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@abigailthiemkey Epic news! Way to go.

Yay, now that I’ve officially been accepted in the grad school… this fall I’ll be starting my PhD journey at University of Maryland College Park, studying Maryland’s black bear population and spatial ecology. I am so pumped to work with the team there. YAY BLACK BEARS!

@PFforPhDs Saving! Grad student stipends are often flat through the program and don't change (enough) with inflation, so saving early can really help.

What topics would you want included in a "financial orientation" to graduate school?

A stellar jay for a stellar season 3! Thank you to the thousands of volunteers identifying 📸 wildlife for Canyon Critters on the @the_zooniverse. Season 4 releases tomorrow. #cameratraps

also yes, using progenitor because it was worth $2000 yesterday in @Jeopardy

found a dissertation progenitor! love when same questions appear in vastly different systems (new england bats 🦇 vs southwestern ringtails 🦝)

@MustelidMay what undergraduate can work 3+ months through the summer and into october?

Daily wages like this should not be legal. Thx

@wareslab 1000%

@SarahKnutie @uconneeb @NSF @UConnResearch @UConnOUR @UConn @SICB_ The posters are beautiful, too!

🌕!OVER THE MOON!🌕 Both incoming grad students in my lab @UConnEEB Sila Inanoglu (right) and Lorraine Pérez (left) received @NSF GRFP awards this year!🏅 I could not be more honored to be part of their journeys😭 🪰+MORE PARASITES!+🪰 @UConnResearch @UConnOUR @UConn @SICB_

Thankful to have kept this box of empty bags after labwork on top of my bookshelf for several months. There was some missing data entries and I was able to find the bag with our written #backup 🪄💰

@wareslab that front rack is awesome

In one week exactly, #canyoncritters we have 50k classifications, almost a quarter through our target! Thanks @the_zooniverse #cameratraps #raccoon canyoncritters.org

WOW. this journal was previously #Vegetatio, which in 1989 the entire editorial board quit due to poor publishing principles. I guess 35 years laters things haven't changed jstor.org/stable/3236047…

I guess I'll send an email, but suspect with 6 years passing since publication these data are locked up... dissappointing as seems like big effort and valuable #plantfrugivore interactions @SiavashHeshmati

Exhausted by yet another 2010+ review and meta-analysis with no provenance of compiled studies or open data. Cited 60 refs, which surely don't include the 79 papers they extracted data from. #additional-information" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Never seen the word "addle" before, then today twice: NYT mini crossword + a paper about brood parasitism and addling eggs. good word.

I'll stay tuned & hope that @DukeU finds a solution. Other collections take note: either you're next to be cut or receive an #inheritedcollection, which can exacerbate your own viability. Either way, the archives are struggling, making the #specimens and science suffer too. [8/8]

The Herbarium has an incomplete roster. Emeritus curators should not be the only contact for a taxa group. To stay balanced and relevant, collections need to maintain working curators who are actively applying to grants, training students, and using the collection. [7/8]

@DukeU's herbarium decision hits home: one-time big donations and short-term outrage are not effective to fund a museum. Museums need to have sustainable, ongoing funding measures. Many parts of the story missing! [1/8] dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…