Dr. Heidi 🌏📚🎓

3 days after a positive COVID test, 2 days after an ER visit & finally getting necessary meds, I feel almost human again. Well, at least my asthma is now responding to meds

I did avoid the virus for 5 years so I knew my luck would run out eventually. I guess no covid shot for a couple months then 🤷🏻‍♀️

***Should read “myself AND our lab manager” (I have been the lab manager in the past but the last several years I have been the science department lead)

Screenshot of the “about” page of our new campus, with photo showing the front of the building with students.

New science lab looking towards the lab workspace, corrosive cabinet, fridge and fire extinguisher/fire blanket, plus the window overlooking the library.

Another view of lab looking the opposite direction showing cabinets containing lab kits, kitchen/cleaning supplies, microscopes, and other equipment.

New semester, new campus, but I survived the first week of fall semester! The new campus is taking a little to get used to including working out some HVAC and tech issues, but I’m excited about our new science lab that myself, our lab manager (with some help) set up from scratch!
#edusky #teaching

Biology teachers check out this cool bacteria- what a great example to use when teaching cellular respiration!
#Edusky. 🧬🍎

Gray cat Singa looking longingly through the window screen at the overgrown patio

Gray cat Singa glaring at me for interrupting her “Cat TV”

Cat Tv at my place: watching lizards run across my overgrown patio 😂🐱🦎 #cats #cattv

Gray kitten and black kitten hanging out

Black cat and gray cat hanging out.

My cats are 9 years old! 😻 #cats #crazycatlady

Also my cats. If you hadn’t noticed.

EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations Lee Zeldin said he will reconsider a list of core EPA policies, including emissions standards for vehicles and the finding that serves as the basis for addressing climate change.

As long as I live, I will never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion-dollar corporations to dump poison in the water my children drink” became popular politics with half the country.

www.nbcnews.com/science/envi... 🌎🧪

Wait until you find out that the United States has deported dozens of American citizens in the last decade. 70 between 2015 and 2020. And that was when he wasn’t trying.

Oh and I’m an attorney too. This is just factually incorrect.

A US judge blocks the deportation of Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil and sets a hearing for Wednesday after his arrest over protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gt5ocf

The cruelty is the point. This administration DOES NOT CARE about anyone but themselves and wealth. It’s disgusting.

I spent many decades working to make things better in my field (I started college in the early 90s and got my PhD in 2017) and IT DIDN’T GET BETTER. I just didn’t have enough stamina left to continue. My one regret is that I couldn’t make a difference for those who came after me.

Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club The Earth and space sciences, like many STEM fields, have long been dominated by a narrow vision of who belongs. But the tide is turning. A 2023 workplace climate survey of Earth and space scientists ...

In case anyone is wondering why I left the field after getting my PhD.

“And let’s be clear—this isn’t a case of “not being tough enough.” It’s a case of not wanting to endure unnecessary hostility in a field that should be driven by curiosity and collaboration, not gatekeeping.”

Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.

This news truly breaks my heart.

We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!

abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

This is not good. 😬 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra.

I have a Mabel.

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Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only

Young people are constantly confronted by divisive messages, hate and disinformation – and it's on adults to help them build resilience 📣.

Learning For Justice's #ResistingHateInEducation series offers resources and strategies to help 📲: www.learningforjustice.org/the-learning...

I don’t know. They’re litter mates but fathers are unknown. She is very affectionate but so is her sister.

One gray kitty and one black kitty “loafing” and judging you.

While I need to keep updated about the state of the country, posts on social are not good for my mental health.

So if I don’t react to something important you posted, it’s not that I don’t care, it’s because I need to protect myself mental health.

(Kitty pic to break up your doomscrolling) 😽💜

Supporting Transgender People | A4TE Learning to be an ally to the transgender people in your life, or to transgender people overall, is an ongoing process.

Ally is a verb. transequality.org/trans-101/su...

I always check with stuff like this, and yup. It's listed this way on Maps.

It’s a bias machine , that systemically punishes deviation that’s what it’s designed to do

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

We’re not just getting to a dystopia. We’ve been in a dystopia. The warnings in all your favorites aren’t about the future. They’ve always been about what we’re doing in the moment, so maybe we’ll actually look at what’s happening instead of just shrugging at the news.

Black History is World History

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article) The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

“nobody saw this coming” = “we considered everyone who saw this coming a nobody”