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Riss Kell, PhD

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Marine biogeochemist, MIT-WHOI JP PhD 🌊, Postdoctoral Scientist at GMGI studying sea urchins as cancer-resistant, long-lived animal models, and overall marine science enthusiast! They/them. https://gmgi.org/about/team/research-team/riss-kellogg-ph-d/

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 1

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 19

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 5

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · Apr 5

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Apr 5

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Mar 31

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.

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Noelle @noelle.ison.blue · Mar 31

Transgender Day of Visibility isn’t just about being seen or heard. It’s about being recognized and respected. For trans people, visibility can be empowering and at the same time dangerous, almost an impossible choice between pride and safety. Uplift our voices and make the world safe for us too.

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Carolyn Fuller @carolynfuller.bsky.social · Mar 29

#TeslaTakedown #Boston

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · Mar 8

😂😂😂😂😂😂
IYKYK

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Mar 8

Very much this.

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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · Mar 7

Good turnout for the Stand Up for Science March in Woods Hole, MA. While a small town on Cape Code, Woods Hole hosts 6 premier science institutions that include @mblscience.bsky.social, @whoi.edu, @noaa.gov fisheries, @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, USGS, and @sea1971.bsky.social

#standupforscience

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · Mar 7

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Riss Kell, PhD @drkell.bsky.social · Mar 7

My slapdash sign and I will be at Stand Up for Science standupforscience2025.org tomorrow, hope to see you there

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Mar 5

What it feels like revising a paper

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Mar 2

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

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Caitlyn @caitlynrk.bsky.social · Feb 26

Nadja of Antipaxos once more!

Chat I cooked with this one.

#art #portrait #nadja #nadjaofantipaxos #wwdits #fanart

A digitally drawn portrait of Nadja of Antipaxos. She is lit with blue light and is looking directly at the viewer with her mouth open slightly to show off her fangs. She has a few streaks of differently colored hair, but it is otherwise very dark blue-black and loose around her face.

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Riss Kell, PhD @drkell.bsky.social · Feb 21

I love it so much it made me cry! My talented love 🥰

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · Feb 8

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · Jan 27

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 20

you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 20

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

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Riss Kell, PhD @drkell.bsky.social · Jan 18

My talented wife is mega talented!! 🥰

Caitlyn @caitlynrk.bsky.social · Jan 18

Another baby quilt, this time for my wife’s cousin and his wife. Managed to Indiana Jones hat grab this one as the shower is tomorrow afternoon 😬

#quilting

A square shaped quilt with a pattern of pinwheels. There are red, orange, green, and blue pinwheels with white space around them.

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Caitlyn @caitlynrk.bsky.social · Jan 14

He would be the genre of books that specifically caters to stereotypical gross elementary school aged boys that have cartoon green clouds of farts on the cover, and she would be the opposite, the books that are aimed at the same age girls that are like “boys have cooties and other true facts”

A tabby cat facing the camera. He looks like he’s pursing his lips.

A tabby cat with a white bib and small white blaze on her nose. She looks comfy in bed.

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · Dec 19

Micro/nanonutrient limitation, it's not just iron 🧪🌊

Peter Crockford @earth2pete.bsky.social · Dec 19

Marine Zn limitation is a thing bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

High metabolic zinc demand within native Amundsen and Ross sea phytoplankton communities determined by stable isotope uptake rate measurements

Abstract. Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for most eukaryotic phytoplankton. Zn uptake by phytoplankton within the euphotic zone results in nutrient-like dissolved Zn (dZn) profiles with a lar...

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