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Traditional, Tanzanian pilipili. Made using a friend’s family recipe, a regional version from Moshi just south of Kilimanjaro.

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1. PhD students unionize 2. NIH capped at 15%, university administrators can no longer “steal” grant money 3. Administrators decide to stop t accepting new PhD students

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Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn’t make those costs — approx. $2 trillion for the U.S. economy this decade — go away. Instead, it will likely push them onto citizens. New, from @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org

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CONNOR MCDAVID IS THE HERO FOR CANADA IN OVERTIME 🇨🇦 #4Nations

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A lot of fascists in maga hats attending the Four Nations finale

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Absolutely shameful. Trump’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rescinds protection of endangered Rice’s whale in the Gulf of Death in order to “unleash America energy.” www.boem.gov/newsroom/not...

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In 2014, finishing a stint as a baby intern, I blew the whistle about Canadian Geographic providing cover for the oil industry to sneak propaganda into classrooms. A report this week exposes that campaign and much more (and mentions my small role, too!) www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/n...

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“Democracy requires your courage.” 🔥🔥🔥

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The Trump/House budget will cut $880 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from SNAP to pay for tax cuts to billionaires. But just in case Elon Musk wasn't benefiting enough, it also gives us a trillion dollar defense budget to pay for added missile defense, with contracts likely going to SpaceX.

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From Turkey to Hungary to Venezuela to Benin, firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power. Scholars share lessons learned from around the globe: #CivilService #autocrats #DOGE

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I really like the Project Gallery format @antiquityj.bsky.social offers. It’s a great way to introduce projects to a wide audience. Check out this Project Gallery on the Sidi Zin project of Tunisia led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social and Nabiha Aouadi. 🏺

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New England farmers can now apply for funding in exchange for leaving their hayfields alone in the early summer. The funds come from the Bobolink Project, which started as a research study and now makes grants through Audubon chapters in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire.

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I am so thrilled to share with you this project gallery published today on @antiquityj.bsky.social summarizing our research led by me and N. Aouadi in central Tunisia. We present here the first results of our project to study Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in this little-known part of North Africa!

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Dear Canadians attending the US-Canada hockey game: There will be an announcement asking people to respect the national anthems. Boo that too.

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Reliably hearing that NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs are being cut. Did you want to be a scientists? Well, thanks to Musk, now you can’t.

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The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

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SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Have now added NOAA, NWS, and the EPA. So many of us take what these agencies do for granted, especially the small things like being able to prepare for storms or that we are entitled to clean air and water.

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"Globally, habitat loss is the biggest threat to most species and about 90% is caused by conversion of wild habitats to agricultural land." The sixth mass extinction is clearly attributable to the elephants in the room, overpopulation and overconsumption www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Bill Gates’ climate tech advocacy organization, Breakthrough Energy, has told its partners that it will slash its grantmaking budget this year and would not be renewing its support for grantees.

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I find it funny that the people who complain about leaving leaves on the lawn in the fall have nothing to say about snow covering the lawn for weeks at a time in winter.

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According to the Center of Systematic Peace, the US is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy as it has experienced a presidental coup. I really hope that student protests or union strikes are on the horizon.

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The US is no longer considered a democracy by the Polity Project, and "lies at the cusp of autocracy". Considers current events a presidential coup and adverse regime change. www.systemicpeace.org/index.html

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I hope I never see another academic say they have imposter syndrome.

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A lot of disinformation coming our way. It’s not an exaggeration to say that we need to teach all students, no matter the grade level, how to develop their critical thinking skills.

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Although not selected as finalists for the 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition (there were some amazing submissions), I am proud of the StoryMap we put together for our project in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Check it out 👇

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Happy to have contributed to this article on potentially adding 'space junk' to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Talking about this issue was a fun way to combine my background in archaeology 🏺 and current role in campus sustainability 🌎. Let's make 'space junk' the 18th SDG!

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They are angry that a judge restored a public website providing life-saving resources from the CDC, FDA, and HHS.

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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."

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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It's important to remember that although techbros are driving fascism today, it's the oil and gas industry which has carried the ball most of the way up the field, by funding right wing politics, christian nationalism, climate denial, and disinformation. They did it to allow this graph to happen.

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JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Udzungwa red colobuses (Piliocolobus gordonorum) are found exclusively in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. They form friendly relationships with other monkey species, providing extra protection against predators. Threatened by hunting and habitat loss; populations are severely fragmented. Vulnerable.

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I didn't see this ad air during the Super Bowl. Was it a regional commercial and we just didn't get it in New England? Anyone see this?

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I don’t only care about climate change because I’m a scientist. I care about climate change because I’m a mom. Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love? Read more:

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This Brad Pitt #SuperBowl segment about what makes America America being shown with Trump at the game is the most hypocritical and oblivious thing the NFL could have come up with.

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