Portrait of Joy, a young woman with olive skin and brown hair wearing a hiking backpack, with a lizard on her shoulder. Around her are icons of wildlife, animal tracks, binoculars, and a blue bird called the Pinyon Jay. She is quoted: "When small parts of an ecosystem become sick, ripple effects can touch everyone and everything."

Joy Havens is a terminated wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

"When small parts of an ecosystem become sick, ripple effects can touch everyone and everything."

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#sciart by @aprilmycetes.bsky.social #sciencematters #fedscientist

I love this new #fedscientist feature! Beautiful work by @sigridknemeyer.bsky.social. It’s an honor to be able to tell these stories.

While some of these scientists are being temporarily reinstated the future is still uncertain. So we will continue to tell their stories.

Visual of a woman with long brown hair and glasses, with various insects around her. She is quoted: “If no one is working on invasive insects, we are walking into danger.”

Rebecca Clement, PhD, is an entomologist who has worked as a scientist at the USDA in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is the latest #fedscientist featured #SilencedScienceStories! Loved laying this out with #sciart by Laura Fitzgibbons silencedsciencestories.com/f/dr-rebecca...