Butterfly Blues
@choving.bsky.social
Wildlife ecologist, adaptation scientist, complex adaptive systems modeler, Cassandra-type prophet (apparently), avid gardener and hiker. Personal account; views are my own.
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Butterfly Blues
@choving.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Starter packs compilations are like personal home book shelves. An expression of one's interests, personality, what I read, what I find important. I hope these help you find great content. More in the comments. 1/: go.bsky.app/FNYZ61y
Just because...
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Just because...
Another unsung and largely unappreciated government service: wildlife management.
Interesting that the situation is so out of hand in northern Japan that they needed to mobilize the military.
Interesting that the situation is so out of hand in northern Japan that they needed to mobilize the military.
Japan’s military is on the ground facing a new challenge: bears | CNN
When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Another unsung and largely unappreciated government service: wildlife management.
Interesting that the situation is so out of hand in northern Japan that they needed to mobilize the military.
Interesting that the situation is so out of hand in northern Japan that they needed to mobilize the military.
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I had dinner with a colleague from @inaturalist.bsky.social yesterday and Jeanne shared that their users are discovering an average of one brand-new-previously-unknown-to-science species EACH MONTH!
Citizen Scientists Are Accelerating Ecology Research, Study Suggests
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November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I had dinner with a colleague from @inaturalist.bsky.social yesterday and Jeanne shared that their users are discovering an average of one brand-new-previously-unknown-to-science species EACH MONTH!
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There's not a better all around EV for the money, and unlike most of the competitors, charges way faster, is more efficient than most, and made in the U.S. with massively more U.S./CAN parts content!! And it's freaking amazing.
Hyundai extends ultra-low IONIQ 5 lease deal for just $189 a month
Hyundai extends ultra-low IONIQ 5 lease deal for just $189 a month
Hyundai’s at it again. The automaker is extending its IONIQ 5 lease offer, keeping one of the most affordable EV deals in the US alive at just $189 per month.
more…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
There's not a better all around EV for the money, and unlike most of the competitors, charges way faster, is more efficient than most, and made in the U.S. with massively more U.S./CAN parts content!! And it's freaking amazing.
I took advantage of this lease deal back in June. I love it. Absolutely the best. It is quiet, smooth, crazy fast acceleration, fantastic speakers, and I have charged it almost entirely with a standard outlet in my garage, although I did take three road trips with no problem.
Hyundai extends ultra-low IONIQ 5 lease deal for just $189 a month
Hyundai extends ultra-low IONIQ 5 lease deal for just $189 a month
Hyundai’s at it again. The automaker is extending its IONIQ 5 lease offer, keeping one of the most affordable EV deals in the US alive at just $189 per month.
more…
electrek.co
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I took advantage of this lease deal back in June. I love it. Absolutely the best. It is quiet, smooth, crazy fast acceleration, fantastic speakers, and I have charged it almost entirely with a standard outlet in my garage, although I did take three road trips with no problem.
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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🌏 Biodiversity loss has deep-rooted causes—from power imbalances to short-term priorities. These shape indirect & direct drivers like land/sea use change, exploitation & climate change.
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌏 Biodiversity loss has deep-rooted causes—from power imbalances to short-term priorities. These shape indirect & direct drivers like land/sea use change, exploitation & climate change.
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
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🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
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Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
www.gatesnotes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
Agreed. To connection, I would add autonomy (wildness). I might word it: relationships, wildness, amount, and diversity.
Conservation isn’t just about numbers—it’s about connection. Wildlife corridors keep tigers, lions, cheetahs & leopards roaming, breeding & surviving. Isolation turns parks into islands of extinction.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Agreed. To connection, I would add autonomy (wildness). I might word it: relationships, wildness, amount, and diversity.
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A study by I. R. Onley, P. Cassey, & M. A. McGeoch shows that biodiversity data sharing platforms are key to managing biological invasions. Closing the "knowing-doing" gap can create better conservation outcomes. 🌍
Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1
Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1
November 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A study by I. R. Onley, P. Cassey, & M. A. McGeoch shows that biodiversity data sharing platforms are key to managing biological invasions. Closing the "knowing-doing" gap can create better conservation outcomes. 🌍
Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1
Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1
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No idea what a "laceband" is, but I find it both comforting and discouraging how much human nature has remained constant since the 1660s.
Got me ready in the morning and put on my first new laceband; and so neat it is, that I am resolved my great expense shall be lacebands, and it will set off any thing else the more.
October 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
No idea what a "laceband" is, but I find it both comforting and discouraging how much human nature has remained constant since the 1660s.
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Non-violence is the way. ☮️ Well done.
NYC is so "out of control and crime ridden" that NYPD had to arrest (checks note) exactly zero people today.
100,000+ protestors. ZERO arrests.
ZERO.
This isn't only a major slap in Trump's face. It proves YET AGAIN that the only violence ICE fascists are facing, is violence ICE fascists incite.
100,000+ protestors. ZERO arrests.
ZERO.
This isn't only a major slap in Trump's face. It proves YET AGAIN that the only violence ICE fascists are facing, is violence ICE fascists incite.
October 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Non-violence is the way. ☮️ Well done.
Warming water leading to methane release. That is one of the feedback loops that scientists have warned we need to avoid. Causation and scale are not yet known for these ones in Antarctica, but it is... worrying.
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the #Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate", scientists find, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...
edition.cnn.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Warming water leading to methane release. That is one of the feedback loops that scientists have warned we need to avoid. Causation and scale are not yet known for these ones in Antarctica, but it is... worrying.
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🐆 Natural history of western wild animals and guide for hunters, trappers, and sportsmen;.
Toledo, Ohio, blade printing & paper company, 1875..
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Toledo, Ohio, blade printing & paper company, 1875..
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October 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🐆 Natural history of western wild animals and guide for hunters, trappers, and sportsmen;.
Toledo, Ohio, blade printing & paper company, 1875..
[Source]
Toledo, Ohio, blade printing & paper company, 1875..
[Source]
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Stop doomscrolling. Look at these baby hawks FREAKING OUT at the sight of a MONSTROUS, TERRIFYING… butterfly. 🦋
“MOM! MAKE IT GO AWAY!”
www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
“MOM! MAKE IT GO AWAY!”
www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
From the NatureIsFuckingCute community on Reddit: Baby hawks frightened of butterfly
Explore this post and more from the NatureIsFuckingCute community
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October 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Stop doomscrolling. Look at these baby hawks FREAKING OUT at the sight of a MONSTROUS, TERRIFYING… butterfly. 🦋
“MOM! MAKE IT GO AWAY!”
www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
“MOM! MAKE IT GO AWAY!”
www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.
Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.
"Oi!" I called.
"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."
Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.
Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.
"Oi!" I called.
"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."
Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.
Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.
"Oi!" I called.
"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."
Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.
Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.
"Oi!" I called.
"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."
Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.
I really need to take a deeper dive on these IPBES assessments. It is like IPCC for climate change, but science of biodiversity, governance, and change.
📊 The IPBES #NexusAssessment Report highlights how nexus governance can address indirect & direct drivers of change as an alternative to siloed approaches.
Learn about the key components of a nexus approach with this graphic.
💡 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
Learn about the key components of a nexus approach with this graphic.
💡 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
October 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I really need to take a deeper dive on these IPBES assessments. It is like IPCC for climate change, but science of biodiversity, governance, and change.
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#ICYMI Time magazine called @ologies.bsky.social one of the best podcasts of all time, @alieward.bsky.social and Salma Hayek share their love of bugs on live television, and we chat about asking scientists all the questions on the latest See Jurassic Right!
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October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#ICYMI Time magazine called @ologies.bsky.social one of the best podcasts of all time, @alieward.bsky.social and Salma Hayek share their love of bugs on live television, and we chat about asking scientists all the questions on the latest See Jurassic Right!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Anti-monopoly kung fu master Jonathan Kanter quotes: "Freedom only works when no one owns it."
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Anti-monopoly kung fu master Jonathan Kanter quotes: "Freedom only works when no one owns it."
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Really cool podcast, about a futuristic carbon-free energy source. But would the waste heat from this process contribute to significant global warming if this energy source was tapped at large scale?
Today on Volts: geothermal startup Quaise is using microwaves to pulverize rock, drill down miles, & access levels of heat that cause water to go supercritical, so it holds exponentially more energy. The promise is geothermal power with 10X the productivity -- enough to lure FF giants into the biz.
Super-deep geothermal drilling ... with microwaves
I talk with Quaise CEO Carlos Araque about a technology that could persuade the oil and gas industry to drill for heat instead of fuel.
www.volts.wtf
October 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Really cool podcast, about a futuristic carbon-free energy source. But would the waste heat from this process contribute to significant global warming if this energy source was tapped at large scale?