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Expert says threats of militarization and immigration enforcement fuel anxieties One mental health expert offers tips on how to cope with the stress of immigration operations in the Chicago region.

A mental health expert offers coping tips for those experiencing stress from immigration operations, as the climate has created widespread fear and uncertainty.

Map of the U.S. with dots for each of the 500 health facilities closing or at risk of closing.

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are now closing or at risk of closure because of the Republican bill that guts health care funding, per @protectourcare.org.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Lost on the Frontier - American Birding Association Conjectures—and some evidence—regarding why the Gray-headed Chickadee may have been extirpated from the ABA Area.

Gray-headed Chickadee aka Siberian Tit may now be extinct in North America #Ornithology 🌎🪶 @richardkbroughton.bsky.social
www.aba.org/lost-on-the-...

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

crimes. you mean he's doing crimes.

bucking tradition is wearing a white suit after labor day.

BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

Introducing BIRDBASE, which aims to be the world's most comprehensive avian trait ecology database. Article links to open access paper, & data in Excel spreadsheet. phys.org/news/2025-09... #science #environment #ecology #eco #biology #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #openaccess #datascience

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

This is a very smart idea that I hope @governorferguson.bsky.social is examining closely.

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Blue states need to band together to protect immigrants, science, health, and our values. Some of this is happening already, we just need to face what more we can and must do www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Details on how they're spending your taxpayer dollars here:

Fyi, this is the “political violence” they call “law and order.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

I just signed this. Please consider do so as well.

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Cover of book, the tortilla curtain

17 year old protagonist América encounters another protagonist - a coyote - in a canyon where she and her man Cándido refuge in between what menial labor they’re granted in s. CA

Paving of road along Poland’s state border barrier, initially erected to keep out people on the move from countries like Syria. Source of photo: Polish border guard

Published 30 yrs ago & as much or more of a book for our times: the tortilla curtain by @tcboyle.com — the well-off wall themselves in, from adaptable people & wildlife, but ultimately can’t keep out wildfires etc. Here’s excerpt I liked. And yeah, they be paving the border road here now. #ecocrime

Before I landed in academic public health, I wanted to start a long-term project on medical schools' complicity in the trafficking of cadavers. Harrowing stuff.

Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...

🚨 Penn is being pressured by the Trump Admin to sign the “Compact for Academic Excellence,” risking academic freedom & student rights. Tell leadership to say NO. Read the AAUP-Penn statement & sign the petition ✍️: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Very happy to share our new paper published in Current Biology !

We show that the “big bad wolf” actually fears humans for good reason.
It’s the first-ever playback experiment on wild wolves in Europe 🇵🇱🌲.

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Rafal Kowalczyk presents the “beauty and the beast” of wolves

Kathi Kasper tells us how one reason for wolves losing fear of us is protection and seeing us as less of a threat which should be celebrated

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski discusses the role of democracy, politics and NGO-academia cooperation in the protection of wolves in Poland, Germany and rest of Europe

Impressive bilingual meeting in Polish and in German organized by #Rewilding Oder Delta on the topic of #wolves and our interactions with them including mitigation of conflicts through #transboundary knowledge exchange. @rewildingeurope.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social

🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu

@livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social

figure outlining the 4 steps t this project: a worldview, integrating sociality, diversity, and observant meaning making

Super excited to be collaborator on great new article led by @ranadajani.bsky.social and Delaney Glass- "Doing Science With Our Grandmother's WISDOM:A Worldview Integrating Sociality, Diversity, and Observant Meaning-Making" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Why I study trauma's genetic legacy Rana Dajani's research includes identifying risk factors for type 2 diabetes, and genetic links to trauma.

ICYMI: @ranadajani.bsky.social in a @nature.com Careers podcast on why she's driven to help women and children scarred by war and trauma and why she's a big supporter of women in the Arab world pursuing science careers.

Why I study trauma's genetic legacy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

There can no longer be any pretence that our 'leaders' - in politics, business, or elsewhere across society - are seriously addressing the climate crisis

Where does that leave us? Where does that leave you?

Are we going to fight to defend our futures? Giving up is not an option

Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia Conservation surveillance, or the monitoring of people for conservation purposes, is a core component of coercive conservation governance. Over the la…

🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation!

'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30."

"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

a groundhog standing on its hind legs with the words " aaaahhhhhh !!! " behind it Alt: A large marmot who's just learned that he's plague positive screaming!

Reading this very important article on Covid origins and the genetic tracing of wildlife and viruses at the Huanan market. And...it turns out these markets sell Himalayan marmots. These animals are the source of the most transmissible and dangerous forms of...plague. And I'm just...

long overdue but good to see Israel’s monstrous campaign of genocide is finally shattering the international pro-apartheid consensus