Erin Koch

Colonizers doing colonizer things on stolen land.

The needs of our people should always come first.

This is so necropolitocs.

This is so necropolitics.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

What better demonstrates that ‘biological sex’ is but a social construct than the u.s. president needing to declare it to be binary by political fiat in order to uphold its legitimacy.

Christmas Trees’ Distinctive Aroma Helps Ward off Pathogens and Pests Each year, nearly 30 million Americans purchase a real tree for the holidays. Growing the perfect Christmas tree takes about seven years, during which farmers need to keep insects, fungal pathogens an...

🎄 Philipp Zerbe and his team are working to uncover the optimal combination of scent molecules to deter pests and provide the traditional fragrance consumers expect.

▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/christm...

#PlantBiology #PlantScience #Holidays

This is exactly what I needed to see. Deep breaths. ❤️🫂

Trump Taps Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead ‘Dept. of Government Efficiency’ The two wealthy entrepreneurs will lead what the president-elect called the Department of Government Efficiency, which he said would seek “drastic change.” But the announcement left a lot unanswered.

This seems…inefficient?

Listening to brave and brilliant collesgues from across #universityofkentucky make a case to the trustees for transparency and good curricular policy & governance for students’ education with expertise and experience of faculty and staff who understand their lives. www.kentucky.com/opinion/lind...

Rocked it!

Aww the medical school doesn’t like how slow the senate procedures take and is worried that keeping the current transparent model of shared governance will mean that the new fancy medical school building will keep them from building curriculum to live up to the new fancy building?!?!🤢🤮

We are merely asking for time and space at the table to share expertise and equitably participate in changing governing structures, in the face of a hasty and exclusionary process supported by authoritarian rule.

Here too!

Serious question-evading happening now.

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Bees are coming out of winter hibernation all across the Northern hemisphere. Which ones are visiting YOUR backyard?

I’d take just the no email! What a fucking labor and time suck that is not factored into ye old DOE.