a selection of US scientists and foreign collaborators:

"Trauma is not my community. JOY is my community." - Dr. Raven Baxter

📍RFK Jr. has crossed the Rubicon. The war on science isn’t looming - it’s here. I had hoped that after the darkest days of the pandemic, we could start rebuilding a stronger science world. I was wrong. So, starting today, I’m back. And I want you to join me. drericding.substack.com/p/im-back-be...

I won some free cupcakes and they're really good and gorgeous!

Blueeskkyyyyyy what's up tonight?

Happy #WorldShorebirdDay. Manitoba sits in the middle of both the Central and Mississippi Flyways giving us many opportunities to encounter a wide variety of shorebirds. This is just a small sampling. 🌿🪶

Make it happen, Bluesky! Thank you to all my teachers and mentors who sponsored me and put their name next to mine!! Dream lab, coming right up!

I'm not trying to STOP people from getting vaccines, I'm just trying to stop people FROM getting vaccines. There is a difference

The Science Maven is back. I missed you all.

ANYWAYS, share some good news here in this thread :) I would love some good feelings right now

People can and should use any networking they can to get a job these days.

"Normal channels" are designed to disadvantage specific groups. People with privilege get positions through connections and nepotism all the time, they just get to do it in private and via institutional traditions like "legacy students." Until the world is fair, kids should use the tools they have.

"Normal" channels that systematically exclude certain peopleand privilege others. Gotcha.

Lol at thinking social media is NOT a normal channel to get jobs in 2025.

#microsky #idsky

Drinking water is my grounding technique. It’s affordable, simple, self-care everyday normal thing that I do when I am super stressed or I need to take a minute to check in with myself to recalibrate. “Drink water, you’re dehydrated” I’ve posted many times. I need it and sometimes so do you 💕

Yes! If I were a mentor I wouldn’t want someone else to go through the same trials and tribulations I did in my time in the tech industry. Great mentors understand what it means to get the opportunity—why not leverage everything you’ve got to make the journey attainable for everyone?

That lady blocked me y'all. But please get on that ass because what the actual FUCK was that???

You actually sound like you hate kids lmao??? Why not pray for kids, and why not help kids acheive their dreams???? I'm not the one you want beef with, ma'am.

I hate when people who know nothing about you reduce you to "you have a lot of followers on your account"

Just because YOU struggled your WHOLE life doesn't mean she has to. We should be celebrating that a young, talented woman with her whole life ahead of her has a loving community behind her who is willing to help her acheive her dreams. Please block me because you're going to hate the positivity here

NO. This is what community and networking is about. My mentee works extremely hard and is very fortunate that I have a broad reach that is relevant to her field of interest. I'm using all tools available to me to help her succeed. Anything that she has earned is well deserved. It takes a village.

My mentee in undergrad has a 3.9 GPA in biology and wants to do her PhD at Stanford in the microbiology department. She found her dream lab. Can my community help us? She's so talented and I really want this for her! She has accomplished so much against all odds. Please share.

Special learning opportunity for science and health communicators! 👇🏿🧪

WAKE UP EVERYONE!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!

my salt and vinegar chip lovers: what is the best chip. i mean the kind that with every bite we're reminded of how terrible this will be for our blood pressure

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NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat

how do I bookmark this on here

This is why we need more people with PhDs in Congress.

Congratulations - nice validation that you are doing meaningful work in communicating science.

I will not be explaining any of my reskeets btw

I'm the one who spearheaded 23andMe updating its product to be more trans inclusive, including separating gender from sex assigned at birth during kit registration Happy to testify in front of MTG and teach her basic genetics And as a bonus, how to pronounce difficult words like "institution" 🙄

I wish she had been able to answer the colonization question. The indigenous population here (and many other places) recognizes more than one gender. Colonizers came in and wiped that out, so now we have people like MTG that doesn't know anything at all.

You are now in the Congressional record👏🏾👏🏾💕💚💕💚

I didn’t think @ravenscimaven.bsky.social could be more of a badass! Respect! Gender diversity is science!

I have to laugh at the question “what does colonization have to do with gender” because I literally have a whole lecture on that. Sadly I’m no longer teaching anymore, because universities don’t want people like me teaching that content.

I'm sure y'all have seen Marjorie Taylor Greene singling me out during a congressional hearing this week right? Hold my margarita. Today is a great day for science education.

Oh, I made a new YouTube video: youtu.be/eTxF5xMSbsY

Hey y'all! For a youtube video where I am breaking down the science of sex and gender if it is an hour long video essay would you rather it be broken up into parts or just one long video

A must watch!👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

A brilliant and engaging retelling of Andrew Wakefield's fraud. It's a story I know intimately. My children were both diagnosed with autism in the decade when that fraud dominated the discourse in Autism Land. Many of the autism parents I knew where I lived then were personal acolytes of that crook.

Oh, I made a new YouTube video: youtu.be/eTxF5xMSbsY

looking for a free and recent mitosis and meiosis animation for download. The HHMI BioInteractive ones are from 2001

I've been boiling this wild wild rice for what seems like centuries. why is it still not soft yet 🫥🫥

Carbon is such a good dog and he loves his bed, but every one I've gotten him he's torn up to pieces and the stuffing gets all over the place. He has a blanket that he drags around and sits on. Do any of you go without a dog bed? I'm thinking I should just upgrade his blanket.

In a world where people get their news from social media, I'm ready to help you build a trusted digital platform to communicate your science. Skip the hard part of trial and error with me as your guide. I've spent the past 15 years fine-tuning my strategy-- let's get yours done in a few months!

I'd love to guest lecture at a college or university in the DMV area. I can teach about biology (introductory or advanced cell/molecular topics) or communications (science communications or social media). My inbox is open for collaboration and networking! 🧪