rosiee
@schmosie.bsky.social
dissociating through life 🌍🌞🧡 marine ecology • conservation • everything else •
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please look at this sparrow looking at you
April 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
please look at this sparrow looking at you
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why don't suitcases have brakes ??
April 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
why don't suitcases have brakes ??
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Thank you to @theverge.com for posting the full clip of Microsoft's Copilot event - including the moment when Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad protested the company selling AI tools to Israel for the use of murdering families
(she was immediately fired)
youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...
(she was immediately fired)
youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...
April 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Thank you to @theverge.com for posting the full clip of Microsoft's Copilot event - including the moment when Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad protested the company selling AI tools to Israel for the use of murdering families
(she was immediately fired)
youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...
(she was immediately fired)
youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...
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My introduction to the planning system was when they built a supermarket on heathland near my childhood home. It was a site for the silver-studded blue butterfly.
Sainsbury's made a stained glass window of the butterfly whose habitat they had bulldozed.
I was about eight and I still feel rage.
Sainsbury's made a stained glass window of the butterfly whose habitat they had bulldozed.
I was about eight and I still feel rage.
In California endangered butterfly species' habitat encroached upon by development a bit S of San Francisco. US Fish & Wildlife agency's Habitat Conservation Plans let developers destroy, w/ area set aside elsewhere. It tends to fail. Article from 2010. 🧵 baynature.org/article/deve...
March 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My introduction to the planning system was when they built a supermarket on heathland near my childhood home. It was a site for the silver-studded blue butterfly.
Sainsbury's made a stained glass window of the butterfly whose habitat they had bulldozed.
I was about eight and I still feel rage.
Sainsbury's made a stained glass window of the butterfly whose habitat they had bulldozed.
I was about eight and I still feel rage.
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Good news for sustainability of EVs as researchers in China reveal process for recycling almost all lithium from batteries cleantechnica.com/2025/03/17/n...
New Battery Recycling Process From China Recovers 99.99% Of Lithium - CleanTechnica
New research in China and the US shows battery recycling can reduce emissions and energy usage dramatically.
cleantechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Good news for sustainability of EVs as researchers in China reveal process for recycling almost all lithium from batteries cleantechnica.com/2025/03/17/n...
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My timeline is filled with people tagging the @royalsociety.org to protest their continuing endorsement of Elon Musk, FRS. Good. More people should do it. A vid I took when I got to handle the incredible Fellows’ Book and read all those inspirational scientists’ names alongside a businessman’s
February 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My timeline is filled with people tagging the @royalsociety.org to protest their continuing endorsement of Elon Musk, FRS. Good. More people should do it. A vid I took when I got to handle the incredible Fellows’ Book and read all those inspirational scientists’ names alongside a businessman’s
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The death toll in Gaza has already been updated to 61,709.
The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost.
So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.
The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost.
So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The death toll in Gaza has already been updated to 61,709.
The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost.
So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.
The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost.
So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.
"any economic benefits of airport expansion will be largely confined to the airports themselves" neweconomics.org/2023/07/boom...
Boom in air travel fails to increase UK productivity or GDP growth
Aviation industry and government claims in doubt as peer-reviewed report finds sector has some of the lowest job and value creation potential
neweconomics.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"any economic benefits of airport expansion will be largely confined to the airports themselves" neweconomics.org/2023/07/boom...
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BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
January 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
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Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use the form below to add to this list, and please share widely.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...
Initiatives to support Palestinian students, academics and universities 🍉🍓
Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities (please see below), particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afie...
docs.google.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use the form below to add to this list, and please share widely.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...
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It's doubtful that the third runway will ever go ahead but this decision will damage the UK's global standing.
Reeves' suggestion that there is a binary choice between growth and tackling climate change sends a bad message to developing economies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Reeves' suggestion that there is a binary choice between growth and tackling climate change sends a bad message to developing economies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Rachel Reeves backs Heathrow expansion saying third runway is 'badly needed' - live updates
The chancellor says the airport is at
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's doubtful that the third runway will ever go ahead but this decision will damage the UK's global standing.
Reeves' suggestion that there is a binary choice between growth and tackling climate change sends a bad message to developing economies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Reeves' suggestion that there is a binary choice between growth and tackling climate change sends a bad message to developing economies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
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I mean this really apart from tactics, or domestic benefits, or the sovereign wealth fund etc.
Did any country ever say out loud that they want to be the last ones producing asbestos, or manufacturing cigarettes, or selling leaded petrol or palm oil? Fossil fuels are wild, man
Did any country ever say out loud that they want to be the last ones producing asbestos, or manufacturing cigarettes, or selling leaded petrol or palm oil? Fossil fuels are wild, man
January 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I mean this really apart from tactics, or domestic benefits, or the sovereign wealth fund etc.
Did any country ever say out loud that they want to be the last ones producing asbestos, or manufacturing cigarettes, or selling leaded petrol or palm oil? Fossil fuels are wild, man
Did any country ever say out loud that they want to be the last ones producing asbestos, or manufacturing cigarettes, or selling leaded petrol or palm oil? Fossil fuels are wild, man
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 2024 is the year we officially breached 1.6°C of #GlobalWarming.
The #ParisAgreement is in tatters
World leaders have failed us
Now we face the devastating reality of a planet pushed beyond its limits.
This is the #ClimateEmergency
This is a CODE RED for humanity
WHY?
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The #ParisAgreement is in tatters
World leaders have failed us
Now we face the devastating reality of a planet pushed beyond its limits.
This is the #ClimateEmergency
This is a CODE RED for humanity
WHY?
1/3
Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024
Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024
Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows
Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year, supercharging extreme weather…
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 2024 is the year we officially breached 1.6°C of #GlobalWarming.
The #ParisAgreement is in tatters
World leaders have failed us
Now we face the devastating reality of a planet pushed beyond its limits.
This is the #ClimateEmergency
This is a CODE RED for humanity
WHY?
1/3
The #ParisAgreement is in tatters
World leaders have failed us
Now we face the devastating reality of a planet pushed beyond its limits.
This is the #ClimateEmergency
This is a CODE RED for humanity
WHY?
1/3
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Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...
petition.parliament.uk
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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I must have walked by this fence hundreds of times but today I noticed that the posts are crowned with little snail sculptures of varying sizes and poses.
January 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I must have walked by this fence hundreds of times but today I noticed that the posts are crowned with little snail sculptures of varying sizes and poses.
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at the end of a 14hr flight into LAX, the pilot told us not to be alarmed if we smelled smoke, the plane wasn’t on fire, just the city
January 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
at the end of a 14hr flight into LAX, the pilot told us not to be alarmed if we smelled smoke, the plane wasn’t on fire, just the city
often thinking about this scene from Mum (2016)
January 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
often thinking about this scene from Mum (2016)
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Absolutely love this work!
With my participation hat on: so much conservation work arouses ire because it's not well explained.
Telling people what you're doing & why = a chance to engage new publics with nature. (Some might just become future volunteers)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With my participation hat on: so much conservation work arouses ire because it's not well explained.
Telling people what you're doing & why = a chance to engage new publics with nature. (Some might just become future volunteers)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Back from the dead: the ‘zombie’ ponds repumping nature into Essex farmland
A conservation project is helping identify and restore wildlife-rich sites previously degraded and dried up
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Absolutely love this work!
With my participation hat on: so much conservation work arouses ire because it's not well explained.
Telling people what you're doing & why = a chance to engage new publics with nature. (Some might just become future volunteers)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With my participation hat on: so much conservation work arouses ire because it's not well explained.
Telling people what you're doing & why = a chance to engage new publics with nature. (Some might just become future volunteers)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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@mbarinews.bsky.social internship deadline Feb 28, but good time to think about your letter of recommendation while you are on holiday break! www.mbari.org/about/career...
@mbarinews.bsky.social internship deadline Feb 28, but good time to think about your letter of recommendation while you are on holiday break! www.mbari.org/about/career...
Internships • MBARI
Applications for the 2025 MBARI Summer Internship program are now being accepted. This 10-week internship allows college students and educators to work on a research or outreach project at MBARI.
www.mbari.org
December 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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@mbarinews.bsky.social internship deadline Feb 28, but good time to think about your letter of recommendation while you are on holiday break! www.mbari.org/about/career...
@mbarinews.bsky.social internship deadline Feb 28, but good time to think about your letter of recommendation while you are on holiday break! www.mbari.org/about/career...
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OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
December 28, 2024 at 7:58 AM
OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
20 years ago the Indian Ocean tsunami hit our resort in Sri Lanka, and miraculously my family and I all escaped. Almost a quarter of a million people weren't as lucky as us. Today we went to pay our respects at the memorial in the Natural History Museum gardens.
December 26, 2024 at 7:14 PM
20 years ago the Indian Ocean tsunami hit our resort in Sri Lanka, and miraculously my family and I all escaped. Almost a quarter of a million people weren't as lucky as us. Today we went to pay our respects at the memorial in the Natural History Museum gardens.