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savanna ecologist & wildlife conservationist currently postdoc-ing it up at Cornell 🐘🐘🐘 Studying elephant movements at the intersection of conservation ecology, veterinary fencing, and biological simulations. she/her/hers. www.maggie.earth 🌈 💜🖤🤍
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Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

If anyone is interested in applying to this fellowship with me for fall 2026, please reach out! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... possible projects are related to #coral population genetics or host-symbiont interactions #fellowships #ecology #evolution #phdsky 🧪🌎

I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

Kudos to these scientists for sharing! I only just received an ADHD diagnosis, but looking back on my PhD, how could I not have known? I constantly procrastinated & then panic-finished analyses and writing in record time, all while fighting my brain to focus every single day. Exhausting.

"Making us less able to fight the biggest problem of the 21st century doesn't make anything more efficient and doesn't make anything great," Shiffman said. www.space.com/the-universe... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

We have been asked to circulate this for those interested. If you would like to show up to court in Syracuse on Tuesday to support Mr. Taal, please read below carefully and follow courtroom protocols.

Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers write in new filing

Oh this is beautiful and wondrous! A total lunar eclipse (seen from Earth) is a total solar eclipse seen from the moon. Here is the “diamond ring” of last night’s eclipse seen by Blue Ghost on the Moon! 🧪 www.flickr.com/photos/firef...

Excited to share our new study "Environmental health and societal wealth predict movement patterns of an urban carnivore"- out today in Ecology Letters! All about how social-ecological features influence coyote movement. (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… [📸 Johanna Turner] 🧪🌎

Annie Easley: Human #computer, master of #FORTRAN & #SOAP for #NASA. Developed code for energy-conversion, alternative power, battery tech for hybrid vehicles & Centaur rocket "If I can’t work with you, I will work around you" #BlackHistoryMonth #STEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #programming #coding

Absolutely disgusting. Please call your congresspeople. Fivecalls.org. I’ve decided to call every morning about various issues. This will be the top of my list tomorrow.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

New Job opening: Research scientist ecologist with the NY State Natural Heritage program. Responsible for various projects and tasks, the intriguing one to me is being the coordinator identifying old-growth forests: esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

As if “the economy” is separate from the clear need, including the ECONOMIC need, to address the #ClimateCrisis. This “false choice” framing is the most moronic argument an awful politician could make, and shame on any of us for falling for it. The massive costs of INACTION are already inescapable.

Global ocean temperatures set new record in 2024

AWESOME work by some incredible scientists. Papers like these that investigate how we think about and conduct our science are so important. Read, read, read it! Congrats to my grad school labmate Ren, @leafwarbler.bsky.social, and coauthors :)

"the closeness we have with a #language is not just a product of our ability to use it but of other emotional valences as well. If language is a form of identity, it is one that may be changed by circumstance or even by force of will." #bilingual #multilingualism www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/m...

Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

Lakay -animated short by Amarise Defranco www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbzJ... #haiti #Ayiti #animation

I'm Maggie! I'm a savanna ecologist currently studying how African elephants move around the landscape and respond to fences and roads. I use computation to aid conservation goals. 🧪🌎🐘

Spring ephemeral roundup - 1 Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) - 2 Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) - 3 Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) - 4 White Trillium (Trillium Grandiflorum). Did you know that bloodroot seeds are ant-dispersed (myrmecochory)? I love their clasping leaves.

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WOW I had never even considered the importance of headers in this way. Now we know!

Accomplishing something big like a PhD doesn't often end like you planned. Many discovered this during the pandemic, and I discovered it after an ER visit screwed up my defense plans. idk who needs to hear this, but: It might not end how you envisioned, but you did the thing, and that's enough. :)

I read two of the shoulda-been Hugo nominees who got McCarty’d out of their rightful spots: Upstart by Lu Ban clarkesworldmagazine.com/lu_12_22/ And Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles, by Yang Wanqing clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_11_22/ And now I want a Book Club to TALK ABOUT THESE.

it never fails to horrify me that we know each existing right whale by name www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

One of the AI content types I come across the most recently is generated images of pre photography era historical figures. 🧵

Absolutely this, and likewise block the "oh well, it's too late to do anything" crowd. Climate change is a dial, not a switch. Everything we do to turn down the ppm on atmospheric CO2 is a win that will save lives.

What a great feature! Everyone should go toggle "require alt text before posting" on under "Accessibility" in the Settings menu.

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Ooooh. This is good.

"Convincing the mind to prioritize access instead of as an afterthought is powerful shit." Because of Bluesky, I started to retrain myself starting with photos since I post lots of food pics. Before, adding ALT text was afterthought. Now it's the 1st thing I do, and I do it on all social platforms.

It's a great day to work at the freshly-endowed Cornell K Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health! What incredible news! news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

👏🏻gotta shout out those computer nerds that go hard on "hmm, that doesn't sound quite right, let me just fiddle around with the data for a sec..." 🤓

"It is crucial that new enthusiasm not take the form of “knowledge mining”... Collaborators intent on supporting Indigenous knowledge systems might instead listen, learn, and, if requested, contribute their own knowledge or resources to [Indigenous] communities."

Join us at the USGS Cooperative Research Unit at Clemson University! Excited to post this Fall 2024 PhD position buchholtzlab.weebly.com/join-us.html, using GIS and ABMs to help us understand how red wolves navigate the socio-environmental landscape. Priority deadline 25 Feb. #EcoECRcareer 🌎🧪

Good morning skyline ✨ Good morning especially to Namibia who told Germany to shut thee fuck up with supporting Israel because Germany inflicted genocide in Namibia killing 110'000 Herero and Nama people -this is known as the first genocide of the 21st century 😶 🇳🇦🇵🇸 www.bbc.com/news/world-a...