Tessa Francis
@tessafrancis.bsky.social
Former Chief of Staff, National Nature Assessment; ecologist; sports fan; she/her
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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That’s a wrap for United By Nature at #ESA2025! Thanks to everyone who came to see the Opening Plenary by @phillevin.bsky.social or said hi at our booth. Shout to @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social for hosting us and for a great meeting. Stay in touch at weareunitedbynature.org & we’ll see you in SLC!
United by Nature
United by Nature is a collaborative effort to understand how nature shapes our lives, and how we can shape nature's future.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
That’s a wrap for United By Nature at #ESA2025! Thanks to everyone who came to see the Opening Plenary by @phillevin.bsky.social or said hi at our booth. Shout to @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social for hosting us and for a great meeting. Stay in touch at weareunitedbynature.org & we’ll see you in SLC!
Hey! Who brought us candy?! Thank you to the anonymous donor! We’ll be here at #ESA2025 for 2 more hours at the weareunitedbynature.org booth (605). Come say hi! (No candy required.)
August 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hey! Who brought us candy?! Thank you to the anonymous donor! We’ll be here at #ESA2025 for 2 more hours at the weareunitedbynature.org booth (605). Come say hi! (No candy required.)
Did you miss @phillevin.bsky.social’s opening plenary at #ESA2025? Were you inspired by it? Come drop by the United By Nature booth (605) and learn more/say hi!
August 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Did you miss @phillevin.bsky.social’s opening plenary at #ESA2025? Were you inspired by it? Come drop by the United By Nature booth (605) and learn more/say hi!
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Find one near you, work your contacts
Thanks! I’m obviously not gonna get all the states updated before the vote, but the other states are still listed (just slightly outdated).
Here’s the 29 most flippable GOP-held seats:
acasignups.net/25/07/02/how...
Here’s the 29 most flippable GOP-held seats:
acasignups.net/25/07/02/how...
How many could lose healthcare via the #MAGAMurderBill in the 29 most vulnerable GOP-held House districts?
There are 29 House districts where Republicans won by 12 points or less. Below I've posted district-wide enrollment in ACA exchange-based Qualified Health Plans (QHPs), ACA Basic Health Plans (BHPs) a...
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July 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Find one near you, work your contacts
The #biguglybill is a wealth transfer from poor —> rich.
-Food benefits cut by $100s of billions
-Medicaid cut by $800 billion
-11 million people lose health care
-Tax cuts for the rich
-Adds trillions to the deficit
Republicans will try to erase the baseline to avoid the truth.
Don’t let em.
-Food benefits cut by $100s of billions
-Medicaid cut by $800 billion
-11 million people lose health care
-Tax cuts for the rich
-Adds trillions to the deficit
Republicans will try to erase the baseline to avoid the truth.
Don’t let em.
June 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The #biguglybill is a wealth transfer from poor —> rich.
-Food benefits cut by $100s of billions
-Medicaid cut by $800 billion
-11 million people lose health care
-Tax cuts for the rich
-Adds trillions to the deficit
Republicans will try to erase the baseline to avoid the truth.
Don’t let em.
-Food benefits cut by $100s of billions
-Medicaid cut by $800 billion
-11 million people lose health care
-Tax cuts for the rich
-Adds trillions to the deficit
Republicans will try to erase the baseline to avoid the truth.
Don’t let em.
Standing up for science in Seattle. #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Standing up for science in Seattle. #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Thank you Lenfest Ocean Program for 20 years!
@blueconvergence will follow the lessons learned and continue supporting useful & usable transdisciplinary #science. Learn more and sign up: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s... #oceanscience #codesign
@blueconvergence will follow the lessons learned and continue supporting useful & usable transdisciplinary #science. Learn more and sign up: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s... #oceanscience #codesign
March 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thank you Lenfest Ocean Program for 20 years!
@blueconvergence will follow the lessons learned and continue supporting useful & usable transdisciplinary #science. Learn more and sign up: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s... #oceanscience #codesign
@blueconvergence will follow the lessons learned and continue supporting useful & usable transdisciplinary #science. Learn more and sign up: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s... #oceanscience #codesign
I’ll be marching in Seattle. Who’s with me?
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’ll be marching in Seattle. Who’s with me?
Dying inside as I see so many good people treated so horribly everywhere I turn. Scientists hard at work in service of their country. Besieged leaders negotiating peace in service of their country. I want to vomit.
February 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Dying inside as I see so many good people treated so horribly everywhere I turn. Scientists hard at work in service of their country. Besieged leaders negotiating peace in service of their country. I want to vomit.
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Today, my spin instructor roared:
You haven’t come this far
to only get this far
My legs faltered, tears fell
but I rose with Rage Against the Machine,
heart a drum at 104 BPM:
It starts somewhere, sometime.
Why not now? Why not us?
The revolution of wheels
The work is too important.
I won’t stop.
You haven’t come this far
to only get this far
My legs faltered, tears fell
but I rose with Rage Against the Machine,
heart a drum at 104 BPM:
It starts somewhere, sometime.
Why not now? Why not us?
The revolution of wheels
The work is too important.
I won’t stop.
February 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Today, my spin instructor roared:
You haven’t come this far
to only get this far
My legs faltered, tears fell
but I rose with Rage Against the Machine,
heart a drum at 104 BPM:
It starts somewhere, sometime.
Why not now? Why not us?
The revolution of wheels
The work is too important.
I won’t stop.
You haven’t come this far
to only get this far
My legs faltered, tears fell
but I rose with Rage Against the Machine,
heart a drum at 104 BPM:
It starts somewhere, sometime.
Why not now? Why not us?
The revolution of wheels
The work is too important.
I won’t stop.
Ode to the many talented and brilliant federal authors who contributed so much and made the NNA what it is today, but who are unable to work on it going forward and are therefore absent from this list. Their contributions are indelible and enduring.
Follow along the authors in the former effort of the US National Nature Assessment as the effort finds a new home! Thank you @katharinehayhoe.com for creating this list!
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go.bsky.app/TkY5cpU
February 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ode to the many talented and brilliant federal authors who contributed so much and made the NNA what it is today, but who are unable to work on it going forward and are therefore absent from this list. Their contributions are indelible and enduring.
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The National Nature Assessment is still taking comments on their first outline (aka the Zero Order draft). Based on what I saw at @calacademy.bsky.social last night from @phillevin.bsky.social & @tessafrancis.bsky.social & chapter authors, they are pushing ahead. globalchange.gov/our-work/nat...
National Nature Assessment
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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM
The National Nature Assessment is still taking comments on their first outline (aka the Zero Order draft). Based on what I saw at @calacademy.bsky.social last night from @phillevin.bsky.social & @tessafrancis.bsky.social & chapter authors, they are pushing ahead. globalchange.gov/our-work/nat...
Tonight at 6 pm! The National Nature Assessment road show comes to Santa Cruz, CA.
In the area? Come share your thoughts with me and @phillevin.bsky.social and help shape the NNA. Register here: tinyurl.com/4fuu8t4j
Can’t make it? Stay engaged at globalchange.gov/nna
In the area? Come share your thoughts with me and @phillevin.bsky.social and help shape the NNA. Register here: tinyurl.com/4fuu8t4j
Can’t make it? Stay engaged at globalchange.gov/nna
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Tonight at 6 pm! The National Nature Assessment road show comes to Santa Cruz, CA.
In the area? Come share your thoughts with me and @phillevin.bsky.social and help shape the NNA. Register here: tinyurl.com/4fuu8t4j
Can’t make it? Stay engaged at globalchange.gov/nna
In the area? Come share your thoughts with me and @phillevin.bsky.social and help shape the NNA. Register here: tinyurl.com/4fuu8t4j
Can’t make it? Stay engaged at globalchange.gov/nna
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Until now, there hasn't been a clear quantification of corporate impacts on nature. But a new
@stanfordwoods.bsky.social NatCap Program approach found that utility, real estate, materials, and finance companies are the most harmful to ecosystem services and biodiversity: go.nature.com/3NTHyrm
@stanfordwoods.bsky.social NatCap Program approach found that utility, real estate, materials, and finance companies are the most harmful to ecosystem services and biodiversity: go.nature.com/3NTHyrm
November 4, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Until now, there hasn't been a clear quantification of corporate impacts on nature. But a new
@stanfordwoods.bsky.social NatCap Program approach found that utility, real estate, materials, and finance companies are the most harmful to ecosystem services and biodiversity: go.nature.com/3NTHyrm
@stanfordwoods.bsky.social NatCap Program approach found that utility, real estate, materials, and finance companies are the most harmful to ecosystem services and biodiversity: go.nature.com/3NTHyrm
Hi. Who’s going to ESA?
August 1, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Hi. Who’s going to ESA?
Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌳 The 1st National Nature Assessment will provide the knowledge we need about nature loss and how it affects us so we can act to protect and conserve nature before it’s too late. www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
A Nature Imperative on Earth Day | OSTP | The White House
By Phil Levin, National Nature Assessment Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy More than half a century ago, 20 million Americans came together to observe the first Earth Day. From diverse ...
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April 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌳 The 1st National Nature Assessment will provide the knowledge we need about nature loss and how it affects us so we can act to protect and conserve nature before it’s too late. www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
USGCRP is accepting author nominations and scientific/technical inputs for the First National Nature Assessment. Please share this opportunity!
Author nominations close Jan. 4, 2024!
globalchange.gov/notices/call...
Author nominations close Jan. 4, 2024!
globalchange.gov/notices/call...
December 6, 2023 at 6:08 AM
USGCRP is accepting author nominations and scientific/technical inputs for the First National Nature Assessment. Please share this opportunity!
Author nominations close Jan. 4, 2024!
globalchange.gov/notices/call...
Author nominations close Jan. 4, 2024!
globalchange.gov/notices/call...
Out now! The first-ever US National Nature Assessment seeks authors from a range of disciplines and lived experience! A great opportunity to make a real difference in a landmark assessment. Share widely! Nominate yourself or others. Deadline is 1/4/24.
www.globalchange.gov/notices/call...
www.globalchange.gov/notices/call...
November 21, 2023 at 4:34 AM
Out now! The first-ever US National Nature Assessment seeks authors from a range of disciplines and lived experience! A great opportunity to make a real difference in a landmark assessment. Share widely! Nominate yourself or others. Deadline is 1/4/24.
www.globalchange.gov/notices/call...
www.globalchange.gov/notices/call...
The 5th National Climate Assessment has officially dropped! Big ups to the entire NCA5 team - this is an amazing effort! The preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and solutions in the U.S. 🎉
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Fifth National Climate Assessment and Announces Mor...
Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) shows decline in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions even as population and GDP have grown Since Day One, President Biden has delivered on the most ambitious climate...
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November 14, 2023 at 1:54 PM
The 5th National Climate Assessment has officially dropped! Big ups to the entire NCA5 team - this is an amazing effort! The preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and solutions in the U.S. 🎉
OH WOW, @edyong209.bsky.social has totally lured me in with Ch. 1. Complete with the gift of a new word, even: Umwelt, which I will hereafter use ad nauseum.
September 19, 2023 at 10:30 PM
OH WOW, @edyong209.bsky.social has totally lured me in with Ch. 1. Complete with the gift of a new word, even: Umwelt, which I will hereafter use ad nauseum.