Fran De Castro

BS EcoTox UC Davis | I study fishes & food webs | she/they | 1st gen 🇺🇸🇵🇭| #TeamFish #NoJusticeNoPeace

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

Here’s the face behind the fish pics! Hi y’all, my name is Francine and right now I’m a research technician at UC Davis co-leading a Chinook salmon thiamine project! Here’s an old pic of me with an adult Chinook we rescued from an agricultural ditch :)

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

@Shark_eye_sci That poster be looking CLEAN

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

I'm writing a "reflection" on this "here's how to successfully mentor transfer students" article and I'm LIVID.

"Stop viewing transfer or transfer students as a problem to fix" is a direct quote, and I'm just sitting here like "No one said transfer students were a problem."

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.

Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

@querxus Proud of you and your achievements!!!! I hope your dinner with your mom was lovely and you felt celebrated 🥰🥰🥰

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

@Shark_eye_sci YAAAAA Congratulations buddy!!!!!!

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

@shadykade YES.

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

@ChelseaHerps I paid so much for those hiking boots I might as well wear them everywhere 😭

[Kyle🤖🚀🦭 @KyleMorgenstein]

let me change y’all’s lives real quick

https://t.co/ADnSKGTVlX

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

I also didn’t ever think that I’d have a student compliment me on my outfits but here we are!!! Not only have I been validated as a teacher, I am also Cool and Fashionable!!

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

Teaching undergrads can be really intimidating but reading their instruction veal’s is honestly making my whole YEAR

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

The training is underway! Great time meeting the new crews from the different institutions & getting a refresher on our protocols (old and new). :) @CCFRP

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

Stoked to be taking some of my team down to the Moss Landing Marine Lab for a @CCFRP training tomorrow!! Kick off the field season strong :)

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

My @BlundstoneUS boots have been great for walking and tromping and stomping and I’ve loved them well over the past two years. Unfortunately they’ve finally kicked (🥾) the big bucket and the soles totally split down the middle which I’m really quite sad about :(

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum. None of the objects in here look like glass.
Readers, they're all glass.

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

More information in this thread, but for fair warning there are ALL of the content warnings for the videos and photos. This was an absolutely senseless act of violence and hate and Fong Hiu Tung and Lau Kai Hei deserve to be remembered as two women who loved each other very much.

[Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @RealSexyCyborg]

方晓彤 🕯️ 刘继禧
THEY WERE NOT "FRIENDS". SHE DIED TRYING TO SAVE HER. DO NOT ERASE THEM.

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

They were GIRLFRIENDS and they died trying to protect each other. LBGT erasure hurts EVERYONE and this was a targeted hate crime.
https://t.co/0oXCXYaxtT

[Fran De Castro @Frantickled]

oat milk really just does taste like watered down oatmeal but like… kinda gritty?? Amazing. I’ll take another glass, bartender.

[Dr. Solomon David @SolomonRDavid]

Another wildly colorful North American freshwater fish: Orangespotted Sunfish!

📸Jeff Gravél

[David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud]

BREAKING: The CEO of @Hertz wrote a letter to Puerto Rico‘s representative in Congress stating that Hertz has rewritten its policy to make it abundantly clear that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory - not a foreign country - & because of that Puerto Rico driver’s licenses are not international IDs they are just as valid as any ID from any state in this union. This news follows the story I first reported last week, where a Puerto Rican man at the New Orleans international airport was denied a rental car because at least two Hertz workers said his license was international. On top of that, the man who recorded the incident, had the police called on him by a Hertz employee who said he can never rent from Hertz again because he recorded the incident. *She was wrong; he can rent from Hertz again*. The police officer who responded to the call was dismissive and rude and is now the subject of an internal investigation by his police department because the customer, Mr. Humberto Marchand, filed a complaint with the @KennerPolice. Following our report, Representative @Jenniffer wrote a letter to Hertz asking for a companywide educational campaign, and she got it.
Lastly: Puerto Ricans are United States citizens. Please share.