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College professor and archaeologist
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Thanks for sharing Bill!
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Today’s
#BirdoftheDay
theme is challenging for me. I love
#B&W
#photography
but have always struggled taking good shots. This pair of
#trumpeterswans
on an icy lake seems a safe choice. The reflected swan face is my favorite element.
#birds
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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder
15 days ago
Who wants to help me find a Brown Creeper? You Ready? Let’s GO!!!
#WiscoBirder
📷👐🏾🫶🏾🪶
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Yale Climate Connections
15 days ago
Scientists call this “continental drying”:
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A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world » Yale Climate Connections
Many land areas are drying out as glaciers melt, soils lose moisture, and groundwater levels fall.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-slow-motion-water-crisis-is-unfolding-around-the-world/
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A pair of
#HoodedMergansers
provide nice
#SideProfiles
for today’s
#BirdoftheDay
.
#birds
#naturephotograpy
#minnesota
#birddisplay
15 days ago
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For today’s
#AboutTheKids
#BirdOfTheDay
theme l chose this
#HairyWoodpecker
feeding a chick in our backyard maple tree. Sadly the tree is dying but at least we can enjoy its evolving bird habitat for a few years.
#birds
#wildlifephotography
#nature
17 days ago
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A beautiful
#PaintedStork
for today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#LongLegsAndNeck
. I got this flyby shot while up in an observation tower at the
#PrekToal
bird sanctuary on the edge of Cambodia’s
#TonléSap
Lake.
#birds
#naturephotography
#birding
#wildlife
#cambodia
19 days ago
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Great Egret in flight at the
#PrekToal
bird sanctuary on the edge of Cambodia’s
#TonléSap
Lake. A fantastic place for birding & ecotourism. For local Khmer, the lake is a critical fishing ground providing 60% of the country’s freshwater fish
#birdoftheday
#heronsandegrets
#birds
#naturephotography
24 days ago
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Robert Macfarlane
24 days ago
The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent
@bengoldfarb.bsky.social
essay on it here.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
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A River Reborn – Ben Goldfarb
Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan trace the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River, after four of its most obstructive da...
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-river-reborn/?utm_source=Emergence+Magazine&utm_campaign=3159e2100e-Newsletter_20251214&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0be9b497cf-46048393
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Tom Cox
25 days ago
The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed by 12th Century monks around a prehistoric standing stone. If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did today, you might also see it being recharged with sacred energy by the sun.
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The Redpoll is one of my favorite
#finches
. Spotted this beauty in
#kingsalmon
#alaska
this summer.
#birdoftheday
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
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Andy Day
27 days ago
#BirdOfTheDay
is
#CootsandMoorhens
A pair of Moorhen's getting along just fine (as usual)
#birds
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#naturephotography
#ukbirding
#wildlifephotography
#naturetherapy
#birdphotography
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For today’s
#BirdoftheDay
, I’m going with the alternate theme of
#hidden
. I never would have seen this
#GreatHornedOwl
if it wasn’t for the noisy crows harassing it.
#Minnesota
#birds
#naturephotography
#owl
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Friend of Nature
about 1 month ago
"Cause I can think of a few cows who have it comin'. They know what they did." 🤣🤣🤣
@brittlestar.com
youtube.com/shorts/0Kjt0...
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This May Offend Some People... But It Needs To Be Said
YouTube video by brittlestar
https://youtube.com/shorts/0Kjt0lgXGHY?si=pOCppljnjMIE9sTs
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For today’s
#birdoftheday
theme of
#movement
I chose this
#heron
photographed as it is shaking a leech before swallowing it down. I was lucky to watch this bird catch several leeches. Each one received a violent shake before it was eaten.
#birds
#wildlife
#nature
#photography
#Minnesota
about 1 month ago
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The
#BirdofTheDay
theme is
#Songbirds
so I chose this Eastern
#Meadowlark
singing away while perched on a mullein stalk in eastern
#Minnesota
.
#birds
#naturephotography
about 1 month ago
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A juvenile American Robin eating cedar tree berries. One of a dozen robins that had descended on this tree in Como Park last September.
#BirdOfTheDay
#BerriesandBeaks
#Minnesota
#birds
#birdphotography
#wildlifephotography
about 1 month ago
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Dan Marshall
about 1 month ago
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Great Big Bollards: A Manifesto
What the world needs now is bollards. Great Big Bollards. Everywhere.
https://streets.mn/2024/05/03/great-big-bollards-a-manifesto/
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Racket
about 2 months ago
It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.
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An Elegy for My Boundary Waters - Racket
It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.
https://racketmn.com/an-elegy-for-my-boundary-waters
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This Red-eyed Vireo was loudly chirping away in the forest but otherwise remained hidden from me. The only photo I could get was this
#headshot
through the leaves. Wish the branch was gone but love the eye.
#birdoftheday
#birds
#naturephotograpy
#minnesota
about 1 month ago
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American White Pelicans waking up
#OnTheEdge
in a southwestern
#Minnesota
pond. My contribution to today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
#birds
#naturephotography
about 1 month ago
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My contributions to
#birdoftheday
and
#birdonawire
are a Brewer’s Blackbird and a Field Sparrow. Both seen at
#KeystonewoodsWMA
. It was a beautiful early summer day with lots of bugs for the
#birds
. I likewise had over 70 wood ticks by the end.
#worthit
.
about 2 months ago
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Isabelle Marie
about 2 months ago
A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange.
theconversation.com/a-centuries-...
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A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange
An ancient band of thousands of precisely aligned small pits stretching 1.5 kilometres across the Pisco Valley in Peru has baffled experts for almost a century.
https://theconversation.com/a-centuries-old-grid-of-holes-in-the-andes-may-have-been-a-spreadsheet-for-accounting-and-exchange-269277
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Heather Randell
about 2 months ago
I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.
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Streets.mn
about 2 months ago
"The businesses north of University didn’t wait for permission. They saw opportunities in underutilized buildings and took them. They built for their neighbors rather than theoretical suburban customers."
streets.mn/2025/11/12/n...
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North of University: The Midway’s Accidental Success Story
North of University represents everything the south side is not — adaptive, tight-knit, walkable — despite being Midway’s less organized, less polished side.
https://streets.mn/2025/11/12/north-of-university-midways-accidental-success-story/
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
Happy Exploding Whale Day for those who celebrate :)
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Northern Lights!!!!
about 2 months ago
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folukeifejola
2 months ago
"We live in a moment of confrontation over an attempt to hold onto the largest accumulation of the proceeds of crime. Stolen land, stolen labour, stolen lives, stolen histories, stolen time, stolen knowledges."
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Colleen Morgan
2 months ago
After collecting examples since 2006 (!) today I decided to finally create the Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays:
middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m...
Pathetic fallacy? Digital doom? The pained wails of curators everywhere? Yep. 🏺
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Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays
It truly was born from pathos. The first photograph I took was of an apple imac, on a stand, relegated to the corner next to a traditional museum sideboard. It was 2006 at the Hagia Sophia, and I w…
https://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/museum-of-dead-digital-museum-displays/
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I know a few 😃
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3 months ago
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Got out to
#CrexMeadows
in western Wisconsin on Sunday to watch the
#SandhillCranes
flying in at sunset. So impressive. Probably a couple thousand arrivals in a little over an hour. Took over 1000 pictures!
#birds
#wildlifephotography
3 months ago
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Anthropology.net
4 months ago
A 30,000-year-old toolkit from a Gravettian hunter in today’s Czech Republic reveals a life of mobility, recycling & memory. Stone tools tell stories of survival & connection.
#Archaeology
#HumanEvolution
#Paleolithic
#Anthropology
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Inside a Hunter’s Pouch: What a 30,000-Year-Old Toolkit Reveals about Gravettian Life
Stone, Memory, and Movement on the Ice Age Plains
https://www.anthropology.net/p/inside-a-hunters-pouch-what-a-30000
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Greg Seitz
4 months ago
Author (that's me) hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others
www.twincities.com/2025/09/14/s...
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Author hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others
Greg Seitz is working on it as an artist-in-residence at the historic Pine Needles cabin on the St. Croix River.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/09/14/st-croix-river-watershed-book-greg-seitz/
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Ian Hall
4 months ago
‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
@drkatemarvel.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
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‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/11/hope-fight-ecological-disaster-climate-catastrophe
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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.)
4 months ago
Beginning with beach cleanups in the 1980s,
@elsadevienne.bsky.social
shows in this Environmental History paper how
#data-collection
methods & data itself have “shaped public understandings of who is to blame for major global environmental problems such as the
#plastic
crisis”
doi.org/10.1086/737351
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Got a glamorous and not so glamorous photo of this Double-crested Cormorant today. Love those gorgeous blue eyes. Surprised by the flying stream of bird poop in the next photo.
#birds
#nature
#photography
4 months ago
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️🌈
5 months ago
Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶
#colsci
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Songbirds play optical tricks to make their feather colors ‘pop’
Concealed black or white bands on feathers boost the vibrancy of bird plumage
https://www.science.org/content/article/songbirds-play-optical-tricks-make-their-feather-colors-pop
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Had a great time at the
#MinnesotaStateFair
. Ate all my favorite foods including cream puffs, poutine, and corn dogs. Visited the DNR fish pond, the fine arts center, and the always fun animal barns.
4 months ago
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Gary Hornseth
4 months ago
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com
, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
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Caroline Lucas
4 months ago
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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trees
4 months ago
hey do you need your own personal mousepad inspector? you should adopt Winsor! he is a purrmaster.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ljx...
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Warblers are on the move here in Minnesota. A great time to be out
#birding
.
#birds
#warblers
#migration
5 months ago
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Heard a raptor cry while out birding in the Rice Creek Preserve. Started taking photos to help ID. Unexpectedly I caught this interaction between an osprey & eagle. Too far for a good shot but still exciting to catch. The osprey was likely defending its nearby nest.
#bird
#nature
#talons
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5 months ago
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Hiking through our nearby woods I came across a family of noisy House Wrens. I watched as the young birds chased each other around until an adult showed up with a bug in its beak. I got some nice photos as the birds positioned themselves and the lucky one got to eat. Fun.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
5 months ago
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Traveling (and birding) through the Netherlands and Denmark. Lots of little birds this morning including this sweet Lesser Whitethroat near Skagen.
6 months ago
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The recovery of Trumpeter Swan populations in Minnesota is one of the great wild bird successes of my lifetime. Extirpated from the state by the end of the 19th C, conservationists beginning in 1966 worked through decades of challenges to re-establish these amazing birds. So grateful.
#birds
🪶
6 months ago
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NPR
7 months ago
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
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A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
https://n.pr/43I66w8
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Mel Roxby-Mackey
7 months ago
I've just discovered the Public Writing resource created by the lovely people at
@sapiens.org
. I really enjoy trying to use storytelling to talk about the Anglo-Welsh borderland over millennia, but I'm sure I could do better. It's self-paced and open to all so there is no reason not to give it a go
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SAPIENS Public Writing Training
This self-directed course provides eight training modules that will help anthropologists write compelling stories for popular publications.
https://www.sapiens.org/training/introduction/
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Nancy Hoffman
7 months ago
The Smithsonian Girlhood exhibit is leaving the building at MNHS
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Streets.mn
8 months ago
"This corridor has an interesting history as a railroad mainline, and glimpses of its past are present when you look for them. The first part of this article focuses on the history and legal battle. The construction and latter parts of the article feature lots of photos and fun facts."
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Minneapolis’ Twenty-Ninth Street Railroad Depression Part One: Legal Battle and Construction
Archival photos and century-old headlines bring to life the fight to lower train tracks through the heart of Minneapolis.
https://streets.mn/2025/05/23/minneapolis-twenty-ninth-street-railroad-depression-part-one/
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