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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸

@mragsac.com

👩🏽‍💻 #FilipinoAmerican Scientist 🧪 • #InvisibleDisability 🌻 • She/Hers Personal Account! ✨

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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 2mo ago

After a sad departure from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, I was able to find a role in industry! 🥹✨ The job market was really tough (some places had ~5-7 rounds of interviews), especially while managing post-surgery healing … but made it through! 🙌🏽 #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 3mo ago

I haven't posted here in a while, but I got the notice at the end of last month that due to a lack of funding, I've been laid off from my postdoctoral position 🥲 My last day with @ucsandiego.bsky.social is on May 29th and it's very bittersweet as a double alumni to be on the chopping block 🧜‍♂️

Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles@siouxsiew.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PMOS, short for Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, is the new name for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, just announced this week in a paper in the medical journal The Lancet. Read the Lancet paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth #PeriodFriendlyWorld 2/16

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus process

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously named polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), affects one in eight women. However, the term PCOS is inaccurate, implying pathological ovarian cyst...

thelancet.com

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 4mo ago

I’m now a month post endometriosis surgery and it’s absolutely crazy how much better my pain has gotten since they were able to cut out lesions and suspicious regions! 💛✨ I did also recently use my FSA dollars to upgrade to the byACRE rollator for when I need to manage chronic nerve pain episodes 🤩

Niema Moshiri@niema.net · 4mo ago

It's amazing what institutes in the @pasteur.fr network are able to accomplish when they're not being bombed by the US and Israeli militaries 👀

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You know what, the world finds a way to keep advancing Even as measles outbreaks are raging across Global North countries, fueled by disinformation, Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Africa has developed the world’s first rapid test for measles! Bravo! @pasteur.fr @institutpasteur.bsky.social

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 5mo ago

I’ve had the month off for FMLA leave to recuperate physically and mentally after my surgery … and playing lots of #Pokopia 🥹✨ I’ll be returning to lab and whatnot in early April, and I’m excited to slowly get back to bioinformatics and research! 💪🏽💪🏽

Greenfinchg Illustration@greenfinchg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sorry I haven’t posted anything new in so long. But I’m a Pokémon now. (Best game ever!) #pokopia

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 5mo ago

Check out this preprint I can’t wait to read 📄🧬💻👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Well done to @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social and all members of the team! Truly inspiring to see this sort of work being done!

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Irene Gallego Romero@ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

But if we want better representation... Someone's got to be willing to pay for it! Not to mention the time everything takes. I think we were originally funded for two years, but the project took four. The past couple of months the team has been going back to the communities to return results.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I just tried to register. The March date is already listed as Full! I did register for the April date. You have a chance to enter questions. I don't know if there will be another opportunity to do this.

a close up of a man wearing glasses looking at another man 's face .

ALT: a close up of a man wearing glasses looking at another man 's face .

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Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required! Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.
Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 5mo ago

Also, happy endometriosis awareness month 🌻💛 People in my life have asked why I’m open about my health 🏥 and a BIG reason is to bring enough awareness to conditions to encourage ACTION ✊🏽 📣 There’ll also be events in New York City this week hosted by www.endofound.org if people are interested 💪🏽

Endometriosis, Foundation, EndoFound, Endometriosis Foundation of America

Endometriosis Foundation of America | a 501(c)3 Tax-exempt, Tax-deductible Organization

endofound.org

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 6mo ago

After navigating delayed flights and cancellations due to snowy weather, my husband and I finally made it to Sapporo for our honeymoon! ❄️🗻 We haven’t travelled with just the two of us for a while, so it’s nice to be able to spend time relaxing with your person 😭✨❤️

A photo outside the window of the Grand Blissen Hotel in Jozankei, a region in the Sapporo area of Japan. There is a large mountain in the view of the window that is covered with the deep brown, stripped trunks of trees during the wintertime. Some of the trees have caught the snow, and some still have bushy, dark emerald-colored leaves. In the middle ground is a grey apartment building with approximately 10 floors in view that has a flat roof entirely covered in snow. Several buildings sit beside it, all also covered in snow. The photographer has her legs crossed and resting on a burnt orange ottoman, and she’s wearing blue, starchy linen hotel-issue bottoms, along with grey tabi socks.
Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 7mo ago

I lectured today for a Practical Bioinformatics course and the JupyterHub for the class wasn’t working for people 😭 So instead of just my “Intro to pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn” interactive session, I also did an ad-hoc lesson on how to install packages and create environments with conda 🥲

Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 7mo ago

Oh goodness—you know you’re a regular at your local coffee shop if they have your drink ready by the time you get to the cashier 😭 🫣 Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)

A pale cream-colored Shiba Inu sits patiently toward the right-hand side of the photograph waiting for a treat that her owner is holding behind the camera—she is very reminiscent of a seal with the angle of the photo. Slightly unfocused toward the left-hand side of the photo is a Iced Avatar, a matcha latte with horchata from the coffee shop, the Forum, in San Diego, California. The lighting in the photo is from the sun, which is behind the subjects in the photo.
Sabrina Norwood@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸@mragsac.com · 8mo ago

Attended this course led by @drtoriespy.bsky.social and it was cool to learn about how to talk about science with journalists 🎙️ 📰 🧪 🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩

SciLine@sciline.org · 8mo ago

Scientific experts—want to improve your media skills? Register for our no-cost course, Understanding the media, being held on Zoom on 12/16 at 2 p.m. ET. bit.ly/4apr2Mj @aaas.org

Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me