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Barbara Moran @moranwriter.bsky.social · 7d

So much for those clean energy grants...In Massachusetts, $466 million to support more than two dozen projects is being rescinded. Gov Healey calls the Trump administration move "vindictive." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Trump administration cuts nearly $8 billion in clean energy projects in states that backed Harris, including Mass.

In Massachusetts, $466 million in grants to support more than two dozen projects are being rescinded, according to Gov. Maura Healey's office.

www.wbur.org

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 7d

Mama & baby southern white rhino, Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia. Under 24/7 armed guard against poachers, these are 2 of ~16,000 in the wild.
#wildlife #naturerocks #conservation 🦏

Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 7d

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@forbes.com #migration #birds #naturerocks

Meet The 19th Century Bird That Landed In Europe With An African Spear In Its Neck — Solving The ‘Mystery Of Migration’

Migratory birds embody some of the most intricate evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom, without which their journeys would be impossible. Here’s how the Pfeilstorch taught us this.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 19d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 16d

What a perfect day for a bioblitz with @umassboston.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social & TedxBoston!
#bioblitz #citsci #massnature #getoutside

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 16d

Happy #NationalPublicLandsDay from Cranberry Pond in Braintree, MA

#publiclands #massnature #getoutside

clouds and changing leaves reflected in a pond

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Nature @nature.com · 23d

“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. The stakes are not theoretical — we have already seen the largest [US] measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children.”

go.nature.com/4213aJO

Three ways ex-CDC chief says that Trump team is sidelining science

Nature - Susan Monarez testifies at tense Senate hearing that scientific integrity is being quashed at US health agency.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23d

Last week @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

carnegieendowment.org

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 23d

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

#fluoride #publichealth #evidence

What happened when Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply

Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to end the federal recommendation that municipalities add fluoride to their drinking water. Amid the renew...

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 23d

www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
#JustTransition #ClimateSolutions

New Bedford fisherman who found lifeline with offshore wind project hopes Trump reverses course

The Revolution Wind project off the Rhode Island coast was about 80% built before it was recently stopped mid-construction.

www.cbsnews.com

Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 24d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

#OceanOptimism @nytimes.com

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

www.nytimes.com

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 28d

Covid and flu vaccines accomplished- thank you @massgovernor.bsky.social!

#VaccinesSaveLives

A woman wearing a shuck the patriarchy shirt and a white bandaid with a red heart on her left shoulder

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 13

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 29d

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#naturebasedsolutions

Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. (Gift Article)

Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

www.nytimes.com

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 29d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#cleanair #publichealth @theguardian.com

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests

Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · 29d

www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...

@theguardian.com

Between Moon Tides: hacking nature to save the saltmarsh sparrow documentary

On a quiet ribbon of saltmarsh in Rhode Island, septuagenarian Deirdre isn’t prepared to accept the loss of her beloved saltmarsh sparrow - the species is facing extinction before 2050 due to elevated...

www.theguardian.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29d

Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · Sep 12

#FridayFeelings

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Sep 7

The U.S. Open asked that news organizations not cover protests of Trump's appearance. The NYT did anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 7

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Sep 6

It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.

16th Street in NW DC, the road filled with demonstrators carrying signs and marching, with the trees of Malcolm X Park visible in e background.

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · Sep 5

We will not yield.

STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAWSUIT AGAINST BOSTON

This unconstitutional attack on our city is not a surprise. Boston is a thriving community, the economic and cultural hub of New England, and the safest major city in the country — but this administration is intent on attacking our community to advance their own authoritarian agenda. This is our City, and we will vigorously defend our laws and the constitutional rights of cities, which have been repeatedly upheld in courts across the country. We will not yield.

MAYOR MICHELLE WU

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Alison Bowden @alisonbowden.bsky.social · Sep 3

Orbweaver and shadow

#spiders #naturerocks

An brown speckled Orbweaver spider and its shadow on a white background

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 31

“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

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