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Ecologist, Data Scientist, Geospatial Analyst | Mitchell Scholar 🇮🇪 | Goldwater Scholar🔬| AMDG CX, CXV 🏳️‍🌈

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🚨🌎 Proud to announce my first first-author paper! With incredible work by the @GibertLab , we found a striking functional divergence in peatland protist traits despite a compositional convergence in the protist communities under simulated climate change
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Anyone ever wonder how much better the Al Gore won the 2000 election timeline would be
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@nytimes @TheAthletic Who “programs” a child?!?!
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@jono1221 @julopessouzas You’d be surprised by how much power grant-generating abusive faculty have over other faculty members/the university. Even big schools like Duke seem unable to do anything about abusers
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@MarcusShepard OP: Im tHe KiNg Of BoUnDaRiEs Also OP: posts a private conversation to the internet to shame the other party without their consent
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who said nerds can’t slay
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Should @elonmusk bring back Vine? 👇. 👇. 👇. yes. yes. yes.
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Congrats to Space Force for not doing their ONE JOB #UFOs
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dream maker ☘️ heart breaker
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@NateSilver538 15% seems quite large, given that if he loses those voters in November, he loses Michigan
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turning 30 and the glow-up is just beginning
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Gen-Z is *avocado* toast
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In 2016, I had the honor of giving a @univofscranton Commencement Speech. Words unfortunately still relevant as people celebrate selfishness & external validation; as our world moves towards fascism. Listen & share—build a better world from the bricks of the walls we tear down.
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How’re those thoughts and prayers working…something about gun toting & bible clinging
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Recently, I asked 50 @DukeU undergraduates if they'd read a Philosophy book. The answer: 0/50. Philosophy teaches you how to critically evaluate the world, others, and most importantly yourself. Everyone should read Philosophy. With that in mind here's 6 books to start: 🧵1/7
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ThOuGhTs & pRaYeRs
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@MSNBC The jumpsuit will match his face
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We’ve truly crossed the Orwellian Rubicon with book banning and state-sponsored propaganda through Fox ‘News’
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@trappychan_ Guyana’s government tried bilateral diplomatic talks for 50+ years to settle the matter, so stop with your false talking points
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@GaetaAmy It allows for trust to be built and for our brains to process situations. Obviously you want to move past small talk, but jumping too quickly into deep conversation doesn’t allow the brain to process and allow for trust to be formed. Jumping too quickly into deep talk is a 🚩
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@Kulesh0vEffect TikTok is to Zoomers what Facebook is to Boomers. The Zoomers just don’t know how cringe they are
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@GaetaAmy Given that what we’re living through is nothing compared to the Great Depression/WWII it very much is screen time and main character syndrome
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@CallaWalsh Political repression? You openly committed multiple crimes…
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@elmo Kate Middleton
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@oneunderscore__ Good maybe we’ll finally get the gun control we need
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@MattWalshBlog Happy Pride @MattWalshBlog 🌈🦄✨
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@NateSilver538 For someone who claims to be a statistician, did you read the part where their determination is “low confidence”
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TikTok is to Zoomers what Facebook is to Boomers
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@RadishHarmers You know, if more than 20% of people voted in the primaries, maybe you’d have better choices
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@MatthewOchs9 You do realize climate change is real, right?
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@mskerrygraham @jonfavs When he officially is nominated in August. Until then, I will try to save the republic.
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@jono1221 @julopessouzas I wish I could agree, but schools would rather push out, silence, and gaslight students than punish world-renowned senior faculty
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@BBCBreaking The jumpsuit will match his face
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@KatieBrittforAL That kitchen needs to be deported
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@ProjectLincoln The jumpsuit will match his face
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TikTok is to Zoomers what Facebook is to Boomers
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sunsets + fresh starts = life worth living
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I am beyond humbled to announce that I have been named as one of two Finalist for a position on @DukeU Board of Trustees as the Graduate/Professional Student Young Trustee for the 2024-2027 Term. 📰:
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@WallStreetSilv I also make final decision based on Russian propaganda 🤡
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@FreeJimNow @peggingforsoup “That’s what it is” is the worst defense of all time
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@tomfinley Most definitely not. No wars. Better economic oversight. Climate Change. List goes on
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@nomanautomata @lordofgummies33 Apparently the only skill someone can’t learn late in life is humility
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@PanderShirts I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Zoomers = Boomers, it’s generational horseshoe
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For all those who study #epidemiology #ecology and #publichealth how concerned are you about H5N1? #pandemic #H5N1
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@mags_mclaugh Why so much hate?
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@ethan_wh_ I’ve come to realize that there’s nothing these people can enjoy 🥴
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@MattWalshBlog Can’t wait to keep celebrating 🏳️‍🌈
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This past fall and winter, I fought and beat endocarditis, IST and cardiomyopathy. As I’m on the road to recovery, I set out a goal of walking 3,000 miles this year. Well, today I hit 600 and am 20% of the way there! ☘️ #goals #livinglife #grateful
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@KatieBrittforAL @JoeBiden Those kitchen cabinets are a crime and need to be deported
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Well this is starting to take off. Did a whole hs thesis on this. Anyway, give me a follow… you’ll get lots of tweets about Covid and climate change and how we can save our planet 🌎
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@RobertKennedyJr It’s going to be Kate Middleton
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@StatisticUrban Had to check it wasn’t published on April Fools
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@KerriTerry24 This. Both should have made better VP choices
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@IRHotTakes They have main character syndrome and think you’re wrong
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@RonFilipkowski I'll just leave this here:
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Anyone ever wonder how much better the Al Gore won the 2000 election timeline would be
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@desmondd1984 @IRHotTakes If you think he has the best chance of winning, I’ve got a bridge to sell you
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Not me realizing the Econ professor who wants her PhD applicants to already be tenured is a Duke professor 💀
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@Holden_Culotta @RobertKennedyJr @Team_Kennedy24 There needs to be debates and RFK will shoot up in the polls
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@Phil_Lewis_ We need to bring back involuntary commitment for those experiencing mental crises and homelessness
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@FloridaGOP I guess @FloridaGOP is what you get when you ban education 😂
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@Acyn I'll just leave this here:
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silence of the rams 🔵😈 #GoDuke #BlueDevils
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@cliff_swan Is this the same journal you can publish an article in every two days?
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@heyshachi @TheTNHoller @hamcoschools Because they don’t love themselves they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are
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@umichvoter Mayor Pete
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@FelixJBerrios I’m Christopher (he/him), a quantitative ecologist and data scientist with a passion for wildlife, molecular biology, and data visualization. Here’s me representing my pride colors 💙💜🩷 at the recent Taylor Swift concert. In my free time I love to bake, hike, and phone friends!
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@joshcozine @GaetaAmy No, but they didn’t think they were uniquely the only generation to have the hardest time
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@PanderShirts I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Zoomers = Boomers, it’s generational horseshoe
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@jeffreyomura My thesis when I wrote on this was how she arrived at her decision and how that contrasted with her judicial history
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@krassenstein ThOuGhTs AnD pRaYeRs
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@jackdaw_writes And Hamas clearly should be trusted 100% of the time 🙄
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@RobertKennedyJr We need leadership that transcends party lines!
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@TheGreatIsNate @MarcusShepard I don’t think putting them on blast and posting a private conversation is “respectful”
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Yeah, yeah but have you ever seen an R2 of -6.66, that gets you in Nature:
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Best fit imaginable #laboratory
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My first first author pre-print is out! In "Climate Change Factors Interact to Shift Functional Microbial Composition in Peatlands," we show how climate change induces novel, unexpected changes in microbial traits that buck theory in fascinating ways!
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Today, people ditch relationships quickly and lack commitment to Love (tinderella syndrome); it's important to understand why people have the wrong concept of Love. Plato's Symposium breaks down all these misconceptions, offering the truth of Love 🧵2/7
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@cspan I'll just leave this here:
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@StevenLover69 @CallaWalsh One of those was fighting against racism, I don’t think spray painting a random building and setting a fire are the same as lunch-counter protests
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@RobertKennedyJr Under your presidency, we will see a drop in cancer rates
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We have a lot to learn from Indigenous People & Philosophy. Western Ideology sees an extractive relationship with Nature rather than a procreative relationship. In Black Elk Speaks, we gain a glimpse into what a monistic concept of humanity is: 🧵6/7
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@SocialTwurker @GaetaAmy You know over 30% of all Americans were below the poverty line during the Great Depression?
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When grappling with loss of relationships and very human emotions of regret and remorse, it is imperative that we understand how we perceive the world and time: phenomenology. One way is through allegory, e.g. Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: 🧵3/7
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@ArmandDoma TikTok is to Zoomers what Facebook is to Boomers. The Zoomers just don’t know how cringe they are
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@BaSingSeUpdate Hamas is banned from Ba Sing Se
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@Theholisticpsyc Welp, definitely have developed that now
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@AstroDaria I just didn’t get my paycheck yesterday because of an error and now I have to wait to the end of the month, so that’s not going well. Idk why these wealthy schools can’t have competent payroll
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