Welcome to my website and blog! I’m Larry Rodriguez, a PhD scientist, hiphop head, and award winning stand-up comedian. Check out my publications, learn more about my background and my projects, or check out my methods and resources section to see how I do things!
All in Freestyle
This post is for people who decide to join a neurophysiology lab without a formal background in neuroscience (like me!). Title inspired by the great Christopher Wallace; cover art depicts the indescribable feeling a successful patch-clamp experiment.
Academic twitter was in disarray recently, this time regarding postdoc salaries. As trainee that’s always made more than the NIH baseline salary, I have some thoughts. Tl;dr: academics would be better off if they listened to hiphop. Kinda facetious, kinda serious, always obtuse, always my opinion, never financial advice.
Its PhD program interview season, and I wanted to share some thoughts with students looking at PhD programs. Cover art is a meme that is too true.
Academia may require a lot of sacrifices, but your mental, physical, and emotional health shouldn’t be part of that trade-off. Here are some hard earned tips for how I avoid burnout during graduate school.
