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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy Birthday #EuniceFoote! 🎂
She would be 206 years old today!

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 1

Her published results even allowed @earthsciinfo.bsky.social and @rolandjackson.bsky.social to calculate how much the world would warm if atmospheric CO2 doubled, 170 years later.

Eunice: www.proquest.com/openview/c37...

Joe & Roland: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Understanding Eunice Foote's 1856 experiments: heat absorption by atmospheric gases | Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science

The contribution of Eunice Foote (1819–1888) to early understanding of the relationship between atmospheric gases and climate change has become a focus of interest in the scholarly community and more ...

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 22

Themes of “eco grief, “climate anxiety” & “compassion fatigue” etc came up again and again at #ICCB2025. But always coupled with the need for hope, optimism, and ACTION. That’s the only viable path forward. Stoked to see this initiative brewing up in the Bay Area, will be supporting from Brisbane!🤙🍻

Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · Jun 3

Doom is loud. But despair doesn’t protect oceans. Action does. That’s why we built Ocean Hoptimism: a movement grounded in story, grit, and the radical belief that hope isn’t fluff, it’s fuel. Here’s our case for hope with teeth. #OceanHoptimism #HopeToAction #OceanOptimism

Artwork called “Fortify” by Oahu, Hawaii-based artist Jon Ching. A grouping of different species of sea stars that are connected by the tips of their arms into a sphere or “world” shape, with a few reef fish orbiting the sphere.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Jun 18

All of this!

Thank you, Amy Van Nice, thank you for speaking truth out loud but also providing hope! #ICCB2025

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 19

There’s a bunch of ways to connect with the SCB Conservation Marketing @scbconsmark.bsky.social working group, and today at #ICCB2025 we announced the first consmark conference since 2021 will be held online during the first week of December 2025! Stay tuned for more!

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 18

“Maybe she saw a cool bird”

- legit reason at #ICCB2025 for a mate who’s missing from a meetup 🤷🪶

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 18

Legend! 🏆 @meg-shaw.bsky.social not only used memes in her #ICCB2025 talk but showed us the research supporting their effectiveness! Humour and beautifully-designed slides FTW!

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 18

#ICCB2025 @meg-shaw.bsky.social: Avoid using photos of ourselves interacting with (especially touching) wildlife b/c it makes others want to do it too & think wildlife would make a good pet & also that the species is less under threat. Plus 41% don’t read IG captions (ie researchers “explaining”)

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 17

#ICCB2025 “Please let other people know this group exists!” - current Participatory & Citizen Science working group prez John Cigliano

There’s an open call for nominations for board members. A top priority is to document conservation impact from successful projects.

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 17

Stoked to see so many #ICCB2025 delegates posting here! 🤙 Appreciate the opportunity to present in the Participatory & Citizen Science session on behalf of my team; I shared some takeaways on volunteer engagement & retention within a koala citizen science context. And some memes.

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks for sharing my takeaways! And oh wow I think this is my first official tag on Bluesky! 🥹 Glad to see you on here and excellent to meet at #ICCB2025!

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Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · Jun 15

A plenary of huge encouragement to get the #ICCB2025 conference started from Queensland Chief Scientist & QUT Professor Kerrie Wilson.

#conservationscience 🌏

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · Jun 7

Some people hear “optimism” and think:
Unserious.
Unrealistic.
Out of touch.
Let’s bust that myth. Optimism isn’t denial. It’s strategy.
Here’s why we believe in hope with teeth. 🧵
#OceanHoptimism #HopeToAction #NotDelusionalJustDetermined

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · Jun 10

🧵 Why does some content go viral?

A dance.
A jingle.
A sea shanty.
“Baby Shark” has 14 billion views.

What if we used that same energy, not for a cartoon shark, but for real people keeping oceans alive?

Let’s unpack.
#OceanHoptimism #MakeCareViral

a baby shark is swimming in the ocean with a group of fish and says `` baby shark '' .

ALT: a baby shark is swimming in the ocean with a group of fish and says `` baby shark '' .

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 9

Happy to see things have finally (for the most part) transitioned to #WorldOceanDay i.e. #DropTheS 🌏🏆
Had forgotten my tweets about that ported over here 👀
I made it a “tradition” to post something annoying every year complaining on one platform or other, going back > 10 years!😂🤷 World OCEAN Day FTW

Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 13

My overdue annual griping about calling June 8th "World Oceans Day" – IT'S ONE OCEAN. #worldOCEANday #WorldOceansDay #OceanLiteracy #scicomm

Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Jun 7

👋 Excited for #ICCB2025 next week, right here in Brisbane! Thinking now’s the time to finally start using this app, hoping to connect with the conservation social science community & especially the @scbconsmark.bsky.social crew - who will be there? Are there any consmark meetups planned?

Int. Congress for Conservation Biology | ICCB 2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social · Jun 7

The #ICCB2025 App is now available for download!
Search ‘ICCB 2025’ to download it.

The app is your essential guide to ICCB: explore the program, build your personal itinerary, connect with fellow delegates, engage in the social feed, receive important updates, and more!

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Conservation Marketing Working Group @scbconsmark.bsky.social · May 23

Social media can both help & harm wildlife. Misused images fuel illegal trade & false perceptions, but they can also drive change. Join us at @iccb2025.bsky.social to co-create guidelines for ethical imagery that supports conservation, not harm.

Register today: conbio.org/mini-sites/i...

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IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Task Force @iucn-bctf.bsky.social · May 26

🌿 Join us and Rare at ICCB2025 - @society4conbio.bsky.social Pre-conference workshop -"Ethical Principles for Behaviour Change Interventions in Biodiversity Conservation".

📅 Sunday, June 15th (Half-day AM)

📍 Where: ICCB Brisbane - Australia

#ICCB2025 #Conservation

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · Apr 11

Love the ocean? Love local craft beer? Ocean Hoptimism brings both together in the SF Bay Area! Drink up, dive in! Learn more and signup for event alerts here: www.oceanhoptimism.org/bayarea

Ocean Hoptimism

Uniting ocean enthusiasts over a pint! Ocean Hoptimism is a monthly gathering of ocean conservation, science, exploration, culture, recreation, policy, & beer enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area...

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Feb 10

ugh I think a bunch didn't make it? 😐 TBD...

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Feb 10

I think this is where it left off, I'm just going to paste in the links and try to patch the thread together🤞

bsky.app/profile/foot...

Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Sep 19

So, it was disappointing that this particular reference didn't have a photo of Eunice Foote, but I am hoping there may still be some threads to follow via the #Foote family #genealogy angle. #EuniceFoote

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Feb 9

I transferred my tweets to Bluesky mainly to preserve this thread on Eunice Foote I’d started in 2018. I think some made it through but it got fragmented. 😐 I’ll make an attempt to find them all and post them below 🤷

#EuniceFoote

Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Sep 19

I'm posting this thread to share what I've come across thus far in the quest to find an image of Eunice Foote, prompted by @KHayhoe's request during a keynote for @AAAS #AAASmtg earlier this year. #EuniceFoote 1/

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Feb 4

Just set up a BlueArk transfer from Twitter before nuking my account, mainly to preserve my Eunice Foote thread #EuniceFoote 🤷🤞

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Nov 24

👋 Hi new followers! It’s been quite the influx🤔…thanks for following me despite that👇being my sole post! 😂
Guess I’ll give this a go now that you’re all here! Appreciate the prod by @katharinehayhoe.com
a while back & @nedra.bsky.social adding me to the #socialmarketing list for starters 🤙

Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Feb 9

SIGH

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Nedra Weinreich @nedra.bsky.social · Nov 18

Looking for my #SocialMarketing community!

Social marketing is a field that uses marketing, design and other approaches to create behavior change and social impact.

If you're working/teaching/researching/interested in this area, let's connect!

#MarketingSky
#BehSci
#BehSciSky
#PublicHealth
#npsky

Nedra Weinreich @nedra.bsky.social · Nov 18

I put together a starter pack of people I could find here who work in social marketing (not social media mktg).

If you use marketing to influence behaviors for health/social/environmental good, or know others who should be on the list, let me know and I'll add you.

#SocMar

go.bsky.app/KLa4jn5

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Liz Foote @footesea.bsky.social · Feb 17

a friend gave me a code a while back but I couldn’t be arsed then, it’s all so sad and exhausting. Reckon I’ll give it a go…glad you’re here in any case! 🤙

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