Jamie Browne
@jmebr.bsky.social
Ecologist and pagan, born at 319 ppm / obsessed with all things aquatic / dreaming of a world both just and kind. She/her. Views my own.
I feel like 10% of my posts are just reposting Sarah Taber. (Probably should be more.) Anyway, this whole 🧵.
Meanwhile, in Iran.
One of the biggest reasons for the uprising in Iran right now, as far as I can tell: water.
Only ~8% of the nation's water goes to people for drinking, bathing, etc. And even that's getting cut off.
One of the biggest reasons for the uprising in Iran right now, as far as I can tell: water.
Only ~8% of the nation's water goes to people for drinking, bathing, etc. And even that's getting cut off.
Vetted figures from reliable sources have it as 2,000, and I suspect it's probably twice that. I can't imagine that it is anywhere near 20K. Whatever it is, though, the regime has pressed the accelerator where the only off ramp is "winning" or its own total destruction. apnews.com/live/iran-pr...
January 14, 2026 at 5:08 AM
I feel like 10% of my posts are just reposting Sarah Taber. (Probably should be more.) Anyway, this whole 🧵.
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Ghana has repealed LI 2462, a law that allowed mining in forest reserves, including globally important biodiversity areas.
Passed by Parliament in December, the move is a major win for forest protection — though experts warn deeper forestry reforms are still needed.
Passed by Parliament in December, the move is a major win for forest protection — though experts warn deeper forestry reforms are still needed.
Ghana repeals legislation that opened forest reserves to mining
After facing sustained pushback from environmental groups, Ghana revoked a 2022 law that had empowered the president to allow mining in the country’s forest reserves. In December, the Minister for…
news.mongabay.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Ghana has repealed LI 2462, a law that allowed mining in forest reserves, including globally important biodiversity areas.
Passed by Parliament in December, the move is a major win for forest protection — though experts warn deeper forestry reforms are still needed.
Passed by Parliament in December, the move is a major win for forest protection — though experts warn deeper forestry reforms are still needed.
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Native Americans are getting caught up in Trump’s racist goon squad invasion…
January 10, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Native Americans are getting caught up in Trump’s racist goon squad invasion…
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Fantastic farm #pond #fishes. 3-spine stickleback (Right) & 9-spine stickleback (Left). Both can go to sea! The 3-spine prefers open water & the 9-spine loves dense plant-filled water. The male 9-spine (Lower Left) goes entirely black when breeding. Crackers! @fishtwitcher.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Fantastic farm #pond #fishes. 3-spine stickleback (Right) & 9-spine stickleback (Left). Both can go to sea! The 3-spine prefers open water & the 9-spine loves dense plant-filled water. The male 9-spine (Lower Left) goes entirely black when breeding. Crackers! @fishtwitcher.bsky.social
This thread.
Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
This is cruel and unnecessary.
If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
January 7, 2026 at 1:42 AM
This thread.
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📣 Job Opportunity | Reintroduction Planning Manager
This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon.
🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026
🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/
#NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon
This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon.
🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026
🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/
#NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon
January 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
📣 Job Opportunity | Reintroduction Planning Manager
This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon.
🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026
🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/
#NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon
This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon.
🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026
🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/
#NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon
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🐟 New vacancy in the fish tracking community 📢
Come join Dr. Jan Reubens and his team at the Flanders Marine Institute (@vliz.be) as a Fish Behavioral Ecology Researcher!
🔗Read more about the position and apply here: www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
❗Deadline 25 January, 2026
Come join Dr. Jan Reubens and his team at the Flanders Marine Institute (@vliz.be) as a Fish Behavioral Ecology Researcher!
🔗Read more about the position and apply here: www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
❗Deadline 25 January, 2026
VLIZ recruits: Fish Behavioral Ecology Researcher
www.vliz.be
January 5, 2026 at 3:13 PM
🐟 New vacancy in the fish tracking community 📢
Come join Dr. Jan Reubens and his team at the Flanders Marine Institute (@vliz.be) as a Fish Behavioral Ecology Researcher!
🔗Read more about the position and apply here: www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
❗Deadline 25 January, 2026
Come join Dr. Jan Reubens and his team at the Flanders Marine Institute (@vliz.be) as a Fish Behavioral Ecology Researcher!
🔗Read more about the position and apply here: www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
❗Deadline 25 January, 2026
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bebe grebe water taxi ❤️
Sorry, best I can do is the Western Grebe Baby Taxi Service. 🐣 🪶
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 AM
bebe grebe water taxi ❤️
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Happy birthday(ish) to all of the new polar bear cubs being born around Hudson Bay right now. You have a long, difficult road ahead, but we're all rooting for you. #mammals 🌿
December 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Happy birthday(ish) to all of the new polar bear cubs being born around Hudson Bay right now. You have a long, difficult road ahead, but we're all rooting for you. #mammals 🌿
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Environmental journalism is under pressure — exactly where it’s needed most.
The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led.
Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.
The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led.
Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Environmental journalism is under pressure — exactly where it’s needed most.
The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led.
Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.
The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led.
Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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As stated, some caveats in this story, but overall welcome news.
Caveats apply, as this data is only through November, but so far, this year, 92% of the new power plants built in the U.S. have been solar/batteries/wind.
92%! In the year Trump tried to destroy clean energy!
More in this week's chart for @canarymedia.com:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
92%! In the year Trump tried to destroy clean energy!
More in this week's chart for @canarymedia.com:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump
Trump spent much of 2025 boosting fossil fuels and blocking renewables, but 92% of new power additions through November were solar, wind, or batteries.
www.canarymedia.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As stated, some caveats in this story, but overall welcome news.
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You go to war with the baby snowy plovers you have, not the baby snowy plovers you want.
That being said, this is the baby snowy plover i want. 🪶 🐣
That being said, this is the baby snowy plover i want. 🪶 🐣
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
www.gofundme.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.
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In the Autumn edition of ANJEC Report, Acting Locally, read about protecting residents from toxic “plastic dust” pollutants from construction (p. 6)
> www.flipsnack.com/.../fall-202...
> www.flipsnack.com/.../fall-202...
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In the Autumn edition of ANJEC Report, Acting Locally, read about protecting residents from toxic “plastic dust” pollutants from construction (p. 6)
> www.flipsnack.com/.../fall-202...
> www.flipsnack.com/.../fall-202...
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Cenozoic:
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December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Fossil fuel companies and the institutions that support them have been using 💻 ads & the🗞️ media to influence everything from national elections to the outcomes of the UN climate summit #COP for years!
We share their tactics and concrete examples from around the world in the thread. 👇
We share their tactics and concrete examples from around the world in the thread. 👇
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fossil fuel companies and the institutions that support them have been using 💻 ads & the🗞️ media to influence everything from national elections to the outcomes of the UN climate summit #COP for years!
We share their tactics and concrete examples from around the world in the thread. 👇
We share their tactics and concrete examples from around the world in the thread. 👇
"The decisions in Samarkand offer hope, yet they are a reminder that protection on paper is merely the first chapter. The rest depends on how committed we are to seeing these animals not as expendable resources but as integral threads in the fabric of ocean life."
CITES CoP20 Closes Trade Loopholes Threatening Ocean Giants
Sweeping new global trade protections for sharks and rays were just adopted at CITES CoP20 in Samarkand.
www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...
Sweeping new global trade protections for sharks and rays were just adopted at CITES CoP20 in Samarkand.
www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...
CITES CoP20 Closes Trade Loopholes Threatening Ocean Giants
Sweeping new global trade protections for sharks and rays were just adopted at CITES CoP20 in Samarkand. It is one of the most ambitious conservation wins in history, but whether it becomes a true…
www.forbes.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"The decisions in Samarkand offer hope, yet they are a reminder that protection on paper is merely the first chapter. The rest depends on how committed we are to seeing these animals not as expendable resources but as integral threads in the fabric of ocean life."
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Wonderful news 👏👏👏
Deep sea miners thought it would be easy to start mining the Arctic seafloor… 🤨
But thanks to campaigning, Norway has just halted all deep sea mining development!
Wherever this industry tries to start, it fails. We can protect the oceans from extraction 💪
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
But thanks to campaigning, Norway has just halted all deep sea mining development!
Wherever this industry tries to start, it fails. We can protect the oceans from extraction 💪
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Deep sea mining in the Arctic stopped once again - Greenpeace International
Oslo, Norway, 3 December – The newly elected Norwegian government[1] today ruled out deep sea mining licenses in Arctic waters until at least the end of 2029. The agreement to…
www.greenpeace.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wonderful news 👏👏👏
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1/3: Help us welcome Jelly to the world — a newly hatched endangered zebra shark pup in Indonesia! 🦈💙
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
1/3: Help us welcome Jelly to the world — a newly hatched endangered zebra shark pup in Indonesia! 🦈💙
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
Thanks to parents Peanut and Butter at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and our partnership with the global coalition ReShark, this tiny pup represents real hope for her species.
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A bit of a change from what I normally re-post, but Rebecca Watson's exploration here of scientists, sexism, money, and Jeffrey Epstein and his ilk is just outstanding.
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A bit of a change from what I normally re-post, but Rebecca Watson's exploration here of scientists, sexism, money, and Jeffrey Epstein and his ilk is just outstanding.
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Truth hard to hear above the chorus of fossil fuel voices at COP
Scientists at #COP30 coming with hard hitting truths in response to the potential roadmaps to phase out #fossilfuels and end #deforestation.
"Forest protection cannot be used as offsets. Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels"
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/19/s...
"Forest protection cannot be used as offsets. Standing forests cannot be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels"
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/19/s...
Scientists statement on state of COP30 Negotiations, November 19, 2025 - Planetary Science Pavilion
We are at a planetary crossroad. We are already facing danger. Suffering for billions of people and rapidly approaching tipping points in the Amazon and the Tropical Coral Reef systems and many others...
planetarysciencepavilion.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Truth hard to hear above the chorus of fossil fuel voices at COP