Jaishri Srinivasan
@jaishrijuice.bsky.social
Adaptations, transformations, emergence in rivers, landscapes, fires, biodiversity, cities, communities, people. History/archaeology nerd. Aspiring polyglot.
new publication Ecological amnesia: Why societies repeatedly forget environmental lessons Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ecological amnesia: Why societies repeatedly forget environmental lessons - Ambio
Societies around the world continue to face familiar ecological crises, including, deforestation, fisheries collapse, droughts. Yet the lessons these events offer are rarely carried forward across gen...
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new publication Geodiversity and resilience: A scoping review Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Geodiversity and resilience: A scoping review - Ambio
Resilience thinking has become central to addressing environmental and societal challenges, yet it focuses primarily on ecological and social dimensions while physical foundations remain underrepresen...
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Nathalie Yamb est en 🔥! La guerre pour la souveraineté de l'Afrique, particulièrement en le Sahel est très intéressant. Autant qu'en Iran.
Human Rights Watch contre Traoré: Autopsie d’une opération de déstabilisation
YouTube video by Nathalie Yamb
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La maîtrise du feu a influencé l’évolution génétique humaine
La maîtrise du feu a influencé l’évolution génétique humaine
L’espèce humaine est la seule à avoir cohabité avec le feu. Une étude révèle que l’exposition aux brûlures a conduit à des adaptations souvent bénéfiques, mais parfois désavantageuses.
pourlascience.fr
Wow....roaring storm hit suddenly just as I was finishing my last lap for the day!
This is a tantalizing suggestion of a behavior called "rescuing", which is a prosocial, altruistic act. They saw a member of the mischief in trouble & spent considerable energy helping them out. That suggests a theory of mind; a type of empathy for others. That's not unexpected in social animals.
Sneaky Magpies Outwit Scientists by Removing Tracking Devices
The trackers were supposed to track movement behaviors but instead uncovered an unusual problem-solving behavior
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By labelling all hijabi women as "victims" or "oppressed" Laura Secor is as complicit in legitimizing a war of aggression against Iran as anybody who supports bombing a country because women wear a dress you disapprove of. She has blood on her hands.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3mo agothis is a really excellent piece by Laura Secor, reflecting on her decade-plus of reporting from Iran and her decade-plus of following it from afar www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The real bonus of having a decent lap-sized pool in my apartment complex. I'm so grateful it is not a useless leisure pool but also suitable for serious swimmers wanting to do laps. After years of on/off swimming hampered by access issues, I'm now into it daily and angling to refine techniques.
Scientists discover human colonization of South America was more complicated than first thought www.science.org/content/arti...
Ancient South Americans arrived in three waves—and had some surprising ancestry
Genetically diverse groups arrived in three waves, some potentially carrying genes acquired from long-ago Australasian ancestors
science.org
Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...
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This oil painting, titled "L'heure du thé" or "Tea Time," was created in 2026 by Dutch artist Simeon Nijenhuis (b. 1969). He's known for his "Inside & Outside" series, where outdoor light reveals interior spaces.
Buy or build a nice modern house with cottage core interior aesthetic and a substantial estate to go with it. Build a greenhouse. Buy off town council and hire folks to grow native veggies/spices. Start a town restaurant with fresh cooked veg food supplied by my estate. Run the whole like a coop.
Ooof....took me a long time to get through this (in bite-sized installments) given the length of the video (4 hours!!). It is the first one I've watched from this channel. The cinematography and narration is mesmerizing. The history is thorough and well-researched. Long videos but time well-spent!!
18. Egypt - Fall of the Pharaohs
YouTube video by Fall of Civilizations
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new publication Food diversification as an adaptation strategy to climate change: Habitat suitability for wild and cultivated food plants in the Brazilian Semiarid Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Food diversification as an adaptation strategy to climate change: Habitat suitability for wild and cultivated food plants in the Brazilian Semiarid - Ambio
This study aimed to assess the potential effect of climate change on habitat suitability for wild and cultivated food plants under future scenarios. Another aim was to determine whether food diversifi...
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BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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One unintended consequence of this totally unnecessary war is that it could achieve what the Global Conference on Plastics couldn't achieve - a cessation of plastic production.
Man....just listening to ultra-leftists on this site shit on other leftists as being centrists/right-wing if they don't totally agree with the most insane takes has me wanting to get the hell out of this bubble.