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Julia Dunn

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Assistant Professor at CU Anschutz | she/her | Investigating the role of eosinophils in inflammation & repair | Twin Mom | Opinions my own

Lab website www.dunnimmunolab.com

  1. Shuri is my favorite character in the MCU ❤️ because she’s the exact opposite of the “scientist trope” of an 1) old 2) crazy/neurotic 2) white 4) man. In addition to being a black woman, she’s young, and she’s also cool and funny and socially adjusted. The anti-trope in every way and I LOVE HER

    ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room . the woman is wearing a white dress .
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  2. It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

    Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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  3. I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

    At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.

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    To be clear, when i was answering this question in 2024 I didn’t actually think it could happen.

    The NIH is so completely intertwined with hospitals and industries.

    People asked if I worried about losing lab funding if NIH shuts down and I replied that if there’s no more NIH then our entire society and economy will be in free-fall so loss of grant funding will be… incidental.

    🧪 #newpi

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