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Landscape restoration: letting nature do the work Podcast Episode · Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast · 01/21/2025 · 49m

One of the major dissatisfactions of my life is that I can’t spend more time learning in person from this man! He’s in my county and I’ve spent a little time with him but it’ll never be enough. If you’re a land manager, you simply must know the work of Bill Zeedyk

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The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

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According to this detailed forensic analysis, Kamala Harris would have won with 286 electoral votes had it not been for voter suppression efforts

Hey! That sounds just like what they planned to do in Project 2025. Curious…

It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes.

As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬

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The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉

On Blackfoot land, the buffalo roam | The Narwhal The Blackfoot Confederacy is working toward free-roaming buffalo crossing the border once again — and revitalizing traditional hunts

The Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy is working to bring back herds of plains bison (aka buffalo).

Besides being amazing in their own right, buffalo are walking ecosystems and ecosystem engineers. Their presence would reinvigorate the grasslands. 🦬

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Look at this terrifying scene: happy, healthy animals running through co-located wind and solar energy farm cranking out clean energy in a grassy field.

I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦‍♂️
#energysky #🔋 #⚡️job

Just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

The more of the natural environment that we lose, the lower our threshold of imagination for what the world could be

From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …

📢 In a newly published paper, Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta (@sergallett.bsky.social), Matteo Pinna, and Christopher Warshaw explore the impact of Fox News Channel (FNC) on public opinion and American elections from 2000 to 2020. #EconSky @jpube.bsky.social
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Woke transit vs patriot transit meme Shoes biking as the true freedom that it is while highlighting how controlled driving is

Commie zoning vs freedom zoning meme Makes fun of the right wing for liking the living style that is big government authoritarian in nature

The original WOKE transit vs PATRIOT transit meme has been shared and loved by many!

Now it’s time for FREEDOM Zoning Reform!

Don’t be a housing communist!

A true freedom loving American like your self should be able do build an ADU on THEIR property if they want!

We are nature, despite our cultural obsession with distancing ourselves from it and isolating ourselves from natural cycles for the sake of comfort and predictability

GLOBAL TALK: Planetary health through arts & Indigenous worldviews 🌏

Discover how community-based, arts-driven, and Indigenous-centered approaches are advancing #ClimateJustice between Canada and Mexico.

Register here: ow.ly/zCpl50UiglW

#UVicEvents #IndigenousKnowledge

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How do we make ecological networks relevant to biodiversity conservation and management? 🌏🧪

In a new preprint, @gabdans.bsky.social & @ceresbarros.bsky.social et al. suggest that the main challenge remains uncertainty and its propagation. But the good news is that they suggest a way forward!

A graphical representation of the phylogenetic trees and datasets used in our analyses. (A) Maximum a posteriori (MAP) tree summarizing the posterior sample of 60,000 hominin phylogenies obtained from our combined-evidence Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. The length of the bars on the MAP tree corresponds to the age 95% highest posterior density interval (HPD), while the color represents posterior support. Please note that gorilla, chimpanzee, and Denisovan were removed from these 1,000 phylogenies; (B) Hominin cranial capacity and body mass through time. The values from this figure correspond to the mean values of the 1,000 datasets used in this study.

The relationship between cranial capacity, body size, and time both within- and between-species. (A) Within-species trends in cranial capacities through time. Individual lines are the mean predictions from 1,000 regressions of log10 cranial capacity on the log10 within-species time predictor. The length of these lines corresponds to the temporal span of each species; (B) 1,000 regression lines for the estimated between-species (gray lines) and the mean of the 1,000 within-species (color lines) for the body mass effect on cranial capacity. The darkest gray line represents to the mean value for the between-species regression lines. The length of the within-species regression lines corresponds to the body mass range for each species; (C) Mean slopes of the within-species time effect through time. The y-axis corresponds to the 95% quantile of the 1,000 within-species time effect slopes. Note that these values are positive here to facilitate interpretation through time. The x-axis is the 95% quantile of the randomly sampled ages per species obtained for every analyzed specimen from their specific temporal range; (D) distribution of the 1,000 mean values for h2, ranging from lower (darker blue) to higher (cyan) values. In A–C only those species with more than ten specimens in our dataset are depicted, although all parameters in all models are calculated using all species (see Methods).

Brains grew faster as humans evolved

Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization 🏺🧪
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Insight into the evolutionary trajectory of human cognition and behavior, crucial for unraveling the complexities of our species’ unique traits.

Unfortunately, our Premier is wasting public money to rip up bike paths with no evidence that it will improve congestion.

Green talent here if anyone is looking

Probably the most balanced exploration I’ve seen of the years leading up to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the geopolitical situation amidst influence from other middle eastern countries and global superpowers. High praise for Real Life Lore

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At least nobody will be able to afford fentanyl

OTD 1859 #CharlesDarwin published Origin of Species. It's worth reflecting that he recognized the disruptive power of species invasions at a time when very few other scientists did. In Origin, he proposed hypotheses that today's ecologists are still exploring... 1/n🧵 #bioinvasions #invasivespecies

Maybe just read us The Lorax out loud

So much this.

Experts: DOGE scheme doomed because of Musk and Ramaswamy's "meme-level understanding" of spending "They have a fundamentally superficial understanding of what they're doing," budget expert warns.

We are gong to go back to a government of the memes, for the memes, and by the memes

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Fighting echos with echos

We are not witnessing the fall of the Roman Empire. It’s more like the end of the Islamic Golden Age. Change my mind.

Good thing the left wing cares about what’s actually going on in the world then