Kat Barr

How the Klamath Dams Came Down Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

This @gristnews.bsky.social and @underscore-news.bsky.social story is the most captivating and comprehensive chronicle of the Klamath dam removal campaign to date. We highly recommend you give it a read.
grist.org/project/indi...

01.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

Spring doing its spectacular thing down in the Boulder foothills. 😍

28.03.2025 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us 2024 — 500 Women Scientists Sign the Pledge

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We call on all scientists to join us in declaring unwavering support for evidence-based policy-making, human rights, advocacy for the scientific enterprise, and for one another.
As women and gender minorities in STEMM, we accept this challenge.
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12.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Did you hear? We have just launched our eco/evo mini grant! Where are our ecologist/evolutionists?!

05.03.2025 16:30 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

Absolute chaos. Damaging, dangerous, intentional chaos.

28.01.2025 06:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘Good boy!’ Truffle-sniffing dogs are helping uncover hidden underground ecosystems Their keen noses are helping researchers document the diversity of fungi living underneath Pacific Northwest forests

23.01.2025 04:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Moa, which are known to have eaten brightly colored fruit, would also have snacked on colorful truffles, such as this purple Gallacea scleroderma. Noah siegel

I am obsessed with these fungi. LOOK AT HOW WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THEY ARE. I imagine that's what moa thought, too... that story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🍄

15.01.2025 23:41 — 👍 161    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 2

We're excited to see a bunch of LTER sites making their way over to BlueSky! Our sites are the heart of our network—they're the places advancing our understanding of ecology, one 40-year study at at time.

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22.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 52    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!

Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

22.01.2025 20:55 — 👍 7393    🔁 1016    💬 103    📌 38

In my personal time, you'll find me mountain biking, running, hiking, digging in the dirt, hanging with my senior rescue pups (they'll be digging too), taking sunset and wildflower photos, and reading (archeology, historical fiction, spies). Excited to connect!

06.01.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi! I’m a returning student at CU Boulder studying Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, transitioning from a first career in nonprofit advocacy (gender justice, voting rights, health care). My focus is plant ecology, restoration, mountain ecosystems & invasion biology, with a goal of grad school in '26.

06.01.2025 01:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0