Kat Sullivan

Photo of a smiling woman at a restaurant with an enormous pitcher of Bloody Mary. Inside the pitcher are vegetables, cheese curds, and an entire chicken!

Photo of 7 people around a table at a restaurant.

Some good news, @ecokatsully.bsky.social successfully defended her dissertation. The lab celebrated with a Milwaukee specialty, an enormous Bloody Mary with, among other things, an entire fried chicken garnish - a drink/meal known as the ‘Bloody Beast’.
Congratulations, Dr Sullivan!! 🧪

I will be defending my dissertation “Community based approaches to characterizing biodiversity for conservation action” on July 17th at 11am CDT! If you are interested in the link let me know!

The summer fight for science. The time is now. Join the fight at standupforscience.net.

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️

🫵 WHO: You + all our friends

🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.

🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community

🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th

🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

Announcement from iDigBio indicating BioDigiCon 2025 in DC wil be canceled due to current funding uncertainties

Just saw this on the other site. Not good. We must preserve, protect, and advocate for biological collections and the museums who care for them

A map of USA states plotting the percent of funding lost that came from STEM and SBE directorates. Most states are coloured orange and red, indicating that more than 70% of funding lost was related to STEM and SBE.

Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data.

Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration.

I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out

jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0...

I feel seen

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Seeing so many of these as postdoctoral fellowships is so disheartening. The research budgets are minuscule but having a fully funded salary abruptly terminated is horrifying.

RIP my research career 😞

Tax Day next up: NSF!
🛰️ $40 a year. That’s what the average U.S. taxpayer pays annually to fund the National Science Foundation.

💡 Science isn’t luxury - it’s infrastructure.
From disaster prediction to cybersecurity to the tech in your phone, NSF powers the systems that keep society running.

Had the pleasure of taking part of MPM's (@mkepublicmuseum.bsky.social) Inside out event tonight! Interacting with my community and sharing our cool bee science lights a fire underneath me. These interactions are why I do the science I do. To see the awe and wonder on people's faces.

nsf webpage showing the STEMEd postdoctoral research fellowship program has been archived

I had hope that this program (which is only 2 years old) had somehow skated through, but alas. Anybody have ideas for what this means for my proposal which was submitted in December and I think possibly reviewed already? #nsf #stemed #postdoc

Wisconsinites! If you are a scientist, love a scientist, or benefit from science - we need YOU! Join us on March 7th as we #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

In totally random news I am on the postdoc market!! I’m finishing my PhD this spring at Marquette U in evolutionary ecology. Interested in working in natural history collections, conservation, and participatory science 😊

EO: "the immutable biological reality of sex"

Biological reality:

And as soon as you figured it out it came back 🙃

I love this @inaturalist.bsky.social year in review!! Great way to see all the contributions that are made on this platform 🤗