Alys Jarvela PhD
@amazingspidermom.bsky.social
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A scientist studying insect-host plant interactions and a gardener working to preserve biodiversity
I'm an entomologist with Italian heritage. My brain IS full of spiders and I DO have garlic in my soul.
about 1 month ago
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Mourning a box turtle that I found on a hike and took to a wildlife rehab center. He didn't respond to antibiotics treatment and passed away after a week in care. I am grateful to the professionals who do their best. They do not receive govt funding so please donate to a center near you.
3 months ago
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I'm giving a lunchtime presentation at work on monarch fall migration and my six year old says "that sounds like a nice lil' treat.... For YOU"
4 months ago
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Dr. Kara M. Million
5 months ago
You heard the squid emperor, everyone. Leave those leaves!
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
5 months ago
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community,
@flybase.bsky.social
, is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n đ§Ș please share
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is
6 months ago
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Child- can you send that caterpillar picture to my mom so she can send it to Miss Alys and ask what it is? Me- ......I am Miss Alys.....
6 months ago
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Harmit Singh Malik
7 months ago
One thing to emphasize strongly is that funding to science is like oxygen to the brain. Temporarily restricting oxygen flow for ten minutes (while you figure your shit out) is going to have the same outcome as shutting oxygen off permanently. We are close to the ten minute mark.
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Multiple ebony jewelwing sightings today đ
8 months ago
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www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
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Open Letter in Support of Science â STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
https://www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-in-support-of-science?_gl=1*zvl5kr*_ga*MzI2OTU0MTU5LjE3NDk3MzI1NTE.*_ga_GD376CM0GB*czE3NTAyNjIwNTMkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTAyNjI2MDAkajYwJGwwJGgxNzM0OTIyOA.
8 months ago
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It turns out I still don't really know any Japanese after a whole year
8 months ago
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Elsevier sent me a survey asking "what parts of scientific inquiry should we offload onto AI?" This included deciding which scientific questions to pursue. I can't imagine a bleaker future than one where science is not driven by human curiosity but is simply humans executing the vision of computers
8 months ago
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My garden is my small act of rebellion where I find a bit of hope these days
8 months ago
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NY Times Pitchbot
8 months ago
With war spreading through the world, Trumpâs plan to use the US Army exclusively against American protesters is looking savvier by the day.
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
8 months ago
The new leadership of NIH is dismantling long standing biomedical science programs & putting in their place scientifically questionable ideas. A courageous group of current NIH employees pushed back, publishing âThe Bethesda Declarationâ 1/2
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Bethesda Declaration â STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
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Happy birthday to these little scamps who are eating all of my dill even though I have tons and tons of zizia
8 months ago
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This lady comes for breakfast every morning and it's the best
8 months ago
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Jacquelyn Gill
8 months ago
The US scientific enterprise is about to collapse unless we do something about it.
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So exciting!!! Snowberry clearwing caterpillars at my little lepidopteran b&b
9 months ago
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Let the brain drain begin!
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed
The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional ...
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/increased-erc-funding-top-global-researchers-moving-europe-now-confirmed
9 months ago
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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
9 months ago
May 18 is the deadline for
#PublicComment
regarding weakening the
#EndangeredSpeciesAct
by redefining harm to
#wildlife
(
#animals
&
#plants
) as NOT including destruction of habitat. Please comment at
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FW...
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#EndangeredSpecies
#extinction
#NativePlants
RS OK
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What a treat to spend a work day behind the scenes learning plant propagation tricks at the national arboretum
9 months ago
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Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP)
10 months ago
Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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Today I was cautioned to not use the word 'asexual' to describe a hydra (cnidarian) in a public school classroom and wow this is all going to get so much worse before it gets better
10 months ago
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Andy McKay
10 months ago
The IUCN Red List has 47,187 living species that are currently threatened with extinction, but here is a genetically engineered big dumb wolf thing that serves absolutely no functional ecological purpose and isn't even close to being the thing that we pretend it is. đ§Șđ
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Didn't know there was a trout-lily miner bee before today, but it was a thrill to discover it
10 months ago
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11 months ago
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Gonna end some garlic mustard with my new friend
11 months ago
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Gerry Canavan
11 months ago
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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Field season is coming
11 months ago
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Alt NIH Bluesky đ§Ș
11 months ago
Take it from people inside
#NIH
: If we donât shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead. Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. đ§Ș
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Harmit Singh Malik
11 months ago
CDC plans to waste time and taxpayersâ money chasing windmills in the midst of one raging epidemic (and on the precipice of several others) that would not have existed except for people who claimed fraudulently there was such a link in the first place (which there isnât) Bit longer headline butâŠ
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Worms in labs not in brains
#standupforscience2025
11 months ago
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Stand Up for Science!
11 months ago
"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
11 months ago
Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.
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11 months ago
Clear cutting forests, raw sewage in the water, destroyed education department, defunded scientific research, forbidden communication between health authorities. These people hate America.
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Join the nerds in fighting fascism this Friday!
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11 months ago
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For World Wildlife Day, I'll be speaking to a girl scout group about pollinator habitat and will get them planting VA native wildflowers
11 months ago
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Harmit Singh Malik
11 months ago
Many US students donât know how to seek opportunities outside the US. With some help from our colleagues in EU and Canada, we could put together a consolidated website of PhD opportunities and scholarships outside the US, organized by field. There might still be time for this year in some places.
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Brian Magurn
11 months ago
www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-lates...
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DOGEâs Latest Cut: Glenn Youngkinâs Balls
And the Virginia governor is not the only one sacrificing self-respect. Take a look at what the U.S. did at the U.N. yesterday.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-latest-cut-youngkin-balls-jobs-winsome-sears?fbclid=IwY2xjawIvLBxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVf_gkSH2XNCFE3UucfOrHwJaPWDq9GMkvia6e8jwpfv56s6zmymfedY9A_aem_-PNdpE8psGxhyGI2viPNSQ&sfnsn=mo
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Oh can we please fill this horrible thing with loads of worthless garbage?
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11 months ago
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NPR
11 months ago
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311972/economic-blackout-february-28-explainer
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Katie Mack
11 months ago
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
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Alyson Smith
11 months ago
âDr. Paul Offit of the Childrenâs Hospital of PhiladelphiaâŠconfirmed the cancellation and warned that it could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.â âItâs a six-month production cycle,â Dr. Offit said. âSo one can only assume that weâre not picking flu strains this year.â
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F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article)
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/fda-flu-vaccine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E4.xMcs.2fUodAiLYX2K&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. đŠ
12 months ago
Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. đ§ȘđŠđ
#SciComm
#SciPol
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I super felt this Gentry Mullen piece at the Kansas City library today
12 months ago
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Dave Levitan
12 months ago
Source tells me that in at least one state, universities that get INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) money have been told not to expect any of those funds to come in âfor at least six months.â That will basically lock out poorer students from grad/med school. INBRE states:
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