Dr. Amanda Stanley
@astanley.bsky.social
Non profit leader, scientist, rabble-rouser, puzzle master.
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
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The protection of 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska from drilling and mining has been finalized. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://buff.ly/4bZlcOK
July 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM
The protection of 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska from drilling and mining has been finalized. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://buff.ly/4bZlcOK
I SO want this printed on fabric so I can make mussel tees
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I’ve been playing with using some natural history prints to make repeat patterns. For #InverteFest2024 I thought I would share some #invertebrate patterns like this one #linocut. 🐡🧪
The blue or common mussel (Mytilus edulis) is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae.
The blue or common mussel (Mytilus edulis) is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae.
April 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I SO want this printed on fabric so I can make mussel tees
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Xylem Arbor is composed of 224 unique aluminum panels which climb a 120’ tall atrium. As you travel up the building, the patterns, shapes, and colors morph, evoking different structures from the natural world from lilypads to coral and leaf veins to dragonfly wings n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9558 🐡
April 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Xylem Arbor is composed of 224 unique aluminum panels which climb a 120’ tall atrium. As you travel up the building, the patterns, shapes, and colors morph, evoking different structures from the natural world from lilypads to coral and leaf veins to dragonfly wings n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9558 🐡
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i’ve been giggling for the past five minutes
April 6, 2024 at 6:08 PM
i’ve been giggling for the past five minutes
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Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...
Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.
web.archive.org
March 5, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...
Love seeing beavers making themselves at home in a very urban watershed! Carkeek park, Seattle
March 3, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Love seeing beavers making themselves at home in a very urban watershed! Carkeek park, Seattle
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📣 Climate Job Alert!
Do you have a social science background and passion for climate justice? The Climate Impacts Group at Univ. of Washington is hiring a research scientist to support climate justice research and outreach through the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. Learn more & apply:
Do you have a social science background and passion for climate justice? The Climate Impacts Group at Univ. of Washington is hiring a research scientist to support climate justice research and outreach through the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. Learn more & apply:
Join our team and support climate justice research & outreach! | Climate Impacts Group
Do you have a background in the social sciences and a passion for climate or environmental justice? Apply to join the Climate Impacts Group team!The Climate Impacts Group is hiring a research scientis...
cig.uw.edu
February 21, 2024 at 6:33 PM
📣 Climate Job Alert!
Do you have a social science background and passion for climate justice? The Climate Impacts Group at Univ. of Washington is hiring a research scientist to support climate justice research and outreach through the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. Learn more & apply:
Do you have a social science background and passion for climate justice? The Climate Impacts Group at Univ. of Washington is hiring a research scientist to support climate justice research and outreach through the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. Learn more & apply:
So we’ve been watching the 2nd season of Strange New Worlds (I know we’re a little late to the party) and we just got to the musical episode and bless my stars that was FABULOUS 🤯
February 29, 2024 at 3:44 AM
So we’ve been watching the 2nd season of Strange New Worlds (I know we’re a little late to the party) and we just got to the musical episode and bless my stars that was FABULOUS 🤯
Band nerds, please explain this to me.
My kid’s jazz band teacher is out all week because of a sousaphone injury and I am just…what??? How????
February 28, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Band nerds, please explain this to me.
My kid’s jazz band teacher is out all week because of a sousaphone injury and I am just…what??? How????
February 28, 2024 at 5:05 AM
My kid’s jazz band teacher is out all week because of a sousaphone injury and I am just…what??? How????
It’s a balmy 50°, perfect Seattle beach weather. Kid you not two guys in shorts were slathering on sunscreen. People are jumping in the water (and running out again very quickly). Seattle ❤️
February 23, 2024 at 11:57 PM
It’s a balmy 50°, perfect Seattle beach weather. Kid you not two guys in shorts were slathering on sunscreen. People are jumping in the water (and running out again very quickly). Seattle ❤️
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Plucky crew of "Star Trek: Discovery" seeks a strange artifact in S5 trailer—the final season for the series. "It has been a hell of a journey. But everything ends someday." arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
Plucky crew of Star Trek: Discovery seeks a strange artifact in S5 trailer
"It has been a hell of a journey. But everything ends someday."
arstechnica.com
February 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Plucky crew of "Star Trek: Discovery" seeks a strange artifact in S5 trailer—the final season for the series. "It has been a hell of a journey. But everything ends someday." arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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The evidence could not be more clear: abortions with mifepristone, one of the most studied drugs in history, are extremely safe. The few flimsy and biased studies suggesting otherwise were just retracted 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/flim...
Flimsy Antiabortion Studies Cited in Case to Ban Mifepristone Are Retracted
Outside experts found that two studies cited in a federal case on medication abortion had serious design problems and that their authors had undisclosed conflicts of interest
www.scientificamerican.com
February 23, 2024 at 8:49 PM
The evidence could not be more clear: abortions with mifepristone, one of the most studied drugs in history, are extremely safe. The few flimsy and biased studies suggesting otherwise were just retracted 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/flim...
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I have travel, room, and board for an art student interested in spending 10 weeks at Friday Harbor Labs this spring. Our awardee could not make it.
Apply here, decision Monday:
fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x1c6oi...
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Apply here, decision Monday:
fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x1c6oi...
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February 14, 2024 at 2:20 AM
I have travel, room, and board for an art student interested in spending 10 weeks at Friday Harbor Labs this spring. Our awardee could not make it.
Apply here, decision Monday:
fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x1c6oi...
🐡
Apply here, decision Monday:
fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x1c6oi...
🐡
My sister and I have been shopping/ running errands this afternoon and it may become an annual tradition. The parking lots are *empty*. There were like 3 other people in the grocery store. It’s the best!
February 12, 2024 at 1:27 AM
My sister and I have been shopping/ running errands this afternoon and it may become an annual tradition. The parking lots are *empty*. There were like 3 other people in the grocery store. It’s the best!
the first non-academic non-sciencey job I interviewed for, I went through much shenanigans to make sure no one would know I was nursing a 5-month old. The org, like many NGOs, was absolutely family friendly, I just couldn’t imagine a workplace that didn’t actually discriminate against moms
This paper is wild and needs to be boosted again. Academic job searches do things like trawl female candidates' fb posts to find out about their partner, and make hiring decisions on assumptions.
They do this when they know an anthropologist is in the room writing about it! Wtf!!!
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They do this when they know an anthropologist is in the room writing about it! Wtf!!!
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And then there is this dynamic: hiring committees not making offers to married women because they expect those candidates not to accept the offers...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
February 9, 2024 at 3:41 PM
the first non-academic non-sciencey job I interviewed for, I went through much shenanigans to make sure no one would know I was nursing a 5-month old. The org, like many NGOs, was absolutely family friendly, I just couldn’t imagine a workplace that didn’t actually discriminate against moms
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“It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria, it’s rapid-onset parental discovery.” 🧪 The panic about social contagion is dangerous and misinformed and puts transgender people at risk www.scientificamerican.com/article/evid...
Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims
Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science
www.scientificamerican.com
February 2, 2024 at 10:04 PM
“It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria, it’s rapid-onset parental discovery.” 🧪 The panic about social contagion is dangerous and misinformed and puts transgender people at risk www.scientificamerican.com/article/evid...
There’s a legit scientific method that involves dunking a small mammal in a bag of fluorescent powder (aka the “shake and bake” technique) & letting it go; at night with a black light you can see where it goes (microhabitat data!)
Seeing a hot pink chipmunk scampering off is $&*%ing hilarious
Seeing a hot pink chipmunk scampering off is $&*%ing hilarious
February 2, 2024 at 4:10 PM
There’s a legit scientific method that involves dunking a small mammal in a bag of fluorescent powder (aka the “shake and bake” technique) & letting it go; at night with a black light you can see where it goes (microhabitat data!)
Seeing a hot pink chipmunk scampering off is $&*%ing hilarious
Seeing a hot pink chipmunk scampering off is $&*%ing hilarious
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It's hard to believe today is my last day at COMPASS! As I head off for a much needed break, I've been reflecting on this journey and all I've learned from my amazing colleagues and partners along the way. These are the most important lessons I'm carrying with me, into whatever comes next.
Lessons in Leadership | COMPASS
My journey with COMPASS began 12 years ago, when I was a newish Program Officer at Wilburforce Foundation, trying to find ways for science to more effectively inform conservation. We […]
www.compassscicomm.org
January 31, 2024 at 6:26 PM
It's hard to believe today is my last day at COMPASS! As I head off for a much needed break, I've been reflecting on this journey and all I've learned from my amazing colleagues and partners along the way. These are the most important lessons I'm carrying with me, into whatever comes next.
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📣 Exciting climate job opportunity: Apply to be the new Washington State Climatologist! If you have expertise in meteorology, climatology, or a similar field & you want to serve as an expert source of climate and weather information for the state of Washington, apply today!
Now Hiring: Washington State Climatologist | Climate Impacts Group
The Office of the Washington State Climatologist and the Climate Impacts Group are hiring a State Climatologist to lead the activities of the Office of the Washington State Climatologist. APPLY NOW ...
cig.uw.edu
January 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
📣 Exciting climate job opportunity: Apply to be the new Washington State Climatologist! If you have expertise in meteorology, climatology, or a similar field & you want to serve as an expert source of climate and weather information for the state of Washington, apply today!
This fun event space I was at last night had an 'emergency affirmation' button in the loo. (Of course I pressed it.) I got some lovely bingly chimes and a cheery voice saying "you are AWESOME!!!". four stars, highly recommend
January 28, 2024 at 10:36 PM
This fun event space I was at last night had an 'emergency affirmation' button in the loo. (Of course I pressed it.) I got some lovely bingly chimes and a cheery voice saying "you are AWESOME!!!". four stars, highly recommend
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LOL sob. Taken from a friend on Facebook.
January 25, 2024 at 3:50 PM
LOL sob. Taken from a friend on Facebook.
After 6+ years as ED, next week I'll be stepping away from COMPASS. It's been such a privilege to work with this amazing team and community!
I'm sad to go, but also I'm excited to take some time for rest, reflection, and reconnection with family, friends, and nature before charting my next course.
I'm sad to go, but also I'm excited to take some time for rest, reflection, and reconnection with family, friends, and nature before charting my next course.
COMPASS’s Leadership Transition | COMPASS
With much gratitude for her leadership for over 6 years, we say a warm farewell to our Executive Director, Amanda Stanley. Even before joining the COMPASS team, Amanda worked with […]
www.compassscicomm.org
January 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
After 6+ years as ED, next week I'll be stepping away from COMPASS. It's been such a privilege to work with this amazing team and community!
I'm sad to go, but also I'm excited to take some time for rest, reflection, and reconnection with family, friends, and nature before charting my next course.
I'm sad to go, but also I'm excited to take some time for rest, reflection, and reconnection with family, friends, and nature before charting my next course.
Welp, looks like this is how university administrators will respond to grad student unionization efforts
“…ASU plans to use ChatGPT to build personalized AI tutors and offer writing help to students in one of its largest classes, Freshman Composition.” 🫠
OpenAI launches partnership with ASU, allowing full use of ChatGPT
It comes as schools at all levels grapple with whether and how to embrace generative AI.
www.axios.com
January 19, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Welp, looks like this is how university administrators will respond to grad student unionization efforts