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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 29+30: Monochrome + Data from the Global Health Data Exchange #DataViz #BreastCancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in #women across the world and health systems play a huge role in screening, diagnosis, and treatment🩷

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

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Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie

There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 15: Correlation 📈 Thanks to tylervigen.com for the fun idea. Check his website for more Spurious Correlations

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 09/04/2026

Late for #Day8 of the #30DayChartChallenge, but the "Circular" prompt is the perfect excuse to share yet another #ggplot2 trick! 👀 Tried the "new" #coord_radial yet? Compared to coord_polar, it: 🌀 bends grid lines 🌀 places labels naturally 🌀 allows inner radii 🌀 handles partial circles easily

screenshot of exercise 5 in our coordinate system lesson in "ggplot2 unchartred" shwoing the solution which is a ciruclar heatmap of (fictious) traffic data per hour and weekday.

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 9 : Wealth 💰 with data from the OECD Wealth Distribution Database #DataViz

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Steven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

📊 #30DayChartChallenge 2026 – day 07 . Distributions | Multiscale . 🔗 : stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

A three-panel chart showing the distribution of renewable electricity share across countries in 2022 at three scales. Panel 1 is a histogram of the global distribution, revealing a bimodal shape with many countries clustered near 0–20% and another group near 100%, with a median of roughly 32%. Panel 2 shows half-eye density plots by World Bank income group — Low, Lower-middle, Upper-middle, and High — all with similar medians around 28–36%, but notably different spreads and shapes. Panel 3 zooms in on Upper-middle income countries as a dot plot, where individual-country variation is stark: South Africa sits near 0%, China and Turkey near 25–30%, and Brazil and Paraguay near 80–100%.

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Akanksha Saini @ash-albatross.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Day 7 — #30DayChartChallenge Wine quality dataset 🍷 Built a multiscale visualization: • Macro → score distributions (red vs white) • Meso → feature distributions by quality tiers • Micro → feature behavior per score 🔗https://wine-quality-distribution.vercel.app/ #DataViz #D3js #DataStorytelling

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I can’t decide which variant of this Artemis II Earthset map I like best. flic.kr/p/2s6et1Z #NASA #Moon #Earth #dataviz

Map of Earth setting behind the moon, with Australia the lone visible landmass. The lunar surface is faded, but visible.

Earth setting behind the moon, with coastline overlain. Australia is the lone visible large landmass.

The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side.

In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.

Map of Earth setting behind the Moon from the perspective of Artemis II.

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 6: Reporters Without Borders (data) 🎥 & Day 7: Multiscale ⚖️ (ideally, it needs more fine-tune adjustments, but I was trying to show both ends of the scale) #DataViz

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stevecarufel_ @stevecarufel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 2 : Pictograms (erratum version, see thread) ⚠️🦊🐦🐸🐌🌿🍄⭐🦎🐛 This chart shows how many species are considered threatened in #Canada, broken down by major taxonomic group (mammals, birds, amphibians, plants, etc.), according to the IUCN #RedList. #Rstats #dataviz #wildlife

This chart shows how many species are considered threatened in #Canada, broken down by major taxonomic group (mammals, birds, amphibians, plants, etc.), according to the IUCN Red List.

Title : How many species are threatened in Canada?
Subtitle : The count in each major taxonomic group, according to the Red List.
The entire image has a red background with everything else in white (text, labels, data points etc).

The chart is a circular pictorial plot, using aspecific pictogram for each taxonomic group. There's Amphibians, Reptiles, Mammals, Molluscs, Plants, Fungi, Birds, Other Inverts, Fishes. At the center there is a frog, representing the Amphibians, it's alone as there is only one species of Amphibian that is threatened. It then extends to 5 pictograms for reptiles and then goes all the way to fishes which are the largest group in terms of threatened species, for a count of 52 species.

The source is The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Made by @stevecarufel.bsky.social for the #30DayChartChallenge

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 3: Mosaic. Although we have achieved much, the Government of Canada just announced its new Strategy to Protect Nature, investing $3.8B to protect nature, better design infrastructures and fund sustainable conservation projects🍁🌱🌊

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Day 2: Pictogram 🎬🍿Thank you @albertrapp.bsky.social for the tutorial on how to use images with ggpattern (link below)

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Hope to participate as much as I can in the #30DayChartChallenge 📊 Starting day 1: Part-to-Whole, with a very basic graph, inspired by the #ArtemisII launch. Very proud of our Canadian representative on this mission 🚀🌑

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

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Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie

The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

There's a new version of dplyr out, and I'm thrilled to chat about it with @rladiesrome.bsky.social tomorrow! Let's learn the new #RStats functions that help you grip your data better (hehe). 3/18 at 12pm CT. Sign up here! www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🚢 {whalestrike} is now available on CRAN! cran.r-project.org/web/packages... In case you missed it, the R package calculates the lethality of a ship strike, accounting for ship size, type, and whale species. #MarineMammals #ShipStrike

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This looks bad @fisheries.noaa.gov Amendments to the North Atlantic #RightWhale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule "The goal of this initiative is to reduce unnecessary regulatory and economic burdens on the regulated community by replacing current seasonal speed restrictions with... 🐳🌍🦑🧪 1/2

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Amendments to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule

NOAA Fisheries has announced an advance notice of proposed rulemaking considering possible deregulatory action to modify the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Speed Rule.

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

{whalestrike} R package version 0.6 is available now! 🐳The package simulates a #shipstrike and calculates the probability of lethality. The updated package provides parameters to select #whale species and vessel types. A Shiny app is available to see the impacts of the parameters in real time.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 22/01/2026

The federal government said it would protect 25% of land and water by 2025. By December 2024, it had conserved 13.8% of land and fresh water and 15.5% of ocean areas, falling well short as habitat loss continues and pressure mounts to expand critical mineral production. thenarwhal.ca/canada-misse...

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Canada falls short of 2025 conservation target | The Narwhal

Ottawa says it remains committed to hitting its next conservation milestone even as it races to expand critical minerals production

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Day 1️⃣7️⃣ of our Festive Ocean Art Advent Calendar Festivity at full depth - Santa and science unite! Artwork by Julia Moruchkova #FestiveOceanArt

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down. 🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts. 🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications

The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

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Leila Fouda @leilafouda.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

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Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie

I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🚨 Cool educational item alert 🚨 We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals! The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them. Pre-order here! www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

the front cover for a calendar with a salamander standing on a mushroom. in big bubble letters it says 2026 love notes from nature calendar created by Meg Lemieur and Sarah McAnulty phd

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Huffle season is upon us! The checkered puffer posses are rolling through town on the regular! 🏁🐡🐡🐡🐡🏁 #checkeredpuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #huffle #huffleofpuffers #school #huffleseason #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Cody Carlyle @finstacodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Our industry partners Hatfield Consultants and Alta ML made this amazing ESRI storymap to highlight what we did and the issues in right whale conservation that make this work important storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/849a...

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smartWhales SBDS

The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.

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Cody Carlyle @finstacodes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Happy to announce our new article in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social on finding #rightwhales in satellite imagery using machine learning. Great collaboration with academia, industry, and conservation @cwf-fcf.bsky.social. #whalesfromspace #NARW Link: share.google/CNepFK2pf0iU...

Figure of study area in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with an area imaged by a satelite highlighted and then zoomed in on to show a chip of the whole satellite image of the ocean

Examples of whales at the surface of the ocean in satellite images

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Interesting development in the whales-and-wind saga. Someone's playing this one very smart. Repeating - anyone who tries to shut down offshore wind for right whale conservation and does nothing about entanglements is either a fool or has a motive other than whale conservation. 🐳🌍🦑 1/2

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Green Oceans and Three Tribes Petition NOAA to Revoke Offshore Wind Companies’ Authorizations That Harm 61% of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales While Building their Projects

Three Native American tribes, the Shinnecock Nation, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, the Narragansett Tribe, ACK for Whales, and Green Oceans have ...

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Fascinating paper, led by Loraine Shuttleworth. Gestation in female Southern #rightwhales is far longer than thought. Follows previous work showing similar for North Atlantic right whales and bowheads. We don't understand these #whales as well as we think. We have their basic biology wrong. 🐳🌍🦑

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Multiyear Baleen Endocrine Profiles Suggest a Longer Estimated Gestation in Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis)

Multiyear profiles of progesterone and estrogen in the baleen of adult female southern right whales indicate progesterone elevations lasting on average between 20 and 25 months, indicative of pregnan....

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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟 doi.org/10.1111/csp2... @mariabeger.bsky.social

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Spatial conservation priorities for marine megafaunal predators: Multi‐taxon versus taxon‐specific approaches

Conservation for marine megafaunal predators needs to improve as they are key for ecosystem functioning. We show that different marine predator taxonomic groups have heterogeneous distributions resul...

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Mapzilla @craigtaylorviz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🗺️ I've spent a lot of time the past week looking at data in the Strait of Hormuz so here is a quick animation showcasing the sheer volume of activity in the Persian Gulf last Friday. The data highlights "Tanker" only vessels (AIS code 80-89) so everything from Crude Oil Tankers to LNG Tankers.

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Cody Carlyle @finstacodes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Figure of the eastern Canadian Arctic with colored boxes outlining the regions surveyed for the study and the panels outlined with the corresponding colour highlighting a more detailed map of the specific region with the survey lines flown for that survey (Blue/B: High Arctic, Yellow/C: Intermediate Arctic, Red/D: Low Arctic)

Birds eye view photograph of ringed seals hauled out on top of sea ice taken by cameras in the survey plane documenting the area along the transect lines of the survey

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New paper on #rightwhale conversation by Cole & Brillant www.int-res.com/articles/esr... "...annual entanglement risk to right whales from the GSL snow crab fishery is estimated to have been reduced by approximately 62 ± 3% (mean ± SE) relative to pre-closure" 🐳🌍🦑

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Fig. 6. Estimated entanglement risk reduction (±SE) of the annual closure scenarios (2018–2021) among months (May–
August) and among the annual detections of North Atlantic right whales (2018–2021). ANOVA indicated a significant effect
among whale detections, closure protocols and months (F27,1920 = 13.69, p < 0.001). Post hoc differences (Student-Newman-
Keuls test) within each month of the annual detections are indicated by different letters above each bar. Average annual
monthly risk reduction (percent) is indicated below each ba

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 07/05/2025

Who's responsible for the climate crisis? Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much. The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair. An explanatory thread 🧵

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Canadian Wildlife Federation | Fédération canadienne de la faune @cwf-fcf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Big Win for BC Whales! The Canadian Wildlife Federation has been awarded funding grant to work with prawn & crab fishers in reducing whale entanglements in fishing gear! 🔗 CanFishGear.ca 📰 Official announcement: lnkd.in/gkGDMxpC

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CanFish Gear Lending Program

The first lending program for adaptive fishing gear in Canada.

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Alexandra Mayette @alexemayette.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@cwf-fcf.bsky.social is hiring full time positions, working in Ottawa or remote in Canada! 🍁 #job #conservation 🦞 Fishing Gear Technician 🌳 Chief Conservation Officer 🐦 iNaturalist Coordinator 🍎 Non Formal Education Manager 🙋‍♀️ Director of People and Culture workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Recruitment

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

ICYMI, @cwf-fcf.bsky.social is hiring a Chief Conservation Officer. Closes April 20. #ConservationJobs

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