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• San Francisco Bay Area • Queer • Too many nature pix • FAIR and open gov science in the public interest • Geoscience • Water Resources • Birds! • Public Lands • Burrowing Owl & Pupfish stan acct • This is a personal account, obviously 🙄

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · Jan 9

Sure, doom scrolling is great, but have you tried bird scrolling? Crank up the volume and enjoy a few seconds of noisy nature calm!

Sacramento NWR, December 2024.
#birds #birding

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3h

Oh that sounds so rough! I'm sorry you are dealing with such a long bout.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3h

Is this a rebound? Either way, sending punk orcas to scare off the covid.

Topiary made to look like an adult and a juvenile orca. Each one has a large grassy plant growing out of what should be their blow hole, but it looks more like a punk hairstyle.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3h

If you haven't already...

Contact the conference organizers and ask if they offer or know of any support or discounts.

Contact affinity groups you might be part of and ask the same.

Ask your dept & univ financial aid office if they have any donors who offer small scholarships like this.

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 1d

Turned out a downpour was the perfect time to visit Goldstream Provincial Park in BC!

This time of year salmon swim up Finlayson Arm into the Goldstream River to spawn.

Different species seek out different optimal water temperature ranges, so climate change impacts on river temp affect migration.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 1d

"'We did not consent to playing the video in its current form, as we believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,' said Molly Prescott, spokesperson for the Port of Portland."

Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 1d

The account/situation I was referring to posted about this & quoted from what is detailed in this article as *an email to CNN specifically* So dude read an article that was posted on CNN.com 4 hours ago & posted it with no source to his feed 3 hours ago like he had a scoop.

I fucking hate it here

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 2d

Is that ... a blowup anglerfish costume in the background?

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 2d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 2d

Recently got to hear @modacitylife.com talk about their new book, Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation. It struck me that many of the leadership qualities they highlighted are also what the US desperately needs (but is lacking) from so-called national leaders right now.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett on stage speaking. The slide displayed behind them has a picture of a woman with a bicycle, with the words, lead with empathy.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett on stage speaking. The slide displayed behind them has a picture of a person walking, with the words, have a long-term vision.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett on stage speaking. The slide displayed behind them has a picture of a woman standing, with the words, build alliances.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett on stage speaking. The slide displayed behind them has a picture of a woman standing, with the words, value the work of care.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3d

Made a quick trip to use a restaurant's restroom tonight and ... the inside door handle was missing & I couldn't get out 🤦‍♂️

After increasingly urgent banging on the door, someone heard me 😅.

So anyway, there's the start of your next trans-themed horror novella.

Happy coming out day, everyone 😆

a cartoon of tinkerbell is standing in a lantern

Alt: Animated gif of tinkerbell locked in a lantern cage

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3d

I guess at least it wasn't some red & gold nod to the current regime? But wtf is this? Just some attempt at playboy Uncle Sam.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3d

Mr United States. Look, at least it's not an unironed Superman costume bought from a cheap costume shop, but my gods USA, what the fuck is this? I mean, I guess it does say a lot about the US as a country, but probably not what you want it to say...

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3d

Mr China coming in hard with the first of the traditional and *stunning* looks. There's just the right element of cosplay to the look, the colours are stunning and we love a weapon as a prop in Mister Global (fnar). Although the shoe looks oddly clunky. Minor quibble though.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3d

Refreshing.

CA elected officials should be this vocal, should be taking action to protect and advance trans rights & safety. If you don't, next time we'll vote in someone else who actually respects & fights for human dignity.

@governor.ca.gov @jessearreguin.bsky.social @buffywicks.bsky.social

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 3d

I'm mostly offline for the next week or so, but ... they RIF'd over 4k US federal employees!

Actively dismantling the federal government, gutting it. 😡

And don't fall for the essential/non-essential classification during the shutdown. It has no relevance to the overall importance of a role.

thehill.com

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the tip!

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 5d

I just re-watched this last week and got a good laugh at this scene, too.

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

Magic happened! The people in my row asked if I would mind taking the window seat. 🎉 🎉

Will be too dark for the cascades, but at least I'll get some bay sunset views.

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

Sadly on tonight's flight, I do not have a window seat. 😭

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

One of my friends sent me some tourist photos of folks wearing tshirts with related language on them, and we were 💯 certain the people wearing them did not know the term or what the tshirt actually meant 🙈

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

Ha, me, too! I finally gave up and tried to be ok with photos of random locations that I can't track down 😆

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, correction, there was a brief period for a couple months in 2023.

But given current anti-trans policies and practices and hate happening federally, and my age, I can't foresee ever being back in federal service.

Which is unfortunate, that was a major priority in my professional choices.

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

Huh. Just occurred to me that for the first time in over 25 years, I don't have a job where I have to consider the hatch act.

It never particularly affected my activities. But now I might need to give that some more thought and do some stuff, just because I can 😆

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

I have so many photos of the middle of the country, basically any rivers I can see, irrigation plots, o&g drilling sites, etc 😄

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

Sadly on tonight's flight, I do not have a window seat. 😭

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

#AlwaysWindowSeat 🤩🤣

The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 6d

AND FINALLY: the fourth matchup of snow-dominated catchments in Round 1:

McMurdo vs Tapado!

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!! www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup

#CatchmentCup2025

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 6d

I'm totally not biased. It's just true 🌊 😄

AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee @agu-sensing.bsky.social · 6d

We* may be biased, but the East River watershed is an amazing living laboratory for interdisciplinary distributed sensing. Researchers have come together from all over to collect water samples, do distributed temperature sensing studies, fly thermal IR drone surveys, and much, much more.

Photo of USGS researchers flying a thermal infrared camera on a small quadcopter. They are standing on a grassy valley hillside. The meandering East River is visible to the right. The background is grassy and tree-covered mountains, with a larger more barren mountain in the distance.

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