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wildlabs.bsky.social
We’re so grateful to have @sandiegozoo.bsky.social, @schmidtmarine.bsky.social, The Habitats Trust, and Life Science Education Trust (with Antz Systems) as Golden-Headed Quetzal Sponsors of #ICTC2026 💚

Thank you for helping bring our global conservation tech community together in Lima next week!
February 10, 2026 at 1:20 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Ok friends, final push:

We got married, and it was wonderful!

I'd like to spread the good news around to some wonderful science, conservation, and education charities I love.

Please consider making a donation in honor of David and Eileen's wedding:

www.southernfriedscience.com/im-getting-m...
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
ernestsewell.bsky.social
The team owned by a woman who supports the environment, arts, wildlife conservation, education, science, and medical research.

NOT the team owned by a rich white guy who has given $1M to 🟠
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 AM
psychsoftware.bsky.social
Not in my name, not with my tax dollars. NO MORE FUNDING FOR ICE! @moveon
Cell phone mirror shot (reversed in post): patriotic American standing in residential apartment in T-shirt & jeans. Black t-shirt has American flag on the left sleeve and reads "I LITERALLY WANT MY TAX DOLLARS TO SUPPORT NATIONAL PARKS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HELPING MARGINALIZED PEOPLE. IN CASE THAT WASN'T CLEAR." in colorful block text with inline supporting iconography.
February 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone for your warm congratulations on our wedding! We’d love to continue to spread the good news around, and invite you to consider a donating “in honor of David and Eileen’s wedding” to some of my favorite science, conservation, and education charities.
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
umnengagement.bsky.social
We are #UMNProud to announce the recipients of the 2026 Public Engagement Awards! These awards recognize the breadth and depth of community-engaged research, teaching, and service across the University system. Congratulations! @univofminnesota.bsky.social

m-engage.umn.edu/news-stories...
President’s Community-Engaged Scholar Award Zha Blong Xiong, Associate Professor, Department of Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development - University of Minnesota Exemplary University-Community Partnership Award Aparna Katre, Associate Professor of Cultural Entrepreneurship and Interdisciplinary Studies and Acting Director of Duluth Center for Women and Children’s (DCWC) Nourish program, University of Minnesota Duluth Exemplary Community-Engaged Professional Award Ishmail Malik Holt-Shabazz, Director of Neighborhood Leadership and Organizing, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota Societal Impact Award Robert Blair, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, CFANS | U of M College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences Community-Engaged Scholar Award: Research and Creative Activities Jessica Hanson, Interim Department Head and Associate Professor, Department of Applied Human Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth Community-Engaged Scholar Award: Teaching and Learning Lauren Bernstein, Assistant Professor of Community Medicine, Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine Research Community-Engaged Scholar Award: Early Career Manka N., Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management Community-Engaged Scholar Award: Graduate Student Miguel Quiñones, graduate student, Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development - University of Minnesota Community-Engaged Scholar Award: Undergraduate Student Connor Pederson, undergraduate, Department of Finance, University of Minnesota Duluth
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
uxmichael.co
Design Beyond the Human: essays on activism, anthropology, conservation, creative writing, design practice, design theory, economics, education, environment, ethics, history, indigenous knowledge, law, philosophy, poetry, politics, regenerative agriculture, science, sociology and technology.
Photo of a new book called Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet, published by Bloomsbury
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 AM
I just read this paper and think everyone in education and policy should see it.
It argues ecologists are losing field experience and this “extinction of experience” could weaken science and conservation.
Fieldwork still matters.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the e...
www.cell.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Monarch Watch (Habitat 🌄)

Monarch Watch is a volunteer-based citizen science organization that tracks the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. It is self-described as "a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch […]
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February 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
bevnet.com
Manatee Coffee has partnered with Florida Oceanographic Society to support seagrass research, habitat restoration and marine conservation across Florida’s coasts, with a portion of coffee sales funding science, education and community initiatives.
From Cup To Coast: Manatee Coffee Partners With Florida Oceanographic Society
STUART, FL (January 29, 2026) -- Manatee Coffee, the Florida-founded and family-owned coffee roas...
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February 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
brecksfarmerswn.bsky.social
7/ Education & knowledge sharing
Our Landscape Recovery Project Manager Lucy delivered a guest lecture to UEA Conservation Ecology students, sharing real-world experience of nature conservation and exploring how conservation science and practice come together.
February 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM
accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University (a major academic department within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences focused on ecological science and conservation education, research, and outreach) leaves X (406 followers)

Bluesky: @tamueccb.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 8:59 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Folks, we've added a new charity to our wedding fundraiser!

If you appreciate my posts, consider making a donation to one of these great science, conservation, and education charities in honor of our upcoming wedding!

For every donation receipt, I'll share a fun marine biology fact!
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:09 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
We're trying to use the happy occassion of our upcoming wedding to spread some good news around to a world that really needs some.

Please consider donating in our honor to one of these great science, education, or conservation charities.
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM
llfarm.bsky.social
I LITERALLY WANT MY$TAX DOLLARS $ TO SUPPORT NATIONAL PARKS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HELPING MARGINALIZED PEOPLE. IN CASE THAT WASN'T CLEAR.
January 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
cajana22.bsky.social
Americans can’t afford groceries, rent, or health care — but sure, let’s drop an estimated $100 million (at least) on a vanity monument while bridges crumble and families fall behind.
I'd rather my tax dollars went toward science, education, nat. parks or conservation, not his Lego building crap!
January 24, 2026 at 1:36 AM
wixenstyx.bsky.social
drive.google.com/file/d/1TmZQ...
Just spreading the word. I completed the AIP program last May, and I found it to be an amazing program. Highly recommended for conservation and science education professionals looking for a meaningful way to complete a master's degree.
aip-lily-flyer-updated-06-09-25.pdf
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January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Folks, I'm getting married! Next weekend!

I'd love to spead the good news around. Here's a list of science, conservation, and education charities I love, and instructions on how to donate in our honor if you're so moved.

Please share!
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 PM
fmsea.bsky.social
🚨 LAST CALL 🚨
Have a session idea that connects the dots in marine science education?

Submit a proposal for FMSEA 2026 in Fort Pierce, FL 🌊
📅 April 23–26 | Sessions: April 25
⏰ Deadline: Jan 26, 11:59 PM ET

Let’s connect educators, communities, & conservation.
#FMSEA2026 #ConnectingTheDots
January 22, 2026 at 8:46 PM
ucddublin.bsky.social
Led by researchers at UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, the study highlights growing concern that current education pathways are failing to produce enough skilled plant scientists to meet escalating demands across sectors, including climate action, conservation, and agriculture.
January 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
neoriffic.bsky.social
Let's get this party started!🏺🇨🇦

Looking for papers for #CAA2026

How do you share archaeology?

What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?

How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
A screenshot of the session abstract for "Combatting Anti-intellectualism and Pseudoarchaeology through Public Engagement" Organized by me! There is nothing unique about Canada’s education system that inoculates its population from anti-intellectualism. At home and abroad, funding is being gutted in the name of cost savings and the health of millions is being influenced by anti-science populism rather than data-driven expertise. Archaeology is not immune to these problems. As Humanities and social sciences programs across the world are being decimated, heritage conservation and cultural resource management are reaching a crisis point where there is more archaeology required than there are archaeologists to do it. So, what are archaeologists doing to combat the growth of anti-intellectualism? 1/2 The continuing popularity of pseudoarchaeological television and streaming programmes, along with social media apps full of pseudoscientific videos, suggests a public interest and demand for archaeology. However, uncontested by genuine archaeological research, these media merely serve to contribute to anti-intellectualism, spreading objectively and demonstrably false ideas as plausible if not probable by conflating “just asking questions” with rigorous scientific inquiry. Additionally, as generative AI art becomes more sophisticated, the effort required to produce pseudoarchaeological content is becoming increasingly trivial and risks dominating the popular narrative of human history, feeding into denialism, erasure, and anti-science rhetoric. Archaeology requires researching, writing, citing, and quality presentation. In other words, it takes time, a luxury unavailable to many of those best positioned to share their expertise. This, and the constant need for online promotion and engagement, make it unfortunate, if not unsurprising, that many professional archaeologists choose to avoid public engagement through popular media. However, the problems of anti-intellectualism are not going away on their own. This session invites papers that examine how archaeologists are sharing archaeology. Where are we succeeding and how can we overcome obstacles? How can we collectively, as a community and discipline, support one another to combat pseudoarchaeology, anti-intellectualism, denialism, and erasure? 2/2
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
marspidermonkey.bsky.social
She draws heavily on family stories, including interviews with parents and relatives, juxtaposed with academic education and conservation practices. She illuminates the subtle and not-so-subtle ways Western cultural approaches to conservation project colonial values. (4/12)
Cover of the book "Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science" by Jessica Hernandez, PhD, against a colorful backdrop. The book has a red cove background that is mostly obscured by large banana leaves. The title is in large yellow font in three separate lines covering most of the cover, with the subtitle in smaller white font in between the large title lines. At the bottom, against the dark green of banana leaf, the author's name is in red font.
January 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
scbnorthamerica.bsky.social
Call for Proposals! Special Session Education Forum (July 13, 4-6 PM CDT) at NACCR2026

We are looking for educators (K-12, informal, higher ed, and env ed/community science ed) to share conservation and restoration modules! 🌎

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Learn more: tinyurl.com/mr2zf4tz
January 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
liamomaraiv.bsky.social
One of the largest #nonprofit #science & #education organizations, the #NationalGeographicSociety, was founded on #ThisDayInHistory in 1888 to bring #geographic, #environmental, & #conservation knowledge to a wide audience. I had a print subscription for decades & still miss it.
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
angie.moe
In the most incisive of these essays Sidgwick argues for the extension of the concept of necessary culture to include modern letters and some competence in the sciences. Greek and Latin literature can no longer be said to comprise all essential knowledge, even in an idealized, paradigmatic form: the claim of these literatures "to give the best teaching in mental, ethical, and political philosophy" is rapidly passing away. Physical science "is now so bound up with all the interests of mankind" that some familiarity with it is indispensable to an understanding of and participation in "the present phase of the progress of humanity." In short, the techniques and substantive content of cultural transmission were under vigorous debate even at the height of nineteenth-century optimism. What was *not* under debate was the compelling inference that such transmission, if and wherever rightly carried out, would lead necessarily to a more stable, humanely responsible condition of man. "A liberal education," wrote Sidgwick, with every implication of stating the obvious, "has for its object to impart the highest culture, to lead youths to the most full, vigorous, and harmonious exercise, according to the best ideal attainable, of their active, cognitive, and aesthetic faculties." Set in full play, extended, gradually and with due regard to differing degrees of native capacity, to ever-widening pass of society and the globe, such an education would ensure a steadily rising quality of life. Where culture flourished, barbarism was, by definition, a nightmare from the past. We know now that this is not so. We know that the formal excellence and numerical extension of education need not correlate with increased social stability and political rationality. The demonstrable virtues of the Gymnasium or of the lycée are no guarantor of how or whether the city will vote at the next plebiscite. We now realize that extremes of collective hysteria and savagery can coexist with a parallel conservation and, indeed, further development of the institutions, bureaucracies, and professional codes of high culture. In other words, the libraries, museums, theatres, universities, research centers, in and through which the transmission of the humanities and of the sciences mainly takes place, can prosper next to the concentration camps. The discriminations and freshness of their enterprise may well suffer under the surrounding impress of violence and regimentation. But they suffer surprisingly little. Sensibility (particularly that of the performing artist), intelligence, scruple in learning, carry forward as in a neutral zone. We know also—and here is knowledge thoroughly documented but in no way, as yet, incorporated in a rational psychology —that obvious qualities of literate response, of aesthetic feeling, can coexist with barbaric, politically sadistic behavior in the same individual. Men such as Hans Frank who administered the "final solution" in eastern Europe were avid connoisseurs and, in some instances, performers of Bach and Mozart. We know of personnel in the bureaucracy of the torturers and of the ovens who cultivated a knowledge of Goethe, a love of Rilke. The facile evasion; "such... ...men did not understand the poems they read or the music they knew and seemed to play so well," will not do. There simply is no evidence that they were more obtuse than anyone else to the humane genius, to the enacted moral energies of great literature and of art. One of the principal works that we have in the philosophy of language, in the total reading of Hölderlin's poetry, was composed almost within earshot of a death camp. Heidegger's pen did not stop nor his mind go mute. —George Steiner, In Bluebeard's Castle, pp. 76–78
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM