Chanelle Adams @chanelle.bsky.social researcher and artist
postdoctoral scholar, max planck institute for the history of science
chanelleadams.info
James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social Associate Professor in Environmental Geography, University of Bristol
Author of "Power Plants" (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192127)
See also @peatscapes.bsky.social (peatscapes.com), funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
๐ซChatGPT ๐ซCopilot ๐ซAI
Devin Ward, PhD @devinleaward.bsky.social Rower by morning with London Rowing Club ๐
https://www.londonrc.org.uk/
Senior Editor by day for Nature Ecology & Evolution ๐
https://www.nature.com/natecolevol/
Reporter by evening for Nordic Insights โ
https://nordicinsights.news/
Becks Spake @spakey.bsky.social Ass Prof #Ecology interested in forests and deer and other things. Learning about causal inference. ๐ฆ๐ณ treelabecology.weebly.com
Belen Fadrique @belenfadrique.bsky.social Tropical Ecologist. Diversity change. Climate change. Mountains. Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin fellow at ULiverpool. Mum. (she/her)
Jess Hodge @jess-hodge.bsky.social PhD Candidate University of Bristol | Coral Reef Bioacoustics ๐ชธ
Hannah White @hannah-wht-eco.bsky.social Senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University interested in macroecology, traits, climate, spatial ecology, rarity and much much more
Rochelle Meah @rochellemeah.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Bristol University with the Ecology of Vision lab. Interested in insect conservation, light pollution, sensory ecology, and kindness ๐ท๏ธ๐๐ฆ (She/Her)
Joshua Buxton @jbuxt.bsky.social Research Fellow and Lecturer in GIS and Environmental Spatial Science at the University of Exeter
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Anna Lena Heinrichs @alheinrichs.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher focusing on organism traits and their link to community stability.
climate change effects | phytoplankton | thermal sensitivity | multiple drivers
Community Ecology & Evolution Lab @ GIMM, Oeiras, Lisbon ๐๐
Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) at the University of Bath. Exploring all things microbiomes and protist diversity/evolution. ๐งฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ
https://theholtlab.com
Krishna Girish @krishnasg.bsky.social PhD student at ISEM, University of Montpellier, France
working on climate tipping points & biodiversity, and associated sidequests
prev: BS-MS @ IISER Pune, MS thesis @ MIT
enjoys theoretical ecology, birds, quiz, poetry, patisserie, indie rock
he/him
Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social UC Davis. Developmental drivers of individuality in the Amazon molly. Nature through nurture and a lot of noise. Really into random effects. Hard no to autocrats
Lily Khadempour @khadlily.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Rutgers Newark and PI of the Khadlab.com. Studying insect-microbial symbiosis and microbial ecology. she/her
Dr. Bala Chaudhary @balachaudhary.bsky.social Associate Prof @Dartmouth, Scientist-Activist, Mom, Ecologist, Plant-Fungal Symbioses #mycorrhizas #dispersal #antiracistSTEM, CAREER Awardee, #WOCinEEB Founder, views my own
Ann T. Tate @annttate.bsky.social Immune system evolution and host- parasite interactions. Associate Prof at Vanderbilt U
Susanne Kortsch @skortsch.bsky.social Ecologist, Food webs, Global change, Academy Research Fellow @University of Helsinki @Tvรคrminne Zoological Station @CoastClim
https://skortsch.github.io/
Lisandrina Mari @lisandrinamari.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher & MSCA Alumna Uni of Jyvรคskylรค ๐๏ธ๐ชบ๐ซ๐ฎ | Subject Editor @ Journal of Field Ornithology | ecotox, behavior, cognition, thermal physiology | she/her
Johanna Mappes @jmappes.bsky.social Professor of Ecology at the University of Helsinki
๐งช #Animal behaviour, #animal coloration, #evoeco, #moths, #sensory ecology #fundamental science
I teach birds to play computer games
Flo Grattarola @flograttarola.bsky.social Uruguayan in Czech Republic | Postdoc in #Macroecology | #CommunityScience | #BiodiversityInformatics | #OpenScience | Leading biodiversidata.org ๐บ๐พ๐ง and naturalista.uy ๐
๐ flograttarola.com
I mix Espaรฑol and English :)
Laura Chevaux @laurachevaux.bsky.social Postdoc at AgroParisTech Nancy
๐ณForest ecology๐ฒ, Understory plant community ๐ฟand regeneration ๐ฑ
E. Yaฤmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social assist prof @ Uni Groningen โข theoretical evolutionary ecologist working on life histories, cancer, aging & culture ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป โข she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โข https://yagmurerten.com/
Camille Delavaux @camilledelavaux.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) focused on plant-microbe interactions and drivers of microbial and plant biogeography and ecology
Ilze Brila @ilze-brila.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Jyvรคskylรค working in project BEPREP. Interested in disease ecology, wildlife health, and microbiome.
Charli Davies @charlisdavies.bsky.social Postdoc @jyuscience looking at winter adaptation and the microbiome in Great tits โ๏ธ๐ฆ๐งฌ | PhD on immunogenetic variation in the @SeychellesWarb | she/her
Cristina Dorador @criordor.bsky.social Ecรณloga microbiana. Microbial ecologist
Nuevo libro: "Amor Microbiano" ๐๐ฆ
#FreePalestine ๐ต๐ธ
Andressa M. Venturini @aventurini.bsky.social Soil microbial ecologist | Assistant Professor at AU ๐ฆ
| SPUN Explorer | Former USP ๐ง๐ท Princeton and Stanford ๐บ๐ธ | She/Her | Views are my own ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐งฌ
Land-use change | Sustainable Agriculture | Amazon | Microplastics
aventurini.com
Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler @catalicu.bsky.social Associate prof at Cal Poly Humboldt. Ecologist of microbes, tasted metagenomics once and now I want more. Spawned in Colombia, cumbia follows me everywhere I go.
Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social Urban & landscape ecologist thinking about nature-based solutions for biodiversity, people, and climate in the cities we live in. Prof @ Concordia. Probably talking about trees on the radio. Potter. Knitter. Baker. Gardener. Year-round cyclist. ๐จ๐ฆ (she/her)
Dr. Emily Dolson @emilydolson.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Michigan State University studying eco-evolutionary dynamics in artificial life, cancer, and evolutionary computation. she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@emilydolson@ecoevo.social on Mastodon
Katherine McVay, PhD @katherinemcvay.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate at Duke with @amygoldberg.bsky.social | ev gen, conservation, and pathogens ๐งฌ๐๐ฆ
https://katherinemcvay.weebly.com
Fabiana Schneck @fabianaschneck.bsky.social Freshwater ecologist, Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Brazil
she/her
https://streamteamfurg.netlify.app/
Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social Tree ecophysiologist, parent, ocean paddler and brownie baker. I'm interested in forests, water, carbon, climate change. Tangata Tiriti and manuhiri, she/her, Auckland Uni Prof, Lead Author IPCC AR7 WGII, Senior Editor J Applied Ecology
Anny Chung (้พๅฝฅๅ) @yyachung.bsky.social Ecologist studying plants and microbes. Incidental musician. She/her.
Claudia Crowther @ccrowther.bsky.social Postdoc in evolutionary biology at Kellogg Biological Station, MSU. Plasticity, maternal effects, and climate adaptation. She/her
Dhanya Bharath @dhanyabharath.bsky.social Community ecology | Evolutionary biology | Behavioural ecology
PhD student @EAWAG Switzerland |
MEME alumnus LMU and Montpellier | Undergrad IISc Bengaluru, Centre for Ecological Sciences
She/Her
Charlotte Evangelista @chaevangelista.bsky.social ๐จ๐ต living in ๐ง๐ป Researcher @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social (NINA) | Freshwater ecology | Intraspecific variability | Functional ecology | #TeamFish ๐ | AE @Ecol_Evol | Views my own
๐ https://charlotteevangelista.weebly.com
Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social Disease ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Zoonotic disease, predictive analytics, machine learning, AI. www.hanlab.science. 
Nasmille Larke-Mejรญa, PhD @nasmillelarkemejia.bsky.social #MSCA Fellow #uArctic_project | ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ KU
๐จ๐ด Guajira | UniAndes MSc Environmental microbiology BSc MBIO BSc BIO | ๐ฌ๐ง UEA PhD Microbial ecology ๐ฑ๐ฆ DNA-SIP
Former #IB school #MYP coordinator ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ซ
Crafty ๐งถ | Mamรก & wife | Views my own
www.nasmillelarkemejia.com
Dr. Kat Napaaqtukโ๏ธ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social Inupiaq, scientist of host-microbe interactions, mom, runner, news junkie, not necessarily in that order. I speak for myself. She/her. Only reskeets posts with alt text. Unapologetically typo prone, doesn't use AI.
Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social Bees, flies, mosquitoes, neurons, ecology and genetics. @Lena_Riab on Twitter. Associate Professor at Durham Biology in the UK. Head of @InsectNeuroLab.bsky.social ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ป๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คฏ๐ฆ๐ชฐ๐๐๏ธ๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ป๐ธ๐๏ธ๐
Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social Antarctic wildlife ecologist, Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Prof UCNZ, speaker, childrenโs book author
@natgeo Secrets of the Penguins
drmichellelarue.com
Franca Eichenberger @francae.bsky.social Behavioural & molecular ecologist studying the behavior & population dynamics of marine mammals. ๐ฌ๐๐งฌ
Postdoc at University of Bristol.
https://linktr.ee/franca.eichenberger
Rahat S. @ecotrombonegal.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UMD College Park researching (stormwater) green infrastructure. Maryland Sea Grant Fellow. Trombonist. #VeryAsian #academicsky.
Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social Minnesotan - UConn Disease EcoEvo Associate Professor - Nat Geo Live Speaker - Birds & Ectos - #FirstGen - #Galapagos - #BlackLivesMatter - she/her๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Elina Mรคntylรค @elinamantyla.bsky.social Ecologist studying interactions between birds, insects and plants, and bird migration. Now working as a Development Specialist at University of Turku. Opinions are my own.
Emma-Liina Marjakangas @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social Postdoc @econovoau.bsky.social / Member of @scbeurope.bsky.social board / Community ecology, global change, species interactions, functional traits / I ๐ nature. She/her
Personal website: emmaliinamarjakangas.github.io
Adena Collens @abcollens.bsky.social Bioinformatician & evolutionary microbiologist exploring deep sea symbionts ๐ฆ โจ๏ธ she/her
Ph.D student at UMD in the Pop ๐งฌ๐ป and Collins ๐ชผ Labs
Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. @Wellesley College | microbial ecologist | gut microbiome -> child development | microbes rock | vkclab.com
Kimberly Yazzie, PhD @kimberlyazzie.bsky.social Ecology and climate solutions | Assistant Professor @forestry.UBC.ca #UBCForestry Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship | Postdoc @ Stanford University | PhD @ University of Washington | Dinรฉ :: | @NASEMFordFellow | she/her | Personal account
Marta รlvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist expert in terrestrial planarians and also digging into the genomic regulation of unicellular Holozoans. Ramon y cajal researcher at the zoology section from the University of Barcelona (Spain)
Heather Kelly @ohnstadio.bsky.social Botanist, allotment gardener, natural historian and lover of all reasons to be outdoors. Teacher of plant science at Durham University.
Luise Hermanutz @luiseconservation.bsky.social Field ecologist | rare plant conservation | Limestone Barrens restoration | translocation | climate change tundra impacts
living in the unceded territory of the K'รณmoks on Denman Island, BC
Carissa Brown @carissabrown.bsky.social Forest-dwelling, music-loving, coffee-drinking ecologist. Fire, forests, range edges, plants, & more. Prof in Geography at Memorial University #NorthernEDGELab. she/her
marina alberti @malberti.bsky.social urban ecology, evolution, nature, cities, planets, exo-planets
Author of: Cities That Think like Planets
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743677/cities-that-think-like-planets/
Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin @rdtarvin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist; Asst Prof @ UC Berkeley IntBio, MVZ Herp Curator; chem ecology, molecular/tropical biology, art, politics, frogs. Posts mine.
Jill Oberski, PhD @jilloberski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biology @ Hope College, a PUI SLAC. ๐ ๐งฌ ๐ | Entomology | Phylogenomics | Biogeo | Evolution | Diversifying STEM ๐ง โฟ๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ [she/her]
Merit F Pokriefke @pokriefkemeritf.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, behavioural ecologist. Postdoc @LMU and @MPI-BI.
Interested in individual variation, plasticity and the adaptation to changing environmental conditions.
Currently looking for the next postdoc position ๐
Tanya Cheeke @tanyacheeke.bsky.social Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology at Washington State University, plant-soil-microbe interactions, mycorrhizal fungi, restoration ecology, conservation|she/her ๐ฑ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฆ
Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social evolutionary ecologist trying to understand flowers and my teenager | occasional fireweed spotter | ๐จ๐ฆ / ๐ธ๐ช | enjoying sabbatical | I should be writing
Dr Beth Nicholls @bethbees.bsky.social UKRI FLF at Sussex uni interested in the not-so-tiny minds of bees | Associate Ed. J. Pollination Ecology | 1st Gen | She/Her
Maureen Page @maureenpage.bsky.social USDA NIFA postdoc at Cornell studying bees. Interested in agroecology๐ฅ, pollination ๐ป, and conservation ๐ฆ. She/her. 
Julia Osterman @juliaosterman.bsky.social PostDoc at the University of Gothenburg โ๐๐ผ Interested in plant-pollinator interactions, oligolectic bees, effects of pesticides on bees, bee conservation and restoration. Profil Pic taken by Yannick Noah Layer.
Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social Pollination & floral scent evolution; group leader, John Innes Centre (UK). Birds, bugs, cats, tea, &c. Any pronouns, asexual, agender, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / POTS / ADHD / autistic / associated stuff. Majority time wheelchair human. Posts mine, no AI.
Maria Clara Castellanos @calacastellanos.bsky.social Plant evolutionary ecologist @Sussex Uni | Pollination and flower evolution + fire ecology research | Editor-in-Chief Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social
Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social The world doesn't have to be this way. Climate & biodiversity science, risk, resilience, Earth-repairing societal/planetary futures. Prof U Washington; RA African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UCapeTown, SEI Oxford, LC Nature Recovery.
Romina Dimarco @rominadimarco.bsky.social I am an ecologist fascinated by the complex relationships between plant, fungi, herbivores and chemical traits๐ฒ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ฆ. Researcher @UHouston
Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social Full professor for Computational Evolution at ETH Zรผrich
Randall Hughes @randallhughes.bsky.social Ecology, Evolution, Conservation, Restoration | Mostly Marine | Professor of Marine and Environmental Science | views expressed my own | she/hers | BlackLivesMatter | CeasefireNow
Claire Willing @clairewilling.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UniversityofWashington
๐โ๐ซ๐ฒPI | Forest Mycobiome Lab๐ฒ๐
https://uw-forestmycobiomelab.github.io
PhD 2019 | Dawson Lab @UCBerkeley
Postdoc 2019-2023 | Peay Lab @Stanford 
Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social birds~rain, prairies, wet tropical forests, conservation, migration & dispersal; equity & social justice; @WesternU (prev Kansas State); also fiddle player, contra dance musician
www.aliceboyle.net
www.dancetosteam.com
Eleanor Slade @eleslade.bsky.social Assoc Prof Tropical Ecology & Entomology #TEELab, Asian School of the Environment, NTU Singapore #forests #oilpalm #riparianbuffers #dungbeetles #entomology #biodiversity #climatechange #urbanecology #scienceimpact ๐๐ชฒ๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐ด
https://teelabntu.wixsite.com/home
Liyuen @liyuenc.bsky.social Research fellow ๐ฒ๐พ ๐ธ๐ฌ | Dung Beetle
https://teelabntu.wixsite.com/home
Nature โข Insect โข People โข Life
Matthew 6:33
Xin Rui Ong @xinruiong.bsky.social PhD | Research Fellow | Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum | Tropical Ecology & Entomology Lab (TEE Lab) | Dung Beetle Fan | Micah 6:8 |
https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg
https://teelabntu.wixsite.com/home
Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social Marine biologist, evolutionary biologist, geneticist. Also @marine-omics.bsky.social
Magda Garbowski @magdagarbowski.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Functional and Applied Ecology at New Mexico State University.
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Caitlin Gabor @newtgabor.bsky.social Our lab (Gabor-Aspbury GASP) studies conservation physiology to behavioral ecology. We focus on the consequences of anthropogenic stressors on live-bearing fish and amphibian declines.
Brittany @sequinsmygenome.bsky.social Plant Biology PhD candidate at UC Davis. I am an evolutionary biologist studying ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. ๐ I am particularly fond of lichens, liverworts, and the occasional cyanobacteria colony.
@hufbauer.bsky.social @hufbauer.bsky.social evolutionary ecologist, entomologist since 1999, director of Colorado State University Ecology graduate program (GDPE), PI of NSF Advance grant, mom to 11 vertebrates (two human) and more plants
Join @peercommunityin.bsky.social!
Alyssa Willson @alyssa-willson.bsky.social Quantitative ecologist
I study how tree communities and ecosystems change over decades to millennia๐ณ๐ณ
PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame
she/her
Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social Nature writer & science journalist
New Zealand Geographic
Www.Kateevans.org
Words also in Scientific American, the New York Times, bioGraphic, among others. Author of FEIJOA: A STORY OF OBSESSION AND BELONGING
Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social ๐ฆ๐บ in ๐ณ๐ฟ at Uni of Otago using genomic approaches to explore diversity, microbes and parasites primarily in aquatic/marine ecosystems. Variously an ecologist, wildlife wrangler/photographer, diver/hiker/skier/etc ๐ง ๐ข ๐ธ ๐งฌ ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
http://phoebeachapman.github.io
Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @SDState | Conservation | Management (mostly mammals) She/her ๐๐ณ๐ฆฆ๐ฟ๐๐ฆ๐พ๐ฆจ views mine | aecheeseman.weebly.com
Brooke Kern, PhD @botanist-brooke.bsky.social Postdoc in the Wessinger lab at USC studying hybridization in Penstemon! Previously at the University of Minnesota working on reinforcement and speciation. Views are my own. she/her.
Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social Entomologist working to understand evolution + adaptation of arthropod phenotypes ๐ฆ Non-binary + disabled in STEM ๐งช๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโฟ B.S. @St Mary's College of California โฉ Ph.D. in Entomology @ WSU โฉ NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @ UConn โฉ Postdoc @ UVA โฉ Faculty @ VCU
Melanie Dickie @melaniedickie.bsky.social Wildlife ecologist at ABMI and Biodiversity Pathways, working to understand how species are impacted by a quickly changing landscape. Focussing mostly on caribou declines. (she/her)
Anna Armitage @marshdispatch.bsky.social Professor and wetland ecologist immersed in coastal life, from soils to plants to snails to birds. Restoration, climate change, salt marshes, mangroves. Views mine.
she/her
Wagner Ecology Lab @wagnerecologylab.bsky.social Plant community ecology lab in the Department of Biological Sciences, at the University of Alberta, Canada. PI: Viktoria Wagner
https://wagnerecologylab.github.io
Dr. Annette Evans @annettenzevans.bsky.social Assistant Prof@USJ | Postdoc@UMass | PhD@UConn | herpetologist/ecologist, invasive spp & conservation | Eco-Evo & climate change #HERper๐ฆKiwi๐ณ๐ฟin๐บ๐ธ
Jelena Godrijan ๐ซงโพ๐๐ฆ @godi.bsky.social Biological oceanographer & phytoplankton connoisseur. Forest Lover. Stand up #TEDx person.๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ Views=mine. @institutrb.bsky.social
@BigelowLab.bsky.social @EMBO_YIN
https://jelenagodrijan.wixsite.com/godi
Natalie Allen @natalieallen.bsky.social Evolutionary biology, genomics/bioinformatics, and conservation โข PhD candidate at Purdue โข she/her
https://nataliemallen.github.io/Personal_website/index.html
Gwyn Chilcoat @gwynchil.bsky.social iowan, eph, tubist, really likes fossils ๐ฆป๐ป๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
conservation paleobiology @ uc davis & bodega marine lab
#landback
Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social Biogeochemist, microbial ecologist, sea wolf, bog witch, granddaughter of a devil, vegan-ish ecocentrist whimsigoth anarchist punk. she/her ๐คโค๏ธ
Hannah Clipp, PhD @allthatwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife biologist & birder | Interests: wildlife research, birding, & nature photography | Wildlife & GIS Scientist working for the Appalachian Mountain Club | PhD in Natural Resources Science (WVU) | Website: hannahclipp.weebly.com
katie beard ๐ข @crotaluskatie.bsky.social tribal ecologist, herpetologist, & advocate for non-charismatic species ๐ | dog mom ๐โ๐ฆบ | desert rat and cactus super fan ๐๏ธ | a very OK fly fisherwoman | she/her | az
i like collecting bones and vintage taxidermy.
Mรณnica Pรกez-Vacas @monicaipv.bsky.social PhD, Evolutionary Ecology & Conservation Genetics. Poison and harlequin frogs, mostly. Some lizards too #LatinainSTEM ๐ช๐จ
Isabella Reeves @bellareeves.bsky.social Research Fellow in Marine Vetebrate Genomics | OceanOmics Centre
Dr. Kara M. Million @darterdancer.bsky.social Regular Human Biologist. Assistant Professor in Biology at UNA. Darters, parasites, and behavior. Owned by 2 cats, 2 snakes, and 2 many parrots. Opinions owned by me alone.
Jessica Castillo Vardaro @jessicacv.bsky.social Wildlife Biologist, Pika Enthusiast, Biology prof @ SJSU, Latina in STEM, she/her