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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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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Nov 16

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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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · Sep 11

A tree growing out of a cliff over the River Murray at Blanchetown.
And a cormorant.

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · Sep 11

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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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jul 8

Colleague took these of the #MadreFire currently burning 80,000+ ac in Kern, SLO & Santa Barbara Counties

#californiafire

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jul 3

😆 honestly, it’s already happening and I have a strong love hate relationship with it 😅

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jul 2

Actually: the county that became the destination of the original 49ers

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you very much, sir! 🫡

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jul 2

It’s a complicated story 🤷‍♂️

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jul 2

First Canada Day as a citizen. Toasting to the Great White North from south of the 49th 🍻 🇨🇦

#canadaday

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Jun 25

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/...

Examples of pig tooth specimens from Kuahuqiao and Jingtoushan.
CREDIT: Jiajing Wang

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Critical Threats Project @criticalthreats.bsky.social · Jun 23

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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Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social · Jun 22

Damage to Iran's Fordow fuel enrichment facility after U.S. strikes is visible in new imagery from Maxar.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Jun 18

🧵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/?

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Intel Night OWL 🦉🇺🇸 @intelnightowl.bsky.social · Jun 22

The #Iran #parliament has approved the closure of the #Strait of #Hormuz after the #US launched strikes against the country’s #nuclear #facilities.

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

US-Iran attack latest: Iran votes to close Strait of Hormuz

The Iranian parliament has approved the closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the US launched strikes against the country’s nuclear facilities.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jun 22

I remember looking up at the Sierras this afternoon and admiring their beauty amongst dark clouds. This is tragic 😢

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Jun 22

A boat capsized on Lake Tahoe during a sudden storm, leaving six people dead and two missing. The Coast Guard and local agencies are continuing search efforts near D.L. Bliss State Park.

6 dead, 2 missing after boat capsizes on Lake Tahoe during sudden storm

A boat capsized on Lake Tahoe during a sudden storm, leaving six people dead and two missing. The Coast Guard and local agencies are continuing search efforts near D.L. Bliss State Park.

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Apr 8

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?

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Apr 8

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!

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Apr 8

Brinkmanship negotiations seem to be going well

#tariffs

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 3

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Apr 3

Those penguins have been taking advantage of us for too long www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

www.wired.com

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Apr 3

Why does she look like someone from the wrong side of the Hunger Games

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Apr 3

Posting for posterity

Lots of echoes over on X

#tariffs #econsky

Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Apr 3

Boom 💥

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Gus Skinner 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 @agronomygus.bsky.social · Mar 30

Demanding subservience sounds like a winning strategy

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Mar 29

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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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 29

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.

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