Our new whitebark pine paper is out! www-sciencedirect-com.weblib.lib.umt.edu:2443/science/arti...
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Diana L Six
@dianasix.bsky.social
I am an ecologist working in forest ecosystems, mainly with bark beetles, fungi, and symbioses. Climate change. I am also an artist, metalhead, and childless cat lady.
As the former President of South Korea serves a life sentence for his role in a failed insurrection, his wife just got sentenced to 7 years in prison for bribery. The US could learn a lot from South Korea what accountability looks like for power-hungry, corrupt grifters. youtu.be/nAUksLhLSKs?...
FED UP South Korea Sends GLOBAL WARNING After Power Grab BACKFIRES
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "Trump's approval ratings are the political equivalent of green algae in the Reflecting Pool," Jamelle Bouie says on this episode of "The Opinions." "Republicans, I think, are beginning to distance themselves from him, but I think it’s a bit too late."
Opinion | Three Opinion Writers on Trump’s Latest Face-Plant
Trump planned a big party for America. It’s not going well.
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Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
Good coverage of yesterday's events in Selma and Montgomery. We may not have wanted to be in this play, but the this is where you go to learn from those who came before how to act when you are called to this stage. www.al.com/news/birming...
‘Death of the Confederacy’: Thousands rally for voting rights in iconic Alabama cities
Organizers say participation continues to grow in advance of Saturday's voting rights demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery.
al.com
I made it over hundreds of others! So humbled by your support! This program supports arts in schools, hospitals, elder care and more. One free vote a day or more for a donation. As always my art supports our environment. Let's go! Link. Https://peoplesartist.org/2026/diana-six
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
The Noem statement playing up the forged threats is still up on the DHS website, along with additional false claims about the victim.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo agoA jury has found a Wisconsin man guilty of forging threats against President Donald Trump in an attempt to get a witness against him deported.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u... I
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
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Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u... just what MAGA wanted
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
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This is a shameful betrayal. Trump's so-called peace plan is a blatant surrender document that forces Ukraine to disarm and cede territory to Putin. It's an utter abdication of American leadership that rewards Russian aggression.
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Gives Russia Nearly Everything It Wants
Donald Trump's administration is trying to force Ukraine to accept a peace plan that would give Vladimir Putin and Russia nearly everything they want.
rollingstone.com
Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime. Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies. Can we stop it before it's too late?
Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend.
livescience.com
🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 9mo agoGOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation. “Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says. Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
We have a new one - Opinion in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122
Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires | PNAS
Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires
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For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
Aline Ghilardi@alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 9mo ago
#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035 @cscherber.bsky.social
Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open-access platform uniting datase...
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Really interesting thread here 🧪
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗@charlescmann.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
I've been avoiding reading articles on the death of James Watson, co-discoverer of #DNA's structure. That is, until I saw that @statnews.com published one by Sharon Begley, a renowned science writer who passed in 2021. Yes, you read that right. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... 🧪 (1/5)
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
statnews.com
For those who don't know, the Nobel laureate had a long history of truly vile remarks. In fact, he seemed to revel in his status as an unapologetic bigot. Rather than glaze him for his extensive contributions to science, Begley presents a complete picture of a controversial figure. 🧪 (4/5)