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Fostering a positive welcoming scientific community is extremely important to me and shapes my time outside of research. On this page, I hope to share some of my involvement. I really enjoy working with others, especially students. Here you can also find some of my other work and writing.

In 2022, I began advocating for salary increases in my graduate program. Though we have been unable to make any improvements here at UF, we hope our efforts may help others. Part of these efforts was comparing our salary to other US-based Biology Ph.D. salaries, also known as external benchmarking. Based on the data we collected, we ended up creating an application that we think will help others too.

We made an interactive website via an R-based shiny app where our current dataset can be explored. We are also expanding our dataset via crowdsourcing. You can contribute to our dataset and report errors through google forms linked on the website.

This work was covered by Nature and Science in Summer 2022.

Check out our R-based shiny app here: BiologyPhDStipends Website