Jessica Tsai, MD, PhD

Happy new year/wedding anniversary/birthday!!!!!! 🍣

Yes!!

Want even more? Then check out:
🥼 A Scientific Life from @jestsai.bsky.social et al on implementing a daily standup meeting for #accountability and #psycholocialsafety
💡 A Spotlight from @goemanslab.bsky.social highlighting work on defluorination activity in gut microbiota

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📝 Available online - the Scientific Life "Daily standup meeting: Enhancing accountability and psychological safety" from
@jestsai.bsky.social and co.

#PsychologicalSafety #Collaboration #Trust #Accountability #ScientificCulture

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsTM3S6Gf...

This paper represents the culture of our lab. Our hope is that the daily standup becomes adopted more widely in academic science as a simple way to enhance communication, transparency, and psychological safety, promoting accountability and teamwork. 2/

Daily standup meeting: enhancing accountability and psychological safety Research laboratories often struggle to maintain a trusting environment which negatively affects team cohesion. Daily standup meetings provide a means…

Incredibly proud of Tsai Lab post-doctoral fellows Stefania Tocci and Aspen Hirsch for their new paper in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social Daily standup meeting: enhancing accountability and psychological safety www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

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There are also two Spotlights highlighting exciting research @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social and @science.org, as well as a Scientific Life from @jestsai.bsky.social and co sharing insights to allow for scientists to be fiscally responsible with their grant funding!

Online now - the Scientific Life "Maximizing grant funding: strategies for negotiating laboratory pricing" from @jestsai.bsky.social and colleagues.

#NewPI #NewLab #FiscalResponsibility #Budgeting

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kce%7E3S6...

We are incredibly grateful to the reviewer and editor @sanniejculbertson.bsky.social for excellent feedback that ultimately improved our manuscript! 📑 5/

This paper was a labor of love, and reflects our lab’s ethos and culture. We hope that laboratories find the information practical and useful.💡 4/

In Table 2, we assembled a
list of laboratory discount programs for new labs and labs that are expanding, recently moved, or received new funding. 3/

Table 1 provides an example of our laboratory supply list. We hope this provides a framework for people to think about their laboratory needs in terms of equipment, supplies, and reagents. 2/

Maximizing grant funding: strategies for negotiating laboratory pricing For new laboratories, maintaining pricing within a budget while obtaining the necessary supplies and reagents for experiments can feel daunting. In th…

Incredibly proud of Marissa and Tessa in my lab for their new paper out today in @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social Maximizing grant funding: strategies for negotiating laboratory pricing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

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ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)

If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.

There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

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F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS

If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.

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THANK YOU

Proud of this paper - which feels now more relevant than ever for our field and our trainees

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Incredibly insightful thread on scientific publishing…

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Thanks to my co-workers/friends at Jimmy Kimmel Live for donating blood to Children's Hospital Los Angeles in honor of our son Billy. If you have blood (you do), donate to a children’s hospital near you. bit.ly/4grXcXp @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

Happy Holidays! We are excited for all the science that awaits us in 2025 and can’t wait to welcome some new team members soon! 🧠 🧬 4/

I gifted each lab member a book I thought they would enjoy! 📚 3/

Then enjoyed lab holiday lunch at a Los Feliz favorite on Hillhurst 🍝 2/

Happy Holidays from the Tsai Lab! We cleaned the lab today 🧼 1/

Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations to the newest cohort of @alleninstitute Next Generation Leaders! 🧠

The wrench and the torch crack me up 😂 love this!! Congrats on a year!!

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