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Katia Destine
@katiadestine.bsky.social
Sociology PhD Student | University of Maryland 🇭🇹🏳️‍🌈
Social Inequality and Mobility, Culture, Media, Science and Technology, Geospatial Science
NSF GRFP Fellow | McNair Scholar
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“You don’t want to cut out all the talented people in geosciences and life sciences and psychology and sociology in favor of giving everyone who’s doing AI a fellowship.”

-said @susanelise.bsky.social, former NSF program officer for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
NSF Seeks Model for Graduate Fellowships Co-funded by Government and Industry
The project aims to design fellowships that can withstand changes in federal funding, following significant reductions to NSF's graduate fellowships this year.
www.aip.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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"I have a message for America's scientists: I want to tell you how much I appreciate your work, how much I value and treasure your work, how much support you have within the Congress...we are aware of the deep damage that is being done to your profession and we are determined to make it stop" 🧪
Science is under attack. The NIH, the NSF, and our research universities.

So today, I have a message for America's scientists:

youtu.be/MeoZDPy5cIY?...
A Message to Scientists
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
youtu.be
May 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how many Final Girls and traumatized but triumphant horror movie heroines would end up spending the rest of their lives in prison.
May 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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NEW: We just won a Court order blocking Trump’s unlawful attempts to dismantle the Department of Education while we continue our case in court.

I won’t let this administration play politics with our kids’ futures.
May 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM