@tglevinson.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist working to promote youth thriving while we save wildlife + our planet 🌎 I research environmental anxiety, self-efficacy, belonging & career development 🌱 Curatorial Science Fellow at Wildlife Conservation Society. Views my own.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
27.01.2026 14:47 — 👍 8026 🔁 1937 💬 75 📌 61(Also, I know now that Mort in the Madagascar movies is a mouse lemur not a slow loris. But I didn't know that at the time!)
22.01.2026 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1I watched all four Madagascar movies to prepare for my postdoc interview at the Bronx/Central Park Zoos. Today, I got to do journal club + talk stats while @shulirank.bsky.social and I looked at a baby pygmy slow loris. Just a reminder that dreams do come true. 🥰
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Overview: The WCS Career Lattice supports young people using a three-pronged approach. Connect and recruit local youth for career opportunities through outreach and partnerships. Develop their knowledge and skills through hands-on work experiences, professional development, and mentorship. Advance their careers through leadership training and tiered professional opportunities. Image of supervisor training three interns on penguin feeding.
Excited to share the @wcs.org Career Lattice report for 2025. The WCS Career Lattice supported 1900+ youth in volunteer, internship, and early career experiences across our NYC zoos and aquarium. We're proud to launch hundreds of careers in STEM, conservation, and more wcs.education/Interim-Latt...
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Everyone asks me: Did climate change burn down your town? No, but climate change intensified the fire that did.
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The 10th Annual WCS Youth JIVE (Job, Internship & Volunteering Expo) will be held on Saturday, February 7, at the Bronx Zoo.
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
“reflexive qualitative research is a distinctly human practice, undertaken by humans, with or about humans (e.g., through interviews, focus groups or textual data), and for the benefit of humans.”
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For more info on the WCS Career Lattice: bronxzoo.com/learn/youth
11.12.2025 19:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love working in #AltAc, and so much of that is because of these collaborative partnerships. Informal conversations over lunch lead to research questions. Shared office spaces lead to collaborative data collection. We naturally collect mixed-methods data, and our work has impact in real time.
11.12.2025 19:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Integrating DBR into our practice helps us better evaluate programs, iterate and improve our work, and conduct high quality research. We've used this process with our Career Lattice programs, where we serve 1900+ youth every year while researching mentoring, conservation, and STEM identity.
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New #open-access paper from our team @wcs.org Education. We talk about why cultural institutions are the ideal place to study informal learning and youth development, and how collaboration between internal research and practice teams sets us up for successful design-based research (DBR) practices.
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