Meredith Gore

@meredithgore
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Conservation social scientist, interdisciplinary researcher focused on environmental crime, community conservation, human geography, science diplomacy.
websitewww.conservationcriminology.com
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Operation Pangolin Launches to Save World’s Most Trafficked Wild Mammal

https://bsos.umd.edu/featured-content/operation-pangolin-launches

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

The overexploitation of wildlife is a key threat to biodiversity, exemplified by pangolins. The University of Oxford is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to play a key role in the multi-year international research project, “Operation Pangolin: Unifying Diverse Data Streams to Redefine Species Conservation.”

https://tinyurl.com/r4c4m8j6

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Last year, the U.S. experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and #climate #disasters.

Amazing story by @NOAA

https://www.noaa.gov/news/record-drought-gripped-much-of-us-in-2022

Record drought gripped much of the U.S. in 2022

Nation struck with 18 billion-dollar disasters

The Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University (SFU) invites applications for a fulltime tenure-track Assistant Professor of Indigenous Geographies.

Please submit your application as a single PDF formatted document electronically to [email protected], addressed to:
Tracy Brennand, Chair, Department of Geography,
Applications will be reviewed as they are received with priority given to completed applications received prior to February 3, 2023.

http://www.sfu.ca/geography.html.

Department of Geography

As one of the leading Geography departments in North America, our goal is to create research that matters and that helps shape the ways we live in and interact with the environment.

I just committed to ride the Pan-Mass Challenge. Click here to join me for #PMC2023!

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Why Science Fiction Speaks the Language of Anxiety

Sci-fi shows us how to use anxiety, uncertainty, and hope to create the future.

Psychology Today
The most sobering #scicomm analysis of the year? online algorithms have obliterated efforts by scientists (or science journalists) to communicate consequential science when it's needed most.
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Vital and sobering @ScienceMagazine commentary from Dietram @scheufele & Dominique @brossardd on how online algorithms have obliterated efforts by scientists (or science journalists) to communicate consequential science when it's needed m…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1494532206085169152
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ on Twitter

“Vital and sobering @ScienceMagazine commentary from Dietram @Scheufele & Dominique @Brossardd on how online algorithms have obliterated efforts by scientists (or science journalists) to communicate consequential science when it's needed most. https://t.co/bRm6enpIFH Highlights 1/”

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That feeling when your PhD students text you to tell you they landed in their field site!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Brazil's Lula promises no deforestation but challenges loom

XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as president of the second most populous country in the western hemisphere Jan. 1, few challenges will be greater than fulfilling his promise to end all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by 2030.

Associated Press

20 New Gurgling, Creaking Frog Species Named in Madagascar

https://www.treehugger.com/gurgling-creaking-frog-species-named-madagascar-6892130

20 New Gurgling, Creaking Frog Species Named in Madagascar

Newly named small brown frogs make delightful calls.

Treehugger