@scijenntist.bsky.social
PhD student @UCI in The Butterfly Vision and Genomes Lab 🦋🧬 Evolutionary Genetics 👩🔬🧪 Proud First Generation Latina Scientist 🇲🇽
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Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.
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For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of carbon— a measure of economic harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions. ⬇️
Study Finds Ocean Impacts Nearly Double Economic Cost of Climate Change
For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of ca...
scripps.ucsd.edu
January 15, 2026 at 8:52 PM
For the first time, a study from researchers at Scripps Oceanography and @gpsucsd.bsky.social integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of carbon— a measure of economic harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions. ⬇️
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Some little guys at work
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Some little guys at work
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Move over, tardigrades, there's another life-form that can survive in space 🧪
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
Meet the Weird and Wonderful Life-forms That Can Survive in Space
The moss Physcomitrium patens joins tardigrades and thale-cress as a species that has survived in space
www.scientificamerican.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Move over, tardigrades, there's another life-form that can survive in space 🧪
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
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This tiny T. rex is actually a new species. Nanotyrannus settles a big and 'acrimonius' paleontology debate. #TRex #Dinosaurs
Link for more: www.popsci.com/science/tiny...
Link for more: www.popsci.com/science/tiny...
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This tiny T. rex is actually a new species. Nanotyrannus settles a big and 'acrimonius' paleontology debate. #TRex #Dinosaurs
Link for more: www.popsci.com/science/tiny...
Link for more: www.popsci.com/science/tiny...
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“‘Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us…We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“‘Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us…We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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We are excited to welcome new members to our network of affiliated initiatives!
🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to sequence the genomes of all butterflies and moths of Europe, supporting their conservation, protection and driving innovation.
🦋 Learn more: www.projectpsyche.org #Lepidoptera
🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to sequence the genomes of all butterflies and moths of Europe, supporting their conservation, protection and driving innovation.
🦋 Learn more: www.projectpsyche.org #Lepidoptera
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We are excited to welcome new members to our network of affiliated initiatives!
🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to sequence the genomes of all butterflies and moths of Europe, supporting their conservation, protection and driving innovation.
🦋 Learn more: www.projectpsyche.org #Lepidoptera
🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to sequence the genomes of all butterflies and moths of Europe, supporting their conservation, protection and driving innovation.
🦋 Learn more: www.projectpsyche.org #Lepidoptera
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Me (flirting):
what’s your favorite bug and why?
what’s your favorite bug and why?
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Me (flirting):
what’s your favorite bug and why?
what’s your favorite bug and why?
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🐙 Scripps Oceanography scientists have engineered bacteria to mass‑produce the pigment that lets octopuses and squids change color! This breakthrough not only sheds light on animal chemistry but also paves the way for sustainable, bio‑based materials. t.co/Oitp8NnntR
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🐙 Scripps Oceanography scientists have engineered bacteria to mass‑produce the pigment that lets octopuses and squids change color! This breakthrough not only sheds light on animal chemistry but also paves the way for sustainable, bio‑based materials. t.co/Oitp8NnntR
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I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...
I'm a biologist. Here's why I wrote about U.S. history (1929-1939)
I was one of those Mexican American elementary school children in California who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s not knowing about the deportation or forced expulsion of 350,000-500,000 people of Mexic...
communities.springernature.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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This is going to make you feel very small.
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.
May 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This is going to make you feel very small.
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.
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Grateful and happy my PhD student Jennifer Sanchez Soriano has been awarded a research grant from the Joshua Tree National Park Association to conduct a population genetic survey of a park butterfly.
April 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Grateful and happy my PhD student Jennifer Sanchez Soriano has been awarded a research grant from the Joshua Tree National Park Association to conduct a population genetic survey of a park butterfly.
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The Christmas Tree in Space...
December 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The Christmas Tree in Space...
First PhD committee meeting tomorrow! Man I have a fat headache 😅 here we gooooo
December 10, 2024 at 3:14 AM
First PhD committee meeting tomorrow! Man I have a fat headache 😅 here we gooooo
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I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
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Just a little baby.
November 21, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Just a little baby.
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The skull nebula
Image credit:- NASA Hubble
Image credit:- NASA Hubble
November 20, 2024 at 7:06 AM
The skull nebula
Image credit:- NASA Hubble
Image credit:- NASA Hubble