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Applying to grad school: I want to pet every dog! PhD proposal: I would like to pet 10 chihuahuas Dissertation: I shook hands with a cat
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🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.28.6… 1/15 🧵
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Thinking about doing my PhD defense on Prezi just to feel something
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
21 Mar 2023
So @UofCalifornia is doling out double-digit raises to administrators while campuses are announcing cuts to the academic workforce? Where are @UCPrezDrake's priorities?
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
8 Dec 2022
We are not waiting around for UC leaders to value our labor. We are bringing our fight to their offices and to their mansions. And we'll keep coming back until we win fair contracts. #UAWonStrike
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Can't nobody take us down, Can't nobody hold us down, oh, no, we got to keep on striking. 🎶 (That is until we get a fair contract). #UAWStrike #FairUCnow
8 Dec 2022
Gated, private islands can’t keep us out! Our amphibious strike brigade set sail for the the moated isle of @UCIrvine mega donor Donald Bren this morning. Donald, call @UCPrezDrake and tell him you wanted your money to help the workers, not the Chancellors!!
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But where will the money come from? Says #UC, and silent & unsupportive PI’s. Given how much money UC takes from PI grants, u’d think PI’s would be more upset at UC for these raises & more supportive of us who do all the work on the grants.@UCRCNAS #FairUCNow
BREAKING: The UC Regents approved salary increases for all 10 chancellors who lead campuses. The decision came with one no vote and one abstaining. The raises kick in March 2022 and range from 9% to 25% in salary increases for the chancellors. The deets below remain the same.
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Replying to @UCRCNAS
@UCRCNAS @kathrynuhrich told PIs to call👮‍♀️on strikers. We then picketed her building & the dept is now LYING. Saying strikers were “aggressive, confrontational & threatening staff.” How did we threaten you! (1/2) #UAWonStrike vimeo.com/778653944?fbclid=P… #AUWonstrike #FairUCnow

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Christopher Drozd retweeted
Standing with @uaw2865 @sruuaw calling on the University of California to bargain in good faith and deliver a fair contract for the nearly 50,000 researchers, teaching assistants and instructors that are still on strike at UC.
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Since our money cannot afford us housing we have taken over Hinderaker Hall @UCRiverside & have even put up a 🎄(unfortunately the #UC grinches have taken all the happiness from it). Come by & camp with us in this very fancy building. #UAWonStrike #FairUCnow #SiSePuede
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When UC says they've made their final offer and they're done negotiating, we wake up before dawn to tell the regents: We're not done! #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow
5 Dec 2022
“If you want to break the law, go ahead! We can’t arrest you all.” - great feedback from the LAPD. @UofCalifornia Regent Jay Sures, we’ll be seeing you again!
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
If you are a member of the University of California Academic Senate please consider signing the following open letter to the UC Academic Senate Start here with some background: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… And see this Tweet for a little more background x.com/Graham_Coop/status/159…
This letter calls on the UC Academic Senate to ensure that effective solutions to the long term financial crisis faced by graduate students also minimize impacts to existing graduate students. Please RT, and UC senate faculty please consider signing. forms.gle/Uy9UceTEKjXteX4E9
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2 Dec 2022
Workers are peacefully occupying the lobby of the UC Path center in Riverside, but @UCRiverside called the police! Why is this institution so afraid of the people who carry out its core mission?
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
28 Nov 2022
.@UofCalifornia told the LA Times their compensation proposal would make grad workers 'the highest paid among comparable public and private institutions.' We ran the numbers - That's a bold-faced lie. UC's proposals are uniquely low. @UofCalifornia can do better.
NEW: Fears rise about long-term effects of @UofCalifornia strike on system's teaching and research mission. Faculty have been sounding alarm for two decades, urge more funding for long-neglected needs of grad students. @uaw2865 @UAW5810 @sruuaw bit.ly/3ilalZ3
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
We are now entering week two of unfair labor practice strikes by UAW-represented academic workers at the University of California. Their talent is what enables UC’s world-class research. I’m leading colleagues to call on UC to reach a resolution and bargain in good faith.
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
28 Nov 2022
✨Cosplayers for fair contracts!✨ Happy Strike Week 3, folks -- let's keep fighting for the wages we deserve! 💪 @uaw2865 #FairUCNow
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
Hundreds of @uaw2865 @sruuaw @uaw5810 academic workers, faculty, and community members showed up in full force on Monday to kick off our second week striking at UC Riverside for a #FairUCNow!
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
Good morning, and welcome to week II. We are unstoppable. #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow
This is bigger than us. Bring on week II... #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow
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Christopher Drozd retweeted
21 Nov 2022
UC Faculty - including me - ✊MARCHED💪 today in support of our graduate students, postdocs, and other represented workers. I'm so proud of my @eeobucr graduate students, fighting the good fight! #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike
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