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Bradley Allf

@bradleyallf.bsky.social
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ecology postdoc at Colorado State, freelance science writer, TEDx speaker. advocate of citizen/participatory science, poetry. mechanic for the curiosity machine. 🐍 www.bradleyallf.com

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/09/2026
#CitizenScience photographs contain a vast and underused record of species interactions. This Community Page by Bradley Allf, Robert Dunn &co introduces Who Eats Whom, an interactive, searchable food web created from photographs uploaded to #iNaturalist. 🧪 #ecologySky buff.ly/pvY2fex
Examples of observations submitted to Who Eats Whom.
A. Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) feeding on a Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii) by Scott Veirs (PSEMP.net). B. South African giraffe (Giraffa giraffa) feeding on Duiker-Berry (Sclerocroton integerrimus) by MJ Botha. C. Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) feeding on a Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus) by Jody Shugart. D. American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) feeding on a Common Lionfish (Pterois volitans) by Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez. E. Tan Jumping Spider (Platycryptus undatus) feeding on bluebottle fly (Calliphora sp.) by Mirko Schoenitz.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Neat to see @grist covering our Who Eats Whom project! New paper on PLOS Biology out today
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i don’t think god wanted y’all to defund @ncar-ucar.bsky.social #NCAR
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#DefendResearch @defendresearch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Delighted to stumble across the thoughtcrime-checker.com by @bradleyallf.bsky.social, helping to highlight the #censorship unleashed by the Trump Administration! #DefendResearch
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Thoughtcrime Checker
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
trump identifying something as having certain swamp-like qualities and then replacing it with what is no doubt a swamp— the swampiest of all possible swamps— is a pretty apt metaphor for his influence on politics in general.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We’re back, rebranded and ready for your comments! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Community-collected data can reveal the impacts of industry on everything from air quality to fisheries. But in Louisiana, a law sets strict limits on what kind of data can be used to enforce regulations. Journalist Elise Plunk reports on how environmental groups are responding: buff.ly/uQUxUQu
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
no monarchs but monarchs. no rat kings but rat king. #nokings
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/10/2025
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Science funding is drying up so we’re out here, cap in hand, asking for your support so we can buy hats for our bird monitoring volunteers! Donate link: give.colostate.edu/schools/Colo... @justscience.bsky.social
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Help Public Science Study of Urban Birds
Support the Public Science Study of Urban Birds!
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Science communicators of the Mountain West! Please consider submitting your work to @sciwrirockies.com's first ever #scicomm contest. No entry fee but must be a SWARM member to submit ($30/year, $15/year for students). Deadline November 1! www.sciwrirockies.com/writing-awards
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Writing awards | Swarm
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New update just dropped on thoughtcrime-checker.com/index.html! You can now automatically check your grant for banned words and replace them with a phrase 100% approved by the #Trump regime!
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Time for South Park, Colbert and the rest to start their own breakaway media company.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Politics is so much easier when you can say whatever you want, in the same way even an expert soccer player will not score many goals against an unskilled opponent who insists the sport being played is rugby." Tone reminds me of @kenwhite.bsky.social suithaver.medium.com/the-rights-b...
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Trump’s War on Competence
How the Right became polarized against knowing things
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Imagine tripping in a small, smelly mouse cage in the bowels of some academic hall. I bet those telomeres would be even longer if the mice were in an outdoor pen with live grass and dirt! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice - npj Aging
npj Aging - Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice
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Jay Jinsing Falk @jjinsing.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
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Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Cancer itself getting in on the disinformation game. God help us!
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’m sure the party that hates when cabinet secretaries mishandle classified information will be just furious about this
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Excited to see my #StandUpForScience speech in @westword.com today. www.westword.com/news/colorad...
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Stand Up for Science: In Defense of Curiosity
"President Trump and his administration lack the humility required to take an interest in understanding the world around them."
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This will be a really neat and timely event. Registration free for SWARM members, $10 for non-members. Join us!
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A scientist loses funding for her research on vaccines during pregnancy due to a new NIH policy that bans all studies broadly related to "vaccine uptake."
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stop throwing wrenches in our curiosity machine! Honored to speak at #StandUpForScience Denver today. Thanks to event organizers @ssenese.bsky.social et al., and the amazing crowd (500 people? 1,000?) for coming out on a cold day to stand up together for our fundamental right to wonder.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’ll be speaking about the importance of free inquiry/curiosity at this event on Friday at 2:30 at the Denver Capitol Building. Come join! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
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Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Great write-up by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social on how Colorado scientists are responding to the cancellation of the National Nature Assessment. www.cpr.org/2025/02/26/t... @coloradopublic.bsky.social
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Trump dismantled a first-of-its-kind nature report. Colorado scientists are still hopeful it will be released
The National Nature Assessment was meant to document how the country’s lands, waters and wildlife benefit Americans, and how climate change might change that picture.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
More than anything, the Democrats’ problem is aesthetic. Their policies are popular. Rebrand as the ‘Rebel Alliance Party’ or something—lean into the fight against authoritarianism and the established order.
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David Blight @dblight.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ukraine: wake up Americans. Trump is giving away the Allied victory in World War II. It's a form treason by a combination of venal self-interest and criminal ignorance. This president must first be denounced and then stopped by all who actually have a sense of history.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Would your research pass the #Trump administration's banned word censors? Paste it in Thoughtcrime Checker and find out! thoughtcrime-checker.com #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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Ben Folds @actualbenfolds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Hello, @mapquest.com. It’s me. I’ve been wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
With this abrupt change, I’m focusing more on science outreach—making research on misinformation, media literacy, and AI more accessible through my newsletter and podcast. I’d really appreciate your support—whether by subscribing, sharing, or suggesting topics! matthewfacciani.substack.com
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Misguided: The Newsletter | Matthew Facciani | Substack
Misguided: The Newsletter shares my research on misinformation and explores how social and psychological forces shape our understanding of the world. Click to read Misguided: The Newsletter, by Matthe...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Would your manuscript pass #Trump rules on banned words? Thanks to the Thoughtcrime checker created by @bradleyallf.bsky.social , you will have the answer. Here an example taken from an upcoming Gender & Society article Try it: brad7280.github.io/thoughtcrime...
"Historically" "gender" and "women" (5 times) are underlined as banned words?
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Excited to introduce Thoughtcrime Checker! This simple text editor highlights any words on the Trump administration's "banned" list. Remove these words from your NSF/NIH grants and see if you can avoid the Thought Police! brad7280.github.io/thoughtcrime... @theo.io @xkcd.com @byscottdance.com
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It’s like the horror version of Up Goer Five @xkcd.com
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Ryan Comes @rbcomes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Considering that for decades enhancing diversity has been a stated goal of broader impacts, I think it would flag a majority of all STEM proposals. Probably 75% or more have those flag words in the proposal.
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Dr. Trisha 🤡❤️‍🔥 Snakes 🐍 🦭, PhD @trishasnakes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The tariffs mean a cool new job opportunity is opening up for the daring: smuggling!
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Honored to have spent the past year working on the NNA with an amazing team of fellow scientists. This was going to be such a beautiful, valuable project.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Unreal
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Some good news this week: I found that warehouse where they keep all the dissertations.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
States with high levels of #iNaturalist participation tend to be more liberal-leaning, have more natural land (non-agricultural, non-developed), and have more residents living in rural areas, per a quick, simple model. forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-predi... @inaturalist.bsky.social #citizenscience
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What predicts your state's iNaturalist participation rate?
I thought @comradejon’s map of iNat contribution rates across the US was really neat (check it out here, also copied below) and was curious what variables might predict a region having a high rate of ...
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My Paul Bunyan poem has found a home with "The Nature of Our Times," a poetry companion to the National Nature Assessment (to which I'm also contributing). Love these federal assessment-poetry crossovers! natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/stub/ @phillevin.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social
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Stub - The Nature of Our Times
After the ox died Paul shrunk into the North Woods, crushed his axe between his hands leaving twig-sized splinters to fester and freeze. And he’d chew at them, nervous as the deer he stopped shooting ...
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Academics in Colorado looking to support incarcerated writers, Unbound is looking for more volunteers! Teaching commitment is ~monthly. unboundauthors.org?fbclid=IwZXh...
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Home - Unbound Authors
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The accumulated wealth of the ten billionaires in the Trump administration could purchase a $200,000 home for every homeless person in America, fund universal Pre-K for ten years, increase the NSF budget by 50% for ten years, and start a $1,200 college fund for every child in poverty in the US.
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
permanent daylight savings time is not far enough, we must fully decouple from astronomically-oriented temporal cycles and instead embrace Unix seconds
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
@podsaveamerica.bsky.social it’s a Dyson sphere! Also, bring someone on to chat about prison abolition, you’re wrong!
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Bradley Allf @bradleyallf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Brightness Jasnah Kholin and Shallan Davar on their way to another published manuscript. By the Heralds, they’re productive!
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Michelle Jewell @michellejewell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Come work with us this summer! This #scicomm internship is open to undergraduates at minority serving institutions or Indigenous students enrolled at any university. 🧪
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/12/2024
if santa needs an elf on a shelf to report my crimes, maybe he’s not as omnipotent as he claims. maybe he can be killed
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