Franklin Staback Rodríguez, PhD 🇵🇷🇻🇪🔬🦠

So so so excited for the amazing opportunity to be a part of the HHMI community and the 2022 Gilliam cohort. With this fellowship, I will continue to develop my leadership and mentorship skills as I prepare for an academic research career and leadership in STEM 🇻🇪 🇵🇷

“Love is everywhere if you look for it.” A little crystal heart formed with salts from my lysis buffer in a bucket. I saw it and I just had to take a picture and share it. Science has beautiful moments like this when you least expect it ❤️🔬🧪 Share with a scientist you love!

@FabrizioRomano It is also his 70th free kick! He ties Pelé for second most free kicks of all time!

Leo Messi scores his first two goals in MLS 2026 season. 🔛🇦🇷

@fernandopalomo ¿Un estadio sin techo no se supone que le entre agua y granizo? Al contrario, estadios supuestamente terminados y con una inversión en los mil millones son los que no deberían tener goteras. Pero bueno, otra más de los haters que se hacen pasar por comentaristas en ESPN.

¿Goteras?

@ArchivoVAR “Bellingham baja el balón con el biceps y asiste pero como es “posición natural”…” “Vinicius no se tira a pegarle a Iñaki y lo rompe la cara, Iñaki se tira a la pierna de Vinicius…mientras iba a bloquear un tiro al arco? No hay falta.”

⁉️💥 ¿Hay infracción de Vinicius sobre Iñaki Peña previa al gol de Bellingham? ✅ 𝗡𝗢. 👉🏻 Vinicius planta la pierna en el suelo y es Iñaki Peña el que, al lanzarse a detener el balón, termina impactando contra él. ▪️ El VAR confirmó el gol validado por Hernández Maeso.

I am happy to share that my thesis work, which talks about the the mechanisms that control naive T cell migration to S1P, is now out on Biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Special shout out to @Henry_de_belly who will launch his lab at UTSW in January. Go check out his science!!!

@GeoSantiagoM ¡Muchas gracias @GeoSantiagoM!

@FSRimmuno Felicidades Doctor! 🎂🎉

Dr. Franklin Daniel Staback Rodríguez, PhD 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

@ter3sa_01 Gracias!!!

@FSRimmuno Felicidades 👏👏👏👏

It's a sad day for many young scientists around the country. NIH just sent termination notices for MARC, GRISE, PREP, IMSD, IRACDA, and BRIGES.

Debí tirar Más fotos…🇵🇷

@ArchivoVAR Por algo les dicen ArchivoVARdrid. ¿Cómo es esto una mano pegada al cuerpo y especialmente cuando detiene un claro remate al arco?

⁉️💥 ¿Es punible la mano de Rudiger que revisó el VAR? ✅ 𝗡𝗢. ▪️ El defensor tiene el brazo muy próximo al cuerpo y en movimiento de apartarlo por completo. 🖥️ El VAR revisó un posible fuera de juego pero, al no mostrar el análisis, se presume que no existía.

@GeoSantiagoM @HHMINEWS Sorry, bud. Sending you a hug from Philly

#newPI Very sad news for my lab. I just received the email from @HHMINEWS about my status in the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars competition. Many of you are doing great work to create a more inclusive and supportive academia. I wish your work is recognized! Anyway, keep swimming.

Thank you to @JuanAlvarezDom for a fantastic keynote in Spanish! We closed out the year with the largest @IDEAL_Research @Penn_SACNAS Hablemos Ciencia event ever and with a Parranda and Puerto Rican food!!!❤️🇵🇷 My heart is full! #SpanishScienceIsScience

Looking forward to keynote + parranda with @Penn_SACNAS x HablemosCiencia this Monday #SpanishScienceIsScience!

It’s coming together! Cannot wait. Dr. Juan Alvarez @JuanAlvarezDom will be delivering a research keynote in Spanish! So exciting! #SpanishScienceIsScience

@jdhallphd, Adrielle, and Mel, you have a special place in my heart ❤️

Farewell, HHMI…for now. Thank you @HHMINEWS Gilliam staff and @blackprof77 for their leadership, mentorship and investment in the next generation of scientists. Thank you for welcoming me with open arms. I am truly honored to have been here as myself and nothing less 🇵🇷🇻🇪

@axelovera1 Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷: 28) Please don’t come up to me to tell me MY people lost an election where 150 million people voted. As a targeted minority, we’re way more frustrated than you and we even lost two elections that day.

@axelovera1 27) Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷: Our Christmas is arguably the happiest on Earth. The music won’t stop at least until the 6th. Come join us!

Things I wish my academic friends and colleagues knew about Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷: 1) We say “buen provecho” (translates to bon appetite) to not only wish you a good meal, but it is also common curtesy amongst family, friends, and strangers. Talking during meals is not seen as rude.

Today in @IDEAL_Research @Penn_SACNAS Hablemos Ciencia, we had @ChemistAndrea and Elena Alvarez Periel, PhD, present their research in Spanish and invite their families in to the talk! What an amazing session! #SpanishScienceIsScience #LanguageInclusionMatters