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Travis Gallo

@mellamorooster

urban ecologist | URBANxNATURE LAB | assistant prof at UMD | inspired by nature | determined for equality | dirt trails & bicycles | man with beard

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I think they are messing with you, cause that’s definitely Eastern Gama

06.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean…did you deserve it?

05.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

28.02.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 5011 πŸ” 934 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 86

Poor thumbs…

24.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Got me!

19.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a wildlife person that was a very misleading thumbnail pictureβ€¦πŸ˜‚

19.02.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve already been an old curmudgeon’s soapbox lately about how everything sucks…service, products, food, etc.

This is only going to make it worse.

18.02.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unique Westerners inspire HCN - High Country News Thank-yous, farewells and forthcoming welcomes to the people who keep the organization going.

We were saddened to hear of the passing of Betty Reid Soskin, who taught about the Black experience during WWII at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. At 104, she was the oldest ranger serving at the NPS.

18.02.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Hyper-local social and ecological factors correlate with public tree distributions across Washington, DC: Implications for equitable ecosystem service provisioning Urban green infrastructure like public trees can deliver ecosystem services that help cities respond to modern environmental challenges like pollution…

🚨New paper alert! Check out our recent study, led by our lab's summer undergrad scholar Jess Nadler (from Oberlin College), on the distribution of street trees in Washington, D.C. and implications for equitable ecosystem service provisioning. πŸ§ͺπŸ”­πŸŒ³πŸ™οΈ #OpenAccess

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.02.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 21765 πŸ” 7745 πŸ’¬ 299 πŸ“Œ 637
Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40
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An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson β€’22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

14.02.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 6068 πŸ” 1398 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 45
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Ukrainian Olympian Is Disqualified Over Helmet With Images of War Dead

Ukrainian Olympian Is Disqualified Over Helmet With Images of War Dead www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

12.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | MAGA Elites Who Live on Their Phones Are Ruining the Outdoors

MAGA Elites Who Live on Their Phones Are Ruining the Outdoors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

11.02.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoy the last few years of Level III, soon you will be pondering sore knees and wondering why it takes three weeks to recover from sleeping wrong on your pillow.

06.02.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If my kids’ school Signal groups and neighborhood WhatsApp is β€œmilitary-grade” I have really over estimated our country’s military…

06.02.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hey @thebaltimorebanner.com may I suggest opening a new paper in DC, there is a vacuum

04.02.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for this!

03.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just skimmed it, but maybe an RCN under this call: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

03.02.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A lot of the NSF calls have RCN opportunities. From what I have gathered it seems some of those are still being funded

03.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh you are saying before the actual person, not the era of said person…

29.01.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wouldn’t the β€œprime” be the peak of the distribution? How would being born after the peak of GenX make you GenX?

29.01.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share a new paper led by PhD student, Adam Pekor. Check out our latest work on Conservation Incentive Payments to promote human-carnivore coexistence.

29.01.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not the most important U.S. story right now, but the nation’s capital is largely incapacitated because the city’s snow removal plan apparently doesn’t extend far beyond β€œthe sun comes out”

28.01.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 6

Supposedly they are lining it with candles at night.

26.01.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Zenodo will give you a DOI without needing a paper submission.

24.01.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

23.01.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 26642 πŸ” 5844 πŸ’¬ 437 πŸ“Œ 406

Found my comfort from the chaos at Cielo Rojo, Anxo, and Cinder

23.01.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

22.01.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 7346 πŸ” 2365 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 89
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

22.01.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 15571 πŸ” 8597 πŸ’¬ 713 πŸ“Œ 1967

The toxic burden of waste treatment facilities and work has always been on Black, brown, and poor communities, which is one reason main why the environmental justice movement emerged from the civil rights movement, not US environmentalism.

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