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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 10h

One by one, the kids knelt on the ground, smudged themselves with smoke and walked to the fallen buffalo to rest a hand on its coffee-colored hide.

Buffalo meat from this week's harvests will be placed in 660 boxes that a food bank will distribute to Wind River Reservation residents.

On Wind River Reservation, a buffalo harvest for young and old - WyoFile

Joint effort brings students out to experience harvest of an animal that will be shared with elders and families. “This is your relative,” herd manager tells them.

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 1d

One issue the preprint identifies is that mentors are super important - but they (we!) lack training in effective writing mentorship. That's exactly why @bgmerkle.bsky.social and I wrote our forthcoming book, 'Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences" - our next month.

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Rick Varco @rvarco.bsky.social · 1d

Billionaires force Bari Weiss on us, so I donated to @boltsmag.org It is an essential media resource in times like now boltsmag.org/donate-page/...

Support Bolts

We are a nonprofit publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change, from the local up, and we need reader support to build our journalism.

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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 2d

Holy wow, y'all! I just finished and installed my very first mural! You can find these mountain bluebirds, against a backdrop of the Okanogan Highlands, on the main drag in Tonasket, WA, on the side of the Ziply fiber building!

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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 4d

A small herd of pronghorn that lives in the 'Golden Triangle' — migrants that winter near Interstate 80 — pause for a moment in the morning light.

Home on the range ‘east of Farson’ - WyoFile

A small herd of pronghorn that live in the ‘Golden Triangle’ pause for a moment in the morning light.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 5d

Which whale species did I see? Leatherwood et al. (1982, p. 10) is hard to beat...

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Elise Say-Sallaz @elisesaysallaz.bsky.social · 5d

Very happy to share our new paper published in Current Biology !

We show that the “big bad wolf” actually fears humans for good reason.
It’s the first-ever playback experiment on wild wolves in Europe 🇵🇱🌲.

Mammal Research Institute PAS @mripas.bsky.social · 6d

Our new article shows: The 'big bad wolf' fears us. Would you have thought? authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5E3QW8S...
Photo by Rafał Kowalczyk. @currentbiology.bsky.social
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 6d

The Bureau of Land Management will "review and revise" the Rock Springs management plan to implement Trump energy directives, the agency said.

The 2024 plan, under Biden, represented a widely supported conservation and development compromise, advocacy groups say.

Feds to redo management plan for 3.6M acres in southwest Wyoming - WyoFile

The BLM's Rock Springs plan, under Biden, represented a widely supported conservation and development compromise, advocacy groups say.

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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 7d

A judge has sentenced the shooter's mother for her role in providing the firearm used to kill a Sheridan officer. Tensions are flaring over a new affordable housing project in Jackson.

The governor has issued protocols for how Wyoming will handle the federal government shutdown.

Local Lookout: Mother sentenced in officer killing | Affordable housing feud escalates | Wyoming responds to shutdown - WyoFile

A judge has sentenced the shooter’s mother for her role in providing the firearm used to kill a Sheridan officer. Tensions are flaring over a new affordable housing project in Jackson. The governor ha...

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spookie @okie.gay · 12d

I’ve seen a Keith Haring mural in person my life is complete

A Keith Haring mural of a bunch of little colorful guys dancing. Some are solid colors, and others have various doodles that evoke the feeling of a bowling alley carpet (complimentary).

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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 14d

Google: here's an AI summary!
Adobe: want an AI assistant?
Zoom: get more done with an AI companion!
Outlook: don't you want to turn on copilot??

Me: I trained for 10 years to think. I like thinking. Please just let me think.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14d

Hugely concerning to see layoffs threatened since April may move ahead at Dept of the Interior. Our Climate Adaptation Science Center colleagues at USGS have already lost 30% of their team from retirements, buyouts and layoffs; DOI has lost 11% on average. Planned layoffs may double these losses.

The Interior Department is taking steps to implement layoffs

After a series of delays, DOI is preparing RIF lists as it looks to implement significant personnel cuts in the coming weeks.

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 25d

#SciArtSeptember 13 - Bottleneck

We almost lost the last wild horses. At the end of the 1950s, there were only 12 Przewalski's horses left.

After decades of conservation efforts, there are now a couple thousand horses living in zoos and conservation areas in several countries, from Spain to China.

A wide, panorama-type illustration showing 12 Przewalski's horses in a crescent formation. They are in calm poses, some standing and watching the viewer, others slowly walking towards them.

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Bethann Garramon Merkle (@commnatural elsewhere) @bgmerkle.bsky.social · 27d

I will add: we are immensely grateful for all of you who have connected with the Meteor #Scicomm podcast & hope you still feel connected as we work together to foster capacity to do good in the world. There are amazing resources to help us all (a lot from way beyond scicomm); we'll focus there.

Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 27d

Just posted the one and only episode in season 5 of the #SciComm podcast I do with @bgmerkle.bsky.social. It's basically a 17-min audio version of "WOAH NOW"

🧵 on why we're taking a pause, or you can listen of course ⬇️

www.meteorscicomm.org/podcast

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The Meteor podcast about science communication with impact, including about the podcast, how you can get episodes in your inbox, and an archive of past episodes.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 28d

"This tech isn't going away!" "This is inevitable!" "Adapt or get left in the dust!" are all things we're being told by the same people who were telling us you're going to need a blockchain dingus to unlock your front door two years ago.

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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 28d

On a nexus of public land in western Wyoming, red rock spires and striped hoodoos delight visitors. Just bring water and a hat.

Dubois has its own badlands. Here's how to explore them. - WyoFile

On a nexus of public land in western Wyoming, red rock spires and striped hoodoos delight visitors. Just bring water and a hat.

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Annie Roth @annieroth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey biologists and ecologists! I'm a science journalist looking for recently-published and/or soon-to-be-published studies to cover! If you've got one, please send it my way!

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Wouter Vansteelant @wmgvs.bsky.social · Sep 6

Migration is a go! Yday 3 @globalflyway.bsky.social GPS-Spoonbills flew from 🇳🇱 to 🇫🇷. Among them were adults MIGUEL (orange) and STERN (purple) who met each other in flight at noon, and then flew together for 9h until they split up again south of Le Havre.
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Current position of all Dutch GPS-tracked Spoonbills alive today.

Last weeks tracks of Miguel and Stern, including their first migratory flight on Sept 5th. Both birds flew roughly 24h non-stop and flew together for 9h from the Dutch-Belgian border till Le Havre (France).

Miguel and Stern met each other IN FLIGHT around noon on Sept 5th.

Miguel and Stern split up again after 9h of joint flight, each continuing flight for another 5-9h to different stop-overs along France's Atlantic coastline.

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Matthew Kauffman @wyokauffman.bsky.social · Aug 28

Learned a lot from Jim as a grad student at UC Santa Cruz. He made huge contributions to how we understand the role of predators in ecosystems. Also just a great guy and mentor. Sad to see him go.

Dr Luis Huckstadt @luishuckstadt.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Jim Estes, biologist who revealed how sea otters shape entire ecosystems, died on May 20, aged 79

When Jim Estes first arrived in the Aleutian Islands in 1970, he expected a routine wildlife survey. What he found was the outline of a scientific revelation. In places where sea otters thrived, the o...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 27

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 26

Governor Gavin Newsom says that it's time for Democrats to fight back against Trump. But Sierra Wang-O'Neil, who works as a kombucha sommelier at a Silver Lake vegan tapas bar and usually supports Democrats, says that such an aggressive approach leaves her deeply uneasy.

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WyoFile @wyofile.com · Aug 24

Citing tensions with management, alleged safety concerns and unpredictable schedules, hourly workers at the Mountain Cement Company plant in Laramie voted to organize.

Read more ➡️ wyofile.com/laramie-ceme...

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Rin @soarandexplore.bsky.social · Aug 21

Salmon!
#alaska

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Aug 20

In Old Crow, Yukon, the Gwich’in people are organizing to resist U.S. president Donald Trump’s oil and gas ambitions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a biodiverse region providing crucial habitat for one of the last healthy caribou herds in North America. thenarwhal.ca/yukon-old-cr... (1/6)

‘Drill, baby, drill’ vs. Porcupine caribou | The Narwhal

As the U.S. government mandates drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Gwich’in people in northern Yukon organize to protect Porcupine caribou

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Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration @migratinghooves.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sneak peek: Three migration maps will be published in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration next week! In Poland's forests, migratory populations of moose and European bison are testaments to the country's ability to safeguard the phenomenon of large mammal migration. #conservation 📸 Rafal Kowalczyk

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