"Why care if species go extinct?"
“Species are like a house of cards. You can’t just take one card out of the deck and not expect the deck to crumble.”
— Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology
🎨Cartoon by schlorian
ok, let's clear up any confusion:
Nazis = Bad
Tolerating Nazis = Nazi
#Nazis #fascism #politics #UnitedFascistsOfAmerica #TrumpIsAFascist #Corporatism
Fish On Prozac: Psychiatric Drug #Pollution May Harm Wild #Fish
Antidepressants like #prozac (fluoxetine) have helped millions of people around the world, but studies show they may be harming wildlife & wild fish
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#water #SciComm🧪 https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/fish-on-prozac-psychiatric-drug-pollution
"Here's a joke circulating in Germany:
What borders on stupidity?
Mexico and Canada."
If you haven't already, I suggest everyone watch "God and Country" and/or "Bad Faith" (both free on tubitv.com) to see what we're up against. They're documentaries about Christian Nationalism (NOT Christianity).
i researched testosterone for my PhD & i can say without reservation that high levels of #testosterone are a powerful poison of rational thought
#ElonMusk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’
#TestosteronePoisoning #politics https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html
I just saw somebody say “your body, my choice”
And the woman responded, “your body, my freezer”
#politics #YourBodyMyChoice #RapeCulture #manosphere #misogyny #AbortionRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
the taliban loves trump, apparently.
"The Taliban congratulate AmeriKKKans for 'not handing over leadership of their great country to a woman.'"
#politics #Taliban #ChristianTaliban #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #UnitedFascistsOfAmerica https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/taliban-congratulate-americans-for-not-handing-leadership-of-their-great-country-to-a-woman-385406/
"Just a reminder: these three committed perjury and now women are dying as a result."
#RapeCulture #manosphere #YourBodyMyChoice #AbortionRights #Theocracy #religion #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #politics
No matter how bad things look right now, take consolation in the fact that none of it will matter in 100 years, after climate change has killed the entire planet.
graphic via WWF
#ClimateCatastrophe #politics #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #greed
Trump is not abiding by a federal law on presidential transitions & his noncompliance is kneecapping his own incoming administration
not surprisingly, #DonOLDTrump is refusing to sign the required ethics pledge
#DonTheCon #Ethics #politics https://www.rawstory.com/presidential-transition-act/
i think college students have MUCH TO FEAR: Project 2025 retroactively reinstates the student loans that President Biden cancelled.
#Project2025 #CollegeLoans #debt #politics #HigherEd #college #university #StudentLoanForgiveness https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-forgiveness-trump-e6c96fc0cce04286a9a8a3abbd9d88e8
welp. there were at least 67 bomb threats on election day against polling places that Biden mostly won easily in 2020
#BombThreats #ElectionDay #democrats #politics https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/election-day-bomb-threats-overwhelmingly-targeted-democrat-leaning-rcna179006
"The amount of people that Trump wants to round up is almost 5% of the total US population. This is on the scale of old-school fascist dictators."
-- Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#politics #fascists #TrumpIsAFascist #UnitedFascistsOfAmeriKKKa
Trickle down incompetence & rage coming January 20th.
#UnitedFascistsOfAmeriKKKa #politics #Incompetence #TrumpsAmeriKKKa
After Trump’s win, some women are considering the 4B movement
#politics #RapeCulture #YourBodyMyChoice #manosphere #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionRights #4B https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/4b-movement-trump-south-korea-wellness-cec/index.html
nancy pelosi stabs joe biden in the back
#NancyPelosi #politics https://newrepublic.com/post/188225/nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-donald-trumps-kamala-harris
this @Linktree_ page links to ALL my #SocialMedia (there's a lot of them, at least one of which you are already using, maybe), please look for me there! (it's free so you can build your own linktree)
go ahead, click the link! you know you want to https://linktr.ee/grrlscientist
PhD scientist in evolutionary ecology & ornithology, SciComm @forbes Formerly @guardian @EvoInstitute @BirdNoteRadio @ScienceBlogs. Twitter legacy :verified: