Aaron R. King
@aaronrking.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social | community conservation, natural resource governance, and political ecology in Southern Africa. Mostly interested in dogs (mine and other people's).
The craziest thing about this Steelers-Jets game is that it feels like a really high-quality game between two good teams.
September 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The craziest thing about this Steelers-Jets game is that it feels like a really high-quality game between two good teams.
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In a laboratory-scale study, green roofs captured 97.5% of microplastic particles in soil keeping them out of runoff, in addition to substantial heating and cooling benefits.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...
An unexpected green roof benefit: purging urban rainfall of practically all microplastics
In a laboratory-scale study, green roof mockups kept 97.5 percent of microplastic particles out of runoff
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In a laboratory-scale study, green roofs captured 97.5% of microplastic particles in soil keeping them out of runoff, in addition to substantial heating and cooling benefits.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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“Storing carbon in plants is not equivalent to keeping it stored in fossil fuels (by not burning those fossil fuels in the first place)."
theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-f...
theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-f...
A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us
Labor must resist the false promise of carbon offsets in its safeguard mechanism. The only thing that matters is actually cutting emissions
theconversation.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“Storing carbon in plants is not equivalent to keeping it stored in fossil fuels (by not burning those fossil fuels in the first place)."
theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-f...
theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-f...
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Calling all US citizens who understand that #conservation is a global issue! 🌎 There are so many issues that need your voice right now but make sure you're heard on this before it's too late: tell Congress we need to keep funding international conservation! protect.worldwildlife.org/page/82646/a...
Tell Congress: Keep Funding International Conservation
Send a letter to your Representative to let them know you support continued funding for international conservation programs.
protect.worldwildlife.org
May 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Calling all US citizens who understand that #conservation is a global issue! 🌎 There are so many issues that need your voice right now but make sure you're heard on this before it's too late: tell Congress we need to keep funding international conservation! protect.worldwildlife.org/page/82646/a...
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🌳A new comprehensive summary of current knowledge on savanna tree root traits and their functions, proposing a framework to study trait variation across environmental and disturbance gradients 🧪🌏
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges
buff.ly
May 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🌳A new comprehensive summary of current knowledge on savanna tree root traits and their functions, proposing a framework to study trait variation across environmental and disturbance gradients 🧪🌏
Great piece by @gsubia.bsky.social pointing to the insufficiencies of our representative institutions in rural regions.
open.substack.com/pub/justrura...
open.substack.com/pub/justrura...
Rural for Rural: The 2024 Election in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District
Gabriella Subia
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Great piece by @gsubia.bsky.social pointing to the insufficiencies of our representative institutions in rural regions.
open.substack.com/pub/justrura...
open.substack.com/pub/justrura...
The world is a mess and this sentiment is trite, but Clair de Lune is just a perfect work of music composition. Five minutes of the sublime.
April 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The world is a mess and this sentiment is trite, but Clair de Lune is just a perfect work of music composition. Five minutes of the sublime.
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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
April 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Inspired by the recent sessions on social networks at the @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting, Dr. Walther argues that the growing focus on networks in geography should lead to more theorizing of space
April 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Inspired by the recent sessions on social networks at the @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting, Dr. Walther argues that the growing focus on networks in geography should lead to more theorizing of space
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Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
March 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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“The National Park Service just reported the highest visitation in its history, as the administration conducts massive firings and threatens to close visitor centers and public safety facilities,” - Kristen Brenge @protectparks.bsky.social
#WorldHeritage #ClimateHeritage #archaeology #conservation🌍
#WorldHeritage #ClimateHeritage #archaeology #conservation🌍
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“The National Park Service just reported the highest visitation in its history, as the administration conducts massive firings and threatens to close visitor centers and public safety facilities,” - Kristen Brenge @protectparks.bsky.social
#WorldHeritage #ClimateHeritage #archaeology #conservation🌍
#WorldHeritage #ClimateHeritage #archaeology #conservation🌍
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Join us in making a difference! 🌟 Be one of the 20 new donors that helps unlock a $1000 faculty donation. Let’s achieve this milestone together! #GeoGators #AllForTheGators #StandUpAndHoller givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ge...
February 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Join us in making a difference! 🌟 Be one of the 20 new donors that helps unlock a $1000 faculty donation. Let’s achieve this milestone together! #GeoGators #AllForTheGators #StandUpAndHoller givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ge...
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Vegetation changes over 19 years in Mediterranean landscapes: agricultural abandonment & tree colonization, with consequences on the fire regime.
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/02/15/v...
Vall d’Albaida, Valencia, Spain
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌲🍁💚
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/02/15/v...
Vall d’Albaida, Valencia, Spain
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌲🍁💚
February 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Vegetation changes over 19 years in Mediterranean landscapes: agricultural abandonment & tree colonization, with consequences on the fire regime.
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/02/15/v...
Vall d’Albaida, Valencia, Spain
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌲🍁💚
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/02/15/v...
Vall d’Albaida, Valencia, Spain
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌲🍁💚
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Times are bleak, it’s true. But people are still out here doing incredible work now, when it matters most.
Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location.
🌱🌎🧪🌿
Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location.
🌱🌎🧪🌿
Eastern KY activists bought land where feds wanted to build a prison
Rep. Hal Rogers has wanted another prison in eastern Kentucky for years. Local and national activists say the new land owners have better plans for Letcher County.
www.lpm.org
February 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Times are bleak, it’s true. But people are still out here doing incredible work now, when it matters most.
Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location.
🌱🌎🧪🌿
Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location.
🌱🌎🧪🌿
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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Hey #WildlifeDisease & #conservation folk, please check out our survey on attitudes to parasite conservation.
Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n
Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n
January 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hey #WildlifeDisease & #conservation folk, please check out our survey on attitudes to parasite conservation.
Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n
Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n
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By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
www.wired.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!
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Sorry to reignite the argument, but it is perpetual so now is as good as time as any. Pittsburgh is more Midwest than you think, but maybe not completely Midwest. My case www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
Pittsburgh is more Midwest than you think
We have solid ties to Midwestern sports, food and economics.
www.axios.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry to reignite the argument, but it is perpetual so now is as good as time as any. Pittsburgh is more Midwest than you think, but maybe not completely Midwest. My case www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
Uh ... How about both??
January 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Uh ... How about both??
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