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Kelly Ireland

@kelly-ireland.bsky.social

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Biologist (toxicology & micro focus), data analyst (air quality focus), nerd for data, stats, #rstats, and science communication. UAF Ph.D. candidate. Artist - primarily printmaking and jewelry making. Alaska. Views my own. stickleandpawdesign.com she/her

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Nov 21

👋 I’m Kelly. I work as a data analyst & am a PhD candidate at the Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks. My research focuses on interactions of threespine stickleback, crude oil, & microbes. I live in Alaska and am engaged to @Michael-Baker, who’s allowed me my life long dream of having ALL the dogs.

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Dr. U @transport-talk.bsky.social · 16d

{colorfindr} - Create color palettes from images in R: github.com/zumbov2/colo...

#RStats bookmark from the old Twitter. Courtesy @annahenschel.bsky.social

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · 17d

Love this Alaskan centric comic about using air quality index (AQI) to make air quality related health decisions. Comic created by JUst Solutions to Impacts of Climate Exposures for Health in Alaska (JUSTICE-HIA) project team. For the full guide see alaskawildfires.org #airquality

Comic strip of a group chat between friends discussing if they’re ready to go dip-netting. One friend responds that the wildfire smoke is impacting their asthmas and that they don’t know if they will make it. Another friend responds with an air quality index forecast with an area of Alaska that is not forecasted to be so smoky. The friends then drive to the Kenai Peninsula to go dipnetting and the friends who was hesitant about going due to air quality concerns says how happy they are to be there. Another friend comments how it has not made them any better at fishing.

Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 25

You can exclude Google AI results from Google searches by adding “-ai” at the end of your search in case you were wondering.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · Jun 25

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 24

Yeah I love them! This is what they look like at 14 days old. They’re about a centimeter long. They grow up so fast!

Three 14 day post fertilization threespine stickleback. The fish are still transparent and their spines, swim bladder and guts are still visible.

Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 23

Definitely looks like a threespine stickleback, probably a juvenile about less than a year old judging by the size.

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 23

Live in Alaska and wonder what your current air quality is, especially with all the wildfires in the Interior and across the border in Canada? Check out Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s real-time air quality index map. experience.arcgis.com/experience/8...

Screen shot of Alaska DEC’s real-time air quality index map showing air quality across Alaska. Air quality ranged from. Good to unhealthy at the time of the screenshot due to wildfires in the Interior and Canada.

Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 19

Anyone know what this beach find is? Found it near Pasagshak River State Recreational Site in Kodiak, Alaska.

Unknown beach combing find, clear thin triangular shaped side 1.

Unknown beach combing find, clear thin triangular shaped side 2.

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Jun 18

From egg to hatchling!

Swipe through the larval development of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Historically, no one lived past age 35”

"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.

A demography myth that won't die

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Eos @eos.org · Jun 16

Nonproducing oil and gas wells in Canada may leak 7 times more methane than official estimates suggest, according to new research from McGill University. eos.org/articles/non...

Nonproducing Oil Wells May Be Emitting 7 Times More Methane Than We Thought - Eos

A study measured methane flow from more than 450 nonproducing wells across Canada, but thousands more remain unevaluated.

eos.org

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 16

alaskabeacon.com/2025/06/11/a...

Alaska detained 42 men arrested by ICE and flown in from out of state, amid federal crackdown | Alaska Beacon

The Alaska Department of Corrections received and detained 42 men over the weekend who were arrested outside of the state by ICE.

alaskabeacon.com

Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · May 31

Not a terrible assumption to make that is where my family is originally from and I may move there. I’m actually signed up for a beginning Irish class that starts next month so this feels like a great introduction or shall I say fáilte! Also love learning more about stickleback from around the world!

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · May 31

I’m not familiar with those words. Are those words for stickleback in Irish?

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · May 30

The National Science Foundation budget proposal would be a devastating blow to American science. 240,000 fewer people would be involved in federally-funded science in fiscal year 2026, according to estimates in the document.

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · May 30

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · May 30

Just created a stickleback feed so it’s easy to see what other Bluesky users are saying about stickleback in one feed. The post just needs to include the word stickleback in it, even if it’s just in image alt text.
ehttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rtgmt535jxnnvolguctkalcy/feed/aaacekwe4gzdk

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Eos @eos.org · May 29

In his latest #LandslideBlog, @davepetley.bsky.social shares reliable resources re: the catastrophic Birch Glacier collapse, as well as important issues on its scope and possible continuing threats to the area. It's a great read. eos.org/thelandslide...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3xm...

Massiver Gletscherabbruch

YouTube video by Pomona Media

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · May 28

@archive.org wayback machine is an amazing resource for finding webpages that have been taken down. You can even archive pages that are live now if you’re worried they might change or be taken down.

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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · May 27

"Systems Based on Slavery Aren't Meant to Last" acrylic on canvas by Alison Bremner, inspired by the disproportionate Alaska Native/Native American incarceration rates. See more of her work here (steinbruecknativegal...). Via Steinbrueck Native Galley. #alaskahistory #alaska

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · May 26

Some basic facts about international students, who they are and who they are not

Please pass on the message

@shashikalb.bsky.social

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Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · May 24

Found an old photo of this polycephalic threespine stickleback egg that was in one of my clutches a few years ago. Polycephaly means having more than one head, in this case with two heads the stickleback is considered bicephalic. This defect happened prior to any experimental treatment. #stickleback

Four stickleback eggs, one egg has polycephaly having two heads and one tail on a single body.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · May 23

NEW: Judge Burroughs GRANTS Harvard's requested TRO against the Trump administration, blocking it from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students during early court proceedings.

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S
MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
For purposes of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b), the President and Fellows of
Harvard College ("Plaintiff") has made a sufficient showing that it has provided notice to
Defendants Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Todd Lyons, Department of Justice, Pamela Bondi, Student and Exchange Visitor
Program, Jim Hicks, Department of State, and Marco Rubio (collectively, "Defendants") and that, unless its Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order ("TRO"), [ECF No. 4 (the "Motion")],
is granted, it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear
from all parties. Thus, a TRO is justified to preserve the status quo pending a hearing and the Plaintiff's Motion is GRANTED.
Accordingly, Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with
Defendants are hereby enjoined from:
A. Implementing,
instituting, maintaining, or giving effect to the revocation of
Plaintiff's SEVP certification;
B. Giving any force or effect to the Department of Homeland Security's May 22, 2025
Revocation Notice.

It is so ordered
May 23, 2025
/s/Allison D. Burroughs
ALLISON D. BURROUGHS
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · May 22

Another building block in the American Panopticon — combining all private data with all government data

Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · May 22

The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov

theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

theintercept.com

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Americans Against Fascism - Ireland @aafireland.bsky.social · May 22

www.thejournal.ie/us-deportati...

Tánaiste investigating if 'illegal' US deportation flight stopped in Shannon en route to Africa

The Journal has established that the purported deportation flight, a Gulfstream V, landed in Shannon and spent approximately two hours on the ground.