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Conservation Social Scientist | PhD @Cornell | @NSF fellow | academic baddie | (anti/de)colonial rabble rouser | unapologetic scholar activist | critical EJ
Ithaca || Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' Land
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I am writing a book 📝✨
Coming soon from
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- Ugly Head urges readers to bear witness and grapple with legacies and modern manifestations of conservation injustice.
Ugly Head challenges us to re-learn and to center care in conservation science and practice.
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Took a break from PhD’ing and got married this weekend
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The academically rigorous program that I signed up for is proving to be rigorous academically.
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Sometimes I get so jazzed about being a PhD student. Like I get paid to read?? to study my never-ending list of questions?? to drink my little drinks and to (try) and change the world?? Amazing.
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Hi everyone! My name is Aalayna and I am a
#BlackConservationist
. I’m currently doing research on the gendered dimensions of wildlife crime. I’m broadly interested in conservation criminology, feminist political ecology, & public policy. I love cats and coffee.
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No one really prepares you for how lonely the PhD can be
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Ya'll I just finalized my committee and... I have an all woman committee and 4/5 are Black women 😭😭 For a little Black zoology girl who never saw anyone who looked like me, This. Is. Life. Changing.
#BlackInConservation
#AcademicChatter
#PhDLife
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I’m ecstatic to announce that I will be attending Cornell University in the fall as a PhD student in Natural Resources!!! I’m gonna be a doctor!!
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"Your job is literally just yapping - either verbal yap or written yap" - my husband describing my PhD
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Completely disheartened with my Department to never see any faculty or students (minus one friend of mine) at protests. STEM neutrality in anything that’s not their study of focus is a nasty, foul disease.
another day of asking where the STEM faculty are at during literally any of this
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I just received the biggest grant of my career and I am just so so so grateful . My PhD research is truly underway ya'll 🥹🥹
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Ya'll do know that Indigenous knowledge is science right?
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@Dr_AlexM
@Airbnb
@AirbnbHelp
This is absolutely terrifying.
@AirbnbHelp
@Airbnb
where is your screening process for hosts?
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Hi everyone! My name is Aalayna and I am a first year PhD student in Natural Resources at Cornell. My research is at the intersections of Black feminism, critical race theory and wildlife conservation. Let’s connect 🦋🐍🐝🦍🐼🐢
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Ya girl just finished her first year of her PhD!!!! Dr. Green is one year closer!!!! 💕✨🥹
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I woke up this morning a NSF GRFP Fellow!!!!!
Seeing that my work for gender-aware and justice-oriented conservation be affirmed in such a monumental way is still shocking.
I am incredibly honored to be awarded and extend my congratulations to other awardees and HMs 💕
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If a prospective PhD adviser invites you to their lab meeting that's a good sign right?
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I keep a manifestation CV where I list the grants, opportunities, publications and other things I want to achieve. This is private to me but it gives me great joy when I can move something off the manifestation CV onto the real one. Does anyone else do this?
#AcademicChatter
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I just want Black women to live long, loving, and full lives.
Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey, vice president of Student Affairs at Lincoln University-Missouri, reportedly died by suicide from “bullying and severe mistreatment” in her role
University President John Moseley is now facing calls to resign
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Hi, I’m Aalayna and I am an incoming PhD student in Natural Resources
@Cornell
. I study human-environment relationships and use Black feminist ecological thought as a framework for human wildlife coexistence strategies.
@BlackInEnviron
#BlackInEnvironWeek
#BlackEnvironRollCall
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Hey everybody 👋🏽
My name is Aalayna and I am a PhD student at Cornell University and a NSF Fellow. My research focuses on the gender dimensions of militarized conservation and conservation justice.
#BlackInEnviron
#BlackInEnvironRollCall
@BlackInEnviron
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I'm really about to be a PhD student, living in New York, and studying wildlife conservation???? This is my life???
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Green et al. (2022) attempts to set the record straight. Overconsumption, not overpopulation, is the primary source of biodiversity decline. Read the rest of our argument here 👇🏽👇🏽
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ATN BLACK WOMEN AND NONBINARY FOLK APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL
#AcademicChatter
#BlackinAcademia
#BlackConservationist
#conservation
I am a first year PhD student at Cornell University and I want to help YOU with your grad school application process.
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Constantly being asked “Are you sure you’re in the right place?” Was, sadly, on my
#ESA2022
bingo card. 🙃🙃
#BlackEcologistsMatter
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To address this problem, myself and colleagues wrote a response to this article. We attribute the decline of biodiversity to overconsumption rather than overpopulation. You can read the response here:
Conservation biology, we have a problem!
Not a single word on how the richest contribute most to biodiversity loss, not a single word on how population is already stabilizing, not a single word on telecouplings, unfounded critique of IPBES.
Honestly?!
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Hi everyone it’s
#BlackInEnvironWeek
!! My name is Aalayna and I’m a PhD Student in Natural Resources
@Cornell
. I study the gendered dimensions of wildlife crime and conservation justice 🐆🦓🦧🐘🐋🦑🐢
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Hey y’all! I’m Aalayna and it’s
#BlackBirdersWeek2021
and here is me being
#BlackInNature
🤩🥰💚
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#ShutDownAcademia
what am I doing?
1.) Asking potential grad advisers and grad students about black retention rates. 2.) Mentoring any and all black & minority students 3.) Being honest and sharing information about racist practices or individuals to my peers
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Remembering how a former PI told me I was “shooting too high” when I started thinking of a PhD program and that I should “go into diversity education” bc it’ll make me more “palatable” in academic spaces.
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I didn't fully understand what a PhD or grad school was until my second year of undergrad... like??? Exclusivity and gatekeeping practices of academia can *respectfully* eat glass.
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I wrote an article.
‘How Can I Care About Wolves When There’s a Genocide Going On?’ Or Conservationists' Responsibility to Palestinian Liberation:
#ConservationistsforCeasefire
#ConservationistsAgainstGenocide
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MSU students, I was able to get ALL of my classes online for the Fall 2020 semester. It is written in the MSU COVID-19 bylaws that remote instruction MUST be available for all students. If you need help emailing to get the classes and accommodations pls DM me!
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If you are turned away at the polls your response is, “Give me a provisional ballot with a receipt as required by law.” Pass it on.
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I taught my first full lecture today!!!! Excited for what comes next ✨✨
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Folks who do field work… how do you get used and not beat yourself up over things not working out? I dread the thought of things being out of my control (thank you OCD) and things not going to plan. Basically, how do I cope and react to the unexpected?
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New publication alert ‼️
Studying the intersectional experiences of Black girls identity, and their experiences with mental health and interpersonal violence in public schools.
Happy to be a lead on this work with
@berkeleychum
#BlackGirlsMatter
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@AndrewBarnas
I'd be concerned that the only people who are agreeing with you are other white folks....
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WE ARE ENGAGED!!!!!!! Dr. Green and Mrs. Beljour 🥹🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰
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Updated intro for new followers and new research. Hi y’all, I’m Aalayna and I’m a PhD student
@Cornell
in Natural Resources. I study the gendered dimensions of militarized conservation and conservation justice. Let’s connect ✨🌱
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Just👏 because 👏a 👏person 👏is 👏Black👏that 👏does 👏not👏 mean 👏that 👏 they 👏are 👏African 👏 American
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My team's and I' s response to a overpopulation article (Green et al., 2022) was used in a first year graduate ecology course
@ucdavis
🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭
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Applied for the Ford Fellowship and 2/3 of my reviewers clearly did not read my application... disappointed to not have been adequately assessed. Still, we move forward and upward.
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Hello! I’m beginning to work on my
#NSF
#GRFP
in the social sciences (conservation focus). Could use any advice, tips or help available. Please message me! 🦦🐄🐊🦧🦈
#BlackConservationist
#BlackInSTEM
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🎉🎉Out today in Biological Conservation, we evaluate women’s roles in urban wildmeat trafficking in urban centers in the Republic of Congo.
Interventions for wildlife crime require gender aware approaches.
Find out more here 👇🏽👇🏽
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Happy
#InternationalWomenInScienceDay
I am a conservation social scientist and am pursuing my PhD
@Cornell
. I study the gendered dimensions of militarized conservation and global environmental justice ✨🌱
#WomenInSTEM
#BlackInScience
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First guest lecture on Environmental Justice in a 100+ person lecture hall ✨🌱
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MSU really said “Let’s move fully remote after we collect bills and after the deadline to withdraw” 😎😭🤩🥳
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Compensate the RA's for the jobs you just took from them.
Compensate the custodians for the jobs you just took from them.
Compensate the food service workers for the jobs you just took from them.
Compensate the ICA's for the jobs you just took from them.
Compensate the TA's for
Effective immediately, we are asking undergraduate students who planned to live in our residence halls this fall to stay home and continue their education with MSU remotely.
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And just like that it’s over! Work hard and dream big.
@Cornell
here I come!
@michiganstateu
Go Green forever! 💚
#MSU2021
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Ramen to ring in Year 2 of my PhD! Another step closer to becoming Dr. Green ✨💕
#BlackInConservation
#PhDLife
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I had a heart attack in September and today was the first day I was able to return to yoga and I'm just so thankful I'm able to return to doing what I love.
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@SeedsAndBreeds
@NatRodLopes1
@astrochicana
@heydebigale
Understand your position of privilege and make effort to recruit graduate students of color, as well as engage in outreach towards woc in the sciences. Educate yourself and your colleagues
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Officially moved in
@Cornell
!! Am so thankful and excited to start my PhD with
@Shorna1
. Thank you
@meredithgore
@GeoEdResearch
@elouson
@BillHridesbikes
for getting me here 💕💕💕
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Finished my first semester of grad school! One step closer to becoming Dr. Green!!!!
#PhdLife
#AcademicChatter
#BlackInConservation
#BlackInSTEM
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For my new followers, hello! My name is aalayna and I am an undergrad studying the gendered dimensions of urban wildmeat trafficking. I have intentions of pursuing grad school focusing on wildlife crime, community sustainability & conservation policy 🦚🦜🦦🦥🦎🐍🦈
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I'm moderating a session on "Race, Gender & the Environment" at
#ESA2022
#CSEE2022
@esa
! Excited to connect with scholars and see friends I haven't seen in YEARS 💕✨🌿 Happy to chat with folks on
#conservation
,
#environmentaljustice
, and
#gender
✨
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@_nicolehnicole_
You must have also missed all the straight people being killed because they were straight, all the straight people kicked out of their homes for being straight, AND all the straight people being denied marriage because they were straight
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After watching
#Seaspiracy
, the enemy to the destruction of our oceans is COLONIALISM and the SYSTEMS THAT UPHOLD THESE PRACTICES
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@ProfessorCrunk
A lot of students don't receive this etiquette because academia is exclusionary towards marginalized/working class students. It's a privilege to know how to communicate with profs/individuals who are superior to you and be equally respected.
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Anyone in the Lansing area, please be safe.
Trump supporters just put up a cross outside the *Michigan* Capitol. Today is truly the day they go (kkk) mask off.
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Last first day of undergrad! Let’s go kick some ass and take names!
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I just dropped two classes for my mental health and wow the serotonin rush is IMMACULATE
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My partner, not an academic: "You do a lot of reading"
Me: "Yes, and a lot of crying"
Partner: "You love to read, and you love to cry, perfect for a PhD". 😭😂
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1 of 4 Black students in a Department of almost 100 graduate students.
Interviewed at another Ivy and, had I made it through, would have been the first Black American woman to graduate from the program.
No one's stealing seats.
In college I was just about always the only black person in class.
I decided to apply to medschool when I realized I was tutoring all these pre meds who are traditionally accepted.
Self studied 4 MCAT.
Got in, and turned out I was 1 of 2 black people.
No one’s stealing seats.
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Cinnamon oat lattes and wildlife crime. A truly wonderful Thursday if you ask me ✨
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Really bout to do this two weeks before the semester starts? Leases are signed, jobs are now lost, people are already starting to move... learn how to lead MSU this could have been made months ago
Effective immediately, we are asking undergraduate students who planned to live in our residence halls this fall to stay home and continue their education with MSU remotely.
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One of the best pieces of advice I got when I was looking for PhD programs was to look for PEOPLE not PROJECTS. Who your adviser is going to matter a lot more than the project you're on
#AcademicChatter
#PhDLife
#phdchat
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Had a wonderful time as a Brettschneider Fellow with
@WildCRU_Ox
@UniofOxford
!! Excited for what comes next and grateful for the many wonderful conversations
#BlackConservationist
#ConservationSocialScience
💙🇬🇧💷
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The two questions I asked in every grad school interview:
1.) How are you, in your lab, and as a department, practicing active anti-racism?
2.) How have you, in your lab, and as a department, supported your students during the pandemic?
#AcademicChatter
#PhDLife
#GradSchool
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1/6 When we think about
#wildlifetrafficking
, how often do we think about
#women
? Urban wildmeat trafficking (UWT) is a unique workforce and identifying the impact that women have within it is necessary for effective conservation interventions.
#SSWGTC2020
@SCB_SSWG
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It's not a feminist revolutionary think piece for women of color
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Sent in 2/3 grad school applications and, I cannot stress this enough, ASK FOR THOSE FEE WAIVERS. I spoke with a woman who literally said "I accept all of [requests]", EVERYONE deserves a chance!
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I'm going to be presenting at my first conference as a PhD student! I'll be presenting on Race, Gender & Feminist Political Ecology.
@UGAICC
here I come!
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Breonna Taylor was sleeping. Trayvon Martin was walking home. Atatiana Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew. Stephon Clark was in his backyard. Monica Diamond was inside an ambulance.
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A professor called me a monkey and the school sided with the teacher.
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Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!!
#ThisIsWhatAScientistLooksLike
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
👩🏽🔬🤓👩🏾💻👩🏿🔧🧬🔬
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My first Black studies piece “Black Indigeneity & Double Consciousness: Blackness Beyond the Other” is now in this special issue of Interviewing the Caribbean. I write to honor Sylvia Wynter and am thrilled to see this in print
@demonicground
The End of Exile: New Readings on the Hills of Hebron. Edited by Opal Palmer Adisa. With contributions by CBD, Kendall Witaszek, Daryl Cumber Dance, Charmaine Lurch and more and more! Yay!
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Roe v. Wade being overturned is a direct attack on Black women.
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You cannot equate activities done out of survival with those done for recreation. Poaching is not comparable to trophy hunting.
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I did not think this would get the traction it did or be as controversial of an opinion. Of COURSE, there are flaws with academia and the PhD. In the same breath, being able to pursue a PhD is an immense privilege and honestly an honor that I am happy I have the chance to do.
Sometimes I get so jazzed about being a PhD student. Like I get paid to read?? to study my never-ending list of questions?? to drink my little drinks and to (try) and change the world?? Amazing.
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Just got word that my first Black theory/cultural criticism piece is in route for publication 🥹🥹
#Interdisciplinary
#Scholar
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Intersectionality’s inability to account for imperialism and colonialism is not only its major shortcoming, but also its asset to fulfilling the objectives of the neoliberal empire.
The shaming & targeting of Black women is a well-rehearsed tactic driving a reactionary, anti-democratic agenda. Sharing a few words w/
@KamalaHarris
@essencefest
was not only an honor, but an encouragement to continue to do the work that Black women have done for decades.
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White Americans did the same thing with public lynchings of Black people
Sderot cinema. Israelis bringing chairs 2 hilltop in sderot 2 watch latest from Gaza. Clapping when blasts are heard.
http://t.co/WYZquV62O7
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Excited to announce that I have been chosen as a
@Princeton
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Scholar 2019 🧡🖤🧡
Looking forward to meeting fellow ecologists and conservationists at Princeton later this fall.
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