Isabel, PhD 🦠

Ever heard of the Pomodoro technique? Then I'd like to introduce you to my personal favourite: the reverse Pomodoro, where I write for 5 minutes and take 25 minute breaks. 🙃 #PhDChat #PhDLife #HowDoYouStopProcrastinating

🚨New preprint available 🚨 Pleased to show our first paper from the Green lab. Thanks @paigewolverson, @isabel_bfp, Mark C and Jon S for the amazing work. Also, thanks to @ShefDentistry, @ShefUni_ClinMed & @humane_research for support biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Science is not having a single artistic bone in your body but still spending the whole day getting creative, playing with weird glue and paintbrushes 😅 #Research #PostDocLife

Yesterday's Miles-Misra are today's incineration bag #PostPhDLife #SeriousScienceInTheMaking

@karolinairena You're simply the bestest friend 🥺❤️

My best friend @isabel_bfp welcomed her baby libra PhD 🩷❤️

@OhHollieS A public display of affection, this truly is a special day 🥺

One of the best people I know had her viva today. I'm so proud of Dr Lizardbel Paprika @isabel_bfp ♥️🎉

CONGRATULATIONS ex-dsrs president and NOW DR PARREIRA!! 🎉🎉🥳🥳 @isabel_bfp

@NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins sits down with New York Times Best-Selling Author Andy Weir for the first-ever "Science and Society" keynote lecture at #ASMicrobe! @Astro_Kate7 @andyweirauthor

A successful first day in Houston. Feet are aching. And at one point, we were nothing but sweat. Still, that was fun 😎 Now it's time to get conference ready! 👩‍🔬 #ASMicrobe

On the left is the paperback copy of "Project Hail Mary" that I first read and absolutely fell in love with! On the right is the hardback copy I purposefully bought to take to Houston in the hopes I meet @andyweirauthor while attending #ASMicrobe 😅 Wish me luck 🤞🏻

@OhHollieS YOU DID SAY IT!

I said exactly this Saturday! Suck it Harvey ya loser!

@OhHollieS 😂😂😂 It's a good friendship, just happens to be filled with chaos

An image that perfectly sums up mine and @isabel_bfp friendship

@FarrugiaCher @MicrobioSoc Thank you, Cher! ☺️ Picking the colours alone took way longer than I'd like to admit 😅

@isabel_bfp @MicrobioSoc Very snazzy poster @isabel_bfp ! :)

Talk about an early start 😅 Very much looking forward to this week at #Microbio23! It's only been one morning and I've already been frantically taking notes of things to add to my thesis 👀 Feel free to come say hello, I'll be at P237 😊

I must say, seeing @DGlaucomflecken during a #microbio23 talk on using 16S RNA nanopore sequencing for clinical diagnostics was not on my conference bingo card 😅 Still a good surprise! Shame Jonathan couldn't make an appearance though. #PhDChat

Explaining antifungal stress resistance using Pokémon. This is my new favourite way of learning. #microbio23 #PhDChat

"You have to go in the lab when [bacteria] are happy to work, not when you're happy to work" - Exploring career options, #microbio23 Truer words have never been spoken. #PhDChat #PhDLife @MicrobioSoc

@conymmharrison @MicrobioSoc Thank you very much, Cony ☺️❤️

@isabel_bfp @MicrobioSoc Congrats Isabel! Great work reflected in a nice poster!

@EvaHeinz7 As someone visiting Birmingham for the first time, this is how I was reassured I was on the right path to the conference 😅

A stream of people, suspiciously enriched in adults with backpacks, on their way to ICC Birmingham. That's my crowd. #Microbio23

@whatisitdoing @ATinyGreenCell Ah, don't we all feel a bit blue when it's cold outside? 😅

@ATinyGreenCell I just needa know what process makes an organism go “oh, it’s cold, better be blue”

THE INITIAL #BlueSoup STREAK PLATES TURNED BLUE IN THE FRIDGE!!!!

Well, seems that I get motion sickness looking down at a microscope. With over 100 slides of IHC to look at, this is going to be interesting. #PhDChat #PhDLife