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Do you have your conference homies and real talk science besties? 👯
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Do you have your conference homies and real talk science besties? 👯
Crazy to believe I’ve been a mom this long
26.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Makes me laugh every time!!
22.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This hits hard.
Little did I know this would be the last time I’d see my graduate advisor.
I’m so thankful i got these photos.
And little did i know i am wearing the same pants and having a giant grant go in today!!
She always believed in me.
Definitely channeling her energy today!!
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What lessons did you learn from your mentors that you took with you or abandoned as you moved into being a mentor?
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The Story
There was a time I thought hustle was the point — the 80-hour weeks, the back-to-back deadlines, the proof that I was “serious.”
That time is now buried somewhere around 2019, right next to my tolerance for instant coffee and unnecessary meetings.
…
Woman looking sleepy 🥱
Anyone else?
12.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Idk why I disappeared from this platform.
I think life as an associate chair took over.
But an update.
My 3 kids are in 3 different schools and I’m still doing all the things.
I started a blog so you can follow along
Tenuredandtardybells.substack.com
Follow along for all the shenanigans!
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Anyone else bogged down with too many invitations to collaborate when all the set really wanted was someone to carry them?
Especially early on in the tenure track?
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Here’s another one.
Were you taught you always had to be visible to be counted as working?
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Antoinette else can relate to this?
It’s times like this that makes me miss my graduate advisor even more!!
13.08.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When did we start spending $50 on undies for our kids?
Jurassic World at that…
Times have changed from when we were excited to have the $5 pack that listed the days of the week!!
I remember the days (even last year) when I would wait for an invitation to review manuscripts.
Now I get multiple a day multiple times a week…
Does this mean I have leveled up?
Dog
Dog
Love these puppers!!
03.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So it finally happened…
I was looking at the profile of K1 when they enter standing next to me and for a split second I saw myself!
It’s happened to me before when I
Saw my mom in the mirror.
Now I’m seeing me in my cold…
Creepy…
‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
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Every time I start making big edits to my grad students proposal she starts to have anxiety…
Poor thing…
But she’s done such a phenomenal job with her synthesis of the literature!!
Super proud!!
Continuing to honor the legacy of my late graduate mentor Dr Kirstein Cheryl by posting more of our unpublished work on biorxiv
I’m especially proud of this work conducted by Dr Ricardo Raudales and Dr. Rosalynn Amante
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Honoring the legacy of my graduate mentor Dr Kirstein Cheryl by posting some of our unpublished work on biorxiv
I hope these unpublished findings continue to support the legacy her lab and our work contributes to the field of adolescent addiction
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14 years ago I became a Dr!
Can’t believe it’s been that long.
Definitely missing my graduate advisor Cheryl Kirstein for IT annual celebratory chat…
Lazy puppies
05.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am excited to share our newest article that has been published in Behavioural Brain Research
Direct link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 years since my mom’s trip to the ER and her summer downward spiral.
28.06.2025 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you’re stuck under a sleeping child with an ache that FINALLY fell asleep…
12.06.2025 10:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t you love it when you have to do the the mental math calculation of time differences to call your kids when you’re traveling.
11 am here…
1 pm there…
Nope can’t call yes bc they’re still in school.
Goes wait till the next break…
Happy gotcha day to my Greysei Mae Devincci!!!
27.05.2025 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s officially pool 🏊 season!!
24.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sleepy puppy
21.05.2025 00:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0