Jean V. Adams
@jvacreate.bsky.social
Painter (jvacreate.com), concerned US citizen, fan of democracy, skeptic of capitalism, aspiring fiddler, hiker, retired statistician / fish biologist, Wisconsinite.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
I’ve roughed out a painting of a cow in a quilt pattern. I like the result … in concept, but it’s not quite there yet. I’m mulling over a number of changes. Different cow. Different colors. … jvacreate.com/2025/10/24/q...
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I’ve roughed out a painting of a cow in a quilt pattern. I like the result … in concept, but it’s not quite there yet. I’m mulling over a number of changes. Different cow. Different colors. … jvacreate.com/2025/10/24/q...
My painting of a friend’s house titled “Welcome”, was shown in a statewide exhibition last month. Then it was chosen from the statewide exhibit to be on display for a full year at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at UW-Madison!
jvacreate.com/2025/09/27/s...
jvacreate.com/2025/09/27/s...
Statewide exhibition
One of my works was shown in a statewide exhibition today. My painting of a friend’s house titled “Welcome”, was even featured on the front page of the program for the exhibit. Th…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My painting of a friend’s house titled “Welcome”, was shown in a statewide exhibition last month. Then it was chosen from the statewide exhibit to be on display for a full year at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at UW-Madison!
jvacreate.com/2025/09/27/s...
jvacreate.com/2025/09/27/s...
@us.theguardian.com You report on Trump family buying land for a golf course in Vietnam with cash compensation “as little as” $12 per square meter. That’s $48,500/acre, which is almost 10 times the average price of irrigated land in the US. Is that right???
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Farmers displaced by $1.5bn Trump golf course reportedly being offered rice and cash
White House denies suggestions resort in Vietnam presents conflict of interest amid row over compensation rates
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@us.theguardian.com You report on Trump family buying land for a golf course in Vietnam with cash compensation “as little as” $12 per square meter. That’s $48,500/acre, which is almost 10 times the average price of irrigated land in the US. Is that right???
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
My painting of Kirkjufell (literally “church mountain”) near Grundarfjörður, #Iceland. I worked from a sketch I had made while boating past the mountain last summer. A remarkable sight.
12 x 9 inch, acrylic on wood.
#acryllic #landscape #painting #paletteknife
jvacreate.com/2025/06/15/i...
12 x 9 inch, acrylic on wood.
#acryllic #landscape #painting #paletteknife
jvacreate.com/2025/06/15/i...
June 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My painting of Kirkjufell (literally “church mountain”) near Grundarfjörður, #Iceland. I worked from a sketch I had made while boating past the mountain last summer. A remarkable sight.
12 x 9 inch, acrylic on wood.
#acryllic #landscape #painting #paletteknife
jvacreate.com/2025/06/15/i...
12 x 9 inch, acrylic on wood.
#acryllic #landscape #painting #paletteknife
jvacreate.com/2025/06/15/i...
My latest painting (a mini mural) is now on display as part of a summer scavenger hunt for art in downtown Antigo, Wisconsin. “Nice to Meet Blue”, 24 x 24 inch, acrylic on wood. jvacreate.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My latest painting (a mini mural) is now on display as part of a summer scavenger hunt for art in downtown Antigo, Wisconsin. “Nice to Meet Blue”, 24 x 24 inch, acrylic on wood. jvacreate.com
The end of informed #GreatLakes Fish Mgmnt is at hand. My heart aches 4 former colleagues, the future of the GL, & all the small businesses that depend on GL fishing: hotels, restaurants, marinas, charter & commercial fishers, fish shops, vibrant small towns that dot the shoreline. shorturl.at/Wilzt
May 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The end of informed #GreatLakes Fish Mgmnt is at hand. My heart aches 4 former colleagues, the future of the GL, & all the small businesses that depend on GL fishing: hotels, restaurants, marinas, charter & commercial fishers, fish shops, vibrant small towns that dot the shoreline. shorturl.at/Wilzt
Ugh. This is my former agency, where I spent much of my career on Great Lakes fish research. www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Ugh. This is my former agency, where I spent much of my career on Great Lakes fish research. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Every single Republican in the Wisconsin Congressional delegation just voted on a budget resolution to cut billions in federal funds for BadgerCare, directly endangering their most vulnerable constituents, while adding trillions to the national debt.
April 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Every single Republican in the Wisconsin Congressional delegation just voted on a budget resolution to cut billions in federal funds for BadgerCare, directly endangering their most vulnerable constituents, while adding trillions to the national debt.
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This study, co-authored by my UW–Madison colleague Dietram A. Scheufele, confirms what many of us know: Black women in STEM face deep, persistent bias. We must keep pushing for equity. I stand with Black women in science. Always. #Blacksky #STEM #SciComm #UWLSC
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This study, co-authored by my UW–Madison colleague Dietram A. Scheufele, confirms what many of us know: Black women in STEM face deep, persistent bias. We must keep pushing for equity. I stand with Black women in science. Always. #Blacksky #STEM #SciComm #UWLSC
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm donating two paintings to the annual fundraising auction for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. They will be available for bidding on-line starting Sunday April 6 (I'll post again when the auction opens up).
April 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'm donating two paintings to the annual fundraising auction for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. They will be available for bidding on-line starting Sunday April 6 (I'll post again when the auction opens up).
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Go Emily Ford! She is so amazing. She was also the first woman to thru-hike the Ice Age trail in the winter (over 1000 milkes!)
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Published on Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Published on Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Minnesota Iditarod finisher aims to encourage more women of color
This year's Iditarod route was 120 miles longer than normal as the route had to be changed due to a lack of snow. But Emily Ford still finished 18th out of 33 mushers in her first go at it.
www.cbsnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Go Emily Ford! She is so amazing. She was also the first woman to thru-hike the Ice Age trail in the winter (over 1000 milkes!)
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Exactly, Stephen.
Colbert Hilariously Loses It After Hegseth Tries To Throw Atlantic Journalist Under The Bus Over War Plans Group Chat
Stephen Colbert is all of us.
www.comicsands.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Exactly, Stephen.
I've got three pieces hanging in the Antigo Visual Arts gallery right now. The first one was selected to go to the Association of Wisconsin Artists’ statewide exhibit! Woohoo!
#art #landscape #acrylic #paletteknife #mixedmedia #collage
#art #landscape #acrylic #paletteknife #mixedmedia #collage
March 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I've got three pieces hanging in the Antigo Visual Arts gallery right now. The first one was selected to go to the Association of Wisconsin Artists’ statewide exhibit! Woohoo!
#art #landscape #acrylic #paletteknife #mixedmedia #collage
#art #landscape #acrylic #paletteknife #mixedmedia #collage
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March 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
March 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
We “made tremendous conservation gains the past five decades, but we can still lose them faster than our parents and grandparents built them.” - Patrick Durkin
www.patrickdurkinoutdoors.com/post/federal...
www.patrickdurkinoutdoors.com/post/federal...
Federal Job Cuts Could Derail Conservation’s Many Gains
After living our entire life in the most comfortable society ever created by hard work, sound science, free speech and hitherto intelligent leadership, it’s hard to imagine any other world. Heck. Th...
www.patrickdurkinoutdoors.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We “made tremendous conservation gains the past five decades, but we can still lose them faster than our parents and grandparents built them.” - Patrick Durkin
www.patrickdurkinoutdoors.com/post/federal...
www.patrickdurkinoutdoors.com/post/federal...
I dropped Twitter, Instagram, Amazon Prime. Switched from Amazon's Goodreads to StoryGraph. Left State Farm Ins (member of ALEC). Leaving FB and Google is more challenging. Some small businesses/orgs only exist on FB. And what can substitute for G mail/drive/photos/calendar/maps/YouTube? Any advice?
February 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I dropped Twitter, Instagram, Amazon Prime. Switched from Amazon's Goodreads to StoryGraph. Left State Farm Ins (member of ALEC). Leaving FB and Google is more challenging. Some small businesses/orgs only exist on FB. And what can substitute for G mail/drive/photos/calendar/maps/YouTube? Any advice?
"What's it going to take for us to wake up...? Is it going to be too late?...when the President has secreted all this power and the Congress is an afterthought?"
“[T]his a constitutional crisis, and we've got to respond to it."
- Angus King (I-ME) Feb. 20
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“[T]his a constitutional crisis, and we've got to respond to it."
- Angus King (I-ME) Feb. 20
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February 23, 2025
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"What's it going to take for us to wake up...? Is it going to be too late?...when the President has secreted all this power and the Congress is an afterthought?"
“[T]his a constitutional crisis, and we've got to respond to it."
- Angus King (I-ME) Feb. 20
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“[T]his a constitutional crisis, and we've got to respond to it."
- Angus King (I-ME) Feb. 20
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.
February 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.
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❌ Ukraine started the war
❌ America provides more funding than Europe
❌ Ukraine needs immediate elections
Sir Ben Wallace fact checks President Trump's recent 'fake news' about Russia's war in Ukraine.
❌ America provides more funding than Europe
❌ Ukraine needs immediate elections
Sir Ben Wallace fact checks President Trump's recent 'fake news' about Russia's war in Ukraine.
February 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
❌ Ukraine started the war
❌ America provides more funding than Europe
❌ Ukraine needs immediate elections
Sir Ben Wallace fact checks President Trump's recent 'fake news' about Russia's war in Ukraine.
❌ America provides more funding than Europe
❌ Ukraine needs immediate elections
Sir Ben Wallace fact checks President Trump's recent 'fake news' about Russia's war in Ukraine.
I saw a pair of short-eared owls yesterday! I spotted one at the top of a conifer. After 20 minutes of watching the one, another one suddenly flew out of the same tree! Then they both started flying their circuits over the fields, hunting. So cool!
#birding #owl Wisconsin
#birding #owl Wisconsin
February 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM