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iowan, eph, tubist, really likes fossils 🦻🏻🏳️‍🌈 she/her conservation paleobiology @ uc davis & bodega marine lab #landback
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🎉That's a wrap on @ccst.us Science & Technology Week 2025! As we move into an era of pervasive challenges and imperative opportunities in evidence-based policy, I'm energized and inspired by the passion, expertise, and determination everyone contributed. Thanks to all who made #CCSTweek a success.

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Hello everyone! Pal(a)eoPERCS is now on Bluesky. If you already know us, we welcome you to our new account! If you are not familiar with us, Pal(a)eoPERCS is a virtual seminar series designed to showcase the research of Early Career Researchers in paleosciences 🌎🦖🔬🦴🦠. Find out more at paleopercs.com

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Science Communicators Assemble! We're thrilled to welcome these talented grad students and postdocs from across California to the State Capitol. They'll use their CCST #SciComm training to share their science with state policymakers. #SciPol #CAleg #CCSTshowcase Sponsor: @eleniforca.bsky.social

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Here’s a giant oyster from the Miocene with scars to prove how tough it is #fossilfriday

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Happy #fossilfriday from the Holocene with this wild Serripes preservation!

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I am one misinterpreted-graph-due-to-paleoclimatologists-flipping-the-x-axis away from LOSING it

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#fossilfriday New Year’s resolution: keep a log of all the weird brands that show up when I search bivalve evo/anatomical terminology

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When I’m in an airport I lose all sense of place and time. Are you going home? Is this your final destination? Are you from here? I don’t know, I exist outside the confines of this dimensionality

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I'm looking for someone to sub for me in an orchestra and I was relieved to find the email address for Dave, a Sacramento area tuba player... until I emailed him and realized this was the wrong Sacramento area tuba-playing Dave. 🙃

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

bracing myself to read my first-ever course evals feels like this youtu.be/xA89_ly-Uyw?...

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realizing that I've lived in a number of places with names that automatically linguistically indicate if you're a local: colorado, louisville (CO), des moines, sacramento. but i pronounce all of them like a local! i am a dialectal (and dialectical) mystery!!

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sooo true bestie. go ephs!!! 🐮

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

A small but mighty list of voices in fisheries conservation, from all sides of the conversation. Add your name please if I missed you and you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/Hmu7tpm

submitted 95 days ago • 29 comments

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

submitted 88 days ago • 201 comments

We have started a second Starter Pack - if you are LGBTQ+ in STEM and want to be in it do let us know #QueerinSTEM go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ

submitted 103 days ago • 94 comments

Hello Bluesky! I’m a PhD student at UC Davis EPS & Bodega Marine Lab applying paleobiology to North American west coast bivalve conservation & restoration, especially the Olympia oyster. Passionate about education, community-based work, and Indigenous rights. And I play tuba!

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

thanks google, this really helps me teach graptolite morphology

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder that we have a Starter Pack for researchers in Plaeo-related fields (oceanography, environment, climate, etc.) If you are interested in how our planet has changed over time - you should follow them. 🧪⚒️ bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 148 days ago • 6 comments

#LGBTQInSTEM day isn’t over yet! Here’s a starter pack of LGBTQIA+ graduate students (PhD & MS) in marine science! 🌊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ It’s so important to build microcommunities! They can provide support from others at the same career stage who hold similar identities. Comment if you’d like to be added! 🧪🧬

submitted 100 days ago • 10 comments

Because of popular demand we have now a number II Conservation Science starter pack since the first one is full since a while 🙃. If you are not yet on the first one, pass me message. I preferentially add folks with clear conservation research focus in profile and skeets. go.bsky.app/9RdjmCX

submitted 94 days ago • 60 comments

Join the conversation on Marine Ecology here. Topics on monitoring, assessment, protection, conservation, restoration and management go.bsky.app/4PTX62K

submitted 102 days ago • 92 comments

a taste of new england autumn hidden in california! — Sacramento, City of Trees 🍂

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Hey procrastinators. Advent starts in about a week. Did you get an advent calendar yet?? These will give you a frog fact every day of advent. You scratch off the sparkles to reveal facts! Bonus? Sales support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

Ok, I’m loving the starter packs! This one is for women (inclusively defined) in Ocean Science. You need more ocean 🌊 in your feed! Follow these folks. If you would like to be added please just let me know 👋 … if I forgot you, please don’t be offended, it was an accident! go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

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