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GrrlScientist: PhD ornithology, parrot researcher, SciComm journalist & writer
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Formerly: The Guardian
Vegan.
US expat.
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The World War on Asylum
From Mexico to the Mediterranean, rich countries would rather see refugees die than recognize their legal asylum rights
#AsylumRights #Refugees #ClimateCrisis theintercept.com/2024/07/09/a...
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about those stupid "replace Biden" polls ...
#POTUS #JoeBiden
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Vote🇺🇸 like your future depends on it, because it does.
"How did we get here?"
"Biden was too old."
#Biden #POTUS #america #VOTEblue
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i used to live in tokyo & wish i could return!
Tokyo🇯🇵 is cheaper to live in than San Juan, according to global survey
#AffordableHousing #Tokyo www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
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i used to live in tokyo & wish i could return!
Tokyo🇯🇵 is cheaper to live in than San Juan, according to global survey
#AffordableHousing #Tokyo www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
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At 66 I went back to work as an apprentice. It’s the best decision I’ve made
“I was desperate to do something intellectually challenging, so I decided to take a few projects off my son’s hands”
#unretiring #pensioners #apprentice inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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Dan Rather Torches Donald Trump With Blistering ‘Gobbledegook’ Comparison
#gobbledegook #DangerousDoubleStandard #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dan-ra...
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Five of the six injustices who ruled that #Trump has absolute immunity for “core” presidential duties sung a different tune at their confirmation hearings
#TrumpIsARapist #TrumpPedoFiles #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident #politics #SCOTUS #POTUS www.thedailybeast.com/trump-immuni...
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Why do the The New York Times & the other media often seem to crusade more aggressively against #Biden’s age than against #Trump’s obvious mental & moral unfitness for the presidency?
#TrumpIsARapist #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident #POTUS #politics newrepublic.com/article/1835...
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Call your #senators and tell them you support S.4625 to designate #russia🇷🇺 a state sponsor of #terrorism!
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Things #Project2025 and the #Taliban agree on:
#ChristianTaliban #ChristianNationalism #Fascism
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Genome Of The Last Living Wild Horse Species Has Now Been Mapped, from University of #Minnesota & #MinnesotaZoo, published by G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
by @GrrlScientist
#horses🐴 #genomics🖥️ 🧬 #conservation🌏 #bioinformatics #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic, via Macquarie University + University of Melbourne, published by Nature
by @GrrlScientist
#amphibians🐸 #chytrid #mycology #ecology🌏 #conservation💉 #epidemiology🛟 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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"Terrifying infographic shows how only 10 companies control everything we eat and drink" in ameriKKKa🇺🇸
#food #drink #CorporateGreed #infographic
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more news about AmeriKKKa🇺🇸 from the British🇬🇧 press🗞️ ...
bullets can now be purchased from vending machines in grocery stores in 3 US states (i'll bet you can correctly guess which 3!)
#bullets #VendingMachines #GroceryStores #USA www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024...
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women voting republican
#GOP #republican #women
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Russia🇷🇺 Is Buying💰 Politicians in Europe💶. Is It Happening Here Too?
A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe🇪🇺 is a warning sign for the US🇺🇸
#putler #EU #corruption #USA newrepublic.com/article/1806...
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lameass amerikkkan news🗞️ media refuse to do their jobs, so now we get our news from the British🇬🇧 press📰!
Donald #TrumpIsARapist 'threatened to kill rape accuser if she reported him'
Jane Doe pulls out of press conference citing 'numerous threats'
#crime www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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"Stupid is as stupid does": The #Gumpification of America🇺🇸, 30 years later
"Forrest Gump" is aging poorly. What's worse is how we're creating more #bliss through #ignorance
#ForrestGump #stupid www.salon.com/2024/07/07/f...
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not only is #Trump a rapist, but he's a flaming lunatic, and he's a demented rageaholic
#TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident #TrumpIsARapist #TrumpsPastResurfaces newrepublic.com/post/182908/...
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Trump Teen Rape Allegation Resurfaces, in his new book, #RonanFarrow Claims #NationalEnquirer Protected #Trump
Jane Doe alleged Trump tied her to a bed, "forcibly raped" her & threatened her & her family with physical harm & death if she told anyone
www.newsweek.com/trump-teen-r...
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new #PhillyInquirer subscriber here🙂
#JoeBiden🍦 must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job🇺🇸 in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence
#POTUS #politics www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
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The #RedState #BrainDrain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total #culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, & more—are packing their bags & FLEEING FOR THE BLUE💙 COASTAL STATES🇺🇸
#politics newrepublic.com/article/1768...
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Recently, #Colombia🇨🇴 discovered mass #graves⚰️ in a cemetery over 150 years old in the city of Cúcuta. The bodies, many of which were smuggled into the graveyard🪦 this century, reveal unpleasant connections between #RightWingMilitias, #business & #theState
jacobin.com/2024/07/colo...
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FUN FACT:
If you put dots on Don the Con's signature, it looks like a Klan rally
#KKK #DonaldTrump #DonTheCon
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Hate groups have turned their attention to #Tennessee, dialing up their rhetoric against African-Americans, #Immigrants & the #LGBTQIA community in ways that watchdogs find alarming
#BlackLivesMatter #Hate #HateWatch www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Antarctica's🇦🇶 miniature moss 'forests' reveal shifts in climate across thousands of years
#Antartica #mosses #ecosystem #environment #ClimateCrisis www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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these filthy mountain climbers never heard the moto: "pack in, pack out"? #Nepal🇳🇵 should prohibit ALL #MountainClimbing until this entire mess is clean!
Mount Everest’s🏔️ highest camp is littered with tons of #garbage. Cleanup will likely take years
#MtEverest www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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yep, #Project2025 will also hard hit older people on #socialSecurity and people with long-term health issues who are on #DisabilityBenefits
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Project2025 is going to destroy everything you hold dear
briefly, this is what #Project2025 will do to just SOME things you need, use & care about
#abortion #ClimateChange #LGBTQrights #ForeignAid #taxes #FederalGovernment #education #healthcare
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#Project2025 #WhatIsProject2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
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exquisite writing, fascinating story
Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity by Lee Alan Dugatkin
#behavior #science #history #biography #booklovers #booksky #mustread #amreading #books press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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When Hippos🦛 Fly: Hippopotamuses Can Move So Fast They Become Airborne, out of #RoyalVeterinaryCollege published by the PeerJ
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#hippos🦛 #biomechanics #Movement #veterinary #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Project 2025 is the MAGA movement's plan to consolidate power under a re-elected Trump and exert more control over everyday Americans' lives.
Read it for yourself.
#Project2025 #MAGA #vote #VoteBlue joebiden.com/project2025/
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"With fear for our democracy, I DISSENT"
-- Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court Justice
#democracy #SCOTUS
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exquisite writing, fascinating story
Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity by Lee Alan Dugatkin
#behavior #science #history #biography #booklovers #booksky #mustread #amreading #books press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Democrats Reintroduce Bill To Expand US🇺🇸 Supreme Court
The President of the United Sates cannot expand the US Supreme Court--but Congress CAN!
Vote accordingly
#VoteBlueDownBallott #VoteBlueToProtectYourRights #SCOTUS www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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"To blame all your problems on the poorest who have no money and no power to do anything
whilst ignoring the richest who have all the money and all the power and whop pay no tax either
is a special type of delusion, only possible because of the 24/7 lies from their billionaire media."
#MSM
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worth a mention:
i cancelled my subscription to the traitorous, lying #NYTimes 3 weeks ago & will donate those moneys to democratic campaigns instead
#CancelNYTimesSubscriptionsNow #MSM
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Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic, via Macquarie University + University of Melbourne, published by Nature
by @GrrlScientist
#amphibians🐸 #chytrid #mycology #ecology🌏 #conservation💉 #epidemiology🛟 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Wild Boar🐗 Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat, by James Hutton Institute + University of Graz, published by Science of the Total Environment
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#ForeverChemicals #PFAS #toxins #pollution🏭 #environment⛰️ #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Val Broeksmit, 46, Who Blew the Whistle on Deutsche Bank, Dies Mysteriously
An itinerant musician, he leaked secret files to FBI investigators looking at the bank’s ties to money laundering, the Trump Organization & Russia🇷🇺.
#GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/u...
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Every Rethuglican President has put this country in recession that a Democrat had to bail the country out of. Why vote for anyone other than Biden?
#DemsUnited #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
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Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Humans, published by Nature Microbiology
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#mycology🔬 #microbiology🦠 #PathogenicFungus #PublicHealth🛟 #epidemiology😷💉 #EmergingDiseases #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSky #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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"Buy a few bags of pet food for a shelter instead of fireworks. Make a difference instead of noise."
#fireworks #petfood #pets #FourthOfJuly #July4th
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"I'll believe corporations are people when texass executes one of them."
#business #economics #corporations
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Good Morning America!
#VoteBiden #VoteBlue
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EXACTLY what #SCOTUS #Project2025 is trying to destroy.
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
-- James Madison
#theocracy #religion #FirstAmendment
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Heat stroke only kills in its acute phase? NO!
A study of 58 severe #heatstroke victims in 1995 Chicago #heatwave🥵 found 21% died in hospital soon after admission, 28% died within 1 year & the rest experienced organ dysfunction & brain damage🧠
#ClimateCrisis www.outsideonline.com/health/welln...
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Iberian lynx🐾 species rebounds from brink of extinction (but not in UK🇬🇧 & Ireland🇮🇪, sigh!)
demonstrating the effectiveness of an intensive #conservation🌏 effort!
#EndangeredSpecies #IberianLynx www.rte.ie/news/newslen...
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