Regan Dunn
@platycarya56.bsky.social
La Brea Tar Pits Curator, studies plants, climate and extinction.
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This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)
June 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)
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Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...
Properly staggering! 😮😱
Properly staggering! 😮😱
May 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...
Properly staggering! 😮😱
Properly staggering! 😮😱
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A handful of US scientists will continue their research in foreign countries. Most of them will simply stop doing research altogether.
The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A handful of US scientists will continue their research in foreign countries. Most of them will simply stop doing research altogether.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Just spoke with my CDC sources.
RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms.
This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information.
Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.
RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms.
This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information.
Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.
April 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just spoke with my CDC sources.
RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms.
This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information.
Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.
RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms.
This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information.
Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.
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Next week, some environmental orgs will likely be charged w/ bogus accusations by POTUS. Here’s the deal: we stand together. An attack on one is an attack on all. Those not named aren’t off the hook; they have to lean in to support those falsely accused. #unity
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...
www.bloomberg.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Next week, some environmental orgs will likely be charged w/ bogus accusations by POTUS. Here’s the deal: we stand together. An attack on one is an attack on all. Those not named aren’t off the hook; they have to lean in to support those falsely accused. #unity
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This statement from the NSF is insane.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
April 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This statement from the NSF is insane.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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Visualizing changes in April temperatures across the #Arctic region during the last four decades...
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...
April 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Visualizing changes in April temperatures across the #Arctic region during the last four decades...
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...
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🐾 Are #direwolves alive again?
Dr. Mairin Balisi (Augustyn Family Curator at @alfpaleo.bsky.social and Research Associate at the #TarPits) has studied dire wolves for over 15 years and published numerous papers. Listen as she shares insight about the Ice Age Angeleno.
youtube.com/shorts/8KAYl...
Dr. Mairin Balisi (Augustyn Family Curator at @alfpaleo.bsky.social and Research Associate at the #TarPits) has studied dire wolves for over 15 years and published numerous papers. Listen as she shares insight about the Ice Age Angeleno.
youtube.com/shorts/8KAYl...
Are Dire Wolves Alive Again? #TarPits #DireWolves #Paleontology #Shorts
YouTube video by La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🐾 Are #direwolves alive again?
Dr. Mairin Balisi (Augustyn Family Curator at @alfpaleo.bsky.social and Research Associate at the #TarPits) has studied dire wolves for over 15 years and published numerous papers. Listen as she shares insight about the Ice Age Angeleno.
youtube.com/shorts/8KAYl...
Dr. Mairin Balisi (Augustyn Family Curator at @alfpaleo.bsky.social and Research Associate at the #TarPits) has studied dire wolves for over 15 years and published numerous papers. Listen as she shares insight about the Ice Age Angeleno.
youtube.com/shorts/8KAYl...
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.
White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article)
A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.
Scientists say they ‘de-extincted’ dire wolves. Experts at La Brea Tar Pits are skeptical - Los Angeles Times
Claims that these genetically altered wolves act like dire wolves are puzzling considering that their entire ecosystems disappeared along with them 13,000 years ago.
Claims that these genetically altered wolves act like dire wolves are puzzling considering that their entire ecosystems disappeared along with them 13,000 years ago.
April 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Scientists say they ‘de-extincted’ dire wolves. Experts at La Brea Tar Pits are skeptical - Los Angeles Times
Claims that these genetically altered wolves act like dire wolves are puzzling considering that their entire ecosystems disappeared along with them 13,000 years ago.
Claims that these genetically altered wolves act like dire wolves are puzzling considering that their entire ecosystems disappeared along with them 13,000 years ago.
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Every day, it's something dumber. NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) brings us the ocean and atmospheric CO₂ measurements, among many other things.
Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN
The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Every day, it's something dumber. NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) brings us the ocean and atmospheric CO₂ measurements, among many other things.
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The US has three bases in Antarctica. Besides the important science done there, they're a proxy for geopolitical power. China just built its fifth base in Antarctica, so if the US pulls back, guess who will take over?
Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Trump cuts threaten to cancel fieldwork and more
Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been reduced, and the agency faces steeper cuts soon.
www.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The US has three bases in Antarctica. Besides the important science done there, they're a proxy for geopolitical power. China just built its fifth base in Antarctica, so if the US pulls back, guess who will take over?
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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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changes in US policy "causing waves of disruption and long-term damage to both scientific and political climate efforts"
Data under duress - Nature Climate Change
Climate change and climate action are socially and politically divisive topics in many countries. In addition to contributing to political disparity, climate research is also affected by political con...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
changes in US policy "causing waves of disruption and long-term damage to both scientific and political climate efforts"
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New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on the NSF grad fellowship cuts:
A key point: “GRFPs are one of the most cost-effective ways for NSF to give out money,” Evans says, because the outcome is a trained, promising young scientist and it’s relatively inexpensive.
A key point: “GRFPs are one of the most cost-effective ways for NSF to give out money,” Evans says, because the outcome is a trained, promising young scientist and it’s relatively inexpensive.
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.
www.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on the NSF grad fellowship cuts:
A key point: “GRFPs are one of the most cost-effective ways for NSF to give out money,” Evans says, because the outcome is a trained, promising young scientist and it’s relatively inexpensive.
A key point: “GRFPs are one of the most cost-effective ways for NSF to give out money,” Evans says, because the outcome is a trained, promising young scientist and it’s relatively inexpensive.
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This is why the media’s credulous boosterism for Colossal is so dangerous. “Innovation, not regulation” is tech-bro propaganda. It’s the false promise that any problem can be solved with some future breakthrough that will enable the same people who got us into this to profit from the solutions.
April 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is why the media’s credulous boosterism for Colossal is so dangerous. “Innovation, not regulation” is tech-bro propaganda. It’s the false promise that any problem can be solved with some future breakthrough that will enable the same people who got us into this to profit from the solutions.
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"De-extinction" is to the biodiversity crisis as geoengineering/carbon capture are to climate change.
The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.
The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"De-extinction" is to the biodiversity crisis as geoengineering/carbon capture are to climate change.
The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.
The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.
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2. Here is a previous thread about how capitalism can be defined and understood: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first ...
skywriter.blue
April 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
2. Here is a previous thread about how capitalism can be defined and understood: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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Agree with 1.5°C this year or next.
I have 2.0°C on target for 2036.
I have 2.0°C on target for 2036.
March 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Agree with 1.5°C this year or next.
I have 2.0°C on target for 2036.
I have 2.0°C on target for 2036.
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This is Unacceptable On So Many Levels!!!
March 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is Unacceptable On So Many Levels!!!
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Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.
Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
1/
March 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.
Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.
(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
1/
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In The New Climate, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social reports on a new study from Adrift Lab finding plastic ingestion in seabird chicks associated with organ failure. What could this mean for life on Earth, including humans? #PlasticPollution
medium.com/the-new-clim...
medium.com/the-new-clim...
How Plastics Are Rewiring Nature
A new study on the effects of plastic ingestion in birds finds links to organ failure and Alzheimer’s. What could this mean for health?
medium.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In The New Climate, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social reports on a new study from Adrift Lab finding plastic ingestion in seabird chicks associated with organ failure. What could this mean for life on Earth, including humans? #PlasticPollution
medium.com/the-new-clim...
medium.com/the-new-clim...