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Weekly reads: UC Davis Medical School diversity, CRISPR, Parkinson's

It's been almost seventeen years that I've been a professor here at UC Davis Medical School. It feels like home. I enjoy teaching our first-year medical students each year. Some end up doing research in my lab. Our school recently got a nice write-up over at STAT News by Usha Lee McFarling on the diversity here.  From the piece: "one …
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How many academic scientists could pass a likable person test?

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What if there was a likable person test that we could take to see how other people really view us scientists?  How would that work? It turns out that a sense of likability might be more influential in academia than some of us might think, but it's often problematic too. This came to mind because I remember as a trainee …