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Eric Sanderson

@ewsanderson.bsky.social
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Ecosystem and landscape ecologist, author of Mannahatta, VP of urban conservation @NYBG, interested in conservation here, there, everywhere

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New York Botanical Garden @nybg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
During #COP30, NYBG's Emma Grover moderated a discussion between @ewsanderson.bsky.social and Dr. Alexandre of @rbgkew.bsky.social. They joined CAF to discuss the unique roles of botanical gardens in scaling nature-based solutions for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
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Nurturing Nature The Role of Botanical Gardens in Climate Resilience | COP30
YouTube video by CAF -banco de desarrollo de Latam y el Caribe-
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New York Botanical Garden @nybg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Today at #COP30, NYBG’s @ewsanderson.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social’s Alexandre Antonelli discussed how plant-based approaches to mitigate and adapt to climate change can be scaled through the unique capacities of botanical gardens.
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New York Botanical Garden @nybg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
On @nytimes.com, hear from @ewsanderson.bsky.social, VP for Urban Conservation Strategy, as he shares how understanding NYC’s past topography—and expanding our imagination as to what nature can do in the future—benefits ongoing efforts to answer the flooding question.
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What New York Can Do to Survive Flooding
Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 07/05/2025
Danish wind giant installs its first commercial 15MW wind turbine, the first of 64 to be installed at an offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany
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Vestas installs huge 15 MW wind turbine – first of 64 at German offshore project
Danish wind giant installs its first commercial 15MW wind turbine, the first of 64 to be installed at an offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 07/05/2025
University boosts its installed solar capacity to 5.8 MW with completion of what is being described as the largest urban solar farm in the state
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State’s “largest urban solar farm” and battery switches on to help power university
University boosts its installed solar capacity to 5.8 MW with completion of what is being described as the largest urban solar farm in the state.
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New research finds that spring runoff consists of more "old" water than new snowmelt, whereas "new" snowmelt infiltrates to replace previously stored water. Forests likely depend on groundwater that has been stored for multiple years. Funded by Natl Science Foundation www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Groundwater dominates snowmelt runoff and controls streamflow efficiency in the western United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Snowmelt runoff in the western US is composed primarily of older groundwater, with precipitation taking 5.7 years on average to exit as streamflow, indicating that annual streamflow is a function of m...
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Devastating data disruptions for #Alaska & the #Arctic. With no advance notice: "Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS)." #NOAA #SeaIce #Snow
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Wind-Water-Solar crushes nuclear in Australian national election "Anthony Albanese promised renewable energy and healthcare improvements, while rival Peter Dutton focused on immigration cuts and nuclear power." Albanese crushes Dutton www.nzherald.co.nz/world/austra...
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Anthony Albanese crushes rival to win Oz election, Dutton humiliated by losing seat
Voters deserted hard-nosed opposition leader Peter Dutton in droves.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 03/05/2025
Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/b...
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The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business
Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A worst-quake scenario: The Cascadia subduction zone might not be on the minds of most Californians, but it was for more than a dozen geologists and other scientists in a recent study analyzing flood risks along the Pacific coast www.latimes.com/california/s... ⚒️ 🌊 #geosky
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Monster earthquake could sink swath of California, dramatically heightening flood risk, study says
A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding.
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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
During a tough week, I find it helpful to note that 77% of the country opposes cuts to medical research, 70% oppose the government dictating how private universities operate, and 61% oppose cuts to environmental regulations for oil and gas. Our work is in the majority. #EHWorks
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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James Fallows @handle.invalid · 03/05/2025
The ~700k people of DC: —Pay more fed tax per capita than people of any state; —Are more numerous than pop of WY or VT; —Have zero votes in US House or Senate; —Now being told by House GOP that we can't spend *OUR OWN* tax money, which we've already paid Cut the BS Thanks @vanhollen.senate.gov
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Sarah Jennings @drsarahjennings.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
These findings are devastating but send a very clear message. Over $300 million of the NSF grants that were illegally terminated in the past few weeks were for STEM Eduction 😢 These cancellations are clearly targeted and designed to undercut (and maybe eliminate) the next generation of US scientists
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/04/2025
All latitude bands have observed unusually warm temperatures over the last three months, except for around the South Pole again [Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, with latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). GISTEMPv4 data shown here using their standard 1951-1980 reference period]
Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the January to March 2025 period. All latitude bands are above average relative to a 1951-1980 climate baseline using GISTEMPv4.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Environmental law is collapsing—cut by Congress, ignored by agencies, and now redefined by the courts. This isn’t drift. It’s the demolition of nature. grist.org/regulation/n...
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A forthcoming Supreme Court decision could limit agencies’ duty to consider environmental harms
A forthcoming ruling could allow federal agencies to skip climate analysis when approving major projects — with wide-reaching consequences.
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Howard Frumkin @howardfrumkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Glad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Charting a path to health for all at net-zero emissions
Climate change is the defining health challenge of the 21st century, with record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events already exacting an unprecedented toll on human health and wellbeing. ...
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Good morning with more good news: UK cut its electricity CO2 emissions by ~78% from its 2006 level! How? Rapid expansion of wind that generated 1% of UK's electricity in 2006 and 30% in 2024 is a main way! Fossil fuels fell from 81% of UK's electricity in 2008 to 34% in 2024. #energysky
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
But, renewables are so unreliable and intermittent! Now 42 straight and 83 of 115 100% Wind-Water-Solar days in 2025 in CA. WWS has met 52% of 24-h demand and >100% of demand for an average of 4 h/day in '25 Gas down 45% v '23; 26% v '24 Batteries up 74% v '23; 198% v '24
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/04/2025
From Book Bans to Canceled Lectures, the Naval Academy Is Bending to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u... John Ismay, a Pentagon reporter based in Washington, was commissioned as an officer from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1999.
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From Book Bans to Canceled Lectures, the Naval Academy Is Bending to Trump
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
China's Q1 2025 wind generation rose ~15%, compared to Q1 2024. Wind generation rose to ~306 TWh from ~267 TWh! That's a huge amount of electricity. How huge? China is generating enough wind to meet about 25% of US electricity demand. #energysky #greensky ember-energy.org/data/electri...
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Franck Marchis @allplanets.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🚨 A 50% cut to NASA science is on the table for 2026. This would kill missions, halt discoveries, and threaten thousands of jobs. The American Astronomical Society makes it super easy to tell Congress: fund NASA science. Speak up here: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...
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NASA SMD Dear Colleague Action Alert | American Astronomical Society
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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Endlessly fascinated by @ewsanderson.bsky.social's now-expanded Welikia Project map. Plug in your NYC address and learn about the ecological history of the place: www.welikia.org/map-explorer...
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The Welikia Project
Explore the landscape before New York.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Saving the environmental nonprofit executive orders for Earth Day is fucking maniacal. insideclimatenews.org/news/1804202...
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Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders - Inside Climate News
Environmental groups say they are preparing for the worst—and preparing to fight back.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.
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White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article)
A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The ocean is the heart of our life support system, absorbing over 90% of the excess heat from global warming. This is evident in the rise of ocean heat content over time.
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Ocean heat content in 2024 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Global full-depth ocean heat content (OHC) gain since 1960 reached a record 452 ± 77 ZJ in 2024. OHC was 15 ± 9 ZJ higher than in 2023, primarily associated with warming in the Atlantic and Indian Oce...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Whatever it takes I guess
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
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DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/04/2025
If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/04/2025
DOE goes full NIH.
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Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I cannot emphasize how much of emergency management is dependent on access to government hazard data. We're going to be flying blind without it. commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/...
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FEMA quietly removes access to New England coastal erosion hazard tool
FEMA has not explained why some climate products have been hidden from view, but the New England regional director told Nantucket that it is “to ensure the alignment" of FEMA actions with Trump direct...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 11/04/2025
E.P.A. Is Said to Plan Deep Cuts to Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/c... 🎁🔗
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the virtual elimination of a 15-year-old federal program that requires thousands of power plants, oil refineries, cement factories and other large industrial facilities to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions, according to two people briefed on the decision.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The thing about science is that it happens whether you believe it or not. Pretending we have not modified our weather & climate will not make the damage stop. This delusion from the administration will do lasting harm. If you voted for them, you enabled this. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11/04/2025
Salmon & fish are serious business for Washington state and the entire PNW, and foundational to our Tribes. Elon's inane cuts to NOAA are not just hurting our environment—they will kill jobs, hit our economy hard, and tank people's livelihoods. SAVE NOAA, SAVE OUR SALMON!
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NOAA Staffing Cuts Threaten Years of Salmon Harvests
In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is so incredibly shortsighted. 40 is a completely arbitrary number that doesn’t consider demand for certain jobs or skills. The war on higher education is relentless
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University of Utah told to look at cutting majors with fewer than 40 graduates per year
As it responds to $19.6 million in state-imposed budget cuts, the University of Utah has been told to look at discontinuing majors with fewer than 40 graduates per year.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
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extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 09/04/2025
The National Science Foundation slashed the number of graduate research fellowships awarded each year to the most promising young researchers in half. This is how we make America great? By defunding support for our best and brightest young minds? This is pure idiocy www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Toronto's UHN hiring 100 early career scientists. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists
Hospital network will be investing $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists immediately as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge’
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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hard to overstate the importance of this. The American century is done.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
For the right person, this is a unicorn dream job Head, IUCN Global Ocean Team
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Head, IUCN Global Ocean Team
Ocean. Headquarters, Gland, Switzerland
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
a friend sent me this one
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James Fallows @handle.invalid · 06/04/2025
@nytimes.com has "updated" this story since its posting. Still have not found room in headline, sub-head, or caption to mention which party this guy belongs to. Pro-tip: Could fit "GOP" in sub-hed easily by removing either of two "the"s. Or making "Representative" just "Rep."
Headline "He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely."
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James Fallows @handle.invalid · 03/04/2025
In its own way, this is as damaging as what is happening at NIH, CDC, USAID, elsewhere. Even tariffs. It's the Cultural Revolution. Year Zero. And GOP grins and claps.
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