Christy Caldwell
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Christy Caldwell
@aixsponsa.bsky.social
Research Instruction Librarian | Bird nerd
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For four decades, ecologists Daniel Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs have routinely set up light traps in a protected Costa Rican rainforest to attract moths & other insects. Same sheet, same lights, same spot, same time of year.

This is 1984 (L) vs 2019 (R)

From: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC:

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Trump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act now
The Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump too...
lookout.co
April 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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“She said, ‘I think this is going to be the last time I get to visit you,’” Öztürk’s friend recalled. “I told her, ‘No, no, you’re going to be able to come again, don’t worry, and I’m going to come visit you.’ That all turned out to be wrong.”

By @hannahallam.bsky.social
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…
www.propublica.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Guest taught as a science librarian for a class today, advanced neuroscience. I mentioned every time a tool was created/maintained by the NIH. PubMed, NCBI genomic data, NLM. I had to wonder if PubMed would work for the whole hour or not.
January 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM