Michael Borja

Happy to announce that I’ve finally started my PhD program at @ucsc PBSE under the Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology track. Thank you to my mentors & colleagues at @czbiohub SF for the massive encouragement and preparation for this journey! 🍌🐌 #UCSC #PhD #GradStudent

I PASSSSED #PhD #QualificationsExam

Hi! It’s me. I’m the biologist using AI. Thank you @ChatGPTapp & @github copilot for assisting in my learning!

How much stuff do I need to know and how much stuff I don’t know … the answer to both has been “no one really knows” .. This has been the main theme of this process #PhDQualificationExams

Qualifications Exam era of my PhD has been stressful as hell not only because of the exam but it just feels like the world isn’t in a good place as well

The comments section under here is making me realize idiocracy was actually a prophetic level of cinematic masterpiece

Thanks again to @SZMD84 for allowing me to help you with this project. I absolutely learned a lot.

Worked on this for almost the entirety of my time at @czbiohub! Glad it’s finally published. .. Single-cell analysis reveals Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-1–mediated accumulation of permissive macrophages in infected mouse lungs | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today I was encouraged to restart my science vlogs and make it more specific to genomics

this one has been cooking in the lab for awhile but its finally published! great job @Shruthi94Vijay

2nd year PhD starts now

Ok I need to be plugged in with more #AgingResearch … to whomever sees this, pls tag and/or DM me

Current experiment is on Run #9 version 2 and it still failed … version 1 also had 9 runs .. I guess this is PhD shenanigans #LearningToFail

I have a long way to go with coding but I’m a lot further than I was even from a year ago 🫡

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UAW strikes & divestment encampment … what a very dramatic ending to my first year of grad school 😖

yep … right about now I’m feeling the gnarliest grad school exhaustion that I’ve frequently heard about

Teaching is a rewarding experience. The logistics of teaching isn’t.

As a grad student TA, it’s so funny to be on the other side of these midterms cuz mannnn I’m seeing the agony and joy of students … that used to be me way back then

@Andercot dude your trajectory as a science twitter influencer needs to be studied … it’s a compliment by the way

You think scaling AI will be bottlenecked by energy? Not if you just power your chips with the background quantum vacuum fluctuations of empty space. Casimir Effect Transistors will deliver abundant AI without destroying the planet because virtual photons are carbon-neutral

The things that scared me now in present time in grad school is fleeting because of what I know of the life beyond the borders of academia … I guess that’s what feels reassuring