As for me and mine, should the few of us be forced remain on an island in this moment, we will not volunteer or be encouraged to support “official” diversity work within the school. We will continue to prioritize our people and our relationships, but we won’t carry the water.

This whole thread but specifically and importantly THIS.

Y'all, a massive crowd has descended on Missoula, Montana - home of my loving partner, Representative Zephyr - to proclaim that they will not be silenced. The event is expected to grow in the coming hours. They've woken a movement in Montana.

Bee friends! Has anyone ever heard of an Osmia nesting in a pine cone??? Look at this beauty Arceo-GomezG #osmialove

Hi so I can't possibly continue to do whatever is happening with musk and this X shenanigans- anyone know where everybody went? bluesky? mastodon? something about invite codes? help I just wanna talk about bees

#Ralstonia #T6SS #genomics paper up now on bioRxiv! Co-first author Nathalie Aoun and I explore type VI secretion system gene content in plant-pathogenic Ralstonia. We found xylem pathogens'🌱☠️lifestyles associated with robust, rapidly-evolving arsenals of T6SS effector toxins🧵⬇️

Im now mostly on bluesky Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠

The 6000 Academic Student Employees of UAW 4121 Academic Workers are ON STRIKE four a fair contract at the University of Washington ✊ #UnionStrong

Congrats to #ucdavis doctoral candidate Shawn Christensen, microbiologist in Rachel Vannette lab: He is recipient of the highly competitive Merton Love Ecology and Dissertation Award. Seminar is May 24 at 3 p.m., 1230 Walker Hall. tinyurl.com/53nznaur

So jazzed to share some highlights, pitfalls, gratitude, and super surprising hot-off-the-microscope images at my exit seminar!🐝🦠🌺 Join to learn about pollen hacking, sleeping beauty bees, and of course antifreeze yeasts. May 24th at 3pm Pacific. Dm for Zoom if interested.

May 15, 2024. 76th anniversary of the Nakba. May 15, 2024. Faculty & Students for Justice in Palestine sent systemwide divestment demands to UCOP, UC Regents, & all 10 Chancellors. May 15, 2024. UAW 4811 authorized a strike to protest UC crackdown on student demonstrators.

#ucdavis doctoral candidate Danielle Rutkowski of Rachel Vannette lab to give exit seminar on "Identity and Functions of Symbiotic Fungi Associated with Social Bees" at 4:10 p.m., Monday, May 20, in 122 Briggs and on Zoom. Amazing scientist! Don't miss! tinyurl.com/4nexkdzc