Joanna Coleman
@joannacoleman.bsky.social
Urban Ecologist, Conservation Biologist, Asst Professor, Queens College-CUNY & Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC 🦇 Specialist Group, 🦇 Trade and Human Dimensions Working Groups. 🇨🇦 🇷🇴 🇸🇬 🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Lutnick, in a senate subcommittee hearing yesterday, said “I looked through the millions of documents for my name, just like everybody else.”
Like everyone else ?
I’ll bet you 47 dollars I’m not the only person who did not look thru the files searching for my name.
Like everyone else ?
I’ll bet you 47 dollars I’m not the only person who did not look thru the files searching for my name.
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Lutnick, in a senate subcommittee hearing yesterday, said “I looked through the millions of documents for my name, just like everybody else.”
Like everyone else ?
I’ll bet you 47 dollars I’m not the only person who did not look thru the files searching for my name.
Like everyone else ?
I’ll bet you 47 dollars I’m not the only person who did not look thru the files searching for my name.
Reposted by Joanna Coleman
Yesterday marked Stand Up For Science's first birthday! We want to keep fighting for science for years to come, but that comes at a cost. If you would like to make a birthday donation, please visit this link: standupforscience.net/donate
Thank you for helping us Stand Up For Science!
Thank you for helping us Stand Up For Science!
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Yesterday marked Stand Up For Science's first birthday! We want to keep fighting for science for years to come, but that comes at a cost. If you would like to make a birthday donation, please visit this link: standupforscience.net/donate
Thank you for helping us Stand Up For Science!
Thank you for helping us Stand Up For Science!
We studied the ornamental trade in painted woolly bats in Ho Chi Minh City. We found: this bat is popular in trade, hunted in the wild in Vietnam, mainly sold to tourists and rare in the wild. The trade is illegal, but this bat needs stronger legal protections.
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Redirecting
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February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
We studied the ornamental trade in painted woolly bats in Ho Chi Minh City. We found: this bat is popular in trade, hunted in the wild in Vietnam, mainly sold to tourists and rare in the wild. The trade is illegal, but this bat needs stronger legal protections.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Don’t give up ! Rise up !
The people, united, will never be defeated !
The people, united, will never be defeated !
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Don’t give up ! Rise up !
The people, united, will never be defeated !
The people, united, will never be defeated !
In a terrible week of news, a shining ray of light from the better side of the border !
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa's toxic plastic listing | CBC News
In a victory for the Liberal government, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld its decision to list plastics as toxic, enabling Ottawa to ban single-use plastic items.
www.cbc.ca
January 31, 2026 at 12:09 AM
In a terrible week of news, a shining ray of light from the better side of the border !
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Step 1. Argue that if Byte Dance retains Tik Tok, it will threaten national security & hinder free speech.
Step 2. Secure a SCOTUS ruling forcing the sale of Tik Tok.
Step 3. Transfer ownership to a new 🇺🇸 joint venture.
Step 4. Remove accounts of those who critique the administration.
Step 2. Secure a SCOTUS ruling forcing the sale of Tik Tok.
Step 3. Transfer ownership to a new 🇺🇸 joint venture.
Step 4. Remove accounts of those who critique the administration.
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Step 1. Argue that if Byte Dance retains Tik Tok, it will threaten national security & hinder free speech.
Step 2. Secure a SCOTUS ruling forcing the sale of Tik Tok.
Step 3. Transfer ownership to a new 🇺🇸 joint venture.
Step 4. Remove accounts of those who critique the administration.
Step 2. Secure a SCOTUS ruling forcing the sale of Tik Tok.
Step 3. Transfer ownership to a new 🇺🇸 joint venture.
Step 4. Remove accounts of those who critique the administration.
Airline safety, food security, national security and disaster preparedness.
All essential goals, no ?
This article highlights how the loss of one NSF funded research centre could undermine them all.
Illustrating perfectly why an attack on science is an attack on everyone.
All essential goals, no ?
This article highlights how the loss of one NSF funded research centre could undermine them all.
Illustrating perfectly why an attack on science is an attack on everyone.
January 28, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Airline safety, food security, national security and disaster preparedness.
All essential goals, no ?
This article highlights how the loss of one NSF funded research centre could undermine them all.
Illustrating perfectly why an attack on science is an attack on everyone.
All essential goals, no ?
This article highlights how the loss of one NSF funded research centre could undermine them all.
Illustrating perfectly why an attack on science is an attack on everyone.
What has been happening in the 🇺🇸 over the past year…
We have travelled a lot, and on Sunday, my husband said to me : if a sitch like this broke out in a country we were planning to visit, we would cancel our trip.
This 💩 would never occur in 🇨🇦 or 🇸🇬.
But now we live here.
And face daily 💔.
We have travelled a lot, and on Sunday, my husband said to me : if a sitch like this broke out in a country we were planning to visit, we would cancel our trip.
This 💩 would never occur in 🇨🇦 or 🇸🇬.
But now we live here.
And face daily 💔.
January 27, 2026 at 1:20 PM
What has been happening in the 🇺🇸 over the past year…
We have travelled a lot, and on Sunday, my husband said to me : if a sitch like this broke out in a country we were planning to visit, we would cancel our trip.
This 💩 would never occur in 🇨🇦 or 🇸🇬.
But now we live here.
And face daily 💔.
We have travelled a lot, and on Sunday, my husband said to me : if a sitch like this broke out in a country we were planning to visit, we would cancel our trip.
This 💩 would never occur in 🇨🇦 or 🇸🇬.
But now we live here.
And face daily 💔.
Srsly, I think there are so many big problems within your own borders right now, that maybe you can focus on those instead of trying to bully 🇨🇦.
Which will not work, btw.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Which will not work, btw.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
No plans for China free trade deal, Carney says as Trump fixates on Canada | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has "no intention" of pursuing a free trade agreement with China, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to impose crippling tariffs if Canada "makes a deal wi...
www.cbc.ca
January 25, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Srsly, I think there are so many big problems within your own borders right now, that maybe you can focus on those instead of trying to bully 🇨🇦.
Which will not work, btw.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Which will not work, btw.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
No words can convey the horror of seeing another life snuffed out on the street by out-of-control ICE agents.
I knew, moving to the 🇺🇸, about the gun violence problem. But govt-sanctioned extrajudicial killings are not at all what I expected.
How many more murders before the public says : Enough ?
I knew, moving to the 🇺🇸, about the gun violence problem. But govt-sanctioned extrajudicial killings are not at all what I expected.
How many more murders before the public says : Enough ?
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
No words can convey the horror of seeing another life snuffed out on the street by out-of-control ICE agents.
I knew, moving to the 🇺🇸, about the gun violence problem. But govt-sanctioned extrajudicial killings are not at all what I expected.
How many more murders before the public says : Enough ?
I knew, moving to the 🇺🇸, about the gun violence problem. But govt-sanctioned extrajudicial killings are not at all what I expected.
How many more murders before the public says : Enough ?
« C’est sans doute un des discours, sinon le discours les plus magistrales qu’un premier ministre du 🇨🇦 a prononcé sur la scène internationale. »
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Chantal Hébert : Discours de Mark Carney à Davos | Tout un matin
YouTube video by Radio-Canada OHdio
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January 21, 2026 at 11:11 PM
« C’est sans doute un des discours, sinon le discours les plus magistrales qu’un premier ministre du 🇨🇦 a prononcé sur la scène internationale. »
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youtube.com/watch?v=BI9z...
What intelligent & compassionate leadership and foreign policy look like.
In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.
January 20, 2026 at 11:04 PM
What intelligent & compassionate leadership and foreign policy look like.
We will NEVER be annexed by our smaller neighbour to the south.
We will NEVER kiss the ring.
Don’t threaten us, hoser.
Elbows up, 🇨🇦 !
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
We will NEVER kiss the ring.
Don’t threaten us, hoser.
Elbows up, 🇨🇦 !
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump combined his three least popular policies: Taking Greenland, Canada and tariffs
Trump is talking about Greenland, tariffs and Canada - again - despite being unpopular positions with voters, Eric Garcia writes
www.independent.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
We will NEVER be annexed by our smaller neighbour to the south.
We will NEVER kiss the ring.
Don’t threaten us, hoser.
Elbows up, 🇨🇦 !
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
We will NEVER kiss the ring.
Don’t threaten us, hoser.
Elbows up, 🇨🇦 !
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Reposted by Joanna Coleman
Tomorrow people across the US will commemorate the 1-year anniversary of Trump's inauguration by participating the #FreeAmerica Walkout. Events are happening in over 1K events in every state. www.freeameri.ca @womensmarch.com @aclu.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social #Resist
January 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Tomorrow people across the US will commemorate the 1-year anniversary of Trump's inauguration by participating the #FreeAmerica Walkout. Events are happening in over 1K events in every state. www.freeameri.ca @womensmarch.com @aclu.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social #Resist
Reposted by Joanna Coleman
“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
At Réveillon last night, my grand niece, Lyvia, drew a witch / vampire / elf.
So… out with Santa, in with chimeras ?
So… out with Santa, in with chimeras ?
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
At Réveillon last night, my grand niece, Lyvia, drew a witch / vampire / elf.
So… out with Santa, in with chimeras ?
So… out with Santa, in with chimeras ?
Wishing everyone out there a very merry Christmas 🎄 (or whatever you are celebrating) from snowy Montreal !
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Wishing everyone out there a very merry Christmas 🎄 (or whatever you are celebrating) from snowy Montreal !
Reposted by Joanna Coleman
This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines
The study prompted swift outcry from scientists in the U.S. who say it’s “unethical.”
www.notus.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
www.notus.org/health-scien...
How is this « gold standard » science, let alone « do no harm » ?
Wrong on every level.
Wrong on every level.
Read @boghuma.bsky.social’s piece on RFK Jr’s HBV vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
bktitanji.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
How is this « gold standard » science, let alone « do no harm » ?
Wrong on every level.
Wrong on every level.
The wildlife trade includes the harvest and sale of fur bearing animals.
And not all production comes from fur farms.
Many wild fur bearers are trapped and snared, especially in the 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦.
And not all production comes from fur farms.
Many wild fur bearers are trapped and snared, especially in the 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦.
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The wildlife trade includes the harvest and sale of fur bearing animals.
And not all production comes from fur farms.
Many wild fur bearers are trapped and snared, especially in the 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦.
And not all production comes from fur farms.
Many wild fur bearers are trapped and snared, especially in the 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦.
My ❤️ goes out to all victims of gun violence, esp. in schools.
Moving to the 🇺🇸 for an academic role, this is the thing that scared me the most having never lived anywhere where ppl could carry a gun legally.
The number & capacity of firearms in the hands of the public is outrageous.
Moving to the 🇺🇸 for an academic role, this is the thing that scared me the most having never lived anywhere where ppl could carry a gun legally.
The number & capacity of firearms in the hands of the public is outrageous.
No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My ❤️ goes out to all victims of gun violence, esp. in schools.
Moving to the 🇺🇸 for an academic role, this is the thing that scared me the most having never lived anywhere where ppl could carry a gun legally.
The number & capacity of firearms in the hands of the public is outrageous.
Moving to the 🇺🇸 for an academic role, this is the thing that scared me the most having never lived anywhere where ppl could carry a gun legally.
The number & capacity of firearms in the hands of the public is outrageous.
No clue what this flower species is, but holy mackerel, isn’t it spectacular ?!?!
December 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
No clue what this flower species is, but holy mackerel, isn’t it spectacular ?!?!
Unfortunately, a proposal to list painted woolly bats, which are popular in ornamental trade, on CITES appendix 2 did not get submitted.
But outcomes of discussions at the CoP make us very optimistic that we will achieve this protection at the next CoP.
So, what are we doing in the interim ? 🧵
But outcomes of discussions at the CoP make us very optimistic that we will achieve this protection at the next CoP.
So, what are we doing in the interim ? 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Unfortunately, a proposal to list painted woolly bats, which are popular in ornamental trade, on CITES appendix 2 did not get submitted.
But outcomes of discussions at the CoP make us very optimistic that we will achieve this protection at the next CoP.
So, what are we doing in the interim ? 🧵
But outcomes of discussions at the CoP make us very optimistic that we will achieve this protection at the next CoP.
So, what are we doing in the interim ? 🧵
Speaking with my friend who attended CITES CoP20, I was struck by how many traders he said were in attendance.
These powerful lobbyists ensure very hotly debated proposals and quite a few defeats.
Reminds me of how delegates at the recent UNFCCC CoP28 were dominated by petroleum interests.
These powerful lobbyists ensure very hotly debated proposals and quite a few defeats.
Reminds me of how delegates at the recent UNFCCC CoP28 were dominated by petroleum interests.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Speaking with my friend who attended CITES CoP20, I was struck by how many traders he said were in attendance.
These powerful lobbyists ensure very hotly debated proposals and quite a few defeats.
Reminds me of how delegates at the recent UNFCCC CoP28 were dominated by petroleum interests.
These powerful lobbyists ensure very hotly debated proposals and quite a few defeats.
Reminds me of how delegates at the recent UNFCCC CoP28 were dominated by petroleum interests.