Harnawaz Boparai
@brownnaturalist.bsky.social
MS student at CSU LA studying urban food webs and urban raptors, left handed 🎸ist, 🚣, wildlife photographer, 🐦er, meme generator
UC Davis WFCB Class of 2019
UC Davis WFCB Class of 2019
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Hi Bluesky, Are you a #NaturalCapital specialist or expert? @ibioconsultants.com is looking for Natural Capital people with #African and #European experience (preferable) to help support a proposal it is currently working on. Please drop us an email at info@ibioconsultants.com with your CV
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hi Bluesky, Are you a #NaturalCapital specialist or expert? @ibioconsultants.com is looking for Natural Capital people with #African and #European experience (preferable) to help support a proposal it is currently working on. Please drop us an email at info@ibioconsultants.com with your CV
Not sure how many desi’s (aka Asian Indians) there are on this platform. But in any case I hope you all had a Happy Diwali! May your heart and soul be filled with inspiring and lifting light in these times… and delicious Indian sweets😋! Happy Diwali everyone 🪔 😊
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Not sure how many desi’s (aka Asian Indians) there are on this platform. But in any case I hope you all had a Happy Diwali! May your heart and soul be filled with inspiring and lifting light in these times… and delicious Indian sweets😋! Happy Diwali everyone 🪔 😊
Last week I backpacked for the first time in my life! I did the Trans-Catalina Trail which involved 40 miles over 5 days. Truly happy to have done this to get a break from the stresses of being a young scientist right now. Ran into 🦬, tidepooled for sea 🐌, and photographed many 🐦s and island 🦊s
October 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Last week I backpacked for the first time in my life! I did the Trans-Catalina Trail which involved 40 miles over 5 days. Truly happy to have done this to get a break from the stresses of being a young scientist right now. Ran into 🦬, tidepooled for sea 🐌, and photographed many 🐦s and island 🦊s
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After Lyme disease forced him into retirement, geologist Bob Bell found healing in birding, improving wellness, sharing knowledge, and inspiring people to connect with birds.
Read the full article: www.aba.org/birding-and-...
Read the full article: www.aba.org/birding-and-...
Birding and Wellness - American Birding Association
After Lyme disease forced him into retirement, geologist Bob Bell found healing in birding, improving wellness, sharing knowledge, and inspiring people to connect with birds.
www.aba.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
After Lyme disease forced him into retirement, geologist Bob Bell found healing in birding, improving wellness, sharing knowledge, and inspiring people to connect with birds.
Read the full article: www.aba.org/birding-and-...
Read the full article: www.aba.org/birding-and-...
Success! This summer I was collaborating with CDFW on banding Mourning Doves on our campus but getting no luck with birds being trapped until my final day as a student! We got this Hatch Year Mourning Dove yesterday evening! 🕊️ Bird was trapped, handled, and banded under proper permits!
August 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Success! This summer I was collaborating with CDFW on banding Mourning Doves on our campus but getting no luck with birds being trapped until my final day as a student! We got this Hatch Year Mourning Dove yesterday evening! 🕊️ Bird was trapped, handled, and banded under proper permits!
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"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
June 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
Finally made it back home from #IUWC2025 What a time! Hands down my favorite conference I’ve attended and my first time being a part of this group! Thank you to @tws-uwwg.bsky.social for making this an incredible experience! Definitely plan on attending and presenting again in Milwaukee 2027 😊
June 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Finally made it back home from #IUWC2025 What a time! Hands down my favorite conference I’ve attended and my first time being a part of this group! Thank you to @tws-uwwg.bsky.social for making this an incredible experience! Definitely plan on attending and presenting again in Milwaukee 2027 😊
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🌆🐾 The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicks off this weekend in Atlanta! We’re bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore the ecology and evolution of cities. Stay tuned for updates, session highlights, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of #IUWC2025! 🌇🦝🧬🌳
May 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🌆🐾 The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicks off this weekend in Atlanta! We’re bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore the ecology and evolution of cities. Stay tuned for updates, session highlights, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of #IUWC2025! 🌇🦝🧬🌳
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Nearly 300 U.S.-based researchers have applied to one program that promises "scientific refugee status" for those fleeing Trump's academic funding rollbacks.
Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S.
Nearly 300 U.S.-based researchers have applied to one program that promises "scientific refugee status" for those fleeing Trump's academic funding rollbacks.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nearly 300 U.S.-based researchers have applied to one program that promises "scientific refugee status" for those fleeing Trump's academic funding rollbacks.
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The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Well… I suppose amidst all the chaos and creation happening in academic science, I should share the news I was awarded special recognition by my department at Cal State LA (the Department of Biological Sciences)! Thanks to my PI @laecology.bsky.social and the department for nominating me! 😊
March 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Well… I suppose amidst all the chaos and creation happening in academic science, I should share the news I was awarded special recognition by my department at Cal State LA (the Department of Biological Sciences)! Thanks to my PI @laecology.bsky.social and the department for nominating me! 😊
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Alexandra, thanks for shedding light on the real ppl affected. Hope you’ll consider using your platform to sign/share our declaration to #defendresearch against censorship, resegregation and intimidation. We’re 1K strong and growing. All welcome to sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research.
We ca...
docs.google.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Alexandra, thanks for shedding light on the real ppl affected. Hope you’ll consider using your platform to sign/share our declaration to #defendresearch against censorship, resegregation and intimidation. We’re 1K strong and growing. All welcome to sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
March 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Petition against the persecution of DEI in science:
SIGN PDYKUA to 50409 or share: resist.bot/petitions/PD...
SIGN PDYKUA to 50409 or share: resist.bot/petitions/PD...
Support NSF's mission, foster inclusive scientific progress
Text SIGN PDYKUA to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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February 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Petition against the persecution of DEI in science:
SIGN PDYKUA to 50409 or share: resist.bot/petitions/PD...
SIGN PDYKUA to 50409 or share: resist.bot/petitions/PD...
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Here’s something concrete you can do to defend science: lots of states need coordinators and organizers for the March 7 rally!
🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨
Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!
Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#standupforscience2025
Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!
Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#standupforscience2025
February 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here’s something concrete you can do to defend science: lots of states need coordinators and organizers for the March 7 rally!
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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
February 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
What better to exit a rough week for science than visiting @nhmla.bsky.social and presenting! I got to present my project using urban raptor observations in iNaturalist today alongside other participants from the R coding workshop three weeks ago! Super happy to have been a part of this workshop! 😁
February 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What better to exit a rough week for science than visiting @nhmla.bsky.social and presenting! I got to present my project using urban raptor observations in iNaturalist today alongside other participants from the R coding workshop three weeks ago! Super happy to have been a part of this workshop! 😁
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Weeks of devastation, watching our scientific enterprise unravel.
Scientists/practitioners at NSF, NOAA, USGS, USDA, NPS, NIH, CDC... are tackling the greatest challenges, improving the lives of so many, protecting nature, and unraveling the world's mysteries.
Scientists/practitioners at NSF, NOAA, USGS, USDA, NPS, NIH, CDC... are tackling the greatest challenges, improving the lives of so many, protecting nature, and unraveling the world's mysteries.
February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Weeks of devastation, watching our scientific enterprise unravel.
Scientists/practitioners at NSF, NOAA, USGS, USDA, NPS, NIH, CDC... are tackling the greatest challenges, improving the lives of so many, protecting nature, and unraveling the world's mysteries.
Scientists/practitioners at NSF, NOAA, USGS, USDA, NPS, NIH, CDC... are tackling the greatest challenges, improving the lives of so many, protecting nature, and unraveling the world's mysteries.
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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
February 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
February 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵: