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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Hi Debbie! Happy to help! 🤩 let me know if you have any questions, it’s still a learning process for me too, and I’d be glad to connect!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Congrats on the paper, Hank, and team! And as a Tolkien fan, well done with the Hobbit deep cut and the Sindarin 😅 you just never know what’s hiding in collections. Sometimes, it’s goblins.

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So heartbreaking and backwards. Ugh it is unbelievable. Thanks for sharing, even though it truly sucks :(

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m so, so sorry. What’s happening with the NSF cuts and in our country is so awful. It really is a gut punch. Ughhh, thinking of you

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My amazing wife, author @jeshonard.bsky.social, got two of her new anthology pieces in the mail today! You want poetry with killer whales on the cover? You want queer-affirming nerdiness about lesbians in space? Check ‘em out and order!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This my buddy Sid (Obsidian), she is so very silly 😍

A black cat lies on its back with its arms ridiculously in the air, looking silly and very relaxed

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

www.lifeisasacredtext.com#/portal/signup

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23/04/2025

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Oh friend. Holding you from afar. 💜 you are doing so much, take care of yourself and be gentle with your mind and heart. Hugs.

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks for sharing, and let us know if you have any questions!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Oh my goodness, what a loss. I dressed as him for a grad school assignment (long story!), gray wig and all, and told him about it at NAPC one year - we shared a laugh and he seemed just so genuine. What a wonderful article Steve. 💜

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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Support our Education & Outreach initiatives that bring students into the field. High school students participated in SF-ROCKS (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in the San Francisco Bay Area) at Pt. Reyes National Seashore Pledge today! #CalBigGive give.berkeley.edu/fund/FW4101000

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m a disabled scientist & education researcher. NSF EDU matters because I’d like to fairly compensate other disabled researchers and students to work with me. While we build more supportive, human-centered STEM spaces & classrooms for & with disabled people. This matters. #DisabledInSTEM #DEI

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Marin Pilloud @mpilloud.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@dentalanth.bsky.social workshop next week at the @bioanth.org conference! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/daa-worksh...

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Ohh, Riley my late mum got to see him in concert and I was always jealous 🤣 I like to think they’re hanging out somewhere, talking about music! Freddie 💜

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

That makes sense! Though, in this anti-trans climate, I think people might be a bit sensitive to not seeing the T, even if the intentions are pure. It would probably help your recruitment to clarify, I hope you get lots of responses and it helps uplift the voices of a broad range of LGBTQIA+ people!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Wanted to respond to this, as a nonbinary person with OCD, but stopped because there’s no “T”. It seems trans people aren’t being included in your definition of queer identities. Too bad…this is an important topic and trans people deserve to have their experiences heard.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

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Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute

How to contribute a Story

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hi Petra, thanks so much for this, I’ve shared it with my disability equity in STEM research group 💜 really truly helpful!

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So sorry to hear this Jim, sorry for our collective loss

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Super excited to see this #SciComm project out through @nagtgeo.bsky.social’s Teach the Earth! Developed by @hlusko.bsky.social with input from me and a great team, this project became a big part of my dissertation. Hope others will enjoy this project in their #STEM and #STEMEd classes!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Take care over there, Seth, and enjoy all the (bio)diversity you can! Your Alt Text is awesome, by the way 😊

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"SICB condemns any measure that curbs the ability of SICB to broaden access and support inclusion within its meetings and activities, or the ability of SICB members to recruit strong, diverse teams within their laboratories and their institutions." 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🧪 mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

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SICB Stands in Defense of Scientific Research Funding, Scientific Integrity, and Broadening Participation in Science

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i... Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp

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Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion

Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

They are trying to overwhelm us with all these EOs. Do what you need to do to stay out of freeze mode the best that you can. Connect with people. Connect with yourself. We're gonna fight.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Are you a researcher with a federal grant who would normally be expecting funds from that grant over the next several weeks that now may not be coming? I'd love to talk to you about what that means for your lab/research/colleagues. Reach out via DM or signal.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My sense is that most of us in science now have at least some institutional guidance on how to cope with latest round of proclamations. I hope you're able to refocus today despite the uncertainty, good luck. AND we need to brace against future rounds of disruption. Here's what my group is using:

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thanks Ashley 🥹 it has been a long journey, thinking of you!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Yup! One of my cats, Roving, is a button user! Here she is, not pressing any buttons 😄

A gray tabby cat lounges partly upside down on a yellow armchair. Her eyes are closed and her expression is one of total cat sleepy joy.

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thanks Brandy! 💜 Happy to be exploring new avenues at WMU!

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Taormina (Tara) Lepore, Ph.D. @taorminalepore.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It took a while to find me here in Kalamazoo, but my PhD lollipop finally arrived from the Grad Division at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! Especially in these strange days, I will celebrate these small moments of joy, accomplishment, and gratitude!

A queer femme person sits on a chair and smiles happily, holding their dissertation bound in black hardcover, along with a See’s candies lollipop that says “finally done”, spelled with a Ph and D. The card they also hold says You’re Finally Done! With the same spelling. The person is wearing a black shirt and khaki pants, they are white with short curly brown hair and dark glasses. Behind them sits a collection of books in a bookshelf and an old fashioned radio record player in deep mahogany.

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