Avery Holmes
@averyholmes.bsky.social
Wildlife disease ecology 🦇🐃🦌🦠📈🧑🏻💻— PhD candidate, University of Glasgow. 🏴🏳️🌈
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Reposted by Avery Holmes
The ocean is such a weird and wonderful place. When baby eels first hatch, they are bizarre transparent little guys. But scientists think they may change shape to pretend to be other (more dangerous/less tasty) creatures like jellyfish or salps. Like raaaaar don't eat me I'm scary. Adorable. 🧪🦑
June 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The ocean is such a weird and wonderful place. When baby eels first hatch, they are bizarre transparent little guys. But scientists think they may change shape to pretend to be other (more dangerous/less tasty) creatures like jellyfish or salps. Like raaaaar don't eat me I'm scary. Adorable. 🧪🦑
Question for those with greater experience: What are actions that one can take as an early career researcher to help make science more inclusive and accessible to everyone, everywhere? These challenges feel so large, especially as a student, but I’m sure there are still things everyone can do?
How visa rejections are stalling Africa's health research
Experts call for visa equity to boost participation of scientists from the global south.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Question for those with greater experience: What are actions that one can take as an early career researcher to help make science more inclusive and accessible to everyone, everywhere? These challenges feel so large, especially as a student, but I’m sure there are still things everyone can do?
“When governments decide which words can and cannot be spoken and dictate what research can and cannot be published, they are not defending the truth. They are erasing it. We in Europe have seen where this road leads. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.”
Why the European Journal of Public Health and EUPHA are opposing President Trump’s attack on the language of diversity
The news that the Trump administration has ordered scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles co
academic.oup.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“When governments decide which words can and cannot be spoken and dictate what research can and cannot be published, they are not defending the truth. They are erasing it. We in Europe have seen where this road leads. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.”
Reposted by Avery Holmes
Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape.
UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues.
Here's what I think we should be doing...
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UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues.
Here's what I think we should be doing...
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February 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape.
UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues.
Here's what I think we should be doing...
🧵
1/35
UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues.
Here's what I think we should be doing...
🧵
1/35