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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Ballot #92 submitted for my local elections in Massachusetts today! Please go vote for your community 🗳️

An “I voted” sticker in front of polling place

Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Faculty Applications: Describe your teaching pedagogy Me: Well, from what I have learned in the punk rock pit.... I meet every student where they are and pick them back up so they can achieve their career or personal goals 🧪 🧫 ✏️

"Punk Rock Saves Lives" over a skull punk character.
Below " x Rules of the Pit x If someone falls down we pick them back up"

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

These women, and the value they put on the self-determination of education, were a driving force for my PhD. They of course got the last word in the acknowledgements. Happy Birthday to our Halcyon Matriarch

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A conference requested an image that represents my work for an invited talk…. I give you Emo. coli. Also check out the paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪🧬🧫🦠

Cartoon bacteria with black side swept bangs, converse, black square glasses to look “emo” with the caption “SspA wasn’t just a stationary phase, Mom”

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Michele is wonderful! During my PhD I commissioned this piece that eventually became a figure in my dissertation 🧫🧬🧪

Left image is a purified E. coli chromosome that shows the twisting pattern that folds the circular chromosome into the cell. Right image is a watercolor interpretation, in purples and blues, inspired by the scientific image.

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

With the rising price of eggs these days, I’m so glad my partner had the sense to buy in bulk

Cardboard box filled with chocolate Cadbury Crème Eggs

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Another friend from college is pregnant. Mazel Tov to her, but I'm staying pretty busy with a few billion children on these assay plates and the imploding world of academic science funding. 🧪🧫

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The 4 Nations Face-off is some of the most exciting hockey I’ve seen in a long time! Anytime the USA plays Canada something special will happen on the ice. 🥅🏒 What a treat for Boston to host part of the tournament!

Scene of TD Garden hockey pregame show with red, white, yellow, and blue projected on the ice. Canada and Finland flags on the ice. Flags of US, Sweden, Finland, and Canada hanging from the rafters. Lights glowing in the audience.

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Now that’s my kind of Little Free Library! One of the greatest hockey movies of all time and very appropriate for a snowy Boston day 🏒🥅📚

Little free library with a row of books and a DVD for Miracle, the 1980 men’s Olympic hockey team’s story

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Bringing this energy going into 2025 #HappyNewYear

Person on frozen pond wearing hockey skates and gloves

Sign warning "SKATE AT YOUR OWN RISK" in front of Boston Gardens frozen pond

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

A reminder from the entrance to the Brandeis science complex 🧪🧫

A sidewalk chalk drawing of “Be Kind” written in periodic table element squares

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Local elections are important. Did you vote and support your community today?

I voted today sticker held in front of brick wall

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Taking some time away from the bench after defending my PhD to do some light reading. Inspiring and heartbreaking 🧪🧫 #WomenInSTEM

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Good morning to everyone, but especially to my lab mate who made this thesis defense poster. It’s art, I love it. 🧪🧫

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge album parody. My Bacterial Romance - Three Cheers for stress response. Cartoon E. coli “I’m not okay”. Want to know what happens when bacteria go emo?

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

The leaves are changing, the rinks are frozen, and there’s a lovely brisk breeze in the air - must be hockey season! Happy first game, Blues! 💙

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Happy Monday to all of the writers out there. Hope your day is more productive than this sponge 📝

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Did I reorganize the LEGO lab bench to be more like my actual lab bench? ….maybe. 🧪🧫 #womeninstem

Scientific lab bench with many bottles, pipette stand, ice bucket, test tube rack. A Lego lab bench sits in the center of the real bench top

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

What one picture describes what it’s like working in your field? I’ll start for microbiology: 🧪 🦠 🧫

A beverage fridge filled with beer cans and a stack of agar plates used for E. coli cultivation

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

How has the start of the week going you ask?

Children’s book page “It has been a terrible horrible no good very bad day. My mom says some days are like that”

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

There are worse places to read papers and think about molecular mechanisms 🧪 #womeninSTEM

Computer with text in front of River bank view

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Are there any Latin scholars out there? I have an etching from the late 18th century with a sentence in Latin that I need some help translating.

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

A very Blue Sky in the park today

Blue sky with some wispy clouds. Grape vines cover a white arbor and a bed of grass.

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

The original inspiration - the single, circular chromosome. The delicate loops with the instructions for life (that the cell protects at all costs) is beautiful to me.

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Love @artologica.net ‘s work! She even did a custom piece for me inspired by a purified E. coli chromosome. Wonderful way to celebrate my PhD candidacy

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

I’m still in disbelief that I got to go to Italy to share my science at the Chromosomal Dynamics Gordon Conference. Wonderful meeting great folks from all over the world and seeding future collaborations. Happy to be back state-side, sad to leave the incredible Italian food

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 14/06/2023

In honor of the Stanley Cup that’s about to be awarded tonight - here’s a throw back. I “gave my left hand” for the Blues to win their 1st Cup in 2019. I was (and still am) the proudest Blues fan in Boston

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 08/06/2023

How’s cloning going? Fine. Everything is just fine. 🙃

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Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

RIP to the E.coil mutants who did not survive this experiment. Your sacrifice is not in vain as you will be immortalized as a figure for my dissertation

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