Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhD
Oaxaqueña scientist in Chicago | Immigrant | @vectorbuilder.bsky.social Science Marketing | 2021 @hhmi.bsky.social Gilliam Fellow | @MizzouSacnas ex-President
- Reposted by Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhDI am a proud HHMI Gilliam Fellow alumn. The HHMI funded me at a critical time in my career - a real inflection point that made me realize that I had a place and future in science. I always looked to the HHMI as a safety net to those historically excluded by academia, 1/4
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- Reposted by Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhDThis article does a great job describing the lives of young American scientists: “You roll up your sleeves, try to make or discover something useful and then let the scientific community try to punch holes in your work to make sure that it’s sound”
- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
- Reposted by Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhDNEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
- Reposted by Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhDOn this #AprilFoolsDay let's buck the trend and talk about real science that sounds like it's pulling our legs: Researchers at Rockefeller University introduced a human "language" gene into mice and it changed their squeak patterns. 😱 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhDI can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice
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- Reposted by Sara Ricardez Hernandez, PhDA friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬