Katie Stone
@abqkatiestone.bsky.social
I make the public radio show The Children’s Hour @thechildrenshour.bsky.social in Albuquerque. I live on a solar powered urban farm raising chickens, hot sauce & pickles. Hear shows first on Patreon.com/TheChildrensHour and learn more at ChildrensHour.org
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The Children’s Hour Radio Show & Podcast @thechildrenshour.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is an excerpt from our new SHORT episode about the first (and perhaps most important) meal of the day!! We also talk about nutrition and more international breakfast culture at childrenshour.org/shorts
I have been visiting many national parks this summer and lemme tell ya’ it’s obvious that the parks are underfunded this year. There is limited staff, bathrooms are gross, and it’s pretty easy to simply not pay the fees since no one seems to check. The strain on employees is palpable.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoInternal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
I know our nation is in crisis but the world keeps spinning. I hope you enjoy our sweet show on Folk Art today and that it lifts your heart. We air on about 325 radio stations weekly. Maybe yours is airing us or tune into the KUNM stream from our site at 9am Mountain Time. 🫶🏼 childrenshour.org
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Whadda yall think about our Shorts? 20 of our most popular episodes already used in schools are now condensed to short form to fit into the school clock. We are so happy to share these with educators aling with our free learning guides and activities. These are perfect for a day with a substitute.
The Children’s Hour Radio Show & Podcast @thechildrenshour.bsky.social · 2w agoWe’ve launched a short-form version of The Children’s Hour! Made for (and in collaboration with) kids across the country, our shorts are perfect for classrooms and at-home learning! This is an excerpt from our first episode all about balloons…
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The Children's Hour Shorts are clips from our radio programs and podcasts for kids designed for educators to use with our learning guides.
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Pardon the cursing but this is seriously fucked up. No one “examines” little girls’s privates unless they are perverts.
Cwnidog@cwnidog.eurosky.social · 2w ago“The measure doesn't specify who would perform the exams, who would pay for them, or how schools would carry them out…” And I trust it will crash & burn.
August 3 is Miguel Trujillo Day! He won the Native right to vote in 1948. Are you registered? Scan to register to vote and check voter registration details or visit NMVotes.org
I wish @revealnews.org or @propublica.org would pick this story up - the changes to nuke safety, changes that could kill us all, are newsworthy. Maybe they’ll take note and report this round of madness afoot.
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈@nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Important🚨 Trump Regime making "widespread revisions to nuclear safety capabilities" whilst (illegally) undermining nuclear weapons safety oversight Enable my work patreon.com/nuclearanthro paypal.me/nuclearanthro Have not seen reported by MSM. #PhDLife Free post accessible 2 all #NukeSky 1/e
A vote for Susan Collins is a vote for Elon Musk, who famously is a Nazi. Good to know.
We launched a new podcast series for educators to be able to use our work in classrooms easily. We are so happy to announce The Children’s Hour Shorts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Hey! #NewMexico!! AUGUST 3 is MIGUEL TRUJILLO DAY HE WON THE NATIVE RIGHT TO VOTE SCAN TO REGISTER TO VOTE or CHECK REGISTRATION DETAILS or visit NMVote.gov
Here’s how you know the web has a black widow. See how chaotic the design is? It’s also soooo sticky. The spider herself (because she ate her “husband”) is probably in a crack above the web. #SouthwesternLiving
As a professional creative, it galls me to see books written by AI pitched to me as if the human who asked the prompts was actually creating anything themselves. Yikes and no thank you, never will I read your AI slop. Never going to play your AI generated music either.
I love remembering the only serious interview with Dr. Fauci and kids that I know exists. He was so sweet. www.childrenshour.org/pandemic-sch...
Pandemic Schooling With Dr. Fauci
Pandemic Schooling With Dr. Fauci
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The McConnell disappearance sure seems like a test run for what will happen when Dear Leader kicks it.
Learn from Fauci. Don’t keep a diary. #SurvivingFascism
While I often agree with @govmlg.bsky.social she is wrong about the buyout of PNM. Blackstone’s major interest is making money for it’s investors. Owning our public utility will give our unparalleled solar future to disinterested investors who do not care about equity or public good or your rates.
Sometimes I see the K-T extinction event line and wonder about a planet Earth that burns long enough for such a thick line worldwide. Extinction was the result for almost all life that time. What will happen this time? compote.slate.com/images/b43f6...
I was just spending time with somebody as part of a group who claimed that all of the ticks of Massachusetts where he’s from causing Lyme disease came there because of “foreign illegals.” People really have become incredibly stupid.
Scott Forbes🇨🇦@theecologyprof.bsky.social · 3w agoAmerican ticks are invading Canada including the lone star tick causing people to become allergic to red meat. These are Trump's ticks. He's not doing enough to keep them from crossing our border. Until he fixes this problem it's time for BIG tariffs on American products. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I don’t know why @theatlantic.com wants to divorce me from my subscription but they keep trying with articles like this.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
If you're in an area that's impacted by the recent wildfires, you may be curious about how smoke impacts birds as well. Scientists have only recently begun studying smoke's effect on birds, read some of what they've found so far: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/is-the-...
Is the Smoke from Wildfires Dangerous to Birds?
A Barn Owl hunting in the morning fog and smoke of California wildfires. Photo by Sam McMillian / Birdshare. Smoke can be hazardous to birds just as it is to people, due to the mix of fine particul...
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Isn’t this lettuce sickness really due to the fact that Taylor Farms does not provide adequate sanitation facilities for their farm workers?
This administration is known for its destruction of American treasures. Chaco Canyon is the latest. Please comment by July 20.
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 4w agoThey just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
Unfortunately, in our latest work, we estimated an 8-fold increase in bacterial diversity for smoke with a hazardous AQI rating (PM2.5 >225 ug/m-3). #bioaerosol #smoke #microbiome doi.org/10.1186/s424...
The ecology of a smoke plume: bioaerosol patterns reveal abiotic and biotic drivers of diversity - Fire Ecology
Background Wildland fire is known to play an important role in aerosolizing microbes sourced from vegetation and soil communities, but little is known about their spatiotemporal patterns across environmental gradients in smoke plumes. During prescribed fires in Kansas tallgrass prairies, simultaneous deployment of three uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with bioaerosol sampling and environmental sensor payloads enabled simultaneous measurements (~100 m intervals) across smoke plumes to better understand patterns of aerosolized microbes, relationships to their environment and sources, and their transport. Using data collected from nine smoke plume transects, we made comparisons to samples collected from ambient air to evaluate hypotheses about microbial composition and diversity as the smoke advected with prevailing winds. Results As distance from the flaming front increased, our data indicated changes in the composition of smoke-borne microbial assemblages that correlate to plume environmental gradients. The detectable contribution of terrestrial communities as sources of smoke bioaerosols decreased with deposition, smoke aging, and dilution with background air. Microbial composition of the smoke also differed based on the historical fire regimes of the burn units compared. Our results also demonstrate that “hazardous” Air Quality Index levels, based on particulate matter concentrations, corresponded to a fourfold increase in bacterial taxa richness, relating a novel microbial component to the metric most widely used to communicate with the public about smoke hazards. Conclusions Grassland fires demonstrated an attenuated smoke signal as smoke aged, traveled, and diffused, but across the ~300 m distance measured, the plume and its biological assemblage remained distinct from background air. Smoke assemblages were driven by fluctuation in relative humidity (RH), particulate matter (PM) concentration, and differences among the vegetation and soils of the source communities as influenced by historical fire frequency in the tallgrass prairie sites. The distinction between smoke and background air microbial composition and diversity was not as pronounced as in previous studies of higher intensity fires consuming greater fuel loads, yet richness and diversity increased with deteriorating air quality indices. This relationship shows that fire behavior producing more PM emits and transports a wider variety of terrestrial microbes from tallgrass prairies.
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Krista Bonfantine 🔥💧@aridideas.bsky.social · 4w agoSeriously! 😷 We know SO many terrible impacts of smoke exposure. And, we haven’t even started looking at the health consequences of microbes in smoke. It’s alive. www.wnycstudios.org/story/9d5209...
Quiet around here as we grieve for the Boundary Waters. Next week we were supposed to launch for six romantic days paddling from where this photo was taken. Our route was through both of the fires. What’s that about “Man plans, God laughs” ?!
Good news! The 🇨🇦 gold miners are out! This is such a unique and beautiful part of New Mexico. Great for winter camping.
Cavalrysword@cavalrysword.bsky.social · last mo.
