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Chloe Kirk, Ph.D.

Chloe Kirk, Ph.D.

Chloe Kirk, Ph.D.

Chloe Kirk, Ph.D.

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Interview MIT Science Policy Review: Childhood Exposure to Science through Museums

COVID-19 HGI Data Freeze 6 Summary

ASBMB Today Magazine Contributor Profile

ASCB Cell Size Summary Article

The Power of Social Media to Promote Science UM Scientifica Article

Legal Studies Undergrad Senior Thesis CK.docx

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Can you bake cookies in your car? Inspired by @a Can you bake cookies in your car? Inspired by @alexdainis @museumofscience The short answer is yes but only if your car gets to 150F 😬🥵#scicomm #cookingwithchloe #science #sciencebaking
PUBLIC COMMENTS OPEN UNTIL JULY 13! Support scienc PUBLIC COMMENTS OPEN UNTIL JULY 13! Support science research funding decisions by ACTUAL SCIENTISTS!! Public comment section linked in bio #scicomm #Science #scienceresearch #sciencepolicy
The Science Behind the Perfume 🧪💨 Meet Future Soci The Science Behind the Perfume 🧪💨 Meet Future Society’s latest perfume - Wandering Rain 🌧️ Did you know the scent you associate with rain isn’t the scent of rain? Future Society partnered with Arcea Labs to dive into the microbiome of rain to capture the notes of rain before it interacts with the environment. As an added bonus, one of the notes is the first flush of Darjeeling tea, so not only is there some cool science in there but you can smell like tea too! #SciComm #Teafluencer #Science #Ad #PerfumeScience
What’s the difference between Lamarck and Darwin’s What’s the difference between Lamarck and Darwin’s views on evolution? And why haven’t you heard much about Lamarck? The last couple of months of science reads l’ve been diving into evolution. The Power of Life by Jessica Riskin: history of Lamarck and evolution. 4/5 The Genetic Book of the Dead by Richard Dawkins examples of Darwinian natural selection at work. 2/5 See my full book review on Goodreads and YouTube! And I dive more into the science here on my latest substack :) And the DNA plushie assist trom @giantmicrobes #scicomm #sciencereads #booktok #books #evolution
What is the grievance process in grad school? I g What is the grievance process in grad school? I got a number of DMs about this following up my post about the Harvard Grad Student Workers strike, so thought I’d dive more into the process! This is very near and dear to my heart. Grad students deserve protections. We are stuck in this messy middle not fully considered employees or students, but also meaning discrimination and harassment can run rampant without clear checks and balances. This post is mainly to address what we should be asking for (and why unionizing is so good for grad students) but if you are in a sticky situation right now, these are the steps I recommend: 1. Document EVERYTHING. More than just your lab notebook, keep a diary of experiments you did and when. Every time you meet with your supervisor, send a follow up email with what you covered so they can’t change expectations later. Send weekly progress updates. Keep an excel where you log your time. 2. Speak to the ombudsman early and regularly, bcc’ing them even in your emails and reports 3. If you are unionized, go speak with them right away. Earlier the better. Even if it seems small now, it can get worse fast. 4. If you are not unionized, go talk to someone at your graduate student government (and genuinely consider starting a union!!) 5. If things are escalating, figure out who you can talk to that will have your back. Committee members? Grad program director? But be careful here, they can always report it back to your advisor 6. The best piece of advice I can give for sticking it out is find passions that excited and motivate you beyond the lab. See friends and family whenever you can. Do not let them win ❤️‍🩹 Finally, if this is of interest to you, I wrote my first ever substack breaking all of this down in more detail. #scicomm #academicreform #science #scienceresearch #phd
Can you tell which batter was rested?? Which do yo Can you tell which batter was rested?? Which do you think, top or bottom? Putting the science to the test 😉 see my full science experiment on my channel:) #cookingwithchloe #sciencebaking #scicomm
Do you need to rest your pancake batter? 🥞 I put t Do you need to rest your pancake batter? 🥞 I put the science to the test 😉 #cookingwithchlpe #scicomm #womeninscience #bakingscience @nytcooking
A step closer to a scalable quantum computer! 💻Mic A step closer to a scalable quantum computer! 💻Microsoft Research announced their Majorana 2 chip - a 1,000-fold improvement of their Majorana 1 chip. 🤯 learn more about the science behind the discovery linked in my bio #DiscoveredatMicrosoft @microsoft
Science makes it nowhere if we don’t know how to t Science makes it nowhere if we don’t know how to talk about it!🎙️💞🧬 When I first started posting on Instagram as a graduate student, I didn’t think of it as “science communication.” I actually was a little nervous about my peers finding out about this space where I talked about how grad school was going, seeing a peek behind the scenes that felt at many times like a diary documenting the good, the bad, the ugly of grad school. But along the way, I had to learn how to talk about science on here. And it wasn’t something taught in class, or in lab, or even encouraged beyond how to make a good poster presentation for a conference 😅 And now as we see more people than ever using social media to talk about science, I think it’s really important to get more scientists to think of science as something to share and discuss online! After all, why can’t the public hear about the cool science straight from the source? #scicomm #womeninscience #science #phdjourney #thisiswhatascientistlookslike
Graduate student unions are doing the work we need Graduate student unions are doing the work we need to make academic reform happen 💥 Haven’t heard this on the news much but deserves some attention! #scicomm #harvard #gradstudentunion #unionworker scienceresearch @hgsuuaw @harvard @theharvardcrimson
Corning has sent me some lab must-haves 🧫👩🏼‍🔬. If Corning has sent me some lab must-haves 🧫👩🏼‍🔬. If you’re just getting started, or needing to stock up, click the link in my bio to view Corning’s free Cell Culture Basics ebook 📖 and see how their solutions can help your lab! 🙌
May 21, 2026 🥰 I just got off a call we secured fu May 21, 2026 🥰 I just got off a call we secured funding to make the first of its kind Science Summit a reality 🤩🤯👩🏽‍🔬🧬 This January, after the annual #JPM event, the founder of @biotechtvhq and I started talking about why we don’t see more science content creators in the biotech world. After all, biotech is science literally to improve public health, so why doesn’t the cool science going on in biotech make it beyond to the public? Enter the idea: US Science Summit. Bring expert science content creators right to the center of biotech in Kendall Square 🤓 OFFICIALLY COMING JULY 21! See your favorite science content creators come together at the heart of Biotech to learn cool science, meet fellow scientists, and help bridge the gap between what happens in Biotech with the public 🚀👩🏽‍🔬🧬 Follow @biotechtvhq to see all the updates! #USScienceSummit #scicomm #science #biotech
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