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dghaskell.bsky.social
Writer, biologist. Sounds Wild and Broken 13 Ways to Smell a Tree The Songs of Trees The Forest Unseen
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The secret to long life? Sink roots into a volcano. So says a 3000+ yr-old chestnut on Mt Etna. The soil here is the dark color of cinders blasted from the hot underskin of the Earth. A recent wound. A recent gift. Mineral rich. Too well drained for nasty diseases. Encircled by hazels and vineyards.

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Heads up! Proposed subject heading changes at LC. Deadline for public comments is TODAY. #libraries

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Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...

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Science has a nasty E coli infection, apparently. Time to boost the microbiome of the peer-reviewed literature... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined How megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick built their billion-dollar empire.

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Meanwhile over on Meta

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Obstinate denial is a good winter strategy, sometimes. Rosemary, Salvia rosmarinus, putting out the blooms like it is springtime. The humblebees that would normally be paying their respects at the floral altars are fast asleep in their underground burrows in the leaf litter.

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Happy solstice (Sundown, bus window light)

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Petitioned to bar polio and hepatitis B vaccine. Plus, a "pause" for tetanus, diphtheria, polio and hepatitis A vaccines. Don't believe their BS about free choice. They're fighting to ban, just as they are for reproductive choice and marriage equality. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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A contrarian plant. When all else goes dormant, the cranefly orchid pops up. The plant's name refers to the twisted flower which looks like a wounded cranefly. The flowers are pollinated by moths who get rewarded for visiting the flower by having a pollen sack glued to one of their eyes. Nice. 1/2

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Biden is basically the Halley's comet of Red State America

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I'm currently reading @ferrisjabr.bsky.social's Becoming Earth and it's brilliant. Packed with eye-opening stories about how life made the Earth as we know it, each tale beautifully told

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A marvelous book:

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"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar that lies on the other side of silence." Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), Middlemarch

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Seismic air guns...ocean hell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Are you interested in MS programs in ecology or evolution and want to be paid for it? Check out these fully funded programs (stipend + tuition is provided). It's been a looong time since I updated the list, so as always, check with the program for the latest info. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Cut faster, doc... Another circle of hell added by the American insurance industry. Via @authorwinifred.bsky.social

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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

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