So happy to be a part of the EqualSea lab!!
Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhD
@sciencebarbie.bsky.social
International science barbie who loves clean waves, wicked problems, and coastal justice 💕 Postdoc at the EqualSea lab at the University of Santiago de Compostela researching transformative change https://amandadstoltz.weebly.com/
“Anthropocene means a world that is dominated by people… how do you have that, and have it be good?" - Elena Bennett
reading the most unhinged cookbook of my life (breast milk cheese anyone?) and its opening up my brain aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/c...
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Thinking about Feral Ways of Knowing dl.designresearchsociety.org/pluriversald...
Feral Ways of Knowing and Doing: Tools and resources for transformational creative practice
Creative practices have a role in mediating and supporting concrete, meaningful actions towards sustainability transformations. With this in mind: What are the possibilities and limits of the tools an...
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in typical Amanda fashion I may have triple-booked myself tonight
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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AS A GIRL WHO LIVES IN SPAIN I AM VERY VERY HAPPY RIGHT NOW
Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhD@sciencebarbie.bsky.social · 3w agoAs a girl who lives in Spain I am very very happy right now
Learned a new word today: solastalgia Like homesickness but you're staying put while your home is being destroyed www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Have you ever felt ‘solastalgia’?
Ever feel unease that the natural environment around you is changing for the worse? There’s a word for that.
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Frontiers | Women in marine sciences in India: progress or disparity? www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... 🧪🦑🌎
Frontiers | Women in marine sciences in India: progress or disparity?
Marine science is essential to understanding Earth’s climate, biodiversity and blue-economy resources, yet the discipline remains structurally inequitable fo...
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Spain summer means colleagues are very concerned about me working past 4 pm
Another reason I'm happy to be in Spain
Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 3w agoCDC Health Alert on cyclosporiasis: -1645 confirmed cases w/ 141 people hospitalized ->5100 potential cases awaiting confirmation -Cases in at least 4 states linked to the same source -At this time last year, there had been just 249 cases www.cdc.gov/han/php/noti...
to-do list back to being completely untenable and 2+ pages long... time to roll up my sleeves!
As a girl who lives in Spain I am very very happy right now
When I lived in San Francisco my Republican friends thought I lived in a hellscape (ridiculous!) Now I'm in Europe and my European friends are just absolutely correct
Hognose snakes are known to be drama queens as an anti-predator behavior. This one is displaying it after being weighed, tagged and scanned for smammal microchips. The attempt to get it to be alive again is to ensure it doesn’t become prey while playing dead. vetmed.illinois.edu/vetmed-wildl...
Save the Drama for your … Snake? – The most dramatic snake - Veterinary Medicine at Illinois
One of the most interesting species of snake in my opinion is the hognose snake, and we have a type of hognose native right here to Illinois! The plains hognose snake (Heterodon nascius) can be... Rea...
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And the award for best dramatic actor in a field setting goes to….this absolute drama queen 🤣 🧪
Having a real Goldilocks scenario on this boat right now. Too windy to sit outside, top deck inside too cold, wifi not working in the bottom deck, and I'm getting seasick
The advice I give in my training sessions: If you’re funny, be funny in your talks. If you’re not funny, don’t try to be funny in your talks. *Hand raises* You’re about to ask me “what if I don’t know if I’m funny.” That means no one has ever told you you’re funny. Sorry, you’re not funny.
Stephen Heard@stephenbheard.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen are talks at scientific conferences funny? And if we use humour in the service of engaging the audience, who gets to do that, and who should? scientistseessquirre... 🧪
Terrible story but also excited that this work is coming to UC Santa Cruz soon! Hope the slugs go see it
NPR@npr.org · 3w agoThe Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
Doing a million "prove you are a human" tests just to read articles written by AI
A process-based social-ecological systems framework for studying the effects of human recreation on wildlife 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A process‐based social‐ecological systems framework for studying the effects of human recreation on wildlife
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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🪳🌊 Cockroaches in scuba gear? Scientists have developed tiny diving suits that let cyborg cockroaches operate underwater for hours, opening new possibilities for search-and-rescue missions in flooded environments. 🚀🔬 #Robotics #Bioinspiration #Science #Innovation 🧪 www.popsci.com/technology/c...
World’s first cockroach diving suit actually works
A cyborg cockroach survived up to three hours underwater with an experimental new oxygen tank.
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Maja Mielke (she/her)@maja-mielke.bsky.social · last mo.Female #hummingbirds dress like males to escape aggressive behavior! 🤯 Read more in my latest blog post for Beaks & Bones: 🪶🧪 beaksandbones.substack.com/p/male-looki... Original study by @jjinsing.bsky.social et al.: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #birds #ornithology #science #scicomm
Loving this poem on harmful algal blooms and wishing I wrote it www.consilience-journal.com/issue-25-pse...
Pseudo-nitzschia australis — Consilience
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Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Some new research! We found that redlined neighborhoods in 177 U.S. cities had less greenspace, less naturally shaped greenspace, and lower connectivity among patches of greenspace. This relationship also increased with city population size! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities
We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has bee...
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New paper! Dialect variation in Mediterranean sperm whales shows evidence of cultural evolution in an isolated population tinyurl.com/yrfepekh with @taylorhersh.bsky.social @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social and the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute 🐋🦑🧪 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
AI outputs are based on human efforts, but soon it will be AI outputs based on AI outputs, and that's when things will start getting real cheugy. Which is spooky, but as a creative person really makes it my time to shine
Happy #CtenophoreCtuesday! For your moment of zen, enjoy the soothing rainbow display of a lobate comb jelly 🔊🌈🪼 This #ctenophore was captured by @schmidtocean.bsky.social, during the #AtacamaTrenchAncients expedition off the coast of Chile, in 2024 ✨ #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈 #MarineLife #SciComm #Science 🦑