Rachel W.

PhD student working in Environmental Science, Entomology, and Computational Biology. Into invertebrates, genomics, and SciComm 🐜🐝🐙🐛🐌 (personal account)

[Student Researchers United-UAW @sruuaw]

No academic worker at UC should struggle to feed their families and put a roof over their head. We all do essential research, and we all deal with unfair working conditions. Sign on to our shared letter to UC: https://t.co/EZadMkRgvd

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

A pretty striking human graph of rent burden made by UCB academic workers...
According to our bargaining survey, 90% of ASEs across the UC are rent burdened. The average ASE pays more than 50% of their income on rent!

[Sara Thiebaud @sara_thiebaud]

For #TunicateTuesday, note the amazing star-shaped holes in this tunicate off O’ahu!

[SERC Marine Invasions Research Lab @SERCinvasions]

#InvaderABCs B is for Bugula neritina! This branching #bryozoan was first described from the Mediterranean Sea (1758) & is now a cryptic species complex worldwide. It's a common fouling organism on rocks, ship hulls, marina docks, & more! https://t.co/wN9Q9ahhz0 📷 Melissa Frey

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

FINALLY, I've been trying to get a species name for these Antarctic "Glass Tulip" tunicates for quite awhile! Molgula pedunculata So CRAZY! #tunicateTuesday via https://t.co/FJ6d5m9qJs

[Student Researchers United-UAW @sruuaw]

UC Berkeley SR Jess Banks and UC San Diego SR Ahmed Akhtar wrote about our incredible victory in @thenation! Check it out.

https://t.co/GrW9aDZiyr

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

Wow! Sea Pen field! #octocoralFriday!

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

Couldn't have said it better! 17,000 Student Researchers bargaining alongside 19,000 TAs, Tutors, & Readers, 6,000 Postdocs, and 5,000 Academic Researchers. 2022 will be a big year.

[Rachel W. @2nicate]

Happy #tunicatetuesday, fellow chordates! How adorable are the teeny tiny zooids growing at the edge of this Symplegma rubra colony?

[Rachel W. @2nicate]

Super excited about my first article with @BerkeleySciRev! Thanks so much to all the researchers who gave interviews and the great editorial staff!

[Berkeley Science Review @BerkeleySciRev]

The California Conservation Genomics Project accelerates #biodiversity & evolutionary #ecology research. Learn more from @ianjwang @crothfels @neiltsutsui & @MVZUCB director Michael Nachman #Issue41

Author: Rachel @2nicate
Designs: Liya Oster
https://t.co/lia3hhj4Sr

[Rachel W. @2nicate]

Can't believe I'm just learning about #tunicatetuesday! Here is a very small, very pink Microcosmus exasperatus (and friends) 😍

[Eric Fauman (he/him) @Eric_Fauman]

https://t.co/DAJ9MddZYk

[Rachel W. @2nicate]

UC is attempting to slow down the momentum Student Researchers have built to form a union and bargain for a strong contract. Sign the petition telling UC to stop their delay and deny tactics: https://t.co/khxZdiUO21

[Student Researchers United-UAW @sruuaw]

BREAKING - Today, the Public Employment Relations Board verified that a majority of UC Student Researchers have voted to form a union.

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

A lockdown biodiversity tour. Myrmecologists, what's the #WorldsCutestAnt? For me it's Daceton armigerum – irresistible heart-shaped heads and kawaii eyes! They're the most adorable tree-climbing dwarf alligators.