GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦
PhD scientist in evolutionary ecology & ornithology
SciComm @Forbes@mastodon.social
Formerly SciComm @guardian@mastodon.social, Evolution Institute, Bird Note Radio, ScienceBlogs
Twitter legacy :verified:
Vegan
“Unskilled Jobs” are a classist myth used to justify POVERTY WAGES
#poverty #homelessness #politics #GreedyBastards #WealthHoarding
oops!
Orange Rapist screamed at his lawyers to sue Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez for calling him a rapist until they explained that doing so would require her lawyers to access the #TrumpSteinFiles and that he would have to testify under oath about #Epstein.
Then he got real quiet.
this is what we all are thinking …
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.
#Books #BannedBooks #NationalLibraryWeek #AbortionRights #RapeCulture
Stop holding comedians who make jokes to higher standards than politicians who lie, steal, and are in the Epstein files more than 1000 times.
If you allow the government to break the law because of an emergency, they will always create an emergency to break the law
#politics #LawAndOrder #StateOfEmergency #fascism #NaziAmeriKKKa
“At this point, MAGA is just Stockholm Syndrome for people who don’t know where Stockholm is.”
"Paying workers so little that they have to choose between rent and groceries while the CEO rakes in $30 million is a form of violence too"
#politics #Corporatocracy #NaziAmeriKKKa #fascism #ModernSlavery #Unions
518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”
how about charging musk with 518,428 charges of negligent homicide?
#NegligentHomicide #USAID #politics https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/geek-tragedy-altman-musk-bezos-zuckerberg/
only living wages prevent warehouse fires
there are more warehouse fires than the MSM tell us about
#GreedyBastards #CEOs #LivingWages #employees #politics #fascism #NaziAmeriKKKa
The truth remains the truth, no matter how much anyone tries to hide it.
Let's admit that drinking bleach and shoving a UV light up your ass is the closest we've gotten to a republican healthcare plan in the last 16 years.
#politics #GOP #HealthcarePlan #NaziAmeriKKKa #fascism #EpsteinFiles
beep beep!
“greatest country on Earth” — ameriKKKans are so f*cking arrogant
#NaziAmeriKKKa #fascism #healthcare #education #LifeExpectancy #WealthInequality #AmeriKKKanNightmare
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
this cartoon is 134 years old, but 134 years later, the problem has only gotten worse.
#politics #wealth #poverty #GreedyBastards #fascism #NaziAmeriKKKa
if only FDR could see us now!
for all those lying assholes who claim "all politicians are the same" as their excuse for not voting (yes, some people i know said this to my face)
Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels
"Most people don't understand why the municipality should make money out of renting our public space with something that we are actively having policies against."
#AdvertBans #Amsterdam #ClimateCrisis #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wejdekpwyo
The problem is not that there is a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is we’ve given control of these lands to psychopaths.
#ecocide #SaveOurEarth #planetcide #Nature #WildlifeCrime #BiodiversityCollapse #ClimateCrisis
Research shows that if we all transitioned to a plant-based diet, global farmland use could be reduced by 75%
Imagine how much wildlife could return if we gave that space back to nature
#GoVegan #PlantBasedDiet #Food #FarmlandReduction #Nature #Ecocide
now the evil hamburger industry is once again planning to murder our precious native Yellowstone bison by BLATANTLY LYING about their disease status
why are cattle ranchers such irredeemable assholes?
#Yellowstone #BovineTB #AnimalRights #AmericanBison #SaveOurBison https://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Plant-based diets cut climate impact by more than half, randomized clinical trial shows
“adopting a low-fat vegan diet reduces diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and cumulative energy demand by 44%—dramatic reductions achieved in just 12 weeks.”
#GoVegan #PlantBasedDiet #environment #ClimateCrisis #Ecocide https://phys.org/news/2026-04-based-diets-climate-impact-randomized.html
ABOLISH
The Electoral College
#Racism #Slavery #votes #politics #NaziAmeriKKKa #fascism #ElectoralCollege
Sweden is electrifying everything that moves — trucks, buses, ferries, and mining vehicles — building the world's most complete 0-emission transport system. While most countries are focused on getting private EVs onto roads, Sweden has been electrifying every category of transport
#ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate #ElectricGrid #SavePlanetEarth #Sweden
whoa, how things have changed since 1776:
i thought this was a uniquely ameriKKKan problem ...
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking to avoid offending the imbeciles.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall
Last Friday, without any notice, a contractor working for DHS cut a roughly 60-foot swath across the middle of the intaglio, doing irreparable damage to the 1,000-year-old artifact.
#Archaeology #Anthropology #IndigenousPeoples https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/arizona-archeological-site-bulldozed-border-wall/
Clever Cockatoo Manufactures And Uses Tools
"Not known to manufacture or use tools in the wild, a captive cockatoo demonstrates that parrots can make tools to suit their needs"
#SciComm by @grrlscientist@mastodon.social
#cognition #ToolUse #Cockatoos #ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/clever-cockatoo-manufactures-and-uses-tools-350214a04362
Skeletons in their clothing: Recovering bodies from the rubble in Gaza
recovering victims of israeli mass murder almost 1.5 years later
#WarCrimes #IsraeliWar #Palestine https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5811930/gaza-recovering-bodies
wow, as an ornithologist and lifelong birder, i LOVE that so many people are getting out into nature and watching BIRDS!!
#birding #nature #UK https://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Gen_Z_birdwatching_numbers_rise_tenfold_since_2018.aspx
is anyone in Louisiana out on the streets PROTESTING??
A Rethuglican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
How Bruce The Broken Beaked Kea Became King Of His Circus
"Bruce surprised researchers by turning his disability into such a successful advantage, both behaviorally and physiologically."
#SciComm by @grrlscientist@mastodon.social
#parrots #ToolUse #Behavior #cognition #Disability
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/04/25/how-bruce-the-broken-beaked-kea-became-king-of-his-circus/
Native Deciduous Trees Support Urban and Woodland Birds Better Than Exotics
"Native trees, especially oaks and birch, are important to the reproductive success of insectivorous birds and other wildlife."
#SciComm by @grrlscientist@mastodon.social
#NativeTrees #ExoticTrees #ecology #insects https://grrlscientist.medium.com/native-deciduous-trees-support-urban-and-woodland-birds-better-than-exotics-d6059cb30fe3
yet more PROOF that GOP & MAGA hate women
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
#AbortionBan #miscarriage #WomenAndGirls #AbortionIsHealthcare https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions