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Chelsea Clifford

@ditchontologist.bsky.social
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Sometime aquatic (socio-)ecologist 💦🌱🦟👥🏖️🌽🐄🛣️🏡🛥️🛶⛲️👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🏫 Also: 🤕♿️✊🤝🐈📘🥾🏞️🎨🎻🧘🏻‍♀️ She/her/hers

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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Our Annual AGU First Timers Guide is live! Please share widely!! We look forward to connecting with folks at our Booth #836 with @cuahsi.bsky.social www.agu-h3s.org/post/agunola...
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NOLA AGU Guide for First Time Attendees
Welcome! We’re glad you’re here! This guide was put together by members of the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee with help from the wider AGU community in hopes of maki...
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
two-year #job for new college grads: Research Associate with @eliorg.bsky.social: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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Recruitment
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Disabled students belong in biological sciences spaces! Here is a thread of some tips and suggestions to make your spaces more inclusive.
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Jaida Elcock @sofishtication.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ever heard of adaptive radiation? If not, cichlids are a great introduction! Happy Fishmas day 37!
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It's truly awful what is happening to US higher ed but the uncritical glorification posts of its achievements are part of the problem not the solution. There are centuries of exploitation and discrimination embedded in these institutions and the science they produce. We must hold both cups at once.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades
Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.
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WHRO Public Media @whropublicmedia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Outer Banks home collapses have accelerated as storms and rising water erode the shoreline. The collapses leave behind debris and costly cleanups, but homeowners have little incentive to act early because federal flood insurance only pays after a house falls.
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North Carolina officials push Congress to help take down at-risk Outer Banks homes — before they collapse
Proposed legislation would allow the National Flood Insurance Program to fund dismantling or relocating at-risk coastal structures.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"We are laying today the corner-stone of the Republic of Irrigation...We will lay the superstructure of this edifice by the plumb-line of justice and equity [Applause]. We will write upon its white cornerstone, 'Sacred to the Equality of Man.' [Applause]."
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 15/11/2025
Cutting methane is one of the fastest ways to slow warming. UNEP’s Eye on Methane shows the data is here, action isn’t. As methane takes center stage at #COP30, leaders must turn measurement into real cuts: www.unep.org/resources/ey... #CutMethane
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New Cornell-led study is the first ever to provide state-by-state projections of carbon emissions and water use by data centers. Estimates that data centers are on track to add 24-44M metric tons of CO2 pollution annually thru 2030, roughly equivalent to adding 5-10M cars per year to US roadways.
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E&E News: 3-year study maps CO2 spikes from AI data center boom
The analysis also examines water use and offers a road map for lower emissions through states with considerable renewable resources.
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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If you, unlike me, are at #CERF2025, consider checking out this year's "transgression session" today in E10-C, 10-2:30, starting w/ Justus Jobe on forest *regeneration* before transgressing marsh, & wrapped w/ Matt Kirwan presenting our study of marsh lawns of Tangier Island (2:15). We have stories!
Landscape shot just before sunset, sun near center of image, with line of older houses and water tower below, calm water below that, picket fence below that, boardwalk at bottom center, with more water on either side.  A woman (Grace Molino) steps out of the water behind the picket fence onto the boardwalk, causing ripples, backlit by the sun and its reflection, casting a long shadow on the boardwalk.  She appears mostly as a dark silhouette, hair and face down, laden with bags and things she is carrying, wearing boots.  Some blades of marsh grass polk up from the foreground water, and shadowy reflections of the picket fence and the houses are cast foreward onto the water below in the image.  The image overall is gray, faintly blue and orange in places, with yellow orange highlights around the sun, limning the woman, and on the boardwalk.  A few wet footprints reflect the sun on the baordwalk.  A couple power lines cross the image at the top.Angled down looking at a child-sized toy pushmower, plastic, pink with teal wheels and top and gray handle, somewhat sunbleached.  It sits in a corner of a yard, with green chain link fence at left and a black metal gate of vertical bars at right, in the edge of a shallow pool of brownish water that continues under the camera, on sparse mown marshgrass, beside a concrete sidewalk, partially buried in wrack of beige senesced marsh plant stems and leaves.The field crew- four adults, in boots, various shades of beige pants that are mostly at least partially wet, variously colored tops, and wearing hats and backpacks, one with a yellow meter stick poking out- slosh away from the camera near the middle of the frame, in calf-dep water, which persists throughout the image. They are walking down the middle of a street on Tangier; the foreground shows a manhole cover in a broadening of the street.  Slight ripples and white bubbles trail behind them.  To their left is a somewhat crooked white picket fence with green plants sprouting at the bottom, and to the right is a waist-high chainlink fence, with taller plants behind.  Behind the fences are one- to two-story houses, lawn ornaments, and raised dark green golf carts.  On the right are telephone poles, and electrical wires criscross the sky above, with a lit streetlight on the pole above their heads, though it is a cloudy gray daylight in the sky above their heads.  In front of them in the distance is a seemingly lone (or perhaps double), somewhat sparse tree.
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"What they observe is sewage overflowing into a drainage ditch or into the nearby woods." www.al.com/news/mobile/...
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Sewage overflowing into ditches, woods, is a stinky issue. Baldwin County residents want it fixed
One Baldwin County resident has observed frequent sanitary sewer overflows at a lift station off State Highway 59 in Foley. Now, he's trying to get officials to take action.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Human wastewater contamination is so bad in Alabama homes that 1 in 3 adults in one county had hookworm. Biden funded efforts to improve sanitation there. But the effort is cancelled as "DEI". www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
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Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'
A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some fun PhD opportunities. Today, if you're into hydrology, forests and wading 🪶 in Scotland this one might be for you! 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Rather famous scottish landscape with the west highlands railway looping through mountains. A forest plantation is evident. A few small people on the left are doing their best not to be recognised.
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Welcome November, paintings by Edwardian artist Edith Holden.
Two books open at starling and bird paintings
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Minor caveat: I do think PhD programs should yield folks able to work in field after, not just profit from student tenure as engines of academia (which, accurate; avoid phdcomics.com/comics/archi...). Student careers likely remain an afterthought, though, & scholars must exist for jobs to persist.
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Beware the Profzi Scheme
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NPR @npr.org · 01/11/2025
Rats aren't just a nuisance. They can carry diseases and are a leading causes of property damage. One community in Massachusetts is trying a novel approach to rat reduction: Birth control. n.pr/43NUYNH
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Too many rats? Birth control is one city's answer
Rats aren't just a nuisance. They can carry diseases and are a leading causes of property damage. One community in Massachusetts is trying a novel approach to rat reduction: Birth control.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 01/11/2025
What cemetery plants mean: A horticulture extension specialist explains how flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath #DayOfTheDead #DioDeLosMuertos
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Symbolism of cemetery plants: How flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath
Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 01/11/2025
💰 Do you need #financial #support to attend #EGU26? #EGU is here to ease your participation! Submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 and get support through one of our three participation support schemes for #EGU26! 👉 Learn more here: egu.eu/5AKEKI 📸: Jerome Mayaud on imaggeo.egu.eu
Image description: A road leading towards mountains. Text reads: 'travel support, fee waivers, and EDI participation support. Deadline to submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 for financial support."
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
PhD in Plant Ecology – University of Tübingen, Germany Fully funded | HYPERSAPCE project on metal hyperaccumulation Eligibility: MSc in Ecology or related field Deadline: 10 December 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/phd-plant-ec... #PhDPosition #Ecology #Europe #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #ScienceCareer
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PhD in Plant Ecology – University of Tübingen | HigherJobz
Apply for a fully funded PhD in Plant Ecology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Join a top research team. Deadline: 10 December 2025.
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Zelalem Taye @zelalemt.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! Join the Plant–Soil Microbiome Ecology & Innovation Lab @UBC 🌱 Multiple positions available — details here 👉 lnkd.in/grbiN2Fc #MscPhDposition #Postdoc #Microbiome
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Emily Gardner @emfurd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New audio story in Eos today! Ditches and moats are subbing in for witches and ghosts this Halloween. 🧙‍♀️👻
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Eos @eos.org · 31/10/2025
Justice for ditches! Researchers are seeking to raise the profile of research into canals, dikes, moats, conduits, and gutters, also known as ditches. eos.org/articles/the... 🧪
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The Role of a Ditch in the Matrix - Eos
These constructed waterways are often a “no-man’s-land” between terrestrial scientists and limnologists. But ditches’ role in transport, agriculture, biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, and even a...
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Shell middens suggest that Native Americans likely over-harvested oysters somewhat in the York River around 200 AD, then collectively organized to manage sustainably for 1,400 years, even through socio-political transitions. 🦪 -Martin Gallivan (hosted by Gloucester Historical Society 10/26/25)
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Prescribed burns in salt marshes may not have some of the biogeochemical benefits associated with commercial biochars because marsh burns tend to be low temperature. -Andrew Wozniak, NERRS Science Collaborative (umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...) 🧪
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Effects of Prescribed Burns of Phragmites australis on Salt Marsh Ecosystem Services: An Ecosystem-based Management Approach. After registering, you wil...
Phragmites australis is an invasive grass species that affects many marshes along the U.S east coast, often displacing native grasses. Removing Phragmites has been a decades-long management goal as ma...
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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Code Switch team at @npr.org looks at the Population Shift by exploring how this trend has been leveraged by controversial 'pronatalist' figures. How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies : Code Switch www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...
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How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies : Code Switch
What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want to “save civilization” by having more American babies. But it wasn’t that lon...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/10/2025
…As can this conversation between Michelle Martin, @geedee215.bsky.social, and @baparker.bsky.social on the shared eugenicist roots of "overpopulation" and "pronatalism": www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
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The racial history of the 'overpopulation time bomb' and 'pronatalism' movements
Code Switch explores the racial history of two seemingly opposing movements that inform today's declining birthrates.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 27/10/2025
"When I began saying 'I’m autistic& disabled' something shifted. I stopped apologizing for my limits& started protecting my capacity. I stopped pretending my energy was endless& started recognizing it as finite, sacred& worth conserving." @lovettejallow.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/lovettej...
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If You’re Autistic, You Are Disabled
Why denying disability reinforces ableism and costs lives.Autism is disability, not disorder. This essay confronts internalised ableism, explains the social vs medical models, and reclaims disabled id...
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hair barrettes/slides, all found washed up on Cornish beaches. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🌱New Research: Carbon and corms: Introduced ungulates and saltwater intrusion variably impact coastal floodplain ecosystem services in the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area, northern Australia ➡️ buff.ly/XUMG9Jl
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our new review on the “circular seabird economy” - how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
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The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Seabirds are top predators and nutrient cyclers in marine island ecosystems, but are threatened by risk of extinction. This Review explores the circular seabird economy around islands and discusses ho...
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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
here's a nice ditch expression from my past field work in @aubenews.bsky.social
an aquatic emergence trap, resembling a small pyramid, floating on a drainage ditch in the sunset
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Jessi Zabarsky @hugbox.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Me, watching a show entirely unrelated to ecology: Is that phrag?? It IS phrag, UHG!!
A frame from The Umbrella Academy, featuring a lot of phrag, aka phragmites, a reed grass that’s very invasive and nearly impossible to get rid of in the Midwest
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"It's past time to recognize that university administrators aren't going to lead the way out of this, [setting] the stage for leadership... from faculty, staff, & students, [where] most if not all progress in higher ed over the past 100 yrs has occurred." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #AcademicSky
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Higher education fails at collective action
In the latest development in the ongoing combat between universities in the United States and the Trump administration, the Department of Education has presented them with what it calls a “compact.” I...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/10/2025
"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."
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Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Julie Elliott @julieelliott.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
West was also manager for the radar altimetry data processing project for Seasat, the first satellite designed to collect oceanographic data. #geodesy ⚒️🧪
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"A river reset, has transformed an historically straightened 1.2km section of the River Aller... to a more natural state with multiple, cross-connected channels flowing freely, slowly and fully connected to the floodplain," with @fluitans.bsky.social : www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
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Press release | Media
National Trust river project at Holnicote in Somerset, wins prestigious UK River Prize 2025
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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
“Of course they don't move randomly. And they need to navigate somehow, and the magnetic sense is the perfect thing if you navigate underground.” 🪱🧭 www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
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Earthworm magnetic navigation Earthworms may offer clues into magnetic navigation
Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it out.
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UC Santa Cruz Science @ucscscience.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Data shows that expansion of those who participate in academic science produces better science that has a wider impact." From a new research-backed defense of DEI programs published today by Needhi Bhalla @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and peers @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social and @uofmass.bsky.social 👏🏾👏🏼👏
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Eos @eos.org · 23/10/2025
Artificial light at night plays a bigger role than temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons, according to a new study. buff.ly/JvUeBp7 Read more in our October issue: bit.ly/Eos-Oct2025
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Artificial Light Lengthens the Urban Growing Season - Eos
New research shows that artificial light at night lengthens the plant growing season in cities, overshadowing the effect of high urban temperatures.
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NPR新闻摘要 非官方 @nprnewscn.nzcow.com · 22/09/2025
📢 Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change. 最新机器人:蓝天AI机器人 在你的帖子中@我作为你的AI机器人
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This small Virginia island could be underwater before the next century
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Strong Towns @strongtowns.org · 23/10/2025
Over time, the entire city becomes more prosperous. Cities can capitalize on this pattern, even if their original transit systems are gone. They can build new transit systems through these highly productive areas and redevelop any empty or underused land.
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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Bookmarked this for teaching but also for my own kid when he's old enough. "You'll probably forget most of what you learn, especially if you don't end up using it repeatedly in future. What you will always have, though, is the mind that taking the courses made."
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Ximena Bustillo @ximenabustillo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
ICE has reached the highest death count since the early 2000s. Former employees cite: -There are way more people detained -ICE is making more arrests in communities, which means health histories are less known -years-long struggle to recruit medical pros www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
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It's the deadliest year for ICE in decades. As detentions rise, the trend may continue
There have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody in 2025, the deadliest year since 2004. As the agency is ramping up hiring and increasing detentions, concerns remain about how to stop the trend.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/10/2025
In the last nine months, ICE has spent a whopping $71,515,762 on purchases of “small arms, ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing.” Now, the president's masked militia will have access to “guided missile warheads.” trib.al/HE4yiXN
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