access to NIH funding is often a major determinant in whether women ascend the academic hierarchy?
Oct 22, 2020 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
Mary Blair Loy discussing job talks as consequential rituals that illustrate the "schema of scientific excellence" and departmental climate that can affect the response to gender of the speaker #AFDSymposium 👏🏽👏🏽
Men more likely to receive highly positive intros, referencing research brilliance, excellence and awards. Women more likely to get "irrelevancies," which implies that there is not much to say about their professional accomplishments, and sometimes included inappropriate comments
Oct 18, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We also used the Berkeley model at UCSC w our recent, successful cluster hire. Importantly, we learned what worked AND what didn't.
BOTH of these pieces of information are important since dismantling the structural racism, sexism and biases that infuse our definitions of merit and excellence will be an iterative process
Apr 8, 2019 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Okay here it is: my mom's Punjabi curry recipe. It's super flexible and can be modified for almost anything, which I'll point out.
Chop one medium yellow onion and sauté in ~3-4T vegetable oil on medium heat. When they start getting soft and lightly browned, add 6-8 cloves chopped or sliced garlic and cook briefly until you start to smell the garlic.
Oct 28, 2017 • 65 tweets • 10 min read
thread for ppl, I’m assuming mostly men, who were surprised + dismayed @ no. of women who had been sexually harassed and/or assaulted #metoo
something I’m seeing a lot of men say: “What can I do? I didn’t understand how bad it was before. How can I make it better NOW?”
