Jen Reeve

So the annual reintroduction for #DayofScience! I'm Jen, I'm a 4th (?!) year PhD candidate (flex) in Geological Sciences @CUBoulder. But! I'm mostly an evolutionary/microbiologist when it comes to my lab work/research.

So did I make progress on any of the 4 major deadlines I have in the coming week? Only a little. But how important is a first author paper, a postdoc fellowship app, a conference talk or a conference poster anyway?

And this is a case where I have great confidence that the people with the power to actually do something will do their damnedest and try to protect against retaliation.

You know what sucks about being a woman in academia (and even more for every other minoritized identity)? I spent > 10 hours this week dealing with a harasshole situation despite the fact that I am very much in the nosebleeds of the situation. #WomenInSTEM

hey nice paper. have you considered a) collaborating with people who are actually qualified to do this (sociologists) b) not assigning gender by name (this is absolutely trash methodology) c) that people outside the western gender binary actually matter (don’t get me started)

@ElleChimiak @Target Yup, definitely depends on what you are shopping for

The #PinkTax is such bullshit, I went looking for cuticle clippers @Target and found these two options from the same company. By all the info on the packages, the only difference is the color, but one of them costs $0.99 more. Oh no, I guess I can't get the pink version!

@jfmclaughlin92 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… The abstract does not sound complicated, but my memory of him working on it was confusing af

@jfmclaughlin92 Fish can be wild, my husband tried to figure out sexes in hagfish and ended up with an absurd number of categories and no real answer

International collaborations are great, meetings ending at 8pm gives me a great excuse for why I didn't start work today till noon. Of course now I have to convince myself it doesn't mean I can stay up to the wee hours... #ScienceTwitter

@anya_hess Looks a lot like a fish otolith, but my memories of fish otoliths are a decade old so handfuls of salt

Despite being furious for most of that lab session, I am happy to announce I just started the last *planned* experiment of my PhD. I guess this means I really do need to spend more time writing! #PhDAlmostDone

An undergrad researcher in lab is helping me with keeping an eye on cultures this month. They successfully determined I was left-handed from the order in which I put my cultures in the incubator. Both wow that's some observation skills and wow that's a new way someone has noticed

Fun fact: I often don't tweet these moments bc this isn't an anonymous account and I work in a small field, but this is literally so common that I have no fear of anyone but the friend themselves knowing who this is specifically about.

I really love the days when I need to take a few minutes to get my anger out before starting lab work. Brought to you today by a friend who searched through their messages to "figure out what I'd done" to receive flirty messages over months from a teacher/mentor. Just fuck this

@AdultingADHD I frequently completely deny my husband telling me something, or me having told him something. He is almost always correct, but I genuinely have no memory of hearing/saying the thing. We both learned to let the miscommunication go and move forward instead of arguing about it

As an ADHDer, what is the one thing you’d want someone your dating to know about you? Like are you more of a “we need to engage more often so the RSD doesn’t kick in” or “I really need my space so I can recharge and like you again?”

And since the shame accumulates easily: showing up for an appointment after a while of not going in is a win! You showed up and made the change, don't let your past struggles minimize the success now.

Something is better than nothing. You know what habits work for you. I cannot make flossing stick, but I can make using a WaterPik pretty consistent. These days I try to be honest about my routine, and clear that yes I know flossing is better, but this is what I will actually do.

Since I'm thinking about #ADHD and the #Dentist, a few tips that have helped me be more consistent and manage my anxiety: