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Posts by Mary Engels
I get hundreds of requests every day for money, donations, and to share stories. Imma one person and can’t do it all. But this one…
God bless our veterans. And our elderly. We need better systems in place. They shouldn’t be working this hard and this long. Especially our vets.
gofund.me/2534b02ec
What she said...!
Lobster fishermen are using sensors on their traps to collect temperature, dissolved oxygen, and soon salinity data on the changing ocean environment. These data are valuable to scientists studying climate change and help fishermen make informed decisions about where to fish.
If you are a woman living in a Red state and need to have an abortion, here is a list of abortion clinics in Canada where you can have one.
www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/2020/0...
Yeah that’s cool
Important read for understanding western US anomalous winter heat in 2026.
Wow!
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
Our associate director for campaigns @harrisonmann.bsky.social in @huffpost.com on why it’s so dangerous to have a secretary of defense who thinks he’s a “crusader” running a war:
www.huffpost.com/entry/troops...
The global island species–area relationship for plants "a simple power model explains a remarkable amount of variation, with ISAR slope and residual variation explicable by isolation, island origins, and proportion of endemism" 🧪🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The restoration of the Klamath River, a work in progress
#Conservation #Restoration #Sustainability #Ecology #Resilience
therevelator.org/klamath-rest...
Thanks to the Nature team for digging into this. Apportionment is one of those inside-baseball issues that I hoped never to need to learn about... But here was are.
Since there's been so much interest, here is a KGW segment from a few years ago about Steve Terrill, his son, and their experience at Mount St. Helens during that eruption weekend.
Enjoy; it's an incredible story.
Thrilled to share my PhD student Sultan Aljohani's first first-author pub! 🎉 A systematic map protocol on 6PPD-Q — a toxic tire-derived chemical — across water, soil, sediment & air. First of its kind. Open access. 🚗💧
📄 doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Study in Nature that just came out shows a 51 PERCENT drop in Dementia post Shingrix vaccine. That is earth shattering. 19% drop was reported from the older+ less effective vaccine given up to 2019. Whew. So glad I got mine already!
A challenge to remote sensing of #lakes #wetlands #rivers is that many of extant satellite products are corrected for land, making water signatures muted because water is dark. We constantly hear about how we need an aquatic reflectance product. So, we made one. doi.org/10.1002/lol2...
@aslo.org
What a fun morning read! Thanks @andreamatranga.bsky.social
Investigating the mechanics of tyranny. Seeing how it works means finding way to stop it. Read it and call your electeds.
Marisa and her handbasket bringing the goods.
Yup
Got ocean science you’re excited about?Want to support 🌊community programs? Looking for editors and reviewers who care? @jgroceans.bsky.social
From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
Wow, absurdity continues...
Delightful human! Worth watching the whole interview..
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half
Her mother risked going into work when ICE took her away. At home waiting for her were her 16yo daughter and the 3mo baby
The teen tried to feed the baby, who was exclusively breastfed, formula to no avail 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...
Thank goodness! Now for all the others!!
Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats
library(pdftools)
pdf_combine(
input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"),
output = "merged.pdf"
)