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Amy Youngs

@amyyou.bsky.social
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Artist making interfaces to connect people with plants, soil, insects, worms in our shared places. hypernatural.com Currently learning with lichens and likers of lichen u.osu.edu/lichen

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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ohioans can find out if radioactive wastewater has been spread on roads near them using this map. Is this happening in other states?https://u.osu.edu/oilfieldbrinemap/oilfield-brine-surface-application-map-2010-2024/
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Map | Map of Oilfield Brine Surface Application in Ohio
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Symbiosis, non-human intelligence, bio & tech entanglements explored in this exhibition co-created with Ken Rinaldo and curated by Charissa Terranova. See the new website documentation of this show organicworlds.art/ #artsci
Green background Poster of exhibition at SP/N gallery
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fungal networks getting some well-deserved press - cool new world maps and more #giftarticle www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...
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68 Quadrillion Underground Miles of Fungi
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Earth Day Art Parade at Ohio State University u.osu.edu/earthday Join us April 22, at 3:30pm, South Oval.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No Kings protest in Columbus, Ohio was HUGE! I’ve read estimates at 10k to 20k. Somewhere in there seems about right. So energizing! #nokings #nokingsohio #nokingscolumbus
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 They're EATING
 the CHECKS!
 IMPEACH
 THE
 NO
 BULLIES
 NO
 People at a protest in a city. Man holds sign saying “They're EATING
 the checks and BALANCES!” Woman’s sign says “No Bullies “
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Bloodroots blooming now #spring #ephemerals #bloodroot
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Signs of spring arrived in my yard on March 5 this year #firstcrocus #crocus #spring
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This explains a lot www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...
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Opinion | What You Have in Common With a Pigeon and Why It’s Causing Problems for You
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The creativity of evolution is a marvel. Looking closely, considering how things are put together, reminds me of this. It makes me happy.
Macro image of cypress leaf fragment that is tan colored, branching, woven looking
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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 04/12/2025
I'm at the combination
a combination urgent care and taco bell
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Guns are ridiculous. NYTimes story today about a road raging guy shooting an 11 year old boy in Los Vegas - tragic! And this story of a dog shooting his owner #unsafeinanyhand www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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Dog Accidentally Shoots and Injures a Pennsylvania Man, the Police Say
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Leave the leafs. They are lovely. They are the winter quilts for soils. Learn more about it in this article by FLOW www.olentangywatershed.org/?page_id…
Large yellow leat being held by human hand by the stem with sunbeam coming through a small holeWhat to Do with Your Leaves
 Leave them where they fall
 Most Helpful
 to Least Helpful
 Support wildlife and
 retain nutrients
 Rake into beds or under trees
 Add to compost
 Mow
 Shred
 Damage wildlife but
 retain nutrients
 Burn
 Bag
 Trash
 Destroy wildlife
 and lose nutrients
 From Homegrown National ParkGraphic showing how leaves being left under trees is bedding for insects and moths, supporting biodiversity
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#NoKings protest #ColumbusOhio
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Marveling at the hydrophobic qualities of a dinosaur kale leaf #plantnoticing
Greenish grey kale leaf up close with shimmering water defining the veins
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"Creative writer"? Trump hates you and wants you replaced with slop
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters
Cartoon character with text bubbles that talk about why making art matters in these challenging times
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2025
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Greta Thunberg is showing us what intersectionality looks like in practice. #justiceforall #climatejustice #socialjustice #freedomfloatilla
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Looks the other way when ICE kidnaps people? DUMP THEM Paying workers pennies on the dollar? DUMP THEM Did they cancel DEI? DUMP THEM Selling brands complicit in genocide? DUMP THEM Do it loudly on social media. Let’s make our exes famous. 🫦 #BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottTarget #BoycottWalmart
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
So much to consider in this report, including: “feelings of insecurity and instability can make people more responsive to fear-based messaging, which could potentially influence their political and social choices.”
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Artist opportunity in Columbus, OH. Please share, and apply: u.osu.edu/lichen/2025/08/12/call-fo…
Poster says “Sympoiesis call for entries” and has art image of terrarium with video projection behind it.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Hands Along High Street protest in Columbus was energizing #indivisible #nokings #solidarity @kenrinaldo.bsky.social
Smiling man holding protest sign and hand sculpture next to smiling woman outside next to street
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Columbus people: come participate in this demonstration of standing strong for human rights indivisiblecentralohio.org/events/h…
HANDS Along
 HIGH STREET
 Saturday, August 9, 2-3:30 PM
 Join us in forming a human chain along High Street from Route 161 in
 Worthington to downtown Columbus,
 delivering the message that WE STAND
 UNITED against the abuses of the Trump
 regime and for democracy and basic human rights.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We live in glorious abundance made bitter scarcity by the machinations of capitalism and the inner poverty of the richest among us. In a world where the richest man in the world stole food from the mouths of starving children in the name of "efficiency."
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
America’s bad bread is the result of speed culture www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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Is the Bread in Europe Better for You?
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Helpful to learn how emotions are being mobilized by authoritarian governments.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Hello purple-blue dyed orchids. Plant noticing in Safeway market.. #plantnoticing #bloomscrolling #hypernatural
Bunch of orchid blooms with gradient colors between white, blue, lilac, and purple.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I did not expect to find anyone inside this wasp gall… but when I opened it I dropped it because I didn’t expect 3 fat earwigs to be in there!
Hand holding an organic, brown ball with small hole on top
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“technology is a surface waiting to be scratched…” @cyberneticforests.bsky.social mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-ai-art-ne... #glitch #netart #aiart
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Is AI Art Net Art?
Video & prepared remarks for the symposium with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & Eryk Salvaggio examining the transformation and consolidation of the Web from the 1990s up to the age of generative AI.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A message to the world: The United States is not represented by Trump. He acted unilaterally and unconstitutionally. He and his regime in power are not a representation of the American people, and we strongly condemn this attack. We want peace, and we will hold him and his enablers accountable.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So sad
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So powerful to be speaking out together #nokings Yes, Columbus, OH started a day early. Energized and peaceful #thisiswhatdemocracylookslike
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Not what I expected Spotted Lanternflies to look like. Nymph form spotted in my neighborhood. Reported ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safe… #invasivespecies
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I see we doing our No Kings! Protest a day early in Columbus - is that because Pride festivities are on the 14th? #nokingsprotest #nokings
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Happy day of remembering that war is awful. Let’s work on peace ✌️🌸 ☮️ #memorialday #plantnoticing
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
So good aeon.co/videos/a-cat...
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A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry | Aeon Videos
The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My collaborative VR installation, Belonging to Soil, is part of the “Ohio Now: State of Nature” exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati hypernatural.com/contemporary-art-c… #ecoart #virtualreality #ecomedia
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🌱 “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all.” —Wendell Berry
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy Earth Day! A good day to join the Lichen Pipeline celebrating symbiosis - and our parade on the OSU campus that marks the buried waterway on the South Oval. #ecoart
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/04/2025
Sign of the day…
The wrong ICE is melting 
The wrong Amazon is burning
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Creative events and a parade at the OSU campus in honor of Earth Day. The Living Art & Eco Lab, along with classes, student orgs, and many other partners have made art, visualizations, and costumes dedicated to the soil, air, and waters upon which we all depend u.osu.edu/earthday/ #earthday #ecoart
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Emmie Hine @emmiehine.com · 07/04/2025
Ever wanted to leave your body behind in cyberspace? Spoiler: you can’t. My new paper dives into 40 years of Internet history & embodiment—from early internet dreams of disembodiment to today’s avatar-saturated metaverse. 📝 Hot off the presses in @springernature.com #VirtualReality! #STS #philtech
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Virtual reality, cyberspace, and embodiment: a historical debate with contemporary resonance
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Volume 29, article number 63, (2025)
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Theo Chiotis @selfcoding.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Yes.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Sounds from the Subterrarium” is an artwork that tracks and sonifies a population of springtails inside a custom-made terrarium. Springtails #collembola are important and adorable arthropods found in soils throughout the world. See video hypernatural.com/portfolio/so... #multispeciesart
Man looking at glass terrarium with projected images in background
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is a very clear explanation of why trans people are being targeted and why it matters. #giftarticle #nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
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Amy Youngs @amyyou.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Solve addiction to simulation by purchasing another simulation? Saw this advertised in @nytimes.com For real. #nottheonion Are there better solutions than buying plastic rabbits?
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