Scott Winton
@rswamper.bsky.social
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Swamp lover, birder, dad, Assistant professor in environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz
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Thrilled to finally share my new paper in Environmental Research Letters on Colombiaโs lowland peatlands โ ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, were almost unknown, and are now newly mapped thanks to years of fieldwork. ๐๐ฟ ๐งต๐
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Naomi Oreskes
about 2 months ago
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want.. Reversal:
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Regulations.gov
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093
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Nice brief from
@pewresearch.org
about the ecological and economic importance of peatlands in the US.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
These are some of the most valuable ecosystems and there's still so much we don't know about them.
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Peatlands Play a Vital Ecological and Economic Role in the U.S.
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that store more carbon than any other natural habitat. By removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and trapping carbon from dead organic matter in waterlogged condi...
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2025/05/peatlands-play-a-vital-ecological-and-economic-role-in-the-us
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Happy world peatlands day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Idw...
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Venice Agreement Poem Read by Peatland Guardians Around the Globe
YouTube video by The Venice Agreement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Idw7uYlKVQ
4 months ago
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My article is trending at Environmental Research Letters! Retweet and help it trend more ;)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Jacquelyn Gill
5 months ago
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions
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Jeffrey Mervis
5 months ago
Things are going from bad to worse at NSF;
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions
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Just went to an amazing seminar by
@weatherwest.bsky.social
at
@ucscscicomm.bsky.social
. This guy is a national treasure. Be sure to give him a follow if you experience weather and climate in the US west
5 months ago
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Hank Green
5 months ago
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trumpโs election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!
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Thrilled to finally share my new paper in Environmental Research Letters on Colombiaโs lowland peatlands โ ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, were almost unknown, and are now newly mapped thanks to years of fieldwork. ๐๐ฟ ๐งต๐
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