Please check out these amazing women! They are fantastic scientists, committed mentors, supportive friends and honestly super stars! 🤩@bradylabs.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/podcast...

2 First-Gen Scientists on Curiosity, Community and Discovery

Megan Dennis, associate professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, and Siobhan Brady, professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Genome Center, are more than an just office neighbors ...

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Conference childcare only works if parents can actually access it. Vivien Marx’s Daycare at Conferences blog brings the policy debate down to lived experience, with stories from academic parents (me included). communities.springernature.com/posts/daycar...

Daycare at conferences

At scientific conferences, attendees can now find daycare, although it might be hard to find one with a pool slide. Much has changed in recent years but, alas, in some ways, it's still not quite addre...

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When conferences provide childcare, science doesn’t “accommodate parents”. It retains talent. Thanks Vivien Marx for including my voice in your @NatureMethods piece on conference childcare, access, & why affordability is still the choke point. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ParentsInSTEM

“These are the spaces where you’re asked to do the educating while someone else holds the power to interpret your tone, where calm explanations are dismissed, and where empathy is promised but rarely practiced.” www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...

I Was The Black Woman In A Mostly White Office. Now I Fear White Liberals More Than Overt Racists.

"When I tried to respond, she raised her hand to stop me. My throat tightened. My shoulders rose."

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Introducing #EcologicalMedicine. If #OneHealth shows how life connects to avoid disaster, Eco Medicine shows what makes that life worth living. With rising mental health challenges, naming this field gives us a compass, a vocabulary & a way to study how humans, communities & ecosystems thrive.

New Field of Ecological Medicine Emphasizes Health Benefits of Connectedness

Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with animals and plants, and with the natural world fosters health and well-being for...

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One more step backward, one more reminder that progress in academia is never linear. But take heart, familia. Nos quisieron enterrar, pero no sabían que éramos semillas. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program

Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

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Just out in EcoHealth! Our international working group presents the first formal definition of **Ecological Medicine** uniting science, ecology, and Indigenous wisdom. It gives language and structure to what healers, farmers, & caretakers have always known: connection heals. doi.org/10.1007/s103...

A Consensus Statement for Ecological Medicine: Moving Toward Connection-Based Medicine - EcoHealth

Mounting evidence across multiple disciplines supports the health benefits of connection to nature. Although this trend suggests that the human-nature relationship is integral to health, its importanc...

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Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot A Perspective by @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social, @kaliceaphd.bsky.social, Jamy Peng, @spiraldoc.bsky.social & @rogerslabucd.bsky.social on how to combat scientific misinformation journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

So many of us opened her books and found not only chimpanzees but an invitation to see with compassion & believe in a bridge between humans and the wild. Her legacy flows through rivers, forests, children planting trees, and every act of love for animals and one another. www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live

The campaigner, a

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Raise your hand if you’ve seen scientific misinformation (e.g., “Tylenol causes autism”). Keep it up if you countered it in real time. Not easy, right? You're not alone! Want to practice? Learn how in our latest paper, Speaking Science in a Fractured World. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot

ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...

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Effective and empathetic scientific communication is so critical right now. We had an interactive workshop at the #2025ICDB led by @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social and Dr. Kevin Alicea-Torres and facilitated by @spiraldoc.bsky.social and myself- and we practiced this. Please check out our perspective!

Alex Eve@amjeve.uk · 10mo ago

An incredibly important article and increasingly relevant in modern political climates. Thank you to @rogerslabucd.bsky.social and colleagues for writing this for @dev-journal.bsky.social "Speaking up can feel like walking a tightrope strung between conflict and silence." #TruthMatters

The true test of free speech is not in defending the voices we welcome, but in refusing to silence the ones we fear. And in answering hate not with more hate but with the steady, unrelenting work of dismantling lies and building a society where every voice, every person, every community, is valued.

Perks of summer fieldwork in California: wildlife cameras for the data, grapes for the dinner table. #CaliforniaBiologist

Years ago, I lost a loved one in a flash flood in Texas. That kind of loss changes how you see everything that follows. So when I hear people casting blame or saying what they would’ve done differently, I feel compelled to speak.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

¡Mi placer! So glad our improv + storytelling #scicomm workshops are helping scientists “connect over correct”. Real change doesn’t start with soapboxes - it starts with trust & empathy. Times have changed, and so should how we share science: *with* people, not *at* them. 🙌 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Nicole Theodosiou, PhD@spiraldoc.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐ Truth Matters: Strengthening Science Communication to Counter Misinformation ⭐ at the 20th International Congress for Developmental Biology @SocDevBio. @ Kevin Alicea-Torres @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social Connect with people, be curious, ask questions, empathize! 🙏🏼 participants & speakers!

University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, resigning in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside to help resolve a Justice Department inquiry into the school’s diversity, equity & inclusion efforts. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

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July 1, all NIH-funded science must be free to read instantly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The University of Cincinnati shutters its DEI programs in response to a Republican-led change in Ohio law that banned such programs and threatened to withhold money from schools that fail to comply. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

'We're losing our home.' UC shutters DEI programs, departments in response to new Ohio law

The university will reassign staff, close its Women's Center and rename its African American Cultural and Resource Center, among other moves.

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Loved this workshop at #2025ICDB, where @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social & Kevin Alicea-Torres helped us understand that the best way to combat misinfo is to start with curiosity (instead of correction).💪 Thanks to @rogerslabucd.bsky.social & @spiraldoc.bsky.social for pushing us out of our comfort zones!

Crystal Rogers, PhD@rogerslabucd.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are at #2025ICDB please join us for Workshop #1: Truth Matters: Strengthening Science Communication to Counter Misinformation from 10:30-12:30 today. We will discuss common misinformation topics and ideas on how to better adapt in these conversations. @socdevbio.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social

#NoKings Sacramento @ucdavis.bsky.social Professors represent!

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If you will be at #2025ICDB and want to learn SciComm tool, please join us at Workshop 1- Truth Matters: Strengthening Science Communication to Counter Misinformation. We will have Dr. @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social and Dr. Kevin Alicea Torres and a great interactive session!

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

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

Latinas 4 Trump co-founder: “This is not what we voted for -arbitrary measures to hunt down people who r complying w/ their immigration hearings-in many cases w/ credible fear of persecution-all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal” thehill.com/immigration/...

Calling all wildlife biologists & educators! I’m designing a wildlife tracking activity for teens - need recs for user-friendly, affordable radio telemetry kits. TEK-2 or other favs you recommend?