Jacquelyn Gill

Huh. I don't remember the federal government asking me what flavor of "white" I am before. This list of what are I think meant to be ethnicities also seems really arbitrary, and doesn't map out onto ethnicities per se. (This is for an NSF annual personnel report for a graduate training program.)

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.

I’m so excited for this! Who’s going? My talk will be about time, as ecology’s final frontier: dynamics, timescales, resolution and extent, historical contingencies, and the denominator of all ecological processes.

I’m waiting for a table, AMA.

I did something new in my writing-intensive Paleoecology capstone this year: I'm making them read books. I gave them a list of books to choose from, and they turn in reflections on the material and also the writing. It has been a joy to watch these students discover a love of reading nonfiction.

Today's theme is other people explaining very basic things to me like it's my first day on the planet. This includes my entire discipline and basic aspects of my job. Because I don't generally do things to signal that I am incompetent, I can only conclude that it's THEIR first day on the planet.

Since my immune system decided to attack my body, I've been taking drugs to suppress it. So you'd better believe I got my titers checked (and fortunately, I'm still immune to measles).

Every single paper is like this. We couldn't reproduce the age-depth model in their second PNAS paper. They regularly report spikes from one layer without analyzing layers above and below. Their results can't be reproduced in the rare cases they do share samples. They get really basic things wrong.

Hypothesis: Senioritis is not so much burnout from four years of school as it is a reflection of people coping with the anxieties about an uncertain future and the stress of the unknown.

UMaine is doing this right now, but instead of enrollment they're using grants as the income, which effectively puts theor thumb on the scales. Meanwhile, humanities do the heavy lifting when it comes to required courses and gen eds. (Never mind that these fields matter and should exist anyway!)

Let's outlaw scheduling meetings without first. I don't care what my university account calendar says, it's not a reflection of my availability, and even if it was, that doesn't give you the right to commit me to anything without my consent, kthxbye.

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”