Master Ninja Theme Song @MasterNinjaTS@qoto.org

Can you be awarded an honorary PhD in the middle of your normal PhD? Bc I feel like that’d be appropriate for me at this point

It's 2023. We still prioritize private livestock profits in public land wildlife habitat. That's wrong for so many reasons, including the biggest (terrestrial) one of them all (in the lower 48):

"What’s more, they remain persecuted. They are often killed in response to conflicts with livestock released to graze in their core habitat."

https://newsregister.com/article?articleTitle=molvar-delisting-grizzly-bear-would-wreak-havoc-on-the-species--1676327141--45344--commentary

Heute ragten MPIA-Campus und Landessternwarte zeitweise nur ganz knapp aus dem Wolkenmeer heraus

The ultimate power move is working somewhere all the universities that didn’t want you need to go to to get scientific equipment calibrated.
(This may or may not be about me.)

Pizza, pain meds, & plasma physics plots. That’s how I’m survivin’

Don't forget to recycle!

PRESS RELEASE: New study shows the National Parks can't protect their wolf packs because of trophy hunters and wolf-killing agencies outside their boundaries.

#Wolves #EndangeredSpecies
https://westernwatersheds.org/2023/02/new-study-shows-national-park-wolves-suffer-pack-disruption-from-hunting-lethal-control-when-allowed-outside-park-boundaries/

Many column inches this week on the #PeeheeMuhuh / #ThackerPass problematic court order.

>> Critics argue digging for lithium poses the same ecological threats as mining for any other mineral or metal in the biggest gold-mining state in the U.S. They say efforts to downplay potential environmental and cultural impacts amount to “greenwashing.” <<
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-judge-refuses-to-block-nevada-lithium-mine-construction/

Approaching a gallon of sap per tap on this first run of a very early start. I have not seen my trees take off like this so early. My north slope sugar maples aren't quite awake yet, but it looked like they're getting going when I pumped out the barrel this afternoon. Forecast is also looking good to keep going nicely for a while. Almost too warm in the middle of the month. #maplesyrup

@MasterNinjaTS I also went to see the monarch butterflies in Mexico right before covid (writer mentions they went). It is still glorious but what she doesn’t mention is that the locals are cutting down the forest that brings the butterflies in the first place & that is clearly evident when you go and is the biggest problem. Why do they cut the forest? Animal agriculture.

@MasterNinjaTS if Starlink blocks out all stars, that will also distrupt insects- many insects still use starlight to navigate. I wonder how big light pollution plays in the decline of insects?