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Mackenzie Fiss-Nealley, PhD

@sacrebluecarbon.bsky.social
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PhD studying organic matter dynamics in salt marshes | looking for jobs in Seattle, WA | she/her | RStats | biogeofeminist | hEDS | knitting

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Washington state friends! Of all the grim things happening, one of the very grimmest is going into winter with SNAP benefits about to disappear. I'm trying to raise $10,000 between now and the week before Thanksgiving for Northwest Harvest. Please donate if you can!
northwestharvest.donorsupport.co
Solidarity Fund is raising funds for Northwest Harvest
Your gift ensures all Washingtonians can access the nutritious food they want & need.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Our institutions were never going to save us; they’ve just expanded the demographics of who they’re failing. I’m seeing a lot of people radicalized for the first time as the scales fall from their eyes. The key is not to become cynical, but to use that energy to liberate one another.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.
fortune.com
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The National Climate Science Graduate Fellowship brought to you by ExxonMobil
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This study was: -done by immigrant scientists, who are now being turned away from the United States by the Trump regime, -funded by the U.S. Dept of Energy, which is being defunded and purged by the Trump regime -hosted at a public university experiencing vast Trump regime funding freezes
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
busy busy busy at work hard to manage one's natural resources if you've fired all the resource managers
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Eugenicists are so stupid.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sorry to be a buzz kill but "Deport Elon" & "Send Trump to El Salvador" are not slogans that move us forward. They center individuals & not the system they're wielding for new cruelties. They accept the use of torture as punishment & they minimize violence people are enduring now. 1/
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/04/2025
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (1/2):

“It is unconscionable that Rümeysa Öztürk—a young woman pursuing her education, exercising her First Amendment rights, and contributing to her community—remains detained by DHS. Her ongoing incarceration is not only a blatant violation of her constitutional rights to due process and free speech, but it is now an egregious denial of her fundamental right to medical care. Pressley, Warren, Markey Sound Alarm on Rümeysa Öztürk’s Medical Neglect, Renew Urgent Calls for Her Release (2/2):

“According to her lawyer, Rümeysa has not received her required asthma medications and has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in custody. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

“As her representatives in Congress, we demand DHS immediately provide Rümeysa with access to the health care she needs, and absent compelling evidence justifying her detention and the revocation of her status, we call for Ozturk’s release and the restoration of her visa. Every minute she remains in custody is another minute her health and rights are at risk, and DHS must move with urgency.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Columbia University agreed to a mask ban to appease Trump. The school is no longer safe for disabled individuals, not to mention anyone who protests or speaks out on civil rights or Palestine. Whatever your politics, mask bans should enrage you. They violate our freedom to avoid infection.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
And so it begins — NIH is planning to terminate active grants that no longer meet the agency's "priorities". Grants that were already approved for funding through peer review. The pursuit of knowledge should be apolitical, inclusive, and forward-thinking. 🧪 #PeerReview #DefendResearch
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that." BRAVO to this student. While I am so disappointed we are still navigating misoogyny in our educational and professional spaces, I am so grateful we have a generation who name it so clearly and capably.
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Daniel Collins @watercyclist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
For something completely different from my normal fare, a piece of glaciological art I recently completed. 'Fox Glacier, not looking up' Draws from a 19th C watercolour, glacier length time-series, and reference to a painter who drew inspiration from a geologist.
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Andrew J. Hawkins @andyjayhawk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
DOGE is gutting the federal agency that leads climate research and oversees the weather service, laying off 10% of staff (with the ultimate goal of eliminating 50%) and cancelling office leases, @justcalma.bsky.social scoops www.theverge.com/news/622990/...
theverge.com
The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
“If these cuts continue, you will feel them personally.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The US prison system is intentionally cruel and evil, but this is especially cruel and evil, even by their standards:
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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Just saw an email sent to a student of mine from a REU canceling their program due to staffing & federal research funding uncertainties. A REU was when I internalized my science ID & applying to grad school. If this continues, it will devastate my students #1 pathway to STEM careers.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8
thetransmitter.org
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
whitehouse.gov
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨
A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
KNOW YOUR
RIGHTS
IN CASE OF ICE:
CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR.
ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge.
Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door.
NO ABRAS TU PUERTA.
ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.ASK THEM
TO LEAVE.
If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission.
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PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN.
Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.REMAIN SILENT.
You have the right to remain silent.
If the agents ask you questions, tell them,
"I wish to remain silent."
PERMANECE EN SILENCIO.
Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio.
Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles:
"Deseo permanecer en silencio".
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Funny how the Trump administration takes deadnaming REALLY seriously all of a sudden if you do it to a body of water instead of a living, breathing trans person
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Gift link. You should read this. It is wrong on so, SO many different levels. It violates basic principles of research ethics in so many different ways. Leaving devices IN PEOPLE'S BODIES. Stopping treatments halfway through, with no one to contact if they get sick. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order (Gift Article)
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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Mackenzie Fiss-Nealley, PhD @sacrebluecarbon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
R package horoscopes are the timeline cleanse we need right now
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
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Andy Lee, PhD @andylee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hard to focus on work when your identities are heinf scrubbed and erased right in front of your eyes. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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BWEEMS @official-bweems.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It is officially February! Let's celebrate Black History Month: Honoring the past, uplifting the present, and inspiring the future through the legacy of Black excellence, resilience, and culture. ✊🏾✨ #BlackHistoryMonth
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/2025
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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payton mitchell @paytmitch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
right now really feels like starting a lot of sentences and not knowing how to finish them
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Brooke Osborne (she/her) @brookebosborne.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The 2025 NATURE Program (paid summer internship for Indigenous undergraduates who are psyched about natural resources) is open for applicants! Pass it on! You can also learn more here - youtube.com/watch?v=g_IA... Thank you!
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Heather @alainnfocail.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Finished my little Defend Trans Lives embroidery piece.
Embroidery piece that says Defends Trans Lives in blue and pink surrounded by blue, pink, and white flowers and off white leaves.
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT CRASH OUT. Folks are relying on you to be overstimulated, overwhelmed, & overcome so you won't resist. Take breaks, Take a breath, Be intentional with how you spend your time. Be effective with how you spend your energy. Support each other Rest, live, & fight another day.
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Mackenzie Fiss-Nealley, PhD @sacrebluecarbon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I finished knitting my first sweater a few days into 2025!! It’s as soft as a cloud and I wish I could wear it 24/7 🧶 Yarn: SW merino and suri, from Witchfire Fibers Pattern: the Semper Sweater by the Knit Purl Girl
I’m taking a selfie in a restaurant’s bathroom, proudly wearing the green sweater I just knittedI’m standing in front of our Christmas tree wearing the green sweater I knitted
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Izzie Héjja-B. @izziehb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🚨 Call for people in eco/evo who identified as disabled, have chronic conditions and/or are neurodiverse. TEE is starting a series of TrendsTalk articles hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in eco/evo. #EcoECRcareer #evobio 🌍 #DisabledInSTEM @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
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Disability in ecology & evolutionary biology
Over the past few years, there has been a growing appreciation of discrimination in science. Many journals, including Trends in Ecology & Evolution, have published various articles discussing issues r...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is officially my horizontally longest image to date, depicting some of the earliest complex animals on the planet from 565 to 505 million years ago and how they changed over time. Thank you to @egmitchell.bsky.social and Steve Pates for trusting me with this gargantuan task! #Art #SciArt
the same image, repeated twice. one image is just a scenery, the other includes text and very complex arrows pointing to each other explaining the relationship between substrate, plankton, predators and other elements in a marine ecosystem. 

the scenery is of a seafloor split into 4 horizontal slices depicting 4 time frames. the first one is an ediacaran scene filled with frond-like organisms attached to the seafloor. the second one shows fewer fronds and more things crawling on the seafloor. the third shows a sponge reef, with herbivores and active predators lurking in the sediment. the fourth shows a very active cambrian period scene with swimmers and burrowers.
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Posit @posit.co · 21/01/2025
We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata
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Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025) - Posit
We are excited to announce Posit will provide 40 Opportunity Scholarships so they can attend posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
There's going to be some tough times ahead for a lot of trans folks. Please share this far and wide. Let trans people know they're not alone.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Everything is dumb and terrible, and it's gonna be dumb and terrible for a while. It’s important to do what you can to make it less dumb and terrible, and it's important to find a way make some contentment for yourself in spite of everything being dumb and terrible.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It’s Trans and nonbinary Girl Scout cookie list time!! I look forward to this all year.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬
nature.com
Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields
Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.
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