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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 14:53

For Birds-of-Paradise, Being Hot Is Not Enough to Win a Mate, They Must Also Have The Moves

“For birds-of-paradise, physical and vocal traits and behaviors evolve together, contrary to what we think we are seeing for most songbirds”

by @grrlscientist

[#]birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #attractive #courtship #diversity #colors #SciComm🧪 https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/for-birds-of-paradise-being-hot-is

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 14:14

russian hands

[#]RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsAWarCriminal #SlavaUkraini #War #politics

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 13:26

musk puts his greedy grabby hands in the cookie jar again

[#]ElonMusk's aides block access to federal personnel database, sources say

[#]Grifter #FederalEmployees #PersonalData #Database #politics https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/01/world/musk-federal-database/

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 13:17

Unelected #billionaire #ElonMusk continues to expand his power grab. this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive information, including Social Security numbers & BANKING INFORMATION

We should all be asking WHY?

[#]privacy #PaymentSystems #oligarchy #greed #theft https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-systems-report-1235252444/

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 13:10

Mad at #Meta & Markie? Don't Let Them Collect & Monetize Your Personal Data

[#]MarkZuckerberg #TrackingPixel #PersonalData #OnlineBehavior #greed https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 12:57

she's right

"Greta Thunberg used to say her goal was to protect the planet from climate change but she now admits it's to overthrow 'the whole capitalist system,' which she says is responsible for 'imperialism, oppression, genocide...racist, oppressive extractionism'."

[#]ecocide #capitalism #greed

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 02:23

DEIA For Birds Could Help Avian Conservation, a study out of UCLA & Audubon Society, published by IBIS journal

by @grrlscientist

[#]DEI #ornithology🦉 #birds🪶 #SexBias #ecology🌎 #conservation #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/01/31/deia-for-birds-could-help-avian-conservation/

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-31 at 09:03

Bird Flu: coming to factory farms & dairies near you (if it hasn’t already arrived)

[#]BirdFlu #H5N1 #AvianInfluenza #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare #eggs #dairy #FactoryFarm #meat #GoVegan #Health #politics https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/01/30/dairy-cows-chickens-in-riverside-county-test-positive-for-bird-flu/

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 19:15

Three For The Price Of One: Genomics Reveals Three Distinct Cockatoo Species | 2 studies out of University of Hong Kong & National University of Singapore | published by Molecular Biology and Evolution & Molecular Ecology

by @grrlscientist

[#]parrots #ornithology #Scicomm #evolution #ecology #genomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/01/29/three-for-the-price-of-one-genomics-reveals-three-distinct-cockatoo-species/

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 14:05

hahaha!

[#]GulfOfDenmark #GulfOfMexico #politics #Fascism

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 13:42

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

-- Albert Einstein

[#]politics #Fascism #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 13:32

Canada: NOT FOR SALE

Panama Canal: NOT FOR SALE

Greenland: NOT FOR SALE

AmeriKKKa: recently bought by Elon Musk

[#]politics #ElonMusk #Fascism #oligarchy #dictatorship

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 12:44

interesting context for why #PaulKrugman dumped the #NYTimes

[#]politics #OpEd #economics #EconomicPolicy #EditorialOversight

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 12:30

10 states fund prisons using stolen #Indigenous lands

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities & programs every year, largely from extractive industries like #oilandgas #drilling

[#]ecocide #CattleRanching #LandTheft #politics https://grist.org/indigenous/prison-funding-states-stolen-indigenous-land-trust/

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 11:42

Caroline Kennedy Sounds Alarm Over ‘Predator’ RFK Jr. In Letter To Senators

The anti-vaccine lunatic is scheduled to testify at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday

[#]politics #Predator #RFKJr #AntiVaxx #PublicHealth #Kennedy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/caroline-kennedy-rfk-jr-predator-letter_n_67991e2de4b0f8946ae29cee

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 11:37

i guess the #WSJ didn't read the "loyalty memo"?

Why #RFKJr Is Dangerous to #PublicHealth

He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers, & he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the #vaccine industry

[#]politics #loyalty #fascism https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-senate-hearing-heath-and-human-services-vaccines-trial-lawyers-ce7703cf

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 11:01

wow! let the mass murder of innocents continue ...

Confirmations of Highly Pathogenic #AvianInfluenza in Commercial & Backyard Flocks, 17.80 MILLION affected & murdered

[#]HPAI #BirdFlu #AvianFlu #chickens #poultry #GoVegan #politics #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/commercial-backyard-flocks

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 10:52

[#]Spanish fishers in #Galicia report ‘catastrophic’ collapse in #shellfish stocks

[#]ClimateCrisis & #pollution reported as possible reasons for dramatic fall in numbers of cockles, clams & mussels

[#]GoVegan #Overfishing #collapse #FoodSecurity #greed #Spain https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/spanish-fishers-in-galicia-report-catastrophic-collapse-in-shellfish-stocks

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Written by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified: on 2025-01-29 at 10:44

Bird flu outbreak: New sub-type of avian flu found on duck farm in Merced County, California

[#]BirdFlu #AvianFlu #H5N1 #PoultryFarming #eggs #EggPrices #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare #politics #GoVegan https://abc7chicago.com/post/bird-flu-outbreak-new-type-avian-influenza-found-duck-farm-central-california-egg-prices-remain-high-year/15841695/

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