Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett

Evolutionary biologist + conservation geneticist + aspiring bioinformatician. #Fulbright 🇨🇴 #NatGeoExplorer No longer active here. @cassinsackett.bsky.social

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

#ScientistsTakeAKnee @USouthFlorida to speak up against state violence against people of color. Kneeling=Step 1. 1/

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

@eeid2025 Are any late-breaking abstracts being accepted?

[Cristian A. Cruz-Rodríguez @crcruzr]

Bueno, migremos antes de que arda este platanal. Nos vemos allá!

Well, Let’s move before this whole thing blows up. See you over here!

https://t.co/zc78IQeWL9

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

If you’re voting Republican for your wallet, you’re voting wrong.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I did Nazi that coming

[Jorge Cancino @cancino_jorge]

Este es el plan de deportaciones masivas incluido en el Proyecto 2025. https://t.co/C0zyG1ZtV2

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

By the way, the “Marxist” “communist” smear is also a dog whistle used to discredit Black movements by the FBI, segregationists the and the people who wrote Project 2025

[Nicolás Mongiardino Koch @phyloprog]

The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend @millacarmonia

https://t.co/bf3teu0ina

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

I love ⁦@Seagate⁩ drives but why do we need to actively generate more trash for the landfills? Would it be so hard for a buyer to select the type they need from a drop-down menu during purchase? 😭😭😭

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

@Lagomarsino_L I think it’s perfect to include for Fulbright! Maybe with slightly different phrasing haha

[Cathy Newman ⚜️ @cenewman0]

Genome size expansion in the SA lungfish lineage "is by far the fastest rate of diploid genome expansion reported, exceeding those known for any other vertebrate lineage by adding more than the equivalent of the human genome size every 10 Myr" ‼️‼️ Fig. 2:

[Cathy Newman ⚜️ @cenewman0]

The sheer amount of sequence data generated here is totally nuts. Can't believe we now have South American Lungfish (~90Gb‼️). What a cool look at genome evolution in tetrapods. https://t.co/sBvRxMyGms

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

@jrossibarra We have a multi-institution HPC (via Louisiana Optical Network Initiative) w/ excellent support for users, which has been the most important need for my students & me. They also have weekly trainings (synchronous & archived 4 later viewing) on basic & advanced computing topics

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

“Elsevier says it determines fee reductions on a case-by-case basis.” 😱

[🇺🇦 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 Andrew J. Crawford @CrawfordAJ]

The tragedy & humiliation of trying to publish #OA for us folks in lower-mid income countries:
🇧🇷's Kowaltowski "emailed journal 12 times asking for a discount ... #Elsevier threatened Kowaltowski with legal action if she didn’t pay the quoted fee." 👉🏽
https://t.co/OLmLcHt0iB

[Jordan Lewis @JotheBiologist]

My last conference as a postdoc 😊#evol2024 . Also, if you would like to be added to the John Edmonstone Slack channel for BIPOC scientists in Evolution, Ecology, and Systematic Biology, please send me a DM! The channel will open next week.

[Booker G. Washington @BookerGWash]

Anyway, more about Project 2025:

Did y’all know that FAFSA and Pell Grants ($ for students from low-income families) are issued by the US Department of Education?

Project 2025 will eliminate the US Department of Education, FAFSA, and Pell Grants. This is a Trump-Vance policy.

[Matt Staab @mattstaab_]

BREAKING: This Kamala Harris ad from 2020 still goes hard. Retweet to ensure every American sees it. https://t.co/PM1SZLcMG7

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

@ElolassoG Felicidades!! 💪 Seguro que Panamá te ha extrañado 😊

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

Expecting students to eat these costs for months is totally insane and has to stop

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

@mel_toups This is totally insane!! 😱

[Dr. #BlackLivesMatter Cassin Sackett @LorenCSackett]

Only about 3,000 kilometers off #IThinkColombiaIsInMexico #fail 🇲🇽 🇨🇴