University of Cincinnati alum, OSU PhD candidate | she/her 🏳️🌈
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Currently trying to decide whether it’s worth picking up a GIS cert while in my last couple years of my PhD in ecology & evolution. Any insight on this would be appreciated - esp industry, as I’m not interested in academia. #phdchat
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Funding Alert! 🚨
Field Inclusive is now offering a $500 Research Grant to support field work in the natural sciences! The application is open & can be downloaded at fieldinclusive.org/grants/. The deadline for this 1st grant is February 1, 2023.
Please share this far & wide!
ALT Graphic announcing new Research Grant. Available to those who 1) work in the natural resources, 2) do outdoor data collection, and 3) are part of a historically excluded group. $500. Deadline Feb. 1, 2023
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May we all be an incredibly fascinating species of moss.
source: instagram.com/worry__lines/
ALT Four panel comic that says: If you're not an early bloomer, or a late bloomer, you're probably some kind of super cool fern, or an incredibly fascinating species of moss. In each panel a cartoon person has a plant on their head.
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On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died.
Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization & more.
A THREAD
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Hey white people- your experience of having your name mispronounced or misspelled is not the same as a person of color having their name mispronounced or misspelled.
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Do you want to estimate traits from herbarium specimens without destroying them? Check out our 🌟 new paper 🌟, open access in @MethodsEcolEvol! link and 🧵 below 1/
ALT A dried birch specimen
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Puerto Rico never recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria (2017). Now, the island is completely flooded and without electricity again.
Please DO NOT DONATE to the Red Cross or FEMA. Instead, send support to trusted local organizations [THREAD]:
Check out my poster at tonight’s poster session! Will be sharing my findings regarding differences in germination characteristics in two bio types of giant ragweed! #ESA2022
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43 US-based Biology PhD programs, only 1 is paying a living wage.
ALT Dot plot of MIT living wage and annual salary, shows all but a single private non-land grant AAU university is paying below the minimum living wage.
rising gas prices, cost of living, inflation… grad students are already stretched thin and denied raises because “we actually pay you better than other universities”, mask mandates lifting….
I am so tired.
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I’ll be defending over zoom next Tues, Nov 16, 12-1 EST! DM me for the link 🌱
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Happy Pride bbs! Remember Pride started as a protest against police brutality and was led by Black and Brown women. 🌈
First year of PhD done and a paper I worked on came out today (from undergrad research). Kind of a killer day!
