Patrick Vallely

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Ph.D. astrophysicist turned data scientist and Seattle-based photographer. Mostly into nature and ecology these days, but sometimes I take pictures for NASCAR.

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The good news: careful monitoring, research and protections have restored fisheries that had collapsed & that is why we have any sustainable seafood today The bad news: the Supreme Court just said who needs all those pesky facts 🧪 @meredithmoray.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Supreme Court Threw Us—and the Chevron Deference—Overboard with Its Fish Rulingwww.scientificamerican.com A case about Atlantic herring has resulted in SCOTUS ending a 40-year policy to defer to expert agencies when considering regulations. The effects will likely be felt far beyond fishing

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I think it's perfectly acceptable for some people -- not necessarily politicians, but the rest of us -- to say something like "Trump has encouraged political violence for the better part of a decade and has been promising to do it with the government if he wins. I do not sympathize with him."

Twisters tickets secured 🌪️

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"As an astronomer, I already had good reasons to worry about SpaceX." Worries like: light pollution from mega-constellations, atmospheric pollution from launches and disintegrations, and now silo-sized space junk dropping on people's farms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Nextwww.scientificamerican.com A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk

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We need the higher ed media to better describe what's at stake here. These are not "reforms," they're an authoritarian takeover. They're not "bold" or "sweeping," they're undemocratic and fascist. These aren't normal policy recommendations, they're a dismantling of higher education!

How Project 2025 could radically reshape higher edwww.insidehighered.com The sweeping conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration would dismantle the Education Department, privatize student loans and end all ongoing Title IX investigations. Critics say it’s a ...

Bear Jordan 📸🌿🐡🦊

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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Alex Bowman won a race for the first time in three years and I’m going to Katmai tomorrow Vibes off the chart rn

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Summer fashion for the discerning gentleman, modelled this morning by two Svalbard rock ptarmigans 🪶

Officially clocked out and ready for a week in Alaska 👀

A bug's life 🐛🌿📸

Fourth of July vibes after the latest SCOTUS rulings 🪶

Oh it’s actually Kamala time huh lol

everyone say let’s go Tyler Reddick

“A republic if you can keep it” was actually a warning about voters being too stupid to get mad about the Chevron decision because they got distracted by a couple of uncaffeinated geriatrics the night before

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

this is a child’s understanding of politics, my guy you’re supposed to be voting for policies, and the two could not be further apart there

Wow, I forgot how different it is buying tickets for like a normal scale artist 😂 We got three VIP tickets (that include a meet and greet and everything) for the singer of the current #1 country song for a quarter of what it costs to buy the cheapest single Eras Tour ticket in Vancouver lol

Turns out star trails over an aurora-filled sky are pretty neat 👀

You know sports are fake because an endangered species just beat the fossil fuel industry

If you see this, quote reply with something wintery from your portfolio! 🌿🐡

If you see this, quote reply with something wintery from your portfolio! 🎨🪶🐡

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Shamelessly reposting some of mine because I have early morning anxiety and feel the need to prove my credentials when grumbling about somebody with a much larger audience 😂

Everyone say let’s go Tyler Reddick

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It’s Indigenous People’s Day in Canada today, so here’s some of my favourite formline pieces that I’ve done!!

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According to my personal philosophy of activism, as well as my understanding as a Ph.D. conservation scientist about how environmental policy gets changed, "throw soup at paintings" is unlikely to result in meaningful global-scale policy change. Maybe I'm wrong. I've been wrong before.

Man, TikTok really needs to let you mute notifications for a single video/comment lol

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People who reply to “here’s a good thing the Biden administration did for the environment” posts with “I don’t believe they did a good thing for the environment, because they did a thing I think is bad on an unrelated issue” are people who you don’t have to take seriously about any topic ever.

Every summer NASCAR race should run past sunset imo