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liztomania
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ecology grad student / nc & tn
yeah this tracks
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
when people ask why I took eight whole years off between undergrad and grad school
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I didn’t expect the reviews for my rejected GRFP to be so nice 😭
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
anyway here’s my friends trying to get a baby mouse to drink water out of a seashell
September 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
not trying to brag but my trivia team has won so much in the last several months that I think everyone hates us now
August 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
every time I read anything about rfk jr and the MAHA crowd
August 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
hi-vis utility vest + 70s band shirt = fieldwork chic!
August 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
any day I don’t lose undergraduates in the woods is a win in my book
July 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
😭
BREAKING: Brian Wilson, the legendary co-founder of The Beach Boys, pop music visionary, and one of the greatest songwriters in music history, has died at the age of 82 → cons.lv/rtG6qH
June 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
had a dream about collecting trillium seeds last night. in case you were wondering where my mind is at
June 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
i’m sorry who is coming up with these common names? wet dog wakerobin? stinking benjamin???
May 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
the face of a girlie who, in the last two months, (1) got a mysterious tail injury even though she's an indoor cat and (2) snuck outside while the catsitter wasn't paying attention (??) and was missing/too scared to come inside for 2.5 nights (!!) until we managed to trap her and get her back home
May 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
do you think the undergrads i work with liked it when i repeatedly did my best david lynch impression yesterday y/n
May 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
east tennessee has a fast food restaurant called pal’s sudden service, which is infinitely funny to me because it implies the service is unexpected
May 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
baby’s first data collection in the field (baby is the instrument. i’m not baby in this case)
March 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
just had the best oysters of my life i love rhode island
March 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
hi trout lily ✨
March 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Robert F Kennedy should inject pure measles into himself to prove to us skeptics that getting measles is no big deal
March 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
teaching undergraduates still kinda feels like this but it’s fine
March 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
whee hee back in da field this past week (still waiting for our spring ephemerals)
March 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Opt out tomorrow!
February 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
anyway rip to my short lived honda civic. supposed to be a car you can trust ended up being a car that has rust (like, a lot of internal rust damage i didn’t know about)
February 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
my car that i bought less than two years ago crapped out and is basically unsalvagable and worthless and that’s great but then my pants broke too?? and you know what that was just the final straw
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
since i’m spending so much time driving now, i’m trying to listen to a different album each day, and i like compiling things, so i put together a list of albums i listened to in january (not all first time listens). taking some inspo from @friendoftheband.bsky.social and 1001albumsgenerator.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM