Lindsay Waldrop, Ph.D.
@invertenerd.bsky.social
Assistant professor of computational biology at Chapman University. Research on biological fluid-structure interactions.
https://waldroplab.com
https://waldroplab.com
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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.”
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
www.propublica.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.”
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
Slowly rebuilding the science twitter I used to have. I can't spend a huge amount of time here for my mental health, but I sure do miss it sometimes!
February 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Slowly rebuilding the science twitter I used to have. I can't spend a huge amount of time here for my mental health, but I sure do miss it sometimes!
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I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧
February 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧
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In her JEB Special Issue Commentary @elcshepard.bsky.social discusses the impact of turbulence on animal flight, how human activity is changing turbulence & how laboratory & field studies will provide insight into the implications of these changes for animals
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
February 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In her JEB Special Issue Commentary @elcshepard.bsky.social discusses the impact of turbulence on animal flight, how human activity is changing turbulence & how laboratory & field studies will provide insight into the implications of these changes for animals
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
@doctorzen.net We randomly found a crayfish in the middle of the sidewalk on dog walkies the other day, and I thought of you.
February 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@doctorzen.net We randomly found a crayfish in the middle of the sidewalk on dog walkies the other day, and I thought of you.
Summer garden plans courtesy of RStudio!
February 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Summer garden plans courtesy of RStudio!
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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Happy #DarwinDay!
To celebrate, here is a font inspired by Darwin's own handwriting!
wetenschapbrussel.be/darwin-day-o...
To celebrate, here is a font inspired by Darwin's own handwriting!
wetenschapbrussel.be/darwin-day-o...
February 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Happy #DarwinDay!
To celebrate, here is a font inspired by Darwin's own handwriting!
wetenschapbrussel.be/darwin-day-o...
To celebrate, here is a font inspired by Darwin's own handwriting!
wetenschapbrussel.be/darwin-day-o...
Just spent 5 minutes calling my representatives! 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...
Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls
On February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science …
5calls.org
February 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just spent 5 minutes calling my representatives! 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...
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This is a great way to let your voice be heard - makes it super easy to call your representatives and senators in Congress. 5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is a great way to let your voice be heard - makes it super easy to call your representatives and senators in Congress. 5calls.org
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Besides being cruel, anticipatory obedience doesn’t work www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
www.chemistryworld.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Besides being cruel, anticipatory obedience doesn’t work www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
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Losing on this issue feels like my life's biggest failure. My words and scientific reality could not overcome a century of bigotry and false assumptions about trans bodies.
Glad to see the NCAA is just going to absolutely capitulate to this. And by glad I mean, this is terrible.
Trump Order Set to Ban Transgender Girls and Women From Female School Sports
The president is expected to sign the executive order order Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.wsj.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Losing on this issue feels like my life's biggest failure. My words and scientific reality could not overcome a century of bigotry and false assumptions about trans bodies.
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This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
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Ever so slowly this sea spider digs in for food, as this video, the first to document this behavior, shows.
Learn more: scim.ag/3Q4cx50
Learn more: scim.ag/3Q4cx50
February 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ever so slowly this sea spider digs in for food, as this video, the first to document this behavior, shows.
Learn more: scim.ag/3Q4cx50
Learn more: scim.ag/3Q4cx50
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
We're also getting some national press, which is a new experience for me! www.newsweek.com/specialized-...
Specialized dog breeds are not so special after all
New research has found that when it comes to which breed of dog might be best for a given task, looks can be deceiving.
www.newsweek.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We're also getting some national press, which is a new experience for me! www.newsweek.com/specialized-...
Check out our newest paper in Science Advances! Fabulous work by my former postdoc Nick Hebdon and lots of undergraduates at Chapman! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog skull shape challenges assumptions of performance specialization from selective breeding
Dog skull shape shows that human breeding effort has driven obvious shape changes but with no associated performance differences.
www.science.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Check out our newest paper in Science Advances! Fabulous work by my former postdoc Nick Hebdon and lots of undergraduates at Chapman! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hi everyone! I finally joined bluesky!
February 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hi everyone! I finally joined bluesky!