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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@bogchemist.bsky.social
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Exploring the Arctic one pond at a time || postdoctoral researcher at MUN studying aquatic carbon cycling in boreal regions

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 22/09/2026
Text replies from me which read, “why does everything have to be bones. not everything is bones.”
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
"The seven transgressed boundaries are: climate change, change in biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater change, modification of biogeochemical flows, introduction of novel entities, and ocean acidification." @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems
21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mount Rainier’s subalpine meadows ablaze in fall colors.
Subalpine meadows ablaze in crimson and gold beneath a line of conifers and, above them, a looming Mount Rainier and clear blue sky.
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Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ll save £400 this year riding an e-bike versus driving short journeys. Diesel touching £2 - I'm not driving. 75% of sub five mile trips are driven. This is where major money & emissions can be saved. How much are you saving as fuel costs continue to rise? www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/sav...
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I’ll save £400 this year riding an e-bike versus driving short journeys (you’ll probably save more)
When I bought my second-hand car in 2019 my primary objective was to bring down my motoring costs while not
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good Mexican food is one of the only things I miss about LA
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full investigation by @josephcox.bsky.social and @wired.com’s @dmehro.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Canada’s last epishelf lake had endured for thousands of years. It disappeared in just months after the Milne Ice Shelf broke apart. Another unique ecosystem lost as our climate changes. www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/...
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This lake in Canada just vanished. And it's not coming back. | Discover Wildlife
The breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf in the far north of Canada has led to the collapse of a unique Arctic ecosystem.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
inshallah
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Washington folks, don’t sleep on WSDOT’s e-bike rebate program. My husband recently had his e-bike stolen outside the UW gym. He applied to the rebate program and was selected. It’s a lottery but almost 20% of those who apply get it. Rebate amount varies by income, from $300 to $1,200.
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E-bike rebate program | WSDOT
Learn about the WE-bike program and upcoming ways to try e-bikes.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Think Los Angeles felt sticky this summer? We were not alone. The entire planet shared the pain
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The news comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pulled its funding for the report in August. Rick Thoman, a longtime editor, said the people who put the report together are excited to be able to say it definitely will come out this year. (From KNBA - Anchorage)
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Arctic Report Card gets new supporters after NOAA cut funding
The American Geophysical Union is fundraising for the climate report's long-term publication.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 14/09/2026
the crazy thing is that all these dems who win primaries supporting trans people and then give it up at the first sign of resistance in general elections are communicating more than anything that they are weak willed cowards who will fold for a stiff breeze
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
“If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50% of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990,” says coauthor Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, who leads the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group at IIASA. @cityatlas.bsky.social iiasa.ac.at/news/may-202...
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The world’s wealthiest 10% caused two thirds of global warming since 1990
Wealthy individuals have a higher carbon footprint. A new study published in Nature Climate Change quantifies the climate outcomes of these inequalities. It finds that the world’s wealthiest 10% are r...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Canada could experience a 5°C temperature increase by 2100 if current climate policies remain unchanged. This would lead to glacier loss, more frequent droughts and floods, and an extended fire season. Reducing emissions and achieving net-zero emissions by 2075 could limit warming to 3.5°C.
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Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News
The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Relatedly, here in California, Gov. Newsom has the chance to approve legislation requiring data centers to plan for and disclose water use. But he already vetoed a similar proposal last year. calmatters.org/environment/...
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Newsom already said no to data centers disclosing water use once. Now he has two more chances
California data centers guzzle billions of gallons of water to cool AI servers — and the public still doesn't know how much. Lawmakers want that to change. Newsom vetoed the idea last year. Now two ne...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me
pic of printed out paper Mapquest directions mounted to rearview mirror
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026
As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"As the glacier retreated, it exposed rock faces, most likely helping to thaw the permafrost within them and allowing even more water into the cracks. Over time, these gradual changes may have weakened the rock structure to the point of collapse." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Deadly Flash Floods in Nepal Most Likely Caused by Weakened Bedrock
As the planet warms, glacier meltwater and a thawing permafrost could have contributed to destabilizing the rock.
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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“60% of Americans will only attain subminimal quality of life”
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Dr. Redfern "Red" Barrett @redfernbarrett.com · 02/09/2026
It’s weird to me that slopsters don’t get the fact that if everyone is an “artist” then no one is. Nor do they understand that if something is ubiquitous, it holds no value. People appreciate artists because of the effort and skill it takes. They like artworks precisely *because* they’re special.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This report is totalitarian pseudo-science, aka corrupted science in the service of far-right authoritarianism. Who commits most of the political violence in this country has been clear for decades. It's not the left. It's not those of us who support trans rights and realities.
https://health.gov/hhs-releases-study-finding-individuals-who-associate-left-wing-authoritarian-beliefs-and-radical
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An estimated 15 million people around the world are threatened by floods from glacial lakes, and the danger is growing as Earth heats up due to our continued burning of fossil fuels. Check out this report from @rhersher.bsky.social and colleagues at @npr.org from a few years ago.
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Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier
Melting glaciers are leaving behind large, unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect t...
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Hannah Weinberger @trailanderror.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Spelling it “Ŵâshîngtôn” so people know we have more mountains than D.C.
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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 23/08/2026
There is no such thing as AI art There is no such thing as AI music There is no such thing as AI literature Just AI images Just AI sounds Just AI words
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
DON'T GET ALL EXCITED AND ASSUME GOOD WILL. This is an effort to rebrand already appropriated dollars and already developed programs before the midterms so they have something they can use against being called anti-science. THIS IS NOT NEW INVESTMENT. THESE ARE NOT NEW DOLLARS FOR SCIENCE.
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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
everybody loves our Plagiarism Factory except for our Plagiarism Factory logo
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yall wanna see some raccoons fuck up a piñata
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Emily Peterson 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bogchemist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’d REALLY love to know how they came to that conclusion
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 14/08/2026
Monkeys make friends with other species, and that can tell us a lot about how keeping pets came about. Great article by @cyrilgrueter.bsky.social et al., reporting friendly primate interactions with a whopping 55 non-primate species! 🧪🐒🐕 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Examples of affiliative interspecific interactions involving non-human primates. a Adult female white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) monkey grooming an adult female black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica; photo by Nicholas Chapoy. b Capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) grooming a Phayre's leaf monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei) in Satchari National Park Bangladesh; photo by Sabit Hasan. c A tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam) stroking a grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka; photo by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. d Stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides) grooming a domestic dog at Khao Tao Mo temple, Thailand; photo by Neil Challis. e Female northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) holding a mouse at the Shanghai Zoo, China; photo by Cyril Grueter. f Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) mounting and riding on the back of a sika deer (Cervus nippon) at Yakushima, Japan; photo by Alexandre Bonnefoy and Cédric Sueur. g Young juvenile black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) playing on a domestic pig at Xiangguqing, Yunnan Golden Monkey National Park, China; photo by Yanpeng Li. h) Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) grooming a southern bamboo lemur (Hapalemur meridionalis) in Mandena, Madagascar; photo by Timothy Eppley A tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam) stroking a grizzled giant squirrel.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Seattle libraries have had to decide between keeping their windows open to get a cross-breeze on smoky days or sweating it out during the simultaneous heat waves. Now several are getting a "delightfully boring remodel" to add AC. www.kuow.org/climate/2026...
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Historic Seattle libraries are getting AC as heat, smoke increase
The Seattle Public Library's Fremont and West Seattle branches will close for renovations on Aug. 9 through early November. They're getting new HVAC systems to keep up with growing concerns about seve...
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Deep-sea mining comes with many risk for a largely uncharted diversity of life. for more, see our recent review on the impacts of deep-sea mining www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining
Adrian Glover and colleagues review evidence for impacts of the three types of deep-sea mining — nodules, hydrothermal vents and seamounts — on marine life and assess the potential for biodiversity lo...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Who is NOT bearing the risk of a burst AI bubble? Wall Street. @agranato42.bsky.social & @pranjal-drall.bsky.social on how private credit firms are shifting the risk of their insane AI gambles to life insurance companies, with state guaranty funds (i.e., taxpayers) on the hook to clean up the mess.
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Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.
Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty funds.
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What blows my mind with AI is the people who are like "how could you possibly function without it?" To which I say, "you, YOU literally did until what like 3 years ago? Did it degrade your brain that fast that you can't figure out how to do the thing you trained for years and earned a PhD to do?"
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The first thing about X-Labs is it's an alt model that retains all the things people hate about science. It's Big Science: lots of money for few people. The overhead and paperwork will be dizzying. There will be little academic freedom, and big incentives to chase hype and not open source results.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.
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Shicheng Guo @shihcheng.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Discover how sleep impacts aging! A U-shaped link between sleep duration and biological age across 9 systems, using 23 clocks from imaging, proteomics, and metabolomics. PMID:42129562, Nature 2026, @Nature doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10524-5 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
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Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life | Nature
Optimal sleep has a vital role in promoting healthy ageing and enhancing longevity. Here we propose Sleep Chart to assess the relationship between self-reported sleep duration and 23 biological ageing clocks derived from in vivo imaging1, plasma proteomics2 and metabolomics3. First, a systemic, U-shaped pattern emerges between sleep duration and biological age gaps across nine brain and body systems and three omics technologies. The sample-specific lowest biological age gaps are achieved between 6.4 and 7.8 h of sleep duration, varying by organ and sex in the UK Biobank (aged 37–84 years). Furthermore, short (<6 h) and long (>8 h) sleep duration, compared with a normal sleep duration (6–8 h), are associated with increased risk of systemic diseases beyond the brain and all-cause mortality, with evidence from genetic correlations and time-to-incident survival predictions, such as depression and diabetes. Finally, the pathways by which long and short sleep duration are associated wi
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This was useful & informative for pet owners living in or near areas where screwworm has been found recently. One notable caveat: the product they recommend for cats, NexGuard Combo, can be highly toxic & even lethal for the ~1% of cats carrying MDR1 mutations. 1/3
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Does your pet have screwworm? Know the signs and how to prevent it
Screwworms have not reached Central Texas, but officials urge pet owners to watch for symptoms and protect animals..
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