Kyle Copas
@kylecopas.bsky.social
Head of comms @GBIF.org, writer, poet, communicator, producer, husband, father. 💩posting about literature, music, biodiversity, sustainability, design, #biodiversity. Decolonization begins at home (and abroad), restoring Indigenous roots.
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"the Boondoggle Ranch"... we are living in Carl Hiaasen's America... everything is Florida now
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"the Boondoggle Ranch"... we are living in Carl Hiaasen's America... everything is Florida now
Unexpected surprise last week, seeing a Camões sonnet in the São Paolo metro.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Unexpected surprise last week, seeing a Camões sonnet in the São Paolo metro.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
I can’t quite decide which line slaps harder: ‘the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation‘ or ‘The author refers to the group as “conservative-leaning,” which, ok. I guess you could say Latvia was a little antisemitic-leaning during the war.’
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I can’t quite decide which line slaps harder: ‘the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation‘ or ‘The author refers to the group as “conservative-leaning,” which, ok. I guess you could say Latvia was a little antisemitic-leaning during the war.’
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Sadly we HAVE been here before.
Melanie Cervantes, Ya Basta (2017). Now one of many amazing works showing in São Paolo at a #COP30-adjacent exhibit, Histórias da Ecologia (Histories of Ecology), at @maspdobsky.bsky.social .
Melanie Cervantes, Ya Basta (2017). Now one of many amazing works showing in São Paolo at a #COP30-adjacent exhibit, Histórias da Ecologia (Histories of Ecology), at @maspdobsky.bsky.social .
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sadly we HAVE been here before.
Melanie Cervantes, Ya Basta (2017). Now one of many amazing works showing in São Paolo at a #COP30-adjacent exhibit, Histórias da Ecologia (Histories of Ecology), at @maspdobsky.bsky.social .
Melanie Cervantes, Ya Basta (2017). Now one of many amazing works showing in São Paolo at a #COP30-adjacent exhibit, Histórias da Ecologia (Histories of Ecology), at @maspdobsky.bsky.social .
Question for the #HoosierDiaspora of @bginchi.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social et al.: Is it just me, or is this an odd name and logo for a joint that, given its emphasis on “auténtica comida indiana,” must have a menu focused on catfish and pork tenderloins?
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Question for the #HoosierDiaspora of @bginchi.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social et al.: Is it just me, or is this an odd name and logo for a joint that, given its emphasis on “auténtica comida indiana,” must have a menu focused on catfish and pork tenderloins?
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
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"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
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Happy, with Marie Grosjean, to present @gbif.org to 23rd meeting of the @efsa.europa.eu Scientific Network for Risk Assessment in Plant Health; excellent discussions and perspectives! www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/23rd-meeting-efsa-scientific-network-risk-assessment-plant-health-plh-risk-assessment
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Happy, with Marie Grosjean, to present @gbif.org to 23rd meeting of the @efsa.europa.eu Scientific Network for Risk Assessment in Plant Health; excellent discussions and perspectives! www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/23rd-meeting-efsa-scientific-network-risk-assessment-plant-health-plh-risk-assessment
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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Je suis tellement déçu de ne pas trouver le meilleur roman policier de la Renaissance (Perspective(s) de @atahualpavasari.bsky.social, si vous ne le savez pas) en stock lors d’une escale à CDG.
On ne peut qu’imaginer ce que M. Binet nous réserve ensuite…
On ne peut qu’imaginer ce que M. Binet nous réserve ensuite…
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Je suis tellement déçu de ne pas trouver le meilleur roman policier de la Renaissance (Perspective(s) de @atahualpavasari.bsky.social, si vous ne le savez pas) en stock lors d’une escale à CDG.
On ne peut qu’imaginer ce que M. Binet nous réserve ensuite…
On ne peut qu’imaginer ce que M. Binet nous réserve ensuite…
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🥳The teams from TaiBIF and GBIF Argentina have been named as 2025 GBIF Node Award winners!
The GBIF Node Awards are bi-annual awards that recognize the incredible achievements and contributions that nodes make to the GBIF network.
💚 Read about their incredible work:🔗 gbif.link/node_awards
The GBIF Node Awards are bi-annual awards that recognize the incredible achievements and contributions that nodes make to the GBIF network.
💚 Read about their incredible work:🔗 gbif.link/node_awards
October 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
🥳The teams from TaiBIF and GBIF Argentina have been named as 2025 GBIF Node Award winners!
The GBIF Node Awards are bi-annual awards that recognize the incredible achievements and contributions that nodes make to the GBIF network.
💚 Read about their incredible work:🔗 gbif.link/node_awards
The GBIF Node Awards are bi-annual awards that recognize the incredible achievements and contributions that nodes make to the GBIF network.
💚 Read about their incredible work:🔗 gbif.link/node_awards
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We’re honoured to welcome Dr Lydia Jennings (@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social) of Dartmouth College and chair of the GBIF Indigenous data governance task group, to 32nd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board!
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We’re honoured to welcome Dr Lydia Jennings (@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social) of Dartmouth College and chair of the GBIF Indigenous data governance task group, to 32nd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board!
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
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The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.
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Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)
Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)
Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
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📣 Bring your voice to #LivingData2025! We give you the opportunity to bring out your questions directly to the OBIS sessions co-leads up to 24 hours before each session⏱️
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📣 Bring your voice to #LivingData2025! We give you the opportunity to bring out your questions directly to the OBIS sessions co-leads up to 24 hours before each session⏱️
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
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Remember the dodgy carbon-offset project in Zimbabwe from a couple of years ago? A probe by registry Verra has found most of the credits attached to it didn't help the climate.
So who's going to close the gap of 12.5m tons of emissions that were "offset" but not actually avoided? TBD! [gift link]
So who's going to close the gap of 12.5m tons of emissions that were "offset" but not actually avoided? TBD! [gift link]
Majority of Carbon Credits From Tarnished Project Deemed Bogus
After a two-year probe, findings by the world's largest offset certifier raise pressing questions for the struggling carbon markets.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Remember the dodgy carbon-offset project in Zimbabwe from a couple of years ago? A probe by registry Verra has found most of the credits attached to it didn't help the climate.
So who's going to close the gap of 12.5m tons of emissions that were "offset" but not actually avoided? TBD! [gift link]
So who's going to close the gap of 12.5m tons of emissions that were "offset" but not actually avoided? TBD! [gift link]
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Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg:
Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits.
🎁 Gift link below.
Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits.
🎁 Gift link below.
Majority of Carbon Credits From Tarnished Project Deemed Bogus
After a two-year probe, findings by the world's largest offset certifier raise pressing questions for the struggling carbon markets.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg:
Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits.
🎁 Gift link below.
Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits.
🎁 Gift link below.
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💙💛 #Ukraine joins GBIF as the 23rd Associate Participant!
Despite the profound disruptions caused by war, more than 2.4 million records have been mobilized by institutes in Ukraine to GBIF to date, supporting research and decision making.
🔗 Learn more: gbif.link/ukraine
Despite the profound disruptions caused by war, more than 2.4 million records have been mobilized by institutes in Ukraine to GBIF to date, supporting research and decision making.
🔗 Learn more: gbif.link/ukraine
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
💙💛 #Ukraine joins GBIF as the 23rd Associate Participant!
Despite the profound disruptions caused by war, more than 2.4 million records have been mobilized by institutes in Ukraine to GBIF to date, supporting research and decision making.
🔗 Learn more: gbif.link/ukraine
Despite the profound disruptions caused by war, more than 2.4 million records have been mobilized by institutes in Ukraine to GBIF to date, supporting research and decision making.
🔗 Learn more: gbif.link/ukraine
Reached for shadow docket comment, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained, "The questioning in such circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly leaf…er, uh…leave after making clear to da goons that they are U.S. natives or non-invasives.”
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reached for shadow docket comment, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained, "The questioning in such circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly leaf…er, uh…leave after making clear to da goons that they are U.S. natives or non-invasives.”