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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti@leafwarbler.bsky.social |
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Director of Science, Tech, & Society • Editor of ESA Bulletin • 2x-tenured Immigrant Prof @ Land Grab Univ • Public Scientist • Reconciliation Ecologist • Humanist • Writer • Dad to ⚧️ 🏳️⚧️ kids • Alien of Extraordinary Ability • Indian cultural baggage
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Mike N.
@mniesphoto.com
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Thought I finally got a tarantula wasp shot today, but the abdomen was wrong. A biology PhD student friend showed it to some colleagues, who pointed me to the Alcathoe genus on iNaturalist.
#Invertebrates
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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One of Trump's many favors to his Saudi paymasters
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Alan Taylor ℼ
@alantaylor314.bsky.social
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Enjoyed both the movie and tv versions of 12 Monkeys but so far my favorite explanation of Primer was by Randall Munroe m.xkcd.com/657/
And Looper is right up there with them! Maybe even better
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
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It’s like we’re not some sort of utility maximizing machines but actually complex beings containing multitudes.
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Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️🌈📈
@jbyoder.org
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Applications are open for the 2025 cohort of Smith Fellows! 🌿
Build a proposal with academic and practitioner mentors for a two-year postdoctoral program of applied conservation research — submissions are due Sept 30.
conbio.org/mini-sites/s...
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
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This! The obsession with “accomplishment” as the only reason to do anything! As if people are not social primates who evolved by interacting and indeed gossiping with each other.
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Shaily Patel
@vox-magica.bsky.social
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all the amazing community-building and mutual aid and hyping one another up is awesome, and i learn so much about being a better human from y’all every day. i love it! but even if you taught me nothing, i would still love to read your posts. because i like your silly shitposts too, you know.
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Shaily Patel
@vox-magica.bsky.social
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tbh, i don’t aim to accomplish much. not everything must be leveraged for “accomplishment.” i think so much of what makes us human is found in things you can’t reduce to function or value. we use social media for all sorts of things; if those things matter to good-faith users, that’s enough.
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Matthew Cortland (they)
@matthewcort.land
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You can still do good in the world, you can still make a meaningful difference in someone’s life, by posting. Is my point. And that’s not even touching on the simple fact that forming community and friendships matters - that is accomplishing something
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mx elle is eepy
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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wait til people find out what andrew jackson did.
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Mike Jung
@mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social
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A librarian who tested positive for Covid the Monday before ALA went to ALA anyway and fucking blogged about it, which at least provides some info for potential exposure. She went to opening session, the Printz awards, and the Morris awards. The audacity
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Mary Sue
@marysuesays.bsky.social
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Tyler King
@tylerking.bsky.social
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They’re gonna ban TikTok because the KPOP army made fun of his empty rally that got his internet guru fired. The right made one of the world’s richest men buy Twitter because we were bullying fascists and organizing. American journalism has become almost exclusively transcribing tweets.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I mean, Trump is an insane felon rapist and a lot of people still voted for him. There’s no rule that says we have to honorably give a shit about if our candidate comes off as slightly addled, especially when we’ve got a perfectly good VP who can take over as soon as he makes it past the post.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I think they’re falling for a gigantic rat fuck both of mass hysteria, personally.
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amdiamanti
@amdiamanti.bsky.social
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OK but if Warner is worried about Biden losing (or Trump winning), where’s he been? He’s been more vocal about the threat of Tik Tok than the threat of Trump. He’s willing to go to the extraordinary measure of pushing out the Dem candidate last minute, but court expansion was too drastic for him.
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!
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Jonathan M. Katz
@katzonearth.bsky.social
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Also I thought opening the border was supposed to be bad?
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Tobias S. Buckell
@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
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Hello social medias...
You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique.
The devastation is tremendous. The need is great.
You can help and make a difference:
www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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Just watched the Biden interview. There's no comparison between him and Trump. None. He's not the guy I want but he's still the guy I'll vote for.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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I spoke to a friend I knew in high school who told me he "doesn't follow politics." I asked him what he thought about the election. He said, "I hear Biden's a senile wreck." He also said he hadn't heard of SCOTUS granting Trump immunity and has never heard of Project 2025. Media's doing a great job.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Ok, so “politicians notice” and start having discussions about this after Nov, and the Dems decide — against their track record of lurching to the middle — that in 2026 they’ll start going left. In the meantime, Donald Trump is president and following through on his promise to ramp up the war. /1
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I’m sure as Trump and company are leveling Gaza to make room for Kushner’s beachfront resort plan, Palestinians will be absolutely thrilled to know that Joe Biden ate shit and some younger Democrats are promising if they ever somehow get back in power it’ll be maybe possibly better. Brilliant.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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Disability Pride Month Fund Friday. Drop your funds + links if you need a boost: - Mutual Aid - Abortion - Transition - Medical Bills - Moving - Access Needs - Whatever you need Please make sure you add alt text and make your skeets as accessible as possible. Beware of bots and scammers.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Do you think Gaza goes into a freeze frame for four years while Democrats work up a tearful apology to these leftist non voters? Are there any consequences in Gaza with Trump in power or nah?
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Someone else asked this proud moron how not voting would do anything but make the genocide in Gaza worse and they replied that nothing at all would change under Trump
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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NY Times opinion editor opines and so do I. Fuck off.
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Willie Fitzgerald
@williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Voters just blame whoever is President for whatever happens during their Presidency, which is a major reason why allowing the situation where the Supreme Court absurdly gets to make policy across whatever issue they want to persist is so deadly to Democrats
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SoCal Leslie
@socalleslie.bsky.social
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Snowy egret on the beach. 🪶
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
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How can non-identical twins grow up to become identical twins? Yes, I’ve started watching The Acolyte. So perhaps the answer has something to do with The Force?
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Swapna Krishna
@swapnakrishna.com
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Boeing Starliner astronauts are still at the ISS. There currently is no return date. Are they stranded???
The short answer is no, but the longer answer is more complicated.
🧪🛰️🔭 #scicomm #womeninstem
Newsletter @ 11 am et: adastraspace.com
youtu.be/rxY5m_paA3o
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Exactly this.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Aubrey Gilleran
@aubreygilleran.bsky.social
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Wait, wait, wait, you mean sometimes it's OK to vote for the lesser evil? Like, you can get less evil when you do that?
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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I feel the Skepticism you hear from some when they seem utterly baffled that people would actually believe a second Trump term would bring authoritarian and anti democratic backsliding is rooted in, among other things, 1) not realizing that if something like that occurs, it’s not gonna have…
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Gaurav Sabnis
@gauravsabnis.bsky.social
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