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"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

Fish On Prozac: Psychiatric Drug May Harm Wild 

Antidepressants like (fluoxetine) have helped millions of people around the world, but studies show they may be harming wildlife & wild fish

by @grrlscientist via

🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/f

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 are a powerful poison of rational thought

suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

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

Trump is not abiding by a federal law on presidential transitions & his noncompliance is kneecapping his own incoming administration

not surprisingly, is refusing to sign the required ethics pledge

rawstory.com/presidential-tran

"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

this @Linktree_ page links to ALL my (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 linktr.ee/grrlscientist

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