Hannah Miller
@hannahem.bsky.social
US-based wildlife/conservation biologist • birds & habitat management • tea-fueled birder • she/her
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Hannah Miller
@hannahem.bsky.social
· Nov 18
What better time for an intro post than #LGBTQSTEMDay!
Hey y'all! I'm queer, disabled🦻🏻, and often distracted by birds 😜.
I work in bird conservation in an academic-adjacent role - think population monitoring and reporting. Florida Scrub-Jays are my current professional (& personal) jam.
Hey y'all! I'm queer, disabled🦻🏻, and often distracted by birds 😜.
I work in bird conservation in an academic-adjacent role - think population monitoring and reporting. Florida Scrub-Jays are my current professional (& personal) jam.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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NOOOO!!!! Teen Vogue’s political reporting was one of the last holdouts of actual political journalism left as mainstream outlets caved to fascism… this does not bode well.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
NOOOO!!!! Teen Vogue’s political reporting was one of the last holdouts of actual political journalism left as mainstream outlets caved to fascism… this does not bode well.
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359/1000 🫶🏾
19 hours left, please share ❤️🔥 Maybe you’re fatiguing of these hourly posts, but what are a few posts, a clicked share, in contrast with being able to help six families & a camp survive death every day?
Fight against this slow genocide. Food & shelter. Last check, we’re at 39/1000
Fight against this slow genocide. Food & shelter. Last check, we’re at 39/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
359/1000 🫶🏾
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Please share, only 4 hours left: the giving circle has a special dose of hope: one of the families is expecting a baby very soon (🧿) !!!
With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps.
8 hours left ⚠️ 769/1000
With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps.
8 hours left ⚠️ 769/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Please share, only 4 hours left: the giving circle has a special dose of hope: one of the families is expecting a baby very soon (🧿) !!!
With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps.
8 hours left ⚠️ 769/1000
With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps.
8 hours left ⚠️ 769/1000
I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!
maybe a little different from my usual newsletter posts. but also, we should talk to animals more.
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...
we should talk to animals more
an essay on what i really mean when i call them "little guys"
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!
I have a lot of complicated feelings about the Catholic Church after growing up in it, but they do get some things right.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I have a lot of complicated feelings about the Catholic Church after growing up in it, but they do get some things right.
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For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
October 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
it's time I finally step up my shorebird ID skills (I live by the beach afterall!) so I was looking at guides but oof I didn't realize the weight of shorebird knowledge 😅
October 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
it's time I finally step up my shorebird ID skills (I live by the beach afterall!) so I was looking at guides but oof I didn't realize the weight of shorebird knowledge 😅
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Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome
New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...
phys.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
best cellphone photo I’ve ever taken of a Florida scrub-jay and it's sitting on my truck 🙃
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
best cellphone photo I’ve ever taken of a Florida scrub-jay and it's sitting on my truck 🙃
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Let that sink in
"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Let that sink in
"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
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13 hours left on our first day 🚨 please share! We’re matching the next £3,000/$4,000 🫡
We have four days to make this goal, which will help the final two giving circle families stranded in Gaza City flee in order to SURVIVE. Every minute is death…
Give and be doubled. 545/7000 by Tuesday night.
We have four days to make this goal, which will help the final two giving circle families stranded in Gaza City flee in order to SURVIVE. Every minute is death…
Give and be doubled. 545/7000 by Tuesday night.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
13 hours left on our first day 🚨 please share! We’re matching the next £3,000/$4,000 🫡
We have four days to make this goal, which will help the final two giving circle families stranded in Gaza City flee in order to SURVIVE. Every minute is death…
Give and be doubled. 545/7000 by Tuesday night.
We have four days to make this goal, which will help the final two giving circle families stranded in Gaza City flee in order to SURVIVE. Every minute is death…
Give and be doubled. 545/7000 by Tuesday night.
bird friend up north: if you're wondering where the ovenbirds went, they seem to all be down here in FL at the moment!
September 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
bird friend up north: if you're wondering where the ovenbirds went, they seem to all be down here in FL at the moment!
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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yikes, my "require alt text before posting" setting had been turned off too! check on yours if you haven't lately. it's under Settings / Accessibility.
Hey y’all, if you are using the setting to remind you to use alt text, you might want to check and make sure it’s still on. I know for a fact that it I had it on for me, but it seems to have turned itself off at some point.
September 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
yikes, my "require alt text before posting" setting had been turned off too! check on yours if you haven't lately. it's under Settings / Accessibility.
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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
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If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:
This anecdote from Miles Taylor about Stephen Miller allegedly suggesting drone strikes on boats of migrants during Trump 1.0 seems relevant given the recent US lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean. www.treason.io/p/read-one-s...
READ: One step closer to bombing civilians
Why Trump's military strike on a drug boat should spook America.
www.treason.io
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:
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Today is the last day to help make your voice heard for protection of our wilderness, places where we need to get away from the trauma of being human. Places of solitude. Please speak up for roadless rule. It’s easy and it only takes a few minutes at this link. earthjustice.org/action/prote...
Tell the Trump administration to keep this landmark conservation rule in place
Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
earthjustice.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Today is the last day to help make your voice heard for protection of our wilderness, places where we need to get away from the trauma of being human. Places of solitude. Please speak up for roadless rule. It’s easy and it only takes a few minutes at this link. earthjustice.org/action/prote...
If you even *think* you might be interested, you should sign up!
I haven't taken the class but I just got back from the BtB retreat, which was an absolutely magical stretch of ~6 days in Columbia with other like-minded nature nerds!
I haven't taken the class but I just got back from the BtB retreat, which was an absolutely magical stretch of ~6 days in Columbia with other like-minded nature nerds!
Both of these upcoming cohorts are sitting at about 1/3 full with a week to go.
I'm really puzzled as to why registration has been so slow.
Somewhat in desperation, there's now the code SIXTY you can use for 60% off registration.
I'm really puzzled as to why registration has been so slow.
Somewhat in desperation, there's now the code SIXTY you can use for 60% off registration.
My course about birding & creative code is also secretly (shhhh) a course about critical data thinking.
Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation.
Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me?
jerthorp.me/learning
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Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation.
Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me?
jerthorp.me/learning
🪶📊🎨
September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you even *think* you might be interested, you should sign up!
I haven't taken the class but I just got back from the BtB retreat, which was an absolutely magical stretch of ~6 days in Columbia with other like-minded nature nerds!
I haven't taken the class but I just got back from the BtB retreat, which was an absolutely magical stretch of ~6 days in Columbia with other like-minded nature nerds!
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Insurance trade group says COVID, flu vaccines covered through 2026
AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc
AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc
September 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Insurance trade group says COVID, flu vaccines covered through 2026
AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc
AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc
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I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
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Author friends, if AI developers have stolen your work as they have mine, this thread details what you can do about it - regardless of where you live. ✒️📖
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Author friends, if AI developers have stolen your work as they have mine, this thread details what you can do about it - regardless of where you live. ✒️📖