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Liz McAlpine

@turtleturtleturtle.bsky.social

Graduate student at Penn State University researching heat tolerance and thermal adaptation in turtles. 🦎 Herpetologist accidentally studying trees 🌲

114 Followers  |  300 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 22.11.2023  |  1.6181

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Tonight I’m appreciating the beauty of a black man breaking the speaking record previously set by an old white man trying to prevent racial equality.

#Corybooker #senate @booker.senate.gov

02.04.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille UniversitΓ© ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille UniversitΓ© In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...

We predicted this, but universities outside the United States are already offering refuge to scientists whose research is under attack in this new era of devaluation of #science.

I, for one, will be happy to take them up on their offer.

www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

06.03.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People like him. He’s rich and people in this country worship wealth.

With the hitler salutes and destroying the government and all, it’s gone out of style to admit they worship him, so his fans pretend to not like him while continuing to lick his boots.

16.02.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Link to profiles please, I know @altnps.bsky.social is on Blue Sky but I haven’t seen the others.

15.02.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Facebook Purity is an extension that blocks FB ads and lets you control your content. It’s not available on your phone but it’s a start.

12.02.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

See? Effective.

10.02.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shrews. They are quite agressive and no one expects an angry airborn shrew. They also breed a lot so you’ll have an endless supply.

Convenient and affordable.

10.02.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Under this ice is a sleeping turtle. He will sleep until spring. Then he will wake up and take a long nap in the sun.

Democracies will rise and fall. My turtles just keep doing turtle things.

My turtles are zen and I should be more like them.

07.02.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve resigned myself to having to leave the country when I finish grad school. I don’t see any chance of finding a job in this country.

29.01.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When things get bad there’s always a solution.

28.01.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...

#ICE is stopping people in State College, Pennsylvania today. They are outside graduate housing and grocery stores.

If this is happening in your town, print and distribute some of these and help keep each other safe.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

#statecollege

27.01.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yep. I give you Penn State’s non-response.

25.01.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a #climate #scientist and grad student stuck in this country for a few more years… I am very stressed.

However, they will not stop me from my work and they will not silence me. That’s really all we can do right now.

21.01.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re all very stressed. We will get through this together somehow.

21.01.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#TikTok has gone dark. I appreciate the subtle message to Trump.

19.01.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are the most majestic of fish.

17.01.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I look at turtles every day.

Every. Day.

Yet I am still fascinated that they don’t live IN their shell, they ARE their shell.

How weird is that??

15.01.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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