Maria E. Orive
@meorive.bsky.social
Scientist, educator, parent . . . not necessarily in that order. All opinions are mine, mine, mine.
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The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
In at 8:30 today, just left work at 7.
Did I get to spend many hours advancing science?
No.
Ah, well, did I at least work tirelessly to support and protect higher education?
Also no.
Sigh.
Did I get to spend many hours advancing science?
No.
Ah, well, did I at least work tirelessly to support and protect higher education?
Also no.
Sigh.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In at 8:30 today, just left work at 7.
Did I get to spend many hours advancing science?
No.
Ah, well, did I at least work tirelessly to support and protect higher education?
Also no.
Sigh.
Did I get to spend many hours advancing science?
No.
Ah, well, did I at least work tirelessly to support and protect higher education?
Also no.
Sigh.
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the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.
The microwave oven that we have used for almost 30 years just stopped working.
I guarantee you that the one we replace it with won’t last a third of that time.
Sadness.
I guarantee you that the one we replace it with won’t last a third of that time.
Sadness.
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The microwave oven that we have used for almost 30 years just stopped working.
I guarantee you that the one we replace it with won’t last a third of that time.
Sadness.
I guarantee you that the one we replace it with won’t last a third of that time.
Sadness.
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Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
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I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Good news for Kansans.
apnews.com/article/redi... legislators won't have a special session to join the US redistricting battle
apnews.com/article/redi... legislators won't have a special session to join the US redistricting battle
Kansas legislators won't have a special session to join the US redistricting battle
The Kansas House's top Republican has given up for now on forcing a special session of the Legislature to redraw the state’s U.S.
apnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Good news for Kansans.
apnews.com/article/redi... legislators won't have a special session to join the US redistricting battle
apnews.com/article/redi... legislators won't have a special session to join the US redistricting battle
Vote tomorrow, friends!
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Vote tomorrow, friends!
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Today, I officially started my new position at @ The University of Kansas as a KU Center for Genomics Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology. I'm excited to be joining the lab of Dr. Maggie Wagner 🌱 🌽 #PlantSci #PlantScience
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Today, I officially started my new position at @ The University of Kansas as a KU Center for Genomics Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology. I'm excited to be joining the lab of Dr. Maggie Wagner 🌱 🌽 #PlantSci #PlantScience
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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
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UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...
Assistant Professor in Genetics - Athens, Georgia (US) job with The University of Georgia Department of Genetics | 675651
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Genetics
jobs.sciencecareers.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Even as the U.S. government advises other countries to end a cruel practice, at home we preserve what amounts to legally sanctioned statutory rape,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about child marriage.
“Even as the U.S. government advises other countries to end a cruel practice, at home we preserve what amounts to legally sanctioned statutory rape,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about child marriage.
Opinion | Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America?
Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.
nyti.ms
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Even as the U.S. government advises other countries to end a cruel practice, at home we preserve what amounts to legally sanctioned statutory rape,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about child marriage.
“Even as the U.S. government advises other countries to end a cruel practice, at home we preserve what amounts to legally sanctioned statutory rape,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about child marriage.
Babies dying of whooping cough. This is breaking my heart.
In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Babies dying of whooping cough. This is breaking my heart.
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It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.
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This is heartbreaking & heartwarming in equal measure. The courage and kindness of many of my fellow Americans has been sustaining these past few months.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is heartbreaking & heartwarming in equal measure. The courage and kindness of many of my fellow Americans has been sustaining these past few months.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
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NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.
Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos,” writes the Times editorial board. “American citizens are living in fear of a government that is sworn to protect their liberties and keep them safe.”
“The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos,” writes the Times editorial board. “American citizens are living in fear of a government that is sworn to protect their liberties and keep them safe.”
Opinion | Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime
Trump’s immigration tactics violate both the law and human decency.
nyti.ms
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos,” writes the Times editorial board. “American citizens are living in fear of a government that is sworn to protect their liberties and keep them safe.”
“The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos,” writes the Times editorial board. “American citizens are living in fear of a government that is sworn to protect their liberties and keep them safe.”
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“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
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Hear what panelists enjoy about their role, how they learned about their job, & hear advice about finding full-time positions. Panelists will include individuals who work in the sciences, primarily outside of academia (working as a professor) or direct patient care in healthcare.
October 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hear what panelists enjoy about their role, how they learned about their job, & hear advice about finding full-time positions. Panelists will include individuals who work in the sciences, primarily outside of academia (working as a professor) or direct patient care in healthcare.
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they are stripping this country for parts
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
they are stripping this country for parts
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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
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This is Boise, Idaho one of the most Republican states in the US joining millions of protestors. The people have had enough of the Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is Boise, Idaho one of the most Republican states in the US joining millions of protestors. The people have had enough of the Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood
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Stopped on my way home from Democracy Fest and the No Kings rally in Hays, Kansas to admire Kansas and talk about why I'm running for Congress.
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
October 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Stopped on my way home from Democracy Fest and the No Kings rally in Hays, Kansas to admire Kansas and talk about why I'm running for Congress.
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas
#colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas