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Zoologist Kristen
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Zoologist| animal conservation| marine and freshwater animals (primarily)| animal behavior. #CRPS
😔, well I had applied for volunteering at former place of employment, just to see how my CRPS ankle could take it. The volunteering really isn't that much, and I'm otherwise extremely well qualified to even volunteer, as I used to work at this place. Nope, rejected. #DisabledInSTEM it hurt.
April 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@disabledinstem.bsky.social Hi Alyssa, I ordered shirts from your site, the ones via Bonfire. I wanted to represent. I finally got them. LOVE THEM!!! 🥰🥰🥰
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I guess one is to say and so it really begins.
EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.
March 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Reposted by Zoologist Kristen
"Researchers documented 286 Mexican wolves during their 2024 population census, up from 257 the year prior.

"More than 120 were located in eastern Arizona. The others were in western New Mexico."

AXIOS Phoenix: Mexican Wolf Numbers Are Up www.axios.com/local/phoeni... #MexicanWolf #Conservation
Mexican wolf numbers are up
www.axios.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is so cool.
March 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Reposted by Zoologist Kristen
Chris Thacker and I have published a new review on the phylogenetics and biology of acanthopterygian fishes. This lineage includes more than 19,100 species, comprising nearly one third of all species of vertebrate animals!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Phylogeny, biology, and evolution of acanthopterygian fish clades - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
The advent of molecular phylogenetics has rapidly transformed the understanding of relationships within Acanthopterygii, the spiny-rayed fishes. Acanthopterygii includes most of the marine fish divers...
link.springer.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reposted by Zoologist Kristen
NEWS: Two days after a federal judge ruled that Trump’s order against one law firm likely violated multiple constitutional provisions, Trump tonight issued a similar order against the firm of Paul Weiss.

Here’s the unhinged “background” section:
March 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Reposted by Zoologist Kristen
BREAKING: DOJ takes Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship to SCOTUS, asking the justices to limit three existing nationwide injunctions to the plaintiffs in the cases — a move that would allow the admin to start implementing an EO that several courts have said is plainly unconstitutional.
March 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I really so wish there was such a thing as water resistant TENS unit. I know waterproof would be really pushing it, but nothing is impossible.
#DisabledInSTEM
March 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#DisabledInSTEM while everything right is in the proverbial sewer system after 15 flushes, I trying to get a pulse from people here of what it's been like being in the work world while disabled and did it go step by step for you with accommodations or you just didn't have a choice?
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM