Alanna Durkin

Biology Lab Coordinator at @saintjosephs University City Campus (she/her)

PhD in deep-sea ecology | Cat lady | Anime enthusiast

[Alanna Durkin @DeepSeaDurkin]

Shoutout to my TAs this week, I couldn't teach online without them!

Special thanks to Bowtie the cat for typing a bunch of 4s on the slide while I was teaching. 👍

And good thinking, Hero the dog, for saving "Presentation 1.pptx" to the cloud!

[shadoomf🪲🇵🇸(homunculus enjoyer) @Shadoo_creeture]

Scientists with phds get awestruck by a disgusting homunculus

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

[Emily V Griffith 🦋 e-v-griffith @e_v_griffith]

It's almost my favorite time of year again. Teaching students how to read phylogenies using Pokemon.

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

If you are a zoo keeper or animal care professional thinking about organising or forming a union with your colleagues to ensure that you’re paid fair wages for fair work slide into these DMs

Boost for visibility

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The first image is of precinct level results for the 2020 US presidential election in AZ. The blue areas went for Biden. The second image is a map of tribal land in the state.

[Alanna Durkin @DeepSeaDurkin]

@MargoOutside PLANS WE MUST MAKE WHEN I SEE YOU LATER THIS SUMMER ❤❤❤

[kaela @kss_phd]

In this interview, I explicitly discussed the genocide unfolding in Gaza and how DEI convos and spotlights cannot and should not continue without mentioning the on-going genocide and ethnic cleaning in occupied Palestine.

None of that is in here.

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

Major Monterey Bay Aquarium W

[DisabledInSTEM @DisabledStem]

I see so many #DisabledInSTEM individuals forced to leave STEM.

It’s not on the individual when there’s widespread institutional ableism that prevents our success.

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

The Iñupiat of Alaska traditionally use a base-20 number system. In 1994, students at Kaktovik middle school worked with their teacher to invent a way to write this, since they found our base-10 unfamiliar. After the invention of Kaktovik numerals, test scores rose significantly

[Dr. Kylea Garces @ElleWoodsOfMyco]

Reminder the deadline for this is next week! Please share :)

[Alanna Durkin @DeepSeaDurkin]

Official colors of every school I've attended or worked for.

...Yes, red is my favorite color but I promise that's now how I picked where to go. 😅

Just makes wardrobe matching easy at every institution.

[whalefact @awhalefact]

like i said

[Cocktails & Capitalism - an anticapitalist podcast @CocktCapitalism]

BREAKING: UC Davis has divested from apartheid Israel. The bill prevents the ASUCD’s $20 mill budget from being spent “on companies complicit in the occupation and genocide.”

This is huge. University divestment efforts played a massive role in ending South African apartheid.

[Sampson the Service Dog @sampson_dog]

Mom was asked if people with disabilities and service dogs can "really work in science?"
........ and we laughed, and laughed, and laughed!

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

THIS

We are a keystone species that positively shaped our home ecosystems for hundreds of thousands of years (and for millions of years before we became H. sapiens). The problem today is a culture of colonialism, capitalism, Eurocentricity, and alienation.

We can return.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

We are in the middle of the second-largest COVID surge of the pandemic. This decision is not based on science, it’s based on worker exploitation.

[tèmítópé @temikeita]

🗣️ Proud to be officially recruiting for my PhD research study! If you're a Black woman, aged 27-47 (millennial) and have made friends through social media please come thru #PhDTweetive

And if not, please RT! 🫶🏾

🌐 https://t.co/j2XV0cpZ8l

[Sampson the Service Dog @sampson_dog]

People with disabilities are the nation's largest minority - almost 61 million individuals. Unnecessary barriers are counterproductive to cultivating a diverse STEM workforce and inclusive research enterprise. This is why we work so hard to change the culture of science!