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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner

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Earth Doctor. Conservation scientist, communicator, change maker. I stand for courage, compassion, and actions for a thriving future! https://linktr.ee/rgoldenkroner Views mine

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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hey new followers! Wow, this place is really taking off.

I'm Rachel. I make my living as a scientist, conservationist, and mission-driven practitioner. For fun, I sing, host hikes with friends, birdwatch, and love to connect with the rest of nature!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wow - one of the first (maybe the first?) end-to-end climate impact attribution studies focused on biodiversity change.

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 11

NEW – Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @alexpigot.bsky.social

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Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s - Carbon Brief

An uptick in heat extremes has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to new analysis.

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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · Aug 11

Love that!

Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · Aug 11

Here's a poem that I decided to publish today called "Resistance" that explores a tension I often feel between working within vs. outside of the system in order to effect change. medium.com/@racheleliza...

Resistance (poem)

(on working within vs outside of the “system”) to effect change

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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've been writing about a poem a week (or so) over the last six months, which has helped me to process the inevitable, existential feelings coming up during these very difficult times in the US.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jul 27

They came for the foreign aid workers, justice department, public health institutions, universities and researchers, law firms, media organizations, not to mention longtime immigrants. Now it is nonprofits too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Opinion | You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next.

www.nytimes.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Jul 27

Colombia has a goal to progressively move away from oil and gas while strengthening local renewable energy and storage capacity.

Lena Yanina Estrada, the new environment minister and first Indigenous person to hold the position, argues that it’s a model that helps bring long-term stability.

Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition

The energy landscape is a shifting terrain, full of twists and turns, according to statistics in the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While some countries are backtracking on…

news.mongabay.com

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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thrilled to share our new paper led by @colincarlson.bsky.social which asks an exciting question - what could a global scientific assessment body for pandemics look like?

We take lessons from existing groups like the IPCC and @ipbes.net, laying out considerations, challenges, and ways forward. 🌍🧪

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics."

🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵 Five things to know 👉

Pathways to an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics: lessons from the IPCC and IPBES

Colin J Carlson, Christopher H Trisos, Ben Oppenheim, Shweta Bansal, Sara E Davies, Aïda Diongue-Niang, Victoria Y Fan, John D Kraemer,
Rachel Golden Kroner, Lawrence O Gostin, David T S Hayman, Marion Koopmans, Torre E Lavelle, Carlos G das Neves, Zoe O’Donoghue,
Laura M Pereira, Benjamin Roche, Matiangai Sirleaf, Kayla Zamanian, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Alexandra L Phelan

Pandemics pose a global threat to human wellbeing, justice, economies, and ecosystems and are comparable with other planetary crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss in terms of urgency and impact. The global community would benefit from a dedicated scientific synthesis body to assess pandemic risks and solutions. In this Personal View, we explore proposals for an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics and assess potential pathways to its creation. Learning lessons from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) might help national governments and international organisations to chart a course through important decisions about format, governance, operations, scientific scope and process, and ability to recommend policies that make the world safer.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 3

🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash.

THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.

Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

www.nytimes.com

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · May 28

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Redirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live

wclivestream.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

💥👊BOOM! We did it!👊💥

Ok, keep signing, everyone!

Next steps, if you're a scientist willing to talk with the press go sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

actionnetwork.org

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 14

At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.

From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.

The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?

The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

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Travis T. York, Ph.D. (he/they) @travisyork.bsky.social · May 13

A MUST READ: time.com/7285045/resi...
This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 13

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the EPA under Trump failed to release the U.S.’s annual greenhouse gas emissions report.

So a nonprofit did it instead.

Facts don’t disappear just because the government refuses to print them.

Read their findings below ⬇️
www.cbsnews.com/news/greenho...

The EPA didn't release its annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions report, but we got the data. Here's what we found

The Environmental Defense Fund published the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks after filing a Freedom of Information Act request last month.

www.cbsnews.com

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Solidarity City @solidaritycitydc.bsky.social · Apr 11

Introducing MUSKVILLE: A Solidarity City, popping up outside Union Station starting Sunday, April 20. Sign up at MUSKVILLE.org and we’ll email you with updates and volunteer opportunities!

@fedworkersunited.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social @mdcdsa.bsky.social

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eerie @lambyrotting.bsky.social · Apr 11

artist: @/reinpress on instagram

a tardigrade drawing that says “just because i can survive harsh conditions doesnt mean i should have to”

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 8

NOAA and the NWS are *lifesaving* public services.

Without tornado, flash flood, blizzard, and hurricane warnings, millions of people will be exposed to deadly weather without warning--weather that will continue to increase in severity due to climate change.

#StandUpForScience

Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · Apr 7

It's worth noting when the system works. The last week of tornadoes and torrential rains led to at least 21 deaths and widespread damage. But the human toll could have been far worse without an NWS already under immense stress.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/nati...

National Weather Service issues lifesaving tornado and flood warnings amid massive cuts » Yale Climate Connections

Record- and near-record flooding swept through parts of the Ohio and mid-Mississippi River regions over the weekend.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 8

📣 GET IN, DORKS!
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣

This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊

#StandUpWithUS

Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

NATIONWIDE CAMPUS ACTION
STAND UP WITH US
because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone.
Where: YOUR COLLEGE CAMPUS
When: YOUR LAST DAY OF CLASSES
StandUpForScience2025.org

It’s time for a Summer Send-Off

Stand Up, Fight Back - TOGETHER!

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hi hello good morning.

This is fascism. Nazi Germany did this to support their messaging of a superior Aryan race.

Hope this helps!

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 3

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.

This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition

After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.

www.nature.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 4

HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY!

*Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together.

🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨
In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE

Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...

#standupforscience
#handsoff

Hands off! Our science. In partnership with indivisible. National day of action 4/5/25

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 28

US could see return of acid rain due to Trump’s rollbacks, says scientist who discovered it

Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Mar 18

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 12

Things are going great.

The line graph shows the change in the S&P 500 index during the first 250 days since the inauguration of various U.S. presidents. Different colored lines represent each president's term: George W. Bush (2nd term) in red, Barack Obama (1st term) in blue and (2nd term) in green, Donald Trump (1st term) in purple and (2nd term) in brown, and Joe Biden in orange. The y-axis represents the change in the S&P 500, while the x-axis shows days since inauguration. Joe Biden's term shows the most significant increase, while Donald Trump's 2nd term experienced a sharp decline early on.

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Mar 10

In this Q&A, we asked why they organized Stand Up for Science. Here are the answers:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@leslie-bern.bsky.social
@emmalovesscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@jpflores.bsky.social
@samschuelstein.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Why we organized ‘Stand Up For Science’ - Nature Human Behaviour

In the USA, the Trump administration has signed executive orders that impose censorship on key areas of scientific research, strip government scientists of their jobs and reduce federal funding for sc...

www.nature.com

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