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Jodi Axelson

@disturbeddendro.bsky.social
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Applied forest ecology, forest health, disturbance, dendrochronology, silviculture. Passionate about extension - connecting knowledge to practice.

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
*Job alert* Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please repost! 🧪🏔️🌿
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PhD Assisted Migration
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Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈 @matthholden.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
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The value of information for ecological management
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Pierre Poilievre's plan for Canada is shockingly Trump-ish www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...
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REVEALED: The Conservative Playbook for Bringing DOGE to Canada
With a federal election looming, reps from Amazon and TC Energy discuss how a new Pierre Poilievre government could slash bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump.
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Not to minimize the horrible stream of news these days but flowers.
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
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Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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CEREGE @cerege.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚨 Junior Professorship Job Offer! 🚨 Join @cerege.bsky.social as a Junior Professor (CPJ) 2025 to study Pleistocene & Holocene paleoenvironments and human settlements. A unique opportunity to explore past landscapes and their impact on societies! Job ad here : nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/GoSt7kcKMp...
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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trump-Doge preparing to end the Keeling curve monitoring (that has tracked atmospheric CO2 since 1950). This attack on science would amount to a crime against humanity I think! www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Trump cuts target world-leading greenhouse gas observatory in Hawaii
The Trump administration is considering cancelling the lease of the support office for a renowned Hawaiian climate research station, sources said, raising fears for the future of key work tracking the impact of carbon emissions on global warming.
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Scenes from #coastal #fieldwork this week in a long-term #silviculture trial of #redalder, 32 years old. This trial is part of the @oregonstate.edu hardwood silviculture coop. Moss, rain, alder bark beetles, sapsuckers, first wee skunk cabbage, sun, rainbows...we had a mix of it all!!
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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 09/03/2025
Recommended listen: To mark International Women’s Day, Costa Rican diplomat and former UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, was joined by top climate scientist Dr @katharinehayhoe.com on her @outrageoptimism.bsky.social‬ podcast to discuss why ignoring women endangers the climate.
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Why ignoring women endangers the climate | International Women's Day 2025
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast · Episode
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/03/2025
We didn't expect to be running satire written by the former head of the EPA, but this is Trump 2.0 and, well, here we are.
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Make America Suck Again
It is hard to imagine with the eighty-two executive orders already issued by President Trump, that a man of his stature, extraordinary power, intel...
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
OMG, get a life!!!! True or not (most likely) what is the friggin obsession with Canada and the relatively meagre amount of drugs that cross the border?! Look after your own house: gun violence, rampant racism, lack of access to healthcare, literacy, ... Large and small issues, you got a lot.
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Matthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
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Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center - NMSU satellite location, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center Employee Classification: Dir,Research Division,III College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 301800-MORA RESEARCH CENTE...
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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Charlotte Reemts to discuss how oak-juniper woodlands respond to crown fires in Fort Cavazos, and how that affects species like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler. #SNFECO @science.nature.org Listen here: ow.ly/T3pV50V5EC8
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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We're hiring! Concordia University (Montreal) has a position open in Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing. Looking for expertise in synthetic biology, bioengineering and bioprocessing with an applied focus on sustainability, food security, or human health: www.concordia.ca/artsci/about...
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Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier II in Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing - Concordia University
The department of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position with the opportunity to apply for a Tier II Canada Researc...
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is heartbreaking.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨 #job 🚨: The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems. 📅 Apply by: 29 Apr 2025 ➡️https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=12044&rmlang=UK #ForestScience
Image: Michael Krahn/Unsplash
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Satellite Observations Reveal a Positive Relationship Between Trait‐Based Diversity and Drought Response in Temperate Forests 📄 buff.ly/4gBgsRr @helfenstein.earth
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/02/2025
Many areas are seeing record snowfall this winter, thanks to global warming--or rather, global weirding! How so? It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.
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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resource, University of Freiburg invites applications for a Full Professorship (W 3) for Fire Ecology in the Department of Forest Sciences. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
Burned over forest (Fort McMurray Fire May 2016) with some smouldering still going on as well as some new regeneration coming up
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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The devastation wrought by the US administration on so many federal programs is agonizing and rage inducing to witness. This years #wildfire season just got a Lot scarier. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/c...
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Forest Service Layoffs and Frozen Funds Increase the Risk From Wildfires
The Trump administration’s decision to fire 3,400 workers and pause funds used for wildfire prevention comes as wildfires are growing more dangerous and frequent.
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The detachment and utter mockery of reality is not laughable it's goddamned terrifying. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is Delusional
His latest interview puts to rest the longstanding question of whether he's knowingly lying or detached from reality.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Low pressure system west of northern California is rapidly "spinning up" (deepening) and getting that "textbook" mid-latitude cyclone look on satellite imagery this afternoon. This is the major storm slated to bring rain/wind/SoCal debris flow impacts tomorrow (Thu). #CAwx
Current satellite snapshot depicting developing storm system west of California.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tesla sales plummeting in Europe. Canada, let's do this too. There are plenty of other EVs out there that are not built by a Nazi. #TariffsOnTeslas www.ft.com/content/ea23...
Bar plot from the Financial Times showing Tesla car sales down dramatically in several European countries
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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So happy to see this new collection out! It was great working with CJFR's (now former) Editors-in-Chief on this. The Introduction, by Dr. Ellen Macdonald and Dr. Sylvie Gauthier, is free access and definitely worth a read. All four invited Perspectives papers, and many more, are #OpenAccess. 🧪🌎🌲
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
And in another new paper out today, lead author Cari Leland shows how tree-ring proxies and wood anatomy track a transient synoptic scale cold snap across northwestern North American in the late summer (late July to early August) of 1959 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tree-ring evidence of the elusive 1959 summer cold event in northwestern North America
Tree-ring records in northwestern North America suggest that the year 1959 was anomalously cold relative to the last several centuries. Here, we investigate the spatial characteristics, specific ti...
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Emily J. Francis @emilyjfrancis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
1/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Modeling the probability of bark beetle-caused tree mortality as a function of watershed-scale host species presence and basal area
In recent decades, bark beetle outbreaks have caused mass tree mortality in western US forests, which has led to altered wildfire characteristics, hyd…
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins @drericasmithwick.bsky.social to discuss how managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States can safely put prescribed fire back into the landscape to address local issues. #SNFECO Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So looking forward to reading this paper on fire deficits and how #treerings helped crack the case. I also love this #infographic
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Towards a global understanding of tree mortality" in @newphyt.bsky.social It was fun and productive participating in this review by the International Tree Mortality Network nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Towards a global understanding of tree mortality
Rates of tree mortality are increasing globally, with implications for forests and climate. Yet, how and why these trends vary globally remain unknown. Developing a comprehensive assessment of global...
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JGR: Biogeosciences @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is rising, impacting ecosystems worldwide. But what drives VPD changes—🌡️ or 💧? Do hot vs. dry VPD affect carbon & water fluxes differently? Johnston et al. (2025) looked at 26 climatically diverse sites to find out! 🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Emma-Liina Marjakangas @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Interesting postdoc position open in Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
In better news my latest bake is delicious.
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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp 1/5
NW CASC Research Fellow alum Sydney Jantsch stands in the South Fork of the Nooksack River with two colleagues from the Lummi Natural  Resources Department as they install groundwater wells to measure the temperature of the hyporheic zone beneath the riverbed.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A sadly relevant new paper led by Ellis Margolis with a long list of distinguished authors in fire ecology and fire history: 'Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)
Aim Increasing aridity has driven widespread synchronous fire occurrence in recent decades across North America. The lack of historical (pre-1880) fire records limits our ability to understand long-...
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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Colleagues at ECCC are forecasting 1.45 ± 0.10°C above pre-industrial levels for 2025, slightly cooler than the record high temperature of 1.55°C of 2024 but virtually certain to be hotter than every year on record prior to 2023 #climatechange Full story at climatedata.ca/2025-forecas...
Bar chart showing annual global mean temperatures above preindustrial times from 1980 to present, with larger numbers and darker red colours in recent years including 2024 crossing 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2025 forecast a little less than that.
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Mark Shapiro @mhshapiro2.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🧪The Japan Meteorological Agency global average surface temperature value for 2024 has been posted. The annual anomaly of the global average surface temperature in 2024 was +0.62°C above the 1991-2020 average, and was the warmest since 1891.
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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/oik....
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
🧪🌲 Norway spruce trees can "learn" from drought! #Trees exposed to experimental #drought developed better resilience to natural drought later on. Important finding for #forest management in a changing #climate! link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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Jodi Axelson @disturbeddendro.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Embracing the literal darkness as we have arrived in winter in the Northern Hemisphere. I wish some days to like the bear, and sleep the dark days and nights away. Some photos of a recent trip to NW BC and home on the BC south coast.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
To every guy who came into the comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” at me and demand I give due deference to the good guys… It’s time to be quiet. Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵
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Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered
Users from multiple countries have been sharing tips on how to sedate and sexually assault women, German investigation finds
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