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Jess Jones

@jonesjes.bsky.social

neuroscience phd candidate at uw | bugs 🪰🔬🇵🇸 personal site: jesmjones.github.io

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Jess Jones@jonesjes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My thesis work is out! 🪰 We often link pain to mammals—sometimes exclusively humans—but what about flies? Thanks to @tuthill.bsky.social for supporting a funky, fun project, and to @NIH & @hhmi.org for funding over the past half decade!

John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Do flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social. 🪰⚡👻🎃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sweta Agrawal@hokuba.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.
Jess Jones@jonesjes.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m absolutely going to do this because I still have a bone to pick with a LOT of you.

Adriana Guatame-García@guatamite.bsky.social · last yr.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
Dr. Becca@docbecca.bsky.social · last yr.

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

thetransmitter.org

Seemay Chou@seemaychou.bsky.social · last yr.

Zoogle! Our new tool from @arcadiascience for picking research organisms. Even if you’re not a scientist, you should care that we spend >$50B/yr on clinical trials based on organismal models (>90% failure rate). Read more about Zoogle here: arcadiascience.com/blog/zoogle

Introducing Zoogle: An Organismal Search Tool

Arcadia Science is pushing the boundaries of open science and innovating at every step in the research, development, and commercialization process.

arcadiascience.com

Arcadia Science@arcadiascience.com · last yr.

Happy Darwin Day! Today, we’re thinking about how to use evolution to accelerate biomedical research. We think the answer is to expand the repertoire of organismal models. Search for the best ones using our new portal, Zoogle: zoogle.arcadiascience.com 🧵