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MacKenzie Jacobs

@mackenziej31.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ Ball State University | polyploidy | science outreach & mentorship #proudappalachian #firstgen

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Emi @kayamalie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
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MacKenzie Jacobs @mackenziej31.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
WV Scientists, let's stick together and show each other support! First meeting is tonight-- shoot me a message if you're interested in joining! Tremendous thank you to @morgan-glass.bsky.social for organizing!
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MacKenzie Jacobs @mackenziej31.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Summer research drawing to a close called for a combo of two of my favorite things: baking and polyploids! 🦎🧬
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Great SciComm teaching tool -"Bad news" "Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. Playing it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that you may encounter online." 👍 www.getbadnews.com/en
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Bad News - Play the fake news game!
Play the fake news game! How bad are you? Become a fake news tycoon and get as many followers as you can.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Since we recorded, more NSF grants have been cut, more NSF workers slated to be fired, NSF budget proposed to be cut nearly in half, & NSF & DoD indirect rates were announced to be cut to 15%. On the plus side some people stepped in to save a USAID research lab (aces.illinois.edu/news/1m-gift...)
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Trump Halts Grants, Caps Indirect Costs at the National Science Foundation
No reason was given for the freeze, which is said to last “until further notice.”
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I spent 14 years at a teaching-focused primarily-undergraduate institution (PUI) and found it be a stimulating, challenging, and rewarding environment. Check this out 👇 "How I found professional satisfaction by adjusting my definition of success" | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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How I found professional satisfaction by adjusting my definition of success
As a professor at a teaching-focused university, this scientist has “discovered not just success, but significance”
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