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Dr Elisabeth Kosters

@elisabethkosters.bsky.social

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Earth Scientist, living on the shore of hypertidal Minas Basin in Nova Scotia; writes about it on www.earthsciencesociety.com Born at 312ppm. Widow, (grand)mother, leftie. Fossil fuel burning causes global warming. 🇨🇦 🌈 🚲 🇳🇱

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 13h

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 14h

Maar dat is toch precies wat er voortdurend gebeurt? Kletskoek-verkopende politici worden constant ge- en herkozen.

Maar nu eerst Thanksgiving

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 14h

Point Pinos?

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 15h

is there a difference?

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 15h

Monterey Bay faces West.

Which is where the sun sets

How?

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 15h

Canadian here: pancake

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 16h

and Charlie Angus went his own way.........

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 16h

@terriclarke.bsky.social

I am unfit for public office. And I mustn't think of the thing called campaigning. I could never do it

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 16h

He’s in his 3d term. Unless we get a Liberal or NDP government, he’ll be there. He’ll get re-elected because the people in the riding of Kings North think he’s “nice”

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 17h

Well, I don’t know Halifax (and its politics) well enough but I would distrust anything John Lohr says or proposes - he’s an unqualified, ignorant bully

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 17h

If only we still had a paper newspaper!

And my beloved spouse also pulled out the sections he wanted to read first and left it to me to put it back together. But then.. he was the artist and I the scientist

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 19h

Location :)

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 19h

Surinam may be named for a former Indigenous people called the Surin.

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 1d

Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point'.
New research from @exeter.ac.uk using centuries-old clam shells has found signs that key Atlantic Ocean currents may be losing stability.

Full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦑🐟🧪🌐🌍🌊 #AcademicSky @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

a closeup of bivalve shells. text overlaid in a bold white font: Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point’. New Uni of Exeter study finds evidence of "stability loss"

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 1d

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Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton

🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

www.linkedin.com

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 1d

Abortion on demand is a right that women demand.

#FuckThePatriarchy

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 1d

My grandpa (1890-1953) was a general surgeon in a small city in the Netherlands.
He noticed that there was less cervical cancer among Jewish women than among other women. He suspected male circumcision might be why. He had his sons circumcised.
He was proven correct long after his death.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Do you see a glacier here at the bottom!

This is the front of 2nd largest glacier in the Alps, Gorner

Mostly dead ice on the sides...🔥

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 1d

Who is he to think that he can judge another human being?

If he’s so religious, surely he knows to leave that job to the almighty.

Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 1d

LEAKED AUDIO has surfaced from Thiel's lecture series, where he railed against AI and financial regulations and called Greta Thunberg the Antichrist.

From the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 1d

that someone like Mike Johnson, who represents one of the poorest districts in the country, gets this over his lips is disgusting.
I hope someone in that district plans to run against him next Fall.

Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 1d

that man looks like a deer in headlights