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Sheri L. Williamson 🪶🌎🧪
@sherilwilliamson.bsky.social
Naturalist 🦋 birder 🦉 ornithologist & hummingbird researcher 🪶 field guide author 📖 photographer 📷 artist 🎨 gardener 🌱 chicken/dog mom, desert rat, border resident 🇺🇲🇲🇽, democracy fan 🗽. She/her.
https://bio.link/sherilwilliamson
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Hey, BlueSky! I'm a conservation professional and equal-opportunity nature and science enthusiast trying to pull away from FB and Threads without feeling out of touch. I'm an erratic poster, but follow me if you enjoy the occasional hummingbird, birding, garden, and pet chicken posts in your feed.
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

newrepublic.com/article/2028...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Tonight's aurora extends as far as the Arizona-Mexico border. It's just faint red glow in the northern sky, but an amazing sight this far south.
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Mary Cynthia Dickerson was the 1st curator of herpetology at @amnh.org. She authored "The Frog Book" (1906), describing North American toads & frogs. Explore it in #BHLib thanks to the @uoftlibraries.bsky.social Robarts Library: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31830673 #HerNaturalHistory #HERpers 🐸
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A tiny proportion of the river of Blackbirds at Long Point last evening. Sound on for the magical sound of thousands of fluttering wings at the end.
#LPBO
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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the pet food bank near me has been having to close early from running out of food, so if this is your lane this is another way to help
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Every year I create a schedule of all Christmas Bird Counts in California. #birding #cbc #christmasbirdcount
www.natureali.org/cbcs.htm
www.natureali.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Two suggestions:

1. Never answer unknown callers. Send them start to voicemail. You will start getting less scam calls.

www.keepersecurity.com/blog/2024/01...

www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

2. Delete your data and any elders in your lives data.

www.security.org/data-removal...
The Best Data Removal Services of 2025 | Security.org
Aura topped our list thanks to its affordable bundles that already include basic identity monitoring and extra cybersecurity tools.
www.security.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This weeks walk through the subreddit has exposed me to a new series or scams.

The most alarming:

1. Job listings on Indeed and LinkedIn that turn into parcel mule scams

2. More sophisticated elder scams many which appear to be a direct result of online data leaked or sold by private companies
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Tonight at the World Press Cartoon exhibition near Lisbon.

@zezvaz.bsky.social won an award for his now-famous cartoon facing down Musk’s cybertrucks

A reminder that we don’t bow or bend the knee to billionaires…or even a deeply deranged trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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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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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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We got our first 100 signatures 😃💪🏿 keep sharing and sign if you haven't already!
Most science degrees never require students to learn how to communicate their work to the public. That gap fuels confusion, mistrust, and missed opportunities to protect lives. Let's change it. Sign the petition to make communication + public engagement training a degree requirement. bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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With the rain that came in today, the elder gods are emerging! California Toad (Anaxyrus boreas halophilus). #herps
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Just had a phenomenal class discussion about the value and dangers of generative AI that ended with a student suggesting we needed a revival of human-made things and ARTISTIC CRITICISM and man teaching is pretty fun sometimes.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM