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Apr 27, 2022

Hi everyone! I’m a #paleontologist and #STEM educator, and a PhD candidate at

@berkeleyIB

. I research our planet’s incredible past and our place within it. #DisabledinSTEM, advocate for kindness, and huge

@Animorphs

fan. Vibrantly Sicilian@.

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Inclusive SciComm Symposium

@InclusiveSci

Jun 5

Metcalf Institute is hiring! The new full-time Inclusive SciComm Program Specialist position comes with professional development and built-in networking opportunities. A full-time gig promoting equity and inclusion in scicomm!

jobs.uri.edu

Specialist, Metcalf Institute Programs

The search will remain open until the position has been filled. First consideration will be given to applications received by June 30, 2023. Second consideration may be given to applications received...

May 29

Heading to #SPNHC2023? Join us this afternoon at

@calacademy

for a workshop and panel discussion on diversity and identity in natural history!

A flier reading Diversity and Identity in Biodiversity Science Careers - Career Talks - Panel Discussion - Light Reception - Monday May 29th 2-5pm
California Academy of Science Boardroom

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STEM with Disabilities

@STEMwDisability

May 13

Sharing your experience may inspire someone going through something similar (ex. accommodation ideas or validating struggles) and increased visibility of people with disabilities may encourage the next generation to pursue their STEM passions. #DisabledInSTEM 🧵 1/3

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If you have a MA/MS degree, want a PhD, are passionate about #humanevolution #dental variation #bioanthropology, consider joining our amazing ERC AdG Tied2Teeth project, funded by

@ERC_Research

at the

@CENIEH

! Applications due by 1 July 2023 bit.ly/3HQmkrM

Y'all. I have just finished recording oodles of #diceCT workshop content🎥 With 2hrs total video content split into digestible chunks, complete with costume changes as I record the videos on different days 💃. If you want a copy of this interactive PDF, hit up my DMs.

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Apr 27

We invite all disabled and/or neurodivergent GSA members & allies to consider our identities, communities, and perspectives. Join our session at #GSA2023, abstracts open May 1st! Interested? Let us know: docs.google.com/document/d/1PV Sponsors:

@geosociety

@AccessibleGEO

@PaleoSoc

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Dr. Michael B.C. Rivera 趙凱聰

@riveramichael

Apr 22

This Korean-American undergraduate, Sol, did amazing work on ancient genetics and migration - so proud to see more Asians like her entering the field and presenting important research in this space!! 🤓 Our future is bright! 🌏💫 #AABA2023

Apr 23

Very happy to share this first in-person #AABA2023 with undergrad researcher extraordinaire, Jenny Lu!

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Apr 21

I wanted to wish Eid Mubarak, Shabbat Shalom, and happy #FossilFriday to friends and colleagues at #AABA2023! Currently "dissertating" and reflecting on the good community here. 🥰 Want to chat disability and access in paleo? DM or find me! (I often use a white cane)

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Apr 21

Looking forward to being the student volunteer for this session on holistic approaches to the genetics of phenotypic variation at #AABA2023 — and learning from many cool talks like this one!

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Tied2Teeth

@Tied2Teeth

Apr 21

More @Tied2Teeth project at #AABA2023 @BiologicalAnth on Friday! @LHlusko presenting: Pleiotropy: What tooth morphology may reveal about the immune system 4:15pm Tuscany A/B

⭐Support our Travel Grant⭐ Please share and/or donate. To date, we have dispersed over $3,000 to assist with conference registration and abstract fees. #TravelWithTilly Learn more: bit.ly/TETG_Info Donate: bit.ly/TETG_Donate

Time Scavengers Tilly Edinger Travel Grant Call for Donations! Our fundraising goal is $2,000. To date, we have dispersed $3,046.79 with 100% going to student and advocational scientist conference fees. With $2,000, we anticipate supporting four people. Photo of Tilly Edinger in the bottom right, monochromatic blastoid with a blue foraminifera in the middle in the top left.

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thanks for your support, both personally and assisting me with making this happen!

Mar 12

Every experience in life can come with bumps in the road. Sharing my cross-cultural collaborative experience with

@MongolianDinos

thanks to generous

@ucmpberkeley

funding. Hope more UCMPers can visit Mongolia, and Mongolian students could visit UCMP! ucmp.berkeley.edu/2023/03/cross-

The World Mourns the Passing of Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist - Judy Heumann

Thank you to everyone who has followed and supported Judy throughout her lifetime of advocacy. May her memory be for a blessing.

judithheumann.com

For Immediate Release: March 4, 2023 Contact: Yoli Navas at yoli@newcostrategies.com or 561-990-9029 The World Mourns the Passing of Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist Judith “Judy” Heumann...

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Feb 17

It's #FossilFriday! When was the last time you thought about how fossils have impacted your life? My first paper asks how paleontology field experiences have an impact on high school students. Check it out!

@ucmpberkeley

@UCBerkeley

@alfpaleo

Feb 16

Lepore et al. 2023 - The impact of field paleontology on high school learners. Open access link on eScholarship: escholarship.org/uc/item/2nn8d1 Huge thanks to

, Dan Lawver,

, and so many more for support, feedback, and community!

Feb 16

Ask students about the impact of their field paleontology experiences. Capturing what they write opens up so many wonderful reflections on the importance of outdoor learning and paleontology. Their writing told us way more (in this case) than handing out agree-disagree surveys.

The impact of field experiences in paleontology on high school learners

Feb 16

Happy to share my first journal article! This labor of love asks - why does field science matter? What's the impact of field paleontology? If you ask high schoolers, they tell you a LOT - and they come away with care for fossils, lands, & each other.

tandfonline.com

Field experiences are an important element of paleontological knowledge building. However, there is little information about the effects field experiences have on science stewardship and personal g...

Jan 25

Join us at #SPNHC2023, where we'd love your contribution on the symposium: Broadening Access and Use of Natural History Collections Through Innovative Approaches and Engagement! Deadline: Feb. 6, 2023 - you can do it! There's still time!

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for #FossilFriday, I would like to share this session we (@PaleoPirlo @PaleoParadoX @taorminalepore ) are convening for #SPNHC2023 ! we welcome submissions - the deadline is Feb. 6, 2023.

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We’re truly grateful for

@SFdirewolf

for commissioning us for this piece. And before calling us “scabs” or “paid opps” – read our piece?

Murry Burgess, PhD Candidate

@murryloub

Jan 3

Dont forget to apply to

@FieldInclusive

’s $500 research grant! Share with the field biologist in your life ☺️

Available to those who:
• Work in the natural resources
• Do outdoor data collection
• Are part of any marginalized group or identity (e.g., race, gender, ability
• Can use the award toward field research

Deadline: Feb 1, 2023

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“Where do I even start?” Recommendations for faculty diversifying syllabi in ecology, evolution,...

Tolulope Perrin-Stowe

@ConStowevation

Jan 4

Our paper, '“Where do I even start?” Recommendations for faculty diversifying syllabi in ecology, evolution, and the life sciences' is out today in Ecology and Evolution! Proud to have published this with such a great group of researchers!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Diversifying curricula is of increasing interest in higher education, including in ecology and evolution and allied fields. Here we provide a framework for meeting standard curriculum goals while...

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Are you in the #geosciences and identify as having an invisible illness/disability? Please take part in our short ~10 minute survey and contribute to a digital art piece raising awareness of barriers to inclusivity during #fieldwork 🏞️🥾 shorturl.at/cmDGX

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Dec 24, 2022

This is important - yes votes signal two things, for me: 1. a life that can afford, financially and/or materially, to wait for “more” rather than face direct discrimination and crisis ongoing; or 2. fear of UC retaliation, or strike exhaustion. But again see point #1.

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Sophia Reyes

@SophiaRReyes

Dec 24, 2022

I think the hard truth that the VoteNo camp needs to realize is that individuals didn’t vote yes because of misinformation, or yes vote propaganda. Our yes vote colleagues voted yes because they live in a world fundamentally differently to (cont)

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Dr. Sara Tenamoeata Kahanamoku

Dec 17, 2022

Huge congratulations Sara!!! And I’m so happy you’re able to rest after this mega accomplishment!

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@sara_kahanamoku

Dec 17, 2022

I’m officially Dr. Kahanamoku-Meyer! Feeling so fortunate to be joining the list of Kanaka ʻŌiwi with PhDs. And extra fortunate to be the first Dr. Kahanamoku in my family

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There Is No Such Thing As Italian Food | NOEMA

Dec 16, 2022

Super interesting article, and highlights some of the major hypocrisy in Italian anti-immigrant sentiment, considering how much of Italian food is either colonial or at the very least, foreign in origin / cross-cultural.

noemamag.com

Italy’s cuisine has long been defined by foreign flavors. But with anti-immigration sentiment rising and the climate changing, will Italians continue to embrace new ingredients and ideas from abroad?

Dec 16, 2022

Gross, so I’m never moving back to Texas (for many reasons) but this just adds to the list 😩

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Dr. Catherine Weaver

@kateweaverUT

Dec 15, 2022

Just dropped: TX Legislative Bill to prohibit DEI in higher education, to take effect Sept. 2023. @chronicle @steve_vladeck capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/bi. Here's the new language:

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A white chancellor at one university mocking Asian language. A white professor at an HBCU calling the cops on a student for not apologizing to her. The a bomb threat at another university claiming to send a message about “anti-white” sentiments on campus. WTF is going on?!

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👇👇👇

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Chris

@HallwayOrchard

Dec 9, 2022

We'll soon be in the position of having to accept or deny invitations to gather. Our replies and our concerns may be met in different ways. While the risks will vary, the science they are based on is consistent. May this summary help you in your conversations.

#COVIDisVascular

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Krystle Piamonte (she/her)

@kryspia

Dec 8, 2022

The way

@HERMusicx

is honoring her Filipino heritage in her Belle costume. 😍😭🙌🏽 The writing says “Bela” (“Bella”) in baybayin. A pre-colonial script that was almost taken from us, but we are reviving it. Proud of this Bay Area Pinay and excited to see HER in BATB! Mabuhay!

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Dec 8, 2022

So happy to have a community of peers who are fun, supportive, and kind, keeping each other going throughout this strike!

@jackiergalvez

👑 #FairUCNow #solidarity

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Jackie Galvez

@jackiergalvez

Dec 8, 2022

Incredibly happy to have brought the annual IB-ESPM Holiday Bake-Off to the picket line this year! It was so fun seeing our larger West Crescent crew (plus other pickets!!) participate in the holiday fun

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Cheryl L.B. Manning and 2 others

Going to

? Interested in inclusivity in the #geosciences ? Be sure to check out our special session led by early career scientists

@HannahE_Krueger

@meredith_parish

@SloaneGarelick

, and myself! We’ve got an AMAZING lineup of panelists 💯

Dec 2, 2022

I measure my year 🎶in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. 🎶

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Rohita Kadambi

@RohitaKadambi

Dec 2, 2022

In high school, my physics teacher asked me to figure out how many seconds were in a year. I solved it by multiplying 525,600 by 60 to which my teacher responded “why is that something you know off the top of your head?”

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Dec 1, 2022

A little more information on the “Access Needs” that were accepted 🙃 fairucnow.org/wp-content/upl

Dec 1, 2022

Very saddened by the removal of Access Needs from the UAW 2865 contract, after literal hours of disabled people sharing the pain of the broken UC system. ❌Medical diagnoses still required for accommodation ❌COVID protections ignored #FairUCNow #Disabled #DisabilityRights

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Heather Ringo (she/her)

@FeralHeather

Dec 1, 2022

Sad to report that in a 10-9 vote UAW 2865 sacrificed disabled workers for… 0 concessions from UC. They killed the article behind closed doors. Zero accountability or respect for disabled workers. #FairUCNow #VoteNo2865Contract #AbleistsResignNow #Renuncia2865 #UCAccessNow twitter.com/FeralHeather/s…

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Go check out

! Super cool lineup of unique and engaging #scicomm!

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Cosplay for Science

@Cosplay4Science

Nov 29, 2022

Counting down

Only THREE days until @comicconla! The Cosplay for Science community has a ton going on this con so come find us at our pop-up museum or one of our many community panels! Thanks to our community collaborators @StarWarsologies, @UCRiverside Earth Sciences, & @alfmuseum!

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Christine Yifeng Chen

@earth2christine

Nov 29, 2022

📢 It's official: "Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation" has completed peer review and is now out in

with

& others 🔗➡️doi.org/10.7554/eLife. Here's a brief 🧵 . 👇

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Dr. Aradhna Tripati

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Pause, poke your tongue around, and visualize the bumps and knobs of your teeth. Why are they like that? You can learn more here with

@LHlusko

and G. Richard Scott, dental anthropologists extraordinaire: tinyurl.com/ddwtf4sj The latest #SapiensDialogue podcast from

@CENIEH

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Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko

@LHlusko

Ever thought about why teeth are so bumpy? Check out this episode of #SapiensDialogue podcast from @CENIEH where I discuss the latest twists and turns with G. Richard Scott, one of the founders of Dental Anthropology! @Tied2Teeth @FATAPUERCA open.spotify.com/episode/0LntYH

Woohoo! Congratulations

@funstonpaleo

and

@DavidEvans_ROM

lab! I can't wait to see what your collaborations come up with, and can't think of dang nicer people joining forces to work on Cretaceous mammal teeth and life history! 🎉

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Greg Funston

@funstonpaleo