Maraina Miles
@marainamiles.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the University of Maine. Glacier detective. Cosmogenic nuclide exposure age dating.
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I don't know what's going on here but HOLY COW. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don't know what's going on here but HOLY COW. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
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Funny how crowd estimates were ~2.5 million across the country for yesterday's protests but all the news agencies say "thousands"
April 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Funny how crowd estimates were ~2.5 million across the country for yesterday's protests but all the news agencies say "thousands"
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Trust me...I was NOT PAID to protest in the rain at a windy 40F. I was there because I care about democracy and our country and human rights.
Must’ve cost big bucks to pay millions of people in 1,100 cities.
April 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Trust me...I was NOT PAID to protest in the rain at a windy 40F. I was there because I care about democracy and our country and human rights.
Pretty big crowd today in Bangor, Maine!
April 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Pretty big crowd today in Bangor, Maine!
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We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
April 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
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The big question is - will the penguins now impose reciprocal tariffs?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica
Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The big question is - will the penguins now impose reciprocal tariffs?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Today’s featured piece from the NCA5 Art x Climate Gallery showcases Jillian Pelto’s watercolor and colored pencil work reflecting coastal wetland restoration and changes in fishing behavior in the Gulf of Maine. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
March 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Today’s featured piece from the NCA5 Art x Climate Gallery showcases Jillian Pelto’s watercolor and colored pencil work reflecting coastal wetland restoration and changes in fishing behavior in the Gulf of Maine. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Today, Esker learned that candle ice is not for walking on.
March 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Today, Esker learned that candle ice is not for walking on.
March 2023, Tierra del Fuego. Our feathered field assistant kept wondering why were weren't dead yet. #condor #thismealistakingforever
March 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
March 2023, Tierra del Fuego. Our feathered field assistant kept wondering why were weren't dead yet. #condor #thismealistakingforever
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It has been an emotional rollercoaster following the USDA freeze earlier this week. Staff feared layoffs; grad students wondered if they’ll make rent. We just learned that USDA funds will be restored. This is a win for Maine’s farmers, growers, and kids, too!
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...
Donald Trump’s USDA reverses freeze on funding to Maine’s public universities
It was an abrupt reversal of the funding freeze that was announced in a Monday notice to the University of Maine System.
www.bangordailynews.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It has been an emotional rollercoaster following the USDA freeze earlier this week. Staff feared layoffs; grad students wondered if they’ll make rent. We just learned that USDA funds will be restored. This is a win for Maine’s farmers, growers, and kids, too!
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/12/p...
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The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...
USDA halts funding for University of Maine programs
The temporary spending pause comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut all of Maine's federal funding following an altercation with Gov. Janet Mills over allowing transgender athl...
www.pressherald.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...
Flashback to an early rise during summer '22 fieldwork in South Dakota. Unzipped the door of my tent to find out I was under investigation by this herd of curious horses.
March 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Flashback to an early rise during summer '22 fieldwork in South Dakota. Unzipped the door of my tent to find out I was under investigation by this herd of curious horses.
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Given that Trump is empowering Nazi wannabe Musk and has let neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists take high level posts, this has nothing to do with "antisemitism." It is the garden-variety war against higher education that right-wing authoritarians always do. abc7ny.com/post/trump-a...
Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University
The administration said the cuts were made because of "the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,"
abc7ny.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Given that Trump is empowering Nazi wannabe Musk and has let neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists take high level posts, this has nothing to do with "antisemitism." It is the garden-variety war against higher education that right-wing authoritarians always do. abc7ny.com/post/trump-a...
They’re really out to make the world a shittier place:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
Ruling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
They’re really out to make the world a shittier place:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“‘This notice is devastating for our team and countless partners, the University of Maine and the entire state,’ Maine Sea Grant Director Gayle Zydlewski said in a written statement.”
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...
www.pressherald.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“‘This notice is devastating for our team and countless partners, the University of Maine and the entire state,’ Maine Sea Grant Director Gayle Zydlewski said in a written statement.”
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
This warm spell has reminded me of Tierra del Fuego. Maybe it's the humidity? The smell of melting snow? The chilly breeze? Here's a whale vertebra, part of a nearly intact skeleton that served as a landmark while conducting fieldwork on Isla Navarino in early March, 2024.
February 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This warm spell has reminded me of Tierra del Fuego. Maybe it's the humidity? The smell of melting snow? The chilly breeze? Here's a whale vertebra, part of a nearly intact skeleton that served as a landmark while conducting fieldwork on Isla Navarino in early March, 2024.
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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
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Hey look a portal open to public submission, hope no one floods it with the Bee Movie script to the point of being unusable or something
The Ed Dept is launching an “End DEI” portal and asking people to share “concerning practices”
February 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey look a portal open to public submission, hope no one floods it with the Bee Movie script to the point of being unusable or something
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Oh, really? So, like, the entire federal government after Trump’s EO’s? “President Trump has made it abundantly clear: taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars will not support institutions that discriminate against women,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a news release.
USDA announces Title IX investigation into UMaine
The announcement comes a day after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Maine Department of Education and a Maine school district.
www.pressherald.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Oh, really? So, like, the entire federal government after Trump’s EO’s? “President Trump has made it abundantly clear: taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars will not support institutions that discriminate against women,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a news release.
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Like sharks, Cookie Monsters have existed for tens of millions of years with little major evolutionary change. Being a soft-bodied organism, it's rare to get a fossil with such clarity of preservation as this one; what a lucky find!
i often think about how eons before cookie monster was conceived, or indeed before there were minds capable of conceiving, cookie monster was already there, waiting
February 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Like sharks, Cookie Monsters have existed for tens of millions of years with little major evolutionary change. Being a soft-bodied organism, it's rare to get a fossil with such clarity of preservation as this one; what a lucky find!
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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position.
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position.
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
www.maine.gov/governor/mil...
Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only:
February 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only:
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Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF.
February 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF.
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February 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM