@gnriparian.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Virginia Tech studying invasive plants and bioacoustics on urban stream restoration projects🌿🐸🏳️🌈 she/her Website: gabriellenripa.weebly.com IG: @gabrielle_riparian
The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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@invder.bsky.social, @gnriparian.bsky.social, and Harrison Miles participated in Cocktails & Conversations at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Speakers discussed how climate change is affecting weeds, #invasiveplants, and #restoration in the D.C. area. It was an engaging and inspirational evening! 🌳🌱
11.06.2025 17:19 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
🌍🎨 Calling all artists! Submit your work to Ripples of Change, an immersive exhibit celebrating how communities are addressing global environmental challenges. Submissions due by May 23. All mediums welcome!
More Info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#GCCatVT #SteppinOutBlacksburg
🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This article articulates how I’ve been feeling recently. I’m about a year out from finishing my PhD and it’s hard to stay motivated when I don’t know what awaits me on the other side. My dream of a federal agency career is currently paused… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
25.02.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I want everyone to just take FIVE MINUTES, and take a look at this extremely well put together project 2025 tracker.
www.project2025.observer
We're less than a month in.
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
I’m learning how to make ginger beer from a local farm!
23.01.2025 13:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, I have the coordinates for all 20 paired sites. I’m in the early stages of analysis but would definitely consider some spatial component.
01.12.2024 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new article just came out about part of my dissertation research on how invasive plants could change the way environments sound! www.bayjournal.com/news/growth_...
22.11.2024 23:41 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Looking for a PhD student to work on a project that combines invasive species, restoration, rewilding, mega herbivores, conservation, and recreation.
#bioinvasions
