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Protecting the integrity of your Democracy as an Election Judge. ❤️Public Libraries #Climate #reading #Baseball #Illinois
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The potential sale of 23andMe brings up many questions geneticists have been begging us to ask for years. Most urgently: if you have an account, should you delete your data? (probably yes) But importantly: how should we legislate protections for genetic info? ⤵️ news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... 🧪

Just a Friendly reminder that my Birthday is tomorrow. 🍪🎉

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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The Library knows…. @rebeccayarros.bsky.social

“Bankrupting municipal budgets, fuelling preventable diseases, & helping to cause #ClimateChange — that’s how you start a conversation about why suburbs need to change, & why more of our growth should go to infill and transit-oriented development. The argument isn’t ideological, it’s mathematical.”

An Ethiopian wolf foraging for nectar. Researchers speculate that it may be a rare case of a carnivore acting as a pollinator. 🌱🐋🧪

Advent Sci-Fact 7: Heat Impacts Bumblebee Foraging!🐝 Bees at higher temperatures had lower metabolic rates, but made fewer, faster visits to many flowers, compared to bees at lower temperatures. Researchers believe this may be due to heat stress. Paper: tinyurl.com/28ge2hh2 #SciComm🧪🌍 #SciArt #Bee

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Zoning, walkability and sprawl How many people want to live in a "15-minute city"?

The problem with the current #a2council approach to bike lanes...

🔥 New paper out 🔥 Seed dispersers help plants tracking climate change on mountains! Animals are dispersing plant species to higher elevations... but over half of the plants arriving at higher elevations were exotic. 🦎🐦💩🌿 @newphyt.bsky.social 🧪🍁🌐🌏 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Bird nesting boxes are short term solution for cavity nesting birds when large enough trees are not available We installed 15 nesting boxes at a local bird sanctuary and planted 200 cottonwood trees for future wildlife habitat Tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) May 14, 2024 #birdhabitat #swallow

If you were interested in natural history in 1840, you may have read this book and believed that this is what orang-utans actually looked like.

#Republicans worship a leader who tramples the rule of law, hailing every scandal as genius... yet they’re quick to vilify Biden. Double standards much?! When their KING rewrites the rules, justice becomes a joke, and #accountability is only for the other side. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Another role for sustainable forestry in a lower carbon #bioeconomy : 🌲🌳 rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell etc

#TNC doing great work thinking and burning over dense forests in central Washington. Not all fire is bad and not all trees are good. It’s a delicate balance to maintain healthy forest ecosystems #RestoreNature #RxFire 🌎🧪🌿🪻🔥 🌲

There is talk of Trump dropping Peter Hegseth as his Defense Secretary nominee. Good. As @premthakker.bsky.social reports, having read Hegseth's books, some of the Fox host's views on Muslims, women, Israel and more, are truly shocking:

NEW: The Biden admin announced a sweeping set of export controls today that make it harder for China to manufacture its own semiconductors In my reporting, I learned that a sanctioned Chinese chip fab literally built a bridge connecting it to a non-sanctioned fab lol www.wired.com/story/2024-c...

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI. Dr Timnit Gebru, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Buolamwini And many many more within/outside academia. Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1... 👑👑👑

Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post

Why should President Biden explain himself. He pardoned his son who’s been villainised by Trump and his cults for 10 fucking years. Fuck off with your hypocrisy & for the democrats who are making their opinion known, you can fuck off too. Biden is protecting his son.

We have a phone recording of Trump himself asking Georgia officials to find votes while he was President and people think Biden's pardon of Hunter is what's gonna finally encourage Trump to do bad things and misuse his power

This is where you can really tell how for a minute there this was the HOTTEST a "mom" character had ever been on TV

Imagine this happening on a daily basis in any country with a free press, remembering that this is not a defensive war but an unprovoked, unnecessary invasion

A reminder of the stubbornly persistent sexual harassment and assault crisis in the military. I’m terrified for women in uniform. It would be a dereliction of senators’ advise and consent duty to confirm this man. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/pete-hegseth-mother-email.html

The CTA holiday train and bus rides are back! 🎄 🎁 ❄️ 🚂 Here's the schedule:

Absolutely

I’ll just leave this here. www.senatorventura.com/news/press-r...

I’ve been trying to tell people about this. www.wbez.org/data/2024/10...