Chris Smith
treewise.bsky.social
Chris Smith
@treewise.bsky.social
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March 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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“The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday ordered lawyers hired to represent unaccompanied children to stop working.”
Trump administration orders lawyers for vulnerable unaccompanied minors to stop their work
The Tuesday order affects tens of thousands of children, some with no family and no legal status.
www.tpr.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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HumanBrainMapping

White matter brain structure predicts language performance and learning success

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
White matter brain structure predicts language performance and learning success
Participants improve on processing syntactically complex sentences after intense training. Left and right hemisphere subnetworks predicted initial language performance. White matter tracts of a left ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Foundational Skills and Lifelong Learning are Key in a World of AI

Literacy skills such as reading, writing, and editing are more essential than ever before in a world of AI. #edusky

matthewrhoads.com/2023/04/18/f...
Foundational Skills and Lifelong Learning are Key in a World of AI
How can we prepare our students for a future where artificial intelligence (AI) will play a vital role in solving problems and completing tasks? How can build the skills necessary to easily pivot i…
matthewrhoads.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The balancing rock Kummakivi has maintained its equilibrium for approximately 12,000 years since the Ice Age.

This natural monument is located in Ruokolahti, southeastern Finland.
November 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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🧪 #Conservation,#translocations & #Indigenous knowledge, and a wonderful emerging researcher leading this paper from #Aotearoa on #kākā.
Historical ecology has awesome tools to explore past relationships. In this case, we used place names and written historical sources to examine kākā distribution & ecology, to contribute to conversations about bio-cultural translocation. Ngā mihi e Fin mō tāu mahi ataahua. 9/9
tinyurl.com/53vse3hv
Supporting biocultural connections in conservation translocations
Translocation is an important tool to restore populations and safeguard species from anthropogenic climate change, habitat destruction and other threa…
tinyurl.com
December 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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Pretty damn spot-on, don’t you think?
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Trends in Neurosciences

The lateral thalamus: a bridge between multisensory processing and naturalistic behaviors
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 14, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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If we couldn’t do it for the country we can at least try to do it here
December 4, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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There's a great fix for our crumbling infrastructure that results with also dealing with much of the climate crisis. Induction charging roadways using municipal scale renewable power located in rural farmlands.

And we save about $5 trillion in repairs to the old grid.
November 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Midnight sky 🌌✨
November 29, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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A caring dog owner made a stair lift for her dog who has arthritis.

Dogs are family, you will do ANYTHING for them! ❤️

#DogsOfBlueSky 🐾
November 26, 2024 at 11:58 AM