Sarah Ducamp

If not seen, the owl house is great as well! A bit slow to grow on you, but wonderful by the end :)

Only a week before the BioIron Congress! I am really happy to go there to present our more recent work & to learn about other teams' progress!

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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C'était fifou cet épisode! Hate d'avoir tes takes :)

Women Refusing to Be Erased Join us to inspire, educate, and uplift women/womxn.

I just learned of this site as a place for the amazing women in STEM to be shared and celebrated. So I am sharing it with all I can. 🧪

#STEM #science
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YouTube video by Association of American Universities Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer

Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social

Please share widely!

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I will host the 2025 combined meeting of the Red Cell Club and the East -West Iron Club at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore,MD from October 27-29, 2025.
Scientific Chairs:
Patrick Gallagher, MD Nationwide Children's Hospital
Francesca Vinchi, PhD New York Blood Center

As always, this is a team work! With Mark being the main driver of this study!

If you want to know more, you can also look at the third panel of our last-year blood paper (Pubmed: PMID: 38900972) when we generated mouse models. That figure focused on the disease expression in XLSA (and XLPP) female mice.

When we think about X-linked disease, we usually think about males and how the disease affect them. The "classical" narrative is that females are carriers (at risk of transmitting the disease), sometimes affected when X-inactivation is at play.

X-linked sideroblastic anemia in females X-linked sideroblastic anemia (XLSA) in carrier females of ALAS2 mutations is not uncommon. We describe unique features and genotype/phenotype correlations

In this new study (Pubmed: PMID: 39912603), we systematically assessed X-Linked Sideroblastic Anemia (XLSA) in females. The disease is far from being anecdotal in this subpopulation!

With a grant, as a researcher, you're asking for $$$ to pay for saying your salary, a technician salary, your reagents & for example, your DNA sequencing costs.

This money doesn't cover having a lab, with electricity and heat, for someone helping you with the budget, for building maintenance,...

It's a good discussion to have to have about research & costs. It's okey to ask if some money is well allocated. It's not OK to say to people that Monday, their support will be partially off.
Once again, we need those bills, a lab & support people paid to be able to conduct research.

Do you realize that this hypothetical MD would not be affected as they do not have a grant in your example.
The MD & PhD, who will be affected, are the ones conducting research because the place that host them will suddenly have an empty purse? The admin working with them. Their students. Etc

If you're a cook. A good one. And I give you a grant to buy an oven & all your groceries. And I pay your rent. Can you cook for people?
No. You need a place. You need gaz. You need a cleaning person who helps you, a waiter to organize your restaurant.
Scientists are teammates. They need the team

Scientists at the CDC may be in a difficult position, but scientists in other institutions & national societies definitely should speak and be loud!

Should we they do as in Instagram and other social network: preg*ant people, transg*nder, etc?
I am both sad for people who worked hard that were about to publish & those that were accumulating data they won't be able to share anymore! I think it's time the national societies speak!

I can't go! It's too dangerous. :p

Opinion | The Tragic Link Between Pregnancy and Homicide For women under 25, getting pregnant more than doubles their risk of homicide.

In France, we call them femincides. Being killed because you're a woman. But I am not sure if such studies have been conducted to evaluate if young moms are at such a risk. Please read this important paper.

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

Yesterday I was fascinated by the talk of Dr. Dipty Jain about SCD in India during the Ham-Wasserman lecture & would suggest anyone who missed it to catch it online #ASH24

Thanks for sharing this paper! Some things need to be engaged at the systemic level (equal wages, parental leaves, etc), but others have to be addressed as well in our personal space!

I hope this time will be better!

That happened a year for a ASH conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The first planes from Boston did it before a snow storm while the 2nd wave had to be reschedule :<
Good luck!

For a moment, I thought the post was about scientific publications... oh sweet summer child! But it touches a key issue with publishing/reviewing scientific material and paying/not-being-paid for it!

New authors! Things you absolutely do not have to pay for:

-Being published

-Being interviewed on a podcast

-Book reviews

Things you should be paid for:

-Being published

-Your time and expertise

It doesn't matter how new you are. You never need to pay to play 🖤

Flying hematologists
RBCs travel in the air
J'aime l'hème!

#ASH24 #ASHaiku

I have downloaded my app & started organizing my schedule for #ASH24. Cornelian dilemma ahead... how can I duplicate myself?

One week before the @ash-hematology.bsky.social annual conference! You will find me Sunday by my poster, ready to answer any questions! #ASH24

Orlando. First ASH meeting I joined, I believe :)