Caitlin Devor

Science communicator turned science teacher. Currently in Christchurch, NZ. Previously in USA, Australia, Japan, and Cambodia.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@JoanneCarey64 Thank you! Saw some bison from the visitor center observation tower around 8:30 this morning.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@SpaceSciSteph "Overheard" podcast by NatGeo is great. All interviewees are engaged in STEM, but not all are academic researchers (like a camera engineer, for example). Sometimes the website also has photos.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@girlandkat It's not just "beyond the sci community." I emphasize that outreach audiences are anyone who does't share your exact speciality area of expertise. Physicists & dentists are both expert sci community members, but they would probably struggle to understand each other's jargon.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@sam_aye_ahm This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. So good. It is a short book, but the back-and-forth chapters between the two narrators made it feel like a real-time conversation.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

“I don’t think people get that once you become sick enough to be hospitalized with COVID, the medications and treatments that we have are, quite frankly, not very good.”
https://t.co/yyTgwi4351
#GetVaccinated as soon as a shot is available to you.

[UTokyo | 東京大学 @UTokyo_News_en]

Hear from 17 of our talented and passionate PhD students in our virtual #3MT competition on YouTube: https://t.co/knR44zQuBr
UTokyo members can cast a ballot for the People's Choice Award. https://t.co/qRdpQm2fOZ

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@mattwilkinsbio gourd?

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@alexisjreports Few years later, older & flush with disposable income, I was very happy to pay the extra for female-only dorms.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@alexisjreports Wellington, NZ 1st night in cheapest mixed-gender hostel dorm, stranger male roommate surprised to discover new girl (me) locked door @ 7pm (jet lag). He went out back, somehow climbed up & came in through 2nd floor window, ONTO MY BED. Harmless but scared the crap out of me.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@theyokohamalife @NomadDragon7 What if we scheduled 1st appointment without a voucher, now have a voucher & are counting down the hours until the appointment, but don't live in the same ward as the clinic? Any news on ward-based restrictions?

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

Reassuring info if you're still waiting for any vaccine or are in-between doses. Watch the video for great analogies and expand the thread for info sources. "...an immune cell doesn't read brand names." 👍👩‍🔬 #scicomm #GetVaxxed

[Samantha Yammine, PhD @heysciencesam]

Here’s why many vaccine experts, including the folks at NACI, say the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines can be used interchangeably if needed to accelerate second doses ⤵️ #VHCdose2 #ThisIsOurShotCA

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@motokokaku Unrelated, my grandma called hot dogs & baked beans "the honeymoon feast" because they went camping on their honeymoon & that's what they had.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@motokokaku I have never heard anyone sing about hot dogs, but they're standard at baseball games... Japan & the US both love baseball? Children love singing? ...no idea.

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@JapanIntercult @ItsJamesRG Europe has the same death correlation misinformation.
https://t.co/IJculO54MO
A Korean med journal published an explanation of the same false narrative surrounding flu vax last winter.
doi: 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e378
https://t.co/8ius2vqCrH

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@LizNeeley Not the most up-tempo, but I think they have the right spirit:
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole - Martha Wainwright
Around Here - Thelma Plum
You Shit Me To Tears - The Tenants

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

This brought to you by the simultaneous tears-of-joy excitement & blind-with-rage frustration induced by news that the empty mass vax centers will start giving shots to non-elderly, non-essential people somehow in possession of a Golden Ticket (接種券番号)
https://t.co/8SSUtyy0LD

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

It took me 20min to find, so for anyone else who struggles with knowing what Japanese keywords to use in Google, here's a list of #COVID19 mass vaccination centers around #Japan, the Corona Vaccine Navi　コロナワクチンナビ
https://t.co/gp3uT1nW8y

[Caitlin Devor @CE_Devor]

@girlandkat if I'm out on a walk around Ueno or Nishigahara & see what looks like a sick stray cat, is there a best animal charity to contact?

[Taxonomy Australia @australtaxonomy]

Congratulations @ErinnFJ for a #citizenscience grant to help schoolchildren discover new insect species.
https://t.co/gA3EY0WdqO

See Erinn in action at https://t.co/44l1tprgv5