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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1h

this explains… a lot

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 3h

“were you between the ages of 18 and 22 in 2000”

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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 3h

amazing graph from @amandamull.bsky.social's latest that explains everything from lift pass pricing to vehicle design www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 12h

ornithologists in freshwater wetlands:

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 13h

Sora? I hardly knowa.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 4d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 11d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 22h

Bellingham is an awesome town with some fantastic mountain biking!!!

Robyn Mieko Dahl @dahlgeoed.bsky.social · 23h

The Geology Dept at WWU is hiring an Assistant Prof in Hydrology! Come be my colleague in a great department! More info in the attached flyer, and at hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology

About Western: Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

About the Geology Department: The Geology Department has 17 faculty, offering BA, BS and MS programs in Geology, Geophysics, and Science Education, serving approximately 190 majors. The department has strengths in field and lab-based teaching and research in geomorphology, igneous petrology, geophysics, hydrogeology and envionmental/engineering geology, planetary geology, sedimentology, science education, and structure/tectonics.

Additional information about our programs can be found at https://geology.wwu.edu/. The Geology Department strives to further Western's identity as an institution that welcomes and embraces diversity and encourages applications from diverse candidates.

About the Position: The ideal candidate will support our department's ability to produce workforce-ready geoscientists. We seek individuals who are enthusiastic about teaching and who will establish a productive research program that involves undergraduate and Master's-level students. Broad areas of research interest may include, but | are not limited to, groundwater-surface water interactions, environmental hydrogeology, and groundwater systems (e.g-geothermal, fault zone, coastal, mountain). Teaching responsibilities will in…

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 22h

I always tip 20% out of gratitude that I have never had to work in food service.

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1d

(regardless, I hope you have a great time! I’ve always wanted to visit Maine; my dad lived there for a while as a kid.)

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice sentiment, but judging from the conversations I had in Toronto over the summer, not sure it’s going to work.

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 1d

as a Map Guy I feel obliged to comment on Columbus Day: Columbus was a monster, even by the standards of his time and, relevant to my purposes, was a crappy geographer. He thought going West to Asia was possible because he had a laughably incorrect estimate of the circumference of the globe.

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 1d

A joyous Indigenous Peoples day to you all! And if you're struggling to quit the OTHER mid October holiday cold turkey, may I interest you in an Italian who was a better mapmaker, better explorer, actually visited New England, and didn't (as far as anyone knows) murder anyone?
Giovanni da Verrazzano

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Abbott Elementary promo photo of Lisa Ann Walter in character as Melissa Schemmenti

She's holding a chalkboard with spots for people to fill in into about themselves, reading as follows

MY NAME IS Melissa Schemmenti
MY FAVORITE SUBJECT History of the Renaissance & Lunch
HOBBIES NFL, Plotting Revenge
GO TO SNACK pizza, ziti, brasciole, cannoli, cutlets, grain pie, napoleons, pignioli, pasta [it's still going and getting harder to read but you get the point]
FAVORITE BOOK None of your business
CLASSROOM WISH LIST It's ok I got a guy for that

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1d

Call me next time, man!

Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up in this tradition and cannot agree more. I hope we see more of this moving forward.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 5d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

radio.garden

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LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 2d

This is brilliant!

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WatergrlJD @watergrljd.bsky.social · 1d

Found these mystery objects in the water below the Fair Oaks Bridge during a scuba cleanup dive.

Does anyone know what they are? Fish tags of some kind?

Circular silvery tags attached to fabric or thread backing. But what are they?

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1d

This is great, I’m also glad to hear there are still Paulists around!

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 1d

brought the wrong waders

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 2d

“I am a god-like genius within my tech company → therefore I can solve S.F.→ oh no I couldn’t solve S.F. → what the US needs is to elect Trump and burn it all down”

is a horrifyingly frequent path and, if you don’t have the brain rot, suffers from several obvious problems at each →

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 2d

Oh dear. You may have to call a professional, then - good luck!!!

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Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 2d

Awarding these scholarships is my society's most gratifying activity. Applications are now open.

Northern California Geological Society @norcalgeolsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Applications are being accepted now for the NCGS 2025-26 Richard Chambers Memorial Scholarship. These $2000 awards go to graduate students to support geological research projects in/near Northern California. More info and application form on the Scholarships page. ncgeolsoc.org/scholarships/

Scholarships

NCGS Richard Chambers Memorial Scholarships Recipients of the Richard Chambers Memorial Scholarship are chosen from graduate-level applicants who submit an application that describes their proposed…

ncgeolsoc.org

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhh I had to do this once at my mom’s house, at 2 AM on the landing to the second floor outside everyone’s bedrooms. I used a shoebox to trap the bat against the wall, then slid the lid to the shoebox between the wall and the bat, and then threw the shoebox off the front porch. NO ONE WOKE UP. 🤩

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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