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Lucy Howey

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Science. Animals. Fossils. Sharks. PhD candidate. Maryland.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
JUST IN: Judge Micah Smith blocks Trump admin attempt to allow fishing in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, first created by President George W. Bush in 2009. Smith, a Biden appointee, says notice and comment was required Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/07/2025
“The world is at a tipping point for sharks and rays.” Several proposals seeking greater protection of more than 70 shark and ray species from commercial trade were raised this week for deliberation at the 20th meeting of CITES, the global convention on the wildlife trade, to be held in November.
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Countries seek urgent CITES protection of more than 70 sharks and rays
Several proposals seeking greater protection of more than 70 shark and ray species from commercial trade were raised this week for deliberation at the 20th meeting of CITES, the global convention on…
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/04/2025
"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." theatln.tc/y3RevJzO
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/04/2025
Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say
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Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say
Fossil teeth show species of protemnodon that roamed Australia between 5m and 40,000 years ago lived and died near Queensland caves
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/04/2025
The invasive northern snakehead — a sharp-toothed fish that looks like a horrifying hybrid of fish and snake — is spreading throughout the waters of the U.S. and must be eradicated, officials say. But if you fish, you can help. Here's how. nyti.ms/4i7Js43
A fish with its mouth open, showing teeth, is being held by a hand. A headline reads: “This Creepy Fish is Invading U.S. Waters. If You See It, Kill It, Officials Say.” Photo credit: Ryan Hagerty/USFWS.
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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. ..
It was an
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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Nature @nature.com · 13/03/2025
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration Are you thinking about leaving? go.nature.com/424ejK8
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These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll
In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move.
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Colleen Boland 🇺🇦🌏🏳️‍🌈🫡 @colleenboland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“The Trump administration’s ignorance is trumped only by its malice toward the planet … Come hell and high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives.” — @jasonrylander.bsky.social #ClimateEmergency
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EPA head says he'll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate ch...
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"What Musk presents is the definitive fantasy of escape: from decency, care, love and the living planet itself. They can leave it all behind, leap off the vile Earth, and ascend into heaven." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot
He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We really are living in a monopoly game from hell
reuters.com
US lists Department of Justice, FBI and other agency headquarters for possible sale
The Trump administration on Tuesday identified 443 federal properties for possible sale, including the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Labor Department and other federal agencies.
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rickhutzell.bsky.social @rickhutzell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Lee Zeldin was in Annapolis on Friday. If you’ve never heard of him, he’s the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Was this the ax man — come to size up some necks? www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Facing threats, the Chesapeake economy in Annapolis could tumble
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin paid a visit to Annapolis recently amid concerns about state and federal budget cuts. Some worry about the potential effects on the bay economy.
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Hayes Gardner @hayesgardner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Maryland trades more with Mexico than the entire United States trades with Greece. Here’s a look at the ~$7 billion worth of goods that Maryland annually imports from Canada and Mexico — which now face a 25% tariff. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/tari...
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Here’s what Maryland imports from Canada and Mexico
Mexico, Canada and China — which the Trump administration is slapping with tariffs — are the U.S.’s top trading partners, and plenty of those goods land in Maryland.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Defunding the world’s leading scientific community is akin to a performing a prefrontal lobotomy on the nation—you are effectively severing the connections between the most innovative ideas and its citizens. Cutting support for science harms everyone! www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/a-national...
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A National Prefrontal Lobotomy: The Costs of Cutting the Social Sciences
Issue 158: The long-term impacts of funding cuts threaten "social science for a safer world"
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today, we're announcing more actions to help Marylanders impacted by federal workforce layoffs, firings, and changes to federal funding. youtube.com/live/kpymjA5...
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Governor Wes Moore Press Conference on Federal Workforce
YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Devastating.
vox.com
This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.
Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet — a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all Americans. Those resources don’t just appear. They come from nature." @benjij.bsky.social
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Trump’s job cuts at this overlooked agency put every American at risk
A “wholesale decimation of expertise” threatens the natural resources we all rely on, a former top government official tells Vox.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/02/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just putting this here to remind myself more than anything...
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NPR @npr.org · 24/01/2025
Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.
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Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal
Costco's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would seek report on the risks of diversity, equity and inclusion in the company's hiring practices.
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I love this climate series from @theguardian.com
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I figured out how to use two-thirds less water — and it only took a week to set up
Setting up a rainwater and greywater conservation system wasn’t hard, and the whole project took about a week
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This woman should have been met with compassion and dignified assistance. Instead, states' that fein and legislate their "love of babies", behave in every way but. I challenge anyone to watch this body cam footage and truthfully say this is the country they want.
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Pregnant Kentucky woman cited by police for street camping while in labor
Officer detained woman and confiscated mattress from under a Louisville overpass after she said her water broke
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/12/2024
Nikki Giovanni understood that Black American cultural history was, in part, the inevitable result of centuries-long oppression—but that it was also the product of constant evolution, writes Hannah Giorgis:
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Nikki Giovanni’s Wondrous Celebrations of Black Life
The poet’s work crackled with revolutionary fire, but also contained jubilation and gentleness.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Trump announces that billionaires no longer have to comply with environmental regulations
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/11/2024
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. This is Lucy’s legacy.
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Meet Lucy, the celebrity of fossils, who changed our view of evolution
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Nope, not normal at all.
latimes.com
Boiling Point: Intentionally destroying the climate is not normal
Here's who Trump wants to put in charge of environmental, health and public lands policy.
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
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California dazzled by ‘extremely rare’ killer whale sightings off southern coast
A group of 10 orcas has been seen leaping into the air to catch prey, delighting watchers and experts for the past two weeks
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/12/2023
As climate change intensifies, a quarter of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, according to a new assessment which found that the biggest threat to the species was pollution.
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A Quarter of Freshwater Fish Are at Risk of Extinction, a New Assessment Finds
A global update from the leading authority on the status of species shows that climate change is compounding other threats to plants and animals.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/12/2023
The children of Narges Mohammadi, Iran’s most prominent human rights activist, who is locked inside an Iranian prison, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. In a speech Mohammadi prepared, she called for a “globalization of peace and human rights.”
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Children of Jailed Narges Mohammadi Accept Her Nobel Peace Prize
At the ceremony in Oslo, the Iranian activist’s twins also read a speech from their mother calling for a “globalization of peace and human rights.”
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Lucy Howey @lucyahowey.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
This is cool! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...
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Once Thought to Be Plants, These Rare Fossils Are Actually Baby Turtles, Scientists Say
The prehistoric specimens found in Colombia could represent one of the oldest and largest turtle species to ever exist
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
🦑🚔🎣🐬☠️ Illegal fishing for endangered totoaba used to be caused by folks selling swim bladders for Asian medicine. Now, it's for making health drinks. It's probably still killing the even more endangered vaquita porpoise
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Environmental groups accuse Mexican startup of illegally selling health drink from endangered totoab...
Groups are concerned the company could be selling totoaba that is illegally caught in the wild, where gillnet fishing is also killing the endangered vaquita porpoise.
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Joshua Lüdtke @joshualudtke.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Orange County in California is hiring an archaeology and paleontology preparation specialist. Tell your friends who have experience in preparing fossils and artifacts!
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Archaeology & Paleontology Preparation Specialist
ARCHAEOLOGY & PALEONTOLOGY PREPARATION SPECIALIST(STAFF SPECIALIST)SALARY INFORMATIONIn addition to performance-based merit increases, this position is scheduled to receive salary range increases on t...
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