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Oregon, Mojave desert, Sonoran desert biologist. Ideas neither original nor funny.
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Happy birthday #Oregon and Happy Valentine’s Day
February 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I wasn’t wearing glasses and this grouse looked like he was holding up a piece of paper with a selfie drawn on it.
#birds
June 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Butcher birds do not mess around 🪶
December 18, 2023 at 4:57 PM
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I wrote about our dark, chaotic, almost-optimistic year of watching Elon Musk shit all over everything at Twitter.

faineg.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
Our Year of Watching Elon Musk Ruin Absolutely Everything At Twitter
what have we learned from this year of watching Elon Musk repeatedly, endlessly fail?
faineg.substack.com
November 7, 2023 at 6:11 PM
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My field is 60%+ women.

Shark Week, the biggest stage in marine biology, has so many more men than women that there are *more men named Mike* then women who are featured in more than one episode. 🧪🦑
Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, mis...
A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
theconversation.com
October 12, 2023 at 3:36 PM
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Jesus Christ

The Onion went all in
www.theonion.com/what-to-know...
October 17, 2023 at 1:50 PM
This just arrived last week. Part of the California Field Atlas series. It’s author, Ovi Kauffman isn’t on bsky yet but if you’re interested in California ecology check it out.
October 14, 2023 at 2:49 PM
🦎 Zebra-tailed lizard (Callisaurus draconoides) eastern Mojave desert
October 13, 2023 at 3:22 PM
From the Bikini’s to the Mojave. Really interesting work.
Turtle Shells Record Nuclear History
Minuscule amounts of uranium detected in the shells of turtles point to a new way to track such materials’ impacts on people and ecosystems
www.scientificamerican.com
October 12, 2023 at 6:28 PM
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There are claims that solar uptake will lead to "waste mountains".

But new research says:

"35 years of cumulative PV module waste (2016–2050) is dwarfed by waste generated by fossil fuel energy & other common waste streams"

Great piece by @davidrvetter.bsky.social

www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
October 12, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Red Cliffs National Conservation Area
St. George Utah
October 10, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Mojave desert. Nevada.
October 6, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Mojave sunsets. Nevada
August 27, 2023 at 9:37 PM