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Jennifer Ruiz

@jennyruiz.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ UHouston by day 🛰️🌱 mamá by night (also by day 😊🩷)

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Steve Pennings @stevenpennings.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Congratulations to Jennifer Ruiz, second place oral presentation at the regional ecology and evolution symposium in Houston.
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Still a few years in and waiting to be convinced about how AI helps deepen student learning, btw
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Steve Pennings @stevenpennings.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social
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Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation @cerfscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
💧 Estuaries are nature's water treatment plants! Their wetland plants, including salt marshes and mangroves, filter pollutants, excess nutrients, and sediments from water before it reaches the ocean. 🌱 #EstuariesWeek #WadeIn #WaterQuality #NaturalFilters
A salt marsh with houses in the background
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 20/09/2025
The Indigenous community of San José Poaquil is using technology to monitor the health and integrity of their ancestral forest. Locals have created online maps for their forest, which have allowed them to keep track of wildfires, deforestation and other illicit activities that threaten the area.
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In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping
SAN JOSÉ POAQUIL, Guatemala — The last rays of daylight filter through the trees as Andres “Tata” López, 56, the local Maya mayor, greets his neighbors coming to source water in the communal forest…
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
So obviously destructive.
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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This new JWST image is incredible 🤩
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Jennifer Ruiz @jennyruiz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Friends, hace poco I was ✨influenced✨ and it was a great read! 😊
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Ecology and Evolution at the University of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Congratulations @martin-nunez.bsky.social !!
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Malinalli López Arreguín 🎥 ✨ @isawu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
One of the most powerful documentaries on Netflix is The Guardian of the Monarchs. The film follows environmentalist Homero Gómez, who dedicated his life to protecting the monarch butterflies. It’s a stunning portrait of a father passing his wisdom to his son—in spite of the risk to his life.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025
Federal pandemic relief money supercharged summer learning. When that funding expired, Philadelphia found a way to keep its program going. It's an investment that's all about making learning fun.
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Philadelphia found a way to keep kids learning in the summer, without federal dollars
Federal pandemic relief money supercharged summer learning. When that funding expired, Philadelphia found a way to keep its program going. It's an investment that's all about making learning fun.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 29/04/2025
Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries? Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
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Getting started with PBS Passport
PBS Passport is a member benefit from participating PBS stations that gives eligible donors and supporters extended access to an on-demand library of quality public television programming online. If ...
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 06/06/2025
After 25 years of watching Earth's changes, Landsat 7 has been decommissioned. It helped monitor forests, glaciers, disasters, and coastlines, providing decades of open science data. Its archive will continue to support research and environmental management 🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️ #Landsat #RemoteSensing #GIS
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End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation
After 25 years of capturing Earth's changing landscape, the Landsat 7 satellite received its final transmission from the U.S. Geological Survey and was officially decommissioned June 4, closing a rema...
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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
There's a Roger Angell quote I've been thinking about recently on how you'd better belong to the times that you're living in. And I'm increasingly feeling like I'm not cut out to belong to these times, lmao, sorry!!!
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Absolutely devastating reporting from Hana Kiros on what "life-saving aid" has come to mean and not mean, and the many children dying as a result. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
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AC Vasquez - 安娜 @criskotsu.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If you are having a bad day, this Tolomuco invites you to cherish the little moments #FundacionMadreVerde #CostaRica
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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hey 🛰️ people, NASA's Worldview portal now includes orbital tracks of ESA and JAXA's Earthcare satellite. For ex, now one can find relatively fast whether the lidar sampled an event of interest. Like in the attached example shewing if it profiled a dust event from a few weeks ago.
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Jonaki Mehta @jonakimehta.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hey y'all - I'm in the baby stages of building up my Bluesky, but wanted to share some reporting from this week: Just a minutes ago, nearly half of the Ed Dept.'s staff finished their last day of work before being put on admin leave: many who spent decades at the dept. All but 3 people remain at...
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"What they're doing to our public servants is extraordinarily cruel, possibly illegal. It's actually cutting off their nose to spite their face because of the number of errors, the number of mistakes that are going to happen, not just in education, but across the administration."
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Texas Reporter @texasreporter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Guadalupe Mountains. Texas.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I spoke with Kaesee Bourne, a fish and wildlife biologist terminated under the DOGE layoffs, about the work she was doing for the government defector.com/an-interview...
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An Interview With A Fired USFWS Biologist | Defector
A week into February, Kaesee Bourne was nervous about her job. Last August, she had joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a fish and wildlife biologist working in California and Nevada. “What s...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 24/02/2025
Featured story: “The good private schools we’d all like to send our kids to already have waiting lists a mile long. No public school kid is going to St. John’s in Houston or St. Mark’s in Dallas with a voucher clutched in his or her little hand.”
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Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)
Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in you...
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Jennifer Ruiz @jennyruiz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I just realized that NASA ARSET archive of remote sensing trainings are no longer available 🥺 they were a great resource for me before I could take formal classes at UH on this material, and continued to be very useful for learning about new/emerging technologies & applications. How sad!
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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today is #WorldWetlandsDay. These ecosystems need protection, since they sustain #biodiversity hot-spots and provide us essential #ecosystemservices #MarineEcology
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Corrine 🌎🛰️ @corrinerojas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Lucky shot on my way home from the National Portrait Gallery: the Washington Monument with the crescent moon (my fave phase!) right next to Venus. I’m choosing to see this as a good omen from the universe (🤞).
A phone picture of the Washington Monument at night with the waxing crescent moon right next to a very bright Venus.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/01/2025
Heroes
Tweet from MapQuest:

fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico - not because of politics but because we haven't updated our maps in like 15 years and don't remember how to do it

3:01 PM • Jan 29, 2025
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 21/01/2025
#ICYMI: Education expert @dianeravitch.bsky.social spoke to @josephinelee.bsky.social about attending Houston’s public schools during McCarthyism and about how Trump’s second administration could impact public schools and students.
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What Trump 2.0 Could Mean for Public Education
Houston native and education expert Diane Ravitch urges a fight for "the future of Texas, and for the future of the children" under Trump's proposed reforms.
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever! #literacy
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Jennifer Ruiz @jennyruiz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The jury is out: I am once again victim to Disney and the new Lion King movie is to blame 😭 the nostalgia factor worked yall all I needed to hear was the subtle symphony in the background. Tears! Idk what the haters were going on about. I was about to start roaring too.
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Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I've been saying this for 15 yrs, based on what I was seeing/see daily in my classroom, and I'm glad the research is seeing it. Now let's do something about it.
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Jennifer Ruiz @jennyruiz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Thinking about them (los Traileros del Norte)
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Thanks you so much @Wiley for this certificate❤️ I specially thank you for replacing the ñ, not for the classic n, but for the more interesting ± symbol. I see this ± as a deep recognition of the nature of the sometimes difficult job of accepting or rejecting articles Dr. Nu plus/minus ez
certificate by the publisher Wiley that Dr nu±ez was an editor at the journal of applied ecology. they changed ñ the for the ± symbol as a typo
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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
if you have access to a local library … USE ITS RESOURCES! visit! check out books, even if you end up returning them unread. sign up for programming! request new books! libraries are some of the best community spots around and it’s so easy to support them & help them continue to get funding!
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