Emma Scales
PhD candidate at 🌽LL studying molecular bases of fungal symbiosis with bacteria 🍄🦠🧫🤓
Science communication & science advocacy 💚🌱
Co-founder #McClintockLetters initiative
Co-Pres @cornellasap.bsky.social
Founding member @snapcoalition.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Emma ScalesOf course also huge thanks to @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @bdavisbio.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social & all others who helped!
- @researchamerica.bsky.social is honoring the McClintock Letters Initiative a "Meeting the Moment" award: www.researchamerica.org/advocacy-awa... We are so grateful to all of the participants of the #McClintockLetters! @snapcoalition.bsky.social and @cornellasap.bsky.social really crushed it!
- Reposted by Emma ScalesJanuary 30th is World #NTD day, the perfect time to bring together my research on #schistosomaisis and interest in #sciencepolicy. Read “The Intersection of Policy and Schistosomiasis on Neglected Tropical Disease Day“ by Emily Selland on Medium: medium.com/science-poli...
- Reposted by Emma Scalesmedium.com/science-poli... New #SciencePolicy in a SNAP is out today! Jan 30 is World #NTDDay, read “The Intersection of Policy and #Schistosomiasis on Neglected Tropical Disease Day“ by Becca Blyn and @eselland.bsky.social #SNAPblog #GlobalHealth #TropicalDisease #SciPol
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- Hello, everyone! SNAP is proud to announce that we've started a blog! Check out our first post on Medium (medium.com/@snapscipolo...) or our website (snapcoalition.org/2026/01/19/s...), and stay tuned for more! @eselland.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @jolybdenum.bsky.social and Cael Dant
- Reposted by Emma ScalesY’all aren’t ready for all the cool topics we have coming up! If you don’t follow @snapcoalition.bsky.social already, go do it now! Great job, Emily (@eselland.bsky.social) for the summary of what SNAP has been and is up to!
- Hello, everyone! SNAP is proud to announce that we've started a blog! Check out our first post on Medium (medium.com/@snapscipolo...) or our website (snapcoalition.org/2026/01/19/s...), and stay tuned for more! @eselland.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @jolybdenum.bsky.social and Cael Dant
- Reposted by Emma ScalesI'll be speaking on this panel with @mjarnett.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @erinmorrow.bsky.social and Alex Rich at #AAAS2026! Come hear from @snapcoalition.bsky.social members giving early career researcher perspectives on the future of #SciPol, #SciComm, and developing the #SciWorkForce.
- Who's ready for #AAAS2026? Come see SNAPpers at a plenary panel session on Friday, Feb. 13 at 1 p.m.!
- Reposted by Emma ScalesThe Trump admin "has been forced to acknowledge its unlawful actions and release gov. documents related to this case, which will allow the public to see for itself how the DOE and EPA worked in concert to solicit a report with predetermined conclusions aimed at overturning the Endangerment Finding."
- Where is the accountability?? What are we going to do about this? Protesting is not enough.
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- Reposted by Emma ScalesTired: Everything evolves to be a crab. Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
- Reposted by Emma ScalesI just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home
- Thanks, 2025 - I fought an existential crisis by way over-committing myself and honestly would highly recommend it. Made some cool art, led students through the forest in search of mushrooms, did cool science and got to speak about it, and led a national scicomm initiative that opened so many doors
- 2025 was like, really cool but also like, really bad
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- Reposted by Emma ScalesEvery year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly. Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help! 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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- Reposted by Emma Scales"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/49B7hRv
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- Reposted by Emma ScalesPrint version of my new commentary ("Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction") on #COP30, Bill Gates and more, in the latest issue of @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Emma ScalesThoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine. time.com/7333975/dei-... This presents the case in the context of lupus.
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- Northern Lights through the clouds!!! Could actually see the glowing colors - hopefully more tonight!!
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- An excerpt from my remarks to the annual gathering of Cornell trustees & alumni from Oct. 23 as part of a plenary panel “Research at risk”. I stand by what I said. Cornell continues to fail its researchers. In light of this week’s news, I’m afraid the timing of this event was too convenient. (1/🧵)
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- Reposted by Emma ScalesThe wooly bear, or #Isabella tiger #moth #caterpillar, Pyrrharctia isabella, still looking for overwintering spots on warm days. I'm still collecting them for research. Many years ago I became allergic to the hairs, a painful reminder of my love gone sour: agrawal.eeb.cornell.edu/2018/11/24/c...
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- Guest piece for #Inform&Influence detailing how SNAP has succeeded as a #grassroots org coordinating multiple nationwide initiatives. #SciPol #SciAdvocacy #SciComm #McClintockLetters www.linkedin.com/posts/debora...
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- Reposted by Emma Scales“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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- Congratulations Grace!!!! So great to talk with her this summer in Portland about symbioses in non-model systems :)
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