liana (they/them)
@plumbird.bsky.social
early career ornithologist/botanist 🪿
currently: temporarily unemployed 🤭
currently: temporarily unemployed 🤭
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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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Erasing our history won't erase us.
Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.
Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Erasing our history won't erase us.
Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.
Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.
🧍 being very chill and normal about this. super chill.
White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🧍 being very chill and normal about this. super chill.
i don't think people fully understand how much this is impacting the newest generation of scientists--to be told our diversity is our strength in this field only to have it used against us as we finally begin our careers.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i don't think people fully understand how much this is impacting the newest generation of scientists--to be told our diversity is our strength in this field only to have it used against us as we finally begin our careers.
this is such a strange time to be a queer early career ecologist applying to the GRFP. why is the government coming for my particular niche LEAVE ME ALONEEE. I just wanna do science??
February 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
this is such a strange time to be a queer early career ecologist applying to the GRFP. why is the government coming for my particular niche LEAVE ME ALONEEE. I just wanna do science??
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Bluebird combat ⚔️🪶
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Bluebird combat ⚔️🪶
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the funding freeze was halted with just minutes to spare before it was due to go into effect. shudder to think what would’ve happened if the memo wasn’t leaked.
judge says spending freeze is frozen (til monday)
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L.
apnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
the funding freeze was halted with just minutes to spare before it was due to go into effect. shudder to think what would’ve happened if the memo wasn’t leaked.
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I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
been trying to sketch a bit every day of 2025 so here are some birds in these trying times
January 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
been trying to sketch a bit every day of 2025 so here are some birds in these trying times