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Scientist| Illustrator| Co-founder @jkxcomics.bsky.social| Absurdity at its finest| The Gardiner of @thegardinerlab.bsky.social | she/her 👩🏾🔬 www.jayegardiner.com 🎨 www.jkxcomics.com 🧪 www.gardinerlab.science
Representation matters, but representation is not power.
If your diversity efforts stop at panels and photos, you are performing diversity, not building it.
I am and I just did!
And just like that, the first semester of the lab is complete! 🥳
Got to work with these two fabulous undergrads, Kira (left) and Rori (right) and am super pumped to physically do the science they wrote their papers on next semester! Happy holidays to all! - JCG
Well aren’t you FANCY 😂 (I’m very jealous!)
I hope you enjoy!
We should’ve told you about LE dinner plans since you’re local! 🙀🤦🏾♀️
My tenth ASCB/ Cell Bio meeting; my first meeting as a PI. I love the amazing community I have and am so excited for our new and future labs 🥰
Until next time! #CellBio2025
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Article out by @statnews.com profiling the terminated MOSAIC K99 program even though the goals fulfilled what the NIH says are their priorities: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
If you’re at #CellBio2025 coming to the MOSAIC scholar session today at 5:30pm in room 116!
I have one other panel on Tues @ 4PM in room 126A. We’re discussing navigating your career in challenging times - come by if you’re here! #CellBio2025
Panel 1 at #CellBio2025 done! (And forgot to mention I was on a panel - whoops)
Thanks Mike Boyce and Monica Quiones-Frias for the invite and the 100+ people in attendance asking questions about the transition to independence.
Was very fun being on a panel with my friends in academia and industry!
So by meeting with students at the bottom of the course, and re-explains things, when they nod he tells them to explain it back to him.
‘You do not know something until you can explain it to your roommate’
Something that Dr. Dewsbury does is hold an “intervention week”
The way students have studied work until coming to a class that forces them out of passivity.
So he emphasizes the added value he provides by being in the classroom - why are they paying tuition when the content is available for free?
By the end of our PhD we’re trained to not listen.
We’re evaluated on how we participate (or are viewed like we participated); we’re trained for pacivity.
We’re not allowed to sit and process what we’ve heard.
And when it comes to group work, it’s important to remember that students won’t self-select and know how to construct an effective working group. The groups are made intentionally using ‘First Day Info Sheets’: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32313598/
To counter the ‘look to your left/right - X% of you will fail’, Dr. Dewsbury instead points out “one might have their own business”, “become an attorney general”, etc.
A much more positive reframe because they are taking the class as a team and should support each other #CellBio2025
Inclusion isn’t anti- anything.
My role as a professor is to make sure to position you [the student] as best I can for you to do your best
This was funny - students don’t speak like academics. No student will come up to you and say ‘I don’t think an adequate sense of belonging has been fostered here’
Just gonna drop the gems here:
“If as an institution you don’t have intentionality in creating environments where students are challenged to go beyond their “like” spaces - they will spend 4 years and graduate without learning anything about the different aspects in America”
Powerful words from Dr. Bryan Dewsbury (@dewsbury.bsky.social) from the #CellBio2025 Education keynote:
“When I stand in front of a classroom, I tell students that I am interested in being more than their destination to a final grade”
Trying to go back to my live tweeting ways (I guess it would be live skeeting now?) - sad I don’t get to see you this year!
First science session of #CellBio2025! 🧫🧪
Co-organized by @iaincheeseman.bsky.social and @abbybuch.bsky.social on the importance of the physiological context on studying cell biology. As a big fan of the ECM, I couldn’t agree more!
She strategically ate high sugar foods before chemo (kept it low between therapies) and was told not to expect any changes in 2 months. It was over halved in 2 months, undetectable in 4. She has two final treatments and scans this week. 🤯
With a paper on her experiment in review!
She hypothesized that the tumor was growing slowly and she need to get it to S phase to have the chemotherapy have the best chance.
“I need to hit as many cells as possible before any resistance can develop”
After getting a PET scan, she connected what was happening in her body (inoperable tumor) to her prior work on the cell cycle. Her goal was to come up with a protocol in four days before she started chemotherapy.
Using these principles and specifically looking for the positive carried her through being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (PDAC).
An interesting point is talking about the patient perspective and how doctors don’t look at you or want to get to know you because in theory you’ll die soon
She talked about how community was formed faster when the composition of people were more diverse. Also from having such variable experiences leading into them becoming scientists (like abuse, multigenerational homes, etc) looking for the positives can be powerful in developing resilience
Main principles she taught students:
* Know your heart
* Look for the positive or the blessing in everything
* Embrace who you are and bring it to the table
* Show gratitude/finish well
#CellBio2025
Packed room for the opening mentoring keynote by Maggie Werner Washburne talking about the importance of imagination in science and persistence
#CellBio2025
What’s up Philly?! It’s been 5 months but I’m back! Ready for @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/