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Type VI Sophia System

@wheezenfeld.bsky.social
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Former Vibrio, current System Biology PhD candidate in Michael Baym's Lab at Harvard Medical School. she/her "The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance" (James Maxwell 1865)

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Leftover lab decor in our lab, from inheriting a graduated PhD student's bench
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Harvard commencement was this week, here we have Dr. Arya Kaul! What an extremely well-earned duckit bucket
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
News & views piece just dropped from @indragon.bsky.social and @billhanage.bsky.social discussing some of the coolest work I've read all year! Phages shaping cholera epidemiology AND experimental evolution mirroring the real-world evolution is 🔥 (Kim Seed also gives an amazing talk!) rdcu.be/fihkG
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Kepler serving up some really sweet science (not sponsored by Crumbl)
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Loved having a chance this weekend to showcase the science behind bioluminescence & talk about the bioluminescent bays of Puerto Rico at the Harvard Museum's Celebremos Puerto Rico 🕺🇵🇷!
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Very relatable stuff from President Garber, this is how I feel learning that the incoming freshmen were probably all born in 2007
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is one of the findings that really motivates my research: yes, antibiotic resistance genes are ancient, but the age of antibiotics has likely contributed to a big change in their mobility and of the landscape of MGEs we see today! Very happy for Arya and to see this published.
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
broke: the professor writing professor x grad student romance novels woke: the PhD student writing about a student going to Hell to bring her PI back from the dead bc he hadn’t finished writing her rec letter
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
time to truly test the pet policy in my dream apartment's listing
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Proud to announce I got this new piece of paper !!! (And also finished my Bok teaching certif) For the past 3 years I’ve done coursework, teaching observations & made a portfolio to try to become a better TF. It’s been amazing so far and I’m excited to teach Integrated Science again this spring :)
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Last week with our summer undergrads 🥲💔 SPECTACULAR students and we will all miss them immensely. Summer research experiences are (for me) one of the most rewarding parts of being in academia so I am really praying that they will continue to be a learning opportunity for mentors and mentees alike
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Getting powerpoint alt text to summarize my PhD (colorful image of a long line)
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I will also be giving the first conference talk of my PhD on my continuation of @fernpizza.bsky.social ’s plasmid MLS work, on determinants of plasmid competitive fitness :)
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
the Baym lab 🔜 Molecular Mechanisms GRS! Come talk about the evolution and ecology of MGEs @fernpizza.bsky.social Multilevel plasmid selection! @arya (arya.casa) Creation of deletion-born fusion genes (frankenstein genes 🧟) @theshreyaspai.bsky.social Why sex is so common even though it’s costly
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Day 1 of PhD vs. Day 1000
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
HUGE celebration moment, on Friday @ellie-rand.bsky.social defended her PhD!! Took a lot of determination✨ but it was awesome to see and I am so proud of the newly titled Dr Rand :)
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
azenta genewiz, instead of releasing longread plasmid sequencing, has released wizard trading cards and i am genuinely at a loss for words
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I do not know Michael Baym
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Every pioneer or prophet must suffer
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Sci-fi movies are misleading people
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Woolly mice is bioweapon.
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
There’s just something about pouring 2% agar goth plates around a flame 🖤 (iron oxide added to plates = better fluorescent imaging)
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The author himself and the solid media experiments 3/3
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Heat map of plasmid eclipsing @fernpizza.bsky.social 2/3
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Finally I can post my photo compilation of people accidentally twinning with figures from this paper Stacked bar chart (upside down but still) @theshreyaspai.bsky.social @baym.lol 1/3
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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
new social media first things first gotta follow the important people (scientists with absurdist humor)
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