SiriN
mizsiri.bsky.social
SiriN
@mizsiri.bsky.social
PNW Science educator focused on watersheds, ecosystems and communities. Oly, WA
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Belle: hey
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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My sister has started asking my three-year-old niece the name of each piece of art she produces, and today's was A SPIDER WHO CRAWLS JUST LIKE A WOMAN
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Skagit County has issued a GO NOW evacuation order for all residents in the 100-year flood plain. Find out if your home is affected: www.skagitcounty.net/Maps/iMap/?m...
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This is bananas.
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.

details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Family Thanksgiving sing-along time.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Despite progress in understanding & TEK research, white people’s conservation values remain:

1. Indigenous people (& hunting) ARE part of pristine ecosystems; reminder Yellowstone natl Park still lacks the Shoshone.
2. Grey whale pop. size is strong & 1-10 killed annually is nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.

She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.

All charges against her have been dropped.

In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I celebrated my birthday by watching harbor seals chase a giant school of herring around Discovery Bay.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise.

I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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What usually gets lost in the focus on what an evil racist James Watson was is just how colossal of a dumbass he was and just how far he set the field back.

But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Seeing Tech/Business folks lean into eugenics, phrenology, & other stupid ideas. It shows the lack of training they are getting in regards to genetics/evolution, stats, ethics, & history of science.

They have locked down a good # of craven assholes.
1-Point for you there, I guess. #Calipers
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"The past often gets presented to us as odorless. But that overlooks the huge roll smell likely played in many historical realities..." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
History Smelled. Here’s How We’re Sniffing It Out
How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?
www.scientificamerican.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Peeking in at juveniles in the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) breeding program at Friday Harbor Labs was just overwhelmingly hopeful. These little guys can grow to 3ft across.

>90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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If you missed our webinar, "Climate Resources Roundup: Taking Stock of Available Resources for Washington and the Northwest," a recording is now available.👇

We reviewed the evolving status of federal climate resources and the availability of regional resources for informing adaptation in the NW.
Climate Resources Roundup: Taking Stock of Available Resources for Washington and the Northwest
YouTube video by Climate Impacts Group
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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At the Seattle Center, ICE lice invaded the Constitution.
October 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM