Tess Gavrielle Levinson
@tglevinson.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist working to promote youth thriving while we save wildlife + our planet 🌎
I research environmental anxiety, self-efficacy, belonging & career development 🌱
Curatorial Science Fellow at Wildlife Conservation Society. Views my own.
I research environmental anxiety, self-efficacy, belonging & career development 🌱
Curatorial Science Fellow at Wildlife Conservation Society. Views my own.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Reposted by Tess Gavrielle Levinson
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
(Also, I know now that Mort in the Madagascar movies is a mouse lemur not a slow loris. But I didn't know that at the time!)
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
(Also, I know now that Mort in the Madagascar movies is a mouse lemur not a slow loris. But I didn't know that at the time!)
I watched all four Madagascar movies to prepare for my postdoc interview at the Bronx/Central Park Zoos. Today, I got to do journal club + talk stats while @shulirank.bsky.social and I looked at a baby pygmy slow loris. Just a reminder that dreams do come true. 🥰
WCS's Bronx Zoo has a new baby. In December 2025, an Endangered pygmy slow loris was born in our newest exhibit, World of Darkness. This is the first primate to be born at the zoo’s immersive exhibit since it opened in July 2025. bit.ly/4r7dUQU 🌎
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I watched all four Madagascar movies to prepare for my postdoc interview at the Bronx/Central Park Zoos. Today, I got to do journal club + talk stats while @shulirank.bsky.social and I looked at a baby pygmy slow loris. Just a reminder that dreams do come true. 🥰
Excited to share the @wcs.org Career Lattice report for 2025. The WCS Career Lattice supported 1900+ youth in volunteer, internship, and early career experiences across our NYC zoos and aquarium. We're proud to launch hundreds of careers in STEM, conservation, and more wcs.education/Interim-Latt...
January 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Excited to share the @wcs.org Career Lattice report for 2025. The WCS Career Lattice supported 1900+ youth in volunteer, internship, and early career experiences across our NYC zoos and aquarium. We're proud to launch hundreds of careers in STEM, conservation, and more wcs.education/Interim-Latt...
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Everyone asks me: Did climate change burn down your town? No, but climate change intensified the fire that did.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history
The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a factor in the fires' intensity.
www.latimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Everyone asks me: Did climate change burn down your town? No, but climate change intensified the fire that did.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Reposted by Tess Gavrielle Levinson
The 10th Annual WCS Youth JIVE (Job, Internship & Volunteering Expo) will be held on Saturday, February 7, at the Bronx Zoo.
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The 10th Annual WCS Youth JIVE (Job, Internship & Volunteering Expo) will be held on Saturday, February 7, at the Bronx Zoo.
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
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“reflexive qualitative research is a distinctly human practice, undertaken by humans, with or about humans (e.g., through interviews, focus groups or textual data), and for the benefit of humans.”
Important publication (by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and co-authors) to add to any critical AI reading list.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“reflexive qualitative research is a distinctly human practice, undertaken by humans, with or about humans (e.g., through interviews, focus groups or textual data), and for the benefit of humans.”
For more info on the WCS Career Lattice: bronxzoo.com/learn/youth
Youth & Young Adults - Bronx Zoo
bronxzoo.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
For more info on the WCS Career Lattice: bronxzoo.com/learn/youth
I love working in #AltAc, and so much of that is because of these collaborative partnerships. Informal conversations over lunch lead to research questions. Shared office spaces lead to collaborative data collection. We naturally collect mixed-methods data, and our work has impact in real time.
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I love working in #AltAc, and so much of that is because of these collaborative partnerships. Informal conversations over lunch lead to research questions. Shared office spaces lead to collaborative data collection. We naturally collect mixed-methods data, and our work has impact in real time.
Integrating DBR into our practice helps us better evaluate programs, iterate and improve our work, and conduct high quality research. We've used this process with our Career Lattice programs, where we serve 1900+ youth every year while researching mentoring, conservation, and STEM identity.
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Integrating DBR into our practice helps us better evaluate programs, iterate and improve our work, and conduct high quality research. We've used this process with our Career Lattice programs, where we serve 1900+ youth every year while researching mentoring, conservation, and STEM identity.
New #open-access paper from our team @wcs.org Education. We talk about why cultural institutions are the ideal place to study informal learning and youth development, and how collaboration between internal research and practice teams sets us up for successful design-based research (DBR) practices.
Leveraging Internal Partnerships for Design-Based Research in Museum Education
Design-based research (DBR) is a useful approach for answering research and evaluation questions on both ends of the theoretical-to-applied spectrum because it combines the study of educational pro...
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New #open-access paper from our team @wcs.org Education. We talk about why cultural institutions are the ideal place to study informal learning and youth development, and how collaboration between internal research and practice teams sets us up for successful design-based research (DBR) practices.