Kate D. Wilkins (She/her)

Funding Alert! 🚨 Field Inclusive is now offering a $500 Research Grant to support field work in the natural sciences! The application is open & can be downloaded at fieldinclusive.org/grants/. The deadline for this 1st grant is February 1, 2023. Please share this far & wide!

Academia to women in academia.....

I was in a meeting where the Dean said, as they’ve said before, “we’re going to have to do more with less” and I replied “or maybe we just do less with less” and the room got really quiet. I think about that sometimes.

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Across 100 sites globally, @DroughtNet found that extreme drought cut grassland production much more than might have been suspected. Science Magazine covered the group's first-year results presented at #ESA2022 by @CubanKate! Very relevant today. science.org/content/articl…

The Carina Nebula is one of the first targets of the James Webb Space Telescope. More: cutt.ly/fZy9iSy

A closeup of Jupiter’s clouds from the Juno Spacecraft

It's the longest day of the year! (Or the shortest, if you're below the Equator.) Join us for a quick #SummerSolstice2022 thread 🌞

BREAKING: This evening alone, the United States of America has been struck by no fewer than 6 natural disasters. A thread on these events. 🧵 First, a massive flash flood has torn through Yellowstone National Park destroying roads and bridges. twitter.com/YellowstoneNPS…

Have a terrific Tuesday! Take a moment to watch birds, birds are brilliant! Malachite Kingfisher #Uganda #birdphotography #tuesdayvibe #TuesdayMotivaton #birding #TwitterNatureCommunity #wildlifephotography #kingfisher

NoCO GIS Folks - don't forget - Mappy Hour on Thursday at Avos in Fort Collins!

Check out this new species (Lamarckdromia beagle) of sponge crab from Albany, Western Australia. Sponge crabs are like hermit crabs, but instead of shells they make a shelter out of living sponges that they trim with their tiny claws! 🦀 doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

Hi y'all! You may follow me for the baby bird science or the bird photos (or the really bad attempts at bird photos) but remember that behind the camera and tweets is a real person. A person that happens to be a trans, non-binary, queer person. Why does that matter? 1/17

some rejected dissertation titles

Our new study shows that data availability statements are not very useful; 1670 (93%) authors who indicated that data are available on request either did not respond or declined to share their data with us. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcli…

Sagebrush photogrammetry. Preliminary model output at 0.57mm spatial resolution. Vegetation structure and aboveground biomass. May 2022, Boise. @SERDP_ESTCP @brookebosborne @Wkolby @ecology_awesome

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.