Cherokee, B.S. @yale, currently icy moons PhD @Brown_DEEPS ✧ they/them
Providence, RI
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i think yale should offer at least one ethnogeology course! there’s so much to talk about there and non-Indigenous students should be required to recognize the importance of geology and Earth in Indigenous cultures
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when we cite your 2023 papers in our email, they say we didn't search thoroughly enough. when we cite older papers, they say we are annoying and not invested in their current research. when we don't cite any papers, we didn't even bother! can prospective students win?
I don’t mind when prospective PhD applicants email me wanting to talk about work I did 5 years ago. As long as they don’t mind my enthusiasm about instead following up on their work at the middle school science fair.
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i am very excited to announce (to my approximately 3 followers) that i will be participating in @BrownGeoSci’s research program this summer! i can’t wait to learn even more about geophysics :-)
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We are pleased to announce the names of the students selected for the 2023 LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science! View a full list of 2023 interns: ow.ly/Fmki50NhiR5
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often, when i remember that lockheed martin manufactures missiles like these that are meant not to explode but to cut a target into pieces, i wonder if there is any ethical way to be in the space industry--even as a planetary geologist.
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have officially started my new position as a research assistant at dartmouth's thayer school of engineering ☺️ i am researching planetary ices and their funky little brines
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As someone who works in a cultural center at my university and takes a lot of joy in welcoming and guiding the incoming Native students, I cannot express how frightened this makes me.
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from @theiachatelle @yalebroads yale paid $30k to install cameras and motion detectors in our cultural centers broadsatyale.com/yale-pays-n…
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brilliant article written by my Native friends here at yale
yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/…
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huge huge HUGE yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/…
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here's your much needed reminder that Native Hawaiians staunchly oppose telescopes on Mauna Kea and by supporting the construction/existence of these telescopes you are contributing to the desecration of sacred land!
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day 1 on geology tiktok and already random people are telling me i don’t look like a scientist and i’m probably lying!
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As the station manager of a student radio station that broadcasted Occupy Beinecke updates, I am so proud of @WKCRFM for their brilliant reporting
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the amount of 17 year old "space and defense enthusiasts" liking the missile fanboy tweets in my replies is amusing. do you not have precalculus homework to be doing? college applications to submit?
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I wrote about The Last Of Us’s political landscape as a continuation of the post-9/11 security state, and what we can learn from the zombie apocalypse’s revolutionary displays of destituent power.
Lex Schultz (@lexkschultz) writes, "The Last of Us’s television adaptation illustrates how power operates in response to disaster and how alternative forms of resistance can arise out of these circumstances." Read more:
broadsatyale.com/the-last-of…
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don’t talk to me rn i’m busy emotionally processing this
My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.
ALT Wide-angle photo from NASA’s InSight lander on Mars shows the area in front of the lander in the late afternoon sun. Two science instruments tethered to the lander rest on the sandy surface nearby. Part of the lander’s robotic arm is visible extending down from the top left. Distortion from the wide-angle lens bends the distant horizon into a curved shape, while low-angle sunlight causes a small bluish lens flare on the right side.
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in related news: my postgrad gap year plans of moving to houston are no longer! i am now actively searching for geoscience-related jobs in new york city which is where i will actually be living next year 🫶🏽 lmk if you know of anything
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conclusion: no offensive weapons are ethical, hope this helps clear up my thoughts. i'm going to do my space rock research now
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space agencies give millions upon millions of dollars to these weapon manufacturers for mission spacecraft. there is no way around it. how can those of us in planetary science that call ourselves anti-war morally abide by this?
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it's actually insane that i got the LPI/NASA summer internship because i had the due date wrong and ended up having to ask for letters of rec 5 days before and i panic-wrote the entire application during my petrology class
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Life sucks. Nothing goes as planned & nothing is reliable. You know what is reliable? Chemical reactions. I can calculate how much of a mineral will dissolve in solution based on the species' activities and the presence of aqueous complexes. Science never lets me down
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come to antefling tonight at toads!! i’ve been working on this for months and it has finally come to fruition
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booking and organizing this show has taken SO much effort, especially from my other two antefling leads @madelyndwsn and lana. it truly has been a labor of love. please come by if you're in the area or even if you're not 🫶🏽
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this REU changed my life!!! please apply if you’re an undergrad, it was absolutely amazing and DEEPS at brown is one of the most welcoming and innovative geoscience departments there is
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What are the lakes made of, NASA?
#DYK Titan is the only world in the solar system besides Earth with lakes & oceans on its surface? Explore this moon & the rotorcraft set to study it with @JHUAPL’s Dr. Zibi Turtle of the #Dragonfly mission.
Set a reminder! Join #AskAstrobio on March 24: piped.video/live/v-hS1koBJns…
ALT This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Titan looks like a sea foam green marble that has dark splotches across its surface. The view looks toward terrain that is mostly on the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Titan. The scene features the parallel, dark, dune-filled regions named Fensal (to the north) and Aztlan (to the south), which form the shape of a sideways letter "H."
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ethnogeology not being a requirement for geology majors is a direct cause of white scientists’ disrespect for Indigenous land — for example, the construction of telescopes on Mauna Kea. geology was not founded by white scientists—it was founded by Indigenous peoples.
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Yale has had record numbers of matriculated Native students in the past few years. I’ve seen firsthand through my work how important a large and thriving cultural community is for these first years. This puts it all at risk.
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i can't believe people are saying this is the most ethical missile. i'm sorry, but this sounds like something a comically evil character in a movie would dream up. a missile, but with knives??
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I came down to visit a friend in Houston and got stuck here because of Beryl. Abbott, your party is the reason the Texas energy grid is a failure and CenterPoint has a monopoly on power in Houston. You are the reason this city has no infrastructure to deal with a <1 Cat storm.
Biden's memory fails again.
Not once did he call me during Beryl.
He has my number & called me on Memorial Day after tornadoes hit Texas.
I've had daily calls with state & local officials during Beryl.
I spoke with FEMA Admin while on our trade mission but Biden never called.
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i'm Cherokee so the US military genocided most of my family and forced us onto a reservation 1000 miles from our homelands 👍🏽
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T minus 2 hours until I’m in Houston for the summer! Those Venusian volcanoes better watch out
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i was the NISAY co-president from nov 2021 to nov 2022. after our MMIW vigil, the other co-president and i were harassed by administration via text, call & email and told to give the names of those involved in the red handprints. we refused. they threatened disciplinary action.
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Even the Native students that do manage to make it through will have to opt in to our Peer Liaison program and other cultural center programs because we won’t have their information. They’ll have to seek us out themselves.
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watch out large volcanoes on venus, i’m gonna study you and the effects of uplift on lithospheric stress so hard
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you're telling me the renovations that have been underway since before i was a freshman won't be completed until i have less than a month left of my senior year????
UNIVERSITY | After four years of renovations, Yale’s Peabody Museum will reopen to the public as a greener, more community-oriented space.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/…
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This could destroy all we’ve built—and on the 10 year anniversary of the Native American Cultural Center.
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poster presentation starts in exactly 1 hour, and my brain is suddenly empty. what was my research on this summer? what is seismology? what is an earth?
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manifesting a postbacc in houston 🙏🏽 please i can't be unemployed in texas there's nothing to do all day
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i'm disappointed to see so many scientists i respect ignore palestinian suffering. if you have never condemned the apartheid system in israel that has watered this seed of violence for half a century, but are (rightfully) mourning israeli lives lost, you are a hypocrite!
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moral of the story, it has been a horrid year to be Native at yale. but i also have hope for the future. i believe we can make a path for other Indigenous students at this school to be happy and not face what i have in the past year.
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anybody: so what do you work on?
me: oh. you know. subduction zone seismology. volatile accretion + core formation of rocky planets. and a bit of venusian volcanoes. you know. the works
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so excited for #AGU2022 next week! just printed my poster :-)
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i was honestly very scared that i would not get accepted to any planetary internships because i have 0 experience but i am very happy :-)
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in the cabinet were human remains. bones. of my ancestors. i began to cry and had to leave the room.
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during our drum group's trip to perform at andover, i was in the basement of their peabody museum with my peers and i came across a closed cabinet labeled "etowah mound". that is a Cherokee & Creek site and i grew up close by the mound, so i and my friend opened the cabinet.
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