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Biologist, lecturer and historical society director.
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Parade and carnival for Alpine Fest and our little historical society
July 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
momitist.bsky.social
Happy birthday big guy #monarchbutterfly
July 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
momitist.bsky.social
Let’s just bake and get fat and watch the world 🔥
June 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Damn right!!!
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
momitist.bsky.social
A little beach after dinner
June 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
More of the amazing Agami Heron, working on its nest here in #CostaRica. I'm going to be working with the owner over the next few months, helping to document this amazing site.

#birds #nature #herons #conservation
A striking bird with deep blue and purplish plumage perches quietly among lush green foliage, its long bill pointing downward and delicate feathers draping elegantly over its back.
June 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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electiontruthalliance.org
Just so we're clear on the facts, yesterday Musk also tweeted: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate."

Could these two admissions be related? 🤔

#BeatTheCheat #VerifyTheVote #SecureTheMidterms #NotTooBigToRig
June 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
momitist.bsky.social
NWIL
June 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
momitist.bsky.social
Northwest Illinois ❤️
June 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
momitist.bsky.social
This is effing nuts. Thanks Nazis
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 4
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.

Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.

Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
June 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
momitist.bsky.social
Sweet little family of Sandhill Cranes NW burbs of Chicago
June 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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fivetimessix.bsky.social
I'm so tired. ✌️
June 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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flawdbizkit.bsky.social
it's opening and looks bloody nice🌹🖤
May 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
head empty no thoughts just the jwst tarantula nebula picture ✨
Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Taken together, the structures resemble a spider or a squid. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image.
June 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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profgalloway.com
No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline
Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!
False color image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) in Cassiopeia.A ghostly blue bubble sits among golden orange clouds of gas, punctuated by sharp violet pinpricks – young stars. Spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies. White, blue, and red swirls of stars from two disrupted spiral galaxies captured mid-collision, with messy lanes of dark gas and dust stretching between their bright yellow cores. The globular cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A jewel box of tightly clustered white, blue, and red stars. False color image of the Lagoon Nebula captured by Hubble for its 28th anniversary in 2018. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange clouds surround a region of active star formation, with our view obscured by dark molecular clouds.
April 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
momitist.bsky.social
The feels we need rn
April 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Cat's Eye Nebula - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7GLbNG
The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye. The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula is revealed in this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows a bull's eye pattern of eleven or even more concentric rings, or shells, around the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky -- that's why it appears bright along its outer edge. Observations suggest the star ejected its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals. These convulsions created dust shells, each of which contain as much mass as all of the planets in our solar system combined (still only one percent of the Sun's mass). These concentric shells make a layered, onion-skin structure around the dying star. The view from Hubble is like seeing an onion cut in half, where each skin layer is discernible. The bull's-eye patterns seen around planetary nebulae come as a surprise to astronomers because they had no expectation that episodes of mass loss at the end of stellar lives would repeat every 1,500 years. Several explanations have been proposed, including cycles of magnetic activity somewhat similar to our own Sun's sunspot cycle, the action of companion stars orbiting around the dying star, and stellar pulsations. Another school of thought is t...
March 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
another chunk from today's post —
thanks for reading!
link to the whole thing is here: bit.ly/3Xu8DXd
fuck this guy. at the end of the day, what else is there to say about a deteriorating dictator-wanna-be who tarted himself up like a rodeo clown and spent a coma-inducing 98 minutes bragging about tanking the economy, praising himself for imaginary accomplishments, threatening to invade our allies, boasting about hollowing out government, and blithering incoherently about transgender mice?
March 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
February 16, 2025
February 16, 2025
The sixty-first Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy, took place from February 14 to February 16 this year.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
Yesterday I gave a talk on the H5N1 situation in the US to our board in which I said the situation was very worrisome & pandemic risk would increase with every new human infection.

I really, really hate it when my talks about pandemic risk are validated in nearly real time.
cidrap.bsky.social CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · Feb 13
Ohio announces human H5N1 avian flu case, state’s first

The United States has recorded 68 human cases of avian flu since 2024.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
February 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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zjayres.bsky.social
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation.

www.chron.com/news/space/a...
NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites
NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.
www.chron.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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espiers.bsky.social
“Women” is banned, but not “men”.
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM