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inaturalist.bsky.social
Ah, to be two newts sharing (fighting over?) a worm.

(Ft. the ever-iconic California Newt, scientific name Taricha torosa.)

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Two dark brownish-orange newts grasp onto a large, pale grayish-pink segmented worm with their mouths from opposite ends.
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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lizneeley.bsky.social
Oh this 🧵 is SO interesting!
natematias.bsky.social J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · Nov 7
In 2016, fed up by a Strava map plastered with the records of a convicted doper, the soon-to-retire pro cyclist Phil Gaimon dedicated a month to wiping the record clean.

He went to every climb & took away the KOM, as is only possible with rivalrous goods.

velo.outsideonline.com/2016/12/gaim...
Gaimon begins retirement by hunting banned rider's Strava KOMs
Shortly before 10am, the cyclist on the lime green Cannondale EVO carved right off of Sunset Boulevard onto Mandeville Canyon Road. Los Angeles was cool
velo.outsideonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
A committee of tribal members named the place tooromakma hinse nii (pronounced toe row mock ma hēēn say knee), which, in the Mutsun language, means “bobcats wander here.”
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Oct 4
The Amah Mutsun are getting #LandBack within their ancestral territory of Juristac, in the Pajaro watershed, for the first time since dispossessed by mission San Juan Bautista.
baynature.org/2025/09/20/t...
A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory - Bay Nature
The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.
baynature.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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warrenjwells.bsky.social Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · Aug 17
All we (parents) want is an enclosed (i.e. fenced, not necessarily indoor), car-free, mostly child-proofed space where we can hang with other adults and buy coffee/beer while keeping an eye on the kids.

The American legal/cultural framework has made this demand apparently impossible to satisfy.
August 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
10salamanders.bsky.social
My week in a nutshell
nicosgonzalez.bsky.social Nicolas Gonzalez @nicosgonzalez.bsky.social · Jun 4
Nonprofits love using acronyms more than anyone in the world. God bless everyone keeping a straight face reading the subject lines and talking points about the critical and fundamental importance of this week's main character: the Bird Banding Lab.
June 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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damontighe.bsky.social
well meaning people are trying to reseed and mycoremediate the LA Fire zones. It’s important to remember CA Funga and Flora evolved with fire, let natural areas recover on their own. Inoculate the neighborhoods with natives! Calochortus plummerae populations will be incredible this spring bc fire
Calochortus plummerae with red edges Calochortus plummerae flower with pink. Yellow and purple Calochortus plummerae flower with hot pink petal edges and yellow centers
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM