Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhD
International Science Barbie who loves clean waves, wicked problems, and coastal justice 💕 Currently at the EqualSea lab in Santiago de Compostela
- We just got our 2nd citation let's goooooo
- Friends think because I moved to Spain I'm in some kind of tropical paradise... meanwhile I'm in Galicia and it rains here more than anywhere else in the world
- The only ice stories I want to read in the morning
- Next Wednesday I'm going to give my first presentation in Spanish for International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!! I'm so excited!
- Got an email rejection from a climate justice job and they CC'd 100s of other rejectees... so now there is a cursed email thread with everyone sharing their LinkedIns and trying to network
- Reposted by Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhDOf all the departures this past year at NOAA—via the fork offer, retirements, etc.— the one that stung the most was the firing of people in their probationary first year. They have more modern skills than those of us who received their PhDs in the 90s and 00s. My whole department is in its 50s now.
- How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year? My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive. www.science.org/content/arti...
- In Galicia (Spain) when you order a coffee they give you a slice of cake for free and it is amazing. It's called bizcocho!!!
- bizcocho is life
- Just met a ton of my new Spanish colleagues and I'm not sure burn out exists here
- Second day in Spain! Being scared of new things, like speaking Spanish on the phone, is easy when no one speaks English!
- Reposted by Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhD[Not loaded yet]
- both articles submitted! both first author! letsss goooooo
- One article submitted, one to go
- Reposted by Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhDSo everyone knows that northern cod collapsed completely in the 1980s and never recovered. Well... it's actually kind of recovering now. Spawning biomass is at pretty good levels, while catches remain at a tiny fraction of the heyday levels. publications.gc.ca/collections/...
- Reposted by Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhDTara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.
- Dumb question: Do Spanish computers have keyboards that have the accents built in somehow? Because adding them is kind of a time suck
- My nerdy cousin told me that my niece loves manga so I got her some Sailor Moon. Of course she loved it (because SAILOR MOON duh!!) but it was her FIRST manga and now I'm responsible for putting her down that path!!!! I've been hornswoggled!
- Can someone please make a gif of a Black Triggerfish because I've been obsessed with them recently and I want to show everyone how cool they swim
- Two (2!) days until I'm a Spaniard
- Slowing realizing that moving to Spain is going to completely rewire my brain
- On my way back to the US and not happy about it
- Just got my first citation on this!!! So exciting!!!!
- My mom just called me "Amanda of the people"
