@pacificfishpond.bsky.social
Ag science PhD (he/him). Animal/insect lover. Order: Cat, bees, pig, dog, goat, raptor. Have a dog & cat. Had 6 cats (1 w/ a dog brain 😉). Want bees. Smartest? Pigs 😀 No uninvited DMs. Avatar photo by me. Banner: Alaska Raptor Center "I AM Smiling"
Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."
SCREAMS IN ARCHAEOLOGIST
*end of Egypt's Old Kingdom/New Kingdom
*end of Empire Khmer
*end of major Maya polities
...I could keep going all day sir. It's on you that you ignore us. Also have some hope! Humanity will survive. Collapse is a Colonialist Lie™️ systems for 1% collapse not hunanity
??? Your guess... what could go wrong here? 🤔
Beautiful...
Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.
The fishing of krill is putting marine wildlife at risk.❗
To protect this fragile ecosystem, the fishery needs to be paused until stronger management and safeguards are in place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🐋 #whale #bluewhale #Massachusetts
"Seeing blue whales outside of their Canadian feeding grounds is rare in the Atlantic," aquarium scientist Katherine McKenna
Enormous blue whales spotted in "unusual occurrence" off Massachusetts coast - CBS Boston share.google/HjqKSYa6vGaJ...
🐍 Slithering from the sea to the sand! 🌊🏜️
This #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re celebrating the incredible diversity of snakes. From this Banded Sea Krait to your local garden snake, they are vital for a healthy planet. 🌏💙
Let's replace fear with fascination! #SaveTheSnakes✨
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Exxon and Suncor’s arguments for why they should not stand trial in one of a growing number of lawsuits that seek to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate lies and make them pay for the resulting damages.
Here’s what you need to know. 👇
When the climate shifts, it squeezes the safe climatic space of grasslands, says lead author Chaohui Li in @cnn.com interview. The researchers find that world's grasslands could shrink by half as climate change becomes more intense, threatening global food systems.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/27/w...
Wish my dog (and cat) would say amen after a little preach 😅. But, I do know who I preach to 🥹
Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined it’s probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. 🐋 spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z
📷: BlackBox
🎙️: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Yup. 💯
"It is the first time anywhere in the world that an insect species receives this kind of legal status."
www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f....
#bees
“Maybe a better way to look at this is ‘people preparedness’. One way for people to be prepared (for the next pandemic) is to be healthier, eat better and exercise, so you’re less likely to get sick or have a poor outcome,” Powers added.
Right. This will protect you from a novel pathogen.🤦♂️
It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
An excellent article on the Colorado River by the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Been decades since I had horses but I think ours were 14+ hands. Quarter horses. 17... wow. Beautiful.
Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.
This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.
A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More
In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish.
www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🌊 Scientific expedition confirms vast freshwater reserve beneath ocean floor
IODP EXP 5O1
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Researchers at the Wyss Institute and @mit.edu have developed a field-deployable, CRISPR-based biosensing platform that could enable facile, real-time monitoring of marine barometer species and ecosystems.
After yrs of planning & preparing, things didn't work @ the last minute. I deeply feel for these scientists. Our Antarctic project is smaller scale—but we faced continuous setbacks, from govt, Mother Nature, tech. We get so little time to do our work here; setbacks are heartbreaking #oceanography 🇦🇶🌊
🌊 Scientists outline case for next-generation ocean iron fertilization field trials
phys.org/news/2026-02...
George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
