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🇲🇾 🐢 As species decline, green turtles offer glimmer of hope Green turtles have made the rare jump from "endangered" to "least concern" in global conservation rankings, a remarkable success when many species are declining.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 8h

The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall. The removal of the sacred saguaros is scheduled to begin on Indigenous Peoples Day. www.modbee.com/news/nation-...

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Tribe fights saguaro removal in borderlands on Indigenous Peoples' Day

The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The flip side of this is that under successive governments, demands aren't heard unless they're sent up via smoke signal. The teacher shortage has been rampant since my kid was in school - no change for decades. Set a bunch of schools on fire? A promise of 3000 more teachers. Alors, vive la France

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This should jazz up your Saturday. Musical genius Thelonious Monk was born on this date in 1917 in North Carolina. You don't know the wonderful wizardry of the music of Monk? Don't blame ME!

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Thelonious Monk Don't Blame Me (Live in Denmark)

YouTube video by Thelonious Monk

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At this point, it's easier to remember the few exceptions who stood up than it is to remember the myriad who didn't - and that will be part of the problem when accountability comes.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 09/10/2026

Did you know elevated CO₂ reduces protein in flower pollen? New research reveals: 📉 Larger pollinators are less abundant in high-CO₂ areas. 🐝 Yet, large bees are among our most effective pollinators. Understanding these shifts is key to supporting vital pollinators in a warming world.

A female pubescent carpenter bee, Xylocopa pubescens, searching for food on purple wisteria.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

See also: The Duttons of Yellowstone.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Scrappy companies like to seem besieged, it makes them feel like gods.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The tech iteration of how sperm donation≠parenting. Remember the baby monkey clutching the cloth monkey rather than the wire monkey that supplied food in those unethical Nature of Love experiments from the 1950s? This guy isn't even the wire monkey. He's the researcher and his baby is the monkey.

Harlow experiment photo of baby rhesus monkey clutch a cloth mother monkey next to a wire mother monkey.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not a single pleats in the group, weird, how did they come to that particular designer conclusion?! eeek

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, I don't usually mention that part 😉

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can’t wait to see it this week. This is one more reason!

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had a conversation with my adult kid about black plastics in food containers. Her comment: You had them, and you’re fine. The thing is, they didn’t even exist when I was younger, so I wasn’t exposed to plastics in everything that she’s been exposed to her entire life. Some risk factors are all new.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WCRF said risk factors such as growing obesity levels, poor diet, insufficient exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking and environmental exposures (such as pollutants, chemicals, plastics, water and air pollution) could be contributing to the trend.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Analysis of English, US and Dutch cancer data for younger people by the World Cancer Research Fund identified “significant increases” in early onset cancers for seven cancer types in England, five types in the US and four in the Netherlands. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds

Experts looking at UK, US and Dutch data found ‘significant increases’ in early onset cases of seven cancers, prompting warnings about lifestyle choices

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Depressing but predictable. Should be immediately disqualifying.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which work(s) are you putting as that high water mark, that's my question.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"nimble" doing a lot of work there

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sure it's just a PAC money grab or something like that but still - would love to see that Foghorn Leghorn in the debates.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gosh his lower colon is really - vast

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Scary stories: Gosh, so many things scared me as a kid. The Exorcist, which my parents foolishly let me read when it came out. HP Lovecraft, which they also let me read as a 10-year-old (WHYYYYY?) And for some reason, this scene from Alice in Wonderland gave me years of nightmares.

Purple spiral tunnel with characters running toward viewer from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The source for the quote is Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man (1992).

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wait what was 1970’s high water mark, then? Asking for a friend.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well this would explain a lot…

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You've probably seen this news by now. I find it hard to deal with. 20% of all the ice in Switzerland's glaciers lost in 5 years! And it's not just the beauty of the high Alps; this has major implications for Europe's water supply. #ClimateChangeisWaterChange

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

100% this is part of why we are where we are now. The three-generation rule of historical memory loss that we thought would be fixed by the Information Age turns out to still be valid.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That greedy blueprint cat though, taking up at least 1m2 all by itself.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, good writer burn! Sorry, my mash notes were from AI fakes far more hard-working and talented than you. Your work is (flick eyes down, then up) *lazy*. 🔥

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, I HOPE it's AI and not real. Yikes.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A friend got this one yesterday. This is a 'check the windows and doors, call the cops' kind of note.

Screenshot of note that reads:
"I've been publishing a while myself, and I always enjoy connecting with authors who give friendships the same care and complexity as romantic relationships."

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh, hadn't seen this one before!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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