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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she)

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Wandering and lost. If you find me, please point me in the right direction. Earth scientist, professor, mom, living with disability, animal lover, amateur gardener, advocate for fixing lack of D.E.I. in science and academia.

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · Aug 24

👋 I’m an earth scientist prof studying water 💦 & landscapes🏔️ & advocating for open source but I dig all science posts 🧬. I post on my science, dogs 🐕 , & struggles as a working mom 🫩, neurodivergence, and access and inclusion problem in science & academia🎓. Welcome & be kind. 🤗 my views only

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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 19h

it’s the LAST CHANCE to vote in round 1 of #CatchmentCup2025!! make sure your vote counts in helping us find the most remarkable catchment of 2035!

If you haven't yet voted for your favorite HUMAN-IMPACTED catchments, vote at www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup until 5 pm EST TODAY!!!

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 20h

Increasingly in favour of the Marie Kondo approach to collaborations in science. Does your collaborator spark joy? If not ➡️♻️🗑️

No one's skills or knowledge are so unique or indispensable that they get to make your day miserable with every interaction. 🧪🔭

a teddy bear is standing in front of a blue door

ALT: a teddy bear is standing in front of a blue door

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 21h

My swamp sunflowers!

Dense green stems leaning to the left with lots of yellow swamp sunflowers (smaller than regular sunflowers)

Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 21h

Hearing someone say that families with autistic members deserve support literally makes me cry.

That’s how bad it has gotten for some of us

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 21h

When my kid is home alone over a meal, sometimes we use DoorDash for feeding and that is what they choose. It’s not ideal but just trying to survive. And yes, indication of a very broken system

Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 21h

Day 14 of President’s shutdown. Literally millions of people aren’t getting paid, won’t get paid. It’s barely in the news. What is happening?

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 1d

For the first matchup in Round 1: Human-Impacted catchments, we have Minneapolis-St. Paul LTER vs the HEART CZO!

CHECK THIS THREAD for fun facts about these critical catchments, and don’t forget to vote at www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup by 5pm ET tomorrow (10/14)

the Mississippi river flowing through the city of Minneapolis, with the skyline in the background and the river creeping up the banks

the Pandu river as it flows near Kanpur, with wide sandy banks on either side and tall buildings in the background

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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 1d

For our next matchup in Round 1 Human-Impacted catchments, we have Bulimba Creek vs the Po River!

Check out some cool info about these two catchments below, and keep those votes rolling in at www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup by 5pm ET tomorrow (10/14)

the small Bulimba Creek flowing over rocks and leaf mats through a dense green forest

the large, fast moving Po river, crossed by a bridge in the distance with large deciduous trees on its banks

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Street art in LA:
Guardians of Pedophiles

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 2d

I have some words for Nicole of 4 weeks ago who agreed to give two brand-new, different-topic, talks in a 5 day span 😱

Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 2d

Reading a book and was really relating to the neurodivergent character … until she became the murderer 😵‍💫😑😬

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 3d

I applied for other jobs for years and never had offers, so it’s a non starter.

We have a special needs child. Figuring out how to support her has been hell, TBH. Moving her now would likely mean reverting back to violence. I cant do that again, or maybe don’t want to, but does that matter?

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 4d

I am curious to hear from American friends who are currently serving on academic search committees - are you seeing drops in applicant numbers from foreign nationals? #AcademicSky

Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 5d

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 4d

Day 10 of hubs working without a guarantee of pay and talk of orangie getting the peace prize is really really insulting.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 5d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 5d

Most of us don’t have that opportunity. And for those of us with family obligations it’s often non starter

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PLOS Mental Health @plosmentalhealth.org · 5d

This #WorldMentalHealthDay we focus on service access in times of crisis.

We highlight content from our journal and across @plos.org (@plosglobalpublichealth.org and PLOS Medicine), which aims to improve well-being in the face of mass trauma

speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/10/10/w...

World Mental Health Day 2025: Access to Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies - Speaking of Medicine and Health

This year, the theme for World Mental Health Day is ‘access to services – mental health in catastrophes and emergencies’. Supporting those…

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 5d

🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 5d

just going to leave this here

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Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review

Abstract. Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate whether higher writing standards contribute to the p

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 5d

Sooooooooooooooooooo
What about the destruction of our country?

Opinion | Give Trump the Nobel for Gaza, if He Does the Harder Parts to Come

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone looking for fun content for your #hydrology course, check out @geodesaurus.bsky.social on Instagram where they post a “spooky lake month” video every day of October. Amazing teaching tools!! And my 12 yo is addicted 👻💀

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 5d

Caption contest

A sign showing a cartoony person who appears to be sitting but on air. This person is leaning on a table and there is the top half of a person on top of the table.

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 5d

It’s important that all governments focus on the most important issues right now…

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 6d

The @europarl.europa.eu just made a fool of itself with this ban. Is there evidence that consumers think a "veggie burger" contains meat? Utterly ridiculous, and just (further) undermines the credibility of the institution (at the behest of the EPP).
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EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.