Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
The CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Department is holding a virtual open house for students interested in the PhD program on Friday Dec 5th at 2pm EST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Methodology
A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death
"Postdoc in the job market"
NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk
Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research
A pride flag made with lizards.
We are everywhere. We are inevitable. Even if we are silenced and suppressed, we will always be.
The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government's web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here's why we just published a volume on the left's war on science.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
A new study finds that conservatives distrust science! Not shocking, I know, but it also found that they even distrust science that ostensibly supports their worldview, and the researchers couldn't find a single intervention that helped. 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/04/stud...
Intersex right whale with XXY karyotype! 🧪🦑
We should be more scared of measles. Worth noting that things are going downhill so quickly, I now need to update these videos in the days between recording and posting. In this case, a 2nd person died & the father of the dead child has announced he's still anti-vax. skepchick.org/2025/03/we-s...
Delighted to say that my and Amanda Melin's special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on primatology in Canada is now complete with 18 papers(!!) and the Introduction has just been published! Co-authored by Linda Fedigan. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The repercussions of Trump's ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are being felt across various health and science agencies.
In today’s episode, we talk about the ramifications of that order for science and medicine.
Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/Vdpz3oM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
Officially became a doctor yesterday after completing my dissertation defense so a new bluesky handle needed, Dr. or PhD 🌴🌿🐒
two odd-looking brown birds with dark eyes and what looks like whiskers around their bills peer over a rocky ledge
SOOTHING BIRD FACT 🐦
Thanks to the wonders of convergent evolution, South America is home to a bird that's remarkably batlike. The fruit-eating Oilbird is nocturnal, roosts in caves, and navigates using echolocation. (Photo by Eric Gropp, via Wikimedia Commons.)
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
Hey, what's up with all those plane crashes happening right now? Is it because of the fun new dictatorship happening in the US? No, but also kind of. skepchick.org/2025/02/is-a...
Who discovered that Down's Syndrome is caused by a genetic abnormality and what became of her? In this episode of @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social, they highlight the debates, play interviews, and attempt to understand what happened in a lab in the 1950s and for the next 60 years. #WomenInSTEM
TIL that Carl Linnaeus based most of his biological classification system on one he learned from the northern Scandinavian Indigenous Lapp people.
brill.com/view/journal...
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
In addition to the good news
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
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Apps are due FRIDAY for the Science IRL grant
We're funding projects that tackle humanity's big science-centric problems, while reaching people who are NOT engaging with science. Bring me your creative, unique projects that put science where there currently is none.
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Mary drawing
Illustration of the original Iguanodon teeth from Mantell, G. 1825. "Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered fossil reptile, from the sandstone of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex." In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 115: 179-186.
Continuing the International Day of Women in Science. Mary Ann Woodhouse (Mantell)(1795-1869) self taught artist who illustrated hundreds of plates and specimens for Gideon Mantell, helping with discovery & description of the Iguanadon, one of the first dinosaurs (celebrating 200 year anniversary!)
A new book looks at the life of Marie Curie through the lens of some of the 45 women who passed through her laboratory.
“Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the agency seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups […] The NSF spokesperson did not respond to a query about concerns that Trump’s executive orders are at odds with the agency’s responsibilities, as codified in law.”
