As a final, final note: this change in policy is a disservice to all second-year graduate students and to the scientific community at large. Please reach out to [email protected] to advocate for second year graduate students everywhere, and especially bridge program students!!

HOA got a county permit back in the 1980s to build a revetment on the condition that they keep access public, and recently homeowners started putting up barriers and went to court to privatize the walkway. Coastal commission fined HOA almost $5 million; court just ruled the barrier has to come down.

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

Henriette Kohlrausch (1781 – 1842) was a German botanist and naturalist known for collaboration transcribing Alexander von Humbolt's Kosmos lectures. She was also the lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover, Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. #WomenInSTEM

pickleweed pals #greenhouse

this past weekend we hosted a volunteer session at the herbarium where we had ~35 attendees, and got 231 specimens mounted in just 3.5 hours! couldn’t be more thankful for a great community!!

STEM people who think their work is apolitical are just people who like the current political context.

mounting today at the #herbarium 😁

today’s monotonous task was sorting stems

the lab is such a liminal space sometimes I just blink and 3 hours has gone by doing a monotonous task

Natural sciences/ecology friends, it's great that you want to add some social science/interdisciplinary work to your research. But please learn how to do it before you start! Among other issues, if you don't first get human subjects research ethics (IRB) approval, the work is unpublishable.

sometimes science is 90% yapping with your friends

what kills me about this is that LLM ppl will always say "oh yeah i know it messes up and you should double check it" but then also in the same breath tell you use should use it for your academic research and lit review. NO!!!!! why isn't it being error-riddled enough to stop this?

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estuaries are at risk!!!! NOAA cuts result in complete elimination of funding for the NERRS system— this is the organization I do my research with. They’re SO SO IMPORTANT!!!!! please sign this letter of support and call your reps docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

beauty can be everywhere! even in the tiniest sidewalk cracks. This is Spergularia rubra, a flower that persists even in the pavement :)

what even is an herbarium? an herbarium is effectively a collection of plant corpses, ones that are dried and stored to last for years and years! they can give us a snapshot into what plants existed in the past! attached is a photo of a specimen from 1910!!!!

heard a talk on Friday emphasizing the importance of science communication on social media. so here I am. scientist on social media. I'm going to try to share some stuff from my work at the UCSC campus herbarium! It's lots of fun and we see some cool stuff. #Botany #Herbaria