Shauna Paradine

Fiona McMillan @moraigmonkey.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 07:10 UTC

Sharing from that other place because this is actually important. Audrey Cameron is looking for deaf chemists to contact her.
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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

full disclosure: I feel strongly enough about this that I created a whole class on communication for chemists in my department

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 21:04 UTC

We really don't spend nearly enough time teaching students how to effectively communicate and it shows - and posters are often some of the worst offenders (and not just from us organic chemists). We really need to incorporate this more into our curricula

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 11:39 UTC

It's pretty ridiculous that students are only given the option to buy, especially since my institution rents regalia for the faculty every graduation (at no cost to us) - a rental market clearly exists!

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

If the smell is escaping your lab, that's a real problem - either a failure of lab ventilation, a spill, or negligence in handling a compound. So yes, I would worry.

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

My lab holds that if you're smelling a chemical, that's an exposure and should be avoided, even within the lab. Smelly compounds in particular we handle exclusively in hoods (in-hood rotovap, weighing compounds using sealed, tared vials, etc).

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 12:05 UTC

It's either "oh, I hated chemistry in high school" or "oh, you must be so smart" and I hate both of those responses for different reasons

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 12:04 UTC

My undergrad organic prof uses this as a metric for choosing doctors - if the doctor says they HATED organic chemistry, she finds another doctor

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

So exciting to see the complete work out in the world, way to go to you and your lab!

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 12:32 UTC

I love this (and a lot of other things) about hoyas, once they decide to push out a new vine they go gangbusters. That hoya is gorgeous btw!

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 00:06 UTC

A representative selection of the daffodils currently blooming in my yard

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

There was an annular eclipse on May 10, 1994, which I remember well from elementary school (I lived in the path of, uh, annularity? - so got the full effect of inside recess and going out in groups to see the eclipse through a pinhole)

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

I have not come across this yet and I hope I never do

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

You missed a real special eclipse in Rochester

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

Just a little research group update: we've had a lot of new faces here recently! We're thrilled to have Lauren Morano, Livan Borrego, and Neively Tlapale Lara as new 1st years. Roberto Leon Baxin (3rd year) also joined our group in the fall. Look out for great things to come from all soon!

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 10:26 UTC

They did - once a proper investigation brought this all to light, UR removed the grad students from the lab and made sure they found homes in other labs. So, at least they did right by the students once they realized what was happening (late, I know, but still).

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

It took too long to do a proper investigation (and boy, did they drag their feet), but to UR's credit at least, once they did, they removed all the grad students from Dias' lab and worked to make sure they all found good homes in other labs. In the end, they protected the students.

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 22:40 UTC

Double your pi bonds, double your fun 👯‍♀️ Check out our group's first review, now out in Angewandte Chemie! We pulled together highlights of recent developments in transition metal-catalyzed reactions of dienes. Lots of cool stuff to feature!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

You could always mark it and dig up the bulbs in the fall to plant in a sunnier spot - or just leave be if you don't feel like it, they won't be the happiest, but they'll be ok.

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 16, 2024 at 12:33 UTC

Is that a bit of a shady spot? Flowers will sometimes flop if they're in more shade than they'd like (stems don't grow quite a stout and strong).

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 22, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

Ha, Rochester has more shared instrumentation and resources in our chem department than Harvard had - and you definitely have us beat too! How I wish we had a glassblower 😭

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 10, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

5th year grad student Dasha spent last summer doing a DAAD-RISE internship at BASF, and applied her strong column chromatography skills to develop a new technique for extracting microplastics - and just published a paper on it! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 10, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

Every time there's a winter weather warning we get an email saying, "we're closely monitoring the weather but remember that as a rule we don't close, and plan to maintain normal operations except in extreme weather." Given it's Rochester, the bar for "extreme weather" is very high

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 01, 2023 at 11:09 UTC

I'm teaching a smaller version of our intro organic (60 students vs. 350), but the DFW rate is less than 10%, and I expect it's not more than 10-15% for our larger course. 50% is a ludicrous number.

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 28, 2023 at 00:28 UTC

One of my grad students referred to a paper from 2005 as being from "around the turn of the century" in their dissertation and I was like, absolutely not

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 21, 2023 at 21:43 UTC

Thrilled that third year grad student Roberto Leon Baxin was among the winners of the Walters Teaching Award. Huge congrats to him and to all the other winners at our fall awards ceremony yesterday! 🎉

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 17, 2023 at 11:48 UTC

I questioned this career path when I saw the toxicity, but then realized that the same freedom that lets some get away with treating students and others poorly also lets me create the environment I want in classes and research, and change the culture of our field through my students (even if small)

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 17, 2023 at 11:33 UTC

Working with students, hands down - and being in the position where I can create a safe and welcoming environment where students thrive and feel supported as they challenge themselves and grow as students and scientists, and being witness to that growth

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 12, 2023 at 10:51 UTC

Brought my little one to campus in the morning (my spouse and I met there!), and showed her the science complex, but predictably she was more interested in the dino skulls than my old research lab 😆 (she loved the periodic table display with element samples, so maybe there's hope yet 😉)

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 12, 2023 at 10:46 UTC

Returned to my alma mater, Albion College, to give a research seminar on Friday. It was so special going back to where it all began, and to see many of the professors who inspired, encouraged, and supported me (and still do 15 years later!). 💜💛

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 31, 2023 at 23:43 UTC

Had the opportunity to visit Eli Lilly today and interact with an incredible group of scientists throughout the day, and shared my group's research too. Very grateful for the invitation, I loved my visit!

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 25, 2023 at 01:56 UTC

Leaf peeping with a purpose 🍂 had a great visit to Colgate today, such wonderful students and faculty. PUI visits are some of my favorites (hi, alum of a PUI here, I am not biased at all).

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 24, 2023 at 11:19 UTC

and @partridgelab.bsky.social is here too! Can you tell I've been handing out invites to my colleagues? 😂 It's going to be a UR takeover of chemsky

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 24, 2023 at 10:24 UTC

Hey #chemsky @matsonlab.bsky.social has arrived! Give our cluster chemist extraordinaire a follow

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 20, 2023 at 00:53 UTC

A few group members (plus an honorary group member) went for a hike over the weekend - so many good nature trails around Rochester!

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 18, 2023 at 01:36 UTC

I learned this after I told my class to download ChemDraw and they told me the link on the university IT website wasn't working (the link was to the Perkin Elmer site that I guess exists no more), good times

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 17, 2023 at 00:20 UTC

It's required in New York now! Our ad this year had the salary range (and I would like to see this required everywhere)

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 02, 2023 at 02:00 UTC

I technically went, but not to my school's prom, I went with a group of friends from my math and science center to their high school's prom. We did each other's hair, went to dinner, hung out at the prom for a bit then stayed up late and watched movies. Way more fun than normal prom.

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 10:29 UTC

Want to join our AWESOME department in beautiful Rochester, NY? We're hiring a tenure-track faculty member in organic/chem bio, broadly defined, at all levels. Apply here 👇
www.rochester.edu/faculty-recr...

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 18, 2023 at 01:26 UTC

Favorite element: manganese Favorite reaction: Catellani Reaction Favorite het: piperidine Favorite functional group: amine Favorite piece of glassware: fritted filter funnel Favorite natural product: erythromycin

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 13, 2023 at 11:13 UTC

Also, while transition metal catalysis has my heart, I've been tinkering with some biocatalysis, and I just say the experimental analysis is much better tastier

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 13, 2023 at 11:11 UTC

In addition to bringing in my group's first major grants, this summer I took on something even more ambitious: removing some lawn to build extensive raised beds and a terraced garden wall. Those spatial reasoning skills were definitely handy for building a dry-stack stone wall

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 13, 2023 at 11:07 UTC

Ok, moving my group's account from Twitter to Bluesky was a bit soon, so I'll take this excuse to jump into chemsky as a whole person rather than my group's PR (though I'll ALWAYS highlight all the awesome things my students are doing!). So, hi everyone 👋🏻

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Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social [ View ] Aug 05, 2023 at 01:43 UTC

Coming into bluesky with some good news - our group has been awarded an NIH MIRA! We're excited for the funding and for the flexibility the MIRA gives us to follow the science wherever it may take us.

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