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I wrote an article for Idaho Sierra Club about the intersection of queerness and community science. www.sierraclub.org/idaho/blog/2...

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I saw you make camp coffee Taking communal coffee To make only you a cup Seems so profoundly selfish, Do you always drink alone? What about for a neighbor, Or the family woke late, Sober strangers to keep up, Or students at a defense. No cups, no sugar, no cream, You offered nothing, did naught.

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Science/academia are under siege. Slashed funding from NIH, NSF, and NASA, etc.—plus loss of Pell Grants—will cripple universities. Next, massive endowment taxes aim to deliver the final blow. Research and education are on the line. Call your representatives. Spread the word. Take action. #scicomm 🧪

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@deathrattle.bsky.social thank you for publishing my two poems! Hope other folks enjoy. deathrattle.org/vol-10-1/ric...

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Volunteering at the Snake River Plain Herbarium today, and one of the Apocynum cannabinum, dogbane, specimens was from 1934.

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Project 2025 protest at the Idaho state capital.

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PREP saves lives and helps tremendously with the mental health of gay and bi men. As someone whose had a false positive before that almost ended my life through mental anguish and addiction, PREP has been a lifesaver for me.

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Federal employees, hold the line, don't resign.

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This fun new thing I noticed. Scientists at universities making volunteer, unpaid positions, and calling it "citizen science". Unless you go out of your way to make them involved in publishing or designing research. That doesn't mean what you think it means, you're just exploiting free labor.

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New paper alert! We find evidence of greater selfing rates in in an annual wildflower after 8 generations of cultivation on a native seed farm: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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All my Instagram and Facebook and Twitter are gone, 3 less apps to suck my free time and joy. I'll miss the Marketplace, that was Facebooks only redeeming quality.

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Looks like I won't be getting a job with the federal government any time soon. The hiring freeze is officially in effect.

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I feel as though blue states are more safe for queers and environmental work, anyone also think this is true?

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I wonder what the average salary is on Ecolog for things that require a masters degree or less. Just from looking it over, it feels insultingly low. Plus most of the positions aren't even permanent, just temporary nonsense with no benefits.

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I moved to Idaho to get a PhD in plant ecology and start a family. That was two years ago. Idaho attempting to not recognize same sex marriages. I don't feel comfortable here anymore, and the salary for a PhD is becoming too cumbersome to justify staying here. I'll be leaving back to SoCal. #gay

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I'm organizing a queer hike in Palos Verdes kind of last minute if you wanna join. Please share! Check out "Palos Verdes LGBT nature hike" on Eventbrite! Date: Fri, Dec 27, 9:00 AM Location: Forrestal Preserve Loop Trail www.eventbrite.com/e/palos-verd...

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A very intelligent super genius recently brought something to my attention. Is work life balance culture out of whack in the Star Trek universe? It does feel like they work way too much for a society that has free food and healthcare and housing. They should have more days off, at least.

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A wildfire, my masters degree, and a very volatile relationship with my ex boyfriend.

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I did a short story in this podcast too, check it out!

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Hi! I wanted to reintroduce myself. I'm a queer jew living in Boise, Idaho, working on a PhD studying wildfire, invasive plants, and biogeography. I get excited about scorpions and monarch butterflies, and love foraging. I write poetry in my free time and hangout with my golden retriever, Franklin.

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My first coauthored paper with Shane Jordan, Response of an Avifaunal Community to the La Tuna Fire in the Verdugo Mountains of Southern California. Read more here tinyurl.com/dpy9dbbj.

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Are you going to #ESA2024 ? I'm working on the spatial ecology of invasive plants in urban areas along gradients of macro and micro scale temperature using drones, satellites, and community science. I'd love to connect if we have any overlap. Please share #plantecology @ESA_org

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The city of Boise invited me to host a workshop on goathead research and community science for the Youth Climate Action Summit. It was neat to share my passion for plant ecology and remote sensing with high schoolers on the cutting edge of climate change activism.

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This paper and figure are sick. "Causal inference with observational data and unobserved confounding variables" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Such great work.

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Took the puppy into the foothills (leashed) to go look for mule deer shed antlers. Didn't find any, but we did find a herd of around 50 deer. Really neat so close to the city of Boise.

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I'm looking for resources for black University of California grad students with medical debt and financial hardship. We're familiar with emergency staff funds and most other things that can be Googled. Is this really how we treat our brightest future leaders? Please share.

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Ranunculus glaberrimus, Lomatium linearifolia, and Artemisia tridentata from my puppy's first hike today. Thanks also to my amazing from Amanda Savage for the keen eye for spotting flowers. #sagebrushsteppe #boise #idaho

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Please help spread the word: we have two open Field Technician positions in longleaf pine woodland restoration, with a project to develop and test predictive restoration models in South Carolina. Apply by 2/19/2024 www.brudviglab.com/post/we-have...

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If you’re annoyed by the NYT, please turn your attention to the Cal State system’s impending strike. 23 campuses that serve nearly 500,000 students will be on strike Jan. 22-26 demanding better pay, parental leave for a semester, and safer working conditions for queer and BIPOC faculty.

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Corpus study looking at the sentiment associated with the words “normal, “ordinary,” “average,” “reasonable,” etc. “Average” is sometimes used to say something positive, sometimes to say something negative. “Normal” is almost always positive philarchive.org/archive/BAUT...

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www.grubbinginthefilth.com/1454458/1420... Check our this podcast I was on with Grubbing in the Filth about counting migratory Western Momarch Butterflies in Los Angeles County, USA.

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Idea: The Christmas song by Wham! except all the lyrics are replaced by "meow".

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Toxicodendron rydbergii in a bed of fallen leaves, wood ducks chattering in the background, muskrat making rounds through the flooded ponds.

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Boise State University has a shortage of affordable housing, and low pay for graduate students. The best solution is simple, allow workers to collectivize. Given Idaho's anti-union laws, the next solution is to admit fewer graduate/undergraduate students, and pay us more money, we are a priority.

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We are recruiting new faculty at all levels to join the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. Please let me know if you have any questions and pass the advertisement along to anyone who might be interested. I am chairing this search. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...

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I have my first coauthored paper in review and someone cited the pre-print. I'm literally dying. Am I doing a science???? Is this how baby scientists grow up????

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Making memes is science communication, right? #scicomm

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My masters degree is getting burnt I have three papers Waiting in the oven for Me to just finish.

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Organized a queer nature hike and it was a lot of fun.

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I released my first ecology poetry zine today 😭

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And so my academic journey begins 😤

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How to be a Writer, #616: Open laptop Contemplate work in progress Contemplate approaching deadline of said work in progress Tidy sock drawer Wash dishes Dig garden Check social media Bake batch of coconut cookies Arrange sweaters by colour, size and thickness Go for little walk Close laptop Tea

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Do you ever get really into the original Startrek just to impress a boy, but then just find you're kind of obsessed with it?

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