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Millie, the Pinniped Enjoyer

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✨Millie // 🇲🇽 // marine mammal researcher and PhD student 🧬🦭 // I draw sometimes ✨ (they/she) // pass the detritus!!! 🥂

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Phil Martin @philmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The next paper in our special feature by @ashsimkins.bsky.social in @jappliedecology.bsky.social suggests that many conservation actions used for threatened species are likely effective. However, we lack evidence for key actions relating to policy, enforcement, & communication. tinyurl.com/2y5p3vxp
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Effectiveness of current and potential conservation actions for amphibians, birds and mammals
Our study demonstrates the power of combining differently-sourced and compiled datasets to evaluate the likely effectiveness of ongoing conservation strategies and identify future needs. Our findings...
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Millie, the Pinniped Enjoyer @floraplasm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Wait, I wrote this! Yay elephant seals!
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
From ancient DNA to modern conservation: Assessing human impact on Atlantic bluefin tuna Genomes biodiversitygenomics.eu/2024/09/09/f... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics
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From ancient DNA to modern conservation: Assessing human impact on Atlantic bluefin tuna Genomes - Biodiversity Genomics Europe
Case study Ancient Tuna Genomes An international team of scientists traces human-driven evolution of the Atlantic bluefin tuna from ancient to modern times, providing insights to support sustainable c...
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”
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Croc @crocojaws.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Hello Muffy nation
Doodle page of @unclecucky’s cat, Muffy. :-)
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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
My first PhD paper on the importance of populations in small islands for the survival of megafaunas is out! In sum, the ~100 whole genome sequences of anoa & babirusa, forest cover & climate model of their habitat, all agree that small-island pops are dope. #consgen www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An image of Sulawesi Island that consist of four connecting peninsula shaping the island into something that looks like a letter "K" with adjacent small islands, annotated with colored circles and triangles marking the location of anoa (circle) and babirusa (triangle) from three types of region across the islands. Each region is accompanied by an art piece of the head of anoa and babirusa to mark the presence of one or both taxa in the region. There are both in the northern and southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, only anoa in Buton south of the southeastern peninsula, and only babirusa in the Togean south of northern peninsula. In the right side of the head art, there are DNA icon with breakage illustrating "deleterious mutations" and a forest icon illustrating "habitat quality". An arrow going down, up, and left accompanying each icon to mark whether the abundance of each icon are high or low relative to the focal populations, which is marked with arrow pointing right to illustrate stability in magnitude. For both Buton and Togean, the amount of deleterious mutations are low relative to the larger island's peninsula, while it has better habitat quality relative to the larger island. This graphical abstract is an oversimplification of the work, I hope you read the paper for more elaboration.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“Shark Whisperer” Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me |
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“Shark Whisperer” Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me
"'Shark Whisperer' claims to honor marine life, but it often confuses reverence with control," writes Kaniela Ing.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, via the shadow docket, has greenlighted the DOGE mass firings. From us at NIH: The Supreme Court is an arm of Trump and Republican Party. It is not a court, but a political body. And it must be disempowered if we want functional science in the US. 🧪
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Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce.
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Merin Reji Chacko @merinrejichacko.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thrilled to announce the publication of the trophiCH database: a multi-trophic, species-level #metaweb for #Switzerland🇨🇭 Out now in #ScientificData 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Want to explore the dataset? 🔍 webapps.wsl.ch/trophiCH/ #OpenData #Ecology #FoodWebs 🌐 1/6
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Aled, I'm a Welsh freelance illustrator and concept artist. I like to illustrate nature, wildlife and anything Welsh! ✨ I think this is the perfect opportunity to show off my new website! 🌐 aledthompson.com 📧 al98thompson@gmail.com
A crow perched on a stump in a pine forest covered in dense foliageA Forest raven perched on a broken branchA dense forest environment with a river running through the middleA fox crawling between some dense forest floor foliage.
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sanrio daily @sanrio-daily.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
congrats to this years sanrio character ranking winner, pompompurin! 💫
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晴晴 [On Hiatus] @sachinteng.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
My poster for the official JAWS 50th Anniversary art show~The exhibit opens tonight at Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank, NJ 🦈
A faux retro Taiwanese movie poster of JAWS (1975) all text is in Traditional Chinese. The poster depicts a famous scene of Mrs. Kitner slapping Chief Brody, telling him that her boy is dead. Behind Brody are Mayor Vaughn and Dr. Hooper all look sad and ashamed, heads hanging low. Behind Mrs. Kitner is the funeral director reaching out for Mrs. Kitner, getting ready to take her away from the scene. Mrs. Kitner is dressing all in black. Skirt, blazer, heels, and a hat with a veil. The veil and skirt blowing in the wind. Chief Brody wears glasses, a blue Amity Police jacket, brown shoes, and khakis. His head is low and turned away from the viewer after being slapped. He is looking away from the viewer in shame. Vaughn is wearing a striped blazer with a pink shirt, brown shoes, and dark blue slacks. Hooper is wearing a beanie, glasses, denim jacket, denim pants, and converse shoes. The funeral director wears a fedora, glasses and all black suit. In the background is the tiger shark they mistook for the great white shark,  strung up on a hook and rope, and were prematurely celebrating its capture. Further into the background all the townspeople look equally ashamed for the death of the Kitner boy and their now embarrassing celebration.
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🐋 Two teams, two oceans, one result: to detect #whale #eDNA, sample as soon as possible after a sighting! Unique co-publication experience! @ewhale-dna.bsky.social @savecetaceans.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/edn3... doi.org/10.1002/edn3... #OceanWise #CitizenScience #WhaleWatching #WomenInSTEM
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Croc @crocojaws.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Trying to break my habit of only painting for family in times of loss, and make time to their commemorate joy too. [ #art #digitalpainting #procreate ]
Painting of a young woman holding a puppy.
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emmy @horrorhippies.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Matcha tea ceremony 🍵 🐉 Created with microns and water color.
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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟 doi.org/10.1111/csp2... @mariabeger.bsky.social
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Spatial conservation priorities for marine megafaunal predators: Multi‐taxon versus taxon‐specific approaches
Conservation for marine megafaunal predators needs to improve as they are key for ecosystem functioning. We show that different marine predator taxonomic groups have heterogeneous distributions resul...
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Chris Hassall @katatrepsis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🌏 🧪 🌊🐬New paper led by Lucas Bernier: Fraser’s dolphins are among the least studied dolphins on Earth—offshore, deep-diving, and rarely seen. Lucas' work reveals they are surprisingly common along the Lesser Antilles, with a connected population across the arc. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/mms....
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Characterizing Fraser's Dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) in the Lesser Antilles: Distribution, Movements, and Co‐Occurrence With Other Cetacean Species to Inform Conservation Strategies in the Caribbean
Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) is one of the least studied dolphin species due to its tropical, offshore distribution and low density. However, it is frequently observed in the Lesser Antille...
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Croc @crocojaws.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Puppys guppys wuppys
Watercolor paintings of a French bulldog and a schnauzer, being propped up by the most beautiful cat in the world
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Chris Evenhuis @chrisevenhuis.com · 25/06/2025
Happy 43rd birthday, John Carpenter's THE THING!
Screenshot from John Carpenter's The Thing. It's the scene where the head has grown legs and sneaks into the hallway behind McReady, joyfully wearing a party hat, blowing a party whistle and throwing confetti.
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hey #Evol2025 crew! If you enjoyed your time in Athens, here’s a great way to support the thriving immigrant community that makes it such a vibrant place to visit ❤️
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Allan McDevitt @shrewgod.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New paper out from our crew on using #eDNA to detect the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Bsal) and characterise the surrounding amphibian community from pond samples in the Netherlands. Small number of samples but highlights the potential of eDNA for routine monitoring of both. bioone.org/journals/jou...
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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New orca tool use alert!! @drwhale.bsky.social and colleagues introduce ‘allokelping’. Pairs of killer whales collect kelp strands and then together roll them along their bodies, keeping the kelp between them. The longest bout lasted over 12 minutes. It’s not play, and may be linked to molting 🧪🛠️🌊
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Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales
Michael Weiss and colleagues report on wild orcas using kelp as a tool for social grooming.
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Becky Taylor @beckystaylor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We have a preprint reviewing how genomics has been used to inform evolutionary significant units globally, find inconsistencies, and give recommendations. Genomics is a powerful tool and hopefully can be used more effectively for conservation of ESUs! #consgen #popgen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Millie, the Pinniped Enjoyer @floraplasm.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If anyone else is doing artfight this year :) (team fossil) artfight.net/~lilsasquatch
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Art Fight
An art gifting game
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The American Genetic Association @theaga.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Now in Advance Access: New study on the golden jackal in India reveals high genetic diversity, limited differentiation, and a long evolutionary history. Photo: Ross Huggett
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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Again….we’re just supposed to clock into work and go about our days like nothing is going on? This is insane.
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Morgan McCarthy @marinemolecol.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Interested in range-wide grey seal population structure and demographic history? See our new open access study! It was a fantastic international collaboration and special thanks to @tangeolsen.bsky.social and Kristina Cammen 🧬🦭. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MarineMammals #PopGen #consgen
Photo credit: Morten Tange Olsen
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UnfamiliarArts @unfamiliararts.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A pit fired saber tooth cat! Pit firing feels extra appropriate for prehistoric animals like this one. I’m really happy with how it came out and it’ll be a little hard to part with. This piece will be available today, June 20th at 8pm Eastern time!
A photo of a ceramic saber tooth cat sculpture on a white background. The sculpture has swirling colors of orange, tan, burgundy, pink, and black.
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
With apologies to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social , I fly out for #Evol2025 tomorrow, and thus:
A single panel of the comic strip SMBC. A white person with dark hair and glasses says "I like evolution and me and my friends look at evolution all the time and sometimes the evolution is neat and we tell our other friends about it and our friends also like evolution and sometimes we have evolution parties and so now we know a lot about evolution".  The comic is captioned "The life of a scientist sounds way more fun when you describe it like you're a six year old".  The word "evolution" is conspicuously in a different font than anything else in the speech bubble, almost as if it has been digitally altered from the original text.
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brushy kb @brushy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
a colored pencil and gouache illustration. it appears to be the cover of a book called "enjoy your rabbit." the main image is rendered like a flash photo: a white rabbit on green and yellow hay bedding against a blue wall. it has a large pink and red eye. there is a small simple line illustration of a lucky rabbit's foot above near the title, underneath which reads "go ahead"
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 18/06/2025
June issue: Review by Christian Roos and colleagues on the genomic basis of non-human primate adaptation. Web link: go.nature.com/45tk32n Readcube: rdcu.be/erxFH
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Genomic basis of non-human-primate diversity and adaptation - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the genetic basis of diversification and adaptation in non-human primates, including their responses to ecological and environmental changes.
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The American Genetic Association @theaga.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Check out this cool review exploring the fascinating evolution of radiotolerance in nature! 🌍🛡️ From naked mole rats to tardigrades, certain species have developed extraordinary DNA protection and repair mechanisms.
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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
There is still lots of time to sign up for our 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨ It is a FREE, online course in Evolutionary Biology, made by students and for students! Please share widely and don't forget to register! 💚💚💚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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EvoBio Crash Course 2025 | Registration Form
The fourth edition of the EvoBio Crash Course has opened registration and we are very happy to have you! We are focusing on delivering a rich course on the basics of evolutionary biology so that stude...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/06/2025
Democratic US Senator Alex Padilla was shoved out of a room, forced to the ground and handcuffed by security after attempting to ask a question at a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reut.rs/4l4iOev
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Democratic US Senator Padilla forced to ground, handcuffed by security agents
Democratic U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was shoved out of a room, forced to the ground and handcuffed by security after attempting to ask a question at a Thursday press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ferrari @jazlynmooney.bsky.social et al. find that while parameter scaling improves efficiency, strong scaling distorts diversity, intensifies background selection, and alters linkage patterns. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf097 #genome #evolution #bioinformatics
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Parameter Scaling in Population Genetics Simulations may Introduce Unintended Background Selection: Considerations for Scaled Simulation Design
Abstract. Scaling is a common practice in population genetic simulations to increase computational efficiency. However, few studies systematically examine
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madeline! @mads.haus · 11/06/2025
It is not an exaggeration to say that trans people are being scapegoated as a literal distraction for climate change by the fossil fuel billionaires that caused it.
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✦ sunny ⋆。‧˚ʚ🐊ɞ˚‧。⋆. @wanderingibon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
💫 no amount of hate can ever or will ever snuff out the love we have for our communities! #art #illust #bipoc #linocut #printmaking
A linocut print in black and white of a black tailed jackrabbit, a rabbit native to the US and Northern Mexico. The rabbit, wide eyed, bites clean through chains. The text in all caps reads 'ice out of our communities now!' with the 'now' underlined for emphasis.
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Spike The Friend Understands @alligatorkisses.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Older painting
Painting of a Mountainside with big clouds featuring John (froyos oc) and Gail
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JuliArtWorld @juliartworld.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
finished lynx for patreon last month #animalart #feralart
digital nature illustration in procreate. A eropean lynx sitting on an oak branch. two chaffinch are in the foliage left and right from the lynx. the left eye of the lynx is closed
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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🚨 Out now in #EnvironmentalDNA led by #MiwaTakahashi: Results of a huge, global effort to facilitate the publication of raw and processed #eDNA data & ensure that dataset we are currently generating, adhere to the #FAIR principles & won't be lost. @gbif.org, #ENA, doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
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A Metadata Checklist and Data Formatting Guidelines to Make eDNA FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a transformative tool for biodiversity monitoring and species detection, yet inconsistent metadata practices hinder data interoperability and reuse. To address...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING The City of Glendale, California — one of the most populous cities in Southern California — says it has terminated its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and ICE.
Glendale, CA - The City of Glendale has made the decision to formally terminate its agreement with U.S. Homeland Security and U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house federal immigration detainees at the Glendale Police Department facility.
This is a local decision and was not made lightly. Since 2007, the City has maintained a highly regulated, locally controlled facility that is maintained to the highest standards, extending basic dignities to those temporarily held-ensuring access to clean accommodations, on-call medical care, family visitation, and legal counsel. By offering local access, detainees were given due-process proximity that is too often lacking in more remote or privately-operated detention centers.
Nevertheless, despite the transparency and safeguards the City has upheld, the City recognizes that public perception of the ICE contract—no matter how limited or carefully managed, no matter the good—has become divisive. And while opinions on this issue may vary—the decision to terminate this contract is not politically driven. It is rooted in what this City stands for—public safety, local accountability, and trust.
Glendale is consistently ranked as one of the safest cities in the nation. That is no accident. The Glendale Police Department is trusted and supported by the residents and businesses, and in turn, our officers work every day to protect and serve with professionalism and care. At this time, it is in our best interest to not allow that trust to be undermined.
To that end, we emphasize:
• The Glendale Police Department does not enforce immigration law. That is not their role, nor will it ever be.
• We remain in full compliance with California Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), which prohibits local law enforcement from using resources for immigration enforcement.
• The Glendale Police Department has not engaged in immigration enforcement, nor will it do so moving forward.
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Charlie Huveneers @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New Science paper: 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species to identify spatial conservation targets www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @anammsequeira.bsky.social
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JENN! ✨ @thekeythief.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.
A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"
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