Jennifer Ruiz
@jennyruiz.bsky.social
PhD student @ UHouston by day 🛰️🌱 mamá by night (also by day 😊🩷)
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UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social
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💧 Estuaries are nature's water treatment plants! Their wetland plants, including salt marshes and mangroves, filter pollutants, excess nutrients, and sediments from water before it reaches the ocean. 🌱 #EstuariesWeek #WadeIn #WaterQuality #NaturalFilters
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
💧 Estuaries are nature's water treatment plants! Their wetland plants, including salt marshes and mangroves, filter pollutants, excess nutrients, and sediments from water before it reaches the ocean. 🌱 #EstuariesWeek #WadeIn #WaterQuality #NaturalFilters
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The Indigenous community of San José Poaquil is using technology to monitor the health and integrity of their ancestral forest.
Locals have created online maps for their forest, which have allowed them to keep track of wildfires, deforestation and other illicit activities that threaten the area.
Locals have created online maps for their forest, which have allowed them to keep track of wildfires, deforestation and other illicit activities that threaten the area.
In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping
SAN JOSÉ POAQUIL, Guatemala — The last rays of daylight filter through the trees as Andres “Tata” López, 56, the local Maya mayor, greets his neighbors coming to source water in the communal forest…
news.mongabay.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Indigenous community of San José Poaquil is using technology to monitor the health and integrity of their ancestral forest.
Locals have created online maps for their forest, which have allowed them to keep track of wildfires, deforestation and other illicit activities that threaten the area.
Locals have created online maps for their forest, which have allowed them to keep track of wildfires, deforestation and other illicit activities that threaten the area.
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So obviously destructive.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So obviously destructive.
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This new JWST image is incredible 🤩
What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the blistering winds and ultraviolet light of nearby, massive, infant stars. What else did #NASAWebb find in Pismis 24? https://bit.ly/4mr3cmt
September 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This new JWST image is incredible 🤩
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Mood:
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Mood:
Friends, hace poco I was ✨influenced✨ and it was a great read! 😊
August 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Friends, hace poco I was ✨influenced✨ and it was a great read! 😊
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Congratulations @martin-nunez.bsky.social !!
🚨Big news🚨
A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉
This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published
I hope it helps many
Please share with anyone who might benefit!
👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide
A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉
This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published
I hope it helps many
Please share with anyone who might benefit!
👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide
August 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Congratulations @martin-nunez.bsky.social !!
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One of the most powerful documentaries on Netflix is The Guardian of the Monarchs. The film follows environmentalist Homero Gómez, who dedicated his life to protecting the monarch butterflies. It’s a stunning portrait of a father passing his wisdom to his son—in spite of the risk to his life.
July 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
One of the most powerful documentaries on Netflix is The Guardian of the Monarchs. The film follows environmentalist Homero Gómez, who dedicated his life to protecting the monarch butterflies. It’s a stunning portrait of a father passing his wisdom to his son—in spite of the risk to his life.
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Federal pandemic relief money supercharged summer learning. When that funding expired, Philadelphia found a way to keep its program going. It's an investment that's all about making learning fun.
Philadelphia found a way to keep kids learning in the summer, without federal dollars
Federal pandemic relief money supercharged summer learning. When that funding expired, Philadelphia found a way to keep its program going. It's an investment that's all about making learning fun.
n.pr
July 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Federal pandemic relief money supercharged summer learning. When that funding expired, Philadelphia found a way to keep its program going. It's an investment that's all about making learning fun.
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Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Getting started with PBS Passport
PBS Passport is a member benefit from participating PBS stations that gives eligible donors and supporters extended access to an on-demand library of quality public television programming online. If ...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
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As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
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After 25 years of watching Earth's changes, Landsat 7 has been decommissioned. It helped monitor forests, glaciers, disasters, and coastlines, providing decades of open science data. Its archive will continue to support research and environmental management
🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️
#Landsat
#RemoteSensing
#GIS
🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️
#Landsat
#RemoteSensing
#GIS
End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation
After 25 years of capturing Earth's changing landscape, the Landsat 7 satellite received its final transmission from the U.S. Geological Survey and was officially decommissioned June 4, closing a rema...
www.usgs.gov
June 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
After 25 years of watching Earth's changes, Landsat 7 has been decommissioned. It helped monitor forests, glaciers, disasters, and coastlines, providing decades of open science data. Its archive will continue to support research and environmental management
🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️
#Landsat
#RemoteSensing
#GIS
🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️
#Landsat
#RemoteSensing
#GIS
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There's a Roger Angell quote I've been thinking about recently on how you'd better belong to the times that you're living in. And I'm increasingly feeling like I'm not cut out to belong to these times, lmao, sorry!!!
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There's a Roger Angell quote I've been thinking about recently on how you'd better belong to the times that you're living in. And I'm increasingly feeling like I'm not cut out to belong to these times, lmao, sorry!!!
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Absolutely devastating reporting from Hana Kiros on what "life-saving aid" has come to mean and not mean, and the many children dying as a result. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
www.theatlantic.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Absolutely devastating reporting from Hana Kiros on what "life-saving aid" has come to mean and not mean, and the many children dying as a result. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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If you are having a bad day, this Tolomuco invites you to cherish the little moments
#FundacionMadreVerde #CostaRica
#FundacionMadreVerde #CostaRica
April 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If you are having a bad day, this Tolomuco invites you to cherish the little moments
#FundacionMadreVerde #CostaRica
#FundacionMadreVerde #CostaRica
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Hey 🛰️ people, NASA's Worldview portal now includes orbital tracks of ESA and JAXA's Earthcare satellite. For ex, now one can find relatively fast whether the lidar sampled an event of interest. Like in the attached example shewing if it profiled a dust event from a few weeks ago.
March 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Hey 🛰️ people, NASA's Worldview portal now includes orbital tracks of ESA and JAXA's Earthcare satellite. For ex, now one can find relatively fast whether the lidar sampled an event of interest. Like in the attached example shewing if it profiled a dust event from a few weeks ago.
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my favorite teachers loved what they taught about
March 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
my favorite teachers loved what they taught about
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Hey y'all - I'm in the baby stages of building up my Bluesky, but wanted to share some reporting from this week: Just a minutes ago, nearly half of the Ed Dept.'s staff finished their last day of work before being put on admin leave: many who spent decades at the dept. All but 3 people remain at...
March 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hey y'all - I'm in the baby stages of building up my Bluesky, but wanted to share some reporting from this week: Just a minutes ago, nearly half of the Ed Dept.'s staff finished their last day of work before being put on admin leave: many who spent decades at the dept. All but 3 people remain at...
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"What they're doing to our public servants is extraordinarily cruel, possibly illegal. It's actually cutting off their nose to spite their face because of the number of errors, the number of mistakes that are going to happen, not just in education, but across the administration."
The Education Secretary announced plans to cut nearly half of the department's staff, calling it a first step toward dismantling the agency. Experts warn the move will lead to larger class sizes and reduced special education services for students with disabilities.
Ed Secretary Says Cutting Nearly Half of Staff First Step to Dismantling Dept.
Experts say the move will inflate class sizes and take away special education services for students with disabilities.
truthout.org
March 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"What they're doing to our public servants is extraordinarily cruel, possibly illegal. It's actually cutting off their nose to spite their face because of the number of errors, the number of mistakes that are going to happen, not just in education, but across the administration."
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Guadalupe Mountains. Texas.
March 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Guadalupe Mountains. Texas.
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I spoke with Kaesee Bourne, a fish and wildlife biologist terminated under the DOGE layoffs, about the work she was doing for the government defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired USFWS Biologist | Defector
A week into February, Kaesee Bourne was nervous about her job. Last August, she had joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a fish and wildlife biologist working in California and Nevada. “What s...
defector.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I spoke with Kaesee Bourne, a fish and wildlife biologist terminated under the DOGE layoffs, about the work she was doing for the government defector.com/an-interview...
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Featured story: “The good private schools we’d all like to send our kids to already have waiting lists a mile long. No public school kid is going to St. John’s in Houston or St. Mark’s in Dallas with a voucher clutched in his or her little hand.”
Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)
Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in you...
www.texasobserver.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Featured story: “The good private schools we’d all like to send our kids to already have waiting lists a mile long. No public school kid is going to St. John’s in Houston or St. Mark’s in Dallas with a voucher clutched in his or her little hand.”
I just realized that NASA ARSET archive of remote sensing trainings are no longer available 🥺 they were a great resource for me before I could take formal classes at UH on this material, and continued to be very useful for learning about new/emerging technologies & applications. How sad!
February 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I just realized that NASA ARSET archive of remote sensing trainings are no longer available 🥺 they were a great resource for me before I could take formal classes at UH on this material, and continued to be very useful for learning about new/emerging technologies & applications. How sad!