Dr. Susanne Brander 🐟 🌊
@smbrander
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Ecotox & EnvStress lab PI, Assoc Professor @OSU_coastal , co-lead @pnwmicroplastic , AE @STOTEN_journal , #feminist , #mom , #womensrightsarehumanrights , #voteblue
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It's finally official, the whole family is heading to Chile for a research sabbatical / remote work. Flying south on October 20th! Looking forward to a break from the norm ✈️
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Yes, I think almost every female scientist has encountered this challenge! At least it’s finally getting deserved attention
@500womensci
@500WS_Corvallis
#womeninSTEM
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After traveling cross country so in laws could “see the grandkids”, I just got scolded by MIL in front of everyone for opening the wrong container of blueberries when 6 asked for some.
So I left.
My resolution is to expect to be treated w/respect. It’s simple.
@Momademia
1/n
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To everyone who has been
#pandemicparenting
for nearly two years while holding it all together, this is for you.
@Momademia
#betterthanaquokka
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Just received an email telling us that I can’t require someone meeting with me in my office at work to wear a mask. Um… there will be a sign going up on my door and a basket of masks left next to it. People with unvaccinated kids have rights too.
#covid19
@Momademia
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@BrianKingNeo
@erinplaw
@GidMK
@igairport
@iah
We did that once accidentally on a flight and discovered it mid-air. Had to use pads from airplane restroom for our 6 mo old for 12 hrs. But to original tweeter’s point it’s incredible periods are still so taboo. How do these deeply offended people think they came into the world?
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Instead of worrying about my full inbox after a week-long break, I'm going to be happy about this.
My timeline is pretty typical of female academics who have kids, slow start while they are little, things improve once we have time to think.
#worththewait
#longgame
@Momademia
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Oldest wanted a “book cake” with her fav titles for her birthday this year, and
#CisforCake
delivered 📚
@Momademia
#booklover
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P & T letter came this afternoon from
@osufwcs
, and their recommendation to the Dean unanimously supports promotion to Assoc. Professor w/ tenure.
Needless to say, I don't need any additional gifts this holiday season!!
Me in happy shock celebrating with virtual confetti:
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From Provost "It is my great pleasure to inform you that you will be promoted to Associate Professor and granted indefinite tenure." 📨
Thank you to every mentor
@osufwcs
@OSU_Coastal
@UNCW_BaMB
@PTXatUCD
@bodegamarinelab
... even get to use my new cards
@SETAC_world
next week.
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Was feeling a bit glum due to a sinus infection, and then this dropped in my inbox ...
'The College of Ag Sciences and Dean support your promotion to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. Your dossier and letters will now be forwarded to the Provost.'
Alrighty then!
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And because it's been super easy to be a parent during the pandemic, someone at OSU has decided to make a big deal about bringing kids to work with you on occasion and has notified EH&S ... so that's cool.
Does this someone have children, no.
I'm so tired.
@Momademia
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@CA_AstroComm
PhD in Toxicology, professor and mom, kiddo made this crown for me. I study the effects of environmental stressors (e.g. pollutants, climate change) on aquatic organisms.
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On a lighter note,
@j_wilson_white
and I have decided to call the overall interaction tonight “dying on blueberry hill.” … we are out having some drinks 🥂
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@thiagoarzua
Publish a review / synthesis paper on your area of research expertise sooner rather than later, bc you know more about it and have more recent knowledge now than you will at any other point in your career.
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And I think it stings more after parenting two kids through a pandemic, they didn’t just magically appear at your house at the end of 2022 healthy and happy.
Sorry for the NYE vent but this mama has had enough. Here’s to a better 2023.
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Me with my napping dissertation writing partner back in 2011. Couldn’t have done it without her.
#mothersday2021
🌷
#momsinSTEM
@mothersinsci
@500womensci
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One week after kids returned to school with mask mandate nixxed, we all have
#Covid
even though we wear kn95s / kf94s in every public space.
Our two masked kids had no chance vs a whole school of mostly unmasked teachers / students.
Frustrated and defeated
#omicron
@Momademia
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Women are so undervalued in this country, especially mothers. I’m done with it. I need to break the toxic cycle for my daughters.
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It is still hard to believe that this is real, but at least there are pictures. Hopeful for true progress on reducing plastic pollution in the US.
#senatetestimony
#microplastics
@pnwmicroplastic
@SenJeffMerkley
@AlexPadilla4CA
@SenWhitehouse
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We are vaccinated, have lollipops for the ride home, and all is right with the world tonight!
@Momademia
#covidvaccine
#vaccineswork
💉
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@Theresa_Chapple
My daughter came early and bill was about 250K before insurance. Start sending the bills to Alito.
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Photo of the
#cleanwateract
being rolled back, it's good that we have such diverse representation in the room here when weakening laws that protect our water, environment, and future generations from pollution.
@altUSEPA
#oldwhitedudesonly
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Well it's always good to wake up on a random Wednesday in the middle of a pandemic to discover that the peer-reviewed literature says you are propping up the patriarchy by mentoring female graduate students.
#burnitdown
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Testifying in Salem at the capitol building today in support of a proposed bill that would require filters on new washing machines starting in 2026.
@pnwmicroplastic
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@DrEricaJohnson
As a female professor, you can be called unprofessional for choosing to exist. You’re doing fine, would just brush it off.
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Sending kids to school each day (no online option) in kf94s and crossing our fingers. What a time to be a parent. Thinking of everyone else out there also trying to focus on work in the midst of this surge.
@Momademia
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You know your child has parents who study fish when she countershades the shark on the 1st grade graphing assignment.
@Momademia
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As the number of
#microplastics
papers continues to balloon,
@STOTEN_journal
has put minimum requirements in place for publications.
… (free access from this link, now fixed)
…
@pnwmicroplastic
@SETAC_plastics
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5 is watching a panel discussing Covid on
@ThisWeekABC
with me this morning and after a couple of minutes she turns to me and says "the boys keep interrupting the girls."
So we had a talk about how not to let that happen to her. Starting early.
@Momademia
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Gave a talk on plastics and asked audience during the talk to use tape to collect fibers from their clothing, to demonstrate that most of us were wearing plastic, and voilà. Isn’t it beautiful? They understood the assignment 🤩
@pnwmicroplastic
@HatfieldMSC
#microfibers
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@pjstelzel
You need 26. The Homeschooling Hurricane
6 cl light rum, 6 cl dark run, 2 cl lime juice, 1 cl passion fruit juice, slice of lime ... mix with pen your kid just threw across room while you were in a zoom meeting
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@RoeGraceM
@StephTaitWrites
It’s amazing how short staffed everything still is, but no one wants to acknowledge it.
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Excited to welcome our newest lab members, Oncorhynchus mykiss. We will be looking at the potential effects of fire retardants on rainbow trout for the next couple of yrs. These hatching jars look like a fun ride.
@DeltaCouncil
#salmonids
#wildfireresearch
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We unexpectedly lost Zoey today. She developed heart failure this afternoon, apparently cats can mask heart conditions until they become acute. Been with me since early grad school, heartbroken.
#rainbowbridge
#caturday
Zoey Josephine 2007-2022 💔
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Do other parents who grew up listening to 90s rap find themselves telling their children to ‘check yourself before you wreck yourself,’ during sassy moments? Ice Cube perhaps had some small nuggets of parenting advice.
@Momademia
#tweens
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Well, it's not every day that your boss emails you and says that Senator Merkley's office wants to find a time to chat about
#microplastics
and Oregon's plans for the Ocean Act. Ok, sign us up!
@pnwmicroplastic
🌎🌊
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Hello science twitterverse, I am looking to hire a Faculty Research Assistant (BS degree w experience, or MS) for our lab
@HatfieldMSC
@OSU_Coastal
Would involve lab and field work on
#microplastics
and
#wildfire
retardant toxicity projects, among others. DM for details! 🔬🐟
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Today we rode horses on the beach, and I forgot about both work and the pandemic for at least 45 minutes. I didn’t even have to drive.
@Momademia
🐎
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@bethbrav
@emilykmay
We leave our 11 yr old home sometimes for short periods. She is responsible and we live in a safe town. You’re fine.
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Dear adults ...
Please remember what it was like to be 11, and do not comment on a pre-teen's appearance or compare them to another pre-teen.
Notably, this also applies to humans of all age groups.
Thank you,
Parent who spent evening comforting child
@Momademia
#why
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Just got news that we received a pilot grant from the OSU Agricultural Research Foundation to study
#microplastics
in
#biosolids
... excited to begin work with
@NDTala
and
#SHarper
!
@pnwmicroplastic
@osufwcs
@OSU_Coastal
@EngineeringOSU
@emtosu
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A challenge unfolding in groups I work with ... over 60 yrs old - YES, I'm fully vaccinated, let's meet in person soon! ... under 45 yrs old - um, no not vaccinated yet, nor are my kids? Worried about new inequities this creates, esp. for parents
@Momademia
@AcademicParents
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Just got our award notice for two more years of funding from
@NSF
for the Pacific Northwest Consortium on Plastics
@pnwmicroplastic
... and I think I'm having a glass of wine and some chocolate to celebrate tonight!
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The many men who think they are feminists but can't detect subtle disrespect, gaslighting or implicit bias, may be doing just as much damage to women's progress in the workplace, esp. in academia, as the few who are outright misogynists.
@500womensci
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When you are worried bc 5 came home in a surgical mask (from school) instead of the better kf94 she was wearing in the morning, because she got lunch on it (bc she's only 5), and you realize that being a kindergartner is kind of ridiculous right now.
#pandemiclife
@Momademia
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@incompleteocean
I went blue last Halloween and kept it, and my 6 yo asked to try it too. Hoping she learns early on to try new things bc it’s what *she wants.
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V. personal post to follow ...
Missing since Sunday, my brother William A. Brander (Wil), age 40.
Last seen in York, PA where he'd been living w/ my dad. Worried about his mental state, also not vaccinated.
Pls share widely, esp. in PA/NJ/DE/MD/NY. Rpt was filed. Thank you💔
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@DrRachaelF
Anyone who has kids knew this wasn't true from the get-go. They transmit every germ known to man.
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We study a population of ∼1.2 million US doctoral recipients from 1977 to 2015 and following their careers ... underrepresented groups produce higher rates of scientific novelty. However, their novel contributions are devalued and discounted
@500womensci
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Mom what's this? (10 yr old points to marked up paper)
It's a paper I reviewed (proceed to explain peer review process)
10: Wow that's a lot of work, the journal pays you for that right?
-Turns out none of us PhDs are smarter than a 5th grader-
@Momademia
#AcademicChatter
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"I want to be an engineer for fun, and in the Olympics for my job" - Eve, age 4
I highly recommend being in the presence of young children on days that are otherwise really hard 🌈
@Momademia
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Looks like I’ll be keeping “Dr.” in front of my name for I don’t know, forever, because I earned it. And are we really talking about this, again? Thanks
@WSJ
for doing what was expected of you
#herewegoagain
@500womensci
@Momademia
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It’s 4:59 am, my flight goggles fit and I’m at Stumptown
#PDX
for the first time in over 2 yrs. Copenhagen here I come ✈️
#conferencetime
#setaccopenhagen
@SETAC_world
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This graph is being shared widely today, but several folks commented that it was missing
#wine
... duly noted. I fixed it. Thank you
@DrBirdLady
and others for pointing this out. And now back to those emails ...
#covid19
#quarantineneeds
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When you’re worried about 6th grader you had to leave home alone for a no school day, and she remembers to feed the tortoise and puts away a grocery delivery without being asked, you feel like maybe you didn’t totally screw up this parenting thing 😃
@Momademia
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@amydiehl
@Mathmom236
@scottdaewonkim
@PMoserEcon
“While other scientists peak in their mid-thirties, mothers become more productive after age 35 and maintain high productivity in their 40s and 50s.” 🙋♀️
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My daughter and I made a stop motion video together today, so much fun!
#playwsound
#plasticpollution
#microplastic
#nanoplastic
@pnwmicroplastic
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After doing everything you could to protect your family for 2+ yrs from Covid, aside from quitting your job, and getting it anyway, some start to treat you like you were never careful to begin with. It’s a hard time to be a mom, judgement at every single turn
@Momademia
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6 brought home all of her art from kindergarten, and this cow she painted has eyes that follow you around the room like the Mona Lisa 🐮
@Momademia
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@daveamp
This is quickly becoming a DEI issue, what about faculty with kids or people who can’t be vaccinated due to health conditions?
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Am excited to finally feel like myself again after almost three weeks. If I owe you an email, a book chapter, a meeting etc. pls know it will happen eventually. Have been tending to the deadliest of deadlines only while we all took turns with
#omicron
#ba2
@Momademia
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On phone at first glace from bed in am: "Decision on manuscript" - trepidation ensues, don't open
Go downstairs, pour coffee, open laptop, look at subject line again
Partially close eyes, click email
"Your manuscript has been accepted for publication!"
#AcademicChatter
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Reflecting on the past few years this morning and thankful to be mostly surrounded by women who lift each other up, rather than the opposite. This gif will always be my favorite.
#womenshistorymonth
#findyourposse
@Momademia
@500womensci
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Even if the rest of our Christmas plans are totally upended due to omicron, the piggy banks survived the kiln, they almost match, have fitting nose corks and they’re Santa-ready, and I’m counting this holiday season as a win ✅
@Momademia
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It's not every day you find that a paper in prep included in appendix of the Oregon marine reserves report that just came out, had you (lead PI and senior author) removed from the author list.
You can never let your guard down as a woman in science, not for a millisecond. 1/2
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Nooo thank you, I do not want to attend a zoom call instructing me on how to recharge when depleted. I will just take an hour off of zoom instead.
Does anyone go to these "work-life" webinars? Because ... just no.
#pandemiclife
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Great article... I've reached an age where younger colleagues sometimes ask me about when is best to have kids. Glad I did, but go into it with eyes wide open, it's a wild ride.
@Momademia
No One Tells You the Full Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth:
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From the backseat today on drive home: “Mom, I wanna be a scientist and work with you when I grow up, and I wanna learn how plants grow and how to count to 100!” - Eve, age 4 🧒
#thingsthatkeepyougoing
@Momademia
@AcademicParents
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@ravenscimaven
I'm 5 ft tall and about 107 lbs, but think I'm more qualified to be a linebacker in the NFL
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Dear Twitter ... I appreciate the gesture, but as someone who does research on plastic pollution, the balloons floating up and away into the virtual sky kind of stress me out. How about a birthday cake instead? 🤔🎂
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We made it to the most magical place on earth, and I got my grades in on time too.
#springbreak2023
@Momademia
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@HarvardBiz
If women could just be men instead, their presentation outcomes would greatly improve?
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But in Oregon it’s not compostable. We lack industrial composting facilities in the state, it ends up contaminating recycling and home compost. “Bio” plastics are not a solution without the right tools in place.
#reduce
#microplastics
#misinformation
@OregonDEQ
@pnwmicroplastic
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I’ve decided to celebrate my 10 month blue hair anniversary by keeping it that way for at least another 10. Things are certainly not back to normal so my hair shouldn’t be either.
#bluedo
@Momademia
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It’s the eve of my second pandemic birthday. Thankful for feeling healthy and being as young as I’ll ever be. Here’s to another socially distanced trip around the sun 🌞
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Well, this is happening next week! Just booked a flight to DC. I'm excited and also not super nervous at all 🙃😃
@pnwmicroplastic
#microplasticshearing
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@DrTomFrieden
@BeagleForPres
The "some can develop serious illness or get long Covid" is where I will be stuck until my kids are vaccinated. Hoping schools nationwide follow
@AmerAcadPeds
recommendations on masking, this is all terrifying.
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If one more person who is done raising their kids goes on and on in a meeting about how much better things are with the pandemic now, I may scream.
For those of us still in the thick of it, every day is stressful and we don't need to hear how great it is for you.
@Momademia
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My husband did the candles in binary code so we wouldn’t burn the house down 🔥 Another year, here we go!
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Doing some reading / research for a chapter I’m co-writing for a marine studies textbook, and it’s wild that this was published in
@sciam
in 1974 ... I guess we’ve come a long way, sort of?
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@sciencewithtyus
An accidental brush against this is one of the most painful things you can experience ...
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One day you’re holding F1.2 in the hospital, and the next minute they’re holding a baby goat at their 6th bday party.
#timeflies
@Momademia
#portlandgoatparties
🎂 🐐
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Have I not gotten the official memo that kids' parties are now held midweek during workdays? Got our 3rd such invitation since Jan.
Also can I come to a middle school band concert on Fri at 9 am?
People, are we the only ones with jobs?
@Momademia
#confusedinCorvallis
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@amydiehl
@arielmaelambe
Yeah … and even if you had a partner who shared the load 🤚, I feel like most working moms took a step down the ladder during COVID and now we are climbing our way back up. And holy backlash against women in the U.S. too. 😮💨
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I mean who doesn’t have a mysid shrimp culture in their basement?
#covidresponse
#covid19
#homelabbing
🦐 💦
@pnwmicroplastic
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I am tenured & have coordinated lab / field work, since before grad school ... 2002?
This wk I've had a man explain: 1. how to fill out a meeting poll and 2. how to prepare for a field trip.
This just doesn't ever change, does it?
@Momademia
#implicitbias
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