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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Try “chemical speculation” when we are speaking about ‘chemical speciation’.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/09/2026

Conditions that could sustain a proposed early stage of life known as the RNA World may have stabilized around 4.33 billion years ago, according to a modelling study published in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3VKaXLu #Paleosky ⚒️🧬🧪

This is figure 2, which shows thermal modifications to the Hadean crust from impact bombardment.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some best field memories are lying on the bow deck crossing Lake Erie during a new moon and watching the stars pivot around the north star as the ship altered course. Enjoy.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Personally, I kind of like the stylized maple leaf motifs on the floats. #canada

Space capsule bobbing on surface of the ocean with five floatation devices that look like they have maple leaves or some botanical motif as part of their structure.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Ontario. Thinking Hudson and James bays plus the Great Lakes-St Lawrence River system. Or PEI.

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Tom Langen @calocitta.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I have fond memories of this community. I did my stateside Peace Corps training at Penn Center on the island, long before it was declared a national monument. I did a homestay with a nearby family. It's a very special place. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

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‘The way we love them in life is the way we love them in death’: a Gullah Geechee community fights for their cemetery

In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored

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Convention on Wetlands @ramsar.org · 02/02/2026

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Traditional knowledge has long guided the sustainable use of wetlands. As the Convention on Wetlands marks 55 years, #WorldWetlandsDay2026 calls on us to protect wetlands and honour cultural heritage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Mc...

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World Wetlands Day 2026

YouTube video by The Convention on Wetlands

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 28/01/2026

Free Them All!

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Oil & Water Don't Mix @owdm.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The threat of a Line 5 oil spill remains, even in the harsh winter months. It's a good reminder about why we need to #ShutDownLine5.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

(Boston Whaler Challenger; nice boat…)

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Good morning to a low sun rise today from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.

Sunrise through snow squall clouds over snow carpeted ground.

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Oil & Water Don't Mix @owdm.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

ICYMI: Opening brief against Line 5 filed in the Michigan Supreme Court www.wlns.com/top-stories/...

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Special section of Journal of Great Lakes Research on Connecting Waters in the #GreatLakes. Open Access: includes a brief historical review of past efforts to focus on these critical areas and Summary of the 15 manuscripts that compose the Section. 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.jg...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It’s happening again. Now with much cooler weather this experiment will compare effects of a surface oil spill on shallow wetlands during summer (warming) or autumn (cooling) conditions.

Crude oil on cool surface water that spreads but is still cohesive.

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DataStream @datastream.org · 27/08/2025

“We need to celebrate World Lake Day by acknowledging the benefits we derive from lakes, and then by returning the favour by taking action to ensure that our lakes remain healthy” John Smol, @sjcfishy.bsky.social & @sapnasharma.bsky.social reflect on #WorldLakeDay: bit.ly/45VwrGW

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Opinion: Let’s both celebrate – and worry about – our Great Lakes on World Lake Day

Canada’s freshwater benefits us greatly - and we need to return the favour

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Jérôme Marty (he/him) @freshwater.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

You are invited to submit a session to the 2026 Joint Aquatic Conference of the @iaglr.bsky.social and @Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences (SCAS-SCSA), and hosted by @experimentallakes.bsky.social !!! Check out the call for sessions at: iaglr.org/iaglr-scas26... - Deadline: September 19.

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CC🇨🇦🍁 @collycee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m watching a live stream

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Tom Langen @calocitta.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

At the American Theater in Canton NY. Small acts of resistance are resistance, too.

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Eos @eos.org · 04/07/2025

Underneath the ice, this ecosystem was thriving. eos.org/articles/thr... Read more in our July issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

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Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg - Eos

A quick-calving iceberg gave scientists a rare glimpse into what hides beneath Antarctic ice.

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Katherine Balpataky (she/her) @kbalp.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

From friends, at a water festival in Lyon, France.

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barbararogan.bsky.social @barbararogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy Summer #Solstice 2025 - today on the TransCanada Highway outside of Banff, Alberta. Wet snow today - tomorrow daylight period gets shorter…..🧪

Snowfall on mountains with steam rising off roadside lake since air temperature (2C) much cooler than surface water temp. This is the summer solstice, beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Setting up 24 x 1,400-L tanks contains St Marys River water, sediment and plants. Seen is high level light crude oil addition (time zero). Observations of biota (eDNA, phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic inverts, and fish behavior) to follow. Funded by NRCan - MPRI project @algomau.bsky.social

Light crude added to an experimental chamber containing Great Lakes water.

Technician adding crude oil to aquatic experiment.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/06/2025

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

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Mark Mattson @waterkeepermark.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Looking forward to tomorrow’s jump into Lake Ontario for Great Lakes Day celebration. The Great Lakes St Lawrence River watershed is an ecosystem of Biinaagami waters. We share with millions, from many nations, this life giving natural wonder. @swimdrinkfish ⁦‪@CanGeo

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

NOAA's National Mussel Watch Program - which has used invasive zebra + quagga mussels to track contaminants in the #GreatLakes since 1992 - finds that PFAS are ubiquitous in the lakes, with mussels in Lake Michigan having the highest average PFAS concentrations www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

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Study of invasive mussels finds PFAS is nearly everywhere in the Great Lakes | Bridge Michigan

A recent report that PFAS contamination is widespread in Great Lakes mussels give a clearer picture of where the chemicals are concentrated.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My first Science feed contribution. Really enjoyed the Sci-Comm session at #IAGLR25! 🧪

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hello Erik, I’m a Great Lakes limnologist looking to respectfully contribute to the Science feed. My ORCID ID is 0000-0003-1042-917X. - Michael Twiss, PhD

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

DM me if you are going to IAGLR and are looking to stretch your legs - and link elbows - all for a good cause!

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Clean Water Action Michigan @cleanwatermi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“When we remove protections for wetlands and ephemeral streams, the devastating impacts are seen in larger bodies of water like the #GreatLakes which are the main economic driver for our region and again, the source of drinking water for 40 million people." cleanwater.org/2025/05/05/c...

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Clean Water Staff Speak Out at EPA Listening Session

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund made our voices loud and clear at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest listening session on the Clean Water Act. On May 1, 2025, EPA invite...

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Heading to #IAGLR25 and want to participate in this event (skate as player or referee - no manuscript review required)? Want to pit yourself as a coach against an undefeated Defy Cup champion coach (@mjmcncycle.bsky.social)?- then send chat to me in bsky. I’m the one wearing the stripped sweater…

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Heading to #IAGLR25 and want to participate in this event (skate as player or referee - no manuscript review required)? Want to pit yourself as a coach against an undefeated Defy Cup champion coach (@mjmcncycke.bsky.social)?- then send chat to me in bsky. I’m the one wearing the stripped sweater…

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights? I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has. It’s from Is A River Alive? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?

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Real-time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network @raeon-uw.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

RAEON has relied on @globservingsystem.bsky.social since day one. GLOS powers data that drives safety, science & the Great Lakes economy. Cutting funding risks it all.

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Matt Herbert @matteherbert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Lake Huron's Middle Island could help us learn about what life on Earth was like billions of years ago, before we had oxygen in our atmosphere. #GreatLakes #Evolution www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

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Lake Huron's Middle Island Sinkhole Could Help Us Understand Earth's Evolution

Learn more about the Middle Island Sinkhole, an under water sinkhole with no oxygen.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Looks more organized than some archives. (that’s a plus)

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FACETS Journal @facetsjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We're thrilled to share that FACETS, a @cdnsciencepub.com journal, will be joining the BlueSky community soon! Stay tuned for updates as we prepare to connect, share, and engage with researchers and science enthusiasts in this exciting space. See you soon! 🌟 #ScienceCommunication #BlueSky

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

re Capitalism: …it does not respect the base upon which it is founded, the natural world and all of its relations.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Great. Start with preventing stuff like this, if you can. Thank you for considering #OttCity.

Location of a salt (halite) dump on City of Ottawa land, a public park called Lincoln Fields. Photo is a bus stop adjacent to where a considerable amount of road salt was dumped directly on soil in a park.

Approximately 300 kg (700 lb) of road salt dumped on a public park in Ottawa, Ontario (Lincoln Fields). Photo shows a man standing on large pile of halite (sodium chloride) left on top of soil.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Once widely found across the #GreatLakes region, wild rice (manoomin) has largely disappeared due to colonization and environmental degradation - but a new stewardship plan is centering indigenous knowledge to restore + preserve wild rice for future generations www.bridgedetroit.com/groups-fight...

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Groups fight to preserve future of Michigan’s indigenous wild rice

To aid in restoration across the state, the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative, comprising tribes indigenous to the Great Lakes region, state officials, and academic experts, created a stewardship plan.

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Great Lakes Now @greatlakesnow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The tribes already had concerns about the process, but news that the Army Corps will likely fast-track the federal permit for the pipeline tunnel was "the final straw." Story by @iprnews.bsky.social: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/03/seve...

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Seven tribes withdraw from federal talks over Line 5 tunnel permit | Great Lakes Now

The tribes already had concerns about the process, but news that the Army Corps will likely fast-track the federal permit for the pipeline tunnel was "the final straw."

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Eye spy: USCG Spar hanging out in Whitefish Bay. As seen from Gros Cap, Ontario, today. Still feels like winter here. #lakesuperior

Ship surrounded by ice in Lake Superior.

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Michael Twiss @mtwiss.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I love my job! Encourage young adults to learn about the Great Lakes, provide expert speakers from across the region; guide them into the multinational treaties in the region - then divvy them up into env governance work groups and listen to them solve a problem!! @algomau.bsky.social #greatlakes

The “International Joint Commission” discussing the problem with the “Tribal Governments” that approached them in this student-led exercise.

The “US Federal, State, and Municipal Governments (left) and Canadian counterparts working through the issue.

A problem statement. Text describes the various stakeholders (International Joint Commission, US and Canadian governments, US and Canadian public) and rights holders (Indigenous nations) and the problem they are facing, a toxic substance that is entering the upper Great Lakes from the Canadian watershed due to resource extraction.

Five students representing the public in the group exercise. They are voters but also corporations.

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Meredith Brown @rivermeredith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Today is #WorldWaterDay. A day to honour, love and advocate for life-giving water. #WaterIife

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