As we’re wrapping up Pride month, check out this podcast on Queer Ecology & how we can teach it in classrooms!. Thanks for having us, @PangolinPodcast! 🏳️‍🌈.

Really appreciated the chance to chat about our recent paper on graduate worker strikes on the BioScience Talks podcast! Listen here:.

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Great coverage of this important issue from @BBC! Glad to be interviewed on this – offshore wind impacts need to be managed, but maintaining status quo for energy development (fossil fuels) is a major threat to wildlife.

Big thanks to coauthors, incl. @AndoRabearisoa, @Symbioecologist, @roxannesbeltran, @melissa_cronin, @maddie_mcnelis, @nazarioe11, @whalegirlorg, @Mirrururu, @Madelineslimp, @NikiSridhar, @BernieTershy, @vwishingrad, @mallarie_yeager, @JordannYoung + others not on X!.

We hope that with unionization RAPIDLY increasing at academic institutions, this paper will be a useful starting point for discussions in other life sciences departments leading up to and during future labor strikes!.

We worked collaboratively as an EEB department @ucsc to highlight key challenges for undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, staff, and faculty that we experienced during the 2022 UC movement, and discuss organizational interventions to address them.

However, academic strikes are stressful and divisive to endure, and are complicated to organize, particularly in life sciences departments where graduate students are paid for hugely different types of work, from teaching to remote field work.

Barriers disproportionately affect students with excluded identities, and departmental DEI initiatives are insufficient to make institutional change to working conditions. Worker organizing can be a powerful tool to address barriers at the institutional level.

Grad school is tough: stipends are typically far below living wages, benefits are frequently inadequate to address needs (e.g., childcare), and power dynamics can create breeding grounds for harassment and abuse. These conditions can act as barriers to a career in life sciences.

Our 43(!) coauthor paper on how to build coalitions of support for grad student strikes in life sciences departments is now out in BioScience! . We reflect on our experiences as a department during the @UofCalifornia 2022 strike:.

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RT @bardseyben: Result!!! At 2.30am, one of the tagged adult Storm-petrels finally emerges from the starry night to its burrow to feed its….

RT @cientificolatin: 📝Applying to fellowships this season?.Join us Monday 9/16 at 5pm EST for a #CLGSEC workshop "Grad School 101: Applying….

Wondering how to handle #seabird impacts of #offshorewind? Check out our new paper! We identify best practices and lay out a unified framework to assess and address impacts:

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Honored & super stoked to be part of this excellent group of people!.

What a great pick me up in the middle of my comprehensive exams this week! Honored to have been a part of this work, and to see it recognized.

RT @birdmapper: I am currently seeking applications for a PhD student to join the research group I lead at @ucsc in Fall 2022. Please conta….

Has anyone had success with a quantitative-type Life Sciences #NSFGRFP proposal? Thinking about applying w/ a primarily modeling prop this year but have mostly seen examples of more experimental field/lab props get funded – curious to hear if folks have had other experience?.