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Bennett Hardy

@finderofrogs.bsky.social
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is literally the premise of one of the greatest reality shows
A small girl in a red jacket looks on with determination while her par
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Edgar A. Poe John Coltrane Tony Hawk Sally Ride
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Every morning, this critically endangered Red Ruffed Lemur spreads its arms and sunbathes for up to 40 minutes to warm up instead of burning internal energy. Only 2,500 left in the wild.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
PLoS One paper from my MS days leads to conservation win! people.com/worlds-oldes...
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World's Oldest Oak Tree Protected from New Development After Surviving for 13,000 Years in Calif.
The world's oldest oak tree, the Jurupa Oak, will be protected from a new development after conservation groups, city officials and a real estate developer were able to reach an agreement. The clonal ...
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? In this blog post, Ané Cloete goes through aSCR, answering question on what it is, what it needs to work, what data the model uses and what kind of ecological questions aSCR can answer. Read the whole blog here 👇 buff.ly/1q2Ib6F
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What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)?
Post provided by Ané Cloete What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? Estimating how many animals live in a given area is one of the most fundamental challenges in conservation. For specie…
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Polish state rail operator PKP Intercity is launching a series of special "unhurried" weekend journeys along picturesque routes in restored 1980s carriages with historical locomotives to celebrate its anniversary.
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Polish rail operator launches special "unhurried" weekend trips in 1980s trains
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Climate Action California @climactcal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.” #californiacondor
Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree
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Mikko Jimenez @mikkojimenez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If you - like myself - are scrapped for time to dig into papers these days, I discuss my recent urban stopover paper on this episode (which I learned was a first for TMIB)!
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
Image of an Alaskan bog with water and red moss in the foreground and trees in the background.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Catmas!
An orange cat and grey cat play with Christmas wrapping paper.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Thanks to @doc-brock.bsky.social for the invite for a seminar at SDSU this week! Had a great time chatting with faculty and grad students and learning more about the department. Love our San Diego biologist community!
A man stands in front of a screen with a title slide stating “Promoting reintroduction resilience for amphibian conservation”
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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Mola Mola Three-toed Sloth Bornean Orangutan Coastal Giant Salamander Vermillion Flycatcher
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
So amazing our team’s work is getting recognized on @npr.org for our successful bi-national translocation of California red-legged frogs. Was super fun chatting with Nate about the project!
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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Sunny Day Real Steak
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I’m losing my mind here. USTR made a list of “Unfair trade practices” they’re retaliating against, complaint number 5 is that the EU cares too much about stopping illegal deforestation, complaint number 7 is that the South Americans are doing too much illegal deforestation
“5/10: The EU's Deforestation-free Supply Chain Regulation (EUDR) aims to prohibit imports of seven products—including cattle, cocoa, rubber, and wood—unless exporters meet various burdensome compliance requirements, including due diligence and geolocation data.

It is estimated the EUDR will potentially impact $8.6 billion worth of annual U.S. agricultural and industrial exports.”

7/10: Illegal logging and illegal mining in South America, particularly in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, fuel environmental degradation and create unfair competition that harms U.S. businesses committed to responsible sourcing and compliance with environmental laws.

These illicit activities, which usually involve transnational criminal organizations, distort global commodity markets by driving down prices and allowing bad actors to undercut legitimate American exporters.
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Andrea Kuszewski @andreakuszewski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Marching off to the Trade War
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I mean, they constantly are wearing tuxedos, they must be rich.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
'Real Emo' only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence... 😆
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map
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IMLS Interactive Map
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Amidst *everything* going on, I'm still proud to see my 2nd chapter of my PhD out in full in the latest special issue of @animalecology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/1365... (1/4)
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Quantifying intraspecific variation in host resistance and tolerance to a lethal pathogen
Our study highlights the importance of considering intraspecific variation in host tolerance and resistance to pathogens. We apply a multistate model as a new way to quantify host tolerance and resis...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
-Don’t touch birds -really don’t touch dead birds -call rehabbers about sick birds -bird feeders can stay up (unless you have chickens)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 17/03/2025
🦎🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're getting our green on with the different green-colored specimens of our Herpetology Collection at #NHMLA!
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Axios @axios.com · 17/03/2025
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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Isaac Yuen @ekostories.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Endure amidst the current Be motionless in the tumult When the shadow descends Be muscle, be maw, be might And fend with one's being entire
A poster with a Japanese giant salamander and the accompanying text "Resist the Torrent Giant Salamander Style."
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes — theonion.com/noaa-cuts-le...
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NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Taal Levi @taaltree.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Much needed time out this weekend, jamming with one of my best friends, catching up, and sharing some amazing pupusas together.
View from behind a drum kit in a rehearsal studio.A plate with a pupusa and escabeche.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Trump administration's cuts in science funding will likely lead to an exodus of scientific expertise, the research community warns. "That beacon of research that the US was for several decades — it’s just not going to be there.” www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...
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Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine
A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Any suggestions for making helpful comments when reviewing papers with questionable scientific-style writing evident throughout? In my view, these authors likely have little support and mentorship from more senior co-authors to end up in this shape.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My place of work could be a lot uglier. Very lucky to do science here.
Sunset at Balboa Park, San Diego
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
First California Red-legged Frog of 2025 from Baja a few weeks ago! Our team is working to conserve and re-establish this threatened species across the southern portion of its range.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Kit and Ollie brining in the New Year!
A gray cat and orange cat laying on a couch.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Looking for reviewers before Christmas
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Our paper on what value amphibians and reptiles have within a One Health framework is out! Great collaboration with workshop participants at the 1st Global Amphibian and Reptile Disease Conference! Herps are important for One Health too!
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Santa *Claws* looks a bit different this year.
A complete upright Allosaurus fossil with a Santa hat on its skull.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Just deactivated and deleted that letter app, feels good!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats www.newscientist.com/article/2457...
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Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why
About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and now the craze is back
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#FBF to my time as a sustainability fellow at Colorado State University, where I contributed this post about how grateful we should be to share the world with our froggy (and other amphibian) friends! sustainability.colostate.edu/humannature/...
A frog with its mouth open calling while hanging on a stick.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Incredibly difficult! I’ll follow with 4, though there are at least 10 others I could swap out. Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Sunny Day Real Estate’s Diary album coverNas’ Illmatic album coverThe Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album coverFailure’s Fantastic Planet album cover
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A favorite insect from my trip this summer, a Curculionoidid weevil from Mulu National Park, Borneo.
A close up of a red, green, and black weevil insect perched on a green leaf in the Borneo rainforest.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Researchers found that painting a single-blade black on wind turbines reduced bird collisions by more than 70%.
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Painting Wind Turbine Blades To Prevent Bird Collisions
A wind utility company in Wyoming is trying to make wind turbines more visible to birds by painting just one blade black.
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Bennett Hardy @finderofrogs.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
A Proboscis monkey sitting in a tree and facing the camera with its mouth open mid-vocalization.
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