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I am an ecologist working in forest ecosystems, mainly with bark beetles, fungi, and symbioses. Climate change. I am also an artist, metalhead, and childless cat lady.
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Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts. And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...

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HHS sends all employees a $25,000 voluntary buyout offer Source: NBC News search.app/LJvdk Our tax money, our services. This is a congressional thing not Trump or the wacko's call.

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“If you’re constantly contradicting yourself, you’re constantly lying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

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www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-re... that is likely all he knows about rockets. He is not a scientist, just a (bad) manager.

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www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/y...

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It’s borderline criminal.

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Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

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www.latimes.com/environment/... we all knew Trump would go after OUR special places

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www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...

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What a front cover...

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edition.cnn.com/2025/03/06/b... and Trump needs to fire co-president Musk as well. I imagine he is scared of him, though.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Aix-Marseille University in France will provide 15 million Euros over 3 years to 15 American scientists who feel threatened or hindered in their research by the orange manbaby.

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NIH scientists confirm Lyme Disease tick in Montana Source: Bitterroot Star search.app/Va1LQ

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With so many victims (already) of the Trump administration's disastrous policies, it's easy to overlook one of the smallest. That would be a mistake because black-footed ferrets are cool little animals that deserve a chance to exist. #ferrets #conservation

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Canada is one of the USA's biggest suppliers of lumber. So, if you put a 25% tariff on all Canadian products, the cost of lumber quickly becomes untenable. Trump's "solution" is to cut all our forests down. #forests #trees #lumber #tariffs

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we have a new one out!!!!

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www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/c...

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Playing with pastels again tonight. Need a respite from the real world.

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@standupforscience.bsky.social everyone in Missoula or nearby we will meet on the oval at University of Montana noon March 7. If you are elsewhere find out where your local event is held. We need big numbers to show the administration we wont stand by and have America's science and tech gutted.

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biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c... here we go 😡

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‘Full on Fight Club’: How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy search.app/2MRk

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I am making cheese buldak. This is the amount of the chili paste I mixed up for two portions. It is called fire chicken for a reason🥵

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Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

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"We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments." 6abc.com/post/doge-21...

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Desert stream temps mean life or death for aquatic organisms. Drones can measure stream temps across large areas--but how do drones compare to in situ measurements? In new paper, led by Mel Campbell, we flew for 24 hours to evaluate thermal accuracy #UAS #drones www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/13...

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If this trojan horse, anti-science, timber-industry-wishlist bill passes the Senate, you can kiss our federal forests goodbye. Please take action to stop the 'Fix Our Forests' Act -- here's one easy way to do this, but any way is better than not acting. 🌏

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www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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📌Our Park Service Rangers have flagged the warning on El Capitan. We are under threat by an America-attacking felon.

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'Viciousness’ of Trump’s climate attacks stuns even his critics www.yahoo.com/news/trump-g...

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"These people protected US forests & lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump. 'There are a lot of people saying the national parks are going to be trashed. This is more than just trashed parks. This is the future of our ecosystems and our public lands.'" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

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Only truly evil sniveling shits would attack Dolly's book program.🧪

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This graph shows the relationship between state percent evangelical and state age 20-64 death rates. The relationship gets stronger while the percent Evangelical , as measured here, stays close to the same. This calls for looking at this relationship by specific causes.🧪💡☠️

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www.kpax.com/news/missoul...

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Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness

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60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history

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Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? A biology professor who studies branching patterns in living things thinks so. Image: Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. ‘Almond blossom’ by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum

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Arizona.

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When the snow is deeper than you are tall it is okay to hang out on the deck

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Another example, this one from the Mt Hood NF in Oregon, of how "the Forest Service is applying powers granted to it for wildfire prevention to boost sales of timber to logging companies", including removal of the most fire-resistant, old-growth trees. 🌏 columbiainsight.org/a-mount-hood...

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