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@seacatkim.bsky.social
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Marine scientist, GIS teacher. Likes #rstats, knitting, cooking + baking!

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Ilha Byrne @ilhabyrne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Riginos/EvoReef lab group was well represented in Auckland @icrs.bsky.social #ICRS2026. Everyone absolutely nailed their talks ✨ @seaprof.bsky.social @zoe-meziere.bsky.social @ecolology.bsky.social @hisatakeishida.bsky.social @annie-guillaume.bsky.social
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Enjoying the plenaries at #ICRS2026. Covering the range of reef science here are some highlights: Paul Kench - reef islands are dynamic systems and other marine carbonates like Halimeda and clams make up a small portion of these islands.
Prof Paul Kench stands on the main stage at the New Zealand International Convention Centre behind a lecturn with a large slide of  an aerial photo of a reef island highlighting sediment supply.
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I was "first in best dressed" at the #ICRS2026 first poster session and had some great discussions about coral geochemistry 🪸 My poster is number 22 and will take it down this evening if anyone wants to check out some preliminary elemental data from a coral core.
Catherine Kim stands in front of her ICRS poster pinned on a black board. She is smiling at the camera wearing the light teal conference lanyard and wearing a black knit dress.
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A whirlwind start to #ICRS2026 with a beautiful welcome to the New Zealand International Convention Centre by Iwi kāinga at this brand new facility - we're the 10th conference to be here in beautiful Auckland!
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A whirlwind start to #ICRS2026 with a beautiful welcome to the New Zealand International Convention Centre by Iwi kāinga at this brand new facility - we're the 10th conference! 🪸
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Sometimes you just need to add a quick row of data to your data frame in #rstats. tibble::add_row() can help
library(tidyverse)

# Review the data

df

# A tibble: 3 x 3
     ID School  District  
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr>     
1   102 SchoolA District10
2   105 SchoolB District10
3   106 SchoolC District11

# Add one additional row

df |>
  add_row(ID = 107, School = "SchoolD", District = "District12")

# A tibble: 4 x 3
     ID School  District  
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr>     
1   102 SchoolA District10
2   105 SchoolB District10
3   106 SchoolC District11
4   107 SchoolD District12

# Add one additional row with missing data

df |>
  add_row(ID = 107, School = "SchoolD")

# A tibble: 4 x 3
     ID School  District  
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr>     
1   102 SchoolA District10
2   105 SchoolB District10
3   106 SchoolC District11
4   107 SchoolD NA   

# Add two additional rows

df |>
  add_row(ID = c(107, 108), 
          School = c("SchoolD", "SchoolE"),
          District = "District12")

# A tibble: 5 x 3
     ID School  District  
  <dbl> <chr>   <chr>     
1   102 SchoolA District10
2   105 SchoolB District10
3   106 SchoolC District11
4   107 SchoolD District12
5   108 SchoolE District12
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Don't miss @roycerk2.bsky.social's devastating longread for @drilledmedia.bsky.social "Now the bloom is underway, there is nothing that can be done to stop it. What was once considered a distant or theoretical impact of climate change is real and being felt."
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“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.
Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚨 Call for contributions is open for #LatinR2025! 📅 The conference will be held online, December 1–5, 2025. You can submit proposals for: 💡 Lightning talks 🎤 Oral presentations 🛠️ Workshops 👉 Deadline: August 25 More info: latinr.org/blog/es/2025...
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Llamado a Presentación de Trabajos – LatinR 2024
31 de mayo de 2025
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A free 3-hour workshop: Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in R Learn how to: - Get pre-joined spatial US Census data; - Make interactive shaded, circle, and dot-density maps; - Solve the "AK/HI/PR problem" in US mapping; And more!
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2025 Webinar 3 Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in R with Kyle Walker
R includes powerful tools for making informative maps and revealing patterns in datasets with spatial analysis. Participants in this workshop will learn how to use GIS tools in R to make both static and interactive maps with a variety of datasets from the US Census Bureau. The workshop will include
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Pyllidia varicosa, also known as the scrambled egg nudibranch 🤣 📸 Cristorei, Timor-Leste #MolluscMonday #MarineBiodiversity #MarineLife #CoralTriangle #TimorLeste #Nudibranchs #Underwater #scuba
A marine sea slug, or nudibrancha, a shell-less gastropod, crawling on the reef bottom in Timor-Leste. The nudibranch is black with whit patches with white and yellow bumps. There are two small rhinophores or antennae like structures at the front. Landscape shot of the nudibranch with a gloved finger next to it for scale. It's a bit smaller than an index finger.
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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · 25/06/2025
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
jobs.colorado.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14/08/2025
The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The resident school of barracuda in Iliana, westside of Ataúro Island in Timor-Leste. My guess is great barracuda, if any fish people can confirm? #Barracuda #CoralReefs #MarineLife #ReefFish #CoralTriangle #MarineBiodiversity #scuba #Underwater
A large school of >200 barracuda swimming in a large circle. They are large, almost a meter in length, with pointy nose, crescent moon-shaped tail, and black bars lining the side of the siverly body.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 12/08/2025
See the latest version here! datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com
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Data Visualization – Data Visualization with R
Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data
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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨 Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too! Deadline Nov 1! Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem
fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu
opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I saw an excellent talk on targets but haven't yet been able to implement it in my projects. Future goals.
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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Tired of rerunning everything every time you change a line of code? 😩 The {targets} package automates your #Rstats workflow—only running what’s needed, tracking dependencies, keeping your analysis reproducible & efficient. ⏩ books.ropensci.org/targets/ #RStats #ReproducibleResearch #DataPipelines
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The {targets} R package user manual
Will Landau
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kathynavackas.bsky.social @kathynavackas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I simply cannot get my head around the disconnect- the planet is on fire, or under extreme rain and floods due to climate change. Yet we build these “centres” that consume amazing amounts of power and water, depriving people of affordable utilities.
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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I'll be helping to facilitate tonight's action hour! If you're wondering how to get involved in the #SummerFightForScience, this is a great 1st step. If you want to meet other folks who care & take an easy advocacy action, this is also great (no long-term commitment necessary). #StandUpForScience
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Recent trip to #TimorLeste saw a large school of bumphead parrotfish! They were doing a holding pattern swimming circles on the reef - too bad the viz wasn't great. Always amazing to see these gentle giants underwater. #CoralTriangle #addOcean #ScubaDiving
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
❗️Our next workshop will be on July 17th, 6 pm CEST, on Good vs. Bad Confounders: A Hands-On Introduction with DAGs & Simulations in R by @adambrosiomd.bsky.social ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
**Join us!** 2 year #postdoc in algal (photo)physiology Multidisciplinary project as part of the @icelabumu.bsky.social Postdoc Programme 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p... 📆 18 September 2025 📍 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, Sweden @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎
underwater cartoon scene, with pink algae on the bottom and the text: join us! postdoctoral research in algal (photo)physiology. Deadline 18 September 2025
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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Composting food waste can reduce methane emissions. Easy to do. Proven technology. Really cheap. “When finished eating, people tend to just toss what’s left: out of sight, out of mind,” Dou said. “But from the resource and environmental perspective, what happens after actually matters a lot.”
nationofchange.org
Recycling food waste could slash methane emissions and reshape the global agrifood system | NationofChange
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Catherine @seacatkim.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Make your voice heard to stop the US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict! I just called my reps using @5calls.org for first time, you should too: 5calls.org #NoWar
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 31/05/2025
In the Netherlands, nearly half of train journeys begin with a bike trip, giving the Dutch train station a unique look. Rather than large car parking lots, there are hundreds and hundreds of bicycles parked.
Cyclist in front of train station
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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Our brittle star patterning study is now out at EvoDevo! 🥳 doi.org/10.1186/s132... @lowelab.bsky.social
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Antero-posterior patterning in the brittle star Amphipholis squamata and the evolution of echinoderm body plans - EvoDevo
Although the adult pentaradial body plan of echinoderms evolved from a bilateral ancestor, identifying axial homologies between the morphologically divergent echinoderms and their bilaterian relatives...
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Regardless of one’s position on abortion, this is legally correct.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
 quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads:

“If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.”
The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.
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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!
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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs
Heterotrophic bacteria and archaea (“heteroprokaryotes”) drive global carbon cycling, but how to quantitatively organize their functional complexity remains unclear. We generated a global-scale unders...
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Science news is particularly grim this week. For NSF funding, 2 key fronts: 1) freeze on ALL existing grants (portal is down - no $$ going out, including reimbursements) www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2) budget proposes 40% overall cut & 15% cap on indirects (lawsuits blocked same for NIH in Feb)
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Under Trump, they’re allowed to start resegregating schools in Louisiana. This must be stopped.
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RLadies+ Bot @rladies-bot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
📝 "Publishing Quarto Dashboards for FREE using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages" 👤 Melissa Van Bussel 📖 Free Quarto dashboards! Automate publishing via GitHub Actions & Pages. Learn now! 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zYrgRylkH0 #rladies #rstats
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/05/2025
NYPD Tickets Dead Cyclist For Obstructing Bike Lane
NYPD Tickets Dead Cyclist For Obstructing Bike Lane
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
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Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City
Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/04/2025
As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Extremely useful and timely meta-analysis on the impact of increasing the speed of lecture recordings - 1.25x and 1.5x no/low cost that is probably balanced by increased engagement but 2x and 2.5x impairs learning. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Increasing the playback speed of video lectures is popular amongst students as a time saving strategy, but does this negatively impact test performance? Here, we conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effect of increasing video lecture playback speed on content test performance. A meta-regression with robust variance estimation was used to aggregate data from 110 effect sizes, stemming from 24 studies of learning from lecture videos. The results demonstrated that increasing the playback speed of lectures can negatively impact content test performance, but this cost is small (and often non-significant) for speeds 1.5 x and slower. In addition, we found no evidence of moderation of this cost by a number of theoretically important variables (e.g., test type, lecture duration). These results contribute important insights into a popular study strategy and one that is likely to be a mainstay in educational settings for years to come.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.
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White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article)
A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/04/2025
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
If you’ve never heard Whoopi Goldberg tell the story of how she came to be cast in the film adaptation of Dr. Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” you should definitely watch this. This right here. This Black Culture. This is Community. We are truly a remarkable people. 🖤🖤
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
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