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Laura Huenneke
@lfhuenneke.bsky.social
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Plant ecologist/conservation biologist, happily retired professor and academic administrator. Now seeking as a private citizen to bring rational approach to bear on the huge challenges of our time - democracy, climate disruption, loss of nature's richness. .. more

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Dr. Laura Huenneke is an American ecologist and former President of the Ecological Society of America. She is known for her research in public health in Arizona's Native American community, focusing on cancer prevention, invasive species, and desert ecosystems. Huenneke is the former Vice President for Research at Northern Arizona University where she continues her research studying the impact of biological diversity on ecosystems and teaching classes in Environmental Sciences. She has served on a variety of boards and review panels for ecological research journals and has received a number of awards and honors during her career as an ecologist. .. more

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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 2d
Hopi senom and Dine’

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Arizona Indivisible 🇺🇸🌵💪 ❌👑 @azindivisible.bsky.social · 2d
#Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized Tribes. We honor them all today and every day.
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🇺🇸
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d
🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 5d
Hey, I’m from St. Louis originally - always ready to support the niche stuff!
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I couldn’t believe this when I first saw it…now here’s a news source that I usually trust. What on earth?!?!?!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d
US, Qatar sign letter of agreement to bring Qatari F-15 fighter jet contingent to US base, hail increased cooperation.
Pentagon chief Hegseth announces Qatari Air Force facility at Idaho base
US, Qatar sign letter of agreement to bring Qatari F-15 fighter jet contingent to US base, hail increased cooperation.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d
US, Qatar sign letter of agreement to bring Qatari F-15 fighter jet contingent to US base, hail increased cooperation.
Pentagon chief Hegseth announces Qatari Air Force facility at Idaho base
US, Qatar sign letter of agreement to bring Qatari F-15 fighter jet contingent to US base, hail increased cooperation.
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 6d
So happy to see our Senators standing up for us!
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Jonathan Nez @formerpreznez.bsky.social · 6d
I support Senator Kelly and Senator Gallego fighting to ensure thousands of residents in AZ-2 don’t lose their health insurance.

This is a critical fight. www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...
Video shows hallway confrontation between Senate Dems and House Speaker Johnson | CNN Politics
Arizona’s Democratic senators got into a hallway confrontation with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as the government shutdown’s eighth day dragged on. The clash between Johnson and...
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Jonathan Nez @formerpreznez.bsky.social · 6d
I support Senator Kelly and Senator Gallego fighting to ensure thousands of residents in AZ-2 don’t lose their health insurance.

This is a critical fight. www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...
Video shows hallway confrontation between Senate Dems and House Speaker Johnson | CNN Politics
Arizona’s Democratic senators got into a hallway confrontation with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as the government shutdown’s eighth day dragged on. The clash between Johnson and...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d
Mike Johnson said he would swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants." His office then backtracked — saying Johnson would only swear in the duly elected Grijalva once the government reopens. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago.
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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 14d
Whether she's finding beauty amidst the horror, or the other way around, there's no one writing about the immensely important AND the deeply personal quite like @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
The United States of Flying Carp
The stupidest way to get injured.
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 14d
And one of my personal heroes. A primatologist and a prime example of how to human. RIP, Dr. Jane Goodall.

Thanks for living up so supremely to your surname. What an inspiration. I'm glad I've lived when you were alive. Such a loss to our planet. Our hearts with her loved ones tonight. 🌍🐒🌏🦍🌎
(Quote and image credit: Jane Goodall Institute) Image of world renowned primatologist and humanitarian, Dr. Jane Goodall, sitting in the shade of trees wearing a green shirt and gazing upwards. The text for the quote by her says: "Somehow we must keep hope alive - a hope that we can find a way to educate all, alleviate poverty, assuage anger, and live in harmony with the environment, with animals, and with each other." RIP to my queen who died today at 91 years of age. October 1, 2025.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 14d
Democrats need to stand firm and fight for a funding bill that keeps families on their health care.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 16d
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 16d
Thank you for sharing this! A great assessment - for me it started slowly but builds to a damning indictment. Worth reading for all, especially my open-minded friends and colleagues…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16d
YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16d
YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 19d
Just received my flu shot and COVID vaccination! Grateful to our governor for ensuring that people in AZ don't need prescriptions, grateful to supermarket pharmacy for making these accessible to people. I'm old enough to also be grateful that we even HAVE such things as MMR and hepatitis vaccines.

Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · 23d
These are sad times for media, for journalists, and for the First Amendment. "Stories are not being knocked out of the news: news is getting knocked out of the stories, because people are afraid to tell it." Fantastic piece by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social . sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...
Tunnel Vision
Do you remember September 9?
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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 24d
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
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U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says
U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 24d
TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth
Today is Sun Day 9/21 - sunday.earth
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25d
Yes, I don't think that'll work, because the oligarchs leading the worst political initiatives have finances that exist outside the normal economy and even outside the economy of the 1%. Boycotts won't work as well when they WANT to destroy everything. Building new things is a better strategy now.
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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 29d
Thank you Canada and FDT.
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Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social · Sep 12
House Dems should drop a “Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act” on the floor just to make the Republicans go on record voting against it.
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 8
I am excited about serving as a poll worker in our local election this fall!
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Stand Indivisible AZ ❌👑 @standindivisible.bsky.social · Sep 8
#AZindivisibles
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Stand Indivisible AZ ❌👑 @standindivisible.bsky.social · Sep 8
#AZindivisibles
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 8
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Quote from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-times-of-academia?utm_medium=email&utm_content=post
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 5
A fantastic new piece by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social I am a retired academic - while I personally loved my higher ed / science career, and admired its supposed ideals, even at the time it fell far short. And now there is almost nothing left of the opportunity and the idealism.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 5
New article! On the authoritarian attack on higher education and the exploitative practices that preceded it: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti...
The End Times of Academia
"It was the non-existent future that I was working toward that was the problem."
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 5
New article! On the authoritarian attack on higher education and the exploitative practices that preceded it: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti...
The End Times of Academia
"It was the non-existent future that I was working toward that was the problem."
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Laura Huenneke @lfhuenneke.bsky.social · Sep 2
That’s despite fossil fuels getting nine times as much government consumption subsidies as renewables. (Global fossil fuel subsidies amounted to $620 billion in 2023, compared to $70 billion for renewables, according to the United Nations.)"
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