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Maggie

@blueh2mo.bsky.social
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marine conservation professional, policy wonk, human to a dog (or dogs), reader, drummer, auntie. she/her. views my own.

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Earth Journalism Network @earthjournalism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⏰🌊 Reminder! Join our free webinar on Oct 6 to sharpen your skills for covering deep seabed mining — one of the world's most elusive industries. Learn how to cover this murky, fast-moving beat: loom.ly/5TpGe78
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More unnecessary harmful bizarre-ness, so much grappling marylandmatters.org/2026/09/17/m...
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Maryland officials grapple with 'bizarre' Trump executive order on Chesapeake Bay - Maryland Matters
Just months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states to renew their pledge to restore the nation's largest estuary, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded an Obama-era executive ord...
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 15/09/2026
Moved? Changed your name? Became a U.S. citizen? Turned 18? Had your voting rights restored? Haven’t voted in a while? If any of these sound like you, it’s time to update your voter registration. Take 3 minutes to make sure you’re ready for Election Day! #NationalVoterRegistrationDay
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Make Your Plan to Vote
To make sure you're ready to vote on (or before!) Election Day, here's what you can do right now:
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This nails it. (But inevitably, it seems some are totally missing the satire, which is a bit depressing.)
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
marine life is magnificent
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 09/09/2026
The agency’s push for commercial profits puts fisheries science and over one million miles of marine protected habitats on the chopping block.
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NOAA Fisheries Takes A ‘Sharp Turn Away From Science’ - Inside Climate News
The agency’s focus on commercial interests threatens fisheries science and over one million miles of protected marine habitats.
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
technically yard removal/ garden projects - touching grass by removing it
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
really digging in to yard projects. It’s infrastructure week every week at my house.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 01/09/2026
When plastic companies write the lesson plans #Climate
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When plastic companies write the lesson plans
The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs.
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I knew about the Imagination Library, vaccine funding and more but somehow just learned about bald eagle conservation champion 😭 like so many, I will always love her. Be like Dolly 💗
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Sweet Cháa: Playful Sip
Alt: Dolly Parton sips from a mug and winks
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Important thread, worth a deep dive!
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🧵 Are you following what could be this year's most consequential East Coast ocean story? Odyssey Marine Exploration is asking the Dept. of the Interior for a lease to mine ~2,500 sq. miles of seafloor off Virginia's coast. Here is why this raises major red flags: 1/7
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 10/08/2026
July 2026 was officially the hottest month ever recorded in US history.
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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For 50+ years, "harm" under the Endangered Species Act meant two things: killing an animal, or destroying the place it lives. The bald eagle, the California condor, the American alligator - all recovered because both counted. As of last Friday, only one still does.
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“sometimes when experts say something doesn’t work, it’s because it doesn’t work” Excellent article, and highlights real solutions
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The shark doctor is in, and hosting a special Shark Awareness Day edition of “ask me anything!” For the next two hours, if you have questions about sharks, shark science, or shark conservation, ask away! (If you ask later I’ll try to get to it later)
Sitting in front of shark jaws
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hundreds of species under threat from deep-sea mining added to IUCN Red List. Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals
Newly endangered animals include desert frogs and snails in extreme ocean depths, both threatened by mining
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
RIP, National Parks Traveler magazine www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/06/foun...
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Founder And Editor Kurt Repanshek: It’s National Parks Traveler’s Final Day
After 21 years of chronicling news, science, and culture from across the National Park System, the National Parks Traveler is suspending operations.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Southern Fried Science has nearly 18 years of marine science and conservation blog posts written by dozens of ocean scientists and educators. No ads. No AI. Just good, clean, ocean fun. www.southernfriedscience.com
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Southern Fried Science
Over 15 years of ocean science and conservation online
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/06/2026
As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info
Global Climate Stripes
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Quick backlash got results: Trump administration reverses course on plan to dismantle ocean monitoring network @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration reverses course on plan to dismantle ocean monitoring network
The effort to pull some 900 ocean-monitoring buoys and sensors from the water drew backlash from scientists and lawmakers
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy World Ocean Day
Dogs on an Atlantic beach
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 14/04/2026
Category 4 Super Typhoon Sinlaku is making landfall now over Saipan in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sustained winds of 150mph and 50ft waves. Folks in Saipan are US citizens and they need our help.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026
We are so, so small. #Artemis
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!
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Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Astonishing: US taxpayers to pay out $1 billion to cancel a wind farm and pump more oil and gas. Removing an affordable source of electricity when prices are rising. Adding to global warming. Pushing up the cost to the US economy. Polluting more. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Good Friday ocean news! 🐋 @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social spotted endangered blue whales in the Northeast Canyons & Seamounts. It even made People Magazine! Proof the public deeply loves our remote offshore waters. 🧵 1/2 people.com/scientists-s...
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Endangered Blue Whales Spotted Off the New England Coast for First Time in 3 Years
In rare sightings, scientists spotted endangered blue whales during two aerial surveys 24 hours apart off the coast of New England. Researchers say Western North Atlantic population may include only 4...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is about twice NOAA’s annual budget.
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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
There's a sea creature whose common name is the pikachu nudibranch and I need everyone to see it immediately.
A bright yellow nudibranch with black and blue markings crawls on underwater vegetation against a dark background. Photo by Olakhalaf.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger. People know this, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🧪🦑🌎
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An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs
The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.
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National Ocean Protection Coalition (NOPC) @usoceanprotection.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
As Lance Morgan @savingoceans.bsky.social states, "Nature is what our economies, our livelihoods, our well-being, depend on." Read this new @sierramagazine.bsky.social article on the value of marine monuments, and the risks with rolling back ocean protections:
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This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument could be opened up to commercial fishing
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#deepseamining
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"Are there any technologies the left is excited about?" This seemed like an old-school prompt for blogging (complimentary,) so I blogged about some ocean conservation technology that I'm excited about. www.southernfriedscience.com/here-are-som... 🧪🦑🌍
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Here are some ocean conservation technologies that I’m excited about
“Is there any technology the left is excited about?” This question was asked on social media this week by a supporter of AI who was frustrated by criticisms of that technology. It&#8217…
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 10/02/2026
Angry/Sad about the Endangerment Finding? TLDR: LFG
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I am so tired www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
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Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
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I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I stickered my desk at home, this is a fave
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is like if we took the side of the aliens in Independence Day
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 04/01/2026
Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Florida’s Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.
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Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida - Inside Climate News
Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a rec...
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Blank inside ok? If so I have some to send!
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 The US government has announced an RFI for deep sea mining the Mariana Trench. The Mariana Islands are my home & I refuse this eco-assaulting project. Stand with me & leave comments against mining the trench! Comments toolkits: docs.google.com/document/d/1... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Toolkit: BOEM COMMENT PERIOD Deep Sea Mining in the CNMI
TOOL KIT: A guide for commenting on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Request for Information regarding Deep Sea Mining in the Mariånas PREPARED BY: Prutehi Guåhan and Our Common Wealth 670 Last ...
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Maggie @blueh2mo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I’ve always been partial to a smack of jellies
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