AI may have already won the “arms race” in #HigherEd teaching and learning
But the real question is what we do next:
Will we respond with creativity and inclusion, or retreat into policies that quietly exclude the students who need access the most?
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Antarctic petrel on a rock with wings spread, ready to take off (bottom left), and a snow petrel in flight (top right).
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GPS tracking shows spatial and habitat segregation between Antarctic and snow petrels breeding in sympatry in Antarctica, highlighting different dependencies on sea ice and potential vulnerability to climate change.
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✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds
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Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD) - Local Ecological Knowledge, stable isotopes, seabird islands.
If you're wanting to do a PhD project with us, please apply by 1 April.
#phdvacancy
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A Reddish Egret spreads its wings over a laptop floating on a water surface
Waterbirds is hiring!
We're currently seeking a Social Media Communications Coordinator (paid position, 3-5 hrs/week!) to help grow communication with our society members & the world at large. Job advertisement & application instructions: waterbirds.org/wp-content/u...
#ornithology #waterbirds
This is not just any random report. This is a review of how the major federal fisheries on the U.S. west coast are assessed, basically how U.S. fisheries management should be altered so that it works better.
The worst club to join is the parent with dementia club
Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old!
#stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
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American climate science is losing federal support right when we need it most.
Project Drawdown is stepping up: launching the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship for early/mid-career PhD scientists to do good science that does good.
🗓️ Apply by April 17
👉 https://bit.ly/4kx2J1Q
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
Thinking about the time I was at a quantum gravity meeting and the man across from me was talking to me and a man next to him turned and said in all seriousness “don’t talk to her, she’s difficult” and it was because I had reacted ”badly” to racism. Meanwhile their heroes were hanging with Epstein.
View Elena Schlossberg’s graphic link Elena SchlossbergElena Schlossberg • 1stPremium • 1st ---- 13h • 13 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn "Dominion Energy has just disclosed, tucked away in its recent SCC filing, that the Data Center energy peak load demand HAS TRIPLED – just since January 2025." “In total, approximately 70,000 MW of large-load DP Requests are currently advancing through the Company’s queue. This level of requested load is nearly triple the Dominion Zone’s (“DOM Zone”) current all-time peak of 24,678 MW, recorded on January 23, 2025.” Dominion has NO real plan to meet this exploding, unprecedented power demand. EVERY forecast they have chosen to disclose is out of date within months. They are signing Data Center electricity contracts and making promises they have no clue how they are going to keep. In the very next sentence of their filing to the SCC, they admit that there is ANOTHER 2-3 Gigawatts of Data Center power demand PER MONTH in the queue – which is 36 Gigawatts of new power demand EVERY YEAR. “Moreover, the volume of requests continues to grow, with the Company receiving, on average, approximately ten new large-load DP Requests per month, representing a total additional 2,000-3,000 MW of requested load.” https://lnkd.in/evZwnqVd BREAKING NEWS! Dominion Discloses Tripling of Data Center Load Demand protectpwc.org
Among the many reasons I get mad when people describe climate activists as 'unrealistic' or 'emotional' is that you won't any worse disconnection from reality than the very serious and grown-up data centre industry in the United States.....
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After the Outbreak
A northern gannet colony devastated by avian influenza is slowly recovering—and so are the researchers who witnessed the virus’s wrath.
by @rheisman.bsky.social
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Using advanced modelling, we can now better measure the lethal and non-lethal effects of #offshore #wind power plants on #seabirds - read more here: seapop.no/en/2026/02/n...
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More on NSF funding data
A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate.
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A comic panel that reads: My Canadian Lovebird is the Canada Goose. With an image of a married goose saying to someone offscreen “Did you just honk at my spouse?!” The other goose looks on in admiration.
Obsessed. Thank you @michellecyca.com @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social and @thenarwhal.ca for this quiz that I will now make absolutely everyone take.
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“While not everyone will be funded, there is some expectation of a fair and transparent review process, and that doesn’t seem to be happening ... For new grad students, or those applying this year, the outright rejection without a clear reason is incredibly discouraging” —@kheyduk.bsky.social
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
Suburban observers are more alone against the feds: ”We realized we could deal with a ticket, we could deal with going to jail at some point. But we could not deal with the very real risk and high probability of us being injured, us being detained or us being killed.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Not only have storms been hampering our plans to get to #islands recently, they've also been causing difficulties for #seabirds foraging on their wintering grounds at sea. We can help seabirds when they come to land, ensuring nest sites are free of invasive predators www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
30×30 is a global goal to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030. This thread looks specifically at the ocean side of 30×30—and how two conservation practitioners approach what real protection should mean beyond the headline number.
#OceanHoptimism #30x30
Mainers:
BALM is offering a FREE street medic bridge training for people with medical experience (EMT/WFR and above) this Friday, Feb. 6, in Orono. Meals will be provided. If you're interested, please comment or DM me and I'll get you the link. It's 6 hours, meals provided.
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"Despite loud voices on the right claiming that scientists have politicized science, the opposite is true. ... As with climate change and asbestos, powerful and wealthy interests found biomedical science, during COVID, opposed to their partisan agenda" (1/3) donmoynihan.substack.com/p/american-b...
From Georgia‘s Facebook account — Bluesky is only allowing me to upload a short clip.
Lines that go straight up in charts that track disease = VERY BAD.
Did you know that we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board? 🌍💭
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below! 👇
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Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
Beach-washed #tropicbird north of Sydney. Likely died due to insufficient prey associated with the #MarineHeatwave
#SuperSeabirdSunday
📸 credit: Robbi Newman, Light & Vision
