(He/him/his) UPenn Immunology PhD 🇵🇷 🇻🇪 T cell Migration. HHMI Gilliam 2022 Fellow, Former PREP #1stGenImmigrant #ProductoUPRRP
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28 Jul 2022
So so so excited for the amazing opportunity to be a part of the HHMI community and the 2022 Gilliam cohort. With this fellowship, I will continue to develop my leadership and mentorship skills as I prepare for an academic research career and leadership in STEM 🇻🇪 🇵🇷
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“Love is everywhere if you look for it.”
A little crystal heart formed with salts from my lysis buffer in a bucket. I saw it and I just had to take a picture and share it. Science has beautiful moments like this when you least expect it ❤️🔬🧪 Share with a scientist you love!
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22 Oct 2025
I am happy to share that my thesis work, which talks about the the mechanisms that control naive T cell migration to S1P, is now out on Biorxiv:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Special shout out to @Henry_de_belly who will launch his lab at UTSW in January. Go check out his science!!!
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Dr. Franklin Daniel Staback Rodríguez, PhD 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
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2 Apr 2025
It's a sad day for many young scientists around the country. NIH just sent termination notices for MARC, GRISE, PREP, IMSD, IRACDA, and BRIGES.
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10 Dec 2024
Thank you to @JuanAlvarezDom for a fantastic keynote in Spanish! We closed out the year with the largest @IDEAL_Research @Penn_SACNAS Hablemos Ciencia event ever and with a Parranda and Puerto Rican food!!!❤️🇵🇷 My heart is full! #SpanishScienceIsScience
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Franklin Staback Rodríguez, PhD 🇵🇷🇻🇪🔬🦠 retweeted
Looking forward to keynote parranda with @Penn_SACNAS x HablemosCiencia this Monday #SpanishScienceIsScience!
It’s coming together! Cannot wait. Dr. Juan Alvarez @JuanAlvarezDom will be delivering a research keynote in Spanish! So exciting! #SpanishScienceIsScience
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It’s coming together! Cannot wait. Dr. Juan Alvarez @JuanAlvarezDom will be delivering a research keynote in Spanish! So exciting! #SpanishScienceIsScience
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Farewell, HHMI…for now. Thank you @HHMINEWS Gilliam staff and @blackprof77 for their leadership, mentorship and investment in the next generation of scientists. Thank you for welcoming me with open arms. I am truly honored to have been here as myself and nothing less 🇵🇷🇻🇪
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@jdhallphd, Adrielle, and Mel, you have a special place in my heart ❤️
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Franklin Staback Rodríguez, PhD 🇵🇷🇻🇪🔬🦠 retweeted
Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷:
28) Please don’t come up to me to tell me MY people lost an election where 150 million people voted. As a targeted minority, we’re way more frustrated than you and we even lost two elections that day.
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25 Oct 2023
Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷:
1) We say “buen provecho” (translates to bon appetite) to not only wish you a good meal, but it is also common curtesy amongst family, friends, and strangers. Talking during meals is not seen as rude.
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27) Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷:
Our Christmas is arguably the happiest on Earth. The music won’t stop at least until the 6th. Come join us!
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Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷:
28) Please don’t come up to me to tell me MY people lost an election where 150 million people voted. As a targeted minority, we’re way more frustrated than you and we even lost two elections that day.
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18 Nov 2024
Today in @IDEAL_Research @Penn_SACNAS Hablemos Ciencia, we had @ChemistAndrea and Elena Alvarez Periel, PhD, present their research in Spanish and invite their families in to the talk! What an amazing session! #SpanishScienceIsScience #LanguageInclusionMatters
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Ojalá hoy voten por un cambio para que menos de nosotros seamos obligados a vivir lejos de casa. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
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28 Oct 2024
Imagine messing up so bad for the RNC and the PNP that Ricky Roselló, the famously disgraced ex-governor of Puerto Rico we kicked out…is being called up for damage control to help get the Puerto Rican votes for both Trump and Jennifer.
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28 Oct 2024
US white supremacist colonialism has been consistent with #PuertoRico since 1898 -
28 Oct 2024
Last night’s words at Trump’s rally reopened many old and recent wounds in our country.
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28 Oct 2024
Imagine telling a racist joke at a political rally where that behavior is often supported…and totally bombing and getting backlash…only to then say you “love us because you vacation there.” That’s ironically the best joke he’s told in the last day.
27 Oct 2024
These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his “busy schedule” to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone…watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim…might be time to change your tampon.
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28 Oct 2024
What’s even more ironic is that boricuas are close to voting against the corrupt Republican PNP government in favor of a new for-independence party for the first time ever in history, and Tony might have unintentionally and hysterically swung the remaining votes to get it done.
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27 Oct 2024
“There’s a floating island of garbage in the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
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Franklin Staback Rodríguez, PhD 🇵🇷🇻🇪🔬🦠 retweeted
28 Oct 2024
Am tired.
So tired of the continued American tradition of using "comedy" to insult Puerto Ricans.
From West Side Story to Seinfield to Work It to the Trump comedian today.
It's raw and insulting.
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