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Molecular ecologist & outdoorswoman • DNA whisperer • into botany, evolution, space, sci-comm, skiing, Outlander, climate justice & human rights • she/her

Unceded Wabanaki land (Maine)
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  1. 5 hours ago

    Hey foodie Twitter, tell me what knives I should get. These will be my forever knives. Thank you in advance!

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    13 hours ago

    We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist. This only further validates the need to abolish our current system. White supremacy cannot be reformed.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    These and all the others in replies are just wonderful. Don’t mind me, I’ll just be off thinking about the shrews.

    Daydreaming phrases in different languages: 5. Away with the fairies (English) 4. Thinking of blue almonds (Polish) 3. Dreaming of green horses on walls (Romanian) 2. Pondering the crab’s immortality (Mexican Spanish) 1. In his head three are singing and two are dancing (Greek)
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  4. 12 hours ago

    Dear white people, Our families may try and use today's verdict to talk us out of protesting with out of concern for our safety. Don't fall for it. "Until we are all free, we are none of us free."–Emma Lazarus

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    14 hours ago

    All he had to do to stay completely safe was not walk into a crowd of people literally protesting for their right to stay alive, armed with an AR 15 and the entitlement of a white 17 year old who believes they are less important than what might happen to a fucking autozone.

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  6. 14 hours ago

    What to do if you’re the first responder, even if you’re not a First Responder. (CN: description of traumatic injury)

    I’ll probably post this again a couple more times over the coming months. Bc spaced repetition works. And I worry that it’ll be needed more and more. How to maximize survival chances if someone has been injured and is bleeding. (Like from a gunshot.) 🧵
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  7. 14 hours ago

    To be clear, in case the above reads to anyone as passive or resigned, I am not those things. I am just upset about this verdict in this moment. I recognize that being just upset, and not in greater personal danger of violence as a result of this verdict, is white privilege.

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    14 hours ago

    Sometimes you need to get off social media, connect with the people that love you, and keep yourself safe.

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  9. 14 hours ago

    Here we are again, goddammit.

    How surprised I am: 1/10 How disgusted I am: 10/10
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    15 hours ago

    I think there is room to be an abolitionist, to say that people shouldn't be tried as adults for things they did as children, and also to say, "Until we can do public safety better, our system of criminal punishment should not be an undisguised tool of white supremacy."

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    Nov 5

    I once did a sharing how I sometimes wrap kelp around myself when surfing to stay put against the current, like otters do when sleeping. Illustrator Lily Kang just created a piece inspired by my story for an auction supporting reef & kelp restoration. 💙

    A girl and otter float in the ocean holding hands as they sleep, kelp wrapped around their bellies to keep them from drifting away with the tide.
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  12. Nov 18

    Well, it will be raining all night here so no for me. Whomp whomp. If it’s clear where you are, do look! Here’s my pic of a 2015 eclipse to inspire you stay awake (or get up early).

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  13. Nov 18

    Nearly a decade after my concussion, I think my benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is coming back. Anyone else out there gone through a recurrence?

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    Nov 16

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    Nov 18

    Academia, we spend a lot of gleeful energy retrospectively castigating individual bad actors and relatively none addressing the structures that incentivize bad actions and protect bad actors. It’s almost like we collectively are only mad about this when someone gets caught.

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  16. Nov 18

    Y'all should follow for wonderful nature content and one of the best banner images on Twitter IMO.

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    Nov 17

    You’ll be amazed how far this in Wyoming migrated this past spring…and she’s been making the same trip for six years! Video by

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  18. Nov 18

    Birbs in the birb bath

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    Woodhouse's scrub jay, dark-eyed junco (gray-headed), female red-shafted flicker. Worth waiting to the end to see the other flicker showing its red wings as it approaches the birdbath.
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  19. Nov 18

    This image has meme potential.

    Did you know Scripps Pier in La Jolla has an Osprey Cam? has installed a custom platform so the majestic birds of prey have a safe place to build a nest. The cam lets you see what the ospreys are up to:
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