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Ian Rose

@ianrosewrites.bsky.social

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Science & nature writer living on Kalapuya lands (Corvallis, OR). Vulturnalist. Recent bylines in Scientific American, Sierra, Smithsonian and more. Undiagnosed, but everyone's pretty sure. Go Birds. https://ianrosewrites.com/bibliography

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 5d

ARCUS was important. It jumpstarted careers in science. It amplified voices that have too long been left out of research. It did all that and more for very little money, and now it's gone, arguably when we need it most.

My latest for Sierra:
#science #arctic

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/end-e...

The End of an Era for Arctic Research

The loss of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States leaves an uncertain future for science in the Far North

www.sierraclub.org

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 3h

The 4-0 teams sure are going through it. Go Birds. Go Bills.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 4h

UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

www.adn.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 14h

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 19h

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 11h

Small detail re: the former station reporter now FPropagandist who complained NPR "inserted" the word racist into a headline. I was an NPR correspondent covering race. I had to fight tooth & nail to call objectively racist things racist.

I was also told that systemic racism was a "contested topic"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

John Oliver is good at his job

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 15h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
Reply
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15h

CBS News picking up an anti-Mamdani story from The Free Press and...misspelling his name. Oy.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 19h

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 1d

At least 20 people are unaccounted for in Kwigillingok, in the Y-K Delta as of Sunday morning, and several homes were flooded and carried away by the remnants of Typhoon Halong - the worst storm on record.

Damage is still being assessed along the coast of Western Alaska
www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.

www.kyuk.org

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 1d

I will henceforth be referring to them as the Sunday Spookies, because it makes my anxiety more festive and seasonal.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Such a diversity of fungi in such a short walk. Beazell Memorial Forest is one of my favorite places in Oregon this time of year.
#oregon #fungi #nature

Light yellow mushrooms coming out of a base of rotting wood and leaves.

Rows of turkey tail like shelf mushrooms emerging from a decaying log.

A large white mushroom with a brown circle in the center of its cap and a ring on its stem, surrounded by green leaves on the forest floor.

Small shiny white mushrooms growing out of a pine cone on a leafy forest floor.

Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Met a friend on the trail.
#oregon #pnw

A salamander crawling toward the camera, mostly brown with orange underneath and black eyes, on a dirt and rocky path.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 3d

This guy's awful racist beliefs aside, "He says his influence is growing" is a criminally bad headline. Just a fireable, professional laughing stock for life, sort of headline.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 3d

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 4d

The coming national horror is that if Portland's *truly* minimal level of protest justifies federalizing and deploying troops, they can and will be federalized and deployed anywhere the President wants and whenever he wants.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 4d

My initial read on this argument: Judge Nelson is eager to disagree with his 9th Cir. colleagues that federalizing the NG is reviewable at all.

He's also eager to disagree with Judge Immergut that the Portland protests were small and under control.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 4d

McArthur about the ICE protesters: "these are violent people." Says the president is entitled to say "enough is enough."

Asks for a stay pending appeal. Sits.

Argument is over.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 3d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not curious about the theft machine. I write my poems, I don't delegate, I want the air in South Memphis to be breathable.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Cascade PBS Newsroom @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social · 3d

As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital-first news operation, we take a look back at some of the stories that exemplify its impact on the region over the past 18 years, first as Crosscut and later as the Cascade PBS newsroom.

Remembering Crosscut: 18 years of independent journalism in WA

As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital newsroom, formerly Crosscut, current and former staff members reflect on some of the outlet’s impactful reporting.

www.cascadepbs.org

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Friday specifically to these polyamorous Omani Egyptian vultures.

#birds #vultures #NatureIsQueer

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

High occurrence of polygynous trios in a dense Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus population

Field surveys and camera traps close to nest sites were used to study the nesting biology of a dense population of Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus on Masirah Island, Oman. Camera-trap image...

www.tandfonline.com

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 3d

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 3d

I'll say it again. The media continues to insist that Vought is laying people off because of the shutdown. Did the DOGE firings happen during a shutdown? No, they just did it.

He was always going to do mass firings. See Project 2025. They're just being cute thinking they can blame the Dems.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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grace @omalliecatt.news · 4d

astronaut looking at philly sports teams: “it’s just endlesss suffering?”
astronaut pointing a gun at the other: “always has been”

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 4d

Free baseball!

(I hate this. But I don't want the season to be over, so I'll take a chance and at least another ten minutes or so.)

Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 4d

Go Birds. Go Phils. Go Flyers also, sure. Big Philly sports night, and I'm experiencing it mostly as background while I work.