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Kaitlyn Tonra
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Phycologist, marine ecologist, scientific diver, postdoc, big fan of kelp farms! 🌊

Lubchenco-Menge Lab @ Oregon State Univ.
They’re animals! Those are encrusting bryozoans from the genus Membranipora that grow on kelp blades!

More info:
inverts.wallawalla.edu/Bryozoa/Clas...
Membranipora membranacea
inverts.wallawalla.edu
May 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Reposted by Kaitlyn Tonra
Reject norms, embrace chaos, liberate science from the structures that wish to control it. Citation Anarchy.
March 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.

“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
For what it's worth: someone I know just got a request to review for the NSF ocean sciences postdoc fellowships! The website says "Archived" but it seems like postdoc fellowships are at least going out for review!
March 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
(Alt text: GIF of Alexandra Elbakyan from Sci-Hub waving at the camera)
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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