Excited to be at #JMIH2025 in St Paul MN! Great plenary on unisexual salamanders this morning π¦
Excited to be at #JMIH2025 in St Paul MN! Great plenary on unisexual salamanders this morning π¦
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
itβs weird that weβre staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just βno one was willing to tell him noβ
Read this @sabs.bsky.social interview with my friend @co2ley.bsky.social, who was fired at NOAA as the Director of the Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) and later reinstated but placed on administrative leave. Disclaimer: Some of my work on marine COβ removal (mCDR) is funded by OAP.
If you are aware of grad program reduction due to cuts in science funding in the USA -- please help catalog it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... π§ͺπΏπΈ
Usha Vance's mother now has a unique national platform. I'll applaud her work to champion Diversity Excellence & Inclusion when she uses that platform. #DEI
Her son-in-law J.D. called professors "the enemy" for godsakes. How hard can it be to speak out against his fascist drivel?
Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldnβt sniff at.
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.
These Senators are on the fence about voting NO on the CR:
Elissa Slotkin (MI)
Gary Peters (MI)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jon Ossoff (GA)
John Hickenlooper (CO)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Mark Kelly (AZ)
Peter Welch (VT)
Mark Warner (VA)
Time Kaine (VA)
Call (202) 224-3121
Students hold signs at protest reading "Fuck Fascism" and "Jews Hate ICE"
Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
This is what we all should remember.
You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
In 2021, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level using EPA data ‡οΈ
Itβs the last day to download Kindle books onto your computer before Amazon shuts off that feature. I have, of course, put it off until now, and now I am having to do it one at a time because thereβs no bulk download option. We have, uhβ¦844 Kindle books
It is not new for countries to sell citizenship or residency status through investment or outright purchase.
When the U.S. does it, however, it is entirely different.
Before it's taken offline, I want you to know about the NASA website where you can learn about the stratospheric ozone hole and check on how it's doing. It has cool movies like this one, showing the growth of the ozone hole during the Austral spring last year.
ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/SH.html
Women couldnβt have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994.
We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & itβs proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.
A screenshot of text from Project Moonshot. The text reads βAvoid anticipatory obedience- Research shows complying early helps authoritarians. Donβt submit info unless required, and donβt over-comply with vague orders.β
Iβm not sure what the coming months, years will look like in academia, but we have already seen universities roll back any courses or programs that appear DEI related. We are all scared for our jobs, our research. This quote helped center me and remind me how important pushing back is
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
Starfish in low tide
Two plump starfishes and clusters of sea anemones in low tide
Sea urchins in crevasses during low tide
Fun tide pool finds while visiting @anjana7.bsky.social
I have reported on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in various fields for several years. DEIA just means acknowledging how systems have discriminated against different groups of peopleβin many cases for several decadesβand strategic efforts to give those people jobs and opportunities.
Check out this podcast I was featured on recently about my work with Santa Cruz long toed salamanders! open.spotify.com/episode/4OY8...
Another great day to:
Buy books
Call your reps
Support small businesses
And fight the patriarchy!
Even small acts of resistance are resistance! β€οΈ
Photo of a small crab from NOAAβs social media. Itβs covered in spikes
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications youβve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky
Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.