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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 10h

I had a great ten-minute unplanned photo session with a praying mantis at the farm today. I'm working through the photos now, but what a model. What a pro.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

This is infuriating. Can't stop thinking about it. For 35 yrs I've talked to experts, asked them for their time & expertise. IT IS WRONG to treat sources as Nicole was treated. Just shitty, one human to another, but also unethical and deceptive.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 12h

Any source who ever plans to talk to USA Today needs to know about this and assess whether it's worth the gamble. I've never heard of this for any publication I've worked with, but add it to the pile of unethical and dangerous practices to look out for in contracts.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 13h

My trailcam, which has picked up deer, elk, coyotes etc, caught a cat stalking my property. Go home, kitty. Did I mention we have coyotes? (I hope all my precious birds are as cautious as the one that watches and then flies away on the right side of the screen.) #oregon #birds #KeepYourCatsInside

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22h

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 22h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What they’re hoping for and acting for is germinating the seeds of extreme acts of violence against South Asians. That’s why they use the explicitly Nazi framing of the ‘Indian question’. They want the same results. Their followers are pretty open it on social media, too.

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Chelton's Bird and Wildlife Photography @bird-photography.bsky.social · 23h

#BestBeaks goes to oystercatchers. The tropical red and orange blend of colors is so cool. And the beak color matches the ring around their eye! #birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdoftheday 🦉 🪶

Standing on a pile of gooseneck barnacles, an oystercatcher faces left and eyes the camera. It has light pink legs, a dark brown body, a black head, and a beautiful, bright red and orange beak. Its visible eye is bright yellow with a tiny black pupil and a ring of bright red flesh surrounding it - the same color as its beak.

📷 Canon R5 Mk II
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
Av, f/7.1, 1/1600, ISO 640, 500mm
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Northern Oregon Coast

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026

Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. n.pr/4z0FPpq

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'It's a nightmare.' Former refugee, professor on Trump's new Medicaid policy

Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the day to commiserate with Charles Darwin, on the 161st anniversary of his confessing to Charles Lyell that he felt "...very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everyone & everything." Here's more of the back story on Darwin writing about this not-so-good day. www.npr.org/sections/kru...

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Charles Darwin And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Geniuses have it easy, right? They wake up and out pops the brilliance. Well, not really. And not if that genius is Charles Darwin, who's got lots to do and absolutely no desire to do it. Those days (...

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There have been five sexual assaults reported on or near the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene in the last week. We should absolutely keep the pressure on Cornell. But it's every campus. It's every day. #oregon www.kezi.com/news/local/u...

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UO alerts campus after five sexual assaults in one week

The University of Oregon reported five sexual assaults on or near campus in the past week.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread]

Map showing predicted temperature anomalies in early October from the ECMWF ensemble across the western U.S. Nearly the entire region is painted red and pink, indicating widespread very warm anomalies.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's almost time to start converting last year's garlic into next year's garlic. I'm finally to the point where I no longer need to buy seed. I just grow and replant, and eat and give away the compound interest. Happy almost October. #oregon #garlic #gardening

A hanging mesh bag with about 20 heads of cleaned hardneck garlic.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Inevitability is always a lie. I love Philly so much.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You don't run a marathon to get somewhere 26 miles away. A car can do that much faster. The running is the point, every hard step. I feel sincerely sad for anyone who skips steps in writing using an LLM. You're robbing yourself along with your audience. Yes, it's hard. But it's also so much fun.

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This starter pack (which rocks) is going around again, and you could do worse than just follow the whole darned thing! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 28/09/2026

BREAKING: Ukrinform, the state news agency of Ukraine, reports that a Russian drone has struck the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, causing a fire. Last month, we reported on a visit to one of the research groups housed within the complex, which studies fungi across the country.

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Ukrainian Mycologists Are Not Giving Up

As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Ukrainian mushroom scientists struggle in their quotidian work.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remnants of hurricanes #Odalys and #Polo will send immense amounts of water vapor into the South-Central U.S. this week. Forecasts call for 1-in-10 to 1-in-25 year amounts of rain in a three-day span in parts of Arizona and New Mexico. September may end as Albuquerque's wettest month on record.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The team at OSU put on a fabulous conference. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make it happen, and everyone who made the trek to our little town. For all its issues, we have a cool job, largely because of the people we get to call our colleagues. Travel safe and keep in touch. #SciWri26

A wall with the words 'ScienceWriters26' written on it, each letter filled with drawings of animals, telescopes, and other sciency things for conference goers to color in.

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Ellen Kuwana, MS (#SciComm at #SciWri26) @ellenkuwana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Advice to #SciWri26 #freelancers: Apply to awards, grants and fellowships! (And if you’re interested in #editing, check out ACES: The Society for Editing—scholarships awarded to college students who are interested in a career in editing. aceseditors.org/awards/aces-...

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ACES Scholarships

Apply for an ACES Scholarship and earn funding to support your editing career. Learn about eligibility, deadlines, awards, and the application process.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am profoundly tired of hearing about Elon Musk, but if there's one way to get me to watch a whole documentary about him, and get others to watch it too, it's censoring the trailer. Streisand effect, activate.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's not you, large crowd of nice and interesting people. It's me. I'm looking forward to the slightly smaller groups of folks over the next few days of this work conference, but for tonight, I'm cooked.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah, the neurodivergent pain of having scheduled things later today, but unscheduled things I need to get done first. I usually avoid this with how I schedule, but that's not possible with professional meetings, so I'm going to do a lot of unproductive waiting. Thanks, brain.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm excited to welcome some of the best science writers and editors in the country to my little town of Corvallis, OR for #SciWri26. If you're coming and there's anything a local can do to help you, drop me a DM. Even if it's just for bar and food recommendations. See y'all soon.

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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 03/09/2026

Brown University researchers found the oil lobby is succeeding in tanking state bills that aim to make polluters pay, despite supporters outnumbering the bill critics. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/03/o...

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Oil lobby tanking climate Superfund bills in Oregon, 11 states despite public support, study finds • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Brown University researchers found testimony from fossil fuel lobbyists has had disproportionate impact on climate Super

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Criti-hype: transphobia edition. When you share something, you give it more reach, even if you're telling people it sucks.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

IT'S RAINING. All I want to do is listen to it, walk in it, feel it on my face and hear it on my roof. Despite the long days, I'll never be a summer person. Summer in the Pacific Northwest can be pretty, but it feels wrong because it's dry. This is a wet place. Rain turns it back into itself.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026

I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What a nice wildlife experience to start September. This hairy woodpecker spent about an hour on the farm today, frolicking and feeding, and showing off much closer to me than I'm used to them coming. I love it when they hammer on tiny branches and not just big trunks. #birds #oregon

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is such a sadness. The Academy of Natural Sciences is closing its library and museum at the end of this month.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't use LLMs, but I've been guilty of accidentally hyping them by calling them "AI". They're not, and every time we call them that, even to oppose them, we hand companies trying to replace labor with algorithms a win. Get in losers, we're calling LLMs what they are - models, not intelligence.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A beautiful and slightly wary elk made her way past the trailcam yesterday. Love the little glance back and air sniff at the end. It's always good to see them on the land I manage, and as close as we are to both hunters and a road, wary is a good thing. #oregon #wildlife

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Get the shingles vaccine if you can. Shingles felt like half my face was on fire. I didn't sleep without heavy drugging. I still have shingles nightmares. BUT. I shared news of this study yesterday, before I had read more deeply into it. The heart health side benefit may be unfortunately be vapor.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm not sharing the video, because it shows people dying. I don't think videos of death should be shown without consent to watch them. But I do think everyone should watch it by choice, and look hard at the photos. The climate crisis is killing people now. It will kill and harm so many more.

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ICE made 50,000 arrests in July, the highest monthly number of the Trump administration. The raids aren't just continuing. They're escalating. And yet I see less talk and coverage of ICE on my feeds than I did a year ago. Never let this feel normal. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ice-...

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ICE arrests in Minnesota return to pre-surge levels while soaring nationwide

Immigration enforcement in Minnesota has returned to pre-Operation Metro Surge levels, according to newly released federal data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.At the same time, federal immig...

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If any of my science writing friends here are coming to Corvallis for #SciWri26, please let me know so we can start planning side quests. Especially if you aren't booked on a Monday field trip. I have some ideas for a smaller, maybe better one. #scicomm

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

neutral. lol. some of yall wouldn't recognize a moral stance if it danced in front of you wearing nothing but rhinestones

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As someone who has had shingles, let me assure you that *not getting shingles* is reason enough to get the vaccine. But if the avoidance of screaming nerve pain isn't enough to convince you, it also benefits heart health. So if you can, please, get it. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Shingles vaccine linked to reduced heart risks

New data add weight to idea that immunization protects against more than just the chickenpox virus

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Turkey vulture says hi! #birds

A photo of a turkey vulture perched in a tree with its wings spread out.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

All birds are dinosaurs, but some are more dinosaur than others. Two California Condors showed up on a wildfire tracking cam yesterday, demonstrating their love of shiny things. Picture from ALERTCalifornia on FB. You can watch all their cams here: cameras.alertcalifornia.org?pos=35.1598_... #birds

Two California Condors on an ALERTCalifornia wildfire detection camera. One is roosting in the background. The other is getting up close and personal with the camera, demonstrating why you don't want to drop anything metallic in condor country. They will eat it.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've seen them at the same time, but never captured both in the same image. What a treat. The size difference is surprisingly unhelpful when you see them on their own, but that beak tells the story.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens and Mount Adams poke above a smoky Washington sky on Wednesday morning. #WAwx

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Adding to the list of things I'm done with and just blocking on social media: Shaming people for AC. With the number of states, nations and people experiencing heavy smoke right now, "just open your windows and acclimatize" is not an acceptable comment. I do not have AC. I'll probably get it soon.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

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