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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦
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Western US-focused precision agronomist CCA, P.Ag (Alberta Institute of Agrologists) Australian/Canadian, now in Cali Average triathlete & photographer #ResistTheEchoChamber
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Finding my way around as a newbie here, I thought I'd start a Starter Pack to help global ag professionals & farmers get connected

Who am I missing?

#agriculture #agsky #farming #agribusiness

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A tree growing out of a cliff over the River Murray at Blanchetown.
And a cormorant.
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Here is a leaf of flowering dogwood with bright red leaf cells, nearly dead, but veins of yellow and green, still functioning to export nitrogen and magnesium products made from the breakdown of chlorophyll. Read more at Our Trees, where you can also comment or ask questions about autumn colors.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
Following up on yesterday’s story about autumn colors, here is a flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) leaf in its fall glory that illustrates much of what we discussed. The leaf is glowing in the sun, a...
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Colleague took these of the #MadreFire currently burning 80,000+ ac in Kern, SLO & Santa Barbara Counties

#californiafire
😆 honestly, it’s already happening and I have a strong love hate relationship with it 😅
Actually: the county that became the destination of the original 49ers
It’s a complicated story 🤷‍♂️
First Canada Day as a citizen. Toasting to the Great White North from south of the 49th 🍻 🇨🇦

#canadaday
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Pig domestication in China’s Lower Yangtze River region began 8,000 years ago, about the same time as rice farming. The dates were estimated through microfossils found in the mineralized plaque of Neolithic pig teeth. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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BREAKING | CTP-ISW is tracking reports that Iran is conducting attacks against US bases in Qatar and Iraq. Further information and detailed analysis will be available in our forthcoming evening update. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...
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Damage to Iran's Fordow fuel enrichment facility after U.S. strikes is visible in new imagery from Maxar.
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🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?
I remember looking up at the Sierras this afternoon and admiring their beauty amongst dark clouds. This is tragic 😢
Exactly! I think Canada has drifted away from some conservative viewpoints in the shock of it all.

Seems like maybe Australia is experiencing the same to a lesser degree, looking at the 6 month poll data?
I don’t really have a dog in that fight, Ross. I lived in Alberta which is more conservative and was pretty anti-Trudeau, and it seems from my chats that those same people have reason to dislike Carney 🤷‍♂️ both Carney & Pierre are a step up from the calibre on display south of the border, in my books!
Brinkmanship negotiations seem to be going well

#tariffs
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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
Why does she look like someone from the wrong side of the Hunger Games
Posting for posterity

Lots of echoes over on X

#tariffs #econsky
Boom 💥

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Demanding subservience sounds like a winning strategy
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
www.washingtonpost.com
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Here’s my account on Flashes, a photo sharing app. All my followers can automatically find me as soon as they log in!

This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.