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jessealston.bsky.social
Computational mammalogist at the University of Arizona. Public land and Green Bay Packers enjoyer.
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Like 4 years ago I could name every sitting US Senator, but today I learned that Markwayne Mullin has been a US Senator for 2.5 years without me having any idea. Life comes at you fast

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Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I’m no military or natsec expert but I think the experts are going to look back at the Israeli attack on Iran as inevitable. Russia tied down in Ukraine, Hezbollah and Hamas extremely weak, Assad out in Syria, Iran with no nukes yet—there really is an unprecedented window for a campaign against Iran

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Feral horses are really bad for other wildlife

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I’m more pro-AI than like 90% of people on here, and I nevertheless think this is the dumbest way possible to use the technology

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This is a useful overview of where the Israel-Iran conflict now stands www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

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This is a useful tool. This law would be disastrous for public land access near me

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Declared war on the Bermuda grass in my yard and developed much firmer opinions of various Civil War generals and military aircraft

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Did some important data analysis

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Me after staff/faculty softball games

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Guys, this is not funny, football guys only do this when they’re in extreme distress

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Questions of moral sympathies aside, it’s funny that the Manly Man President is a New Yorker who loves musical theater

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maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130

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Been reading about the Civil War and Lee has a very clear and consistent personality: old money, personally very nice and charming, high-minded in conversation, but at the end of the day, he’s going to vote for the guy who is going to cut his taxes

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This. Also, recommend reviewers when you submit and when you decline a review

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Popularism is a comms strategy without a real policy agenda and Abundance is a policy agenda without a comms strategy, yet Discoursers almost always reverse this. One of the biggest reasons these Discourses are so tedious

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Had a CBP helicopter beep its siren at us while hiking today. That’s a new one for me

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Worth mentioning that the level of smoke in folks’ lives from 1981-2015 was unsustainable. Even in a perfect scenario where we restore historical levels of fire on the landscape, there’s going to be a lot more smoke in the air

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California should send out a memo saying they are going to stop enforcing federal taxes, like perhaps tariffs

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Electricity production has been decarbonizing quickly but the next frontier is transportation, which will require much more electricity production

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