Amanda Preece

Bravo to space.com for this deeply reported, lengthy piece.

Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished

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Worth remembering…

How many poor cities in the south gave away tax incentives & savings to build their goddamn huge ass plants in their cities in exchange for jobs???? Looking at you, Moses Mike Grindr Johnson.

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Two races: white and "political"
Two genders: Male and "political"
Two hair styles for women: long and "political"
Two sexualities: straight and "political"
Two body types: normative and "political"

Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃

Following California condors tagged with GPS transmitters, researchers have tracked their expanison in 2025 from the Central Coast to the East Bay and near Santa Barbara. Condor GPS activity in 2025 Sources: Ventana Wildlife Society, heat map provided by Evan McWreath/VWS PAI/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Meet the scientist exposing shrimp fraud across the South. 'I'm a little bit of an evangelist.' For years, Louisiana shrimpers have struggled to compete against cheap foreign imports and an ongoing pattern of mislabeling. According to the FDA, 95% of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported ...

As an example, in Florida's St. Petersburg-Tampa region, 96 percent of restaurants were found to be serving imported shrimp but describing it as locally caught Gulf shrimp.

A dapper plover names Gotawsi and their tiny fluffy chick at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, Ontario’s most successful and consistent nest site. Photo: Kalvin Chan.

Staff engaging and educating beach users on how plovers and people can safely share the beach.

Partners with Ontario Parks installing a trail camera to study predators and disturbance at a Piping Plover nest. The nest itself is within an exclosure -- a mesh pen to keep out predators, dogs and heavy human feet.

Two Birds Canada technicians monitor a nesting plover location. This is the most visible part of the Birds Canada program. From dusk to dawn, every day of the week, staff and volunteers are out on the sand collecting data, answering questions from the public, and helping beach users learn about the birds they share the shore with.

Science in the Sand: How We Protect Ontario’s Piping Plovers | @birdscanada.bsky.social | Bird conservation takes many different forms. This is a new series, where we give you a special look behind the scenes at how the work is done in the field. buff.ly/9HEin3E #PloverLovers #Birds #Conservation

Berkeley Bird Festival

Learn all about birbs this Sunday at the #Berkeley Bird Festival! 🐦🦜🐥🦅🕊️🦩🦆🦚🐧
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Someone asked me to consider sharing stories and legends from indigenous communities about sharks.

My professional development training for working in this space stressed the idea of "nothing about us without us," i.e., I should not be the one to tell their stories.

Sweet Potato Macaroni Cheese I’m just going to say it: this is the best macaroni cheese I’ve ever eaten. I don’t feel it’s boastful to say as much, as the greatness lies not in any brilliance on my part, but in the simple tastes ...

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving and although I know the Sweet Potato Macaroni Cheese that’s #RecipeOfTheDay doesn’t exactly fit the bill, it’s such a favourite, and I thought it could just possibly find a place at the table! www.nigella.com/recipes/swee...

Spinach Baked With Ricotta and Nutmeg Here is my Italian version, you could say, of creamed spinach. Actually, it tastes rather like the ricotta and spinach mixture that's used to stuff pasta; of course, given the ingredients, this is sca...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Spinach Baked with Nutmeg and Ricotta! And although it’s intended as a side dish, I have to say I can eat it all on its own quite happily. You’ll see what I mean once you’ve tasted it. www.nigella.com/recipes/spin...

Left: Locations of Brown Pelican roost sites that were included in the community science survey. Right: A picture of a Brown Pelican standing on a wooden post by the water.

Community science to help count Brown pelican.
New paper by Deborah L. Jaques et al.
#seabirds #OpenAccess #pelican

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My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:

Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

Sure why not! Support indies by ordering America’s favorite #roadecology masterpiece through Bookshop and I’ll send ya a free signed bookplate (DM w/ proof of purchase and address). Bezos will be absolutely *furious.*

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What Extreme Poverty Looks Like Ten percent of humanity struggles to live on under $2 a day. That, and the gap between the extremely poor and the more privileged, is important to see.

Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.

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Friendly neighborhood stress physiology enthusiast here to remind you to be gentle with yourself and members of your community!

To some degree everyday is unprecedented for your body (that’s how time works) but these times have some especially unprecedented stressors. We need care! Tips:

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Graphic with the following text followed by The Institute for Bird Populations logo: Emergency Appeal: Federal Funding Cut Last week 9 of our federal grants were abruptly cancelled without cause. If you can make a donation today, it will have a big impact. Thank you for your support, The Institute for Bird Populations

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

A page of drawings of Snowy Plovers. There are 7 birds visible on the page, two of the birds are squished together. There are basically three rows each with an adult bird and a juvenile bird. The first row has an adult first, standing head up in profile looking left then a juvenile in profile running to the left with the back leg up in a right angle. The words Anarhynchus rivosus are just above the first bird which is a juvenile running into the middle of the page in a three quarter view. Next to this bird is an adult in profile looking right with a juvenile shoving itself into the adults breast feathers, you can see the juveniles legs and some of its lower body. The final row has an adult foraging one leg down one leg up head down towards the ground going left to right. There is a juvenile on the right mirroring the adult except both legs are down. Both birds' front legs are angling further out towards the middle.

#PloverAppreciationDay late entry This group of Snowy Plovers seen near the UC Santa Barbara breeding zone beach. Even knowing what we were looking for these little birds, we still kept almost walking into them. They blended in perfectly until they would move. None were harmed. #Birds

Someone was surprised to learn that I yeet bugs out instead of *gently relocating* them.

I appreciate the gesture. But in the tropics, seeing bugs where they shouldn't be is an hourly—not weekly thing. You learn what can survive a yeet to save time.

In this thread I'm rating animal yeetability.

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

The latest issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social has one of the loveliest covers I've seen--and I am lucky enough to have the cover story. The article, though, which examines the Trump Administration's attack on US public lands and environmental law, is not nearly as pretty. #publiclands

The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration's plans.

Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.

A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:

I'm finally starting this project to watch the entire Touchstone Pictures filmography (every film associated with the Disney label whether through production or distribution) from 1984-2016 & share my thoughts on each release in this thread. Follow along as I revisit the hits, misses & obscurities.

schnip schnap, they're eating my peas

Incredible story from Alexander Wilson, America's first ornithologist, in 1812.

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

Up in the clouds with Black Swifts Podcast Episode · The Warblers by Birds Canada · 2025-09-02 · 34m

So this episode was an exciting one. I didn’t know anything about black swifts before this and wow, are they fascinating! Like my beloved summer neighbours the chimney swifts (gone south weeks ago already 😭), these birds live in the air for months at a time.
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So even as we condemn political violence, we need to be clear of the legacy of Turning Point USA. Those who are whitewashing its work as a “free speech and debate” organization are willfully obscuring the truth. 8/

The Excitement Of Touching The Eccentric Woodcock On The Back