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Silvia Secchi
@profsecchi.bsky.social
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Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant.
Trans rights are human rights.
💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧
My views are my own and do not represent my employer.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Nov 7
Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.
Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931
Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde…
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 22h
Next puzzle has a flying pig so it’s all good
Photo of a Summer Landscape puzzle by Steve Coffey, made by StumpCraft, and one of its pieces, a flying pig.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 22h
Sixth puzzle of the season - this one was a 🫎 present with a twist, as you can see the photo on the box has a different placement of the parks than the actual puzzle.
Photo of a National Park puzzle box on the left and actual puzzle on the right.

Reposted by Andrew L. Rypel

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 22h
A travesty really
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Is it me, or did the new LinkedIn thumbnail kind of rip off the Secchi Disc?!

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Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel.bsky.social · 22h
Is it me, or did the new LinkedIn thumbnail kind of rip off the Secchi Disc?!

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 1d
On this December 25th, which journey are you honoring?
▪️The Pequod leaves Nantucket
▪️The Fellowship leaves Rivendell

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 1d
Quite a story: "A South Park writer anticipated President Donald Trump would rename the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after himself, so he bought domain names connected to the Trump-Kennedy Center."
www.newsnationnow.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
That is my nightmare every time we do one of these. My sympathies.
It is also a running joke which I fear my family does not appreciate - when we cannot find a piece as we are putting together the puzzle I say in a very dramatic voice "oh how terrible we have lost one, now it's ruined".

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paulseesequasis @paulseesequasis.bsky.social · 1d
Christmas concert on the Red Pheasant Reserve (acrylic on canvas): “Sometimes, people say I have painted too many winter scenes, but nobody says the Group of Seven painted too many landscapes.” - Allen Sapp (Cree)

Gonnor Collection
Christmas concert on the Red Pheasant Reserve in Saskatchewan at sunset. An Allen Sapp acrylic on canvas painting.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
FYI This isn’t the first time this has happened, in multiple occasions I have opened redacted documents from the federal government where you could do this too.
Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered
www.nytimes.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Fifth puzzle of the season - 1000 pieces Moominvalley’s celebration.
The puzzle shows the Moomins and their friends enjoying a picnic in a valley with trees and flowers with a giant yellow sun that was a pain to complete in the background.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 1d
BREAKING: sparked by a mass exodus of X users in protest of a new function that feeds images to Generative AI for other users to edit, for the first time since April 8th, Bluesky gained more than 55,000 new users in a day.

There are still 6.5 hours to go before the @bskycheck.com counter resets.
Bluesky Growth Tracker - Live User Activity Dashboard
Track Bluesky growth as it happens with our real-time dashboard. See live user sign-ups, monitor current growth rate, and explore verified domain handles across government, education, commercial and o...
bskycheck.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d
Pretty good hummingbird-eye scene #birds
an annas hummingbird with a pink gorget and you can see the skyline reflection in their eye

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d
Another happy words-have-no-meaning day for those who celebrate them!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
This is written for European farmers but I think it sounds both appropriate and evocative in the US context as well.

Farmers receive preferential tax treatment at the state and federal level, including when they pass.
paulbernal.bsky.social Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d
The new collective noun for rich farmers is an ‘avoidance’. An avoidance of rich farmers.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d
The new collective noun for rich farmers is an ‘avoidance’. An avoidance of rich farmers.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 3d
The monarch butterfly’s circle of life: transformation, pause, emergence.
✨ #monarchbutterfly

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 3d
ah yes a true holiday classic

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 3d
Welcome to the world, monarch butterfly. 🦋
Monarch butterfly enclosing from a chrysalis

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
And they clearly admit they NEED preferential treatment on public lands to be viable.
Read the @propublica.org and @highcountrynews.org series on how ranchers pay a pittance to graze on public lands and cause massive env’l destruction without consequences.

Also support @propublicaguild.org !
Free Range Archives
The federal grazing system, propped up by subsidies and access to 375,000 square miles of the West, disproportionately benefits billionaires, mining companies and large corporate outfits. Dwindling ov...
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
Here’s the beef industry celebrating that bison will no longer be allowed to graze on BLM land.
Conservationists who bought land parcels in patchwork were using public land to create enough habitat for the bison.

Another awful example of agricultural exceptionalism and ranchers being extractive.
Removing bison from the equation
The ranching community just received a gift from the Department of Interior.
www.beefmagazine.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
Totally. The duck and Flaco, two of my favorite critters ever.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
Maue did not respond to requests for comment from E&E News. But he wrote on X that he was enlisting artificial intelligence to help with the latest National Climate Assessment. He cited the Gemini 3 Pro program as well as Grok, an Al chatbot developed by xAl, the artificial intelligence company led by tech tycoon Elon Musk. https://www.eenews.net/articles/its-the-gold-standard-of-us-climate-research-contrarians-could-write-the-next-one/

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
A barred owl is hooting outside - I can hear it in the house.
This gives me hope.

Be loud. Make noise.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
In 2018 I fell in love with the Central Park mandarin duck, and I think of them as the most gorgeous waterfowl ever. You can see why here.
banditelli.org Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d
Alright this guy is calling it for the weekend. Busy few days of unioning and hummingbird photography before loading up the sleigh. In the meantime, may I offer two mandarin ducks? 🪶
Two male mandarin ducks swimming on water, adorably

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d
Alright this guy is calling it for the weekend. Busy few days of unioning and hummingbird photography before loading up the sleigh. In the meantime, may I offer two mandarin ducks? 🪶
Two male mandarin ducks swimming on water, adorably

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
What a lovely solstice day post. May these monarchs always reign over North America.
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Chrysalis still hanging around, but more and more looking like a butterfly.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 4d
Chrysalis still hanging around, but more and more looking like a butterfly.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 4d
Yep. If I were in her position, I would’ve let this one slide since it was so far along and then killed future pieces before they got off the ground. Nobody’s writing NYT articles about stuff that doesn’t get past the brainstorming stage.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d
I suspect that what's gonna happen is Bari Weiss will be quietly sidelined (if not fired) but the descent of CBS News into conservative propaganda will continue under whoever runs it next all the same because that's what the owner of the network wants.

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 4d
Donovan Metayer, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida, died by suicide at age 26 on Dec. 15. Even after a mental health hold, he was allowed to purchase the gun with which he ended his life.