I ❤️ this competition. Just brings so much joy every year. Piezoelectrics, bees 🐝, hearing aids 🦻, DNA 🧬, MRI 🧠 - what more could you want? Happy #InternationalDanceDay 🧪 💃 Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest winners: www.science.org/content/arti...

deleting "applle" off of my to-do list because I have no idea what it means but leaving it here just in case

Cutting Science Out: Trump Administration Fires National Science Board Members 🧪

slip sliding away

Youtube randomly has me listening to Iranian Jazz today and it's hitting

All the postdocs in my lab are from different countries and I'm the only one who doesn't have plans to return home (to the US)

10,000 scientists gone from the US and I'm one of them 🙃🧪 geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/21/1...

Starting a new project (don't tell future Amanda) and the co-PI asked how many papers we want to write and suggested 3

Currently working on 9 papers and I feel like tomorrow it could be 10... chat is this normal? 🧪

People in Spain will be like "have you met her yet???? 🫣😬" and they're talking about Spanish bureaucracy

Spanish bureaucracy is absolutely nuts BUT three appointments and three apartments later I finally have my empadronamiento (proof of residence)!!!

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Their toes !!! 💓

thinking about *her*

New article on how to predict coastal landscape change 🧪🌊

OMG Which one of you has an academic crush on me?????* *It's me

It's not just jellyfish and algae that will benefit from climate change... it's these five species of butterflyl!! (the ugly ones)

forbidden ravioli

Spanish teacher: What's Barbie's boyfriend's name again? Kant???

Remember Animal from the Muppets? This is him now. Feel old yet?

I’m really excited for this SF! With it we’re trying to combat the positive bias in publishing - how we and reviewers are inclined to only lift up research that goes as expected. But we all know there are so many lessons to be learned when you get unexpected results, or when things don’t work. 🧪

Smiley, our resident spotted eagle ray, gave us a nice glide-by yesterday 😊 #spottedeagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #eagleray #coralcitycamera

Third publication of 2026 hot off the presses!!!!!! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I wrote this one up for my newsletter! It is indeed such a fun study. Just in case anyone is paywalled from Sci Am but still wants a fun lil breakdown of the paper:

forgot to tag @xjbsx.bsky.social !!! Go follow her, she's new here

Visiting Madrid has me culture shocked because there are so many people speaking English here!! Shamelessly!

Go Julia goooo!!!!!!

spilled coffee on everything and have zero attention span today what's new

NEW ARTICLE!!! Challenges and Opportunities for National-Scale Projections of Future Coastal Landscape Change. 🧪🌊 Check it out here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #coastal #science #climatechange

life goals

Here are ten seconds of Flamingoes feeding underwater.

🤔 🌊🦔 #MarineLife

Every time I ask chat to translate something into Spanish it says, "If you want, I can help you tweak it to sound more flirty 😉" CHAT! STOP! THIS IS AN EMAIL TO MY LANDLORD!

chat keeps winking at me its so cringe

me

Gah how lucky is this???

Did you use AI or is this scientific paper homegrown?

Did you use AI or is this research idea artisanal?

Did you use AI or is this research question handmade?

Did you use AI or was this data analysis made from scratch?

New academic crush alert!!! Currently crushing on all of the authors of: 'Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science" link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪 #art #science

as my Brazilian friend says: Uhuuuul!!!!!!!! (she thinks "woohoo" is a ridiculous spelling)

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

I'm jazzed up today y'all watch out

Got another first author paper accepted today!!!!!!!!!

Thinking about the importance of creativity and imagination in science... anyone got some recs for me? #science 🧪 #imagination #research #creativity #🧪 #futurethinking #futures #transformation #unlearning

Guys I made it "Dear Dr.StoltzAmanda, I followed your research works which were of an extremely high standard. I would like to invite you to the 8th Global Summit on Environmental Health which aims to further scientific discoveries and major milestones in the plot of Environmental."

Ways I've changed since moving to Spain: 1. I eat Jamón every day 2. My personal space bubble has popped 3. Consistently have my nails done (only costs €15!)

Me: Why is my eyelid twitching?? What I did last week: submitted abstracts to 2 conferences, resubmitted 3 papers, interviewed 4 postdocs; presented my final postdoc presentation at UD (I was so nervous!), reviewed the California Fifth Climate Change Assessment, attended a bunch of work meetings...

...MY FIRST FIRST-AUTHOR PAPER OF 2026 🎉🎉🎉 How North American Universities are Driving Climate Change Education HUGE team effort with Alexie Leauthaud, Anne Criss, Eric Palkovacs, David Ackerly, and Sandy Faber #climatechange #climate #education #science #scicomm www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...