Dina Roberts
@drdins.bsky.social
I study birds from an interdisciplinary perspective. I am in the final stage of writing a book about birds in art. I'm also designing fabric as a hobby. You can see my current designs at www.spoonflower.com/profiles/dinsbins
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We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns.
Don't you love their shining faces?
Don't you love their shining faces?
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 11 medieval suns.
Don't you love their shining faces?
Don't you love their shining faces?
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We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 10 medieval birds. Which feathery friend is your favorite?
🦅🦢🐓🦉🐦⬛
🦅🦢🐓🦉🐦⬛
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 10 medieval birds. Which feathery friend is your favorite?
🦅🦢🐓🦉🐦⬛
🦅🦢🐓🦉🐦⬛
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We're celebrating 12 Days of #MedievalIlluminations. Today, 9 medieval moons.
Tag yourself, we're the tiny blue one. 🌚
Tag yourself, we're the tiny blue one. 🌚
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We're celebrating 12 Days of #MedievalIlluminations. Today, 9 medieval moons.
Tag yourself, we're the tiny blue one. 🌚
Tag yourself, we're the tiny blue one. 🌚
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Did you know that there’s only one lake in the world where you can find wild axolotls? Venture into the race to save them: buff.ly/noVVMWB
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Did you know that there’s only one lake in the world where you can find wild axolotls? Venture into the race to save them: buff.ly/noVVMWB
Rest in Peace Tony Fitzpatrick. thank you for your unique and inspiring works of art.
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Rest in Peace Tony Fitzpatrick. thank you for your unique and inspiring works of art.
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"Today the consequences of excessive roadbuilding are perfectly foreseeable; it’s the wisdom that remains scarce."
For @bostonglobe.com's Wild Issue, I wrote about Trump's plan to rescind USFS's Roadless Rule, which — spoiler — is a terrible idea. #roadecology
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/o...
For @bostonglobe.com's Wild Issue, I wrote about Trump's plan to rescind USFS's Roadless Rule, which — spoiler — is a terrible idea. #roadecology
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/o...
A road runs through it - The Boston Globe
America’s wild lands are already home to vast networks of paved and dirt roads. Now the Trump administration is about to expand their reach.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Today the consequences of excessive roadbuilding are perfectly foreseeable; it’s the wisdom that remains scarce."
For @bostonglobe.com's Wild Issue, I wrote about Trump's plan to rescind USFS's Roadless Rule, which — spoiler — is a terrible idea. #roadecology
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/o...
For @bostonglobe.com's Wild Issue, I wrote about Trump's plan to rescind USFS's Roadless Rule, which — spoiler — is a terrible idea. #roadecology
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/o...
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La Cumplida shows how coffee can restore ecosystems and economies.
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#Coffee #Climate #Rainforest #Forest #Nature #Farms #Farming #Food
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#Coffee #Climate #Rainforest #Forest #Nature #Farms #Farming #Food
La Cumplida shows how coffee can restore ecosystems and economies
La Cumplida has turned deforested hills into thriving shade-grown coffee farms, showing that healing the land can also grow profits.
grist.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
La Cumplida shows how coffee can restore ecosystems and economies.
grist.org/sponsored/re...
#Coffee #Climate #Rainforest #Forest #Nature #Farms #Farming #Food
grist.org/sponsored/re...
#Coffee #Climate #Rainforest #Forest #Nature #Farms #Farming #Food
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Arturo Gómez-Pompa believed tropical forests were “landscapes of memory,” shaped for millennia by Indigenous hands.
Long before “biodiversity” became a rallying cry, he documented how local communities enriched and tended the jungle, and argued that conservation should do the same.
Long before “biodiversity” became a rallying cry, he documented how local communities enriched and tended the jungle, and argued that conservation should do the same.
Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90
In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo…
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September 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Arturo Gómez-Pompa believed tropical forests were “landscapes of memory,” shaped for millennia by Indigenous hands.
Long before “biodiversity” became a rallying cry, he documented how local communities enriched and tended the jungle, and argued that conservation should do the same.
Long before “biodiversity” became a rallying cry, he documented how local communities enriched and tended the jungle, and argued that conservation should do the same.
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Trump divided America instead of making it great
✅ Attacks on democratic principles
✅ Fueling racism and hate
✅ Misogyny and disrespect toward women
✅ Failed leadership
✅ Lies and disinformation
Trump’s politics proved that for power, he was willing to sacrifice everything even the people’s trust.
✅ Attacks on democratic principles
✅ Fueling racism and hate
✅ Misogyny and disrespect toward women
✅ Failed leadership
✅ Lies and disinformation
Trump’s politics proved that for power, he was willing to sacrifice everything even the people’s trust.
September 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump divided America instead of making it great
✅ Attacks on democratic principles
✅ Fueling racism and hate
✅ Misogyny and disrespect toward women
✅ Failed leadership
✅ Lies and disinformation
Trump’s politics proved that for power, he was willing to sacrifice everything even the people’s trust.
✅ Attacks on democratic principles
✅ Fueling racism and hate
✅ Misogyny and disrespect toward women
✅ Failed leadership
✅ Lies and disinformation
Trump’s politics proved that for power, he was willing to sacrifice everything even the people’s trust.
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Dreamers are doctors, teachers, firefighters and so much more. They’ve built their lives here with the protections of DACA, but Trump doesn’t care.
His rogue DHS is detaining and terrorizing Dreamers — a backdoor attempt to quietly kill DACA.
We will not stand for it.
His rogue DHS is detaining and terrorizing Dreamers — a backdoor attempt to quietly kill DACA.
We will not stand for it.
September 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dreamers are doctors, teachers, firefighters and so much more. They’ve built their lives here with the protections of DACA, but Trump doesn’t care.
His rogue DHS is detaining and terrorizing Dreamers — a backdoor attempt to quietly kill DACA.
We will not stand for it.
His rogue DHS is detaining and terrorizing Dreamers — a backdoor attempt to quietly kill DACA.
We will not stand for it.
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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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The administration slashed National Park Service staffing, delayed seasonal hiring and is pushing current staff to their limits.
The resulting, extensive impacts in this new report are just the beginning if they don’t change course. https://bit.ly/4mtyWaq
The resulting, extensive impacts in this new report are just the beginning if they don’t change course. https://bit.ly/4mtyWaq
August 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The administration slashed National Park Service staffing, delayed seasonal hiring and is pushing current staff to their limits.
The resulting, extensive impacts in this new report are just the beginning if they don’t change course. https://bit.ly/4mtyWaq
The resulting, extensive impacts in this new report are just the beginning if they don’t change course. https://bit.ly/4mtyWaq
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Thank you, former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland for speaking up for national parks.
Tell Congress to #ProtectEveryPark - join us this Saturday Aug. 23 at events across the country and online! Visit NPCA.org/everypark for details.
Tell Congress to #ProtectEveryPark - join us this Saturday Aug. 23 at events across the country and online! Visit NPCA.org/everypark for details.
August 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thank you, former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland for speaking up for national parks.
Tell Congress to #ProtectEveryPark - join us this Saturday Aug. 23 at events across the country and online! Visit NPCA.org/everypark for details.
Tell Congress to #ProtectEveryPark - join us this Saturday Aug. 23 at events across the country and online! Visit NPCA.org/everypark for details.
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[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
The more intimately we understand the scale of ecological loss, the harder it becomes to stay hopeful.
Yet the people living closest to the crisis are often the ones imagining the boldest futures.
The more intimately we understand the scale of ecological loss, the harder it becomes to stay hopeful.
Yet the people living closest to the crisis are often the ones imagining the boldest futures.
The case for hope in environmental journalism
I often return to this image, which I took in 2022 in Jambi, Indonesia. At first glance, it seems to capture something hopeful: a full-circle rainbow arcing over a lush green landscape. But look…
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August 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
The more intimately we understand the scale of ecological loss, the harder it becomes to stay hopeful.
Yet the people living closest to the crisis are often the ones imagining the boldest futures.
The more intimately we understand the scale of ecological loss, the harder it becomes to stay hopeful.
Yet the people living closest to the crisis are often the ones imagining the boldest futures.
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities.
New research details the profound impact, in numbers.
New research details the profound impact, in numbers.
Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife
e360.yale.edu
July 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities.
New research details the profound impact, in numbers.
New research details the profound impact, in numbers.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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A recent review suggests that the more ambitious ceiling of 1.5°C(2.7°F), which nearly every country in the world pledged to work toward under the landmark Paris climate agreement, may be too warm for the planet’s polar ice sheets and trigger massive sea level rise.
Paris goal of 1.5°C warming is still too hot for polar ice sheets, study warns
At the landmark Paris climate agreement, nearly every country in the world pledged to a goal to limit warming to well below 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels by 2100, and work…
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June 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A recent review suggests that the more ambitious ceiling of 1.5°C(2.7°F), which nearly every country in the world pledged to work toward under the landmark Paris climate agreement, may be too warm for the planet’s polar ice sheets and trigger massive sea level rise.
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A new analysis of more than 70,000 wild animal species reveals that climate change now threatens thousands (nearly 5% of the assessed species) of the planet’s wildlife, along with overexploitation and habitat degradation.
Ocean invertebrates are particularly vulnerable.
Ocean invertebrates are particularly vulnerable.
Climate change now threatens thousands of species on Earth
In the last decade, report after report has warned that the Arctic is heating up faster than ever, cities are scorching, the Amazon is blazing, boreal forests are shrinking and the oceans are…
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May 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A new analysis of more than 70,000 wild animal species reveals that climate change now threatens thousands (nearly 5% of the assessed species) of the planet’s wildlife, along with overexploitation and habitat degradation.
Ocean invertebrates are particularly vulnerable.
Ocean invertebrates are particularly vulnerable.
Amazing new exhibit by ceramic artist Sarah Conti on view at Eutectic Gallery in Willamina Oregon.
May 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Amazing new exhibit by ceramic artist Sarah Conti on view at Eutectic Gallery in Willamina Oregon.
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May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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"Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, but he was the first to do so with such fluency, subtlety & apparent ease," writes Rhett Butler in Mongabay's occasional series, Founder's Briefs.
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Kanzi the bonobo shattered boundaries between humans and apes
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi…
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April 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, but he was the first to do so with such fluency, subtlety & apparent ease," writes Rhett Butler in Mongabay's occasional series, Founder's Briefs.
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