I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species.

What are we even doing here.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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CDFW wrapped up wolf capture & collar operations recently in northern CA resulting in a record 12 wolves now outfitted w/ satellite collars. Collar data provides info to understand diet, dispersal, pack formations & help mitigate conflicts w/ ranchers

wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive...

This is incredibly frustrating and sad.

If you woke up grumpy this Monday morning because of... uh, everything... remember that somewhere in the Pacific, among the branches of a dying coral, there lives a goby who is grumpier than you. Yet, he does not falter. He sits, stoically. Resisting. Scheming.

The Rasp Coralgoby (Gobiodon brochus)

This is at the heart of the grief we feel at the firing of Federal scientists. Scientists go to school and train for years, and mostly don’t get rich or work easy hours. Why?

Because we get to look at the stars. We get to ask questions, and to try to use the answers to help people.

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

I wish we didn’t have to be here. I wish it was so different but we are here, and must stick together. Sigh big ole sigh.

This is a mōlī (Laysan Albatross) chick who fledged from Kīlauea Point NWR last summer. It’s one of the few protected seabird colonies in the main Hawaiian islands. The entire biologist team (+ their only facilities management person) at this NWR was fired with no warning yesterday.

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