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Dr. V
@teachbiomedsci.bsky.social
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Dr. Mama Bear - Scientist and Teacher @PUI. I pour my heart and soul into my students and my family. The next gen of scientists is my why. All while admiring the bugs, birds, and beasts. 💗 and 💭 my own.
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This.
October 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Who’s a good girl?
Best dog ever. Brown and white with ears down, mouth open with a smile, orange flower on collar and a dog tag. Best dog ever. Brown and white with ears down, head tilted, mouth open with a smile, orange flower on collar and a fog tag. Best dog ever. Brown and white with ears down, mouth open with a smile and tongue curving up to her nose, orange flower on collar and a fog tag.
September 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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What happens when you ask a biologist to lead a grant writing cohort? Lesson 5: the grant writing cycle should look more like the life cycle of a moth rather than the life cycle of a roach. #grants #grantwriting #academics #insects #nature
Picture of a slide. On the left is the life cycle of a moth: egg to larva to pupa to adult back to egg. On the right, life cycle of an American cockroach: egg to nymph to nymph to nymph to nymph )with each nymph resembling adult slightly but increasing in size) to adult back to egg.
September 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It’s the little things.
#PaperCranes #Hope
A small, white paper origami crane sits on an ADA push button box underneath a key card door access point. Both are attached to a brick wall.
August 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Feet up. It’s #Friday.
Jean covered legs up, blue shoe covered feet crossed in the background with a chocolate and almond covered vanilla ice cream bar in the foreground.
August 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Homework. #Pathobiology2025
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Cover of the spiral-bound program booklet for Pathobiology 2025. It reads Pathobiology 2025 Mechanisms of Disease, Meeting Program, April 26-29 | Portland, OR, ASIP, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Investigative Pathology. The background image is of downtown Portland lit up with mountains and hills wrapped in a foggy haze behind it.
April 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Today on my front walk. Must be #Poosday? Or am I off a day or two and should have waited for #Turdsday? #Scatterday? Nevertheless, a raccoon? small pesky dog? a gray fox? that passed this way and heeded the welcome sign? #Nature #Scat
A couple pieces of animal scat (gray fox? raccoon? small dog?) on the pebbled walk leading to a porch and blue front door. Picture of a gray fox lying on a welcome mat at my front door taken from inside the house looking through a glass window.
April 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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They’re eating the Acanthocephala declivis. #Bugs #Mood #Nature #Insects
Picture of a giant leaf-footed bug (Acanthocephala declivis) on a window with a person on the other side with their mouth open wide over the bug
April 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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#TwosDay
Two tall mugs of beer on a picnic bench
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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This is my mood on this #MothMonday. Drowning in disappointment and dissonance.
Moth with water logged wings floating in a pool next to a leaf.
April 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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#MothMonday. My new little pick me up for the week…
A big triangular shaped moth, black with white squiggles shaped like two reindeer facing each other sharing an avocado between them and white stripes on handsome skinny legs.
April 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Back ups for the back up. Plus some more in my pockets. #LipBalm #NeverEnough #BertsBees
Work bag with a pocket full of at least 4 tubes of Berts Bees lip balm.
April 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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#TwosDay
Silhouette of two hornbills in a tree at dawn. South Africa, near Kruger National Park.
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Well. Some of us. 😣 Now that I don’t have a U-RISE training grant, I can devote more energy to my other seasonal, full-time job of feeding some hungry, zoom-zoomy, flying-minigoblins and scrubbing their dirty dishes on the daily.
Two freshly scrubbed humming bird feeders (glass bottle with red cover on bases and yellow-flower ports) drying on a kitchen towel waiting to be filled.
April 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I didn’t know #MothMonday was a thing. I feel like I can live with purpose now (on Mondays).
Two Polyphemus moths mating on a golden brick wall. One smaller with a brown body and closed wings, another with a reddish body with open wings.
April 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The impact of NIH grant terminations on patients and biomedical research is cruel and incomprehensible. The impact on the next generation of scientists is inconceivable.
Image of an email that reads “Hello All, I am reaching out because I would like you to hear this from me… Today I received notice from the NIH that the U-RISE Program is terminated effective 3/31/2025. Please know that I am working with the Dean and Provost to ensure you will be supported until the end of the academic year. We can discuss this further in class tomorrow. I’m not sure what Plan B will be. But know that I am committed to training the next generation of biomedical scientists and ensuring you are successful in getting into a PhD program and in a future research career. I know that training can and will continue without all of the resources in the short term, and my hope is that we can find a way to grow our training efforts at St. Mary’s back up. I am very sad and disappointed today. However, I remain confident that you will change the world for the better.” And signed by post author, Verónica Contreras-Shannon
March 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Me in the national security group chat. 😆
Two girls wearing lampshades on their heads (one completely covers her head, the other just has it resting on her head) in the lampshade aisle of a hardware store. They look awkward and out of place.
March 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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#IdesOfTrump
In the mail.
Front side of 5 pink postcards that read: 1-Because scientific research isn’t fake news or alternative facts and rather saves lives; 2- Because Americans are less safe, less healthy, and less well-off as a result of your policies; 3- Because you called mice transgender instead of transgenic to fear monger and minimize biomedical research; 4- Because you appointed someone as your health secretary who lies about vaccine safety and efficacy; 5- Because you can’t make America great by aligning yourself with Russia and denigrating our country’s allies. Back side of 5 pink postcards all addressed to Donald J Trump, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NE, Washington DC 20050 that say “You’re Fired” or “You are Fired.”
March 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It was a busy night/morning at this intersection. 🐾
Dirt and sand with different small animal footprints
March 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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inspired by new follow…
Agar plate with Saccharomyces cerevisiae spread in the shape of a star.
March 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Distractions good. Cute ones are frosting on the cake. 😋
Pointy eared dog with half whire face and pink ear, the other half black and brown face with black ear, licking his chops with pink tongue.
February 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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There is calmness and beauty in the messy and chaotic moments.
Red shouldered hawk sitting on a parked car looking into another parked car
February 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I’d been trying to stay off social media for a good bit. Then I started peeking back at the other place and it really hurt my 🩷.
I returned here today, and o.m.g. It is
so wonderfully
#peaceful.
Mexican mocha in a mug complete with milk foam flower.
January 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Winter roses overlooking the cemetery on campus today. 🩷
Pink roses with greenery in the background.
December 13, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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These are the things that demand my attention.
A wing floating in a pool alongside two much smaller insects
December 9, 2024 at 4:40 AM