Gabrielle Beans

This is how we do science!
Wrote a piece on our way of launching collaborations in science, check it out 👇

Three people sit at the end of a pier and watch a northern lights display over a river.

Teaching at @icelabumu.bsky.social Camp (multidisciplinary research proposal workshop for early career researchers) last week. One night planned electrical work in the town of Granö afforded us rare dark skies. Here you see three students enjoying the light show. Amazing. #northernlights #photosky

A fascinating lecture on terraforming ecosystems! You can find it online here: www.umu.se/en/icelab/ne...
It was very rewarding to organize @icelabumu.bsky.social's first public lecture - it certainly won't be the last!
#complexsystems #sciencecommunication #bioengineering

NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows

Are you an early career researcher who wants to learn what it takes to collaborate across boundaries and launch interdisciplinary projects that get funded? Join me, @grocherros.bsky.social + @mrosvall.bsky.social in @icelabumu.bsky.social CAMP in September!
#PhDSky #SciSky #PhDCourse #Complexity 🦋

Floral garden finds in May

Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly

Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active

Oh my goodness. I thought I was watching a moose resting but it was an eagle feeding on a dead moose!!

I can hear birds chirping, ducks calling, and there is a wispy lichen floating in the breeze. So chill.

Den stora älgvandringen – Idag 00:00 I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att ta sig till sommarens rika betesmarker. Följ årets vandring, som är den sjunde säsongen då vi får se älgarna vandra i rutan och på SVT Play.

Woohoo just spotted my first moose! Two in the forest, 'Entrén' camera. Not quite as exciting as when I have seen them in the forest at night while walking the dog (read: slightly scary)... but there they are! Tune in! www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...

Need a break from bad news? Work? Take a breather and enjoy the best Slow TV Sweden has to offer - watch moose migrate live. Check it out! #älgvandringen

Did you know that a tree's sense of the length of a day has a genetic component - and that that can be tweaked to extend its growing season? No? Neither did I until I chatted with Bertold Mariën and @treesandgrowth.bsky.social about their work. Read: www.umu.se/en/news/adju...

Stepping away into nature helps with the overwhelm, whether it's your job, hectic family life, the news. I'm so lucky to live in a place where stepping into nature looks like this.
Last night at a lake near Umeå.
#auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky

When things are too busy and the world seems to be burning down...take a break. Seriously work is non-stop, the news is 💩 and I had no time for this ice dip and sauna session. There's never time though - so I just took the time. First time I dipped my head. I needed this.. #isvak #umeå

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

So sorry to hear this. It's a travesty, Eric and I are reeling over here. 😣

Huh, this was quoted in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

A table of books with a sign that says “each one of these books represents critical knowledge lost that would have driven US innovation and bolstered American security. 168 books and counting.

Inside the lobby at NSF…

Listened to this this morning on John Oliver. It's in my head. The power of music and poetry and humor to process hard things is awesome. Everyone should sing this at protests...

Our double waffle maker at work for my fika week! Doesn't look super appetizing here but they are nice and crunchy and thin. Which are your favorite waffles - Swedish, Belgian (Liege or Brussels), or the American style? I'm team crunchy all the way. Even better with #västerbottenost + #hjörtronsylt

This was a super interesting write-up and I remember when the arsenic story broke!

Send me a message; I can give you my friends' email address if you would like to share directly with her.

Thanks for the pointers and suggestions, keep them coming! The reason this is about Alabama is just the appeal to this one personal connection in a way that might change a couple of Republican minds - my friend and I are well aware that this is a national problem (and one of many issues, sadly).

oh, both, for sure!

@altnih4science.bsky.social maybe you have stories to share?

an older man with a beard and mustache says tell me everything ALT: an older man with a beard and mustache says tell me everything

A friend of mine has a personal contact with Alabama representatives and will send a personal message regarding #NIH #indirect funding cuts. She is looking for personal stories of the effects of science funding cuts on individual people, particularly if they are in Alabama! Share, I'll pass them.

I think there is a greater category here, the wider realm of fundamental science that is more curiosity driven rather than application driven - IgNobel takes it a step beyond into the almost ridiculous (in appearance)? Like - why do we need to know how old the universe is? Or why penguins don't fly?

Maybe now is the time to start up a collection of research that seemed 'pointless' to some and wound up being generally valuable to many people. Gila monsters and ozempic, bacterial warfare against viruses and CRISPR... fundamental curiosity in understanding our world - SCIENCE - needs protecting.

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article) Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

A bridge emerges from a fog lit up orange from the sun. The fog rises from a partially frozen river.

Just a bridge. In Umeå. In January. On a cold sunny morning.
Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold!
#photosky #lifeinUmeå