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Leslie Vosshall PhD
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Leslie Vosshall PhD
@leslievosshall
Toward Excellent, Inclusive, & Open Science. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer. See also @leslievosshall.bsky.social
New York, USA
Joined April 2009
- Here is the front door of a C. elegans lab. These people mean business.
- We're doing a thing! Speakers @HHMINEWS Science Meetings will no longer put journal names on their talk slides. Instead display first author, year, PMID (or DOI) like @ardemp Why? -end prestige-signaling -people can actually find reference #nojournalnamesontalkslides
- I am honored and excited to be selected to succeed David Clapham as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2022 @HHMINEWS. 1/8
- As of tonight @RockefellerUniv has a painting that depicts women scientists, the first in its 121 year history.
00:00 - 🧵📢 We need to retain talented postdocs in academic science. I'm happy to say that @HHMINEWS has taken a big step forward this week. $70,000 That's the new starting minimum salary for all postdocs employed in HHMI labs hhmi.org/sites/default/… (1/4)HHMI is implementing a new salary scale for HHMI-employed postdoctoral researchers, effective April 9, 2023. (1/4) hhmi.news/3Uwl2am
- It's tenure-track biomedical academic search season and "chalk talks" are right around the corner. Chalk talks are not something we "teach" our trainees and most postdocs are unprepared for them as a result. Here are my Chalk Talk Pro Tips: rockefeller.edu/research/uploa…
- Often a major scientific discovery can be boiled down to a #singleplot in a paper. Mullis & Faloona describe "polymerase-catalyzed chain reaction". We did this paper in 1st year journal club @RockefellerUniv and concluded that nobody would ever use this method #PCR PMID: 3431465
- If you really love your protein of interest commit to a tattoo @ardemp
00:00 - This should have been obvious to me 20 years ago, but what happens when students/postdocs leave the lab before submitting their paper to @biorxivpreprint
- Often a major scientific discovery can be boiled down to a single plot in a paper. This is the birth of the field of epigenetic modification of chromatin by Brownell and Allis (now @RockefellerUniv) PMID: 7603997. Lane 2 is histone acetyltransferase (HAT) detected by... (1 of 3)
- VIP (very important paper): Data-driven analysis by Stephen Korn @NIH - contrary to #fakenews you do NOT "need" a C/N/S paper or a K99/R00 to get a TT position in academia "Myths and facts about getting an academic faculty position in neuroscience" advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/35/e…
- Replying to @leslievosshall
