UH graduate student Jennifer Ruiz presenting at CERF about mangrove mortality and recovery following winter storm Uri in Texas. @jennyruiz.bsky.social @marshdispatch.bsky.social

💧 Estuaries are nature's water treatment plants! Their wetland plants, including salt marshes and mangroves, filter pollutants, excess nutrients, and sediments from water before it reaches the ocean. 🌱 #EstuariesWeek #WadeIn #WaterQuality #NaturalFilters

The Indigenous community of San José Poaquil is using technology to monitor the health and integrity of their ancestral forest. Locals have created online maps for their forest, which have allowed them to keep track of wildfires, deforestation and other illicit activities that threaten the area.

So obviously destructive.

This new JWST image is incredible 🤩

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Mood:

Friends, hace poco I was ✨influenced✨ and it was a great read! 😊

Congratulations @martin-nunez.bsky.social !!

One of the most powerful documentaries on Netflix is The Guardian of the Monarchs. The film follows environmentalist Homero Gómez, who dedicated his life to protecting the monarch butterflies. It’s a stunning portrait of a father passing his wisdom to his son—in spite of the risk to his life.

Federal pandemic relief money supercharged summer learning. When that funding expired, Philadelphia found a way to keep its program going. It's an investment that's all about making learning fun.

Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries? Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

After 25 years of watching Earth's changes, Landsat 7 has been decommissioned. It helped monitor forests, glaciers, disasters, and coastlines, providing decades of open science data. Its archive will continue to support research and environmental management 🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️ #Landsat #RemoteSensing #GIS

There's a Roger Angell quote I've been thinking about recently on how you'd better belong to the times that you're living in. And I'm increasingly feeling like I'm not cut out to belong to these times, lmao, sorry!!!

Absolutely devastating reporting from Hana Kiros on what "life-saving aid" has come to mean and not mean, and the many children dying as a result. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

If you are having a bad day, this Tolomuco invites you to cherish the little moments #FundacionMadreVerde #CostaRica

Hey 🛰️ people, NASA's Worldview portal now includes orbital tracks of ESA and JAXA's Earthcare satellite. For ex, now one can find relatively fast whether the lidar sampled an event of interest. Like in the attached example shewing if it profiled a dust event from a few weeks ago.

my favorite teachers loved what they taught about

Hey y'all - I'm in the baby stages of building up my Bluesky, but wanted to share some reporting from this week: Just a minutes ago, nearly half of the Ed Dept.'s staff finished their last day of work before being put on admin leave: many who spent decades at the dept. All but 3 people remain at...

"What they're doing to our public servants is extraordinarily cruel, possibly illegal. It's actually cutting off their nose to spite their face because of the number of errors, the number of mistakes that are going to happen, not just in education, but across the administration."

Guadalupe Mountains. Texas.

I spoke with Kaesee Bourne, a fish and wildlife biologist terminated under the DOGE layoffs, about the work she was doing for the government defector.com/an-interview...

Featured story: “The good private schools we’d all like to send our kids to already have waiting lists a mile long. No public school kid is going to St. John’s in Houston or St. Mark’s in Dallas with a voucher clutched in his or her little hand.”

I just realized that NASA ARSET archive of remote sensing trainings are no longer available 🥺 they were a great resource for me before I could take formal classes at UH on this material, and continued to be very useful for learning about new/emerging technologies & applications. How sad!

Today is #WorldWetlandsDay. These ecosystems need protection, since they sustain #biodiversity hot-spots and provide us essential #ecosystemservices #MarineEcology

Lucky shot on my way home from the National Portrait Gallery: the Washington Monument with the crescent moon (my fave phase!) right next to Venus. I’m choosing to see this as a good omen from the universe (🤞).

Heroes

#ICYMI: Education expert @dianeravitch.bsky.social spoke to @josephinelee.bsky.social about attending Houston’s public schools during McCarthyism and about how Trump’s second administration could impact public schools and students.

Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever! #literacy

The jury is out: I am once again victim to Disney and the new Lion King movie is to blame 😭 the nostalgia factor worked yall all I needed to hear was the subtle symphony in the background. Tears! Idk what the haters were going on about. I was about to start roaring too.

I've been saying this for 15 yrs, based on what I was seeing/see daily in my classroom, and I'm glad the research is seeing it. Now let's do something about it.

Thinking about them (los Traileros del Norte)

I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.

Thanks you so much @Wiley for this certificate❤️ I specially thank you for replacing the ñ, not for the classic n, but for the more interesting ± symbol. I see this ± as a deep recognition of the nature of the sometimes difficult job of accepting or rejecting articles Dr. Nu plus/minus ez

if you have access to a local library … USE ITS RESOURCES! visit! check out books, even if you end up returning them unread. sign up for programming! request new books! libraries are some of the best community spots around and it’s so easy to support them & help them continue to get funding!