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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 27/01/2026

I have looked up EVERY Democrat Senator's statements on DHS funding: only ONE Senate Dem is a YES vote. John Fetterman. Here are the statements if you want to read them for yourself. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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DHS Funding Vote Statements

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov of NH have not committed to voting against the DHS funding bill. What's the hold up, Senators? Please grow a spine, do not approve this funding bill, and fight for your constituents against this terror.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Congress cannot fund a Department of Homeland Security that is unapologetically murdering Americans; running a "baby prison" in Texas for the purpose of traumatizing little kids; acting like the law and truth don't exist. We swore an oath to uphold the law.

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Jesse Popp @jessepopp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

*NEW OPPORTUNITY* with the WISE Lab and Saugeen Ojibway Nation on "Community-Driven Mukwa (Black Bear) Conservation" - Please share!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/11/2025

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Very upset to see my senators @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov cave to the GOP and fail to protect ACA. What was the point of the shutdown? What are you fighting for?

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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NHMARF @nhmarf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Did you all know that immigrant rights groups in NH have a monthly protest in front of the Manchester ICE office on Chestnut St? And they have for years?

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.” apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care

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Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights

An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer says the Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors is “a devastating loss for transgender people” and "e...

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

One month in to horseshoe crab monitoring season! On Sunday, I counted ~60 individuals at one site.

A pile of horseshoe crabs in the rocky intertidal zone, with some sea grass in the background.

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

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Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture

They’re worried about the loss of their research.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Terrible. Really upsetting to see NH police partnering with ICE.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's the beginning of horseshoe crab spawning season!! Thrilled to see this dude scuttling around yesterday, and to contribute to the annual Great Bay horseshoe crab monitoring #ParticipatoryScience project!

A woman smiling at the camera, holding a horse shoe crab, standing in an estuary on a sunny day

Two people stand on rocks looking out at the water

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Scientists have done the research. Federal agencies are mandated to use that research—much of which was taxpayer funded!—to make evidence-based policies. This is an all-out assault on expertise, and as Dr. Tran notes, it’s all about grift. People talk about Big Pharma but ignore Big Supplement.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/04/2025

The moment Mohsen Mahdawi was released from ICE custody in Vermont.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

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RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction

Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

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Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025

We are a “public” system that already gets less than 10% of its funding from the state, and these people want to cut it more. They don’t care about the children of New Hampshire, who deserve a high quality, affordable, and local university system option. www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/l...

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UNH, state colleges could lose tens of millions in NH budget cuts

The University System of New Hampshire would receive $28.8 million less in state funding per year if NH House Finance Committee budget cuts hold.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Any institution of higher education that is expelling students, revoking degrees, pursuing legal action against students, handing students over to ICE or refusing to provide them legal support for expressing their right to freedom of speech is carrying out a fascist agenda.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Passed my comprehensive exams last week, AND my #2025MMM bracket is currently leading in my pool. The beavers are out rebuilding their dam, the red-winged blackbirds are yelling my favorite bird yell. And I'm going to visit dear friends I haven't seen in four years. Things I'm happy about.

A dog stands on an armchair and looks out the window of a closed door

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Talk about burying the lede..: He was TORTURED. That's your headline.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

The Trump administration’s attacks on scientific funding, restrictions on Federal scientist activities, and
indiscriminate firing have caused chaos, panic, and harm.

We need *specific* examples of harms caused
by these policies to include in an open letter.
Grants cut, projects cancelled, jobs lost.

Feel free to send news stories, blog posts, or social media posts that mention these, as well as original contributions.

Please send to WhySharksMatter @ gmail or DM me

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NH Sea Grant @nhseagrant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The deadline is approaching for two Community Engaged #GraduateResearch Fellowship opportunities! Learn more and apply today: seagrant.unh.edu/fellowships/... @unhresearch.bsky.social

An aerial view of the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary.

A view of the Lamprey River as seen from downtown Newmarket, New Hampshire.

Two volunteers conduct beach profiling measurements on a sandy New Hampshire beach.

A view of New Hampshire's Great Bay at sunset, with shades of blue and purple.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This piece emphasizes the incredible barriers unhoused people face when trying to find a home. The systems we have do not support people, they uphold rigid rules that further the unhoused crisis we are seeing in this country. One dedicated person cannot change the world, we need community support.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/01/2025

So we here in the Boston metro/NH/Maine Seacoast just experienced a quite interesting earthquake and I have info about the epicenter thanks to the US Geological Survey, which is part of the Dept of Interior, which is under a Trump hiring freeze 🧪 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Latest Earthquakes

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hey science friends? I know that many of you are concerned about the perceived neutral and apolitical role of science in decisionmaking. But scientists are being targeted. We didn't start it. And advocating *for the role of scientific evidence in policymaking* is not unprofessional advocacy.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Once again, my favorite photo from the field season goes to this often blurry camera that - in exactly the right light with exactly the right conditions - gives me a stellar photo of a red squirrel or a chickadee. Thank you, crappy Bushnell camera, you're a star.

Camera trap photo of a red squirrel on snow in a coniferous forest stand on a sunny day

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Out doing some fieldwork yesterday when I came across this solitary print on a trail covered by dog tracks. Bobcat? My hand (left) and my dog's print (right) in the first photo. The trail was completely obscured by dogs, but this one print stood out!

Two footprints in the snow, with a hand beside them for relative scale

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

First snow of the season in southern New Hampshire! Good day for tracking wildlife, like this squirrel.

Snow covered trees with birds flying through the sky. There is some blue sky peeking through streaks of clouds

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Tevita ‘Uhatafe @tevitauhatafe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I love the UAW more than I do my own union. My life was forever changed when I joined a UAW picket line. The admiration I have for this union was expressed in a book. This called strike by UAW Staff United hurts me greatly. I stand in solidarity with the staff workers who keep our unions running!

Photo from Chattanooga Times Free Press at the Volkswagen Chattanooga election watch party, Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 20, 2024

Photo taken at UAW Local 900 Ford strike picket line on the forth day of the Big 3 automakers ‘Stand Up Strike’ campaign, Wayne, Michigan, September 18, 2023

An excerpt from Ijeoma Oluo’s “Be a Revolution,” in which I express my first experience on a strike picket line with the UAW, along with a collage of photos of various UAW picket lines over the years

UAW Staff United’s strike picket line locations, dates, and times in New York City

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I can't believe I found out Kendrick dropped a new album from NPR. Is this what falling off feels like?

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Remington Moll @remingtonmoll.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

New paper! We analyzed coyote abundance across the USA working w/@rolandkays.bsky.social & SNAPSHOT USA Hunting seemed to ⬆️ abundance Wolf, puma, & bear effects were habitat-dependent Urban effects flipped from ➖ to ➕ as spatial scale increased nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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NHMARF @nhmarf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello further new followers! We got some decent picture of our tables at the Manchester free store on Sunday. Check out all the stuff we were able to turn out with! We got a lot of donated goods but some things have to be purchased regularly. Consider making a donation at donorbox.org/nhmarf !

The piles of bins ready to be set up for the Manchester free store. There are bins of all sizes, some bottled waters, some walkers, some bags, and a sign that says "Mutual Aid Free Store" covered in stickers. One of the bins has whimsical googly eyes.

A picture of the hygiene table at the Manchester New Hampshire free store. There are two boxes of body wipes, a bin of oral hygiene supplies, and a bin of deodorant, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, and soap.

A photo of the Manchester New Hampshire first aid table. There are seven bins and one bag of supplies across two folding tables. They first two are filled with bandages, gauze, wraps, creams, and wipes. The rest are not as visible.

A close up of the bins that were obscured earlier on the first aid table. There are menstrual care items like pads and tampons, cough drops, Julie (plan B), pregnancy tests, Narcan, COVID tests, and condoms visible.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My partner and I used to work with conservation detection dogs. When we moved to NH so I could go to grad school, we adopted 4 of the dogs we worked with and those working pups became pets. They haven't worked a detection job in four years. (Some photos from their working dog days!) 1/3

A dog stands on a log on a steep hill, with tall trees and ferns. Photo taken on the Olympic Peninsula, WA, USA

A dog with goggles lays in the sand, with dry woody plants in the background. Photo taken in Coachella Valley, CA, USA

A dog lays on the grassy ground with his tongue out, with a toy at his feet. Photo taken in eastern WA, USA

A standing dog looks at the camera, while a man in the background is collecting biological data from the ground. Photo taken in NM, USA

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Trying to build up my community over here more, I'd love to connect with more wildlife ecologists, landscape ecologists, and graduate students! I'll be posting some of my research and more from my lab, and tons of camera trap pictures of wildlife in New Hampshire!

A red fox walks over the snow in a wintery forest.

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Mairi Poisson @maipoisson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello! I'm a PhD student at U of New Hampshire studying how human development impacts mammalian wildlife. I have a background in field research, and a hopeful future as an applied researcher creating conservation solutions with communities. I love reading, walking dogs, and mutual aid!

A dog sniffing the face of a smiling woman in a forest

A man walking two dogs in the forest during the fall, a third dog in the foreground is looking back at the man and two dogs

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NHMARF @nhmarf.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

WOW that's a lot of new followers! Nice to meet you all! We're the New Hampshire Mutual Aid Relief Fund and we run a few free stores every week across New Hampshire. We also assist in disaster relief work with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. The battle is very much uphill here but we will never give up.

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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

“Ten states own 1.6 million acres of land within 83 tribal nations’ reservations.” Anna V. Smith and Uprooter Maria Parazo Rose for High Country News www.hcn.org/articles/how...

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How states make money off tribal lands - High Country News

Ten states own 1.6 million acres of land within 83 tribal nations’ reservations. How did they get there?

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