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Anjana Parandhaman
@anjana7.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @UCSC studying Santa Cruz long toed salamanders!

🌿Herpetology. Environmental Justice. Immigrant. Plant Lover. Desi 🐢
Excited to be at #JMIH2025 in St Paul MN! Great plenary on unisexual salamanders this morning 🦎
July 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Read this @sabs.bsky.social interview with my friend @co2ley.bsky.social, who was fired at NOAA as the Director of the Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) and later reinstated but placed on administrative leave. Disclaimer: Some of my work on marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) is funded by OAP.
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector
In 2006, by the time scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form shel...
defector.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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If you are aware of grad program reduction due to cuts in science funding in the USA -- please help catalog it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🌿🐸
Grad Admissions Impact Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing research funding. Dozens of graduate program...
docs.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Usha Vance's mother now has a unique national platform. I'll applaud her work to champion Diversity Excellence & Inclusion when she uses that platform. #DEI

Her son-in-law J.D. called professors "the enemy" for godsakes. How hard can it be to speak out against his fascist drivel?
She advanced DEI at her university. Her son-in-law, Vice President JD Vance, wants to end it nationwide.
Lakshmi Chilukuri helped create a pilot course on race, ethnicity and gender in biology and medicine.
www.cbsnews.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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These Senators are on the fence about voting NO on the CR:

Elissa Slotkin (MI)
Gary Peters (MI)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jon Ossoff (GA)
John Hickenlooper (CO)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Mark Kelly (AZ)
Peter Welch (VT)
Mark Warner (VA)
Time Kaine (VA)

Call (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
March 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This is what we all should remember.
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool
Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.
sealevel.nasa.gov
March 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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In 2021, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level using EPA data ⤵️
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.
propub.li
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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It’s the last day to download Kindle books onto your computer before Amazon shuts off that feature. I have, of course, put it off until now, and now I am having to do it one at a time because there’s no bulk download option. We have, uh…844 Kindle books
February 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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It is not new for countries to sell citizenship or residency status through investment or outright purchase.

When the U.S. does it, however, it is entirely different.
February 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Before it's taken offline, I want you to know about the NASA website where you can learn about the stratospheric ozone hole and check on how it's doing. It has cool movies like this one, showing the growth of the ozone hole during the Austral spring last year.

ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/SH.html
February 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994.

We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.
February 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I’m not sure what the coming months, years will look like in academia, but we have already seen universities roll back any courses or programs that appear DEI related. We are all scared for our jobs, our research. This quote helped center me and remind me how important pushing back is
February 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Fun tide pool finds while visiting @anjana7.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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February 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I have reported on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in various fields for several years. DEIA just means acknowledging how systems have discriminated against different groups of people—in many cases for several decades—and strategic efforts to give those people jobs and opportunities.
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Check out this podcast I was featured on recently about my work with Santa Cruz long toed salamanders! open.spotify.com/episode/4OY8...
Salamanders! (Part 1)
Santa Cruz Naturalist · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM