Julia Gala de Pablo, PhD 🔬👩‍🔬 (She/Her)

🚨FUNDED PHD POSITION🚨 Thinking on pursuing a #PhD in #single-cell analysis? In this project at U of Leeds, you will explore the biophysical and biochemical properties of metastasis using coherent #RamanSpectroscopy and #deformabilityCytometry findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

I moved to bluesky, are you moving too? Reach out so that I can follow you there!

@AndrewBarnas I just signed in for the first time in like a year because I miss twitter, but I think everyone is gone.

I cannot encourage this enough. In that final proof of your manuscript, please proof read your figures!

@arjunrajlab Didn't used to, but a colleague convinced me to do this from now on. Some tape is very stubborn especially after autoclaving!

Bonus question: do you fold over the end on itself to make it easy to take off later?

@KimBaublys the struggle is real

Me trying the Pomodoro technique: 1st 25 minutes: this is working, or is it the coffee? 1st rest: let's rest by looking at this email that just came in. End of rest: ... still answering emails.... Next 25 minutes: ... other stuff, now need rest... Next rest: now ready to write...

Interested in single-cell analysis, microfluidics and cell sorting? A Postdoc opening in our group working with microfluidics and deformability cytometry to develop a deformability-activated cell sorter! Apply until the 1st of September. Please, share! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

PostDoc Position Now Open! 🎞 Join our High-Speed AFM team in Leeds Application Deadline: 1st September 2024 Apply Online Here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/EPSPA1117

@RLeePaterson oh dear, hahaha

@JGaladePablo 😂 What if the object of my procrastinating are the all the article tabs I have open on my browser? 🤔

When you prefer to read papers? Do you prefer in the morning or towards the end of the day when you’re winding down? Or somewhere in between? I’m wondering when I should schedule it because I seem to never manage to fit it in 🥲

@Cody_N_Porter I did this for a while, I have since changed it back. I think it depends on the career stage and on how you feel about it. Nothing wrong with it either way in my opinion.

Yesterday I was discussing with a colleague whether I should have “Dr” as part of my name on LinkedIn. I do this on Twitter but not on other platforms…. I wonder what your thoughts are? #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Our recent review @rsc_chembio is now online❗️ Here we report on bioorthogonal tags in the cell – silent Raman window and discuss their potential in biomedical applications using different modalities of #Ramanspectroscopy 🧬🔬 Open access here 👇🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

@suritra2904 That looks like a beautiful molecule to do Raman on...

My first grad school project is hot off the press and I could not be more thrilled. Shout-out to all my coworkers who trained me, who joined the lab with an inorganic chemistry background, on everything needed to pull off this work. Also, lets be real, PORPHYRINS are OMNIPOTENT!!

@RLeePaterson I was in Tokyo, and oh I miss it sometimes! I just saw you are in Kyoto, what a beautiful city.

@JGaladePablo Thank you so much Julia! This is really reassuring 😭 imposter syndrome really does get the better of me but I suppose academic jobs are less focused on age and more on skills? Unrelated question but where were you in Japan?

Good morning academics in the UK I have a question: What is the academic job market like there? I can imagine it’s awful but *how* bad? I will need to go back to the UK from Japan but I’m worried my degree and experience won’t be enough to land anything and I’m already 30 😬

@octopus_imager Absolutely, and that is part of the problem. If a PDRA is invested in a project and they accept they will not publish small papers for a while, but funding agencies are not funding the project because it hasn't been published, now the PDRA is jobless and the project is over.

@JGaladePablo To me is yes too … it is a chance to make a difference, only concern is the PDRAS …

Is it worth running a high impact project to achieve a high impact goal even though you will not publish in a while? To me the answer is YES. But funding agencies do not necessarily agree with this. How do we intend to make real scientific discoveries in a short-term system?

@KKajderowicz It goes to the graveyard of drafts that will never be.

What happens to all the unpublished work when someone leaves the lab without publishing and no one wants to continue project

Otto Warburg's grant application from 1921 is just one sentence – “I require 10,000 marks” – and it was fully funded.