Dr. Becca Peixotto
@beccapeixotto.bsky.social
skier, archaeologist
views expressed are my own
AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador
she/her
views expressed are my own
AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador
she/her
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This #RemembranceDay we invite you to think on the enduring effects of conflict on modern landscapes. Near Vimy 🇫🇷 is a patch of fenced-off forest along the old Western Front. These exclusion zones materially and ecologically 'remember' armed conflict.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This #RemembranceDay we invite you to think on the enduring effects of conflict on modern landscapes. Near Vimy 🇫🇷 is a patch of fenced-off forest along the old Western Front. These exclusion zones materially and ecologically 'remember' armed conflict.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
This election day there aren’t any offices on my local ballot. But, there are two ballot questions: one with far reaching implications for future elections and one for safety.
Municipal and state election matter so much, always, but especially now.
Municipal and state election matter so much, always, but especially now.
a blue and white sticker that says i voted have you
Alt: a blue and white sticker that says i voted have you
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This election day there aren’t any offices on my local ballot. But, there are two ballot questions: one with far reaching implications for future elections and one for safety.
Municipal and state election matter so much, always, but especially now.
Municipal and state election matter so much, always, but especially now.
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I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry.
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
October 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry.
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
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This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:
* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:
* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Also, let's be really fucking clear: There are no "federal laws" requiring any of this. There are only the dictatorial but legally meaningless pronouncements of a toweringly bigoted asshole who thinks he should be king, and that is not a "mandate." It's fucking Nazi pablum.
Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs.
This is egregious.
This is egregious.
September 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Also, let's be really fucking clear: There are no "federal laws" requiring any of this. There are only the dictatorial but legally meaningless pronouncements of a toweringly bigoted asshole who thinks he should be king, and that is not a "mandate." It's fucking Nazi pablum.
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Think about this for a second. It’s grotesque and dangerous.
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Think about this for a second. It’s grotesque and dangerous.
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
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‼️ The time to determine who to trust IS NOT during an emergency.
NOW is the time to find trustworthy sources for scientific and emergency response information.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
NOW is the time to find trustworthy sources for scientific and emergency response information.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
Bay Area companies skewered over false tsunami information
Amid active tsunami warnings, Grok said they'd been cancelled.
www.sfgate.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
‼️ The time to determine who to trust IS NOT during an emergency.
NOW is the time to find trustworthy sources for scientific and emergency response information.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
NOW is the time to find trustworthy sources for scientific and emergency response information.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
Here we go again!! For the 4th year, I’ll be taking on San Diego Comic-Con® with my fellow IF/THEN ambassadors.
The IF/THEN STEAM Squad is heading back to #SDCC with 5(!) exciting panels and off-site events like Nerd Nite and Genius in the House.
#ComicCon2025 #popculture #cosplaying #STEAMSquad
The IF/THEN STEAM Squad is heading back to #SDCC with 5(!) exciting panels and off-site events like Nerd Nite and Genius in the House.
#ComicCon2025 #popculture #cosplaying #STEAMSquad
July 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Here we go again!! For the 4th year, I’ll be taking on San Diego Comic-Con® with my fellow IF/THEN ambassadors.
The IF/THEN STEAM Squad is heading back to #SDCC with 5(!) exciting panels and off-site events like Nerd Nite and Genius in the House.
#ComicCon2025 #popculture #cosplaying #STEAMSquad
The IF/THEN STEAM Squad is heading back to #SDCC with 5(!) exciting panels and off-site events like Nerd Nite and Genius in the House.
#ComicCon2025 #popculture #cosplaying #STEAMSquad
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Proposals to claw back federal funding for public media are happening now. This means the NPR Network is at serious risk. Your local station, the shows you listen to, and the website you read - could go dark forever.
Protect one of America’s greatest resources. Take action here: n.pr/4mGteTj
Protect one of America’s greatest resources. Take action here: n.pr/4mGteTj
June 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Proposals to claw back federal funding for public media are happening now. This means the NPR Network is at serious risk. Your local station, the shows you listen to, and the website you read - could go dark forever.
Protect one of America’s greatest resources. Take action here: n.pr/4mGteTj
Protect one of America’s greatest resources. Take action here: n.pr/4mGteTj
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You know you can just not use AI, right?
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You know you can just not use AI, right?
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
You can make a choice not to be part of this.
Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.
You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.
why only 29? Where are the rest?
As GOP congressional leaders are vowing to move full steam ahead to approve Trump's request to eliminate federal funding for public media for the next two years, a group of 29 Senate Democrats are warning the broadcast outlets should be "protected, not decimated."
Partisan battle lines form over Trump's plan to defund NPR & PBS
Senate Democrats warn Trump plan to wipe out public broadcasting funding will shut down stations, eliminate essential services. But House GOP scheduled to vote to clawback $1.1 billion next week.
n.pr
June 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
why only 29? Where are the rest?
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is about all of us. Never forget that.
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(2/3)
Here’s what to do:
1. Find a cancelled NSF grant in your state here 👇
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
2. Find your reps. Explain why this grant is important - & you won’t be silent on it. 👇
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Here’s what to do:
1. Find a cancelled NSF grant in your state here 👇
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
2. Find your reps. Explain why this grant is important - & you won’t be silent on it. 👇
www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.congress.gov
April 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
(2/3)
Here’s what to do:
1. Find a cancelled NSF grant in your state here 👇
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
2. Find your reps. Explain why this grant is important - & you won’t be silent on it. 👇
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Here’s what to do:
1. Find a cancelled NSF grant in your state here 👇
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
2. Find your reps. Explain why this grant is important - & you won’t be silent on it. 👇
www.congress.gov/members/find...
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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
nyti.ms
April 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.
Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.
Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
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Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
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If you die in service and you’re not a white male, you don’t count.
This is America today.
(h/t @starlilstella.bsky.social )
This is America today.
(h/t @starlilstella.bsky.social )
This one made me cry. My momma, USMC Vietnam veteran, is honored at the women’s memorial in Arlington. How DARE they dismiss her service, and that of anyone other than white men!!
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you die in service and you’re not a white male, you don’t count.
This is America today.
(h/t @starlilstella.bsky.social )
This is America today.
(h/t @starlilstella.bsky.social )
C'est ici! Un petit cadeau pour la journée internationale des droits des femmes! Jo Varner et collegues écrivent sur adorables pika. Pika vivent en Canada aussi.
Merci a IF/THEN She Can
(Sorry for my beginner French. Article translated by professionals.🤓)
kids.frontiersin.org/fr/articles/...
Merci a IF/THEN She Can
(Sorry for my beginner French. Article translated by professionals.🤓)
kids.frontiersin.org/fr/articles/...
Quelle sera l’influence du changement climatique sur le goûter préféré des pikas?
De nombreux animaux sont herbivores, ce qui signifie qu’ils se nourrissent de plantes pour avoir tous les nutriments dont ils ont besoin. Cousins des lapins, les pikas américains sont d’adorables anim...
kids.frontiersin.org
March 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
C'est ici! Un petit cadeau pour la journée internationale des droits des femmes! Jo Varner et collegues écrivent sur adorables pika. Pika vivent en Canada aussi.
Merci a IF/THEN She Can
(Sorry for my beginner French. Article translated by professionals.🤓)
kids.frontiersin.org/fr/articles/...
Merci a IF/THEN She Can
(Sorry for my beginner French. Article translated by professionals.🤓)
kids.frontiersin.org/fr/articles/...
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EXCLUSIVE: The @AP has obtained and tonight published a database of the file names and descriptions of more than 26,000 military images flagged for removal --because the pictures highlight contributions by women or minorities, or celebrate cultural heritage. apnews.com/article/dei-...
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...
apnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The @AP has obtained and tonight published a database of the file names and descriptions of more than 26,000 military images flagged for removal --because the pictures highlight contributions by women or minorities, or celebrate cultural heritage. apnews.com/article/dei-...
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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
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Worst. Episode. EVER.
February 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
February 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
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Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️
February 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.