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Dr. Allie Tissot
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PhD • Ecotoxicologist • Pesticides & Plastics • #T1D • #AuDHD • Portland, OR 💙
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On Thursday I defended my PhD dissertation and I’m officially Dr. Tissot 🥹💪🏼
Allie is standing in front of a PowerPoint that says “Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms” looking very proud. She’s wearing a floral button up shirt and black pants and a shell lei. A group of people are standing with Allie in a conference room, all smiling. One of them is holding up a laptop with a person on Zoom also smiling.
May 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Yesterday was disability awareness day (oops)! I have a number of disabilities ranging from chronic illness to neurodivergence, but one that really rules my day to day is Type 1 Diabetes. 1/
A brunette femme is smiling and wearing glasses and a striped crop top. She is holding up a Tandem insulin pump, it is black and rectangular and connected to her stomach by a long, thin tube. A brunette femme is smiling and holding an adorable tuxedo cat. She’s wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt and holding it up to show her continuous glucose monitor on her stomach, a small ovalish shaped device with avocado tape around it.
December 4, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Hey everyone! I figured I should go ahead and introduce myself. My name is Allie Tissot and I’m an ecotoxicologist who primarily studies pesticides and microplastics and their effects on marine invertebrates. I’m queer and disabled and very passionate about intersectional environmentalism. 🩵
A brunette femme is sitting on a marine dock wearing waders, a red jacket, and a black Wayne’s World hat. She’s assembling a POCIS canister. A brunette femme is smiling while wearing waders and a blue baseball hat. She’s kneeling in a mudflat and digging a hole, searching for clams. A smiling brunette femme is standing in a laboratory in front of an orange-ish sea star who is roughly the size of her upper body. A brunette femme is in a laboratory wearing a lab coat and a fabric mask. She’s holding a micropipetter and adding a solution from a jar into an aquarium.
December 3, 2024 at 1:10 AM