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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 2d

I started the day looking at a paper introduction I started rewriting last week, hoping I made more progress than I remembered, but then being disappointed that it still needs exactly as much work as I thought. At least this is something I can focus on and hopefully tune out the distractions.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 3d

The people they want to traumatize are the people who fly into a hurricane to help keep the rest of us safe.

Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 3d

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

A map image from the Flight Radar 24 service shows the flight track of a NOAA P-3 Orion aircraft flying over the Caribbean Sea, where Hurricane Melissa threatens to bring catastrophic rain and flooding to Jamaica and Haiti. Most other aircraft appear to be steering clear of the area.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 4d

I didn’t even hear about the last author thing until I was a postdoc. I think I actually laughed when my supervisor requested to go last on a paper. I really wish we could get past the order mattering, too. If we can’t predict how someone else might interpret the order why worry about it?

Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Saturday. We deserve a little doggo on our feeds as a treat.

A photo of a small tan dog wearing grey, white, and red socks on all four of his feet. He is lying on a cream colored couch.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 8d

My heart is breaking for my colleagues at all these sites, even as we feds wait to hear what else might get cut. Also a ton of other fed and non-fed scientists have careers that ran through these programs. I can’t imagine the future we’re losing by not continuing to support them

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 8d

As this article points out, 2,050 is probably just the beginning of the cuts.
On a personal note, I worked at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center for a couple of semesters during my MS. I learned so much there and the people were amazing to work with. I’m gutted by the proposed cuts there.

Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 8d

“The Monday filing outlines where 2,050 positions would be eliminated; the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the main Interior office would be especially hard hit. Regional offices with the National Park Service are also targeted for significant cuts.”

Inside Trump's plan to eviscerate USGS and beyond - Center for Western Priorities

Forced by a federal judge to partially reveal plans for firing federal employees, the Trump administration on Monday said it plans to “imminently” terminate more than 2,000 employees at the Interior d...

westernpriorities.org

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 9d

Same.
There aren’t any zeros in the union column. And it seems unlikely that they think only R3 and R5 have too many employees.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 11d

Infrognito mode.

A white woman wearing a green headband with frog eyes on it, sunglasses, and a pink N95 mask.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 11d

I didn’t take any pictures of the protest today, but here’s a recreation using things people gave me.

Five small, green, yellow plastic frogs in front of two stickers that say “resist” and have cartoon frogs on them.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15d

It's day 15 of the shutdown and our first missed paycheck.

For feds 👇

🍽️Too good to go app (surplus food from local eateries/stores at a ⬇️ prices)

🗺️https://myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-assistance-map/

💵https://www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-for-federal-workers/

🧑‍🏫https://wearewellfed.com/

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 15d

I'm writing a grant application to fund features and improvements to Literature Mapper, a plugin for QGIS that makes maps of Zotero citations. Has anyone out there used it in it's current state? Or would you use it if only... ?

micheletobias.github.io/maps/Literat...

#gischat

Maps by MicheleTobias

micheletobias.github.io

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21d

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 22d

One more sick day for me. If you get this cold, please try harder not to share it than the person who shared it with me did. It’s miserable.
Miscus with her cheese toy to brighten up your feed.

A photo of a grey and white tuxedo cat runbing her face on a cat toy that looks like a wedge of cheese.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 22d

I’m hanging out on the couch with this guy today because RTO with no telework is only really good policy for viruses.

A photo of a small tan dog sitting on a couch. He has one ear standing up and the other flopping down.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 25d

Yesterday was awesome.
Morning: took a tap workshop class at my dance studio.
Evening: saw &Juliet on tour.
I highly recommend both for a break from doing science in ::waives hands around:: all this.

A photo of a stage set for the opening act of the play & Juliet.

Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 26d

I’m grateful for being exempt & knowing I’ll get paid on time, but it is really hard to just keep working through a shutdown. It’s like we’re being gaslit into thinking everything is normal and not total chaos around us.

Penzey being stressed out with pumpkins for my fellow feds.

A photo of a small tan dog with his tongue out, sitting in front of a large display of pumpkins.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 27d

I should probably say “appears to be an epic violation.”

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 27d

This is an epic violation. Pretty much every fed knows this because we get notified about the Hatch Act all the time. Even people who count fish and are nowhere near the political side of government get this stuff drilled into us regularly.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 27d

Same.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 28d

Confirmed- we’re exempt from furloughs & working through. The good part is that we get regular pay checks. (Exempt =/= excepted, which means working but not getting paid till the end.) The bad part is everything else.
Pic of Penzey rearranging a blanket for maximum coziness for my fellow feds.

A photo of a small tan dog using his teeth to rearrange a blue blanket.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · 29d

My office is funded by interagency agreements so we usually keep working through shutdowns. We’ll find out tomorrow morning if that’s the case again this time.
Here’s a cute picture of Penzey the dog for my fellow Feds on this shutdown eve.

A photo of a small tan dog looking over his shoulder at the camera. His eyebrows are lifted so he’s doing a classic puppy-dog eyes.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · Sep 24

I’m loving that I get to mentor a bunch of early career scientists who are making posters for a local conference. I’m having the best conversations with them and it’s fun to see people getting excited about finding patterns in our long-term fish monitoring data.
🧪👩‍🔬🌎 🐟

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · Sep 23

Minor revisions! This paper is about extracting DNA from fish that are preserved in formalin. DNA is totally not my expertise, but I learned a lot helping out with stats and graphs. It’s so fun to be part of these collaborative science projects where I get to learn new stuff.

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Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thank you!

Vanessa Tobias @marshprincess.bsky.social · Sep 16

Congrats! That never gets old, at least it doesn’t for me.

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