Mia Tayler Waters

@snakeymama @feline_cannon I would immediately build them a pond. 🥺

@feline_cannon I know, this photo made me want to get out a hose so bad

Caption this.

How academia can support low-income students—without singling us out science.org/content/articl…

Homelessness can happen to anyone, including me, as the senior author of this paper. When I got my PhD from @Princeton in 2013, my housing lease expired, I could not leave the country as my student status also expired, and my work permit from the Canada was in limbo because the Canadian consulate was on strike. So I was homeless, due to no fault on my own. But thankfully I had amazing friends who let me couch surf for weeks on end, while at the same time I was starting my lab remotely in Vancouver as a new faculty at @UBC. I was lucky to have different couches to sleep on but the stress was horrendous!! The work permit finally came through after 3 months of waiting, I was able to fly to Vancouver, got my first pay check and housing. The rest is history. I just want people to re-consider what a homeless person is like. For every homeless individual on the street, there are 2-3 times more hidden homeless people couch surfing or sleeping in their cars. They just need cash to get back into housing. That’s why I did the study, together with Foundations for Social Change. @F4SocialChange @naehomelessness @homelesshub @NationalHomeles @CAEHomelessness @homelessimpact @COHomelessness

Direct link to the database here! 🤩 sites.google.com/view/parental-…

@tngrainger and @AJGorton thank you and everyone involved for creating this resource!! 🙏

I definitely relate to this! 😂

Supplementary materials should exude warmth to any reader who dares venture through them. "Dearest reader, friend, explorer, I'm sorry some complex set of events in your life have brought you to this section..."

@KBalp @Ecology_forlife This is much cooler than the random "Ralph" that came to my mind. 😅

@Ecology_forlife He’s lovely! The theory goes that ‘sirtalis’ from Linnaeus combed Latin and Greek words, (Greek for cord, rope, or string) and talis (Latin for such, the like), so “ropelike”. So how about Stringer?

#AcademicTwitter what are your favorite Text-to-Speech apps for reading papers? Are there any that allow you to filter out citations etc to streamline listening to the main text?

@acrlackey Thank you for coming! 😊

Thought-provoking talk by @miatwaters on how we design reciprocal transplant studies. Density of local competitors have dramatic consequences for fitness of plants locally & not locally adapted #Evol2023

@BenGFreeman1 I hope you were following the recipe for this one... it looks a bit dry.

mistakes were made

@shubs1729 That was such a great talk, Shubha! Really amazing to see how density and age of founding females makes a lasting difference through 6 generations! :O This is going to directly inform how I set up an experiment this summer, thank you!!

Does the age of females and the densities they come from matter for adaptation? Catch me at the Adaptation session on Saturday morning (11:45 am MDT) to find out the answer. I'm looking forward to my first talk and first international conference!

@_jbenning This was a really great read! Market Science sounds brilliant. I'll be looking forward to parts 2 and 3!

Some thoughts on science outreach: johnbenning.net/2023/04/11/the…

@ZJAyres I really needed this reminder today, thank you. 🥹

This is so helpful! 🙌

@Square_Hare Ahh amazing, congrats Lydia!! I know how hard you worked on this! 👏🎉

First paper from my PhD 🥳

This seems like a great approach!

Somewhere, very near you, is a tiny being, just going about their day. They don’t care about you, or me, nor any of our worries. And I find so much comfort in that 💚🐌

@DrCBeardsworth I think this is quite lovely! 😂

THIS majestic cover pic is from a camera trap?! While we were getting photos like this?!