Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️

Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.

If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.

But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.

I asked in faculty meeting "who has had a student ask whether they are qualified to teach the subject of the class?" The women raised their hands, none of the white men did. It's definitely a sexism and racism thing. A male student laughed in class bc he thought I was using a word wrong! I wasn't.

‘You Are Never Alone’ | How One Tribe Is Fighting Youth Suicide With Culture and Crisis Response BELLINGHAM, Wash. — On a summer night in 2019 near where the Salish Sea hugs the lands of the Lummi Nation reservation, 17-year-old Merandalee Jones was given a choice by the police: go home with her...

The Lummi Nation’s youth suicide prevention combines crisis intervention with cultural reconnection — monthly Coastal Jams, canoe pulling, and youth council programs that give young people a voice and a sense of belonging. A model adopted by 5 tribes in Wash. nativenewsonline.net/health/you-a...

I had a hamburger pizza with French fries on it once. Only once, bc there were so many things I didn't like about it....but I think it could be done well!

I love these fat stinky parrots and their total lack of survival instinct

A Fateful Flourish, photo by me of a Sandhill Crane triumphantly throwing its wings and head back

My despair-fighting deed of the day: donated an exhibition piece to an awesome Ypsi therapist office / health community hub, because everyone deserves some wild wonder when they're going through it!

A Fateful Flourish 🪶

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I didn't even know about the "China Initiative". This is horrifying. The lives and careers that the Trump administrations have, and are, destroying... Sue Northwestern. Sue the US government for the "China Initiative". That is pure racism.

Warning: sensitive topic- suicide.

Sepsis from a tooth infection should be a never happen event in a government run prison system.

That these prisons are private almost ensures that the prisons are cutting back on services and resources. But even then, a situation such as this was entirely preventable.

This is absolutely criminal.

One worked for the railroad in Wisconsin, the other built dog sled and was a subsistence hunter and fisherman.

Family sues after researcher's death, alleging university's probe led to suicide The suicide of a Chinese American cancer researcher has raised painful questions over alleged discrimination against Asian scientists in the U.S.

Adding the Chinese Initiative to my list of exclusionary actions that Universities have taken against racialized people. This is just devastating. TW suicide

www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

The Fight for the Heart of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - bioGraphic One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.

Like other federal agencies that deal in science, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been through the Trump administration wringer. Amidst the chaos, some former employees are trying to protect scientific integrity from future political assault.

By @madelinevo.bsky.social

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie's Fish Call

Yes!

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Moarrr microbiology/microbiome colouring resources! I've finally adapted the colouring book I designed nearly 10 years ago into handy outreach style colouring sheets...
#sciart #scicomm #microbiology 🧪

This video - without a neighbor’s generator going in the background- is 💯x better.

If anyone else is helping aging parents with the taxes, please know that this year you MUST pay electronically. This will require creating an account with the IRS that involves multiple back and forths between a computer, your phone, taking photos of yourself and your ID. The confusion is high.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

Olympic Drosophilist, y’all!!! 🪰 I’m suddenly interested in skiing!

There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.

I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

Stand Up for Science rally poster March 7th, 1:00 PM at Allegheny Landing in Pittsburgh.

Very excited to be speaking at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

I am speaking just prior to Dr. Rachel Levine

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Fshshshshshsh is what I say when I ask people what a fish with no i's is called

ICB Art in Bio blog-
Will Hooker, #PhD shares his thoughts about how #art and #science are related and/or foster each other:

read in full (once there, scroll down to Will's)

integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/fine-art-ame...

see
revconcepts.weebly.com

#paleontology #fossils

What we know about the U.S. service members killed in the Iran war Six U.S. service members are reported to have been killed in Iranian counterattacks. Four died in a drone strike against a port in Kuwait, the military said.

Old enough to remember the last time a bunch of old reservists got killed in an illegal war

From L-R:

Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39

Spc. Declan J. Coady, 20

Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42

Vaccine effectiveness of a bivalent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) pre-F vaccine against RSV-associated hospital admission among adults aged 75–79 years in England: a multicentre, test-negative, ca... This study provides evidence that the RSV pre-F vaccine is highly effective against RSV-associated hospital admissions, including exacerbations of chronic disease, and in adults with immunosuppression...

In 75-79 year olds in UK, the RSV Pre-F vaccine remains highly effective in the real world. 82.3% vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization due to RSV-associated acute respiratory infection and 86.7% effectiveness against severe disease requiring oxygen
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As the sun creeps over the horizon over trees, a gathering of goats in the meadow.

Lil z stands proud as the sun rises

Black Knight gazes longingly at the camera. Hoping for a morning snack

Morning glory knows a secret.

Morning goats.

Fisheeees is the happiness I squeal when watching said fishes in aquaria or in the wild, whether one species or more.

Now that the sun is out, so much ice is thawing & falling out of the trees, it looks & sounds like medium-heavy rain. Yay, I guess?

A display with portraits of Black women who are leaders in Afrofuturism, books by Black authors about sci-fi and Afrofuturism, and albums by Black artists about Afrofuturism

I love the SFO airport. How beautiful is this Afrofuturism exhibit?

A display with portraits of Black women who are leaders in Afrofuturism, books by Black authors about sci-fi and Afrofuturism, and albums by Black artists about Afrofuturism

I love the SFO airport. How beautiful is this Afrofuturism exhibit?