Dr. Fishpond - Ph.D.
@pacificfishpond.bsky.social
Ag science PhD (he/him). Animal/insect lover. Order: Cat, bees, pig, dog, goat, raptor. Have a dog & cat. Had 6 cats (1 w/ a dog brain 😉). Want bees. Smartest? Pigs 😀 No uninvited DMs. Avatar photo by me. Banner: Alaska Raptor Center "I AM Smiling"
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So we should admit and accept, up front, that the Colorado never was and never will be a mighty river system, and that it is climate-challenged and prone to drought. We never should have asked it for so much. We invaded it like cancer, turning water into property. I wish it wasn’t so. (From 2023)
Why is the Colorado River running dry?
It's not just drought. It's putting sacred cows above farmers, cities, and a secure future.
www.motherjones.com
Studied about this at Colorado State Univ. in another life.
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Every real economist in America warned at the time he was imposing tariffs that it would affect each of these things, and deportations have affected the ability of farmers to access labor. This is all happening because of one man.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Every real economist in America warned at the time he was imposing tariffs that it would affect each of these things, and deportations have affected the ability of farmers to access labor. This is all happening because of one man.
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Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy
If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.
whowhatwhy.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
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Energy systems are at the heart of climate change, technology, and the future of how we live, but they’re far more complex than most people realise.
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
How Energy Systems REALLY work - here's 3 ways of understanding Energy Systems | Energy 101, Ep 4
YouTube video by chrisjardine.energy
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November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Energy systems are at the heart of climate change, technology, and the future of how we live, but they’re far more complex than most people realise.
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
This is a great explainer video by @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social that helps to make sense of the energy system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXG...
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
Wow! Cool.
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
edition.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Wow! Cool.
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Rare earths aren't all that rare. The real choke point is in processing and refining them, where China enjoys market dominance. n.pr/3Xbst9b
Rare earths: Federal backing and tech advances aim to help the U.S. catch up to China
Rare earths aren't all that rare. The real choke point is in processing and refining them, where China enjoys market dominance.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Rare earths aren't all that rare. The real choke point is in processing and refining them, where China enjoys market dominance. n.pr/3Xbst9b
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🚨 The Trump admin. just proposed a set of regulatory rollbacks that would dismantle the #ESA and drive hundreds of climate-impacted species closer to #extinction.
The proposals would also make it easier for industry to bulldoze, drill, and destroy critical habitat.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pj27xQ
The proposals would also make it easier for industry to bulldoze, drill, and destroy critical habitat.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pj27xQ
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🚨 The Trump admin. just proposed a set of regulatory rollbacks that would dismantle the #ESA and drive hundreds of climate-impacted species closer to #extinction.
The proposals would also make it easier for industry to bulldoze, drill, and destroy critical habitat.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pj27xQ
The proposals would also make it easier for industry to bulldoze, drill, and destroy critical habitat.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pj27xQ
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To understand the amount of anatomical research that went into creating Guillermo del Toro’s new monster movie, you have to get a look at these tables. ⬇️
400-Year-Old Displays Of Human Tissue Live On In ‘Frankenstein’
The 17th century Evelyn Tables show real human nerves and veins, dried on wooden boards. Designers on the new Netflix film took note.
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
To understand the amount of anatomical research that went into creating Guillermo del Toro’s new monster movie, you have to get a look at these tables. ⬇️
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File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
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grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.'
Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
grist.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
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grist.org/oceans/hey-s...
It seems to me, that the teacher the daughter has, that is mentioned in the post, is *really* teaching good stuff!
She’s not wrong.
When we’re born, we have about 300 bones, but over time, we end up with just 206, because many fuse together as we grow.
And here’s a fun fact: Bone is a living tissue that constantly renews itself. Your skeleton is completely new about every 7-10 years.
When we’re born, we have about 300 bones, but over time, we end up with just 206, because many fuse together as we grow.
And here’s a fun fact: Bone is a living tissue that constantly renews itself. Your skeleton is completely new about every 7-10 years.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It seems to me, that the teacher the daughter has, that is mentioned in the post, is *really* teaching good stuff!
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
😂😂😂🤣
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
😂😂😂🤣
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What did Watson and Crick discover in 1953?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”
Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”
Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...
What really happened between Franklin, Watson and Crick in the discovery of the DNA double helix? — Genetics Unzipped
Kat Arney chats with Professor Matthew Cobb about what really happened between James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin during the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
geneticsunzipped.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
What did Watson and Crick discover in 1953?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”
Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”
Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...
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A new film, “The American Southwest,” narrated by activist and model Quannah Chasinghorse, takes viewers on a journey down the Colorado River to explore its diversity and fragility.
Film traces Colorado River’s 1,450-mile journey from Denver to Tijuana - ICT
‘The American Southwest,’ narrated by activist and model Quannah Chasinghorse, explores the river’s wildlife, cultural history and uncertain future
ictnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A new film, “The American Southwest,” narrated by activist and model Quannah Chasinghorse, takes viewers on a journey down the Colorado River to explore its diversity and fragility.
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Luisa Gonzalez Ballesteros, MD
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Luisa Gonzalez Ballesteros, MD
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November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Huge win for humpbacks!
Dozens of humpbacks are entangled in fishing gear off the Pacific Coast every year, but it was just announced that a federal task force will be formed to curb these entanglements.
This announcement stems from our 2023 legal victory.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47C4sNj
Dozens of humpbacks are entangled in fishing gear off the Pacific Coast every year, but it was just announced that a federal task force will be formed to curb these entanglements.
This announcement stems from our 2023 legal victory.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47C4sNj
November 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Huge win for humpbacks!
Dozens of humpbacks are entangled in fishing gear off the Pacific Coast every year, but it was just announced that a federal task force will be formed to curb these entanglements.
This announcement stems from our 2023 legal victory.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47C4sNj
Dozens of humpbacks are entangled in fishing gear off the Pacific Coast every year, but it was just announced that a federal task force will be formed to curb these entanglements.
This announcement stems from our 2023 legal victory.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47C4sNj
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“People are getting more and more obsessed with [devices] and losing track of listening to their bodies.”
The big data game of wearable fitness tech | The Observer
Do we really need a device to dictate our lifestyles?
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“People are getting more and more obsessed with [devices] and losing track of listening to their bodies.”
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"Sometimes the world acts as if any effort to fight climate change is as worthwhile as any other. As a result, less-effective projects are diverting money and attention from efforts that will have more impact on the human condition" www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...
www.gatesnotes.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"Sometimes the world acts as if any effort to fight climate change is as worthwhile as any other. As a result, less-effective projects are diverting money and attention from efforts that will have more impact on the human condition" www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...
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“the techno-fascist assault on universities increasingly comes from within. (…) Far from offering genuine solutions, these technologies exacerbate social injustices and corrode the ecosystem of human knowledge.”
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Open access link: archive.ph/ZHGCm
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Open access link: archive.ph/ZHGCm
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“the techno-fascist assault on universities increasingly comes from within. (…) Far from offering genuine solutions, these technologies exacerbate social injustices and corrode the ecosystem of human knowledge.”
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Open access link: archive.ph/ZHGCm
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Open access link: archive.ph/ZHGCm