Maria C Figueroa
marisotope.bsky.social
Maria C Figueroa
@marisotope.bsky.social
Geochemist, PhD 🪼🪸| Marine minerals & where to find them 🪨🐚 | Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow at USGS-PCMSC | 🇵🇷
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BREAKING: Senator Padilla after being thrown to ground and cuffed:

“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the department of homeland security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers..."
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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🖍️🎨 Looking for a fun, educational way to inspire the next generation of scientists?

Check out the "I Am A..." coloring page series from the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area!

📎 Explore and download here: loom.ly/FpILA6A

#STEMEducation #USGS #ColoringPages #ScienceIsForEveryone
May 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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One of these things is not like the other.
March 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The perfect playlist for work just dropped #Severance #MDR #AppleTV youtu.be/JRnDYB28bL8?...
Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
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February 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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True.
February 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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1. So many people’s brains are cooked…

Ron Burkle happens to be on the board of Scripps Research, a top nonprofit biomedical research institute that was founded 100 years ago.

He did not receive these funds, Scripps did.
February 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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These are Twitter posts by the guy who was hacking into the Treasury payments system. Maybe JD (whose wife is Indian-American) and Kash Patel might want to pay attention? www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
February 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... via @statnews.com
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
January 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:

Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.

If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
First post! 🌊

I’m a Marine Geochemist exploring the resource potential of metals in seafloor massive sulfides (hydrothermal vents) by developing machine learning techniques on geochemical datasets. Currently a postdoc at USGS, Santa Cruz.

Excited to share my research journey here! 🪸💎👋
November 14, 2024 at 7:48 PM