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Standards that are 17,000x higher than EPA safety guidelines are bad standards. Analogy: imagine thinking that setting a standard of only eating 80lbs of salt a day is a good decision. Again, the board prefers to listen to lobbyists instead of its own great scientists.
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Saving this tweet for the intro slide next time I get to teach anyone about conservation bio
My cats doing their best to break up a twitter timeline of depressing news about climate change and epidemics
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Republican state Sen. Steve Nass plans to block @UWSystem from instituting COVID-19 testing, masking and vaccination protocols on campuses, a move that comes as health officials sound warnings about the rapidly spreading, highly contagious delta variant
apnews.com/article/health-co…
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I am so thrilled to share our ‘rough fish’ perspective paper, which is o-fish-ally live at Fisheries Magazine. There's a good amount to unpack in here, so it's 🧵time.
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New paper alert!
@VButitta & I collaborated w/ colleagues from around the globe to calculate biometric conversion equations for 6 non-native bivalves species. Study details relationships b/w body size & biomass from geographically disparate populations
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A 30% reduction in Wisconsin's wolf population. Hunters fought the DNR and sued to force an immediate hunt. They then shot ~250% their limit in just days, surprisingly absolutely no one. phys.org/news/2021-07-reduct…
Couldn't help but jump in when canoeing Madison lake chain, of course that means looking for mussels. A little delay after covering both lakes, zebra mussels are really setting up shop in the yahara river too.
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“Iowa has 24 million hogs pooping the equivalent of 83 million people. The land is saturated. The slurry has no place to go but into the air and water. Yet more hoghouses are being built...” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
After a big white pine needed cutting down up against my parents back porch 2 years ago, they decided to leave up ~40ft of trunk as a den tree. This summer they've got to watch a nature documentary of a lifetime.
"For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun" -A.Leopold
I wonder what he would think about the celebration of the extinction of another species at our hands
Petition to request Delta Smelt be declared extinct will be filed californiaglobe.com/section-…
Why more people don't get angry about the pollution of their drinking water I will never understand. If you care about WI waters, do yourself a favor and subscribe/follow @stcroix360
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**PAID INTERNSHIP** 📢Come and work in our @portsmouthuni @Bluemarinef Solent Oyster Restoration Hatchery: June - September. Details 👇
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“I’ve experienced a lot of failures during my PhD but I think they've made me a better scientist. I might be studying the resilience of oysters to stress, but it’s this project that has made me more resilient as a scientist." - Dr. Joanna Griffiths @JoGriffiths61 (LSU PhD '20)
What makes some oysters more resilient than others? New #LSUresearch offers insight into this commercially important species.
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Photo: @MorganWKelly
@LSU_BioSci @lsuscience @LASeaGrant
ALT Oysters on left were raised in higher salinity waters than the oysters on the right. Photo: Morgan Kelly, LSU
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📣 Calling all ASLO Members! There’s still time to select the next Student Board Member, and the other open positions, for the 2021 election cycle. Make your voice heard and vote by May 24. Read the candidates’ statements and vote here: bit.ly/VoteASLO21
