Roman T Cavallaro
@trcava.bsky.social
Fungi 🍄 | Plants 🌵 | Epigenetics 🧬 | Eco-Evo-Devo 🌀 | PhD Student, Stanford 🌲(he/him/il) #FirstGen #QueerinSTEM 🏳️🌈 ♾️
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🌎 Science is for everyone.
🍄🟫 Views are my own.
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Roman T Cavallaro
@trcava.bsky.social
· Oct 5
I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience
Please share widely! 🧪 🍄🟫 🌲
A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
Please share widely! 🧪 🍄🟫 🌲
A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
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ICYMI "Three key near-term actions could bend the warming curve; bringing projected warming below 2°C" via @climateanalytics.org: climateanalytics.org/publications...
Three key near-term actions could bend the warming curve; bringing…
Tripling renewables, doubling energy efficiency and cutting methane by 2030 and beyond would cut warming rate by a third in ten years, and halve it by 2040. This would cut projected warming this centu...
climateanalytics.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
ICYMI "Three key near-term actions could bend the warming curve; bringing projected warming below 2°C" via @climateanalytics.org: climateanalytics.org/publications...
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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well THIS is bad. h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
Feds plan to lease 1 million acres in California to oil, gas developers
The federal government proposes allowing oil and gas drilling in the Golden State’s Pinnacles National Park, Mount Diablo State Park, Henry W. Coe State Park and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve.
www.courthousenews.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM
well THIS is bad. h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...
Public lands should be protected and shared with the public, not destroyed to make profits for oil companies.
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Finally, a note to the many professors in my networks: One other specific, small thing you can do from outside of Minneapolis is reach out to colleagues who are heavily affected (because of their own or their family's risk, or because they're very busy protecting neighbors) and offer a guest lecture
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Finally, a note to the many professors in my networks: One other specific, small thing you can do from outside of Minneapolis is reach out to colleagues who are heavily affected (because of their own or their family's risk, or because they're very busy protecting neighbors) and offer a guest lecture
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writing down what you say, noticing which parts really stand out, and talking about how to start writing
If you're in Minneapolis and have something specific you want to say -- a story you want to tell, a point to make, a feeling you wish you could spread -- let me know
2/
If you're in Minneapolis and have something specific you want to say -- a story you want to tell, a point to make, a feeling you wish you could spread -- let me know
2/
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
writing down what you say, noticing which parts really stand out, and talking about how to start writing
If you're in Minneapolis and have something specific you want to say -- a story you want to tell, a point to make, a feeling you wish you could spread -- let me know
2/
If you're in Minneapolis and have something specific you want to say -- a story you want to tell, a point to make, a feeling you wish you could spread -- let me know
2/
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looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
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🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Schools are closed because it’s unsafe to send kids to school while the expensive goon brigade is out terrorizing Americans and driving up prices. And childcare is devastatingly expensive.
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Schools are closed because it’s unsafe to send kids to school while the expensive goon brigade is out terrorizing Americans and driving up prices. And childcare is devastatingly expensive.
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They stole our money from us - out of our healthcare - and they’re using it to shoot Americans in the face. They’ve stopped farms from being able to harvest and sell food, and they’re ignoring bird flu and creating supply chain issues that regulation had already previously solved. That’s the crisis.
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
They stole our money from us - out of our healthcare - and they’re using it to shoot Americans in the face. They’ve stopped farms from being able to harvest and sell food, and they’re ignoring bird flu and creating supply chain issues that regulation had already previously solved. That’s the crisis.
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If you were looking for a single unifying interpretive framework to help make sense of this administration‘s actions, consider that Trump is actively trying to destroy our country rather than save it.
January 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
If you were looking for a single unifying interpretive framework to help make sense of this administration‘s actions, consider that Trump is actively trying to destroy our country rather than save it.
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Casey Rollings runs a Catholic charity in Springfield Ohio, recently helping children of immigrants separated from their parents. As the Trump admin takes protected status from Haitian refugees Feb 3, she's preparing for an avalanche of family separations. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/14/t...
The Ohio grandma racing to help Haitian parents protect children as more deportations near • Ohio Capital Journal
Casey Rollings runs a Catholic charity in Springfield, Ohio, that helps children of immigrants who've been separated from their parents. As the Trump administration takes protected status from…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Casey Rollings runs a Catholic charity in Springfield Ohio, recently helping children of immigrants separated from their parents. As the Trump admin takes protected status from Haitian refugees Feb 3, she's preparing for an avalanche of family separations. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/14/t...
The admin wants all of our money to be spent on wars against humanity—at home and abroad. In fact, they’d rather you just off yourself and leave them to roll around in the spoils.
Just in: The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
n.pr
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The admin wants all of our money to be spent on wars against humanity—at home and abroad. In fact, they’d rather you just off yourself and leave them to roll around in the spoils.
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hi! do you want to be my editor? i know you do - come work with me
Senior Editor, Science
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
hi! do you want to be my editor? i know you do - come work with me
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“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.
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a queer woman lightly mocked an ICE officer so they shot her wife right in front of her. now they’re trying to justify it by making it a capital crime to mock them
in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you
in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you
This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
January 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
a queer woman lightly mocked an ICE officer so they shot her wife right in front of her. now they’re trying to justify it by making it a capital crime to mock them
in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you
in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you
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"Slow down to fuck over ICE" is actually an anti-speeding message that may resonate with drivers
As I was being tailgated down W. River Parkway by a large SUV with tinted windows, the thought occurred to me that it might help if everyone drives a bit slower. Gives observers more time to identify feds.
We have a 20 MPH speed limit on residential streets, let’s weaponize it
We have a 20 MPH speed limit on residential streets, let’s weaponize it
January 13, 2026 at 11:33 PM
"Slow down to fuck over ICE" is actually an anti-speeding message that may resonate with drivers
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
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What we're seeing in real time is the deployment of a Secret Police tasked with terrorizing those who live in communities insufficiently subservient to the regime. It's a form of spectacle violence designed undermine the rule of law & any semblance of accountability.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
What we're seeing in real time is the deployment of a Secret Police tasked with terrorizing those who live in communities insufficiently subservient to the regime. It's a form of spectacle violence designed undermine the rule of law & any semblance of accountability.
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We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen...
#botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
#botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM
We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen...
#botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
#botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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This is 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪. Please tell her she's smart, beautiful and important.
She already knows it, just wanted to hear it from you 💁♀️
🦇 Sanborn's big-eared bat
📸 Jennifer Barros
She already knows it, just wanted to hear it from you 💁♀️
🦇 Sanborn's big-eared bat
📸 Jennifer Barros
January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
This is 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪. Please tell her she's smart, beautiful and important.
She already knows it, just wanted to hear it from you 💁♀️
🦇 Sanborn's big-eared bat
📸 Jennifer Barros
She already knows it, just wanted to hear it from you 💁♀️
🦇 Sanborn's big-eared bat
📸 Jennifer Barros
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