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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 2h

I'll be working on some beaver related policy research for a while but sadly I don't think it will provide quite as much Bluesky content as this trip did

City of Alexandria, VA @alexandriavagov.bsky.social · 3h

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Listen Up. If your girl... - Wants you to register - Has sample ballots - Always knows the right dates, times, and locations - Knows a lot about voting ...that's not your girl; that's alexandriava.gov/Elections.

Colorful text poster with the message: "Listen Up. If your girl... - Wants you to register, - Has sample ballots, - Always knows the right dates, times, and locations, - Knows a lot about voting, THAT'S NOT YOUR GIRL that's alexandriava.gov/Elections.

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 3h

It's always beaver season as far as I'm concerned

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 3h

Leaving Minneapolis and wondering why the airport shops have seven million moose-themed items and not one single item of beaver merch

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 20h

Or maybe it will be exactly what we need??

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 20h

Who wants to go see Rawayana with me on November 4

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Just finished a tour of the indoor/outdoor beaver lab and saw a real dam that actual beavers are building next to the lab I'm obsessed

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Haha this is just a small meeting not a conference but everyone is talking about BeaverCON and I am determined to attend the next one

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Also on the walk to the lab this morning we walked past Phil Rosenthal filming his TV show which I had never heard of before but my boss got very excited about this celebrity sighting

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Back at it this morning and learning the difference between a watershed that has beavers vs. one that is "fully beavered"

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I'd ask but I'm scared to interrupt her monologue

I haven't had enough coffee for this

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It's like having breakfast with my mom

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The woman who works in the hotel breakfast area is just standing here telling guests about all the bad news of the day. So far we've covered inflation, that roller coaster death, a local murder, a museum that burned down, and measles

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Deploying Beavers is the name of my all-girl militant anarcho-punk band

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This album? Never heard of it. Kendall Jenner? I don't know her

I will definitely bring this up tomorrow

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I tried explaining it a little bit in the alt text, the drawing on the right is a human made reservoir with no vegetation around it, lots of wind and thus lots of evaporation The drawing on the left is a beaver pond, surrounded by trees and shrubs, which leads to less wind and less evaporation

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Minneapolis looks nice Would look nicer with some beavers

Minneapolis skyline from the St. Anthony Falls Lab

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Sadly don't think I'll have time to get over there on this trip but I think there will be future trips for this project so will keep this rec in mind!

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Grateful that we got things back on track 🙏

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This was a very dark time for me and Benito

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I'm currently sitting next to the beaver scientist who consulted on the script for Hoppers!

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if you read through the replies on my original post you'll notice I am sitting in a room with the beaver scientist who consulted on the script for that movie!

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Real sentences that people in this meeting have said out loud today: "This new study's findings are tearing through the beaver community" "They accidentally created a stupid amount of frog habitat"

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I was just talking with the lead beaver scientist about her career trajectory. She used to work on nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. She told me most people who work on beaver science came to it from other professions that are more soul-crushing. It's not too late!!!

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Never apologize for giving me another reason to look at this picture

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YES MIKE I AM SITTING IN THE ROOM WITH THE BEAVER SCIENTIST WHO CONSULTED ON THE SCRIPT

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I am not but mollusks are great for water quality!

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I'll ask this room full of beaver scientists

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Beaver ponds not only reduce wildfire risk but also reduce erosion and sedimentation in areas that have been burned by wildfires What can't these lil guys do

A diagram showing how beaver ponds reduce erosion and sedimentation after wildfires

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Gah I need some immediately Also hoping to return from this trip with some form of beaver swag

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There are Justin Beaver stickers?? Did I miss this???

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This would be devastating not just for me since I take the 103/104 to the metro when the weather doesn't allow me to bike, but also for the many middle school students who ride it to GWMS daily

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In Minneapolis for the next couple days talking about deploying beavers to restore freshwater ecosystems Currently learning about BRAT (beaver restoration assessment tool) Don't get me wrong I still love wastewater infrastructure but this is a fun change of pace

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Which one of you was it who loves Rachel Weisz and have you watched Vladimir

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I'm just gonna say it. There are too many churches in this game. It's not reasonable to expect us to know where all these churches are!!

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Yes and I did enjoy that because it wasn't actually very scary

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I'm not sure I ever actually enjoy horror movies, it's more a matter of how much I can tolerate before I fully lose my shit

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People who enjoy this... what is wrong with you

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