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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please read and comment (deadline Oct. 9). The draft addendum reduces the menhaden cap by 50%. The dramatic die-off of osprey in the Chesapeake bay area in recent years is due to starvation, largely caused by decrease in available food sources (esp. menhaden). asmfc.org/.../atlantic...

asmfc.org

Atlantic Menhaden Draft Addendum II

Modifying the Chesapeake Bay Reduction Fishery Cap

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you as disgusted by the idea of holding a baseball game in a national park as I am? Here's Rob Manfred's (commissioner of major league baseball) email address: rob.manfred@mlb.com You know what to do.

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No Baseball Stadium in Grand Teton, Now or Ever.

It’s long past time for this administration to start treating our national parks with the respect they deserve

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not only is illustration art, WSJ has artfully illustrated that no matter how rich you get, you’ll never be accepted in old money circles. They think they make culture. We all do, for better and worse.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am tattoo-free, otherwise I would join you!

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sometimes your grad students come back from the field with a tattoo of their study subjects* Since grasshopper sparrows have individually unique songs, we know which one this is (YBGX, if I remember correctly - she decided not to include its color bands) *(I did not ask her to do this!... :-) )

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the "broken clock is right twice a day" department.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just starting to get most of our peppers now. The ones on the left are jalapenos. The peppers on the right are Carolina reapers, 340x hotter. They've been described as having "a sweet, fruity taste immediately supplanted by the sensation of molten lava." Really enjoyable, in other words... :-)

Photo of jalapeno peppers (left) and Carolina reaper peppers (right).

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The next administration needs to make an absolute priority finding a way to put in place more permanent protections, so that a vindictive, narcissistic, uneducated future executive and his/her administration are never capable of doing such harm to our country again.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Classic "projection", honed over decades by Republican operatives like Roy Cohn and Carl Rove, now embraced by Trump & co: Accuse your opponent of the very thing (in this case, antisemitism) of which you yourself are guilty to tar them & immunize yourself. Putin has used this tactic w/ Ukraine.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not back then. At least there was no straightforward way to do it as far as I knew. Voting is perhaps our most fundamental right in this country. It shouldn't be hard. I was fortunate to go to school in a state that let me register and vote as a student in my new place of residence.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Does this make WI-7 competitive? Or are they so far down the red rabbit hole they'll send glamour Beavis to congress?

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When I was a student I was poor and didn't have a car. I could only vote in the college town where I lived, or not at all. Also, at that point the college town was my community. I never returned to the area where I was born, and frankly didn't really have a connection there.

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mike Davidson, a tour guide in Big Bend, told Newsweek; "They might as well send a bulldozer through the graveyard where my parents are buried or something like that. It hits me very strongly." Soulless, wretched people are responsible for this. They have to go. www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-p...

newsweek.com

Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, sparking fury in Texas

Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Plus, as almost anyone will tell you, if you really want to learn something, teach it. So, my advice would be to stop taking classes, get research projects underway/finished, and if something piques your curiosity find a way to TA it or offer it yourself. :-)

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As a biology grad student, we generally stopped after passing prelims / qualifiers. Unless there was something special being offered. It can be hard to get out of the taking classes habit. But important if you want to get research done, and create your own career.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Clearly, Republicans are unfamiliar with the concept of dishabituation. Once this show "trial" is over, folks will immediately go back to forgetting about Fauci, and their interest in Trump's domestic and foreign policy failures will come roaring back to the front burner with a vengeance.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Don’t let this clip get memory-holed

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...

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Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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Natalie Wallington @narwhallington.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

this is the most Baltimore thing I've ever seen

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Okay this is pretty hilarious 😆

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Appoint a replacement. Let them object and prove that McConnell is alive.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/07/2026

IT’S TIME FOR BLUE STATES TO FIGHT BACK. HARD. Why are we funding a federal government that openly punishes states for not voting for Trump? The Trump administration admitted in court it canceled nearly $8 billion in clean energy grants because the states didn’t vote for him. Blue states only.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina), the native species, on milkweed in the front yard. Glad to be seeing more of these.

Close-up photo of a Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) on milkweed plant.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My latest is a tale of two clerical errors involving noncitizens registered to vote. Texas got a pass. New Jersey got a conspiracy theory. Don't believe the lies Trump is telling. Don't buy into the right wing smears. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-a-tale-of-t...

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A tale of two clerical errors: Texas got a pass. New Jersey got a conspiracy theory.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Pandora sphinx moth (Eumorpha pandorus). This one got in the house (and was gently released back out).

Photo of a large sphinx moth, the Pandora sphinx, against a white table background.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Clymene moth (Haploa cylmene) in the yard.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I hate that we have two Dakotas. Republicans got greedy for new states in the 1880s and we're still paying for that a century and a half later. Two states that, when combined, have the same population as The Bronx. They shouldn't get four senators.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One person (the president) should not be able to arbitrarily reduce the size of national monuments. That power should be taken away from the executive branch.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The subsequent administration should simply requisition it for parts. It was an illegal "gift" to begin with.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Trump must go. This abysmally bad decision needs to be held up in courts until his administration is replaced. Similarly, any businesses or individuals taking advantage of it need to be boycotted out of existence.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

That works, too... (as I can tell you from experience) :-)

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As I tell my grad students, try to make it a conversation among colleagues rather than an interrogation.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If it goes to form only part of it will cover specific knowledge about your project and its background. They will also ask questions that show you can think on your feet. That's where thinking deeply in general, and getting some rest ahead of time, and being as relaxed as possible, will help.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've been on the national mall at least a dozen times attending events: folklife festivals, book festivals, musical events, rallies, protests, etc. These are BY FAR the smallest crowds I've ever seen. There are more tourists on an average day than the number milling around at "Freedom 250."

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We've known this about Republicans for some time. As many others have been saying, it's time for Democrats to stop taking the high road.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As a side note from someone with experience in the matter... as you get older, staying in your office will not prevent you from falling asleep.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

She's been here at least twice already. We're assuming it's a female given her size.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Guess who's using our pond as her personal bathtub? (we don't mind)

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One of my grad students is doing an experiment with artificial perches in grassland habitat to examine their effects on grasshopper sparrow territories. Of course, grasshopper sparrows aren't the only ones using those perches...

Red-winged blackbird on artificial song perch (tomato stake), singing.

Field sparrow sitting on artificial song perch (tomato stake) used to test whether additional perches affect territory settlement.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

They're also very likely in their sensitive phase for song learning right now. We were cued into that a day or two before they fledged as the male suddenly started singing a lot again. (Perhaps also to lure them out? - though it seems he should have waited a bit if so...)

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yes, that's an owl box. They didn't have many options for re-nesting as the female was already laying when they were evicted from the bluebird box. By the time we caught it they were quickly building a new nest here. Perhaps the large box and opening contributed to the early fledge.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yesterday our bluebirds fledged. There were three. Four if you count the egg that remained in the old nest after the house sparrows evicted them. They probably fledged a day or two early, and had some trouble flying, though by the end of the day at least one had made it high up into the trees.

Male bluebird on top of nest box, with chick perched at exit hole.

Female bluebird feeding chick at entrance to nest hole.

Young fledgling bluebird on ground under nest box.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'd be in favor of breaking in now and sabotaging the facility. If we suffer a near-extinction event, it would be better if whatever intelligence eventually emerges from that isn't us. Because we'll likely have been the cause.

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