I am and I just did!

Well aren’t you FANCY 😂 (I’m very jealous!)

I hope you enjoy!

We should’ve told you about LE dinner plans since you’re local! 🙀🤦🏾‍♀️

Come**

I have one other panel on Tues @ 4PM in room 126A. We’re discussing navigating your career in challenging times - come by if you’re here! #CellBio2025

So by meeting with students at the bottom of the course, and re-explains things, when they nod he tells them to explain it back to him.

‘You do not know something until you can explain it to your roommate’

Something that Dr. Dewsbury does is hold an “intervention week”

The way students have studied work until coming to a class that forces them out of passivity.

So he emphasizes the added value he provides by being in the classroom - why are they paying tuition when the content is available for free?

By the end of our PhD we’re trained to not listen.

We’re evaluated on how we participate (or are viewed like we participated); we’re trained for pacivity.

We’re not allowed to sit and process what we’ve heard.

And when it comes to group work, it’s important to remember that students won’t self-select and know how to construct an effective working group. The groups are made intentionally using ‘First Day Info Sheets’: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32313598/

To counter the ‘look to your left/right - X% of you will fail’, Dr. Dewsbury instead points out “one might have their own business”, “become an attorney general”, etc.

A much more positive reframe because they are taking the class as a team and should support each other #CellBio2025

Inclusion isn’t anti- anything.

My role as a professor is to make sure to position you [the student] as best I can for you to do your best

This was funny - students don’t speak like academics. No student will come up to you and say ‘I don’t think an adequate sense of belonging has been fostered here’

Just gonna drop the gems here:

“If as an institution you don’t have intentionality in creating environments where students are challenged to go beyond their “like” spaces - they will spend 4 years and graduate without learning anything about the different aspects in America”

Trying to go back to my live tweeting ways (I guess it would be live skeeting now?) - sad I don’t get to see you this year!

She strategically ate high sugar foods before chemo (kept it low between therapies) and was told not to expect any changes in 2 months. It was over halved in 2 months, undetectable in 4. She has two final treatments and scans this week. 🤯

With a paper on her experiment in review!

She hypothesized that the tumor was growing slowly and she need to get it to S phase to have the chemotherapy have the best chance.

“I need to hit as many cells as possible before any resistance can develop”

After getting a PET scan, she connected what was happening in her body (inoperable tumor) to her prior work on the cell cycle. Her goal was to come up with a protocol in four days before she started chemotherapy.

Using these principles and specifically looking for the positive carried her through being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (PDAC).

An interesting point is talking about the patient perspective and how doctors don’t look at you or want to get to know you because in theory you’ll die soon