The agency who generates official diversity statistics for the US scientific workforce was forced to give up its pilot data, which show it's been misrepresenting its data to avoid adding LGBTQ+ questions. National Center for Science & Engineering Stats is obstructing LGBTQ+ equity in science. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Things that Darwin hated, a 🧵

To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything

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Cast a big vote for a tiny, incredible island: 'IsleExplore: Saba' — a platform we created w/Sea & Learn on Saba, Sabapark & Saba Tourism to showcase island nature & communities — is up for anthemawards! Love biodiversity? Pls vote at bit.ly/4ahYUrB, like this ⬇️ #Islands2030

A new study clarifies the evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders and shows the power of extracting genetic info from museum arthropod collections.

🔗 Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell entomologytoday.org/2023/11/30/mar…

B-Day pub #2 🎉🎉🎉

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‘I lived a pretty adventurous life’: Meet Lynn Conway, the hidden figure behind the smartphone in your pocket
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Have 20mins? We've teamed up w/University of Lincoln, UK's EleanorGInstitute (w/funding from Royal Society of Chemistry) to support the development of new strategies for making STEM workplaces more inclusive. Scientist or engineer in the US, UK, Australia? Pls contribute your input at bit.ly/3supJYJ

Come through Azalea 1 now to hear me blab about how traditional taxonomy is broken and maybe how we can begin to repair past bias! #EntSoc23 🌈

For Halloween, an oh-so-sweet story of spider togetherness: Congrats to our Arachnology Lab on their massive new pub proving that 3,400 species are all related despite being wildly ecologically different — adapted for caves, underwater, salt flats, & more! bit.ly/3slA3SD

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Could not be more proud of this team!

Super excited about this one! I hope you get inspired by historical scientists doing their thing! Please give our recent paper a read in the SSB Bulletin :) ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb…

Congrats Adriana I Hernández, PhD ! I 👀 you 💫

Also an awesome video on this work below! youtu.be/O1zF8kRi7As?si…

A huge congratulations to Kate Montana who lead a group of high school and undergrad students on an exploration of the California Academy of Sciences archives, publishing the biographies of 7 marginalized scientists in SSB Bulletin!

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Honored to have Lauren Esposito founder of 500QueerScientists as part of #queerfromhere photographed last week California Academy of Sciences instagram.com/p/CuE_u7Vrjtl/… #queerallyear

Made a great find of a male Philaeus chrysops jumping spider today in north Bulgaria

Then I noticed he was guarding a female who was in a small hole

Fascinating to watch their behaviour and extremely technical to photograph them like this in this natural environment

Next week for #PrideMonth Cesar Estien 🇵🇸 Oliver Nguyen and I are discussing queer science futures Exploratorium SF Pride celebration.

Come through fam! ♥️💙💜💛💚🖤🧡

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