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paulawhyman.bsky.social
Author, BAD NATURALIST: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop, Jan 2025 from Timber Press/Hachette. Website: https://paulawhyman.com Newsletter: https://badnaturalistnewsletter.beehiiv.com/
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The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country. Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

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It's not going to "vanish," it's going to be eliminated by the current administration. 🌿🌎

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Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating intolerance. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating intolerance. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating intolerance. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating intolerance. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating intolerance. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating intolerance. Tolerance doesn't

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I was pulling invasive spotted knapweed and found this little native plant, Venus' looking glasses, growing defiantly amid a dense patch of the weeds. Seems like a metaphor. 🌿

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Leaf-footed bug makes a friend? 🌿 #invert

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By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

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I've named her Spot. I know, original. 🌿

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Baby spiders in a web 🌿 #invert

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I just read Bad Naturalist by @paulawhyman.bsky.social. Amazing book! I learned a lot and enjoyed reading her stories of her own learning on "her" mountain. I appreciated her perspective of trying to serve as a guardian, or caretaker, for the land. If you enjoy nature, read this book!

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Leaving so soon? The black and gold millipede, I think. It secretes cyanide as a defense, so if you pick it up, wear gloves. 🌿

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Nope nope this is not journalism. This is not what newspapers are for. You've ruined the Post. Ruined!!! [mentally shakes management by the shoulders, shouting]

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The groundhog that likes to sit on the rock outside my window every morning 🌿

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Blue Ridge sunset, first day of Pride Month

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Thanks @paulawhyman.bsky.social! "There’s an organization called Blue Ridge PRISM, which even though Blue Ridge is in the name, they get people from all over the world tuning into their webinars about invasive plants." --> Join us for our summer webinar on 7/16: www.eventbrite.com/e/1320623794...

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This month's Bad Naturalist newsletter has new birds, prolific trees, and mysterious holes in the ground, plus recommended reading, and (of course) the poodle. 🌿

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200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

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Pay attention to this one.

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AWP 2026 panel organizers, if you're looking for speakers on memoir, nature-writing, editing, starting & running a litmag, writing books in more than one genre (for me fiction and memoir/nonfiction), or writing accessibly about science, please hit me up! #writers #AWP @awpwriter.bsky.social

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Margaret Roach: "I laughed at one point in the book, you say you sort of renamed the place "Ubintended Consequences Farm..." From our conversation on her podcast "A Way to Garden" #ICYMI 🌿

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Skink just basking. 🌿

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I talked with Margaret Roach(!!!) on her podcast A Way to Garden about Bad Naturalist and the pleasures and pitfalls of trying to encourage a native meadow and manage invasive plants on a mountain. 🌿

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What mysterious creature is making these holes everywhere? They don't seem to be connected to vole tunnels. 🌿

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They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.

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