As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
A team of UCLA scientists has resorted to posting content on OnlyFans to raise money for research amid huge federal funding cuts to U.S. science. But the videos aren't of themselves, they're exclusive recordings of marmots.
"I spend a lot of time waiting for marmots to do things and had the idea one slow morning," Daniel Blumstein, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, who leads the project, told Live Science in an email. "When I came back with this idea, one of my graduate students immediately said we MUST do this! So here we are!"
On June 17, the RMBL Marmot Project announced on Instagram that "the state of funding is so bad we are turning to OnlyFans, or as we like to call it 'OnlyMarms'."
Also, Fat Marmot Week starts today!
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"From researching historic twill patterns in museum collections to dyeing wool with Kool-Aid, Diné (Navajo) weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón interlocks research and experimentation to expand the visual and technical vocabularies of Diné weaving. Working on the Diné upright loom, Aragón is part of a generation of Diné weavers who reinterpret ancestral knowledge through experimentation, carrying the medium forward on their own terms. As he stated in our interview with him, “I am not a purist.”
Based in Farmington, New Mexico, Aragón is trained in cultural anthropology and Native American and Indigenous studies, currently teaching at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. Before transitioning to full-time weaving and teaching, Aragón worked as an interpretive park ranger at the Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, and Petroglyph National Monuments, where he led tours and developed public education initiatives. He was born to the Tó’aheedlíinii (The Water Flow Together People) clan and born for the Naakaii (Mexican people). His maternal grandfather is of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock) clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Naakaii (Mexican people)."
i know this sounds like an exaggeration, but as a queer southern kid, dolly parton would have been the only reason i could be convinced to believe in jesus again. she was our princess diana. she was the best of us.
if you don't know east tennessee like i do, it's hard to fathom how we failed and continue to fail our own. large swaths of the population left to rot in illiteracy and addiction with a lack of access to hospitals and infrastructure and education and jobs and a way to get out. to say 'dolly parton is from a small town' is an under-exaggeration to the extreme.
but dolly parton didn't just get out in the way that so many of us dream of doing-- leaving behind the worst places, watching the dust settle in the rear view. instead, she took the place that built her into her arms. she gave millions of free books to children who hungered to learn. she funded a cancer centre in a region without one. she built a foundation that gave monthly stipends to people in the smokies affected by unprecedented wildfires in 2016 which effectively rebuilt the region. she basically built pigeon forge, gave the city an economic stability it never had prior.
and i could enumerate everything she's done elsewhere and otherwise, because it is a list that deserves enumeration, but i need to sit with what she did for the south in a minute and i need everyone here to do the same with me.
so many of us were given up on and continue to be given up on. i see people all the time write off the south as this hellscape wherein every person is an illiterate bigot monster incapable of change, growth, or compassion. it is easy to then justify the mistreatment of these people, these grotesque representations of everything wrong with our society-- it is easy to abandon them.
dolly parton refused to. she could have taken the money, the fame, the luxury and run-- she never did.
and she never backed down when it came to her love. she stood up for the lgbt community long before it was ever popular or even safe to do so as a celebrity. she celebrated drag artists as inspirations. she thoroughly believed we were all god's children. when she spoke of jesus, it was never to invoke his judgement-- it was always to invoke his love.
and that's a wound rural kids have, too, beyond the physical systems of oppression. we are failed by our own who have internalised the narrative that we cannot be saved on earth and thereby have to put stock into a heavenly system that heavily punishes its own, just as we have been punished by our own. jesus' love was taught and weaponised but never practiced, never realised, always a bandaid and never a stitch.
dolly parton spoke of salvation as something we were obligated to give each other, of forgiveness as a deliberate and continual act of explicit love that we were capable of every day. the only thing we ever had was each other, and we could abandon each other as we had been abandoned, or we could love each other as we were never loved. and she chose the latter.
it has been so easy for me, for so many, to leave our country kid past behind the second we could. to mask our accents, to choose the next largest town or city over to claim as our hometown. to dream of worlds larger than the holler, where everyone loves us and no one hurts us ever again, because that could never happen at home.
dolly parton said it will happen here. it did not for so long, and i am so sorry, but it will happen here. i was made here, too, and i love you. i will always love you.
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running a few minutes late and don’t want it to be immediately obvious that I was caught up eating blackberries. Do you think I can get away with it? Here is my right hand.
I have never had ANY luck with beans bc things would eat them immediately, but this year I had a ton of overwintered fava beans to serve as distraction and I have so many types of beans coming in now bc of it!!
Still failing to get edamame soybeans going though unfortunately
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So among all the other varied things I do for a living, I've spent the tourism season this year guiding bus tours to Mt. St. Helens for Adventure Day Touring. We get to create our own tour scripts; as long as they're relevant to the trip, it's all good. Since it's a long drive from the Port of Kalama where we pick up cruise ship passengers to the mountain itself, there's ample time for me to talk about the geology of MSH, the two months leading up to the 1980 eruption, and the eruption and aftermath. I like to wrap up the talk with pointing out the ecological recovery of the landscape there.
While the first thing people often think of with MSH is the twelve mile high ash cloud that lasted all day and then circumnavigated the globe over the next two weeks, that wasn't the longest-term impact of the eruption. No, that honor goes to the lahars, volcanic mudflows that formed when the heat of the eruption melted the mountain's entire snowpack all at once, sending almost four million cubic yards of mud, rock, and dead trees racing down the mountain.
But the lahars didn't stop there. They flooded the North Fork Toutle River, then the main Toutle, then the Cowlitz, and finally the Columbia, where they filled the 40 foot deep shipping channel to just 13 feet deep. Along the way they took out almost 200 homes and two dozen bridges, largely powered by a 600 foot wide logjam at the head of the flood. When the lahars finally came to a halt, they left up to 600 feet deep mud deposits along their path.
But the mud isn't going to stay put. The Toutle keeps eroding it away as it flows, moreso with seasonal rains and snowmelt. The dam referenced in the article was completed in 1987 to help keep the mud from filling the Columbia again, and was supposed to not be full until 2035. (It was full by 2012). The Army Corps of Engineers has had to raise the height of the dam twice, and they can only raise it so much more.
While the MSH National Volcanic Monument is being allowed to recover without human interference, so scientists can see how the land responds to such a massive disturbance over time, the area referenced in the article is outside that boundary. Most of the human changes have been of the "timber company planting new tree plantations" variety. But I am loving seeing this effort toward bringing in beavers as ecosystem engineers.
See, it's estimated that there were once as many as 400 million beavers across North America. Excessive trapping for their fur, castor glands, or simply to get them out of the way meant that they were extirpated from most of their range, and today they are still commonly classified as nuisance animals, meaning landowners can exterminate them at will. The North American population has rebounded to about 15 million, but that's a tiny fraction of their prior numbers.
What we are finding when we reintroduce them to their old habitats is that they very often have positive impacts. In this case, they are slowing flooding and helping native ecosystems return. Beavers are a pioneer species, and were among the first animals to return to MSH after the eruption. Even if reintroduced beavers head upstream to the National Volcanic Monument, increasing beaver density there, it's only a reflection of the return of these ecosystem engineers to more normal numbers.
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You can learn, absorb, and utilize all of the leftist, egalitarian, revolutionary jargon in the world, but if you won't treat marginalized peoples and people of color as your equals, if you won't treat them with decency and respect, if you won't accept criticism from them, if you willfully misrepresent them and paint them with generalizations and stereotypes, if you won't hear them and choose instead to dismiss them, then it does not matter how you dress it up, you are still upholding and contributing to white supremacy.
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Kansas won’t change its vaccine schedule and will follow national health organization recommendations, ignoring Trump's executive order.
my fave quote
“In an executive order, Trump recommended separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination — although there aren’t separate vaccines available — and that all vaccines should be given in separate doctor’s visits.”
hope it get better out there for all the Americans in deep red states, sometimes local government isn’t completely stupid
I hope there’s an afterlife so that whoever made this pot 2,000 years ago can brag that their cookware is so good it’s still usable literally millennia later. Something about this object being lost for centuries and then rediscovered, and being put (successfully) to its original purpose again is so pleasing to me.
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