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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦
@agronomygus.bsky.social
Western US-focused precision agronomist
CCA, P.Ag (Alberta Institute of Agrologists)
Australian/Canadian, now in Cali
Average triathlete & photographer
#ResistTheEchoChamber
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Finding my way around as a newbie here, I thought I'd start a Starter Pack to help global ag professionals & farmers get connected

Who am I missing?

#agriculture #agsky #farming #agribusiness

go.bsky.app/84Mr1tn
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A tree growing out of a cliff over the River Murray at Blanchetown.
And a cormorant.
September 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Here is a leaf of flowering dogwood with bright red leaf cells, nearly dead, but veins of yellow and green, still functioning to export nitrogen and magnesium products made from the breakdown of chlorophyll. Read more at Our Trees, where you can also comment or ask questions about autumn colors.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
Following up on yesterday’s story about autumn colors, here is a flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) leaf in its fall glory that illustrates much of what we discussed. The leaf is glowing in the sun, a...
substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Colleague took these of the #MadreFire currently burning 80,000+ ac in Kern, SLO & Santa Barbara Counties

#californiafire
July 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
First Canada Day as a citizen. Toasting to the Great White North from south of the 49th 🍻 🇨🇦

#canadaday
July 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Pig domestication in China’s Lower Yangtze River region began 8,000 years ago, about the same time as rice farming. The dates were estimated through microfossils found in the mineralized plaque of Neolithic pig teeth. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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BREAKING | CTP-ISW is tracking reports that Iran is conducting attacks against US bases in Qatar and Iraq. Further information and detailed analysis will be available in our forthcoming evening update. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...
June 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Damage to Iran's Fordow fuel enrichment facility after U.S. strikes is visible in new imagery from Maxar.
June 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?
June 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I remember looking up at the Sierras this afternoon and admiring their beauty amongst dark clouds. This is tragic 😢
June 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
June 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Brinkmanship negotiations seem to be going well

#tariffs
April 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Posting for posterity

Lots of echoes over on X

#tariffs #econsky
April 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Boom 💥

Wordle 1,383 2/6

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April 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Demanding subservience sounds like a winning strategy
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Here’s my account on Flashes, a photo sharing app. All my followers can automatically find me as soon as they log in!

This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.
March 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
propub.li
March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It looks like Elon’s using fake X accounts to influence public opinion 🧵
March 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Same day FT warns Europeans to stockpile >72hrs worth of food in case of war, 4 US soldiers killed in Lithuania.

#geopolitics
March 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
March 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
terrible take!

agree?

(no worries if not)
March 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM