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📣 Our team at @nhm.org is #hiring a Program Manager to support our community science programs and integrated social-ecological research. Full time temporary (on grant $) for 4 months, then part-time permanent. Application review begins Jan 5 - apply and/or share widely!

tinyurl.com/NHMCS2025

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Please join us for a special panel with our team today, December 11 at 4 CT / 5 ET. We’ll share insights on the political changes we’re watching and what it means for polar bears and their Arctic home. Register here: pbears.org/44wJj6D 🌎

🦋🧪🌎 Scientists from Point Blue & @xercessociety.bsky.social are using Bluetooth-enabled ultra-light radio tags to track butterflies! This new tech provides unprecedented data and helps scientists guide #conservation actions to support the iconic #MonarchButterfly migration. Watch: shorturl.at/UbwPI

Until now, African Hornbills have had no international protection, but a new global decision to regulate their trade will help countries stop illegal trafficking and give these birds the chance to recover.💪

Together, we’re helping secure their future.🌿

Learn more: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...

12 Days of BirdLife: Our 2025 Highlights As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on everything our Partnership and supporters have accomplished and want to thank all who have made these achievements possible.

Our year in review!🎉

As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on everything our Partnership and supporters have accomplished and want to thank all who have made these achievements possible.🙌

Explore our 2025 highlights through the 12 Days of BirdLife here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...

‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well

Have read this several times. A good man and a good journalist.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The great @markavery.bsky.social has a new book out co-written with Colin Rees . It focusses on 2024 from two birders either side of the pond – birds , wildlife , politics , the changing seasons – it's all in there + half the profits go to @wildjustice.bsky.social ! Get yours at chrispackh.am/93ade7

Great listen on a huge scandal . Worth checking out . . .

A male Collared Trogon perched among ferns on a mossy branch with soft green forest in the background

A male Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris) we met up on the higher elevation trails of Quebradas biological reserve in Costa Rica.
#trogon
#birdphotography
#ornithology
#birdwatching
#costarica
#birds

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SCOOP: A Top Trump Official Has Financial Ties To Controversial Nevada Lithium Project Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...

#ornithology
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Courtship display behavior influences tail myology in Centrocercus minimus (Gunnison sage‐grouse) Courtship displays among birds are widespread, particularly those which incorporate raised tail feathers for extended periods of time. The Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) is such a specie...

#ornithology
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EU Commission jeopardises nature and health safeguards EU law-dismantling proposals mark a dangerous turn toward weaker rules and increased public health risks.

www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...

One week left before pesticides stay indefinitely On 16 December, the EU Commission will propose to water down laws that control pesticide.

❌ Tell the EU: our health isn't "red tape." Keep strong pesticide protections → www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...

Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In. My family's olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they're still here—and so are we.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Amazing to see all the different ways people are slowing and stopping Federal abductions.

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Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative Caucus and joining the Liberals.

Do I love that Pierre Poilievre is bleeding members? Heck yes.

Do I hate that the Liberals are so conservative that it's enticing Conservatives to join them? Heck yes.

‘Hammer, paint, scrape’: Unconventional Hamilton art exhibit highlights ecological devastation “Log Hammer Landscapes” will have its closing show on Dec. 13 at 7 p.m.

www.thespec.com/entertainmen...

Strigiformology (OWLS) with Dr. R.J. Gutiérrez — alie ward Part 1: OWLS. FINALLY. In no particular order: what’s up with their eyes, legs, hoots, feathers, silent flight, nests, folklore, necks, barfs, conservation status, and omens? Go take a walk or sit on...

Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social is one of the best podcasts. And of course I'm biased but this is one of my favorite episodes ever: strigiformology, the science of owls! Plus it features Dr. Rocky Gutiérrez. @jonathanslaght.com also gets a mention. 🧪 🪶 www.alieward.com/ologies/stri...

How Trump’s Free Pass to Polluters will Harm Americans More than one-third of coal plants and other polluting facilities have been exempted from clear air rules.

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Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

📢 Working on land atmosphere-interactions and their role in shaping climate extremes?

🌍 Consider submitting an abstract to our European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) 2026 session:

Land-atmosphere interactions and climate extremes (CL4.4): meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

The Nation's Data at Risk - 2025 Report The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians, the “Big Tent for Statistics.

Credible, objective federal data and statistics are essential for informing decisions that affect the nation’s economy, governance, and well-being. But this crucial information is at risk. A new report from @amstatnews.bsky.social lays out what’s at stake.

What Authoritarian Regimes Do As we speak, the Trump administration is abandoning principles of democracy and dismantling the rule of law. The willful destruction of the federal science apparatus is but one harmful and onerous asp...

These and other hallmarks of authoritarianism are on full display right now in the United States. See them for what they are – and spread the word.

Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.

Authoritarianism 101: Punish people and institutions who speak out against the regime. A chilling @reuters.com analysis documents the administration’s ongoing efforts to suppress dissent and identifies at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership.