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Ecology, riparian restoration, invasive species, citizen science, climate change. Biology Ph.D., Master Naturalist, Certified Arborist. Opinions my own. She/her

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
One of my fav sunfish species. Common in floodplain lakes, yet we know very little about their biology.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
When leftists declare “the left” as incapable of organising, you’re giving up. When we repeat the line “infighting is why we don’t win” we gloss over the powers that are against us as well as encouraging our political enemies to keep sowing division between us: which is VERY easy for them to do.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
8. Radical Communication: Reject the superficiality and commercialisation of mainstream social media. Use zines, community radio, underground podcasts, and grassroots events to share scientific knowledge. Focus on authentic, engaging and meaningful dialogue that prioritizes substance over style.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
7. Empower the Marginalized: Promote diversity and inclusion in science. Amplify the voices of underrepresented groups and ensure that everyone has a seat at the scientific table. Science should be a force for equality and justice.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
6. Interdisciplinary Anarchy: Break down the silos between scientific disciplines. Encourage collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas to foster innovation. The best ideas often come from unexpected intersections.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
5. Eco-Rebellion: Fight for the planet. Advocate for sustainable and ethical scientific practices that respect the environment and all living beings. Science must serve the Earth, not exploit it.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
4. Anti-Consumerism: Reject the commercialisation of science. Advocate for open access to scientific knowledge and oppose profit-driven research agendas. Knowledge should be shared freely, not hoarded for profit.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
1. Question Authority: Challenge the established norms and question the status quo. Don't accept scientific dogma without critical examination. Be relentless in your pursuit of truth and understanding.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
3. Celebrate Failure: Recognise that failure is a vital part of the scientific process. Learn from mistakes, iterate and improve. Each misstep is a stepping stone to success and innovation.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My #punkscience manifesto (1-8) 🧪 Feel free to share if this resonates #science
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
2. DIY Science: Embrace the do-it-yourself attitude. Conduct your own experiments, build your own gadgets, and make science accessible to everyone. Science should be a tool for the people, by the people.
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AEnglandBiology @aenglandbiol.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
#EcologicalRestoration using a diversity of native species is key to ensuring resiliency in the face of #climate uncertainty.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/03/2025
What’s in yesterday's House Continuing Resolution? Major shifts in U.S. health spending you should know about: HRSA cut by $891 million NIH CURES Act cut by $280 million Children & Families Services cut by $40 million These cuts hit essential services and future innovation. 🧵⬇️
(2) Under the heading ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—Health Resources and Services Admin12 istration—HRSA-Wide Activities and Program Support’’, by substituting ‘‘$219,588,000’’ for ‘‘$1,110,376,000’’ and by substituting ‘‘$0’’ for ‘‘$890,788,000’’SEC. 1905. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the level for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—NIH Innovation Account, CURES Act’’ shall be applied by substituting ‘‘$127,000,000’’ for ‘‘$407,000,000’’. Under the heading ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—Administration for Children and Families—Children and Families Services Programs’’, by substituting ‘‘$14,789,089,000’’ for ‘‘$14,829,100,000’’ and by substituting ‘‘$0’’ for ‘‘$40,011,000’’
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 more layoffs, w/ a heavy toll on scientific research that supports healthier forests — more than double the number terminated in recent firings of probationary employees...'We are sheep headed to slaughter,' one employee said." 🌏 www.eenews.net/articles/for...
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Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 layoffs
“We are sheep headed to slaughter,” one employee said as the Trump administration eyes further staff reductions.
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AEnglandBiology @aenglandbiol.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
There's so much to see on iNaturalist!
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patrickbohlen.bsky.social @patrickbohlen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Overwintering eastern Monarch butterfly populations nearly doubled in 2025. Monarchs still face many threats, but this is great news! 🌎 www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Affected in any way by recent federal science cuts? Please fill out and share a new survey to track impacts.👇 I'm unaffiliated but can vouch this is being run by a group of alumni of the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship and USAID Science for Development Fellowship.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I feel this way too. I feel I should be posting about #hpbio, environmental ethics, conservation, 🌎 etc. And sometimes I do post on those things. But all of that depends on a functioning democracy & we don’t have one right now. Plus direct threats to the envt from 🪚&🍊. I guess this is my “apology.”
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 09/03/2025
Without #FEMA, smaller and less wealthy states would likely struggle to respond effectively to disasters. A #publichealth professor looks at why getting rid of FEMA would be a bad idea buff.ly/C6aTRTc (Ming Xie, University of Maryland, Baltimore County) 🌎 #climatesky #hurricanes #LAFires
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If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?
FEMA pools national resources to help states quickly manage disasters. Without that federal support, each state would be left to build its own expensive response capabilities.
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 68 With #bumblebees the size of the colony is in part determined by the length of the growing season in the region they inhabit. In regions with shorter forage growing seasons smaller colonies tend to be maintained. #bees #nature #pollinators 🌍🐝
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International Crane Foundation @savingcranes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Join our Gulf Coast Program staff Paityn Macko and Matti Bradshaw for their webinar, “A Year in the Life of the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Whooping Cranes,” on March 11 at 3 p.m. CT. Register: bit.ly/43lf6HA OR join live on YouTube ➡️ bit.ly/3F8HJ0D 🌎🪶 📷 Ciming Mei
Whooping Cranes foraging at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.
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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 09/03/2025
Butterfly populations falling on average 1.3% per year in the continental US, with some populations falling by as much as 40%. With 650 recorded species, only 342 were present in enough numbers to calculate trends. 🧪🌎🐛🦋 #EcoSky #EvoSky #Lepidoptera #Biology #Entomology phys.org/news/2025-03...
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First national analysis finds America's butterflies are disappearing at 'catastrophic' rate
America's butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The United Farm Workers use social media better than almost any other group. So many of these posts both inform on the issue and have the feeling of a story.
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Save NOAA @savenoaa.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🚨 Weather Forecasts Are Already Being Compromised 🚨 Former NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad revealed that forecasters at the Dallas-Fort Worth office were unable to warn of recent tornadoes in West Texas because “the people who did that had been fired.” #SaveNOAA
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Former Biden administrator explains why NOAA workforce cuts are "disturbing," "surprising"
Hundreds of staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, have found themselves the target of the Trump administration's efforts to cut back the federal workforce. The move...
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“Trump's exec order is the most blatant attempt in history by a president to hand over federal lands to the logging industry..." Suggesting that this logging will stop fires conflicts w/ overwhelming evidence and will put many more people + key natural values at risk. 🌏 www.yahoo.com/news/did-tru...
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Did Trump really order 280 million acres of national forest to be cut down?
The president wants to bypass environmental rules to increase domestic timber production. Here’s what that means for America’s public lands.
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Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!) @sococan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Honeybees and colony collapse disorder: understanding key drivers and economic implications Singh, G., Rana, A. Honeybees and colony collapse disorder: understanding key drivers and economic implications. Proc.Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s435...
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Honeybees and colony collapse disorder: understanding key drivers and economic implications - Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy
Biodiversity, including the diversity of pollinators such as honeybees, is crucial for ecosystem stability and sustainable development. This review highlights the complex factors contributing to Colon...
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A federal judge signaled that he will require Elon Musk’s team to begin preserving any documents that could potentially be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. This move is part of an effort to overturn a
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Stuart Allison @stuarta.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Bad news for biodiversity - there is evidence for widespread declines in genetic diversity even in species that do not appear to be experiencing population decline. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Wide range of Earth’s species are showing a decline in diversity
The loss of genetic variation means species may be less resilient to climate change and other stressors
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AEnglandBiology @aenglandbiol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In the further saga of #InsectDeclines www.texastribune.org/2025/03/03/t...
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A surge in bee deaths is hurting Texas beekeepers — and could affect the price of produce
Commercial beekeepers in Texas have lost about two thirds of their honey bees since June last year, according to a recent survey.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/01/2025
The world has changed before and, when it did, it wasn’t because a president, a prime minister, a CEO or a celebrity decided it had to. It began when ordinary people – people of no particular power, wealth, or fame – decided that the world could and should be different.
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In the Face of Climate Change, We Must Act So That We Can Feel Hopeful—Not the Other Way Around
Some of the impacts of climate change are already here today. But the worst can still be avoided. Our future is in our hands.
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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
in the name of joy & bringing some laughs to the timeline i’m gonna start posting #fieldworkbloopers 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬🌐🐠 because let’s be real, there are more of these than perfect field work pics please enjoy this large white sturgeon taking me out at the knees 👇🏼
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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
fieldwork or not ? some interesting thoughts for ecologists 🌏
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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Did u know?Leaves aren't the enemy. Don't blow them into infinity with noisy machines.Leave them in situ on your borders during the winter months. The worms will take them down into the ground to condition the soil & they'll provide shelter for countless small souls..Leafy gold🍂 🌍🪲🌱🌿🐙🪱
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The magic of an Irish rainforest. 🌎
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The one and only Dave @kitchingart.com · 30/01/2025
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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🌾🌱🌍🌿🍄🌺 🌴While waiting for #BUC2025 (starts 14:00 GMT Wednesday 12 February) why not listen to a #plant #podcast? Reviews of some in The Thymes, newsletter Botanical University Challenge. Wild plants, house plants, trees, cultivated plants - fill the day with sounds about plants!
Text about On the Ledge, house plant podcast. Full text in The Thymes https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Simulated management strategies for tree invasions in grasslands reveal that early removal of saplings is the most cost-effective approach to limit population size, spread, and impact 🌲 These methods are adaptable to any invasive woody species with sufficient data 🌎🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🍁 #Deadwood created by #storms is an indispensable resource for many #endangered #insect species. 🌍 This was shown by a 20-year-long study by WSL. To the news: www.wsl.ch/en/news/wind... 📷Beat Wermelinger @jappliedecology.bsky.social #forest #biodiversity
On this photo you can see the rare mason bee, Hoplitis villosa, in between rocks.
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Antonia Watson @antoniawatson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Despite some recent loud opinions evidence shows flexible working boosts productivity & inclusion. As a former part-time COO, I believe success comes down to clear outcomes, strong communication & trust. Let's focus on what works, not outdated assumptions #CareerJourney #WomenInSTEM #FlexibleWorking
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Samantha M. Wisely @profwisely.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This study compared two approaches to mapping pathogen hotspots: 1) a top-down global predictive model, 2) a bottom-up expert panel with local knowledge. Most instructive were the mismatches between methods. THM: both approaches have additive value 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎
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Mapping hotspots of zoonotic pathogen emergence: an integrated model-based and participatory-based approach
An increase in pandemics of zoonotic origin has led to a growing interest in using statistical prediction to identify hotspots of zoonotic emergence. …
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Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences (CIEHS) @ciehs.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Recent publication from Banrida Wahlang and Oluwanifemi Esther Bolatimi, et al. suggests dioxins affect females more than males, causing liver problems and raising concerns about the risks of long-term exposure to these pollutants. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39577358/ #WomenInSTEM #NIH #NIEHS
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Low dose exposure to dioxins alters hepatic energy metabolism and steatotic liver disease development in a sex-specific manner - PubMed
"Dioxins" are persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that are continuously present in the environment at appreciable levels and have been associated with increased risk of steatotic liver disease (SLD)....
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Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🧪👩‍🔬🪰 Refrigerator magnets of the day.
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