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submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

On this #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, the ABA encourages all birders to revisit the ABA's Code of Birding Ethics: www.aba.org/aba-code-of-.... Let's enjoy the spectacle of migration without putting birds at risk! Golden-winged Warbler, courtesy of Gene Koziara

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

submitted 70 days ago • 311 comments

Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty: The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body. That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.

submitted 86 days ago • 393 comments

Life imitates art: “Water, the basic component of all life, had been deemed a threat to Brawndo's profit margin. The solution came during the budget crisis of 2330, when the Brawndo Corporation simply bought the F.D.A. and the F.C.C., enabling them to say, do, and sell, anything they wanted.”

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen just introduced a Constitutional amendment to OVERTURN Citizens United. That’s right—corporations might finally stop masquerading as people with unlimited checkbooks. #EndCitizensUnited #MoneyOutOfPolitics #CampaignFinanceReform #DemocracyNotForSale

submitted 85 days ago • 36 comments

We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th! Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE! #standupforscience #handsoffourscience Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...

submitted 86 days ago • 21 comments

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free. - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks. - All workers get pensions.

submitted 86 days ago • 439 comments

Cost of GOP tax giveaways to corporations and the rich: Extending the Trump tax cuts — $4.2 trillion/10 yrs Restoring expired corporate tax breaks — more than $1 trillion Additional Trump-proposed tax breaks — up to $5 trillion “The party of fiscal responsibility” is full of it.

submitted 85 days ago • 86 comments

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

submitted 86 days ago • 925 comments

Overturning Citizens United would mean we could make progress on the pressing issues facing our nation like: climate change, affordable healthcare, well-paying jobs, and quality education. We must #EndCitizensUnited before it’s too late.

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

AOC won 2nd prize in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans. The International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

When birds thrive, we all win. Do your part by planting native plants, keeping cats indoors, making windows safer, avoiding pesticides, buying bird friendly products, reducing single use plastics, and supporting conservation initiatives! #StateOfTheBirds www.3billionbirds.org/7-simple-actions

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Trump says he's not going to cut Social Security. Really? Let's add up all the ways Trump is undermining Social Security, the most successful government program in history, in order to hand it over to his billionaire friends on Wall Street. A thread:

submitted 90 days ago • 121 comments

The definition of short sighted geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/03/20/v...

submitted 95 days ago • 192 comments

The #StateOfTheBirds shared shocking news—birds from all habitats continue to decline. But public & private partnerships can turn the tide. It’s time to support known solutions to #BingBirdsBack. 🚨Contact your representative—let them know how you feel. #UnitedByBirds #StandUpForTheBirds

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Whooping Crane with Sandhill Cranes. 3/13/25 Hall Co. NE

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

submitted 97 days ago • 437 comments

The State of the Birds Report identifies 112 species that have lost half their populations in the past 50 years, 42 of which now have perilously low numbers. Allen’s Hummingbird & Saltmarsh Sparrow are at risk if nothing changes. 🚨 ACTION: Join a conservation group bit.ly/3QUZF1l #StateOfTheBirds

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Phil Plait, Ph.D., a.k.a. the Bad Astronomer, will be speaking at our DC event on March 7th! @philplait.bsky.social More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 131 days ago • 294 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 113 days ago • 2059 comments

More tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 116 days ago • 135 comments

The ABA is deeply concerned by recent staff reductions in U.S. federal agencies tasked with the stewardship of American’s lands, waters, and wildlife, including wild birds. These actions have real world implications for the wellbeing of wild birds, particularly those facing extinction bit.ly/3Xc4BCK

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

This guy gives me hope.....

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Firing #science experts from the federal government weakens our country’s ability to protect American lives. Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 122 days ago • 34 comments

Trump and his American oligarchs are now openly aligning themselves with Putin and his Russian oligarchs. This Putin-Trump alliance means abandoning our allies, supporting authoritarianism and undermining our democratic traditions.

submitted 124 days ago • 236 comments

I pondered how Musk could buy the government for ONLY $200M. Mr 'art of the steal' should have gotten billions more given his business acumen. The actual quid pro quo was Musk hacking the election systems to ensure Trump would win, allowing him to raid the govt coffers. Trump is a patsy.

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submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

submitted 127 days ago • 13 comments

No foreign adversary has done as much to harm America as President Musk and Donald Trump have done in 3 weeks.

submitted 127 days ago • 106 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 127 days ago • 1026 comments

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.

submitted 127 days ago • 141 comments

"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired" Emerging 4th world country in North America! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 127 days ago • 225 comments

Farm around and find out.

submitted 131 days ago • 424 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 131 days ago • 960 comments

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

submitted 132 days ago • 237 comments