Laura Hollister

How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories A Guardian investigation with DeSmog reveals thousands of tonnes of fish are illegally turned into fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau

How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A squadron of sandhill cranes loudly flew over our house today, heading NE. Likely towards Sierra meadows.

This makes me sick.

On 2x4s, Graphite & Gasoline: What I'd teach about climate change if I only had an hour Tue 10 Mar, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM [EDT]: Don Haas, PRI's Director of Teacher Programming Join us as PRI participates in Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Month, a global initiative sparking real dia...

Join me Tuesday night for a reprise of my popular talk, "On 2x4s, Graphite & Gasoline: What I'd teach about climate change if I only had an hour!"
tockify.com/paleontologi...

#teachclimate, #climatecommunication

A fluffy black-and-white tuxedo cat is lying on a kitchen floor, looking annoyed. 2 feet away is a red and white Britney dog lying on the floor, staring forlornly and longingly at the cat.

Happy #caturday from Dusty who is trying to understand why the dog enthusiastically wants to be his best friend and poor Jasper who doesn’t understand why Dusty doesn’t want to play with him.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Bird flu rips through another beloved Bay Area species A new study investigates an ongoing epidemic in Bay Area peregrine falcons.

Well, crap:

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

#Birds

Find the Best Help for Three Legged Pets and Their People Amputation for your dog or cat? Get the help and support you need from the Tripawds community, with the best three legged dog and cat amputation recovery tips and resources.

tripawds.com is a great resource if you need any help, tips, or support

Wallace Creek Overlook at Carrizo Plain National Monument | Chronolog Here you are standing on the San Andreas Fault. At this location it runs northwest to southeast a the base of the hills. At one time Wallace Creek drained straight across the fault, but movement by th...

While at wallace creek in carrizo plain, I discovered it has a community timelapse project -- a bracket for folks to take a photo & upload. Gotta be next level earthquake nerd to check out a timelapse from there. So I figured some of you would enjoy it 😆

www.chronolog.io/site/CPM102

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is matriarch and pronounced ahgay-yah nooguhweeyoosuh

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

In traditional Cherokee society, women were the heads of households, and Cherokee clans were matrilineal—

Give her snoot boops from me. ☺️

Oh my goodness poor pup. What happened?

a person is standing next to a pile of clothes . ALT: a person is standing next to a pile of clothes .

Also with 3 people, one of whom is a teen, our house is basically buried in a pile of laundry.

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as new appliances! ( this is obviously a very *adult* thing to think 🤣)

👀

A new #GSABulletin study reveals 15–27 major (~M7) earthquakes in the past 60,000 years along the Cañada David detachment in Baja California—evidence that low-angle normal faults can host powerful surface-rupturing events.

Read the paper: geosociety.co/40e3eog
Image: Figure 16 from the paper.

YouTube video by stin 7 - Teach your Children - Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970

youtu.be/zj8FlXGPcOQ?...

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

A team of USC and Stanford education researchers will measure the impact of California’s new ‘science of reading’ law through a multi-year study Faculty from USC Rossier, USC Dornsife and Stanford Graduate School of Education are joining forces to analyze the implementation and success of Assembly Bill 1454.

With generous financial and tactical support from several key organizations, I'm leading a team to study the implementation and effects of AB 1454, California's version of the Science of Reading law. Excited to support better implementation in the Golden State! rossier.usc.edu/news-insight...

How does it pile up so fast!?

a white and red u-haul truck is parked on the side of the road ALT: a white and red u-haul truck is parked on the side of the road

I’m glad you can do that at home. It’s such a pain to haul laundry somewhere else.

Phew and yay!

Novartis And Henrietta Lacks’ Family Reach A Settlement In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the startup that wants to treat Alzheimer’s with microrobots, medical groups push back on RFK Jr.’s vaccine changes and more.

Novartis And Henrietta Lacks’ Family Reach A Settlement

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

A Backdoor School Voucher Scheme That Sidesteps Civil Rights and Undermines Public Oversight Modern school voucher programs are often framed as a response to declining academic achievement and a way to expand “parent choice” by enabling private

Excellent explainer of the federal school voucher program. tcf.org/content/comm...

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

Oh my this was a hard one!! 👀

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

This is awesome!