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Zach Ryan
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Learning Sciences PhD Candidate at Indiana University | Natural Resources Education Specialist | Researching how co-designing playful learning alongside youth can support learning about local ecologies | https://www.zach-ryan.com/
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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More confirmation from Nature: "Nature has seen the criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for 'broadening participation' language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, and 'discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI.'"
February 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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One under-discussed benefit of studying young kids learning through play is that no-matter how stressful the week is, someone has data with kids doing hysterical and / or amazing things to brighten the day and remind us why we do this work.
January 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
May this pic of Appa comfort you in these trying times. Remember to rest and care for yourself!
January 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM