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@resilientseed.bsky.social
Restoration Ecologist, Conservation Biologist,
Still trying to be an optimist
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Translocations and high-resolution tracking show that field margins improve connectivity and corridor functionality in agricultural landscapes... even for habitat generalist birds like bulbuls! 🐦🌎🧪

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August 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Managed honey bees in Tibetan alpine meadows reduce pollination & reproductive success of wild plants, especially those suffering pollen limitation 🐝

Suggests there should be more cautious management of bees & targeted protection 🧪🌎 @erlianggao.bsky.social

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August 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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In 2023, in the United States, the outdoor recreation economy outpaced every other sector in growth. It accounts for a total of 2.3% of total US Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ($639.5 billion.)
#protectpubliclands
#BigBeautifulBill

Credit: US Bureau of Economic Analysis
June 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Millions of acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package (as of 6-14). This would be the largest public lands sell-off in US history, and would bypass traditional safeguards such as public hearings & environmental reviews. 1/x
map: tinyurl.com/Lands4SaleMap
June 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Congress is trying to force the largest sell-off of public lands in US history.

The mega-bill mandates government agencies sell between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of public land. It would also make ~250 million acres of public lands available for sale.

Call your Senator.
June 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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‘Devastating.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Devastating.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia
Researchers decry agency’s decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine
www.science.org
May 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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By @alejandrabee.bsky.social

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A provision hidden inside the BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL that passed the House this morning isn’t being reported on my the media. It’s simply too important to overlook!! robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king
Don’t let this happen
robertreich.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Trump just gutted Arctic sea ice data tracking *again*.

Ignoring the fastest-warming region on Earth means ignoring the future of climate change, from rising seas to extreme weather.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0705202...
Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change - Inside Climate News
Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. More such moves are coming, NOAA has warned.
insideclimatenews.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Male Offspring of Grizzly 399—the 'World's Most Famous Bear'—Killed by Vehicle in Grand Teton National Park - Smithsonian Magazine www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environ...
Grizzly 1058, member of 399's four-cub litter, hit, killed by car in Teton park
Grizzly 1058, one of Grizzly 399's iconic four-cub litter, is dead after it was apparently hit and killed by a motorist in Grand Teton National Park.
www.jhnewsandguide.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Thousands of people crowded in front of the Washington Monument on Saturday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump and top adviser Elon Musk’s dismantling of federal agencies, alleged circumventing of due process and introduction of tariffs.
Thousands rally in D.C. as Trump protesters gather across U.S.
In Washington and across the country, demonstrators rallied in opposition of the president’s agenda
www.washingtonpost.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Well that stinks!
Research coming out of Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern U gets to root of corpse flower’s biodiversity problem.

news.wttw.com/2025/04/04/e...
Endangered Corpse Flowers in Botanical Collections Could Be Inbred to Extinction Due to Shoddy Recordkeeping: Study
Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, conservation efforts have fallen short in one key area that threatens the species’ su...
news.wttw.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
www.404media.co
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The now extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, as drawn on wood by an Indigenous person in Florida around the year 650 CE.
February 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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New preprint from our lab: Within-species variability in seed longevity in storage is nearly as large as variability between species. A study across 41 species, 188 seed accessions, 5640 replicates and 169 200 seeds. Lead by @leaklepka.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Review of: Plant Cell Walls – Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights
Review of: Plant Cell Walls – Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights
This outstanding collection consists of 25 chapters (totalling >500 pages), each an informative, self-contained review by a group of one or more experts
buff.ly
December 14, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity

Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration

Message if you lack access and would like to a copy

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity
Grassland restoration efforts typically aim to recover lost biodiversity, guided by biologically diverse old-growth grasslands as a benchmark. In most old-growth grasslands, forbs greatly outnumber g...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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Pinning the EcoEvo job board so I’ll no longer have a reason to revisit the blue bird website.

🚨📌
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
docs.google.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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Inconsistent scientific methods hamper the management of drone use near birds | doi.org/10.1002/jwmg... | Journal of Wildlife Management | #ornithology 🪶
November 21, 2024 at 5:00 AM