Katya Podkovyroff🍒

A flyer for the SCOPE panel with Rami Major and Katya Podkovyroff Lewis on Thursday May 29th at 9amPST/noon EST.

LETS TALK POLICY! Join us on Thursday May 29th at 9am PST/noon EST to talk with @doe-rami.bsky.social and @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social about explaining and informing science policy!

Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Science is under attack, minorities are under attack, the environment is under attack, and resistance starts with us in little moments like these🧪✊🌏

The event was centered around discussing how science should be driven by community priorities, how communities are doing on the ground efforts for science and how all of us should listen and work together!!!

Grab a beer, take a seat, and let’s talk about all the things dirt can tell ya 🤓🧬🔬 Last week I got to talk about my research with the Eugene community at an event organized by UO’s @sacnas.bsky.social chapter + @beyondtoxics.org called “Environmental Justice in Eugene & Beyond”🌿

Misha lived in zoos, but the elephant’s tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations - @theU Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where large plant-eating animals have roamed.

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping @utah.edu scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social

Advanced from professional dirt detective PhD student to professional dirt detective PhD candidate!!!🧬🌿🔬👩🏻‍🔬 Thank you to everyone who watched, I feel SO lucky that I get to do the work I do & I love every chance I get to communicate about science, especially when presenting in a room full of support🫶🏼

How a zoo elephant helps us understand megaherbivore migrations In September 2008, a well-loved African elephant named Misha fell ill and had to be put down at the Hogle Zoo of Salt Lake City Utah. It turns out that Misha had quite a story to tell, about her epic ...

Happy to share some behind-the-scenes stories @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social, about our recent paper in @commsbio.bsky.social. Our loyal participant Misa, a @hoglezoo.bsky.social 🐘 , has a lot to tell about her #epic #journey from #sanfrancisco to #saltlakecity, preserved in her 🦷 go.nature.com/438Ugey

Check out the latest from @demingyang.bsky.social & our team!🐘🦷
tldr: this can be applied to studies of paleobiology and also be applied to studies of modern conservation and forensics (ex: megaherbivore migration & to trace the origins of illegal ivory trade/other forms of wildlife trafficking)

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

I am done being sad about anti-DEI measures & am solidly back in the succeeding-by-spite mode.

It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.

an email from the society for integrative and comparative biology that reads "Attn SICB Members: The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science."

This is how you do it.

Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

Aerial image of open bogs interspersed with green forest.

Peatlands are an incredible archive - silently recording all of human history. Peat accumulation not only sequesters carbon but it also sequesters history, for the benefit of future generations.

Learn from bogs.

I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order

National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actions The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.

"If there's a significant stoppage or delay in funding, we'd basically have to euthanize a lot of our mice" in cancer-research laboratories, immunologist Peter Savage of the University of Chicago told @jonlambert.bsky.social of @npr.org

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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

Need to catch up on this week's tumult in US research funding? Yeah, me too.

“I’m going to eat food this month, but that’s because I have a credit card,” geologist Bolton Howes told @ericboodman.bsky.social of @statnews.com.

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🧪 #research

If you’re at a European institution and are looking to poach American scientists, this would be a very good week to do it

NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb