Karina Brocco French

PhD Candidate/Candidata, German Lab, UCI. Studying marine invertebrate physiology. Estudiando la fisiología de invertebrados marinos. She/her

[Dr. Heidi Waite @waiteh13]

So hungry it feels like you have 2 stomachs? #seastars know the feeling! Read this month's Featured Creature highlighting @iCannibalize & her work. 1/2

#SciArt #SciComm #CommSciFun #AcademicTwitter #WomenInSTEM #LatinxinSTEM

[UCI Ecology and Evolutionary Biol @UCIEEB]

Cool Scientific Naturalist note from EEB's @iCannibalize published in @ESAEcology: Cannibalism of newly metamorphosed juvenile sea stars https://t.co/u3KV7Fs8GL

[SciPolUCIrvine @SciPolUCIrvine]

Module 9 focused on local engagement, a popular topic for #ECRs interested in #scipol in different parts of the U.S. First video is from @iCannibalize who provided an early career perspective and discussed her experiences. https://t.co/F9mtyBW8aC @BiomedGps

[Kate Vylet @KateVylet]

Tag, you're dinner!

A leather sea star (Dermasterias imbricata) zooms over the reefscape as purple urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) scurry away. This chaotic invert drama may appear speedy here, but it's actually a 30 minute timelapse of slomo echinoderm action.

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

Brittle star using arm loop to feed!

[Karina Brocco French @iCannibalize]

@dgermanuci @Forbes Thanks for tweeting this!! So exciting to see folks enjoying cannibal babies as much as I do! Hope that sentence never gets read aloud in court ....

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

We don’t need to “reimagine policing.”

We need to examine the meaning of “public safety.”

Billions upon billions are spent on policing & we are not safe.

Housing is safety. Healthcare is safety. Funding things that actually prevent social instability & conflict is safety.

[Karina Brocco French @iCannibalize]

@BrackenLab @AllenLabWM @ESAEcology @UCIEEB @gutsciUCI Thanks, Matt!

[Karina Brocco French @iCannibalize]

My twitter handle will finally make sense to some of you!! Start your Friday off right with our cannibalistic baby sea stars! @ESAEcology @AllenLabWM https://t.co/3Ajk1YpcB5

[Jon Allen @AllenLabWM]

Cannibal babies! Do I have your attention? Good! Check out the latest work from @iCannibalize and our lab in @ESAEcology here https://t.co/55bDXL8Btj and a great write up by Joe McClain here https://t.co/iAN6xwCbGm

[Karina Brocco French @iCannibalize]

@dgermanuci Getting eaten by mutant sea stars would be the MOST POETIC WAY TO GO SIGN ME UP!!!!

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

This is so clearly a hate crime and the police are disgusting for not being willing call it that.

The police are here to uphold and enforce white supremacy in our communities and nothing else. We can't can't count on them to bring us justice. #StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate

[Karina Brocco French @iCannibalize]

Gotta love cannibalism in marine inverts!!

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

YOW! Comb jelly swallows other Comb Jelly! NOM NOM!

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I am calling on Congress and currently working on measures to extend resources, healthcare, counseling, and hazard pay to all Capitol custodial, food service, and support staff after Wednesday’s attack.

Everyone who was there needs support.

[League of Women Voters of the US @LWV]

League of Women Voters of the United States Calls for Immediate Removal of President Donald Trump: https://t.co/8Z7Y54CAPN

[José González 🥑 @JoseBilingue]

I'll close tonight with this: That energy, that privilege, that destructiveness, that permissiveness, and so forth you saw at the Capitol. Imagine that, as what has burned Black churches, beaten brown bodies, desecrated Native lands, and more. Because it has.

[Courtney @sludgeycourt]

Hey it's me, your timeline veteran friend. Ashli Babbit's military service means nothing, except that the US military has a serious white supremacy problem.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

So all in all, five people dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer whose death was apparently due to injuries sustained confronting the mob.

[SEIU @SEIU]

Don't forget this image when the same leaders who helped incite this violence block hazard pay, a living wage or paid sick days for essential workers.

Frontline janitors showed up like we always do to literally cleaning up yesterday’s mess at the Capitol. H/T: @DaniellaMicaela

[Sunrise Movement UCI 🌅 @sunrisemvmtuci]

Police met peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors with violence yet months later let armed domestic terrorists walk into our capital. White supremacy in the country runs so deep @sunrisemvmt