Reposted by Claudia PutnamEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Most of us are blind to how much unnatural levels of browsing by grazers impact the landscape. Not only by shaving vast areas bare, but shaping what survives. On this young oak that somehow managed to 'get away', for eg, the browse line is clear. There's an omnipresent, invisible strimmer at work. 416524
Reposted by Claudia PutnamCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's funny because I feel the same way about smart and well-intentioned people falling for a scam being perpetrated by Silicon Valley guys who have done nothing but run scams that made them rich after the tech press told everyone that these guys were geniuses. 1968099
Reposted by Claudia PutnamFrontier @frontierresearch.co · 01/10/2026How serotonin neurons wire the forebrain after birth: 4D whole-brain maps of mouse serotonin axons show region-specific growth plus a brain-wide, synchronized wave of innervation, lined up with a surge in wiring-molecule expression at postnatal day 4. Adams, Ren et al., PNAS #neuroskyencefrontierresearch.coSystem-level synchronization and subtype-specific modules govern brain-wide serotonin axon innervation | FrontierThe authors combined whole-brain developmental projection maps with single-cell transcriptomics to work out how serotonin neurons wire the forebrain after… 121
Reposted by Claudia PutnamVeronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When it comes to future sea-level rise, Antarctica matters. Now researchers who looked at hundreds of thousands of potential emissions futures and the impact of each on the ice sheet found that Antarctica’s ice loss this century is locked in. theconversation.com/antarcticas-...theconversation.comAntarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhereThe Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction. 1134
Reposted by Claudia PutnamBracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bracken is open for submissions! Send us your poems, poetry translations, and visual art October 1 - November 30. See our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit. 065
Reposted by Claudia PutnamJavi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪science.orgButterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzleOptical illusions trick enemies into misjudging the insects’ speed and direction 052
Reposted by Claudia PutnamAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026OMG you have GOT to be kidding me 64035281036
Reposted by Claudia PutnamJim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A new paper from our group/my boss is out in Science today! It looks at the effects of massive, snowball-earth type glaciers on subsurface geotherms and thermochronology. If you are going to GSA Becky is giving a talk on this work as well. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgSnowball refrigeration of Earth’s crust mimics glacial erosionGlaciation cools the crust by setting its surface temperature to 0°C or well below. During the Cryogenian Snowball Earth glaciations, these conditions were in place long enough to cool the entire crus... 184
Reposted by Claudia PutnamGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026Huge day for enhanced geothermal: $FRVO has delivered power to the grid from Cape Station, a first for EGS. Congrats to @timlatimer.bsky.social and the rest of the team. h/t @isaiahbishop.bsky.socialfervoenergy.comFervo Energy Achieves First Power at Cape Station, a Landmark Moment for the Future of Enhanced Geothermal Systems - Fervo EnergyHOUSTON, September 24, 2026 – Fervo Energy (Nasdaq: FRVO), a global pioneer of next-generation geothermal energy, today announced that Cape Station, its 620741
Reposted by Claudia PutnamThe International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) @theicct.org · 24/09/2026NEW ANALYSIS: Charging hubs in a small share of locations could cover most energy demand from electric trucks across Europe. 🚛 The ICCT and @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social have quantified charging demand from battery electric trucks across the EU, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK between 2030 and 2045. ⚡ 176
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There is something soulless about dubbed movies 230
Reposted by Claudia Putnamjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026jesus christ. the new president of the university is closing down the biggest, oldest repository of fossils, specimens and artifacts with a single month's notice because I guess, archaeology is too woke or something? where the fuck is it all going to go? into the bin? get mad about it: 71009689
Reposted by Claudia PutnamNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/09/2026A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors, not one. One forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. go.nature.com/3Vb6Jwk #Neuroskyence 🧪 02612
Reposted by Claudia PutnamJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I have no words for Musk and Space X getting to destroy a second national wildlife refuge. These are all disgusting, horrible people. 360998
Reposted by Claudia PutnamSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22/09/2026Women are half the population, and yet the majority of physicians have NO training on how to treat women with menopause. I talked to Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Kelly Casperson about how women are demanding better, and why Congress should PASS my bill to invest in menopause research & training. 1336081
Reposted by Claudia PutnamMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEybuff.lyMy Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ... 1389129
Reposted by Claudia PutnamThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Bluesky remains unbeaten 592892294
Reposted by Claudia Putnamgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026walking around with our coaches yesterday and telling girls they were doing good and looked good and seeing them really take it to heart really meant so much to me. i love it so much!!! 2925
Reposted by Claudia PutnamSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Issue 93 cover reveal! Available to read on Monday September 21. Cover art by Victoria Ojo 0249
Reposted by Claudia PutnamRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026This trend really annoys me. If I am already paying for a service, I don't want adverts too. Here's the deal: I watch for free but give you my time to watch your ads, or I pay a subscription or licence fee. Not both. Corporate rip-offs stop when we stop complying. 612718
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cool, cool. Cue everyone who feels morally superior because a) they have never been in this situation, and b) they certainly wouldn’t handle it in a way that others might learn something from. BTW when I was 16 I was ALWAYS enumerating the ways my parents fucked up my life. That’s 16 for you . 060
Reposted by Claudia PutnamTim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm a literature professor, I can understand all this as story. "Full-scale AI takeover" goes way back (The Matrix>Neuromancer>Frankenstein). We fit the information into the genres and tropes we're already familiar with. We *love* to read the story that begins or ends We Are Doomed. 152
Reposted by Claudia PutnamNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this 202821976
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In response to the disappearance of St Mary’s Glacier in Colorado, I propose we all read: bookshop.org/p/books/do-g...bookshop.orgDo Glaciers Listen? Anniversary Edition: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social ImaginationThis anniversary edition of Julie Cruikshank's acclaimed work demonstrates the ways in which natural and cultural histories become entangled. Do Glaciers Listen? examines conflicting understandings of... 000
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Honestly, as I prepare to contribute a small amount to a friend’s kid’s honeymoon fund, I’m thinking there really should be a gift registry for divorce. 011
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yeah, this is terrible news. One of the first landmarks I visited when I moved to Colorado in 1981. 000
Reposted by Claudia PutnamKathy Mortensen 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How does more testosterone help with mistakenly flying F-35 jet parts to China? Just winding how it improves knowledge. #Blues #Proudblue 1310850
Reposted by Claudia Putnamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103761920
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This own by @matthewolzmann.bsky.social should be inscribed in clay and sealed in a cave as a record, for future anthropologists & archaeologists of any species, of the existential situation in the “global north” circa however they date things in their Time. 110
Reposted by Claudia PutnamBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir. 10085551485
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I seem to have gotten on the Republicans’ outreach list. They are texting me like crazy and sound pretty desperate honestly. Obv blocking and reporting spam. 000
Reposted by Claudia PutnamNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This photo isn't the usual diamond ring. On 2 July 2019, from Cerro Tololo in Chile, during the total #eclipse the Sun stayed visible at two points at once. The rather uncommon effect looks like a "double diamond ring". 🔭🧪⚛️ Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga #astronomy #science 36319
Reposted by Claudia PutnamGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you 8980962033
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Getting around to installing Mapquest. Suddenly Apple wants password instead of biometric. 010
Reposted by Claudia PutnamSula @sula-nef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Does anyone have Seattle job leads for something that is better than manual labor for less than minimum wage of my current job? I have a BSc in Wildlife Biology, 8 seasons of work with the National Park Service and USACE, academic and field research experience. I'm desperate to do something else 14223
Reposted by Claudia PutnamDanielle Arceneaux @brooklynzydeco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026whenever I think of Ed Sheeran I remember that Prince hated him. as if that wasn’t mortifying enough now he’s single handedly made Macklemore the face of the revolution 0101
Reposted by Claudia PutnamKamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 15/09/2026Consider this your assignment for National Voter Registration Day. Head to IWillVote.com and check your voter registration status. Then send this to the group chat and make sure they check theirs, too. We all need to turn out this November and be too big to rig. 13728101161
Reposted by Claudia PutnamAndrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Another fabulous friend at Deer Creek Park, Woodway, Washington #ThickTrunkTuesday #TuesdayTrees #Trees #ForestFriday #Nature #TreeHugger #Photography #PNW 210013
Reposted by Claudia PutnamEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I dropped into @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Dublin today to sign copies of my new book, Setting the Land Free. There I got the fantastic news that the title is already at no. 10 in the Irish non-fiction sales charts. I'm *really* proud of this book. 612112
Reposted by Claudia Putnamwishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There are entire books written about how the “flow” of American politics is leaders leaping in front of popular social movements to call them their own. That had very mixed results, but the post-Clinton “fuck our voters, in particular” style of politics seems historically unique to me. 021
Reposted by Claudia PutnamCosmik Shriek 😱 @brightanimal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Who was it that said the Democratic party was like a band who spends the entire show telling the audience to calm down 0862