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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D.

@dralgaegirl.bsky.social

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Professor of Biology/Ecology and #TriBeta advisor doing #SLACScience. I focus on understanding how human activities affect freshwater algal biochemistry. Gardener, hiker, baker, dog/cat mom. RP ≠ endorsement.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · May 29

Finally getting to a good place with this presentation! It's still not nearly as much data as I'd hoped to have ready by this point, but that's the way it goes! Come see me next week at #IAGLR2025!

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 11h

The course will feature daytime workshops with specialists like @dralgaegirl.bsky.social so students learn that knowledge is distributed and collaboration is key, and evening workshops on science communication, grad school and careers, and more. They also eat reasonably well for a field course.

Dinner and grad school night, graduate students from our MS program came to talk about picking programs, etc. This is a picture of students and grad presenters at dinner in our field station. On the table is challah, baked salmon, red picked cabbage, and frosted cauliflower.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 11h

June 11 -27, 2026, I'm teaching a 16-day field course on stream ecology. It's heavily focused on independent research projects, so they get some exposure to field research. Open to students from any institution. DM with your email if you want a poster to send your students. #Ecology #PUI #insects

Students learning to electrofish in a small stream in the woods.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Day161 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with Busycon carica. K-college educators left with similar prizes from PRI's teacher resource day today, supplying 40+ teachers
#savePRI ⚒️ 🧪

John oliver holding a large fossil whelk in a checked shirt in front of a green background

Crowded room of teachers sorting through long rows of tables covered in free specimens. Mostly of mollusks, but also publications, fossils, minerals and chemistry labware.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 1d

It was doggy bath day so of course Kestrel tried to break my nose with her thick head. My nose is fine and I could never be mad at this face

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 2d

Do MC tolerate more ("meh, that's how it is and I can ignore that) or less ("fuck this shit")?? I could see it going either way.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 2d

I absolutely support this! Additional hard mode, I now drive a state where I didn't learn to drive. Who knows what specific state rules exist here I don't know!

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 3d

I really hope this is successful! Please apply! Contact me if you have questions!

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3d

@sse-evolution.bsky.social just announced the following:

Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups
The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) invites proposals for sponsored Research Synthesis Working Groups at the 2026 Evolution meeting (up to two in-person and one virtual). ...

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 2d

Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞

This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia

The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 2d

Getting my steps today walking all over campus trying figure out how the hell family medical leave works.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 3d

I am so behind on my new director/chair duties that I'm truly terrified. I don't even know where to begin.....

Good news is no matter what I do, I've done something.

michael scott from the office says `` all i can do right now is put on a brave face '' .

ALT: michael scott from the office says `` all i can do right now is put on a brave face '' .

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4d

So far, Republicans would rather shut down the government. So Americans face flight delays, reduced services, and mounting economic damage.

It's time for Trump and Republicans to change course on health care and reopen the government.

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Julie Huber, PhD @julesdeep.bsky.social · 4d

My life changed when I first read "The Sea Around Us." Rachel Carson's words captured my 13-yr old sense of wonder for a place I barely knew but felt for so deeply, the ocean. Honored to speak to her legacy @agu.org and grateful to my colleagues for the nomination 🌊💙

www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union

WHOI’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the AGU

www.whoi.edu

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 4d

Thank goodness!

Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 5d

I'm doing a government thing! Hubs has been on the zoning board for 2 years now and gave me a pep talk: "Don't expect to accomplish anything". Thanks....

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe. But my mom is 75, with
a history of heart disease and a 3x cancer survivor. A little dehydration
isn't a potential death knell for me like it is for her. Also I'm on the other side of the continent, if shit goes sideways im 2 days away at best, I need a heads up.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 6d

Also, same with my mom....I had just started my new job and didn't find out she'd had a heart attack and stent insertion until after she was home from the hospital.

Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 6d

What IS IT with that generation?! Are they worried we'll send them to a leper colony?

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 6d

I get that...but if things go south, I'm on the other side of the continent. Even if I drop everything to rush to her, it's 2 days at least. I need a bit of warning.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 6d

Probably not, but I'm also not 75, with a history of heart disease and a 3x cancer survivor. A little dehydration isn't a potential death knell for me like it is for her.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 6d

Why do our parents generation insist on not keeping us informed of their health because they "don't want to bother us"? Just found out my mom was in the hospital last week with food poisoning....

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