Kaysee Arrowsmith

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?

ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.

I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

At some point, local and state authorities in MN must, at the very least, detain these agents, otherwise they will keep murdering people with impunity. Speeches aren't going to protect the citizens they swore to serve.

Want to add some thoughts and prayers to this nothing? DO SOMETHING. ARREST THEM. CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD.

How much do you have to hate real Texas to do this to a “Senior Taco Editor at Texas Monthly”

Vance marvels at how much more “chaotic” operations have been here compared to even LA and Chicago, “It is unique to this city. What is it about Minneapolis that it has become so chaotic?”

Sir, maybe it is that you shot a woman in the face.”

Today’s psychotic bug girl vibes: sending an 8am email that just says “do you have any extra bee legs that I can have?”

The UC PPFP inspired a bunch of other fellowships at other major universities so this isn’t just a California thing either.

For context, I applied for this and it was my best hope of being able to keep doing my research while I’m living in San Diego so this is pretty devastating.

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

Ok so yes, amazing news from Election Day, but the horrors continue www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Omg

#BatWeek continues with IOB co author
Flo Visconti
whose thesis topic is Untangling the #olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit #bat
faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wor...
& Flo co authored
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#biologists #science #research

Hey that’s me! 🧪🌎🐝

🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd

@blancaac.bsky.social

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition This paper presents novel research that empirically demonstrates a direct link between temperature and plant–pollinator interaction patterns, independently of changes to community composition in eith...

My paper on how daily temperature variation influences pollinator foraging preference is finally out! Spoiler alert, pollinators seem to like different food when it’s warm and cold. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

Really going all-out for my lab meeting presentation today

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

One of my favorite parts of writing scientific papers is letting my English major husband read them and circle all the things that aren’t real words and then ignoring all his flags. Currently getting the most flak for “subset” as a verb.

I’m at the listening-to-old-episodes-of-car-talk stage of my depression.

an email from the society for integrative and comparative biology that reads "Attn SICB Members: The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science."

This is how you do it.

Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

Three Austin police department SUVs on the sidewalk with things on the hood of one

Close up of cop cars on sidewalk.

AND three cop cars fully on the sidewalk with someone’s entire backpack out on their hood? Why is today

And probably won’t have to explain any decisions. Wonder if there will be particular universities that get targeted

Also not the point but as good a time as any to laugh at ACM$ where the $ is an S and stands for System but is also officially a dollar sign. It’s so 90s.

I want to believe that NSF/everyone talking about grant freezes is thinking in terms of worst case scenarios but like……hard not to feel like my fellowship is just getting a second random review for no apparent reason and with a new rubric that no one really gets or knows why it’s a thing?

Oh no I didn’t even think about this part of it yet! Cool cool cool cool cool

Rough burn from the Office of Postdoc Affairs this morning

Major professional accomplishment: I need a second bookcase for my science books!