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4 May 2018
Just a reminder that if you’re mulling seminar/conference speakers, these New PIs probably gave some pretty impressive job talks! And the list might even inspire some ideas for manuscript reviewers or guest editors.
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16 Aug 2022
It's been a fun take-over today! Thanks for hosting me, and I'll see y'all back home on my own account @Annika_Barber. To sum up my New PI experience so far:
💜 AFB
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16 Aug 2022
Too late to get in trouble for cussing cuz I'm seeing myself out! 👋😉
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16 Aug 2022
Of course, the people who really run the Barber lab are the lab members. Lucky for me, I hired Mike, the World's Best Lab Manager, right when I started! Genuinely can't imagine getting to now without him. And of course, we've since grown!
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15 Aug 2022
Who really runs the @Annika_Barber lab? Well, I can tell you who *thinks* he runs the lab, and who is also the most popular lab member. That would be Mister Peebles. ~AFB
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15 Aug 2022
The most important lifeline as a NewPI is community. I have been #unironicallyblessed with an amazing community of colleagues from my postdoc lab, friends I made through NewPI Slack, and the incredible Drosophila research community. #flypeoplearethebest
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15 Aug 2022
As a grad student, I thought I needed to meet "important people" at conferences to form a professional network. But I realize now that the most important connections I've made are with peers. And one day soon, we'll be the important people at the conferences! 😆 ~AFB
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15 Aug 2022
Do I have definitive advice on starting a lab in a pandemic? Ha! No. But here are some of the things I did that have been useful (I also probably did a lot of dumb stuff). ~AFB
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15 Aug 2022
Recently we've implemented quarterly SMART goal setting. We take a lab meeting each quarter to review the past quarter's progress as a team, and set our writing and experimental goals for the upcoming quarter. Breaking goals into SMART components is challenging, but so helpful!
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15 Aug 2022
Do you have a tried-and-true lab tip? Always open to more wisdom (which you can also get by joining @NewPI_Slack of course!)
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15 Aug 2022
Q: Sure, *you* love rhythms, but why should *I* care?
A: Even if you don't study circadian rhythms directly, controlling for time-of-day effects can get rid of experimental noise in a wide variety of experiments, whether you measure behavior, physiology or gene expression. ~AFB
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15 Aug 2022
I enjoy flies both personally and professionally. I like to embroider, and flies are often a subject! ~AFB
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15 Aug 2022
While circadian rhythms are conserved from cyanobacteria to insects to fish and mammals, flies are the #supermodelorganism of chronobiology! They even got a Nobel Prize for it! nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
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15 Aug 2022
By which I mean that Jeff Hall, Mike Young and Michael Rosbash got the prize, of course. 😜 ~AFB
15 Aug 2022
What *is* a circadian rhythm? It's a biological process that repeats about once every 24 hours. There are a few official rules to meet the scientific definition of a rhythm. Rule zero is assumed...
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