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Pluto Liu

@plutoxliu.bsky.social
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She/They | Postdoc in 🇸🇪 | Antarctica, Seaweed, Ecology, Genomics, Modelling | also a social and environmental activist, professional house sitter, amateur tattooer and more 🚐 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿🇦🇶 plutoxliu.github.io

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/06/2026
As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info
Global Climate Stripes
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The episode is out! I had such a fun chat with kit about lots of anti capitalism!
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 08/03/2026
IPCC: thousands of scientists, years of writing and multiple rounds of peer review. The DOE Climate Working Group report: “I made five calls for five scientists.” Dear DOE: That’s not how you assemble a climate assessment. That’s how you assemble a panel for cable news.
Chris Wright saying "I made 5 calls for 5 scientists"
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Timeline cleanse: Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches. If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo. But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Academic perfectionist and impostor syndrome level has reached their maximum threshold lately. And also gosh the job market is so depressing. I love reading the venting section of ecoevo job net lol. Have to keep telling myself to have a “white man” mindset. Or be like this little (big) one 👇
A golden retriever putting his head on the side of the bed trying to wake you up with very big round puppy eyes.
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Annie Scott Dill Maunder, née Russell (1868-1947), pioneering astronomer, astrophotographer, and science communicator. She did important work with using photography to better understand solar activity. 🎢⚛️🧪🔭⭐️🪐1/n
Photo of Annie Maunder
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Not high school teacher but house sitter xD but looking forward to this!
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
My sunset models
Two golden retrievers on a deck with sunset background. One is gold colour is lying on the deck. The other is white colour sitting beside him.
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gina ✨ @astrogina.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
dont forget about improvements in public transit 😤
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very much needed book!
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Writing about climate change with all the wildfires and local wars and politicians that only care about money. Feeling like we are doomed.
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy winter solstice from Taco the #cat
Taco a grey female cat relaxing in the red chair looking at the camera
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Decided back on social media because I’m finishing my #PhD soon (in March 2026) so looking for opportunities! Here is one of my favourite photo from my #Antarctica trip early this year. A very curious gentoo #penguin
A gentoo penguin very curiously looking at the camera.
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Ceridwen (Crid) Fraser @ceridwenfraser.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Sciences at University of Otago
🌊 Stunning stained-glass mahi by Marine Science Otago Professor Ceridwen Fraser that’s now on display in the foyer of the Geology Museum 🌈 🐟 Ceridwen created the work to celebrate some of our...
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Alana Alexander @laninsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Stoked to see this wonderful story about @plutoxliu.bsky.social, a wonderful PhD student based in @ceridwenfraser.bsky.social's lab who I've had the pleasure to co-supervise: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
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Antarctic trip a dream come true for marine science student
Marine Science doctorate student Pluto Liu recently joined the National Geographic Explorer ship to the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia as a visiting scientist.
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In the Antarctic Peninsula advocating queer rights! (And collecting my samples on the side haha)
Me holding a pride flag in Antarctica. There are a lot of penguins at the background and lots of snow and ice and the ocean.
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Maybe I’ll become a cat account instead of science 🤔
A grey/white cat sleeping on my stomach with front paws stretched out on the couch
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Advances and shortfalls in knowledge of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Advances and shortfalls in knowledge of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity
Antarctica harbors many distinctive features of life, yet much about the diversity and functioning of Antarctica’s life remains unknown. Evolutionary histories and functional ecology are well understo...
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
More kelp babies! They have developed into gametophytes!
Gametophytes of giant kelp - they look like a ball of yarn but in green-brownish-transparent colour with some strings of cells sticking out
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Small giant kelp babies
Microscope screenshot of kelp spores - they look like small green circles
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Pluto Liu @plutoxliu.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Field trip in Concepćion, Chile.
Beach covered in shells with ocean background
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Paper in Global Change Biology: Floating debris and organisms can raft to Antarctic coasts from all major Southern Hemisphere landmasses ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Floating debris and organisms can raft to Antarctic coasts from all major Southern Hemisphere landmasses
Non-native marine species can reach Antarctica by hitching a ride on floating objects like kelp, driftwood, pumice, and plastic. Until now, these non-native species were only thought to have drifted ....
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