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Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
BREAKING: Texas is officially Democrats' BEST pickup opportunity, with polls showing Colin Allred and Ted Cruz statistically TIED.
Colin's ready to be the leader Texans deserve in the Senate: Will you chip in now to help him send Ted Cruz packing and keep the Senate blue?
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
This story is whimsical like a firefly display but serious in describing their plight. Love the insert on how people can protect them.
by @dino_grandoni
washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
This is very important news.
w/ Jason Gulley
nytimes.com/2023/07/31/clima…
Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations nytimes.com/2024/09/05/clima…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
This matters because the Hard Steps and Great Filter models have a lot of popular salience and get cited a lot, but notably not by biologists, whom you would think would be in the best position to use it.
It turns out a lot of its assumptions are just incorrect!
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Excited to see Dan Mills' paper up on the arXiv! @AdamFrank4, @jmacalad, and I had a great time helping him put it all together.
Dan takes a hard, critical look at the "Hard Steps" model (and the Great Filter) and finds it's not well supported.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293
nytimes.com/2024/05/16/scien…
Women who have carried a child are actually not shocked.
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Kayla Irizarry, doctoral candidate in geosciences at Penn State, is using her @fordfoundation Predoctoral Fellowship to better understand what controlled diversity in Earth’s earliest complex ecosystems. She's one of 87 students to receive the honor. buff.ly/4bA5V7O
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Geoengineering Is Not a Quick Fix for the Climate Crisis
Great article by @chelseaeharvey in @scientificamer covering our paper led by Susanne Baur @benmsanderson @NichollsZeb
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Study of women in STEM (N=600) finds
- 55% have been 'quietly promoted'--given more responsibility w/o a change in pay or title
- Remote workers (5%) faced less gender-based issues than those working in-person (20%).
bizjournals.com/bizwomen/new…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Great opportunity for all astrobiologists with interests in geosciences
#astrobiology #scholarship #karst #geology #geochemistry #geophysics #hydrology #geosciences
The Wilson #Scholarship in #Karst Science provides $2500 to M.S. students studying karst, including geochemistry, geology, geophysics, or hydrology. Apply by Feb. 15! karstwaters.org/awards-and-s…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
REVIEW
Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@MattiSacco @surge_group @Curtin_TrEnD @stefanomammola1 @biodiv_DarCo
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a @ScienceAdvances analysis finds. scim.ag/5pH
The Wilson #Scholarship in #Karst Science provides $2500 to M.S. students studying karst, including geochemistry, geology, geophysics, or hydrology. Apply by Feb. 15! karstwaters.org/awards-and-s…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
More #AwayTeam practice for #geobiology and #astrobiology students - No one seems to have their #tricorder out however ...
⛏️The 2024 International #Geobiology Course, open to #PhD students, will take place June 16- July 21st @PSUGeoscience @AstrobiologyPsu📷Application deadline: Feb. 10 📷
Details at sites.google.com/psu.edu/igc…
ALT Italy field photos showing International Geobiology Course students in 2023
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
I absolutely loved this course as a PhD student. I highly recommend it
⛏️The 2024 International #Geobiology Course, open to #PhD students, will take place June 16- July 21st @PSUGeoscience @AstrobiologyPsu📷Application deadline: Feb. 10 📷
Details at sites.google.com/psu.edu/igc…
ALT Italy field photos showing International Geobiology Course students in 2023
Co-Director @kh_freeman and I are looking forward to reading your applications!
⛏️The 2024 International #Geobiology Course, open to #PhD students, will take place June 16- July 21st @PSUGeoscience @AstrobiologyPsu📷Application deadline: Feb. 10 📷
Details at sites.google.com/psu.edu/igc…
ALT Italy field photos showing International Geobiology Course students in 2023
⛏️The 2024 International #Geobiology Course, open to #PhD students, will take place June 16- July 21st @PSUGeoscience @AstrobiologyPsu📷Application deadline: Feb. 10 📷
Details at sites.google.com/psu.edu/igc…
ALT Italy field photos showing International Geobiology Course students in 2023
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding. Excellent read nature.com/articles/s41578-0…
Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social retweeted
Please help with distributing this program manager position to those who might be interested.
Let me know if you have any questions! Thank you!
Program Manager - Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and the Environment (NICCEE) findajob.agu.org/job/8023256…
