Steve Pennings
@stevenpennings.bsky.social
Community ecologist. I work mostly in salt marshes and mangroves.
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Well, here are my two cents
Either Witkoff is playing games he learned in NY real estate (shifting goalposts so far into insanity that capitulation looks “reasonable”) or this plan is a classic 🇷🇺 psyop, hoping to make 🇺🇸 negotiate with itself & walk away looking humiliated nypost.com/2025/11/22/o...
Either Witkoff is playing games he learned in NY real estate (shifting goalposts so far into insanity that capitulation looks “reasonable”) or this plan is a classic 🇷🇺 psyop, hoping to make 🇺🇸 negotiate with itself & walk away looking humiliated nypost.com/2025/11/22/o...
The Ukraine ‘peace plan’ distracts from the real issue: why Russia’s desperate to keep fighting
Say what you will about President Trump’s methods, but his wish to end Russia’s war is genuine. The problem is Moscow doesn’t want peace in Ukraine, it wants Ukraine in pieces. Every time the White…
nypost.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Well, here are my two cents
Either Witkoff is playing games he learned in NY real estate (shifting goalposts so far into insanity that capitulation looks “reasonable”) or this plan is a classic 🇷🇺 psyop, hoping to make 🇺🇸 negotiate with itself & walk away looking humiliated nypost.com/2025/11/22/o...
Either Witkoff is playing games he learned in NY real estate (shifting goalposts so far into insanity that capitulation looks “reasonable”) or this plan is a classic 🇷🇺 psyop, hoping to make 🇺🇸 negotiate with itself & walk away looking humiliated nypost.com/2025/11/22/o...
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A beautiful story of success amid all the carnage. Turn a river loose and it heals.
CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... || #rivers
CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... || #rivers
CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal
A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just ab...
www.dailykos.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A beautiful story of success amid all the carnage. Turn a river loose and it heals.
CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... || #rivers
CDFW: 'Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath River Dam Removal www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... || #rivers
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Sticker from a neo-Nazi organization, 2000. 25 years later, this is standard Republican rhetoric
![STOP IMMIGRATION!
Non-Whites are turning America into a Third World slum.
They come for welfare or to take our jobs. They bring crime. They are messy, disruptive, noisy, and multiply rapidly. Let's send them home now!
NATIONAL ALLIANCE
[An organization of Whites who aren't afraid to speak up for our race]
РОВ 90 • Hillsboro • WV 24946
Visit us at: www.natall.com Send for our radio schedule.
Send $2 and ask for a catalog and membership information.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vqtakzi5bityrtbjj4cfan4l/bafkreiexgdpnfdrhsgevsgt5jkuugixlsozgcn3g2v5jm22fsamoyi7irq@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Sticker from a neo-Nazi organization, 2000. 25 years later, this is standard Republican rhetoric
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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A really nice story about my former colleague Candy Feller, aka The #Mangrove Queen. www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/11/18/m...
A godmother to the mangroves | The Invading Sea
Candy Feller is is a retired mangrove ecologist, entomologist and scientific illustrator, still looking after mangrove forests.
www.theinvadingsea.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A really nice story about my former colleague Candy Feller, aka The #Mangrove Queen. www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
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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.
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I found it. The most 2025 story.
thehill.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I found it. The most 2025 story.
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Cutie baby sea snails hanging out.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Cutie baby sea snails hanging out.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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Progress for pangolins is my news to me good news for Nov 16. thanks @wildaid.bsky.social #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries wildaid.org/price-of-pan...
Price of Pangolin Scales Tumbles in Cameroon as Chinese Demand Wanes - WildAid
The price of pangolin scales has fallen by half or more in Cameroon in the last five years, market data shows.
wildaid.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Progress for pangolins is my news to me good news for Nov 16. thanks @wildaid.bsky.social #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries wildaid.org/price-of-pan...
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Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.
UH and GCE graduate student Claudia at the CERF conference with her poster about long-term change in salt marsh vegetation.
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
UH and GCE graduate student Claudia at the CERF conference with her poster about long-term change in salt marsh vegetation.
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Want climate fairly considered in Congress? Stop Big Oil’s multi-billion dollar campaign of dark-money corruption and lies. Start by pointing out the largest fraud and corruption campaign in U.S. history.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Want climate fairly considered in Congress? Stop Big Oil’s multi-billion dollar campaign of dark-money corruption and lies. Start by pointing out the largest fraud and corruption campaign in U.S. history.
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Want innovation on fossil fuel emissions? Give innovation a revenue proposition by stopping “pollute-for-free.” “Pollute-for-free” was always wrong morally and economically; it has now become actually dangerous.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Want innovation on fossil fuel emissions? Give innovation a revenue proposition by stopping “pollute-for-free.” “Pollute-for-free” was always wrong morally and economically; it has now become actually dangerous.
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The thumb on the economic scale is huge. IMF analysis shows a subsidy over $700 billion every year in the U.S. alone from “pollute-for-free.” $700 billion. No wonder there's so much dark money corruption and climate denial fraud.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The thumb on the economic scale is huge. IMF analysis shows a subsidy over $700 billion every year in the U.S. alone from “pollute-for-free.” $700 billion. No wonder there's so much dark money corruption and climate denial fraud.
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53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Soil is one of the most important parts of our ecology and most people do not give soil the respect and admiration it deserves.
For those who love soil, go and follow soil ecologist @frankashwood.bsky.social for beautiful photos and informative posts about soil ecology:
For those who love soil, go and follow soil ecologist @frankashwood.bsky.social for beautiful photos and informative posts about soil ecology:
It's week 3 of fatherhood, and today I was granted special dispensation from shopping, housework, nappies & feeding, to do some macrophotography!
The highlight was this Oribatid mite (N. spinulosa) sporting long defensive spines, which I've nicknamed the Hellraiser mite!
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
The highlight was this Oribatid mite (N. spinulosa) sporting long defensive spines, which I've nicknamed the Hellraiser mite!
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Soil is one of the most important parts of our ecology and most people do not give soil the respect and admiration it deserves.
For those who love soil, go and follow soil ecologist @frankashwood.bsky.social for beautiful photos and informative posts about soil ecology:
For those who love soil, go and follow soil ecologist @frankashwood.bsky.social for beautiful photos and informative posts about soil ecology:
UH and GCE graduate student Eamon Hennessy talking about marsh recovery from disturbance at the CERF conference
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
UH and GCE graduate student Eamon Hennessy talking about marsh recovery from disturbance at the CERF conference
UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social
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The party that developed partisan “bulk gerrymandering” (aka RedMap), and convinced SCOTUS it was “nonjusticiable,” and pushed all year for more gerrymandering, is now going to court to argue against a partisan gerrymander.
DOJ seeks to block new California congressional map
The Trump administration is arguing the new districts approved by voters last week violate the Constitution.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The party that developed partisan “bulk gerrymandering” (aka RedMap), and convinced SCOTUS it was “nonjusticiable,” and pushed all year for more gerrymandering, is now going to court to argue against a partisan gerrymander.
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Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action.
Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.
www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.
www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action.
Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.
www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.
www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
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Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
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