Nora Heaphy

PhD student at UVM | plant evolutionary biology | she/her 🌱🌈 😷 formerly @AUC, @yale_eeb, and @YaleEJC

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

my first paper as a coauthor is out in the world! i feel so lucky to have gotten to work on this project, starting in my first year of undergrad. an incredible labor of love that Michael Donoghue, @erikaedw, @Dereneaton, & many others have been working on for at least a decade!

[NatureEcoEvo @NatureEcoEvo]

Replicated radiation of a plant clade along a cloud forest archipelago https://t.co/KaNpCAQLak

[Olivia- covid resources in bio! @o_bel_]

Thread of all the Covid resources I’ve created. Links to PDFs located in my bio. Please feel free to use & share!

Why Your Patient is Covid Cautious

[bothered black girl (@botheredblkgirl.bsky.social) @IfuekoNadine]

Thread of COVID PPE deals for the Month of December ❄️:

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Why would the University of Pennsylvania do this

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

This egregious mistranslation is not just a language error; it is a racist fabrication that fans the flames of the war.

The full video, including @BBC's erroneous English subtitles: https://t.co/1s4GqqVQgk

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

This is just wild. 2 women were arrested in the UK for holding a sign in Arabic. The cops asked them to translate the sign. They did. The cops couldn’t verify it because they didn’t have a translator, so they arrested them

Arabic is now a crime in the UK

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

Most psychologists agree that Stockholm Syndrome is not a real thing, it was invented by a criminologist seeking to explain away why bank employees taken hostage by robbers felt safer with them than with the police that consistently failed them

[Basil Awartani @AwartaniBasil]

My cousin Hisham has been shot in the back while walking with his friends in Burlington for simply wearing kuffiyehs and speaking Arabic.

Dangerous performative rhetoric from US pundits and politicians as well as constant dehumanization of Palestinians has a real life cost.

[Cara Piraino | Piraino Translations @PirainoXlations]

Vital piece on Arabic to English translation in the Gaza genocide. Covers shaheed which I've discussed here as well as jihad and intifada

https://t.co/HQiIvVLG8L

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

Remarkable and courageous reporting. What makes you despair is that it could have been filmed in 2008, 2012, 2014...
and the world did nothing to ensure it wouldn't happen again.

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

moral psychology couldn't be in better hands!

[Rachel @chelcott9]

Thrilled (and stunned) to share that next week I’ll be starting a PhD in moral psychology at Harvard with @fierycushman!

Can’t quite believe I get to spend the next few years asking cool questions with the brilliant @xave_rg, @sydneymlevine & co

Many, many thanks to…

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

pleased to report that the language barrier is not stopping me from talking my classmates' ears off about Viburnum and convergent evolution

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

Pretty remarkable that America temporarily constructed a safety net during Covid — including major health care coverage, food benefits, anti poverty funding for families & kids, etc — and then just systematically and slowly demolished it

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

thinking about all the times when i made a silly pipetting mistake, missed a deadline, didn't have results, or picked up a cactus and got its spines stuck in my arm, and edwards lab ppl were like "ok, no worries, here try again." may all students everywhere be given such grace 💛

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

well i waited 24 hours and the email has not disappeared from my inbox, so it looks like it was not a hallucination—incredibly excited to share that i won a GRFP and am off to @UVMplantbio in the fall to start my PhD!

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

at that stage of language study where i can conclusively say i am both very good at arabic and very bad at arabic (i contain multitudes)

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

some concrete suggestions here <3

[Nora Heaphy @noraceae]

if you have stopped masking in public indoor spaces and are maybe feeling like that was not the best choice for your health, or you want to stand in solidarity with high-risk people, then great news! you can start masking again! you are so welcome, and many will be so grateful!