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Destroying invasive plants, giving natives a chance to thrive. Enjoying 🦋 and plant chemistry. Wandering in hardwood hammocks in South Florida. ❤️ Art, lit, travel. Amateur in all.

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Y’all, the Acmon Blue is a common California butterfly, but to this South Floridian, it’s just gorgeous and amazeballs. That wing rubbing . . . . 💙 #butterflies #nature #conservation #naturalists🌿 #nativeplants

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Beautiful California The sun drops behind the Golden Gate Bridge, 5/21/25 (from 47th floor, San Francisco Hilton; no edits) #GoldenGateBridge #California #SanFrancisco #GoldenState #AmericatheBeautiful #Nature #Landscape #WPA

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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Sunday Funday. Re-imagined Catbird. Colossal Creatures yerbabuenagardens.org/explore/publ... #SanFrancisco #Art #bird #Caturday

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There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

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A species of the wild subtropical forest appears outside your urban second story window, and it feels like victory. Morinda royoc, Hammock Skipper, www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Poly... #NativePlants #Naturalists 🌿 #Conservation🌎 #Butterflies🦋

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💚What’s not to love? 🐝

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The people constantly braying about “Christian values” are attacking the Pope for suggesting that we love others.

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www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...

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NEWS: Palestinian journalist Nour Abdu was killed in an Israeli strike on Al-Karama School, Gaza City. At least 15 died. His death is part of a pattern. One Drop Site source says civilians avoid living near reporters. More than 200 journalists killed-deadliest press assault ever in modern history.

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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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The green iridescence of these Tiger Beetles is seriously eye catching. It looked like a little holiday light whizzing around on the path #invertebrates 🌿

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@AJEnglish: At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month https://t.co/jaLw0Tch2N

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A colleague received a letter from the Department of Education threatening him with deportation if he defaults on his student loans. He’s a naturalized US citizen.

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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 27 days ago • 397 comments