Kimberly 🧠🔬

So absolutely thrilled to see my first paper out in J Neuro today! Here, my Honours work, with beautiful RNAscope from @Ongbaba96’s Masters, investigated gating mechanisms of somatostatin interneurons in the NTS protect-au.mimecast.com/s/i0qxCnxyvXco… @SfNtweets @TheFlorey @UniMelbMDHS

@Napaaqtuk The biggest change I found was that the business world “feels” very different to the academic world. Expertise and attribution of ideas or work are viewed differently, as can the emphasis on optimisation or polishing of work. I’m unsure how one prepares for that, though!

@o_guest My favourite is the lucky dip each day between being a “five simultaneous tasks” kind of day, or a “one singular task and absolutely do not suggest otherwise” kind of day

When my ADHD is, as they say, vibing heavily and nicely, I get 100 tasks done so chaotically. Like literally, I start a task and nest it within 12 other tasks until the loop bottoms out, but like how is this possible? OK, never mind, I'll go have a shower.

Excuse me while I change all of my intro docs for new hires into emoji code. We now write in dogJSON only pls.

Acknowledgments got me crying at work @SynapticHolly ❤️❤️❤️

HUGE congratulations to @SynapticHolly on an absolutely beautiful oration!! 🎉 I am so ridiculously proud of everything this amazing woman has achieved. Without a doubt the most hard working person I know, it fills my heart to see you shine 🤩✨

Leaving academia is not leaving research. Leaving academia is not leaving science. Leaving academia is not failing. Not sure who needs to hear this today, but please believe it.

@kylieeemac @docaustinlim @Caroline_Bartma The osmometer is gaslighting us all

@docaustinlim @Caroline_Bartma You’re not wrong.

@angelina_fong Nah, just more disco

@Technicallykim Sounds like you need an exorcism to expel these boogies!

FYI: 12+ months later, a little bit of life flipping upside down, a few extra months in lockdown, an ADHD diagnosis, lowkey leaving academia, I’m finally on the home stretch #KimSubmitYourGoddamnThesisPls

@angelina_fong Lab demonstrating boogies have transitioned to desk boogies, don’t you worry. I hope semester is being kind to you!

@Technicallykim I miss you too ❤️❤️❤️ hope you are brilliant as always. Catch you soon!

@angelina_fong 🥰 thank youuu. Absolutely, I miss you and the phys fam!

@Technicallykim You totally have this!! Go get it! 💪when you are done, we need to have that doggy play date catch up!

@chellebalez I believe! I mean I’ll surely have to come back for the comp neuro scene eventually 😅

@Technicallykim Agree! I’m sure somewhere, sometime we will get the change to boogie as Drs!

@MadeleineDiNat1 girl!! PhD candidate!! Ahh I am thrilled for you!

@chellebalez Yayy!! Shame we can’t have a boogie at ANS to celebrate! Haha ah yes, I know that feel. You’ve got this! Drs Kim and Chelle come 2022 💪🏼

@Technicallykim Yes, aiming for the end of the year. I feel like your hashtag is my parents and partners mantra for me🤣

Ever wanted to know what it’s like getting a tech job before submitting a wet lab PhD? Opening your two year old R scripts to see if they’re worth putting in as an appendix, and wondering if re-writing them in Pyspark would actually be faster than working out your baby code 🥺

@chellebalez ☺️ thank youu! You’re close too, right?!

@Technicallykim You can do it!!!!!

@ElieGottlieb I miss you too! Yes absolutely. I need to here more about your job! It sounds incredible having a bit of everything 👌🏼

@Technicallykim I’ve missed you so much! So great seeing you do such amazing things, and OMG I thought the print looked familiar! You lovely human. Let’s plan for a Zoom catch-up sometime :)

It’s pretty crazy that I’m already coming up to 6 months at @camplexer! What a nice milestone to be invited “back” to speak to @TheFlorey students about careers post research degrees (maybe I’ll even submit my thesis soon, too 😬)