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Art, New Yorker at heart, Shell shocked in Nov 2024

Texas, the model State for Project 2025, a return to The Confederacy, Jim Crow 2.0 and The Handmaid’s tale, white Christian nationalism, fascism… And strangely, 8 million Texans that are eligible don’t vote!

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Kookaburras adults 40-48 cm iconic birds native to Eastern Australia and New Guinea. They frequently inhabit suburban backyards, becoming highly habituated to humans. These large kingfishers natively live in gum trees, eucalyptus forests, and woodlands. Here are young kookaburras visitors

People sometimes talk about the desire to be part of something greater than yourself. But we are always already part of something greater than ourselves, and it is also greater than the human world alone. #pagansky #witchsky #ecospirituality #naturespirituality

Belonging and Connection

Belonging. Connection. We seek it, we talk about it, we long for belonging. What does it mean to belong somewhere? You are made from this world. You are. I...

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I’ve been doing public engagement of #science since 2012; as an educator at Pacific Science Center, and now as a docent at a small aquarium attached to an environmental education venue. I have never used the phrase,”a government that is actively hostile to science”, before last year.

Button that reads, “Science is real, denial is deadly”Homemade protest sign reading:
“Science saves lives
Trump destroys lives”

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Europe must learn from America’s assault on science

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

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