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Paleontologist, science education researcher, and big nerd | Building communities of care and humanizing STEM | Ph.D. UC Berkeley | Postdoc at Western Michigan University | #DisabledInSTEM | Be kind - take action. Collective liberation. ✡️🏳️‍🌈
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My amazing wife, author @jeshonard.bsky.social, got two of her new anthology pieces in the mail today! You want poetry with killer whales on the cover? You want queer-affirming nerdiness about lesbians in space? Check ‘em out and order!

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Very happy to share that one of my PhD dissertation papers is out in the International Journal of Inclusive Education! We use reflexive thematic analysis to understand biology student perceptions of disability and accessibility. #qualitative #disabledinSTEM www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NRDTR...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Support our Education & Outreach initiatives that bring students into the field. High school students participated in SF-ROCKS (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in the San Francisco Bay Area) at Pt. Reyes National Seashore Pledge today! #CalBigGive give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

I’m a disabled scientist & education researcher. NSF EDU matters because I’d like to fairly compensate other disabled researchers and students to work with me. While we build more supportive, human-centered STEM spaces & classrooms for & with disabled people. This matters. #DisabledInSTEM #DEI

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@dentalanth.bsky.social workshop next week at the @bioanth.org conference! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/daa-worksh...

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

An excellent resource for very tough times.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

submitted 119 days ago • 44 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 128 days ago • 770 comments

Super excited to see this #SciComm project out through @nagtgeo.bsky.social’s Teach the Earth! Developed by @hlusko.bsky.social with input from me and a great team, this project became a big part of my dissertation. Hope others will enjoy this project in their #STEM and #STEMEd classes!

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 137 days ago • 13 comments

Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i... Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp

submitted 140 days ago • 4 comments

They are trying to overwhelm us with all these EOs. Do what you need to do to stay out of freeze mode the best that you can. Connect with people. Connect with yourself. We're gonna fight.

submitted 142 days ago • 26 comments

Are you a researcher with a federal grant who would normally be expecting funds from that grant over the next several weeks that now may not be coming? I'd love to talk to you about what that means for your lab/research/colleagues. Reach out via DM or signal.

submitted 143 days ago • 3 comments

My sense is that most of us in science now have at least some institutional guidance on how to cope with latest round of proclamations. I hope you're able to refocus today despite the uncertainty, good luck. AND we need to brace against future rounds of disruption. Here's what my group is using:

submitted 143 days ago • 3 comments

It took a while to find me here in Kalamazoo, but my PhD lollipop finally arrived from the Grad Division at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! Especially in these strange days, I will celebrate these small moments of joy, accomplishment, and gratitude!

submitted 143 days ago • 5 comments

A very important podcast and episode on non-violent resistance and of course, women leading the way towards justice and peace in Palestine and Israel.

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