Reposted by Maraina MilesDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I don't know what's going on here but HOLY COW. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati... 1623051
Reposted by Maraina MilesRobert Mahon @bedform.org · 06/04/2025Funny how crowd estimates were ~2.5 million across the country for yesterday's protests but all the news agencies say "thousands" 1153
Reposted by Maraina MilesPaul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Trust me...I was NOT PAID to protest in the rain at a windy 40F. I was there because I care about democracy and our country and human rights. 0112
Reposted by Maraina MilesHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff 337114952723
Reposted by Maraina MilesProf Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The big question is - will the penguins now impose reciprocal tariffs? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near AntarcticaAustralian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president 66216
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Every office needs a Li’l Sebastianmedia.tenor.coma man in a suit sits next to a pony that says ladies and gentlemen the world famousALT: a man in a suit sits next to a pony that says ladies and gentlemen the world famous 020
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Every fictional lake I was able to come up with is just referred to as ‘a lake’ or ‘the lake.’ The only one that has a name is Long Lake, from the Lord of the Rings, but that is definitely not a small lake. Sorry! The folks over at #booksky might be able to help. 130
Reposted by Maraina MilesNOAA Climate.gov @climate.noaa.gov · 21/03/2025Today’s featured piece from the NCA5 Art x Climate Gallery showcases Jillian Pelto’s watercolor and colored pencil work reflecting coastal wetland restoration and changes in fishing behavior in the Gulf of Maine. www.climate.gov/news-feature... 511815
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 21/03/2025True! That doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as well, though. 010
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 20/03/2025He likes to stretch out like this. The name seemed fitting! 110
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Today, Esker learned that candle ice is not for walking on. 140
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 19/03/2025March 2023, Tierra del Fuego. Our feathered field assistant kept wondering why were weren't dead yet. #condor #thismealistakingforever 020
Reposted by Maraina MilesJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13/03/2025It has been an emotional rollercoaster following the USDA freeze earlier this week. Staff feared layoffs; grad students wondered if they’ll make rent. We just learned that USDA funds will be restored. This is a win for Maine’s farmers, growers, and kids, too! www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...bangordailynews.comDonald Trump’s USDA reverses freeze on funding to Maine’s public universitiesIt was an abrupt reversal of the funding freeze that was announced in a Monday notice to the University of Maine System. 1227751
Reposted by Maraina MilesJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...pressherald.comUSDA halts funding for University of Maine programsThe temporary spending pause comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut all of Maine's federal funding following an altercation with Gov. Janet Mills over allowing transgender athl... 149350
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Flashback to an early rise during summer '22 fieldwork in South Dakota. Unzipped the door of my tent to find out I was under investigation by this herd of curious horses. 110
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Yes, your posts introduced me to the idea. Thank you! Now, after scrolling through the usual doom and gloom on my feed, I do a search for #shelfie and admire the collections. 010
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I have learned that #shelfie is a thing. It brings me joy. 211
Reposted by Maraina MilesJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Given that Trump is empowering Nazi wannabe Musk and has let neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists take high level posts, this has nothing to do with "antisemitism." It is the garden-variety war against higher education that right-wing authoritarians always do. abc7ny.com/post/trump-a...abc7ny.comTrump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia UniversityThe administration said the cuts were made because of "the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students," 527788
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 05/03/2025They’re really out to make the world a shittier place: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water suppliesRuling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act 000
Reposted by Maraina MilesAaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025“‘This notice is devastating for our team and countless partners, the University of Maine and the entire state,’ Maine Sea Grant Director Gayle Zydlewski said in a written statement.” www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...pressherald.comMaine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant programThe move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p... 041
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This warm spell has reminded me of Tierra del Fuego. Maybe it's the humidity? The smell of melting snow? The chilly breeze? Here's a whale vertebra, part of a nearly intact skeleton that served as a landmark while conducting fieldwork on Isla Navarino in early March, 2024. 000
Reposted by Maraina MilesMartha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together! 29194124911
Reposted by Maraina MilesJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Hey look a portal open to public submission, hope no one floods it with the Bee Movie script to the point of being unusable or something 451381736
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 25/02/2025‘Hold Still’ is one of my favorite memoirs. I hope you enjoy it! 100
Reposted by Maraina MilesJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Oh, really? So, like, the entire federal government after Trump’s EO’s? “President Trump has made it abundantly clear: taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars will not support institutions that discriminate against women,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a news release.pressherald.comUSDA announces Title IX investigation into UMaineThe announcement comes a day after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Maine Department of Education and a Maine school district. 5317
Reposted by Maraina MilesCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Like sharks, Cookie Monsters have existed for tens of millions of years with little major evolutionary change. Being a soft-bodied organism, it's rare to get a fossil with such clarity of preservation as this one; what a lucky find! 08119
Reposted by Maraina MilesJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil... 4748411351
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only:media.tenor.coma group of people are dancing under a tree with lanterns hanging from itAlt: Gandalf dances with the hobbits at bilbos birthday party. 010
Reposted by Maraina MilesDr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF. 33912
Reposted by Maraina MilesLawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky 5507200
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 20/02/2025undark.org/2025/01/23/o...undark.orgWe Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks.Opinion | The newly inaugurated U.S. president is missing the real strategic and economic value of the island: its ice. 010
Reposted by Maraina MilesSeth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefiringsdemocrats-science.house.govWere you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and TechnologyThe House Committee on Science, Space and Technology 366106
Reposted by Maraina MilesJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget. 9541531591
Reposted by Maraina MilesGod @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money. 18376699217328
Reposted by Maraina MilesFaith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Confirmed bsky.app/profile/jonl... 1167
Reposted by Maraina MilesSeth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Please share this REAL impact! AK colleagues tell me 17 of 20 ppl were terminated from Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center (MGVC) in AK. I’ve worked w/ this professional and wonderful group serving the public & they have a display in their museum about the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). 🧪 12918
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Throwback to a beautiful drift limit lapping up onto a cinder cone in Antarctica. Koettlitz Glacier in the middle, Walcott and Howchin glaciers in the background. 020
Reposted by Maraina MilesDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 11/02/2025“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...reddit.comTo My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years 4235103
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The NSF Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Research Fellowship was archived a week before submissions were due (Feb 3rd). 010
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Metabolizing cortisol in a winter wonderland. 010
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 07/02/2025🎶”…you may not share our intellect / which might explain your disrespect / for all the natural wonders that / grow around you / so long, so long and thanks / for all the fish!”🎶 Two happy Peale’s dolphins putting on a show in the Beagle Channel, 2024. 010
Reposted by Maraina MilesBethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Really pleased to announce a new section of AntarcticGlaciers: ComicCorner! With comics produced by the talented Domino Jones www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and... And featuring @lizbagshaw.bsky.social David Sugden and Rachel Carr's fieldwork adventures!antarcticglaciers.orgComic Corner - AntarcticGlaciers.orgComic Corner presents a series of comics drawn by Domino Jones, featuring both educational resources and fun stories. These are aimed at young adults and adults. Domino Jones is a PhD researcher at th... 192
Reposted by Maraina MilesThomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Wizard level ice core science 1162
Reposted by Maraina MilesCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025"The criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for “broadening participation” language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, & “...illegal DEI”. “To see ‘women’ & ‘woman’ & ‘people of colour’ showing up... that was a gut punch,” says one NSF employee." 0157
Maraina Miles @marainamiles.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Great statement! Thank you for writing it. Please add me: Maraina Miles, PhD candidate, University of Maine. 110