Sensory biologist researching shark olfaction & ink 👃🦈🦑| NSF PRFB at @FAUscience and @MarineBiol_FHL | @miss_elasmo stan| she/her/ella #LatinasInSTEM
Boca Raton, FL
Joined April 2015
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The research people care about: 🔪❣️🦈SHARKS SMELLING BLOOD!!! POOP INK SHOOTING WHALES!!! 💩😤🐋
The research that’s my favorite:
🥰✨💜 Inky slug friends 🥰✨💜
With my new position, @tricialmeredith let me brainstorm a title.
I enlisted @CornOnTheKnaub for help and we mad a list of five options.
I am now the “Research and Biological Imaging Specialist” but Jamie got me a desk plaque with our favorite pick 😍
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"Sharks are especially interested in fish blood, squid blood, shrimp blood. But on that note, I will say that sharks are smart. They are like us. They can modulate their behavior," says @oceanexplauren
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Update, we did it! We raised $5,000 in 24 hours. Special shout out to our Program Coordinator Norah Mendoza who truly went hard in the paint and camped out in a park for a full 24 hours to make this happen. #CarryingTheTeam
For the next 45 minutes donations between $25 and $100 are being matched. Here is a chance to double your donation to MISS. We are trying raise $800 in the next 45 minutes can you help us?givingchallenge.org/organiza…
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Congratulations to the 2024 GRFP winners, but I’m out here to celebrate the much larger number of students who got bad news today (💙)
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So you’re telling me that being underpaid with no job security and often no benefits is not appealing to people who just spent the last 5++ years living paycheck to paycheck as a graduate student?
Shocked!
New data released by the U.S. National Science Foundation underscore concerns that the academic community is facing a postdoc shortage and that early-career scientists are increasingly favoring higher paid positions outside academia. @ScienceCareers scim.ag/6nW
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Being a postdoc is working pretty much non-stop on both actual science, and suppressing the feeling that it will be all for naught if you never make it into a permanent job.
DEVASTATED. When I see the thresher, it’s on sight
#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.
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#TeamBonnethead we were soooooooo close 😭😭😭😭😭. We fumbled the bag in the 11th hour.
Drumroll please! 🥁
First of all, thank you to everybody who followed along and casted a vote during #sharkmadness2024. It’s our goal to bring you something educational through the month while also bringing you something fun, and we hope we did that! It’s been a blast!
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We are so excited to have Dr. Simonitis joining our team! 🦈🐙👃🔬🥼👩🔬
Really excited to announce that after my National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ends in May, I will be sticking around @ADHUS_FAUHS as the Research and Bioimaging Specialist!
TLDR: I got my dream job
Really excited to announce that after my National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ends in May, I will be sticking around @ADHUS_FAUHS as the Research and Bioimaging Specialist!
TLDR: I got my dream job
5) I get to keep working with the amazing team of researchers and educators I have had so much fun with these last 1.5 years. Special shout out to @tricialmeredith who I am so lucky to continue working for.
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With this method, we are now able to look inside these animals in a way that was previously impossible and ask questions about how their bodies are organized, how their nervous system is wired, and more.
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What does the nervous system of a sea urchin look like? Can we study intact organ systems in calcified animals? I’m excited to share this preprint (with @FormeryLaurent and @lab_lowe) on whole-body tissue clearing in fragile invertebrates, where we tackle those questions.
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Check out @scifri TODAY for some GARish living fossil conversation with @ChaseBrownstein, @iraflatow, and me!
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