Katya Podkovyroff🍒
@kpodkovyroff.bsky.social
professional dirt detective
NSF Graduate Research Fellow & PhD candidate in Soil-Plant-Atmosphere lab at UOregon | she/her🏳️🌈🔬🌿👩🏻🔬🧬🪨
“Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated”
https://katyapodkovyroff.wixsite.com/science
NSF Graduate Research Fellow & PhD candidate in Soil-Plant-Atmosphere lab at UOregon | she/her🏳️🌈🔬🌿👩🏻🔬🧬🪨
“Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated”
https://katyapodkovyroff.wixsite.com/science
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LETS TALK POLICY! Join us on Thursday May 29th at 9am PST/noon EST to talk with @doe-rami.bsky.social and @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social about explaining and informing science policy!
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
LETS TALK POLICY! Join us on Thursday May 29th at 9am PST/noon EST to talk with @doe-rami.bsky.social and @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social about explaining and informing science policy!
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Grab a beer, take a seat, and let’s talk about all the things dirt can tell ya 🤓🧬🔬 Last week I got to talk about my research with the Eugene community at an event organized by UO’s @sacnas.bsky.social chapter + @beyondtoxics.org called “Environmental Justice in Eugene & Beyond”🌿
May 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Grab a beer, take a seat, and let’s talk about all the things dirt can tell ya 🤓🧬🔬 Last week I got to talk about my research with the Eugene community at an event organized by UO’s @sacnas.bsky.social chapter + @beyondtoxics.org called “Environmental Justice in Eugene & Beyond”🌿
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Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping @utah.edu scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social
Misha lived in zoos, but the elephant’s tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations - @theU
Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where large plant-eating animals have roamed.
attheu.utah.edu
March 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping @utah.edu scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social
Advanced from professional dirt detective PhD student to professional dirt detective PhD candidate!!!🧬🌿🔬👩🏻🔬 Thank you to everyone who watched, I feel SO lucky that I get to do the work I do & I love every chance I get to communicate about science, especially when presenting in a room full of support🫶🏼
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Advanced from professional dirt detective PhD student to professional dirt detective PhD candidate!!!🧬🌿🔬👩🏻🔬 Thank you to everyone who watched, I feel SO lucky that I get to do the work I do & I love every chance I get to communicate about science, especially when presenting in a room full of support🫶🏼
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Happy to share some behind-the-scenes stories @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social, about our recent paper in @commsbio.bsky.social. Our loyal participant Misa, a @hoglezoo.bsky.social 🐘 , has a lot to tell about her #epic #journey from #sanfrancisco to #saltlakecity, preserved in her 🦷 go.nature.com/438Ugey
How a zoo elephant helps us understand megaherbivore migrations
In September 2008, a well-loved African elephant named Misha fell ill and had to be put down at the Hogle Zoo of Salt Lake City Utah. It turns out that Misha had quite a story to tell, about her epic ...
go.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy to share some behind-the-scenes stories @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social, about our recent paper in @commsbio.bsky.social. Our loyal participant Misa, a @hoglezoo.bsky.social 🐘 , has a lot to tell about her #epic #journey from #sanfrancisco to #saltlakecity, preserved in her 🦷 go.nature.com/438Ugey
Check out the latest from @demingyang.bsky.social & our team!🐘🦷
tldr: this can be applied to studies of paleobiology and also be applied to studies of modern conservation and forensics (ex: megaherbivore migration & to trace the origins of illegal ivory trade/other forms of wildlife trafficking)
tldr: this can be applied to studies of paleobiology and also be applied to studies of modern conservation and forensics (ex: megaherbivore migration & to trace the origins of illegal ivory trade/other forms of wildlife trafficking)
🚨New article🚨Our #research on #elephant🐘and #strontium #isotopes in #teeth🦷is published with
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@commsbio.bsky.social
We show how Sr is recorded in teeth and how we use such records to help reconstruct migration. @kevinuno.bsky.social @kpodkovyroff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations - Communications Biology
Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial reconstructions of seasonal m...
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Check out the latest from @demingyang.bsky.social & our team!🐘🦷
tldr: this can be applied to studies of paleobiology and also be applied to studies of modern conservation and forensics (ex: megaherbivore migration & to trace the origins of illegal ivory trade/other forms of wildlife trafficking)
tldr: this can be applied to studies of paleobiology and also be applied to studies of modern conservation and forensics (ex: megaherbivore migration & to trace the origins of illegal ivory trade/other forms of wildlife trafficking)
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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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I am done being sad about anti-DEI measures & am solidly back in the succeeding-by-spite mode.
It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.
It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.
February 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am done being sad about anti-DEI measures & am solidly back in the succeeding-by-spite mode.
It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.
It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.
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This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
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Peatlands are an incredible archive - silently recording all of human history. Peat accumulation not only sequesters carbon but it also sequesters history, for the benefit of future generations.
Learn from bogs.
Learn from bogs.
February 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Peatlands are an incredible archive - silently recording all of human history. Peat accumulation not only sequesters carbon but it also sequesters history, for the benefit of future generations.
Learn from bogs.
Learn from bogs.
Reposted by Katya Podkovyroff🍒
Reposted by Katya Podkovyroff🍒
I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order
January 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order
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"If there's a significant stoppage or delay in funding, we'd basically have to euthanize a lot of our mice" in cancer-research laboratories, immunologist Peter Savage of the University of Chicago told @jonlambert.bsky.social of @npr.org
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National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actions
The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.
www.npr.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"If there's a significant stoppage or delay in funding, we'd basically have to euthanize a lot of our mice" in cancer-research laboratories, immunologist Peter Savage of the University of Chicago told @jonlambert.bsky.social of @npr.org
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Need to catch up on this week's tumult in US research funding? Yeah, me too.
“I’m going to eat food this month, but that’s because I have a credit card,” geologist Bolton Howes told @ericboodman.bsky.social of @statnews.com.
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“I’m going to eat food this month, but that’s because I have a credit card,” geologist Bolton Howes told @ericboodman.bsky.social of @statnews.com.
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Need to catch up on this week's tumult in US research funding? Yeah, me too.
“I’m going to eat food this month, but that’s because I have a credit card,” geologist Bolton Howes told @ericboodman.bsky.social of @statnews.com.
1/n
“I’m going to eat food this month, but that’s because I have a credit card,” geologist Bolton Howes told @ericboodman.bsky.social of @statnews.com.
1/n
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I’ve decided that explicitly teaching about how science funding works needs to be a part of my neurobiology lab course — it’s something I haven’t included before, and that was an oversight.
Please send any teaching resources you might find helpful. I’ll share what I end up developing.
Please send any teaching resources you might find helpful. I’ll share what I end up developing.
January 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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If you’re at a European institution and are looking to poach American scientists, this would be a very good week to do it
January 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
If you’re at a European institution and are looking to poach American scientists, this would be a very good week to do it
