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The McLaughlin Lab

"Making it": reflections on (accidentally) landing a tenure-track job

"Making it": reflections on (accidentally) landing a tenure-track job

Jess McLaughlinMay 7, 2024 Comment

Trans inclusion in the biology classroom: one year later

Trans inclusion in the biology classroom: one year later

Jess McLaughlinFebruary 14, 2023Comment

Putting values in practice: checking citation equity in my own dissertation

Putting values in practice: checking citation equity in my own dissertation

Jess McLaughlinDecember 30, 2022Comment

What we don't talk about when we talk about defending your thesis

What we don't talk about when we talk about defending your thesis

Jess McLaughlinDecember 21, 2022 Comments

Supporting trans and nonbinary ornithologists: WOS2022 DEIJ recap

Supporting trans and nonbinary ornithologists: WOS2022 DEIJ recap

Jess McLaughlinJuly 29, 2022 Comments

Visual design for researchers: a crash course

Visual design for researchers: a crash course

Jess McLaughlinApril 15, 2022research tools, art, research skills, science communication, data visualization, designComment

How Dungeons and Dragons has made me a better scientist (really)

How Dungeons and Dragons has made me a better scientist (really)

hobbies, work life balance, science communicationJess McLaughlinMarch 23, 2022work-life balance, just for fun, research skills, hobbies, science communicationComment

So you've sequenced a genome...now what? (A crash course in bioinformatics, part 1)

So you've sequenced a genome...now what? (A crash course in bioinformatics, part 1)

Jess McLaughlinMarch 10, 2022biology, bioinformatics, how to guide, research tools, data processingComment

Trans inclusion in the biology classroom

Trans inclusion in the biology classroom

Jess McLaughlinFebruary 14, 2022LGBTQ, LGBTQ in STEM, queer in STEM, equity, trans in STEM, teaching, inclusion Comments

When your advisor leaves

When your advisor leaves

Jess McLaughlinFebruary 9, 2022academia, grad school, advisors, grad school disasters

Building a lab where queer researchers can thrive

Building a lab where queer researchers can thrive

Jess McLaughlinOctober 22, 2021DEI, inclusion, queer, LGBTQ in STEM, queer in STEM, social justice, equity, building inclusive labs, LGBTQ, academia Comment

I have a blog now!

I have a blog now!

Jess McLaughlinOctober 18, 2021general Comment