Dr. Valentina Alaasam
Scientist | 🏳️🌈 | NSF Postdoctoral Researcher at NYU-->UW. Living in a big city, studying how animals cope with living in big cities 🌃🐦✊🏾
- Reposted by Dr. Valentina AlaasamNew paper out in @funecology.bsky.social: Parental conflict over care is bad for offspring growth! 🐤🐣 Check out our article: Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and physiology in a songbird with multiple parental strategies. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Dr. Valentina Alaasam👀Behind the Paper!👀 🪺Author Valentina Alaasam discusses single parenting in the avian world, enjoying all the outdoors has to offer, and the importance of not fearing failure🐦 Read it here👇 buff.ly/EjX8SQO 🧪🌍
- Reposted by Dr. Valentina AlaasamThe coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
- Happy 20th anniversary BirdNote! I am so proud to be part of this amazing program 😁 www.birdnote.org/podcasts/bir...
- "There's nothing political about wanting students to learn. That's not social justice. That is simply giving all students an opportunity to get a good grade and be able to succeed in their future career." www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...
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- Reposted by Dr. Valentina AlaasamI think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
- Reposted by Dr. Valentina AlaasamAOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time
- Reposted by Dr. Valentina Alaasam#ProudPI moment: postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social & Anthony Snead co-organized an amazing #SICB2025 symposium & PhD students Fallon Meng crushed her first conference talk!
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