Liz McAlpine
@turtleturtleturtle.bsky.social
Graduate student at Penn State University researching heat tolerance and thermal adaptation in turtles.
🦎 Herpetologist accidentally studying trees 🌲
🦎 Herpetologist accidentally studying trees 🌲
Tonight I’m appreciating the beauty of a black man breaking the speaking record previously set by an old white man trying to prevent racial equality.
#Corybooker #senate @booker.senate.gov
#Corybooker #senate @booker.senate.gov
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Tonight I’m appreciating the beauty of a black man breaking the speaking record previously set by an old white man trying to prevent racial equality.
#Corybooker #senate @booker.senate.gov
#Corybooker #senate @booker.senate.gov
We predicted this, but universities outside the United States are already offering refuge to scientists whose research is under attack in this new era of devaluation of #science.
I, for one, will be happy to take them up on their offer.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
I, for one, will be happy to take them up on their offer.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
www.univ-amu.fr
March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We predicted this, but universities outside the United States are already offering refuge to scientists whose research is under attack in this new era of devaluation of #science.
I, for one, will be happy to take them up on their offer.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
I, for one, will be happy to take them up on their offer.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
Under this ice is a sleeping turtle. He will sleep until spring. Then he will wake up and take a long nap in the sun.
Democracies will rise and fall. My turtles just keep doing turtle things.
My turtles are zen and I should be more like them.
Democracies will rise and fall. My turtles just keep doing turtle things.
My turtles are zen and I should be more like them.
February 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Under this ice is a sleeping turtle. He will sleep until spring. Then he will wake up and take a long nap in the sun.
Democracies will rise and fall. My turtles just keep doing turtle things.
My turtles are zen and I should be more like them.
Democracies will rise and fall. My turtles just keep doing turtle things.
My turtles are zen and I should be more like them.
When things get bad there’s always a solution.
Okay I'm going for a walk to go touch some moss. Go find some moss, everyone. Touch it and whisper to the tardigrades inside your hopes and dreams.
January 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
When things get bad there’s always a solution.
#ICE is stopping people in State College, Pennsylvania today. They are outside graduate housing and grocery stores.
If this is happening in your town, print and distribute some of these and help keep each other safe.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
#statecollege
If this is happening in your town, print and distribute some of these and help keep each other safe.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
#statecollege
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
www.ilrc.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#ICE is stopping people in State College, Pennsylvania today. They are outside graduate housing and grocery stores.
If this is happening in your town, print and distribute some of these and help keep each other safe.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
#statecollege
If this is happening in your town, print and distribute some of these and help keep each other safe.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
#statecollege
As a #climate #scientist and grad student stuck in this country for a few more years… I am very stressed.
However, they will not stop me from my work and they will not silence me. That’s really all we can do right now.
However, they will not stop me from my work and they will not silence me. That’s really all we can do right now.
President Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to stop all permits for wind energy projects, including all offshore wind development in the U.S. and wind projects on federal lands, @jael.bsky.social reports.
Trump Orders End to All Wind Energy Permits
The worst case scenario for the wind industry is here.
heatmap.news
January 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
As a #climate #scientist and grad student stuck in this country for a few more years… I am very stressed.
However, they will not stop me from my work and they will not silence me. That’s really all we can do right now.
However, they will not stop me from my work and they will not silence me. That’s really all we can do right now.
I look at turtles every day.
Every. Day.
Yet I am still fascinated that they don’t live IN their shell, they ARE their shell.
How weird is that??
Every. Day.
Yet I am still fascinated that they don’t live IN their shell, they ARE their shell.
How weird is that??
January 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I look at turtles every day.
Every. Day.
Yet I am still fascinated that they don’t live IN their shell, they ARE their shell.
How weird is that??
Every. Day.
Yet I am still fascinated that they don’t live IN their shell, they ARE their shell.
How weird is that??