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For farms struggling with commercial bee loss, California native plants and bees could be key Research is showing that California native plants growing next to, say, avocado groves is good for the orchard and for all kinds of pollinators.

“California is home to 1,600 species of native bees — nearly 10% of the world's bee species …

But for decades, U.S. farms have relied on just one fragile species: the European honeybee.” 🧪

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

A graphic reading "25 books by Black Canadian authors to read in honour of Emancipation Day" by CBC Books. 5 books are featured.

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful!

Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:

*Elrond

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Indivisible Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

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The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 4.5 earthquake took place 6 km N of Fontana, California at 9:32:24 AM. #light
For details from the USGS and to report shaking:

An earthquake just took place here

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state For decades, it was hoped that this outcome would be achieved as part of a peace process built around a negotiated settlement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.

Full statement here: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

AI integration initiatives are spearheaded by administrations with little input from faculty members and other campus community members, including staff and students. High levels of concern arose around AI and technology procurement, deployment, and use; dehumanized relations; and poor working and learning conditions. Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, and many respondents described administrators exerting great effort to introduce AI into research, teaching, policy, and professional development with little meaning­ful input from faculty members, staff, or students. Examples include the development of institutional AI tools, workshops on teaching and detecting plagia­rism, and subscribing to AI tools for students (such as Grammarly, marketed as an “AI writing partner”) without involving faculty members or students in the decision-making process. One respondent noted that “admin doesn’t seem to care about or value faculty input on this or any other topic” and hoped for “more faculty involvement in determining how AI and tech generally are used.”

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.

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Nah dudes we are not helping you be lazy

Give us a show about Culber and Stamets. About Captain Seven.

About completely new characters in the post-DS9 era.

Stop trying to MAGA Star Trek by returning to the era of white hetcis dude captains only

The squirrel who eats peanuts & seeds that I put out for the birds in my backyard is eating a pomegranate from our tree. Life finds a way.

Cover graphic for new issue of the academic journal Science Fiction Film & Television

Proud of this: just out in Science Fiction Film & Television, my article "Hard Vacuum: Black Women Space Workers Femme the Future." It was fun to research the past & future of human experience in space

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18... #Afrofuturism #BlackSky #SFF

A paperback volume, the journal Utopian Studies, with its orange cover and logo

Just received this at home, from the Society for Utopian Studies: Utopian Studies vol. 36 no. 1, Special Issue on Queer Utopias. Props @alothian.bsky.social, @tavia.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon. Tributes to José and to Frederic Jameson, as well. Looking forward to next issue where I have a review

Tje reason for a renewed anti-pornography fervor among the religious right over this past decade is because in 2015 convicted pedophile Josh Duggar blamed his crimes on the pseudo-scientific term "porn addiction"

They're going after porn to cover for child abusers, pedocon theory all the way down.

This is great.

“Dust of the Gods” (1934) by C. L. Moore Weird Tales July 1934 The fan-letters for “Scarlet Dream” were still being run in Weird Tales when the fourth adventure of Northwest Smith was announced, to appear in the August 1934 is…

Continuing our look at the early career of C. L. Moore today with "Dust of the Gods" (1934), the fourth tale of Northwest Smith to appear in WEIRD TALES.

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Male hooded oriole, a mostly yellow-orange bird with a black face and neck, black wings with a white wing bar, and long black tail

Male hooded oriole, a mostly yellow-orange bird with a black face and neck, black wings with a white wing bar, and long black tail

Male hooded oriole, a mostly yellow-orange bird with a black face and neck, black wings with a white wing bar, and long black tail 🪶

Eriogonum parviflorum, known as Sea cliff buckwheat, a wild plant with clusters of pinkish white flowers and fleshy green leaves

This isn't a bird. It's eriogonum parviflorum, aka Sea Cliff Buckwheat. We have eriogonum fasciculatum in our yard, but I would much rather have this

Marbled godwit, a shorebird with mottled feathers that has a long, narrow, upturned pink bill that turns dark at the end. The bird is using one leg to scratch the side of its head

Marbled godwit, a shorebird with mottled feathers that has a long, narrow, upturned pink bill that turns dark at the end. The bird is leaning downward with the tip of its bill in the water

This was the bird of the day. Marbled godwit, a shorebird with mottled feathers that has a long, narrow, upturned pink bill that turns dark at the end 🪶

Short-billed dowitcher plumbing the mud under the water's surface for invertebrates. It has a medium-length bill (submerged here) and a dark line through its eye, rusty coloring with a pattern of dark spots on its upper breast

Short-billed dowitcher plumbing the mud under the water's surface for invertebrates. It has a medium-length bill (submerged here) and a dark line through its eye, rusty coloring with a pattern of dark spots on its upper breast 🪶 Thanks to @zsw.bsky.social for helping identify this one

Pied-billed grebe, a dark gray/brown aquatic bird with a white ring around its eye and a short bill with a vertical line joining its upper and lower halves. The bird is cute

Pied-billed grebe, a dark gray/brown aquatic bird with a white ring around its eye and a short bill with a vertical line joining its upper and lower halves. The bird is cute

Pied-billed grebe, a dark gray/brown aquatic bird with a white ring around its eye and a short bill with a vertical line joining its upper and lower halves. The bird is cute 🪶

Willet, a gray-brown slightly speckled shorebird with a long (but not extremely long) bill, a white ring around its eye

Willet, a gray-brown slightly speckled shorebird with a long (but not extremely long) bill, a white ring around its eye

Willet, a gray-brown slightly speckled shorebird with a long (but not extremely long) bill, a white ring around its eye 🪶

Great blue heron, a tall blue-gray wading bird with a sharp bicolored bill it uses to spear fish. This one is using its bill to preen its feathers

Great blue heron, a tall blue-gray wading bird with a sharp bicolored bill it uses to spear fish in shallow water

Great blue heron, a tall blue-gray wading bird with a sharp bicolored bill it uses to spear fish in shallow water 🪶

Long-billed Curlew, a shorebird with an extremely long downward-curving bill

Long-billed Curlew, a shorebird with an extremely long downward-curving bill 🪶

Elegant, Royal, and Caspian terns on a low island within a large pond. The birds are mostly white with some black on their heads, orange bills, and pointed wings

Elegant, Royal, and Caspian terns 🪶

Semipalmated plover, a very small shorebird with a short bill, orange legs, and a dark band around its "collar"

Semipalmated plover, a very small shorebird with a short bill, orange legs, and a dark band around its "collar"

Semipalmated plover, a very small shorebird with a short bill, orange legs, and a dark band around its "collar" 🪶

Close up of a barn swallow, a small dark blue bird with a red-orange face and white breast, on a wooden bridge

Close up of a barn swallow, a small dark blue bird with a red-orange face and white breast, on a wooden bridge

Close up of a barn swallow, a small dark blue bird with a red-orange face and white breast, on a wooden bridge

Close up of a barn swallow, a small dark blue bird with a red-orange face and white breast, on a wooden bridge 🪶

Black necked stilt, a skinny black and white wading bird with pink legs

Here are some birds 🪶
Starting with a Black-necked Stilt

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