Notices by Elizabeth Sudduth (hydropsyche@ecoevo.social)

@lxo @coreyspowell

It's from the official Firefly Aerospace Flickr account, which otherwise mostly shows pictures of stuff they send to space. I suppose it's possible they decided to add fake pictures of the eclipse, but that seems like a weird approach for a not particularly self-promotional company to do. Surely if they were in it for the clicks they would be doing this on Instagram, which is full of fakes, not on Flickr, which hardly anyone uses except actual photographers.

@wesley On the one hand, this is good. On the other hand, didn't they spend a bunch of money to upgrade the whole Breeze system in 2018? (when they made us all buy new Breeze cards)

@david_chisnall @futurebird I agree with this with the caveat that we have to be very intentional in how we teach it because students are weird sponges and sometimes only remember the hypothesis that was found to be wrong, without remembering the wrong part.

And this is why I don't talk about Lamarckism during intro biology anymore. Way too many of them grasped onto inheritance of acquired characteristics because we talked about it first and never learned how evolution actually works.

@patrickcmiller It's a real concern, especially when they're built in places that have limited surface water and rely on inter-basin transfers or ancient aquifers for most of their water, which includes large portions of the US.

@patrickcmiller And where will they be getting their cooling water from?

@freemo @Strandjunker Embryos do not have opinions. They do not have brains. Or hearts. Or any other organ. Abortions are about the person whose body the procedure is performed on. Embryos are not people.

@juliehuz Gentle reminder that Brown v Board did not end school segregation. Harris was in only the second class at her high school to have busing for true integration, a plan that started in 1968, not 1954.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/16/fact-check-school-district-has-confirmed-harris-part-busing/5589754002/

"We all live in a watershed, but most of us don’t know which one or why it matters. Part of this is because most ATLiens can’t see water or touch it from the vantage of their homes. But I’ve seen how people fall in love with and organize around Atlanta’s troubled waters. In fact, I’m convinced that meaningful engagement with our creeks is one way we can fix Atlanta." #UrbanEcology #Atlanta #AtlantaCreekLeague
https://tinyletter.com/GeorgiaBrewsletter/letters/how-hannah-palmer-would-fix-atlanta