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kristalerista.bsky.social

Researching why legless lizards and snakes don't have feet. (She/her) 😷 convergent evolution, paleontology, ADHD, disability rights, grants, whatever my hyperfixation is this week. kkoeller3115.wixsite.com/kristakoeller https://twitter.com/KristaLerista

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Ok but can we talk about those amazing hazmat space suits? I would get BSL 4 pathogen clearance to chest bump a spacesuit buddy.

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sigh I put together a newsletter of upcoming federal grant opportunities and in the time between when I made my draft and today, all but one has been removed.

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Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting specific, clear examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

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Is more money in your pocket freedom? Or is freedom being able to easily travel to another state in a car, send a letter from a rural town, and not having to worry about surprise storms or contaminated food?

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For your consideration: Lizard Spood (Rhomphaea fictilium) Many creatures have a prehensile tail, but this creature is probably well on her evolutionary way to realizing she can grab things with her ass

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Oh man it’s Friday.

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My friends, I have terrible news. I’ve written an academic paper about Bluesky and why it’s great for scientists Reviewers liked it and it got minor revisions But a peer reviewer requested that I remove my brief aside about ALF’s alien boy bits (as an example of the quirky culture here)

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Legendary hater Charles Darwin

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@science.org just published this article about the Paleontological Research Institution and its importance in this time of financial crisis for the institution. Please share widely as donations in any amount can make a real difference in the short-medium term. ⚒️🧪🦑 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Go home everyone, there is absolutely nothing happening here. .... 😍 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 (Photo by Andreas Kay)

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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

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Something that’s been helping my mental health a lot lately has been thinking historically. I’ve been re-listening to the podcast Presidential, a series of 45 minute biographies on each president. I’ve also been writing a journal basically as a long letter to a person living 100 years from now.

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ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU

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Khajiit has wares if you have treats.

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🚨Postdoc job offer!🚨 We are currently looking for a climate modeler to work with us at @climatecerege.bsky.social on Eocene climate simulations, to investigate the past connectivity of forested ecosystems and the mechanisms of primates dispersal. Job ad here: nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/PSdj4ns2SE...

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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A crab on its way to being a worm.

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I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/

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One of my former coworkers who left in December to work at NIH just got a termination notice this morning.

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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

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Here are a few fancy moths to brighten your day. These are all tiger moths - (Hyperthaema sp.), (Bernathonomus sp.), (Amaxia sp.) #Inverts #MothMonday Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

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something really rubs me the wrong way about how every post about a federal employee getting purged is filled with comments about how an internet rando wants to know how the given employee voted. like, it's bad no matter who they voted for?

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