Reposted by Emily MayMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch"). 441727639
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The House just voted to strip the provisions that would have shielded pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits and stronger state-level restrictions out of the Farm Bill. Now we wait for the Supreme Court to tell us if they can still be sued for failure to warn about the risks of their products. 261
Reposted by Emily MayZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 30/04/2026The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is higher than at any point in at least the past one million years (according to evidence from paleoclimate records). More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 15364187
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 26/04/2026New study finds a consistent negative association between insecticide use and insectivorous bird populations, based on 15 years of data from 2783 sampling plots in France. Less food? Fewer birds. 🐛🐦 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDeclines in insectivorous bird abundance are related to increasing agricultural insecticide usePesticide use is suspected to contribute to bird population declines in Europe, but few studies link long-term pesticide trends to bird population abu… 0237
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Fascinating op ed on the digital gamification of K-12 education and its downsides - been thinking about this more as I enter the relevant age of parenting. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...nytimes.comOpinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education 030
Reposted by Emily MayDan Wade @dwade.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger. 319041333
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Did you miss Pollinator Pathway's winter webinar on pollinators, pesticides, and what you can do to help? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkI6...youtube.comWinter Webinar - Pesticide-Free Landscapes for Pollinators and People: How We Can HelpYouTube video by Pollinator Pathway 031
Reposted by Emily MayRahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Take a break today to revel in the joy of a man unapologetically celebrating his Boricua culture. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Then learn more from @beckyhammer.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/beck...youtu.beBad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime ShowWatch the world's biggest artist on the world's biggest stage at the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. Get 3 free months of Apple Music and listen to Bad Bunny in Spatial Audio, access… 197
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Over-the-top dicamba: still a bad idea for non-target crops, plants, and wildlife. Yet here we are again. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...dtnpf.comControversial Dicamba Herbicides Receive 2-Year RegistrationAfter doing without in 2025, farmers will have access to 020
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Are you in NYC, Philly, or elsewhere in NJ/PA? Does your community garden, library, school, urban farm, etc. want a pollinator garden? Applications for Xerces habitat kits for this region are open through Feb 17th! Pick up and plant in May/June 🐝🦋🌻 xerces.org/pollinator-c...xerces.orgMid-Atlantic Monarch and Pollinator Habitat Kit ProgramThe eastern monarch butterfly population has declined more than 80% since the 1990s. One of the most significant actions we can take to protect this iconic butterfly and other pollinators is to increa... 141
Reposted by Emily MayGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...npr.orgThe Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rulesThe rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust. 22599424
Reposted by Emily MayMark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success. 9187812341
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 18/12/2025New study: backyard mosquito sprays lead to insecticide levels high enough to kill pollinators, and sprays travel easily into neighboring yards. stacksjournal.org/article/ande...stacksjournal.orgAn initial assessment of risk to pollinators from mosquito control in residential settings - Stacks JournalPeer-reviewed research - An initial assessment of risk to pollinators from mosquito control in residential settings 1269
Reposted by Emily MayAndy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025See the influential paper and @undark.org commentary on Monsanto's ghostwriting by Alexander Kaurov & @naomioreskes.bsky.social: undark.org/2025/08/15/o... #pesticides #agtwitter 0308
Reposted by Emily MayAndy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Boy, retraction is the thing these days. After years of critique, a foundational 25-year old paper on the safety of glyphosate herbicide has been pulled. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2 29235
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Great listen! Wondering how to improve kids’ health and educational experience? Cleaner indoor air might be part of the solution. 06410
Reposted by Emily MayEmily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 06/06/20256/ EPA says it's committed to reducing PFAS pollution. So why does it keep advancing new PFAS pesticides? Especially ones like isocycloseram, a chemical that exceeded levels of concern for bees and aquatic life for most proposed uses? #PFAS #Pesticides #ForeverChemicals #PublicHealth #EPA 102
Reposted by Emily MayEmily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 06/06/20254/ 🐝 Isocycloseram: Proposed broad spectrum insecticide with very high toxicity to aquatic invertebrates and honey bees. Risk quotients exceeded levels of concern for both, in some cases by orders of magnitude. Yet no full field studies for bees were required. 📄 www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...regulations.govRegulations.gov 102
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Now that EPA has approved several of these, it’s time to bump this thread on PFAS pesticides: 021
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Excited to share our new video, Growing Pollinator-Safe Plants: What Nurseries Can Do (and How You Can Help)! 🐝🌸🌎 This project has been 3 years in the making, featuring interviews with nursery managers on steps they take to reduce pesticide risks. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdv...youtube.comGrowing Pollinator-Safe Plants: What Nurseries Can Do (and How You Can Help)YouTube video by The Xerces Society 1144
Reposted by Emily MayConrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪 18484180
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Exciting new meta-analysis: compared to calendar spraying, threshold-based management cuts insecticide use by 44% and costs by 40% without reducing yields, and supports more beneficial insects. www.nature.com/articles/s43...nature.comThreshold-based management reduces insecticide use by 44% without compromising pest control or crop yield - Communications Earth & EnvironmentPest control programs using pest density thresholds cut insecticide uses by 44% and costs by 40%, while maintaining yield and pest suppression, and enhancing beneficial insect populations, as revealed... 183
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Newly registered or re-registered insecticides and herbicides will be rolling out with labels that may require drift/runoff mitigations to protect ESA-listed species. Learn more about how to navigate the menu of mitigations in a 90 min webinar next Tuesday from EPA: www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...dtnpf.comMitigation Math: Webinar Offers Tips to Tally Points for Pesticide UseIn 2026, more pesticide labels are likely to require measures to protect endangered species. EPA is offering a webinar next week to help farmers navigate these requirements. 141
Reposted by Emily MayEvan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"Places that are used to fire, to relying and thriving on it, are now encountering fire regimes that are staggeringly different from those with which they evolved...The complex ecologies that thrived alongside their milder predecessors will be pushed beyond the point of recovery." 🌏 11112
Reposted by Emily MayPam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · 05/08/2025“As classroom temperatures rise over time ... students tend to show declines in attention, memory and test performance,” said @edithdeguzman.bsky.social @ucanr.edu @luskininnovation.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...latimes.comRising heat is causing students to underperform across the globeA new study, which reviewed dozens of published articles from around the world, found that cumulative heat exposure has negative consequences for students' cognitive outcomes. 032
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Vermont is a soccer state! What an incredible season and undefeated run to the national #USL2 championship @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Emily MayVermont Green FC @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social · 03/08/2025UNDEFEATED NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏆 THE INVINCIBLES! ✨ YOUR VERMONT GREEN FOOTBALL CLUB! 💚 944890
Reposted by Emily MayElizabeth Hilborn @elizabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Hundreds of monarch butterflies died in a winter 2024 event. Investigation implicated multiple pyrethroid insecticides: tinyurl.com/3h3y7wuf From The Guardian: "Combinations of pesticides can have a synergistic effect that makes them even more toxic. The solution...less pesticides." 🧪🌍🦋theguardian.comMonarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – studyNew peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested 23824
Reposted by Emily MayWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 21/07/2025Starlink's connection speeds drop below the federal definition of "broadband" at a density of ~7 customers per square mile, according to recent research. The more the customers in an area, the slower everybody's connections get. Data shows that 83% of US Starlink customers get sub-broadband speeds.thexlab.org 461503597
Reposted by Emily MayDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 21/07/2025US scientists describe the effects of Trump's cuts. “If you cut the funding to the people who are doing the work right now, you don’t know what they would have innovated in 10 years or 15 years or 32 years like Rosalind Yalow. We don’t know what we’re losing.” 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.com‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cutsPresident’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs 18743
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 12/07/2025USDA rescinded more than $1 billion in regional conservation grants. These local partnerships help make federal dollars go further. Without RCPP investment, tens of thousands of acres of land and water conservation projects won’t happen. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...dtnpf.comGroups Weigh Options After USDA Rescinds $1 Billion in Regional Conservation GrantsIn June, USDA canceled more than $1 billion in conservation grants to nearly 70 groups under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program. Some groups are appealing USDA's decision. Meanwhile, other ... 031
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 12/07/2025USDA disaster assistance is now open for farmers hit by 2023–24 storms or weather events! If you had crop insurance or NAP, check your mail for a pre-filled form and apply at your local USDA office. A separate sign-up for uninsured losses is coming this fall. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...dtnpf.comUSDA Opens up Natural Disaster Aid for Crop Farmers Who Faced 2023, 2024 LossesUSDA has opened up enrollment for the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP), which will provide aid to crop farmers who suffered losses in 2023 and 2024 due to natural disasters. The first stage... 041
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Third year of flooding on July 10th in Vermont - the impacts are being felt, and the urgency is real. 021
Reposted by Emily MayTony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · 09/07/2025🚨 New paper published in @nature.com today by L. Monclús, H. P. H. Arp, K. J. Groh, A. Faltynkova, M. E. Løseth, J Muncke, Z. Wang, R. Wolf, L. Zimmermann & M. Wagner 👇 Mapping the #chemical complexity of #plastics www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMapping the chemical complexity of plastics - NatureAn inventory of 16,325 known plastic chemicals, including >4,200 hazardous compounds, supports the development of safer plastics. 094
Reposted by Emily MayCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025On Aug 1, tariff rates are scheduled to rise to historic highs. average tariffs on women’s clothing will rise to 48 percent, wine to 20 percent, and toys to nearly 50 percent. taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/too-m... 61638285
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 09/07/2025So sad to hear about Sheila’s passing. She was a brilliant native bee scientist, advocate, and mom, gone far too soon. The world feels smaller today. Rest in power, Sheila. We’ll keep fighting for the wild things and for justice, as you did fiercely and with so much heart. 🐝🌻💛 0166
Reposted by Emily MayDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled. 10684008611217
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 02/07/2025In January 2024, 200 monarchs were found dead or dying on the ground at a CA overwintering site. The likely culprit? Nearby residential/commercial pesticide use. 1/ academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...academic.oup.comPyrethroid insecticides implicated in mass mortality of monarch butterflies at an overwintering site in CaliforniaAbstract. Since the 1980s, monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) populations across North America have declined by 80–95%. Although several studie 174
Reposted by Emily MayEntomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Stay connected with ESA—even through employment disruption. The ESA Member Support Fund supports entomologists who have faced job loss in 2025 by waiving membership dues, allowing beneficiaries to maintain access to key benefits. Learn more and apply: www.entsoc.org/support/memb... 0127
Reposted by Emily MayPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 18/06/2025No Climate Action, No Food. 0119
Reposted by Emily MayUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We feed you. They hunt us. 11933468714779
Reposted by Emily MayAaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 10/06/2025It's 50 pages of legal contortion trying to find a way to argue that the Antiquities Act does not say what it clearly says — presidents only have the power to create national monuments. Congress reserved the power to eliminate or shrink them. 033
Reposted by Emily MayJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/06/2025"Secretary Kennedy’s team argues that there is insufficient evidence to support updated COVID-19 vaccines for healthy Americans under 65, but this claim is unfounded. Years of data demonstrate that vaccines save lives and reduce hospitalizations across all age groups." time.com/7292898/rfk-...time.comRFK Jr. Purging the CDC Advisory Committee Will Put Lives at Risk"The stakes are high, but a better path is possible," writes Trump’s first Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams. 47420
Reposted by Emily MayJoshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This week, the Trump EPA is expected to roll back the regulation of carbon emissions from power plants, which account for about a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Trump's first administration scrapped Obama's rules and his second will scrap Biden's. 064
Reposted by Emily MayScott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025NEW: The White House is quietly ordering agencies to freeze billions of dollars in additional funding for the EPA, Interior, Ag, National Science Foundation and more as part of a strategy to make cuts to education, climate, etc permanent and weaken role of Congress. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...eenews.netWhite House looks to freeze more agency funds — and expand executive powerThe latest move targets more than $30 billion in spending at EPA, the National Science Foundation and other agencies. 8158115
Reposted by Emily MayCNN @cnn.com · 09/06/2025In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest. cnn.it/4mYohFy 147412221
Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Nuestro blog reciente sobre qué hacer si ves muchas abejas muertas se ha publicado en el blog de Extensión en Español de la Universidad de Maryland. ¡Esperamos que te sea útil! 🐝 @xercessociety.bsky.social @umdentomology.bsky.social extensionesp.umd.edu/2025/06/09/v...extensionesp.umd.eduVi muchos insectos muertos: qué hacer y por qué es importantePor Jacqueline Buenrostro y Emily MayTraducido por Anahí EspíndolaFor a version of this article in English, follow this link. Los informes suelen ser siempre parecidos: abejas, mariposas u otros in… 0102
Reposted by Emily MayHelen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025There's an effort afoot to try to save #GMRLN (pronounced Gremlin), the global #measles & #rubella lab surveillance network that was reliant on US funding that has disappeared. It costs a pittance, in global health terms, to run. Its loss would be huge. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/t...statnews.comPhilanthropies rush to save measles surveillance network pushed to brink of collapse by U.S. cutsThe Trump administration’s gutting of global aid is threatening to collapse a network of laboratories responsible for global measles and rubella surveillance 28347