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Aalayna Green
@aalayna23.bsky.social
Conservation Social Scientist | PhD @Cornell | @NSF fellow | academic baddie | (anti/de)colonial rabble rouser | unapologetic scholar activist | critical EJ
🤍✍️ hot off the press!

A critical environmental justice framework for the illegal wildlife trade 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

t.co/DielSzEHEY
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/conservation-science/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2025.1535093/full?utm_source=F-NTF
t.co
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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THIS IS FOR SELF TITLED. THIS IS FOR LEMONADE. THIS IS FOR RENAISSANCE.
February 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”
February 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Ruminating on what Justice can mean within conservation if we continue to adhere to western concepts of preservation ✍️✍️

More in my forthcoming book “Igly Head”

#books #conservation #environmentaljustice
January 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One thing we don’t talk about in grad school enough is that for me, and likely many other grad students, this is the most money I’ve ever had in my life.
December 19, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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A few weeks ago, I made a post stating that white women can't be intersectional feminists and that the term itself is largely self-appointed by white women seeking to set themselves apart from "other" white women. I didn't have time to explain then.

I made time:

open.substack.com/pub/jennmjac...
December 13, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Jay-Z has been accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 allegedly along with Sean Combs
Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
The music mogul was named in a re-filed October rape complaint against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The accuser is anonymous.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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He's trolling the police lol.
December 8, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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gotDAMN
December 7, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Gaza painter holds arts sessions for children in Deir el-Balah.

🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/fg6suc
December 6, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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Choose empathy. Read.
December 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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"Theory's cool, but theory with no practice ain't s–t. You got to have both of them" Fred Hampton
December 5, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.
December 5, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
bittersoutherner.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[ #Books ]
[ #BookSky ]
[ 💙📚 ]
[ #BookChallenge ]
December 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Hot off the press✨ 📣

A coalition of trans- and interdisciplinary #HWC professionals have come together to pose the idea of constellations of coexistence

We are advocating for HWC mitigation strategies that are grounded in local and global connected realities
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Applications are open for the @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social summer undergraduate programs!

If you want research experience in the field or in the lab and value being in a supportive community full of wonderful people to work with, then apply - we'd love to have you 😀

www.kbs.msu.edu/2023/12/summ...
www.kbs.msu.edu
December 3, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Justice for Jazmir Tucker!

Akron police shot and killed 15 year old Black boy

#JusticeforJazmirTucker
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[ #Books ]
[ #BookSky ]
[ 💙📚 ]
[ #BookChallenge ]
December 3, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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We-a diverse group of conservation scholars and practitioners-by diving into case studies from our study systems, highlight the importance of local contexts and perspectives in HWC mitigation, while connecting them to global realities🦁🐘🐆🐻🐺
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Creating constellations of coexistence through connections between people in human–wildlife conflict areas
Human–wildlife conflict (HWC) is a critical challenge to human development and well-being and threatens biodiversity conservation. Ideally, HWC mitigation should benefit both wildlife and communities....
doi.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Publishing a paper on a topic you ❤️ is rewarding, but it's so motivating to see students excited about it🥹 My wildlife conservation course just discussed our brand new paper on 'constellations of coexistence,' & I was thrilled by their enthusiasm and attention to detail🤩 🔗🧵⬇️
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[ #Books ]
[ #BookSky ]
[ 💙📚 ]
[ #BookChallenge ]
December 2, 2024 at 4:55 PM