Sarah gw
@sgigwolf.bsky.social
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NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/
January 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/
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In small island states, conservation is daily vigilance, not spectacle. In the Cook Islands, Birdman George showed how checking traps, guarding harbors and sharing knowledge kept kakerori and Rimatara lorikeets safe. Persistence, not plans, made extinction less likely.
George Teariki-Mataki Mateariki, the Birdman of Atiu, has died, aged 67
In small island states, conservation has often depended less on formal institutions than on vigilance: watching harbors, checking traps, noticing what does not belong. The work is repetitive,…
news.mongabay.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In small island states, conservation is daily vigilance, not spectacle. In the Cook Islands, Birdman George showed how checking traps, guarding harbors and sharing knowledge kept kakerori and Rimatara lorikeets safe. Persistence, not plans, made extinction less likely.
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In Kenya, environmentalist Truphena Muthoni hugged a palm tree for 72 hours to highlight the loss of native forests — surpassing her own world record.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction. Truphena…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In Kenya, environmentalist Truphena Muthoni hugged a palm tree for 72 hours to highlight the loss of native forests — surpassing her own world record.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
Her act drew attention, & she’s now an ambassador for Kenya’s plan to plant 15B trees. Many of the country’s endemic species face extinction.
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Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
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We're hiring @sandiegostate.bsky.social in interdisciplinary border/indigenous studies - broadly defined! Work in our border and binational communities (e.g. trans-border flora/fauna, rural/urban issues, food security in desert communities, etc.)? Consider applying! careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/55...
Details - Associate/Full Professor for Interdisciplinary Border/Indigenous Scholarship | Job Opportunities | SDSU
careers.sdsu.edu
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We're hiring @sandiegostate.bsky.social in interdisciplinary border/indigenous studies - broadly defined! Work in our border and binational communities (e.g. trans-border flora/fauna, rural/urban issues, food security in desert communities, etc.)? Consider applying! careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/55...
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E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Mo6REt
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Mo6REt
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"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science."
STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
www.statnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science."
STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
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Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
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The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program is looking for a postdoc with expertise in wetlands and biogeochemistry. Please pass this along to likely candidates!
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program is looking for a postdoc with expertise in wetlands and biogeochemistry. Please pass this along to likely candidates!
New paper out showing that the #oyster #parasite perkinsus marinus is declining in the #chesapeake due to low salinity! Climate change can have counter intuitive effects on #disease when downstream effects (increased rainfall) alter host-parasite dynamics 🧪🌎🦪
www.int-res.com/abstracts/da...
www.int-res.com/abstracts/da...
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New paper out showing that the #oyster #parasite perkinsus marinus is declining in the #chesapeake due to low salinity! Climate change can have counter intuitive effects on #disease when downstream effects (increased rainfall) alter host-parasite dynamics 🧪🌎🦪
www.int-res.com/abstracts/da...
www.int-res.com/abstracts/da...
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Conservation ABANDONMENT is a policy blind spot.
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention is paid to ensuring that they persist over time, threatening progress towards global environmental goals.
nature.com/articles/s41... (paywalled)
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Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention is paid to ensuring that they persist over time, threatening progress towards global environmental goals.
nature.com/articles/s41... (paywalled)
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Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Conservation ABANDONMENT is a policy blind spot.
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention is paid to ensuring that they persist over time, threatening progress towards global environmental goals.
nature.com/articles/s41... (paywalled)
🧪 🌊
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention is paid to ensuring that they persist over time, threatening progress towards global environmental goals.
nature.com/articles/s41... (paywalled)
🧪 🌊
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
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After all the revelations about Epstein and all his various Harvard pals -- Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Elisa New, etc etc. -- alumni are going to stop saying they went to college "outside of Boston" and start lying that they went to Tufts.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
After all the revelations about Epstein and all his various Harvard pals -- Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Elisa New, etc etc. -- alumni are going to stop saying they went to college "outside of Boston" and start lying that they went to Tufts.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵
Bill Gates defends contentious climate shift
"I'm glad people are listening," he said, before adding that it was hard to convey "nuanced positions nowadays."
www.axios.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵
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We have to absolutely hammer this home: Science suffers without the values embedded in DEI 🧪
The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it.
PSF therefore declined the funding.
Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains
PSF therefore declined the funding.
Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We have to absolutely hammer this home: Science suffers without the values embedded in DEI 🧪
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Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.
October 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.
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Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”
October 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”
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Thank you to the career federal employees, who show up to work every day and improve people's lives across the country.
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Thank you to the career federal employees, who show up to work every day and improve people's lives across the country.
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Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.