Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her)
@waterbarnes.bsky.social
Chronicling science, pet, & art adventures. #biogeofeminist catalyzing change -- to make the scientific enterprise welcoming & just, while rediscovering the artist within #dailydraw 🏞️⚛️💦🌿🏳️🌈☮️💙⚒️✍️🎨🐾
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You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
Day 1 of relaxation of #fallbreak - not a bad backyard for the mid morning #dogwalk
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Day 1 of relaxation of #fallbreak - not a bad backyard for the mid morning #dogwalk
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is running health and science focused phone banking to Get Out The Vote in TN-07!
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is running health and science focused phone banking to Get Out The Vote in TN-07!
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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These very tall trees look very #small compared to the thundering Upper #Yosemite Falls behind them in Yosemite #NationalPark
#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography
#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
These very tall trees look very #small compared to the thundering Upper #Yosemite Falls behind them in Yosemite #NationalPark
#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography
#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography
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This perfectly encapsulates the "performative neutrality" of which @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I accuse the New York Times--with respect to both climate and vaccines--in #ScienceUnderSiege. In fact, it goes beyond that, engaging in outright antiscience pandering:
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This perfectly encapsulates the "performative neutrality" of which @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I accuse the New York Times--with respect to both climate and vaccines--in #ScienceUnderSiege. In fact, it goes beyond that, engaging in outright antiscience pandering:
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Happy to finally share this important article on barriers in ecology led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social in the journal Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment. The idea for this paper originated at the nice #ANdiNA workshop in Spain a couple of years ago.
Why do so many ecologists share common feelings of disconnection between their research goals and real-world impact? 🌍
Our new article in #FE&E explores the constraints that limit ecological research and how we can mitigate them. 👇
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Our new article in #FE&E explores the constraints that limit ecological research and how we can mitigate them. 👇
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological research
Ecology and conservation researchers have diverse goals that often include both personal career aspirations and desires to enhance the well-being of the natural world and its inhabitants. Perception ....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Happy to finally share this important article on barriers in ecology led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social in the journal Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment. The idea for this paper originated at the nice #ANdiNA workshop in Spain a couple of years ago.
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Some people will try anything except wearing a mask
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Some people will try anything except wearing a mask
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Today is #LGBTSTEMDay, an opportunity to celebrate and highlight the work and barriers of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM 🏳️🌈. Physicists in the LGBT community are more likely to face discrimination and pressure to stay in the closet . How can you help? Find out here: https://ow.ly/ewRF50XrQvI
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today is #LGBTSTEMDay, an opportunity to celebrate and highlight the work and barriers of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM 🏳️🌈. Physicists in the LGBT community are more likely to face discrimination and pressure to stay in the closet . How can you help? Find out here: https://ow.ly/ewRF50XrQvI
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Who can work in Science: A Pie Chart.
Quién puede trabajar en la ciencia: un gráfico de torta.
Chi può lavorare nella scienza: un grafico a torta.
#LGBTQinSTEM #PrideInSTEM
Quién puede trabajar en la ciencia: un gráfico de torta.
Chi può lavorare nella scienza: un grafico a torta.
#LGBTQinSTEM #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Who can work in Science: A Pie Chart.
Quién puede trabajar en la ciencia: un gráfico de torta.
Chi può lavorare nella scienza: un grafico a torta.
#LGBTQinSTEM #PrideInSTEM
Quién puede trabajar en la ciencia: un gráfico de torta.
Chi può lavorare nella scienza: un grafico a torta.
#LGBTQinSTEM #PrideInSTEM
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This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪
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Told my students this bag was a joke
They asked what the joke was
I told them I wasn’t going to say, but they were welcome to try to figure it out
They asked what the joke was
I told them I wasn’t going to say, but they were welcome to try to figure it out
Brought my tits and pussy(willow) bag my Mormon mom made me to my gender and sexuality class cause we’re talking about a book where the MC is a birder who makes tit jokes
Not going to say anything about it or how my mom made me a pillowcase so I could put my face on it
Not going to say anything about it or how my mom made me a pillowcase so I could put my face on it
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Told my students this bag was a joke
They asked what the joke was
I told them I wasn’t going to say, but they were welcome to try to figure it out
They asked what the joke was
I told them I wasn’t going to say, but they were welcome to try to figure it out
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Because they considered politics something they could do to other people, not something that could be done to them.
I can't fathom how these people could vote for him (probably multiple times) considering his history and his conviction in court.
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Because they considered politics something they could do to other people, not something that could be done to them.
Soooo good & heartbreaking - give a listen 🍉 www.wnycstudios.org/story/quantu...
Quantum Refuge
How a Palestinian physicist stepped inside quantum mechanics’ most notoriously tricky idea.
www.wnycstudios.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Soooo good & heartbreaking - give a listen 🍉 www.wnycstudios.org/story/quantu...
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
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The USA had 288 school shootings between 2008-2018. Mexico, the next worst country, had 8 school shootings during the same time period.
Something that’s normal in the U.S. but considered weird in other countries 🍿
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The USA had 288 school shootings between 2008-2018. Mexico, the next worst country, had 8 school shootings during the same time period.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Today was Palestinian Independence Day.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Today was Palestinian Independence Day.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
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I'm just a little catto wishing you the bestest #CatsNoirFriday possible. Share your kindness today if you can. Seriously lacking in this world & needed by so many. Love you all. Family sends hugs 🍂🧡🍂
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm just a little catto wishing you the bestest #CatsNoirFriday possible. Share your kindness today if you can. Seriously lacking in this world & needed by so many. Love you all. Family sends hugs 🍂🧡🍂