One grant rejected on Friday and another rejected today… the job and funding landscape is so messed up right now 😭😭

Wow bing is really showing their misogyny this morning in their fun little DNA quiz.. they had Rosalind Franklin as an answer to “with whom did Crick discover the structure of DNA” and said it was incorrect! 😡

I had my very first #ConservationGenomics course as Professor Hartman this morning! 💕 🧬🧪👩🏻‍🔬

#FreshwaterMussel lovers! New Pimpleback Baseball hats are live on my website! Based on my digital design, they feature a Pimpleback mussel on the front and the words “I filter out negativity” on the back! 🌎🐚🦪 #SmallBusiness #AquaticConservation #SciArt designedwithhartman.com/products/pim...

#FreshwaterMussel lovers! New Pimpleback Baseball hats are live on my website! Based on my digital design, they feature a Pimpleback mussel on the front and the words “I filter out negativity” on the back! 🌎🐚🦪 #SmallBusiness #AquaticConservation #SciArt designedwithhartman.com/products/pim...

Good news fren! Salamaander Mussel not all ded. Only VERY shy. Had to be VERY shy.

New paper dropped this morning - we used environmental DNA to target habitat for the Salamander Mussel AND we found them in IL for the first time in a century!! urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

Happy Pride!! I know #PrideMonth is almost over but I wanted to highlight my nature-themed Pride stickers! Celebrate all year with your own stickers: www.designedwithhartman.com #OutAndProud #Pride #PrideFlag #StickerShop #FreshwaterMussel #Crayfish #Wildflowers

I’m teaching my first class next semester - Conservation Genetics - for undergraduate and graduate students! But, I’m struggling to get started with my presentations bc I have no previous slides to base them on. Has anyone taught/taken a class and would be willing to share slides or a syllabus? 😅

They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support! Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

🔊 Join us in shouting about #WorldPenguinDay today. 🌍

Are you lacking freshwater mussels in your life?? Don’t worry, my new drop of 6 different species of freshwater mussels has you covered!! Check out all the new mussel stickers at: designedwithhartman.com/products/fre... #FreshwaterMussel #Bivalves #SciArt 🐚🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎

How to calculate connectivity metrics in the R programming language? Using the Makurhini package. It includes many of the connectivity analyses in Conefor and many more. Great collaboration led by Oscar Godínez and Camilo Correa. Read it in our preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

New fish book alert! On this #FishFriday, "Fishes of the Chicago Region" was just released. Detailed info on species distributions & natural history observations for >150 species in SE Wisconsin, NE Illinois, northern Indiana, and SW Michigan. Check it out... www.amazon.com/Fishes-Chica...

Happy #NationalCrayfishDay! Sorry I am a day late but these curious creatures deserve to be celebrated! Last week I learned how to sample for borrowing crayfish ☺️ 🦞🦞

Sketch, capture and layout phylogenies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/husonlab/phy...

My new favorite account 🐧

academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

Last day of my 30% off birthday sale! Shop now at www.designedwithhartman.com

Very well packaged — in compostable packaging. Love the stickers and the pin as well! I’ve been sharing images and your website with others who care about unionidae. designedwithhartman.com/products/fre...

This just arrived! It’s even better than I imagined. Thanks, @jhhartman.bsky.social !

I got a Birdfy bird feeder for my birthday and it just had its first visitor 🥹

🎉 Turning 30 and throwing a sale! 🎉 It’s my birthday this week, so I’m celebrating with 30% off everything in my shop from now until Sunday! Use BIRTHDAY30 at checkout to grab your favorite stickers & mugs! www.designedwithhartman.com #30AndThriving #BirthdaySale #ShopSmall

Just launched a new Freshwater Mussel Starter Kit so you can get all your mussel merch for a discounted price! Check it out here: designedwithhartman.com/products/fre... 🐚🌎 🧪 #SciArt #freshwatermussel #macroinvertebrate #naturemug #naturestickers

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

It’s Spring Break and I spent my time designing and launching a new website for my business! Check it out here: DesignedWithHartman.com

I finally restocked my Science not Silence sticker! designedwithhartman.etsy.com/listing/1856...

If you’re in Champaign-Urbana, I will be at the Farmer’s Market this weekend selling stickers!!

I made some wildlife coloring pages! designedwithhartman.etsy.com/listing/1875... #coloringBook #Wildlife #WildlifeLovers #WorldWildlifeDay

Today! Try not to buy shit, especially from big bad retailers, especially with cards & the money in your phone. (Is there a general term for Venmo and Apple pay and all of that? I expect there is but none is coming to mind. E-payments? That sounds so 2000s...)

This week is #InvasiveSpeciesWeek! It’s a little late in the week but I will be running a sale on my invasive species sticker until next Thursday! #InvasiveSpecies #Conservation #Ecology 👩🏻‍🔬🌿🌎

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

Oh you don’t have a valentine for Valentine’s Day? Lots of people don’t have a shark for Shark Week.

Don’t forget to get your “Women belong in the lab” sticker before Monday to get it on sale!! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎

In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, my “Women belong in the lab” sticker will be on sale now through Sunday! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🔬🧫 designedwithhartman.etsy.com/listing/1629...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! I don’t know where I would be without my support system 🥰

Super excited to announce that I was one of the winners of the 2025 Women of Fisheries Gives Back! award through the Women Of Fisheries! 👩🏻‍🔬🐟 Check out the announcement to learn more about me and my history in fisheries! womenoffisheries.org/announcing-t...

New sticker alert! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #ScienceNotSilence designedwithhartman.etsy.com/listing/1856...

Happy year of the snake ! To celebrate, both my snake stickers will be 25% off until next Friday! I have a western diamondback rattlesnake and a prairie rattlesnake! Get your own snakes here: designedwithhartman.etsy.com #YearOfTheSnake #SciArt #Snake #NatureSticker 🐍

I might study fish and bats but I love to create stickers spanning the wide diversity of insects! 🧪🐛🦋🪲 Get your own buggy stickers here: designedwithhartman.etsy.com #SciArt #Invertebrate #BugSky #Art

🪲Starter pack for artists who specialize in arthropods!!!🐜 Please reach out if you are an arthropod artist and would like to be included. Your feed needs more bugs. #SciArt #Bugsky 🕷️🌱🐛🎨🐡🧪 go.bsky.app/6Astg2u

Check out these cute coloring books!

One of my “bat guano” DNA samples just came back as a 97% match to a frog.. and I don't know what to do with that information 🤦🏼‍♀️🐸 🧬👩🏻‍🔬 #SendHelp

What’s your favorite affirmation? One that you come back to time and time again. Or, do you even like affirmations/find them useful?? From my collection of science affirmations, I love “I am coded for success” with a DNA double helix! 🧬 #Affirmations #MotivationalQuotes

For all my scientists out there, what are you up to today? I am getting some DNA samples prepped for sequencing and then working on a literature review about bat habitat suitability! 🦇🧬👩🏻‍🔬🧪 Check out my “I am a scientist” sticker here: designedwithhartman.etsy.com/listing/1624... #IAmAScientist

In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.

Packed up some more #freshwatermussel mugs to send out with the post tomorrow! ☺️ thank you to everyone that has bought one already! 🥰 #SmallBusiness

Let‘s try a #metabarcoding starter pack to nucleate people interested. Welcome molecular #biodiversity monitoring people. Let’s try to keep us posted on updates regarding papers, projects, methods. Happy weekend.☀️#eDNA go.bsky.app/Qvqgknp

Left the other place run by Trump's buddy? Here's a starter pack of freshwater scientists to get you started. Also, if you're a freshwater scientist and want to be added, let me know. Still space available. go.bsky.app/K5ubDhb