Riss Kell, PhD
drkell.bsky.social
Riss Kell, PhD
@drkell.bsky.social
Marine biogeochemist, MIT-WHOI JP PhD 🌊, Postdoctoral Scientist at GMGI studying sea urchins as cancer-resistant, long-lived animal models, and overall marine science enthusiast! They/them.

https://gmgi.org/about/team/research-team/riss-kellogg-ph-d/
My final PhD thesis chapter was published last week! Very happy to share this-- we used metaproteomics, metatranscriptomics, and many measurements of dissolved metal chemistry to document Zn limitation of phyotplankton in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica.
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.
April 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
April 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk
April 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.
March 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Transgender Day of Visibility isn’t just about being seen or heard. It’s about being recognized and respected. For trans people, visibility can be empowering and at the same time dangerous, almost an impossible choice between pride and safety. Uplift our voices and make the world safe for us too.
March 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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😂😂😂😂😂😂
IYKYK
March 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Very much this.
March 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Good turnout for the Stand Up for Science March in Woods Hole, MA. While a small town on Cape Code, Woods Hole hosts 6 premier science institutions that include @mblscience.bsky.social, @whoi.edu, @noaa.gov fisheries, @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, USGS, and @sea1971.bsky.social

#standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My slapdash sign and I will be at Stand Up for Science standupforscience2025.org tomorrow, hope to see you there
March 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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What it feels like revising a paper
March 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Nadja of Antipaxos once more!

Chat I cooked with this one.

#art #portrait #nadja #nadjaofantipaxos #wwdits #fanart
February 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday
February 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.
January 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My talented wife is mega talented!! 🥰
Another baby quilt, this time for my wife’s cousin and his wife. Managed to Indiana Jones hat grab this one as the shower is tomorrow afternoon 😬

#quilting
January 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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He would be the genre of books that specifically caters to stereotypical gross elementary school aged boys that have cartoon green clouds of farts on the cover, and she would be the opposite, the books that are aimed at the same age girls that are like “boys have cooties and other true facts”
January 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM