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I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.

I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

She knew exactly what was coming....

Mostly local consignment/thrift stores. But I've had an eye on Fair Indigo for a while. They're on the pricey end but have some pretty patterns.

Suppose you are a philanthropic foundation committed to supporting US science.

Under Trump, science is suffering an existential crisis—so ROI right now is way higher than before. Moreover, the human capital and infrastructure you were counting on for future investments will be gone.

What to do?

Come the fuck ON, @hhmi.org! You have money and you have lawyers.

"Look for private foundation funding..."

This statement did not age well

Just got news that @hhmi.org decided to not review Hanna Gray fellowship applications. I am sorry but that’s fucked up. People spent months working in those. So now you disadvantaged these candidates even more. They could have used the time to advance their research instead.

"Pause all competitons..." is something I missed on my first read through that someone pointed out to me and...👀👀👀

Tom Senya GIF Alt: Mr. Rogers putting on a clown mask GIF

We're driven by our values to promote inclusion in the academy but ya know, only as far as it's cool with those up top and our tax exempt status isn't at risk...

Now that I have a "not discussed" with a pretty disappointing summary statement, I can only hope that "the world was on fire and NIH haywire" is a valid excuse to extend my ESI status to whenever *checks calendar* all of this *waves hands around* has passed us by...

I don’t think cis people understand the amount of pressure and coercion trans people face to not come out, to not transition. How swiftly and strictly gender is policed. How something as simple as listening to a song, a line of eyeliner, playing with the wrong toy meets stern correction.

The scene with the dad talking about how cool his daughter is for knowing herself that way at such a young age, and then we cut to Jen Richards saying how it wasn't just that she had never experienced that, she had never imagined that for herself ALWAYS BREAKS ME

I must once again repeat: CONTACT 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 OFFICE 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 SPONSORED 👏🏽 PROJECTS 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 FIND 👏🏽 OUT 👏🏽 HOW 👏🏽 TO 👏🏽 INITIATE 👏🏽 AN 👏🏽APPEAL 👏🏽

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world.

I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society.

There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

When you're writing the intro to a paper but you start going off so you keep going even though you know it will likely get edited at a later stage 😆

Dr. Felicity Ender's work on Population Conscious Analysis at #ACTS2025 is some of the most brilliant work I've heard at a conference. ICREDIBLY excited for the paper

a group of purple and yellow worms with the words me and my mutuals written above them Alt: GIF of rubber ducky ispods congregating around food with the words "me and my mutuals" above them

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One of us...one of us 💜

One of the best things about our local is that it's a staff and faculty union and it really helps break down the cultural hierarchies that thrive in the ivory tower

and staff...there are many of us too that make these places run💜

🙏🏼I applied the bullshit machines rule for my first time ever use of GenAI "tip of my tongue but can't recall it..." and it yielded bullshit...lol human brains for the win. Thank you!

@carlbergstrom.com a few years ago you posted about a study that looked at expert knowledge of standard deviation and SEM and how this affected interpretation of effect size. A preprint at the time. Can't find it now 😭my first and only attempt at using ChatGPT only yielded hallucinations. Help?

Second time around watching the Buest Guess music video by Lucy Dacus and yet again it has me blushing and smiling 🥰 Go watch it if you want some queer joy in your life

A month off social media did wonders for my mental health...huh🧐

The fact that federal funding for biomedical work is a huge part of the economy of and in many cases saved cities in deep red states that lost e.g. former manufacturing industries, feels like a story we gotta tell more

These grants survived intense scientific competition and scrutiny by expert peer scientists. It’s a sham to suggest they are unworthy. Pure bigotry to revoke them.