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This will literally be me in a couple months 😂 Better late than never, I say!

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Happy Valentine's Day! 🦀🩷 🐡 #invertebrate #crab #ValentinesDay

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Happy Crablentine's Day everyone. Calappa calappa x Phalaenopsis amabilis Coenobita rugosus x Macodes petola Paromola cuvieri x Paphiopedilum sanderianum Allogalathea elegans x Vanda suavis #Art #SciArt

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

G is for Geosesarma. Popular pets, some species were/are exploited by the aquarium trade before being described. Each has a small range in SE Asia, traversing freshwater and land. They hatch as minicrabs instead of larvae, and the mom keeps them safe for a few weeks! #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

📣POSTDOC wanted: We are looking for a marine ecologist to join our #kelp forest team at IMR in Norway 🌊🌿. The position is focused on impacts of harvesting on kelp and kelp forest #biodiversity. Enthusiasm, strong cv and interest in #fieldwork is required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🧪🦠 this thread has the letter I wrote to ASM about their removal of IDEAA websites, highlights of Black and other underrepresented scientists, and lack of information about the 2025 ABRCMS meeting in what looks like anticipatory obedience to the new administration. Subquoted thread has related info.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

ASM did a spotlight article on me last February and it has also been taken down as “under review”. Other spotlight articles are still up so not sure how else to interpret this besides the obvious. It feels pretty crappy to have been singled out and I won’t be engaging with them in the future.

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

Ok this is not ok. ASM actively sought out BMA and its members for Juneteenth and Black History month content for the last 4 years. Actively asked for black labor and then takes it down?! @asm.org this is unacceptable. You should be standing up for marginalized microbiologists not erasing them.

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This is absolutely unacceptable.

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This month, fight the horrors with #CrabAZ. B is for Birgus, the largest land invertebrate alive! It is a specialized hermit crab (they live in the ocean with shells when young). This one is about 15 years old, and will be released after 1 year in captivity - they can reach 60 years! 🦀🦑🧪

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

Black people have never needed a government to recognize our traditions and beliefs. #BlackHistoryMonth will proceed as planned.

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

submitted 27 days ago • 126 comments

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

The ACM$ is still down, and postdocs continue to receive cancelation notices for requests for funding. NSF has seemingly pushed through with their freeze on fund disbursement, even in spite of the court’s challenge and subsequent “unfreeze” announced yesterday.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

Ok, we've sent out emails to 198 NSF PRFBs telling them about potential need to pull in their funding for the year by 5 pm (but still check in with any you know). Thanks to all the folks who scoured the internet for their email addresses!

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Deleted, reposting to clarify: the NSF statement does not define "DEIA", I haven't used that term in the proposal for my current NSF project. I could guess what it means, but that's not my job. I would need to know what specific activities I'm not allowed to do before I change any plans.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 30 days ago • 1664 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 36 days ago • 941 comments

If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

submitted 37 days ago • 108 comments

Help the SciArt Feed 🐡 reach 20,000 subscribers! The intersection of art & science. No generative AI, no NFTs; a curated Feed of great art by skilled people. 🧡 Please share, pin & like today:

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

My husband lost his job today and it is so wild to me how impossible it is for a family to live in N. California on a postdoc’s salary alone. Feeling scared for our future (esp. with baby #2 OTW), and so upset that after all my years of training, I can’t even support my family with what I earn. 💔😔

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

Oof, this. 1000%. I don’t regret our timing for growing our family, but my goodness does it feel like I’m doing this academia thing on super hard mode right now! 🫣🫠 And I thought it was hard before!

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How often do you get to see SCAPHOPOD shells? This one was Dentalium elephantinum, presumably alluding to their tusk like appearance! #molluscmonday! #molluskmonday

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A BIG congrats to Victoria Watson-Zink from our lab and to my friend and collaborator @loranzierogers.bsky.social and all of the other incredible humans on this list!! @hhmi.bsky.social is lucky to have all of you rock star people!

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Meet the newly named hashtag#HannaGrayFellows! 👋 “HHMI is committed to investing in scientists who dare to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our lifetime,” said HHMI Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer @leslievosshall.bsky.social

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I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I was selected as one of the 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! 🎉🍾🎊🥳🦀 The support from this fellowship will be transformative for my career, and I am so excited to meet and learn from all the other fellows in my cohort and from previous years!!

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Congratulations to the 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Excited to see @watsonzink.bsky.social, @sashalfulton.bsky.social & @stevenssostre.bsky.social on the list! 🎉🎉🎉

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If you see this, quote-repost something blue 💙💙💙 Coconut crabs are Earth’s largest terrestrial arthropods! They have an incredible sense of smell, can live for ~60 years, and can crack bone with their claws! I’m finishing a paper on the genetic basis of their fantastic colors, so stay tuned!! 🦀🦑🌊

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

So extremely grateful to the selection committee (and thrilled that they enjoyed learning about crabs from me!!), everyone in my academic network that gave me feedback on drafts/practice talks, and my wonderful and supportive husband and daughter!! It takes a village, but we hit it big!!! 🙌🏽🦀🎉

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I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I was selected as one of the 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! 🎉🍾🎊🥳🦀 The support from this fellowship will be transformative for my career, and I am so excited to meet and learn from all the other fellows in my cohort and from previous years!!

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Today we're thrilled to announce our 2024 #HannaGrayFellows! Please join us in welcoming and celebrating these outstanding early career scientists!

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Please share! I am hiring a postdoc in Evolutionary Development to join our lab 🧪 🥼 🧬 recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01855 initial reviews begin Jan 31st (to be adjusted in the ad)

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Since it's both #Crustmas and #FossilFriday, let's talk about the earliest crabs 220-190 million years ago. Unfortunately only 3 fossil species known. Probably their ancestors were not fully crabby, making carcinization more remarkable 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... @franzanth.bsky.social

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