Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez
@rebeccacalisi.bsky.social
Wildlife biologist & UC Davis professor studying animal behavior, stress, reproduction & the mental health benefits of human-animal interactions.
She/Her/Ella🇲🇽🇵🇷
Book-WILD PRIDE https://linktr.ee/RebeccaCalisiRodriguez
Lab https://greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/
Perks of summer fieldwork in California: wildlife cameras for the data, grapes for the dinner table.

#CaliforniaBiologist
August 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#NoKings Sacramento
@ucdavis.bsky.social Professors represent!
June 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Thanks CapRadio for the interview on my Science Café talk TONIGHT: Celebrating Gender Rebels & Queer Pairings in the Animal Kingdom, from my book Wild Pride!🌈
Listen: scroll to “Davis Science Café” tinyurl.com/3bmmeupz
5:30PM G St Wunderbar, Davis –FREE!
100% book proceeds@trevorproject.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Minutes away from speaking about my upcoming Science Cafe talk, “Wild Pride! Celebrating Gender Rebels and Queer Pairings in the Animal Kingdom”
at Capital Public Radio
June 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
June 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
1,300 Israeli academics call to end Gaza war.

“This is a horrifying list of war crimes and crimes against humanity – our own doing,' the academics' letter states, urging Israeli academic leaders to 'mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the war'

archive.ph/2025.05.30-1...
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My awesome lab manager just sent me this sketch she did, which is an idea for an (ecologically friendly) water balloon fight to teach middle schoolers about the HPA (stress) axis 😂
June 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Well, this is a 1st.
Just got hit with a trademark infringement threat for using the phrase “where science meets compassion” on my research lab’s website.
Apparently, a therapy company owns that combo of words now? 🙃
Screenshot of their message, alongside how I used the phrase on my research website
June 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Happy Pride, y’all! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
For all of Pride month, I’m donating 100% of my proceeds from WILD PRIDE to The Trevor Project, a leading organization working to prevent suicide in LGBTQ+ youth. Get your copy here! linktr.ee/RebeccaCalis...

Or donate directly to Trevor Project here!
www.thetrevorproject.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Saturday was a beautiful 1st for me - my 1st time showcasing WILD PRIDE at a public event, the Sacramento Book Festival. I got to meet incredible people, sign books, and raise funds through every sale to support The Trevor Project, a leading organization working to prevent suicide in #LGBTQ+ youth 🏳️‍🌈
June 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How did I create the art for WILD PRIDE? As a professional artist, I care deeply about transparency re AI. I wish I could have hand-painted every image, but doing so would’ve taken decades & I wanted WILD PRIDE to exist now, especially to support the young people who need it most 🏳️‍🌈

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1/9
June 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Exciting news! 🌈 WILD PRIDE - a playful, science-packed, joyfully illustrated celebration of queer animal behavior - will be featured at the Sacramento Book Festival this Sat, May 31 (10–4, Shepard Garden & Arts Center, McKinley Park). Join us! 100% proceeds go to @TrevorProject! 📚🦩 #PrideMonth
May 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Found this in the women’s bathroom of our science building today.
Honestly, the most accurate peer review I’ve gotten all week.

#LabNotesFromTheStall
April 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Empty Library memorial, to remember the book burnings done by Nazis.
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
He’s in 3rd grade. Same age as my son.
ICE knocked on the wrong door.
No crime. No reason.
He was handcuffed. Detained.
He’s 8 years old.

This should shatter you.
It should enrage you.
No matter your politics, NO ONE should be okay with this.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
April 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Just finished giving a lecture when I stepped outside into tension on campus: Turning Point set up, students angry, police in riot gear.
Now I’m stuck here.
As a professor, a mom, & a decent human being, the urge to protect ALL students is real. The heavy emotional toll, constant.
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is how it’s done.
March 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Unrelated to current government dumpster fire -
A moment of levity for parents with feral kids like mine:
www.instagram.com/reel/DGip3Er...
March 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@ucdavis.bsky.social represent at Stand Up for Science - Sacramento!✊🏽
L to R: @mydennis.bsky.social , me, @titus.idyll.org , @rogerslabucd.bsky.social. Congrats to Crystal for giving a killer invited speech!🎤
And huge thanks to
@doctheagrif.bsky.social for organizing! 🙏🏻
March 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Bapu! Mayor of Davis, CA, speaks at Stand up for Science!
Ending sentiment:
“F*uck you, from the West Coast!”
March 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Elon Musk IS NOT a good boy!

Stand up for Science - Sacramento
March 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Stand up for Science
Sacramento!
March 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
March 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
First Amendment*

*Void where inconvenient. Terms and conditions apply.
March 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
How embarrassing- they misspelled Russia
March 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM