Destynnie K. Berard
@deciduousfern.bsky.social
🐝 Conservation Naturalist
🐀 Marketing & Communications
🍂 Massachusetts, US 🏳️🌈 She/Her
🦀 Listen to Metal & Pet All the Cats
🌻 Author of HerbSpeak. HerbSpeak.com
🐀 Marketing & Communications
🍂 Massachusetts, US 🏳️🌈 She/Her
🦀 Listen to Metal & Pet All the Cats
🌻 Author of HerbSpeak. HerbSpeak.com
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Bio-hybrid robots can be built using discarded crustacean exoskeletons enabling better sustainability for high-performance applications from manipulators to swimming! 🧪
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Bio-hybrid robots can be built using discarded crustacean exoskeletons enabling better sustainability for high-performance applications from manipulators to swimming! 🧪
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The EPA is no longer about safety.
The question of business costs matters more than clean air/ protection of human health.
This goes against their mission of protecting human health and the environment.
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
The question of business costs matters more than clean air/ protection of human health.
This goes against their mission of protecting human health and the environment.
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
The EPA is no longer about safety.
The question of business costs matters more than clean air/ protection of human health.
This goes against their mission of protecting human health and the environment.
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
The question of business costs matters more than clean air/ protection of human health.
This goes against their mission of protecting human health and the environment.
🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Bog a bog today.
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Bog a bog today.
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Also important not to forget the invisble support these "great men of science" had - in Crick's case, a loving wife who organised everything domestically (inc house moves, children etc), and a series of secretaries/assistants (all female, I think) who dealt with admin.
Loved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.
December 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Also important not to forget the invisble support these "great men of science" had - in Crick's case, a loving wife who organised everything domestically (inc house moves, children etc), and a series of secretaries/assistants (all female, I think) who dealt with admin.
(me, sifting large particulates out of topsoil)
What a weird way to do a pour-over. ☕️
What a weird way to do a pour-over. ☕️
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
(me, sifting large particulates out of topsoil)
What a weird way to do a pour-over. ☕️
What a weird way to do a pour-over. ☕️
A lot of people today searching for slowness would do well to learn how to cook vegetables. And for that matter, learn how to cook properly in cast iron.
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A lot of people today searching for slowness would do well to learn how to cook vegetables. And for that matter, learn how to cook properly in cast iron.
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Nature - fun, odd, amazing, beautiful and totally this planet. 2025 - what a year, what a rollercoaster, some tears, some hope
Please let us look after our world in 2026, it’s the only one that I live on and I happen to like it..
Please let us look after our world in 2026, it’s the only one that I live on and I happen to like it..
December 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Nature - fun, odd, amazing, beautiful and totally this planet. 2025 - what a year, what a rollercoaster, some tears, some hope
Please let us look after our world in 2026, it’s the only one that I live on and I happen to like it..
Please let us look after our world in 2026, it’s the only one that I live on and I happen to like it..
Because this is the timeline we live in, and we can actively decide otherwise.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Because this is the timeline we live in, and we can actively decide otherwise.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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In Serranía Celtibérica, a decade of rewilding efforts has revived ecosystems, wildlife & rural livelihoods. Semi-wild herbivores & predators are returning to abandoned farmland, local timber & resin businesses are gaining sustainable footing. buff.ly/CN34T4o
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Rewilding is revitalising lives and landscapes in the Iberian Highlands | Rewilding Europe
The Iberian Highlands of Spain have struggled with rural depopulation and economic decline for many years. Today, rewilding is helping communities in the landscape turn these challenges into new…
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In Serranía Celtibérica, a decade of rewilding efforts has revived ecosystems, wildlife & rural livelihoods. Semi-wild herbivores & predators are returning to abandoned farmland, local timber & resin businesses are gaining sustainable footing. buff.ly/CN34T4o
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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A new U.N. report warns the world is heading toward deeper climate shocks, mass biodiversity loss & deadly pollution unless economies are radically transformed.
The report finds environmental damage costs trillions each year. But investing in planetary health could generate $20T annually by 2070.
The report finds environmental damage costs trillions each year. But investing in planetary health could generate $20T annually by 2070.
New report warns of mounting planetary crises — and pathways to hope
A global U.N. report released Dec. 9 warns that the planet is on track for deeper climate shocks, accelerating biodiversity loss, worsening land degradation and deadly pollution — unless countries…
news.mongabay.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A new U.N. report warns the world is heading toward deeper climate shocks, mass biodiversity loss & deadly pollution unless economies are radically transformed.
The report finds environmental damage costs trillions each year. But investing in planetary health could generate $20T annually by 2070.
The report finds environmental damage costs trillions each year. But investing in planetary health could generate $20T annually by 2070.
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The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. Take Action >> act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...
Stop Trump's Extinction Plan
The Endangered Species Act is the world's most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperile...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. Take Action >> act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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> google a question
> scroll past Google's AI slop widgets
> read first actual search result
> it's AI slop from a content mill
> scroll past Google's AI slop widgets
> read first actual search result
> it's AI slop from a content mill
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
> google a question
> scroll past Google's AI slop widgets
> read first actual search result
> it's AI slop from a content mill
> scroll past Google's AI slop widgets
> read first actual search result
> it's AI slop from a content mill
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
This is beyond cooooooool 🤩
Humans, however, weren’t the only ones to leave traces in Sac Actun. Divers found #fossil footprints in one of the tunnels. Paleontologists on the team have attributed them to animals we associate with caves today: bears.
gizmodo.com/undisturbed-...
gizmodo.com/undisturbed-...
Undisturbed for Millennia, This Submerged Cave Is a Portal to the Ice Age
International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface
gizmodo.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is beyond cooooooool 🤩
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As climate change talks took center stage at COP30, a growing number of countries have integrated ocean-based solutions into their national climate commitments.
A new report found that 92% of coastal and island nations’ updated climate plans now include ocean-related measures.
A new report found that 92% of coastal and island nations’ updated climate plans now include ocean-related measures.
COP30: What did it deliver for the ocean?
Between Nov. 10 and 21, more than 56,000 delegates, including representatives from nearly 200 nations, gathered in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the…
news.mongabay.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As climate change talks took center stage at COP30, a growing number of countries have integrated ocean-based solutions into their national climate commitments.
A new report found that 92% of coastal and island nations’ updated climate plans now include ocean-related measures.
A new report found that 92% of coastal and island nations’ updated climate plans now include ocean-related measures.
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Worth taking note!
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Worth taking note!
I nearly had a head on collision with an owl just now. Like, a big barred owl nearly collided with me, a pedestrian. Never going to recover from the awe and terror of suddenly feeling like a small mouse
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I nearly had a head on collision with an owl just now. Like, a big barred owl nearly collided with me, a pedestrian. Never going to recover from the awe and terror of suddenly feeling like a small mouse
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...that have lobbied to scale back the Clean Water Act of 1972, which requires permits before releasing pollutants or dredged/fill material (sand, silt, construction debris, etc.) into waterways: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c... (gift).
The public will be able to comment (watch this space). 🌎
The public will be able to comment (watch this space). 🌎
E.P.A. Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
...that have lobbied to scale back the Clean Water Act of 1972, which requires permits before releasing pollutants or dredged/fill material (sand, silt, construction debris, etc.) into waterways: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c... (gift).
The public will be able to comment (watch this space). 🌎
The public will be able to comment (watch this space). 🌎
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#eNeuro is SfN’s open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes many paper types including replication studies, negative results, novel tools and methods, and Registered Reports, along with reviews, commentaries, and opinions.
https://www.eneuro.org/content/general-information#types
https://www.eneuro.org/content/general-information#types
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#eNeuro is SfN’s open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes many paper types including replication studies, negative results, novel tools and methods, and Registered Reports, along with reviews, commentaries, and opinions.
https://www.eneuro.org/content/general-information#types
https://www.eneuro.org/content/general-information#types
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We cannot air condition our way out of the heat crisis.
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We cannot air condition our way out of the heat crisis.
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.
But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
#COP30
When people ask me “ is that a raven or a crow?” And I started saying “ it’s a raven, because you can fit three crows into it” I didn’t expect it to actually start catching on, and for people to find that helpful… but here we are.
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
When people ask me “ is that a raven or a crow?” And I started saying “ it’s a raven, because you can fit three crows into it” I didn’t expect it to actually start catching on, and for people to find that helpful… but here we are.
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.