Liz Haswell
Writing & Editing @ www.thesustainableprofessor.com 🌱Co-host, The Taproot Podcast 🌱Former midwestern biology professor finding her way as a writer and bon vivant in the PNW 🌱Check out what I'm up to or contact me: https://elizabethhaswell.carrd.co
- Cougar Gold is superior to Provel in every way and I don’t just say that because I have a can of it in my fridge right now 🧀
- A black hole is right. There hasn't been an NSF Director since April 2025; not sure about the Deputy Director. I can't find any information about program officers or leadership on the NSF website.
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by Liz HaswellJudge Simon here in Portland just granted the TRO in the ICE use of force case. The first three sentences are pretty haunting.
- Reposted by Liz HaswellPORTLAND MAYOR WILSON: “.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- Reposted by Liz Haswell"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Liz HaswellSo looking forward! This Friday February 6 7pm at Harvard Bookstore: the profoundly inspiring, philosophical @berondam.bsky.social, fellow Fellow @rad-institute.bsky.social, in conversation with the unapologetically insightful @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book: www.harvard.com/event/berond...
- I’m preping to interview @berondam.bsky.social about her amazing new #BookSky release this week WHEN TREES TESTIFY and one of the points she makes is that enslavers kept better track of plants and animals than the enslaved people that they enslaved One of the most important 🧪 books this decade.
- Reposted by Liz HaswellI'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.
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- Straight talk from Institut Pasteur 🧪
- Reposted by Liz Haswellthe experiences of individuals from marginalized groups are almost ALWAYS the bellwether for weaknesses and stress points in systems. Trying to correct their experiences improves these systems FOR EVERYONE, not just them
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- Reposted by Liz Haswell“We cannot pursue our mission to improve the health and well-being of all Americans while DHS agents are murdering, assaulting, and terrorizing people who call this country home…We believe ICE and CBP are a greater threat to the health of our nation than the lapse of HHS services.”
- Read the Save HHS open letter! www.savehhs.org/letter-we-wi...
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellWhat can trees teach us about history and legacy?🌳In an exclusive PEOPLE essay, Beronda Montgomery, ASPB Fellow, reflects on how trees bear witness to Black history, memory, and survival. people.com/beronda-mont... #PlantScience
- Reposted by Liz HaswellCost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Ditto for NSF
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellSomething a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellA reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎 www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
- Reposted by Liz HaswellFrom a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
- In the latest on Unprofessoring, I argue that I--and we--need ways to talk about the sensations of thinking and learning! unprofessoring.substack.com/p/towards-a-...
- Reposted by Liz HaswellWe put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...
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- Wishing everyone here a happy, healthy, and resistance-filled 2026! We are going to win.
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- OMG @lizcookkc.bsky.social what a review (of the new Mahomes/Kelce restaurant in KC!!!)
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellAttention Nicotiana benthamiana users! Certain strains of Agrobacterium (e.g. GV3101-pMP90) induce glandular trichomes because of cytokinin production by Agrobacterium. As this can influence assay outcome, we recommend testing several strains. See our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Jesus, what a grim day to be a human being
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellPleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬 As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
- Genetic engineering, painting, sculpting, floristry, and fantasy are united in @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social 's flower design art project. New essay out now on a blossoming frontier of transgenic art!
- Everyone should read this insightful post by @kevinbakerwv.bsky.social! "LLMs did not create what economists . . . would call science’s incentive “structure.” Rather this technology arrived into this context, offering a faster way to produce the artifacts the system rewards."
- Reposted by Liz HaswellSomeone vandalized our anti-ICE #nativity, but we came back stronger than ever. It’s a piece of living art, and we’re not going to stop sharing our message of compassion and love. We get knocked down, but we get back up again - better and stronger. Love wins - never doubt it.
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- For me rn I’m so grateful for Lynda Barry, who takes all the preciousness out of being creative and puts all the punk back in!
- The Overstory, just try me
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellGratitutde to all NIH study section participants who are participating in rescheduled meetings now and in January. Thank you for your service and thanks also to the hard working NIH staff who are making these happen. 🥰🧪
- Reposted by Liz HaswellOne thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
- Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- It's gift-giving season! Why not give the gift of plant knowledge? Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite. Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan) @jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book) @razda5.bsky.social 💚 @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍 Novels too!
- I'm beyond grateful that I discovered the Blanchet House café when we first moved to PDX. I've learned so much from the guests and the staff about creating community and mutual care. Please consider donating to help provide 3 free, low-barrier meals a day along with clothes and other support.
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellVery happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol... #mimuluspropaganda
- I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Liz HaswellMy favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
- Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️ You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches #sfn2025
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- About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellScience People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
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- "we raise our voices in solidarity to unequivocally proclaim the holiness of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, as well as the recognition of the entire spectrum of gender identity and expression." 💚 🏳️⚧️ 💚
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- Reposted by Liz HaswellA bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
- Reposted by Liz HaswellNSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
