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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 09/10/2026

If you support livestreamed executions, you may just be a fascist. This is fascism. This is evil. It CANNOT be allowed.

Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was a hot one out there. No wonder our little seedlings are struggling ! Pray for cooler temps and some precipitation!

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know it’s inevitable that some of our little Jeffrey seedlings will die, but it’s still always sad.

Dead Jeffrey pine seedling with a metal tag 😭

Live Jeffrey pine seedling with a metal tag 😊

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ll never forget going to see Devils Tower on an 80s station wagon family roadtrip because my father was obsessed with Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Richard Dreyfuss Checking Out Face in Mirror

ALT: Richard Dreyfuss Checking Out Face in Mirror

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m such a terrible botanist… especially of the forensic variety 🤣

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Joanna Blaszczak @joannablaszczak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Check out our new paper led by former PhD student Kelly Loria in which we observed >90% reduction in mountain stream ecosystem metabolism from a drought year to one of the wettest water years on record in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains! Part of our UNR Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please find 5 minutes today to draft your response to this drastic change in NIH Peer review. The deadline is October 13. I pasted my own response below as an example--please share widely 🧪

I am an NIH-funded scientist who has run a lab for 34 years. I have served on literally dozens of NIH peer-review study sections, most recently this past June. I also have served in Council for both NIGMS and for CSR. I thus am very familiar with the current review process from both the prospective of an applicant and a reviewer. I strongly oppose the proposed changes. While NIH peer review is not perfect, it is the best system thus far devised, and is the envy of colleagues in other countries. Three experts in the field spend hours reviewing each proposal, using their knowledge of important issues to rank proposals by signficance, feasibility and impact. Then they present their opinions to a panel of 20 or more expert sin the broader field, and a spirited discussion ensues. Thus each proposal is put through very stringent process, and the resulting ranking has substantial value in times when funding is limited. Having review many times, I know that the proposed binning would provide equal "scores" to proposals that were greet with substanailly different degrees of enthusiasm. Further, grants binned just bowl and just above the 25% cutoff would be subsequently viewed as if the enthusiasm for them quite divergent, certainly not an accurate summary. The current fine-grained system avoids these issues. Removing it will make the task of NIH Program officers more difficult. Binning also allows non-scientific issues to take on disproportionate weight in funding, an issue that will be accentuated if political appointees are making the ultimate decisions. Please retain the current system.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is so little patience for pedestrians by a LOT of drivers in this town. Thanks for waiting!

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And yeah I have a car, but still. F them!

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Being a pedestrian in Reno is infuriating/downright dangerous. I dropped the car for service and walked home. At the 1 busy intersection, I wait for ped cross signal and walk. A lady got upset about waiting to turn right ON RED, and peeled out before I had made it to the opposite sidewalk. F cars.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Update: it’s a local classic rock station that does Two for Tuesday. I guess I mostly stream now because I forgot that was a thing 😊. Throwback on multiple levels.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At the dentist for my first crown and Black Sabbath is playing. I think this is a good sign.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a federal employee, this interview and discussion was so spot on. Thanks for still highlighting DOGE (and also ongoing issues for federal employees and our ability to get work done) at a time when most people seem to have forgotten.

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't think privatization is the answer. Weather data such as this needs to be publicly available and free. The answer is this administration shouldn't have gutted NOAA's budget with the horrible DOGE cuts.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I looooove watching the pelicans (basically) surf.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No words just tomatoes (and a few peppers)

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s like that thing where men make laws about women’s bodies.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was made to understand these people would be on Mars by now.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026

Great morning with the shorebirds. First time I've put in a solid lying down on the sand session in about a month and a half. The heat was getting a little unbearable by 10am, so I'm glad I was able to get down early. 🪶

A marbled Godwin or some sort of larger size shorebird with a large beak sticking that beak the sand

a gull juvenile who looks like who looks like they've been who looks like they've been through a thing or two shaking their feathers off standing in the surf

A pelican riding above the waves, it looks a little out of focus but I'll take it

A sanderling running with its wings up . Also not sure how in Focus this one is.

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EmmyEm 🇺🇸+🇬🇧💙 @emmyem24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So, that funding to research a cure for Parkinson’s, for instance, was given to the tech bros to further their goals for AI dominance? If you’re not mad, you’re not paying attention! #VOTE

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2500 acres, making a run to the north, significant crowning behavior, and has merged with the Hawk Fire scar. That last part is good actually, due to lower fuel loads.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bull fire, currently at 150 acres, near Verdi CA, as seen from a lunchtime walk in Reno, NV

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do not want an "AI companion". I want to read the author-written synopsis (aka abstract) without Wiley's Clippy-analog pop-up in the way. If anyone knows a better way to make those go away forever, LMK

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I click on this annoying Wiley "AI companion" pop-up because it is the only way I have figured out to get a point where I can make it go away (using the teeny tiny x at the top right of the AI companion box in screenshot 2).

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you know you can look up "angry women playlist" and come up with myriad options to choose from, every music genre, most time periods. Just in case you need that information right now.

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

A winter view of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains with snow on the ground and trees

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When back in Hilo I work out of IPIF, one building over. Congrats on the new job Andy! I hope you love Hilo and the conservation community in Hawai'i as much as I did (and still do!).

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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the weirdest part is that he never came out and said what the gripe was. It was a bunch of gobbldegook about how the co-authors don't respect his work and how he would have to "let go of my views of fairness and authorship". I had to use damn context clues lol.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish he would retire and leave me alone already 🙏

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do not even know how to address this email. Tell him he needs better communication skills and to use his words to express concern to the lead author? Act as a buffer and just ignore it/not bother any of the other authors?

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but where your name sits in the author order in the middle (not first or second or last) of a long list of names is not worth wasting emotions over. And you shouldn't email me about it. Email the lead author FFS.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know I am old because my brain has morphed these into the same commercial. I guess it was all the drugs in the 90s... 😂😭

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is important, not because many regular people read SCOTUSblog, but because media outlets still treat it as a good resource

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump administration is trying to delist wolves to placate frustrated ranchers whose bottom lines are being undercut by tariffs. Blaming the big-bad wolf is an old trope beloved by ranchers, but allowing killing wolves won’t stop predation. Here's what will. 🌎

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Can Killing Wolves Save the Beef Industry?

Experts warn that a new executive order meant to help ranchers won't actually work

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