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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪

@sherilwilliamson.bsky.social

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Naturalist 🦋 birder 🦉 ornithologist & hummingbird researcher 🪶 field guide author 📖 photographer 📷 artist 🎨 gardener 🌱 chicken/dog mom, desert rat, border resident 🇺🇲🇲🇽, democracy fan 🗽. She/her. https://bio.link/sherilwilliamson

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hey, BlueSky! I'm a conservation professional and equal-opportunity nature and science enthusiast trying to pull away from FB and Threads without feeling out of touch. I'm an erratic poster, but follow me if you enjoy the occasional hummingbird, birding, garden, and pet chicken posts in your feed.

White-necked Jacobin, a common tropical hummingbird boldly patterned in blue, green, white, and black.

A pair of Red-headed Barbets sharing a piece of banana at a feeding station in Colombia.

A cultivated Arizona Claretcup cactus in full bloom.

My cuddly boy Ziggy, an "unplanned" Easter Egger rooster adopted as a tiny chick along with his "sisters" Stevie and EmmyBlue.

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 1h

The study mentions that. It's a giant red flag when the more easily adulterated ground version contains almost twice as much lead as the whole product.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 3h

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 2h

Plausible, but this study published in 2024 found evidence of intentional adulteration states that there's no information on whether cinnamon trees absorb lead and accumulate it in their tissues. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lead content in cinnamon and its health risk assessment for Ecuadorian consumers

Lead (Pb) is a poisonous metal that affects organs and the nervous system. Its presence in spices such as cinnamon has been identified as a potential …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 8h

Clown wrasses, like all wrasses and parrotfish, start their lives biologically female and transition through a series of color phases before ending as a male in their ‘terminal phase’. Here we see a male terminal phase clown wrasse chasing a female initial phase #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

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Julie Huber, PhD @julesdeep.bsky.social · 6h

My life changed when I first read "The Sea Around Us." Rachel Carson's words captured my 13-yr old sense of wonder for a place I barely knew but felt for so deeply, the ocean. Honored to speak to her legacy @agu.org and grateful to my colleagues for the nomination 🌊💙

www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union

WHOI’s Julie Huber Awarded Prestigious Rachel Carson Lecture by the AGU

www.whoi.edu

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 6h

Dumping sand along the vanishing Galveston beaches will allow us to pretend for a while that the seas aren't rising.

But eventually, Galveston will either disappear or move inland, a tremendous own goal for a place built from fossil fuel wealth.

Chron.com @chron.com · 6h

🚧 A major coastal makeover is coming to Galveston: bit.ly/3KHdaSv

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 11h

#WorldOctopusDay is celebrated annually on October 8th to highlight the beauty, intelligence, and conservation needs of these fascinating creatures. This octopus is from British Conchology v5: Marine shells and Naked Mollusca (1869) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24429566 #SciArt #ILoveBHL

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 23h

The American Fisheries Society extends our support to the furloughed fisheries and aquatics professionals affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Read our full statement on the shutdown and its impacts on natural resources here fisheries.org/2025/10/afs-...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 22h

#Migration season is definitely upon us. Sandhill cranes gather by the thousands at staging areas prior to moving to their wintering grounds. This image of Sandhills in front of the full moon was taken at Crex Meadows in northwestern WI. #BirdoftheDay 🪶

A full moon glows orange over a marsh. It has risen between a break in the treeline and is reflected in the water. Several Sandhill cranes fly across the face of the moon.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 1d

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure he'll take this normally.

Jimmy Kimmel more popular than Trump after show suspension, poll finds

Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night host

www.theguardian.com

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 2d

When predatory gangs of ICE officers viciously assault people while masked, badgeless, and out of uniform, they're doing the delegitimizing and dehumanizing themselves.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 2d

That would be the perfect humiliation for Temu Nosferatu.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller also told everyone he was going to get red state National Guards to invade blue states *a year ago*.

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/rZOO...

From the law community on Reddit: Stephen Miller on deportations plans. Wouldn't this have... major civil war implications?

Explore this post and more from the law community

www.reddit.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, look! The voice of Eagly is here on Bluesky!

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

Shading ploughed-out sand is not “healing deserts.” True deserts and native grasslands are living systems, not empty wastelands. Solar belongs on rooftops, brownfields & already-degraded sites.
sustainabilitymag.com/articles/ren...

Renewables: Can Solar Energy Stop Desertification?

Research from China’s Qinghai province reveals solar farms in desert regions may revitalise fragile ecosystems while generating renewable energy

sustainabilitymag.com

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Sheri L. Williamson 𓅴 🪶🌎🧪 @sherilwilliamson.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday #bloomscrolling: Mexican Sage, Salvia mexicana 'Limelight', a natural mutation introduced to horticulture in 1978. Like many ornithophilous Mexican sages, it blooms in fall, perfect to welcome migrating hummingbirds returning to their winter homes but frustrating for northern gardeners. 🌱🪶

Long blue-violet flowers of Salvia mexicana emerging from chartreuse calyces.

Salvia mexicana 'Limelight': A tall plant with multiple stalks bearing large heart-shaped leaves, dense clusters of chartreuse calyces, and a few long blue-violet flowers.

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IUCN Snake Specialist Group @iucn-snake.bsky.social · 3d

There’s so much misinformation about snakes, especially w/ rattlesnakes. A new @ologies.bsky.social podcast featuring @emilytaylorscience.com sets the record straight! We think it’s a stellar combo of evidence-based info, comedy, and intrigue. Listen here www.alieward.com/ologies/crot...

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