Dr. Emma Thurau
@emmabee16.bsky.social
Scientist studying plant defenses 🌿 and monkey feeding behavior 🐒, she/her
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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The CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Department is holding a virtual open house for students interested in the PhD program on Friday Dec 5th at 2pm EST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Department is holding a virtual open house for students interested in the PhD program on Friday Dec 5th at 2pm EST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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"Postdoc in the job market"
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Postdoc in the job market"
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NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk
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Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research
June 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research
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We are everywhere. We are inevitable. Even if we are silenced and suppressed, we will always be.
June 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We are everywhere. We are inevitable. Even if we are silenced and suppressed, we will always be.
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The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs.
Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
May 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government's web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here's why we just published a volume on the left's war on science.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
April 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government's web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here's why we just published a volume on the left's war on science.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
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A new study finds that conservatives distrust science! Not shocking, I know, but it also found that they even distrust science that ostensibly supports their worldview, and the researchers couldn't find a single intervention that helped. 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/04/stud...
Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It)
Breaking news, a study published this month in Nature Human Behavior has found that American conservatives hate science. This news comes as a shock to everyone who has spent the past several decade…
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April 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A new study finds that conservatives distrust science! Not shocking, I know, but it also found that they even distrust science that ostensibly supports their worldview, and the researchers couldn't find a single intervention that helped. 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/04/stud...
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Intersex right whale with XXY karyotype! 🧪🦑
To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
by @vmart.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/to-discover-...
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
by @vmart.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/to-discover-...
To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm - bioGraphic
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
www.biographic.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Intersex right whale with XXY karyotype! 🧪🦑
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We should be more scared of measles. Worth noting that things are going downhill so quickly, I now need to update these videos in the days between recording and posting. In this case, a 2nd person died & the father of the dead child has announced he's still anti-vax. skepchick.org/2025/03/we-s...
We Should Be More Scared of Measles
Transcript: I’ve been talking about measles for about the last 20 years, banging this drum so often that I really debated whether or not I should bother making this video. I went back and looked at…
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March 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We should be more scared of measles. Worth noting that things are going downhill so quickly, I now need to update these videos in the days between recording and posting. In this case, a 2nd person died & the father of the dead child has announced he's still anti-vax. skepchick.org/2025/03/we-s...
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Delighted to say that my and Amanda Melin's special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on primatology in Canada is now complete with 18 papers(!!) and the Introduction has just been published! Co-authored by Linda Fedigan. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
A History of Primatology in Canada and an Introduction to the Special Issue
Primatological research by anthropologists and evolutionary biologists based in Canada has expanded greatly since its inception ca. 60 years ago. The research foci of the founding primatologists were...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Delighted to say that my and Amanda Melin's special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on primatology in Canada is now complete with 18 papers(!!) and the Introduction has just been published! Co-authored by Linda Fedigan. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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The repercussions of Trump's ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are being felt across various health and science agencies.
In today’s episode, we talk about the ramifications of that order for science and medicine.
Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/Vdpz3oM
In today’s episode, we talk about the ramifications of that order for science and medicine.
Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/Vdpz3oM
March 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The repercussions of Trump's ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are being felt across various health and science agencies.
In today’s episode, we talk about the ramifications of that order for science and medicine.
Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/Vdpz3oM
In today’s episode, we talk about the ramifications of that order for science and medicine.
Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/Vdpz3oM
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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
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
Officially became a doctor yesterday after completing my dissertation defense so a new bluesky handle needed, Dr. or PhD 🌴🌿🐒
March 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Officially became a doctor yesterday after completing my dissertation defense so a new bluesky handle needed, Dr. or PhD 🌴🌿🐒
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SOOTHING BIRD FACT 🐦
Thanks to the wonders of convergent evolution, South America is home to a bird that's remarkably batlike. The fruit-eating Oilbird is nocturnal, roosts in caves, and navigates using echolocation. (Photo by Eric Gropp, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Thanks to the wonders of convergent evolution, South America is home to a bird that's remarkably batlike. The fruit-eating Oilbird is nocturnal, roosts in caves, and navigates using echolocation. (Photo by Eric Gropp, via Wikimedia Commons.)
February 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
SOOTHING BIRD FACT 🐦
Thanks to the wonders of convergent evolution, South America is home to a bird that's remarkably batlike. The fruit-eating Oilbird is nocturnal, roosts in caves, and navigates using echolocation. (Photo by Eric Gropp, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Thanks to the wonders of convergent evolution, South America is home to a bird that's remarkably batlike. The fruit-eating Oilbird is nocturnal, roosts in caves, and navigates using echolocation. (Photo by Eric Gropp, via Wikimedia Commons.)
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The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....
www.federalregister.gov
February 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
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Hey, what's up with all those plane crashes happening right now? Is it because of the fun new dictatorship happening in the US? No, but also kind of. skepchick.org/2025/02/is-a...
Is Air Travel Getting More Dangerous? Maybe!
Last month, Donald Trump was once again sworn in as President of the United States. That same day, the head of the organization responsible for the standards and safety of planes and air traffic co…
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February 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey, what's up with all those plane crashes happening right now? Is it because of the fun new dictatorship happening in the US? No, but also kind of. skepchick.org/2025/02/is-a...
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Who discovered that Down's Syndrome is caused by a genetic abnormality and what became of her? In this episode of @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social, they highlight the debates, play interviews, and attempt to understand what happened in a lab in the 1950s and for the next 60 years. #WomenInSTEM
Lost Women of Science
In 1960 Marthe Gautier left the lab where she had discovered the genetic cause of Down syndrome, and went on to have a successful career as a pediatric cardiologist. For decades, she remained silent a...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Who discovered that Down's Syndrome is caused by a genetic abnormality and what became of her? In this episode of @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social, they highlight the debates, play interviews, and attempt to understand what happened in a lab in the 1950s and for the next 60 years. #WomenInSTEM
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TIL that Carl Linnaeus based most of his biological classification system on one he learned from the northern Scandinavian Indigenous Lapp people.
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February 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
TIL that Carl Linnaeus based most of his biological classification system on one he learned from the northern Scandinavian Indigenous Lapp people.
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brill.com/view/journal...
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Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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February 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
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In addition to the good news
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
🧪
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
🧪
We @chronicle.com reported on Friday that applications for F31 diversity fellowships had been withdrawn.
Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky
Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky
‘We’re Being Punished’: NIH Tosses Some Grant Applications From Minority Researchers
The sudden withdrawal affects early-career scholars who applied for a prestigious federal grant with a diversity notation — flagging that they came from underrepresented backgrounds.
www.chronicle.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
In addition to the good news
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
🧪
THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS
Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting
🧪