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tanvi !

@tanvidg.bsky.social
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sometimes journalist, sometimes scientist, always thinking about lunch // 🇮🇳🇸🇬 // current editorial fellow @baynature.org // tanvidg.wordpress.com // signal colugo_68.21

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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lift as you climb.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@wgoldenstate.bsky.social please sponsor this post
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
my latest for @baynature.org is blessed by the sacrifice of a chocolate sprinkle donut and sanctified by a song (lyrics included). fish biology is serious work! read about it here: baynature.org/2026/02/11/s...
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Take Me Out For a Trawl Day
There are way more fishes in the Bay than you think.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
ahh i miss sea art and artists!!
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
running away to the woods doesn’t solve ur problems but boy it sure feels good to forget you do have to solve them for a weekend
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Hi scientists of bluesky ! I am reporting on federally funded long term monitoring programs and time series datasets in the Bay Area, and I want to know how those programs and data have informed your science / management / research. Email me at tanvi@baynature.org or DM :) #journorequest
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
my latest if you even care abt: - nighttime sabotage - life-and-death fish rescues - a two-foot tall stack of postcards - how sometimes, over almost thirty years, the impossible does actually become possible :) how alameda creek opened to fish for @baynature.org baynature.org/article/afte...
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After 28 Years, Alameda Creek Opens Up To Fish - Bay Nature
The last fish barrier is falling—a watershed moment, if you will.
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Kate Golden @meownderthal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
One of the coolest details about @tanvidg.bsky.social's outing with a field recordist is that a mic placed on a redwood produced this persistent low rumble—she thought maybe the sounds of fluid running through the tree. The sound of its lifeblood!? Does anyone know? baynature.org/2025/06/12/t...
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The Man Who Records the Nature Sounds We Meditate To - Bay Nature
A soundscape recordist is an escape artist.
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Kate Golden @meownderthal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
From @tanvidg.bsky.social on @baynature.org: answers on #CAProp4 timelines, what work it funds, what could change in the state budget process, which agencies to ask for money (there are more than 30!), etc. Let us know of other questions! #servicejournalism baynature.org/article/how-...
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How (and When) Can You Get Your Hands On California’s Climate Bond? - Bay Nature
After L.A. wildfires and Trump cuts, Prop 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation will be even more important—and competitive. Here’s what you need to know.
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Kate Golden @meownderthal.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How much do words (specifically: diversity, equity, inclusion, justice) matter? TLDR: not as much as actions, environmental groups say. Great work from @tanvidg.bsky.social for @baynature.org baynature.org/article/with...
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With Trump’s War on DEI, Local Environmental Organizations Rethink Diversity Commitments - Bay Nature
Some organizations are doubling down on DEI. Others are taking down words that could get them in trouble.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
as trump wages a war on DEI - with millions in funding at stake - how are NGOs and agencies rethinking their public (and private) commitments to equity? my latest for @baynature.org: baynature.org/article/with...
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With Trump’s War on DEI, Local Environmental Organizations Rethink Diversity Commitments - Bay Nature
Some organizations are doubling down on DEI. Others are taking down words that could get them in trouble.
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Conservation work in the Bay Area is in a state of "confusion and chaos" in the wake of the Trump administration's attacks on environmental programs. Uprooter @tanvidg.bsky.social for @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social baynature.org/article/trum...
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Trump Turmoil Is Already Affecting Bay Area Conservation Work - Bay Nature
Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds of delays.”
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
the federal government is in turmoil. what does that mean for bay area conservation and communities? reporting for @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social: baynature.org/article/trum...
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Trump Turmoil Is Already Affecting Bay Area Conservation Work - Bay Nature
Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds of delays.”
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
future IRA funds may be frozen - but the bill’s legacies will endure for landscapes like the cosumnes river! excited to share some (literally) river-based reporting for @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social: baynature.org/article/padd...
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Paddling the Cosumnes River Preserve, a Lush Refuge in the Central Valley - Bay Nature
Restoration dollars from the IRA mark the latest chapter in stewardship across the Cosumnes River watershed, where sandhill cranes flock.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
briefly reunited with my favorite girl in the whole wide world 🥰
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
god i love mangrove adapted species
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
thank you for sharing!
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
my latest for @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social includes solar panels! salamanders! citizen advocacy! and it’s online now here if u want to read baynature.org/article/larg...
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Large-Scale Solar Is Coming to Tiger Salamander Country - Bay Nature
Even key critics of Aramis, in the North Livermore Valley, say its habitat conservation plan is not terrible.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I regret to inform you all that today, the haters have won (I have lost my voice and must actually shut up)
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A couple weeks ago, I chatted with the guy who helped write those main climate funding legislations about what they were meant to do - and what they might become.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Trump made scary campaign promises. What could he really do? And what would it mean for the Bay’s climate and nature movement? For @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social, I asked around: baynature.org/article/re-e...
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How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era - Bay Nature
Prop. 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation is one blessing. Another is money that can’t be unspent.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
PSA: setting up a Google alert for “sperm whale” will expose you to the worst parts of the internet as much as it will net you whale fun facts 🥲
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Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com · 28/11/2024
Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions
Pie chart:
74% hydrogen
25% helium
1% other (in tiny font)
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Bay Nature Institute @baynature.org · 26/11/2024
As you sit on the shore, ponder the physics of waves. Understanding how waves work does not reduce the wonder and awe of watching them crash. Illustrations by John Muir Laws. 🦑 ow.ly/3N8K50UcblI #BayNature
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Naturalist's Notebook: Making Waves - Bay Nature
The next time you sit at the shore, ponder the physics before you. A sketchbook from John Muir Laws.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
no one explained to me how the secret to life is hanging out on the couch with a cat who actually likes you
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
we need to band together against the real threat to a thriving social media environment: the absolute chokehold white beans have on cooking influencers
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
me filing my overdue draft with my editor:
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a group of people standing around a table with the words started making it had a breakdown bon appetit on the bottom
ALT: a group of people standing around a table with the words started making it had a breakdown bon appetit on the bottom
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
literally cannot think of a single thing more worth the 4 am wake up!!! more fangirling to come
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
i love the ocean eom
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
fall colors? in MY bay area? it’s more likely than you think
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
important words of encouragement from my roommates (embrace ur inner broth this winter)
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
with trump’s election, what does that mean for biden’s billions? for bay nature, i sat down with one of the architects of the US’s key climate bills to figure out: how have they done, and where will they go? baynature.org/article/what...
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What Happens to the ‘Wild Billions’ Under Trump? - Bay Nature
David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay Area. Here, he takes stock of how they’ve fared—and what might happen to t...
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
grateful to #sciwri24 for teaching me mollusks reproduce by (essentially) vomiting their offspring onto fish gills thank you @sciencewriting.bsky.social for supporting me to access this and other transformative opportunities 🙏
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
in my first piece for bay nature magazine i asked the summer’s burning question: are california’s bees hot to go baynature.org/2024/09/05/b...
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Bees Are Heating Up. How Will They Cope? - Bay Nature
Climate change is coming for our most critical pollinators. Scientists are figuring out if our bees can handle the heat.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
wrote down some reflections on what i feel entering post college life somewhereupatree.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/f...
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Forest Flows and Fulcrums
Every time I’m in the forests at the foothills of the Western Ghats, I breathe out deeper than I have in months.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
super excited to share that at long last i got my drivers license !! (and i graduated with my masters degree in earth systems)
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
lots of love to everyone who some came at 8:30 am on a monday for our first #OSM24 to hear our adventures with #eDNA in the deep sea lab :) please reach out if you have any questions or thoughts!
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
what lives in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the ocean? we used #eDNA to find out - and you can learn too, this monday at DS11A-01 in #OSM24!! come hang out w me and sydney 🌊🌊
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
now that i'm back at stanford it's the ultimate show down of what will win: unecessarily long runs or the actual work i have to do
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
helping out with a lit review of global forestry papers and going through 100s of papers by hand to double check references makes it so frighteningly visible how all our seminal literature about fixing climate change in the "developing" world does not come from there
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
me vs packing the two things i need to complete in the next two hours
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
if there's one thing ab me i am going to put way more parenthetical asides than necessary
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
the nature/society cartesian duality is my roman empire
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
The subject of today's ScienceAdviser was "Crocodiles can’t resist the screams of terrified infants." Kind of says it all, doesn't it? 🐊🧪 www.science.org/content/article/sci…
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Science | AAAS
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
thank you so much!! (for those interested, would also highly recommend the reporting from the people’s archive of rural india for truly grassroots coverage ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/in…)
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
excited at very, very long last to share this piece for atlas obscura. the rise and fall of the cheetahs in kuno as india tried to bring back an extinct species have had drama aplenty. but who's really paid the price?
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India's Cheetah Reintroduction Threatens an Indigenous Tradition
Behind the headlines of the animals' rocky return, a displaced community struggles to access trees they have tended for generations.
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tanvi ! @tanvidg.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
the size of this whale cannot be overemphasized
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