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Welcome to week 2! 48,000 academic workers are still on strike. Support our fight by contributing whatever you can: givebutter.com/uc-uaw

We are delighted to collaborate with a group of people with visual impairment to produce a new Museum in a Box. We've been using audio describing and touch interpretation to enable them to experience Collection objects and soon they will choose their favourite ones! #huntmuseum

TENTATIVE AGREEMENTS REACHED FOR POSTDOCS & ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS AT UC! Last night, the UAW 5810 bargaining teams reached tentative agreements on new contracts. They will be put to a membership vote. Details to come. We are still on strike until a contract is ratified.

I can't even with the people whose response to UC postdocs earning a living wage is to complain that they can't afford them anymore. That our field is dependent on exploitative labor practices is not their problem.

When UC Labor Relations Director told KQED that the cost of housing is outside UC's control, she was either mistaken or being deliberately misleading. As the state's largest landlord, UC can do better. Read this analysis from a UC Berkeley economist. sfexaminer.com/our_sections/f…

Very happy to have these beautiful faery babies out in the world! These are some of the best, most cutest, lizards you'll ever know! 💜

Fascinating piece. Imagine if the "observer" in science was more often diverse... and, for example, if we would not bar people with blindness from research... What wonders and knowledge could we uncover. bigthink.com/13-8/quantum-u…

Para quem faz formação de #professores de #Ciencia, um recurso onde pode encontrar informação e atividades para ensinar sobre problemas sociocientíficos e evolução. Descarregue gratuitamente, use e partilhe! DGE cidtff Biólogos do Brasil 🇧🇷 Telma G. Laurentino, PhD CE3C

Are you interested in #sustainability #education? In this paper we explore if and how #evolution education and #ssi contribute to foster skills for #sustainability.

From the 2021 National Center for Science & Engineering Stats Survey of Doctorate Recipients: U.S. residing PhDs with one or more disabilities by field. As a bioengineer by training, I am unsurprised to see engineering lagging behind. But compared to the U.S. population, this overall isn't great! #DisabledInSTEM

Check out my new perspective piece in PLOS Biology where I share my vision for the future of natural history collections, one where we don't need to sacrifice animal lives to conduct collections-based research, which I term "compassionate collection" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Continuing the conversation about compassionate collection - wrote this one from the heart. #PLOSBiology: Response to “Specimen collection is essential for modern science” dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Allie Byrne "I invite us all to critically evaluate our commitment to the status quo and where that commitment comes from. These discussions can help us avoid the harms caused when moments of awe and connection in the field become moments of disconnection and heartbreak." Byrne 2023

Allie Byrne "Foundational changes in the ways we act almost always start with a change of heart. I believe that if we do center compassion in our collection and scientific practices, we will create a more inclusive, harmonious scientific community" Byrne 2023

Allie Byrne "and the questions we will be able to answer will multiply, not contract. Our science will grow as we do, as the animals that live on do, and as our society must to meet the challenges we face." Byrne 2023