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Once upon a time, deep in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Sebastiao, his wife, and a porter wandered out of the dark and up to our dinner campfire. They brought a chicken. I ended up helping him over the next couple of days as he photographed gorillas for his UNESCO project. Pretty great memory.

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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 19 days ago • 70 comments

Whether you care most about climate, competition with China, or local economic development, you should oppose the repeal of the IRA. Would be so damaging to US economic, national & climate security.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

@thisisdeepseadiver.bsky.social home at Showbox, Seattle 🙌

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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 26 days ago • 1078 comments

Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

One of my recent faves.

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South Park, #Seattle

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A few folks sent me messages about some unusual pigeons that appeared on the show Andor. Thank you! They are real pigeons and not CGI. They belong to the group of breeds called Pouters or Croppers. Here’s an illustration of an English Pouter from my book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching.

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if u see this post your getaway vehicle

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Dear ICE Agents: When your parents told you that you could be anything you want when you grow up, they didn’t mean masked kidnappers.

submitted 36 days ago • 439 comments

Do school dances still end with Stairway?

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Opinion | I was addicted to heroin for 20 years. Here's why I am eliminating federal funding for Narcan so that an extra 10,000 people can die each year from opiate overdoses. by RFK Jr.

submitted 37 days ago • 77 comments

It’s a very distressing moment for a lot of us in meteorology. Thousands of years of experience in our field are literally exiting this week. Gone. Just like that. And for no good reason. To them I am grateful and wish them the best. To our country: They deserve(d) better.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

She’s in jail for writing an op-ed.

submitted 39 days ago • 40 comments

My daughter had salmonella when she was young. Awful and dangerous.

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Keep on this.

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💯

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Great to see some pushback + oversight on this issue

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On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews and millions of others killed during the Holocaust. Let the memory of those who were murdered serve as our calling to combat antisemitism and hate.

submitted 43 days ago • 23 comments

Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.” No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.

submitted 43 days ago • 102 comments

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 177 comments

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

submitted 44 days ago • 119 comments

@theonion.com 🐟

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Each spring, migratory birds travel thousands of miles—only to face deadly threats in our cities. Over 1B die in the U.S. yearly from window collisions. Dim lights at night. Treat glass by day. These simple steps save lives. Learn more: bit.ly/stopbirdcoll... #LightsOutForBirds

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

submitted 45 days ago • 302 comments

🌿🧪🌾🌎

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

My phone just served me this picture, from a March 2021 CNBC hit, and I want to put it in a museum of pandemic times.

submitted 45 days ago • 189 comments

An update from the UW Climate Impacts Group on what proposed cuts to NOAA and USGS would mean for our work supporting climate resilience in the Northwest. At stake: both the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center and the NW Climate Resilience Collaborative (a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership).

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

submitted 47 days ago • 15 comments

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

submitted 50 days ago • 159 comments

let’s look back at what has happened so far Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that just a general note to Dems

submitted 50 days ago • 203 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

UPDATE: The Trump administration issued a proposed rule today that would rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species nationwide. You can't protect animals and plants from extinction without protecting the places they live. More info: biodiv.us/42EnuQH

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

Colossal squid captured on camera!! Amazing work by @drmtaylor.bsky.social and team. 🧪🌊🦑 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

submitted 56 days ago • 121 comments

Yesterday’s hit on USGCRP and National Climate Assessment are devastating. As NCA author (Ag chapter for this NCA, ecosystems lead for previous NCA5), I volunteer time and expertise to help the government have the best available science. NCA is congressionally mandated- will anyone stand up for it?

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And just like that. Leverage. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

submitted 58 days ago • 394 comments

Remember those stories that tried to downplay RFK Jr’s deadly campaign against vaccines by saying that the Trump administration would make everybody healthy through access to fresh unprocessed food? How does canceling a billion dollars worth of local food for school and food banks fit with that?

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