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@rp101.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist, pop dynamics, CC - ES - human well-being. Birder

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"How is it possible that scientists are saying that shark populations have declined by a lot, but fishermen are saying they've never seen so many sharks?" Part of the answer is called "shifting baselines," which means how much something changes depends on when you start counting! 🧪🌍🦑🦈🐟
Mockup graph showing dramatic declines in shark populations since the 1980s with a modest recovery over the last few years
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Andrew Clarke @mrandrewclarke.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hey @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social as a long standing member (literally paying your wages for decades) I would appreciate a response to my post. My concerns regarding the sustainability of your procurement process is a concern for many members. #ukbirding bsky.app/profile/mran...
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Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#GoodGreenNews #Birds #Ecology #Conservation 🌍 Thanks for sharing this cheerful news, @iand777.bsky.social ! I remember writing to congratulate UU on the decision to start pulling licences, and I believe it was the CEO who took time to mail back and say thank you, if I recall. 😊
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🧪🌏❤️
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
HUGE win for investments across the country to tackle the climate crisis and huge loss for Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump. Court orders the EPA to make good on a congressional appropriation of $20 billion in climate grant funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/c...
nytimes.com
Appeals Court Says E.P.A. Cannot Block Billions in Climate Grants
The funds have been frozen since early in President Trump’s second term.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Presumably Clarkson doesn't think that farmers like him should send a weekly thank-you email to taxpayers for the £3billion in annual subsidy (an average of £28k in benefits per farm)?
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Tintwistle-Crowden fire seems to have been arrested by the Pennine Way along its eastern front - evidence for the value of even narrow firebreaks - granted in this case that strong E winds have limited its ability to cross barriers. Video from today by Christian Heintzen 🌍🔥
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When #lowcarbonbirding was getting off the ground, we each had 5T of carbon per year to keep below 2 degs C It’s now 2T. A return trip from London to Fife alone is 1/5 of that. Many tours sold at birdfair are now a multiple of that 2T. Literally unsustainable. www.tudelft.nl/sustainabili...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Loving @johnharris1969.bsky.social's comparison of the Makerfield by-election to El Alamein Top trolling of Farage with Churchill's words, "This is not the end... but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
I saw all Reform’s weaknesses on display in Makerfield – Farage should be worried | John Harris
From a hopeless candidate to botched strategy, this latest byelection defeat is telling. But for Labour, there is still a long and arduous journey ahead, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
From Facebook
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Greens will win the Manchester mayoralty and the press will still find a way to say that it’s a great sign for Farage.
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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"The destruction of wetlands in the United States has increased the amount of flood insurance claims by $10 billion over the past 40 years, a phenomenon expected to worsen in tandem with climate change, according to new research." 🧪🌎🌿 insideclimatenews.org/news/0206202...
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Supreme Court’s Limitation on Wetlands Protection Will Make Flooding Worse - Inside Climate News
A new study calculates the dollar value of wetlands in reducing river flooding. But in Sackett vs. EPA, the high court rolled back protections for nature’s first line of defense.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”” Good. 🧪🦑🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/c...
nytimes.com
E.U. Steps Up Ocean Monitoring as Trump Administration Backs Away
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You can’t manage what you can’t measure. Yes, I believe that’s the point. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As gas prices surge and negotiations to end the war collapse, Trump is now claiming "we shouldn't have been in Iran." The main reason we are there is the deadly and reckless decision making of one man: Donald Trump. Reminder that Congress could put an end to this.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"A handful of African nations are rejecting American health aid, outraged by the Trump administration’s demands for access to private health records and even minerals in exchange for lifesaving medicine..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...
wsj.com
Trump Wants Minerals, Health Data for Aid. African Nations Are Pushing Back.
Governments bridle at U.S. demands for private medical data and, in some cases, access to minerals.
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
By several members of the @libererofellows.bsky.social [for subscribers to The Hill Times] bsky.app/profile/jaym...
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"[A]t the end of a federal discussion paper released May 8 is a proposal so extreme it should stop every Canadian cold: The federal cabinet wants the power to approve projects even if they could wipe out an endangered species forever", @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/28/o...
nationalobserver.com
Canada is greenlighting extinction — and calling it progress
A reckless plan to gut environmental laws could push endangered species past the point of no return.
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
More than 570 pilot whales and dolphins killed in a single day in the Faroe Islands. A massacre of sentient marine mammals that has no place in the 21st century. Europe's silence is shameful. Tradition cannot justify cruelty. #StopTheGrind #ProtectWhales 🌐🌍🧪 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/stelio...
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3 grinds and two arrests in a day | Stelios Katsanevakis
This is not only a massacre of hundreds of highly intelligent, social marine mammals. It is also a moral failure for Europe. More than 570 pilot whales and dolphins were reportedly slaughtered in a s...
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Randy Watkins @bluetortoise3.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Reposting this to the #EcologyandConservation feed 🌎🌍
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Cristina Dorador @criordor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Weakening regulatory frameworks in regions with irreplicable ecosystems and high endemism may compromise not only national conservation outcomes but also collective efforts to safeguard the integrity of the biosphere" Our letter in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Chile’s regulatory rollback harms biosphere
On 12 March, Chile’s recently inaugurated administration withdrew 43 environmental decrees and regulatory processes from legal review, effectively suspending their implementation (1). The rescinded po...
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Yet there you are, outside.
Daily Telegraph: I'm trapped in my home and I blame Angela Rayner

Author is photographed outside, standing by some railings.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The people who use these ponds want them to be trans-inclusive. Sex Matters want to tell them who they can and can not have at their own ponds. Time to see them for what they are: a bunch of mean-spirited curtain-twitching Mary Whitehouse busy-bodies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Hampstead Heath ponds to stay trans-inclusive with new upgrades
The ponds will stay trans-inclusive and will receive upgrades for more privacy for women.
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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 03/05/2026
The senior engineer looked at me. The room went silent. 12 ppl sat around the table. “As far as I’m concerned,” he said, “women can’t be engineers.” No one challenged him. 30 yrs later, I was awarded an MBE for services to engineering. The system had already made its decision—and it was wrong.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Even by Labour's sickeningly disgusting attitude towards vulnerable individuals, this is a new low by Mahmood. Under no possible criteria could Afghanistan be classed as safe. Labour has already prevented Afghans from seeking asylum. This compounds the inhumanity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Shabana Mahmood refuses to rule out sending back failed Afghan asylum seekers
Home secretary indicates Whitehall talks about returns programme, a move that would shock humanitarian groups
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
The ADL is a hate group
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 24/04/2026
Ah, Afghanistan. That famously safe country. What is it about the Home Office that attracts such evil leaders? And why do Labour stand for it?
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/04/2026
"The caucus doesn’t deny that good Muslims exist. But its members argue that once the bad Muslims take power, the formerly good Muslims will join them." This is known as a distinction without a difference. It's also known as fearmongering and bigotry.
lnk.thebulwark.com
They’re Not Bigots. They Just Think, Talk, and Act Like They Are.
The House GOP’s “Sharia-Free America Caucus” is an un-American fraud.
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Hilary Osborne @hilaryosborne.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Have I understood this right? They taken the extra for businesses and individuals and divided it by the number of households?
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/04/2026
Lest anyone doubt my own commitment to counterveiling views, here's the response that ran in full at the foot of a recent piece I wrote about Matthew Goodwin (article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...)
Given a right to reply to this article, Matt Goodwin wrote: “A typically lazy piece. We are number 2 on Amazon books not top 10. You also miss out I am Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. I have no idea what interview you are referring to. Wait, do I have more subscribers than your insignificant magazine? It’s very possible.”
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇
theguardian.com
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters
Letters: Responding to an article by the PM, Caroline Lucas says he must be clearer about climate risks, Molly Scott Cato says we must reverse Brexit and Dr Victor Ajuwon applauds Labour’s directness....
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
One of the bleakest charity shop specimens I have ever encountered from @mysuburbanhell.bsky.social
Elon musk biography inscribed to a child on their 9th birthday including "lots of positive lessons to be learned from Mr musk". Signed love mum and dad.
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Dr. Jennifer Krauel @freetailed.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Donald Trump and the Epstein class should be very VERY afraid 🔥
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Dr. Jennifer Krauel @freetailed.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Call out corruption to defeat fascism!
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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Congratulations to the wonderful @thelabandfield.bsky.social, as well as to the other 9 recipients of the Pride in Stem Decadal Awards!!! 👏👏👏 prideinstem.org/2026/04/01/t...
prideinstem.org
These Are The Pride In STEM Decadal Award Recipients | Pride in STEM
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Not content with starting wars, killing innocent people, threatening the Vatican, weakening the US economy Trump wants to invade Greenland. He said, "our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!" Is there no end to his stupidity?
mirror.co.uk
Trump's unhinged claims over 12 hours - from Greenland threat to Iran 'hoax'
The US president took to Truth Social to lash out at his foes, telling NATO allies to 'remember Greenland' and attempting to dismiss new details about his ceasefire plan as 'fake news'
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 09/04/2026
"America can feel like madness, to be honest. You have to face racism, economic precariousness, and the burden of caring for your family while not knowing if something could happen to you at the workplace, or to your children in school." www.thexylom.com/post/bhutan-...
thexylom.com
‘Uprooted Over and Over, You Are Nowhere’: Bhutanese Refugees, Retraumatized by Trump 2.0, See Skyrocketing Suicide Rates
Ohio nonprofit leader Sudarshan Pyakurel on third country relocation and other immigration policies that retraumatize highly vulnerable Bhutanese refugees in the U.S.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump TACOed out as expected on Iran. But the big “breakthrough” he announced was anything but. In fact, it appears to be as fabricated as his lies about Epstein, and as fake as that spray tan. My write-up in the replies.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/04/2026
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." One of my favourite quotes, attributed to St Augustine and embodied by @drkatemarine.bsky.social today.
grist.org
Why this NASA climate scientist wants you to stay angry
“I don’t think we rebuild science without getting mad.”
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/04/2026
In his role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, former oil and gas lobbyist Aaron Szabo has solicited input and specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules, ProPublica has learned. By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
propublica.org
The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules
Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Guy is a literal fucking psychopath
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows
Exclusive: research finds Jackdaw field would provide only about 2% of current demand, and Rosebank only 1%
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Stop Reform - #VoteGreen www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform insiders fear links to extreme figures such as Andrew Tate will scare off voters
Nigel Farage has called Tate an ‘important voice’ for young men and held back from criticising his misogynistic views
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