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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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Tranquil watercolor of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). Credit to Yusei Nagashima. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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Being a rascal is good and pure behavior, when you are rascal in opposition to evil. Don't forget that, kids.

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The Painted anemone (Urticina crassicornis), a piece of art 🎨🖌️🪸

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Everyday I wake up and it keeps getting worse…

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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As someone who cares for research animals everyday this truly breaks my heart

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Next on my reading list… 🥽 Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches in the Age of Plastic by Holly Hogan 🌊 The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski

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I’ve spent the last 8 years working on a book about forever chemicals, or #PFAS, and the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to cover up their dangers. What I discovered along the way is deeply disturbing, and yet the journey has left me hopeful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554198...

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas in genome space (each dot is one genome) 🧪 arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/...

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Appropriate.

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Be open in research—I once dreamed of working with coral reefs, but now I’m publishing on Arctic microplastics and studying amphibious fish that survive months out of water. Stay flexible; opportunities can lead you in unexpected directions 🧪🌊

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Sunscreen’s impact on marine life needs urgent investigation, study finds

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As I read the stories of the hundreds of park rangers fired recently, this comment has been stuck in my head. Being passionate about your work, purpose in the world and continuing to learn and teach ecology is now truly a political act 🧪🌱

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“It is a big step back in the battle against plastic pollution”. PML’s Dr Samantha Garrard‘s comments have featured on the story, ‘Why is Donald Trump bringing back plastic straws?’ on Yahoo News UK: pml.ac.uk/news/media-p...

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CIEL welcomes the UN Human Rights Council's Advisory Committee’s ongoing work on the impact of #Disinformation on human rights. READ how disinformation plays a role in exacerbating environmental degradation, chemicals & plastic pollution, and climate change: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u...

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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

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We've been kindly asked to share news about this summit over in the US: "Calling all Climate Storytellers! Submit your work (by 1 March) for the Climate Storytelling Summit. Visit the event portal for more: environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor... " #rccnews #climatestory

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Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the plastic could improve recycling read more: www.newscientist.com/article/2467...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The fact that microplastics are in everything and everyone should not be the reason we stop trying. This means, now more then ever, we need creativity, innovation and action

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We don't yet know the extent of the damage done to our workforce. We continue to receive reports of past, ongoing, and future terminations. Public servants being let go chaotically with little warning. Those who remain face overwhelming workloads and wonder what acts they will be ordered to commit.

submitted 7 days ago • 126 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

University leaders: you have access to historically large levels of expertise about law, government, and poltical affairs. It’s okay—even important—to say “This is unconstitutional.”

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

submitted 9 days ago • 221 comments

Will a new generation of water-splitting devices help green hydrogen replace fossil fuels? Learn more: https://scim.ag/42Uuaf8

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Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

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The Canada flag turns 60 today on our official "flag day". This version was created by Curtis Wilson, Vancouver Island, BC, of the Kwakwaka'wakw. Not quite as old but also important (and beautiful). #HappyFlagDay #TrueNorthStrongAndFree

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“Who radicalized you?”. Oh idk, I though destroying the planet was dumb as a child and now I think it is dumb professionally

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Deep-diving elephant seals can help estimate fish abundance by providing a rare window into the elusive prey dynamics in the twilight zone, one of the planet’s most mysterious and remote ecosystems. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/41bqxjz

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I dunno, it's just kind of a bummer to see every tiny thing you've ever worked and fought for in your life eradicated in the span of a few weeks by a cabal of smirking, sociopathic buffoons, y'know?

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Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts

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The International Commission on Stratigraphy may have rejected the Anthropocene, but deep future Geologists and Palaeontologists will have no doubt that a new Epoch started here. theconversation.com/how-the-poll...

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Introducing FinCharles Darwin (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis) in his newly built nest 🪺

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I have shut down your work in the lab that does science at which you were probably making new knowledge Forgive me it was expensive so gender and so woke

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As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.

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Chevron is leaving California so it doesn’t have to pay for all of its abandoned wells and oil fields, and possibly to avoid more suits like the one it lost last year where it was ordered to pay tens of millions to a guy who got cancer living atop a mountain of drilling waste they never disclosed.

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Losses from disasters in Canada are increasing, on average… even when levelling for GDP growth

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"How to Prevent a Bird Flu Pandemic"

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Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 14 days ago • 102 comments