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Stephanie Masters
@stephaniemasters.bsky.social
Outdoorswoman. Biologist. Reader. Critical Thinker. Socialist. Education Innovator. Mother. Corner Hider. Wanderer. Occasional Writer. ADHDer.

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Fireonthewater.substack.com
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New paper!

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.

This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠

academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
academic.oup.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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It’s a fire sale…
April 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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We had a win in the courts today where DOGE is concerned. Let’s celebrate it — then keep fighting for more.

#doge
March 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
How do you spell delusional? S-C-H-U-M-E-R.
Keep the pressure on by calling and demanding he step down as Minority Leader.
Schumer on CBS: "I am the best leader for the Senate ... I am the best at winning Senate seats."
March 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Another Project 2025 win!
Trump plans to illegally purge EPA's scientific research arm, firing 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists. EPA would not be able to meet its legal obligation to use the “best available science.” By Lisa Friedman www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Wondering why you're not seeing the American people's rising up across the country?

Because suppression of information is what the 5 dictators across the world want.

We're here. We're getting loud. We're getting rowdy. We're not backing down.🇺🇸🏴‍☠️

#SheShed #Voices4Victory #DemocracyWarriors
March 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Oh neat, March 28 is national "Smash Your Amazon Echo Devices With A Hammer" day.
March 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
March 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Holy cow. This is VERY well done.

This is what Team Fight looks like.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
March 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Like I've said, I'm trying very hard to know what they are up to and where they stand and it takes way too much work. I'm a stay at home mom so I have time to check different social feeds, call lots of offices, and google looking for quotes they offer reporters and I'm still lost. Not acceptable.
March 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Calling all Coloradoans! Don’t let @bennet.senate.gov and Hickenlooper roll over and play dead. This budget will harm Colorado!
These Senators are on the fence about voting NO on the CR:

Elissa Slotkin (MI)
Gary Peters (MI)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jon Ossoff (GA)
John Hickenlooper (CO)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Mark Kelly (AZ)
Peter Welch (VT)
Mark Warner (VA)
Time Kaine (VA)

Call (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.

Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.
February 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover DOGE-related expenses.
February 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Visit your library. Linger there. Talk to a librarian. Pop into a program. Download Libby. Grab a movie. Check out huge stacks of books.

I’m not sure how much longer we’ll have them.
February 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school.

Trump should stop him.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Scoop: last night at 4:49 pm OPM staff got an email saying the "fork in the road" buyout was subject to appropriations, some employees would need to work beyond their dates to get it, and the terms of their contract may change.

This was after both shifts had left for the day. Almost no one saw it
February 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The White House has directed the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing employees hired within the past two years, as part of an Elon Musk-led initiative to drastically reduce the federal workforce.
February 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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FACT: The entire federal civilian workforce accounts for 4 PERCENT of the federal budget

www.ft.com/content/3bb3...
February 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Today this quote in The Hero’s Journal (Legend of Istoria) brought me a bit of inspiration. What is a little thing that brings you joy in this insane, mad world?
February 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
As things in the U.S. look increasingly hopeless due to spineless elected Democrats protecting their self interests, bird song returned to my little corner of Colorado on this cloudy, unseasonably warm mid-Winter day.
February 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Feeling discouraged about my two senators voting to confirm the Sec of Energy, despite constituents’s objections. Does calling even work? With the coup happening, there should be NO reaching across the aisle! No compromise. No confirmations. No passing of any Republican legislation. Obstruct.
February 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Now we’re cooking!

Thank you for doing something, @schatz.bsky.social.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM