Ian Rose

I went through hundreds of #orleg and #orpol candidate filings so you don't have to. Stay tuned to the @oregoncapitalchronicle.com as we roll out an issues-focused voter guide and profiles of key races ahead of the May primary.

A reddish-brown gecko with large light blue eyes, looking like he's seen some shit.

New gecko just dropped, and he has the same look on his face I've had for every waking hour of the last three months.
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The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!

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🧵THE DESECRATION OF THE SACRED BLACK HILLS CONTINUES AND NATIVES ARE NOT INVITED

The national parks service has announced that after a 5 year absence fireworks will once again desecrate the sacred Paha Sapa (Black Hills) in South Dakota over so called mt rushmore.

The Dow is down 3,000 points now since Pam Bondi told us we should judge the Trump administration solely by the Dow.

I'm not against natural history stuff in one's home. If you find an antler in the woods, that's a neat thing to look at. I was a field biologist - I have brought things home. But wanting a full mammal body, killed and framed, to hang on your wall, that's not the same impulse. That's something else.

U.S.' hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam's painted woolly bats With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed ...

Who looks at these beautiful orange bats and thinks "I'll put it on my wall", or much weirder, "I'll put it on my Christmas tree"?

Stop doing that, you weirdos. You're killing something beautiful to gain a knickknack.
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I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Four condors circling overhead at Pinnacles National Park.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Reminding myself that the ability to still be shocked - for our hearts to continue to recoil and break anew - is a good thing.

May we never, ever get used to this, until the day we don’t have to.

Yeah, I've lived in cities and I've lived in the country, and I've heard both say what I would call equally dismissive, hateful and ignorant things about the other. Though many do, I wish more folks in both appreciated how interdependent the two are.

Somewhere, someone at Google is agonizing over the 3% of web traffic they're letting through to that publisher. Still room to optimize the media apocalypse.

A false widow spider (according to iNaturalist), brown overall with a light brown pattern on their very round abdomen.

I spent my morning digging through old boxes, and I may have delved too greedily and too deep. I woke up this beauty, who I'll probably see again since she just ran to another box.
#spiders #oregon

I saw two different posts today essentially asking people like me to prove that AI *isn't* conscious, and that's not how any of this works.

I don't have to prove that spellcheck doesn't dream. If you want to make the wild claim that it does, 100.0% of the burden is on you.

I do sincerely hope Nintendo is agonnawin.

Thank you. This idea that students can't handle books feels very self-fulfilling to me. It may be hard for some, but students can do hard things. Long live the nonfiction book.

If anyone in Oregon is really into cute, endangered New Zealand owl-parrots, I have exciting news specifically for you.

As far as I'm concerned, British cozy television is divided into two seasons. While there are sadly months to wait until Bake Off Fall, we are only one week out from Gardener's World Spring. Let's go.

International Women's Day 2026 Nature highlights developments in women’s health research and career guidance for women in science.

Happy International Women's Day! @nature.com put together a collection of recent women's health and women in science stories--by @smjyoti.bsky.social, @scattercushion.bsky.social, @lindanordling.bsky.social , @sarahemilywild.bsky.social, and myself
--to commemorate.

Graph of Nino3.4 sea surface temperature anomaly forecasts from the ECMWF model for the next 6 months. Red lines show temperature anomaly and they go up.

Seeing this ENSO forecast shared a bit. Let me put my ENSO hat on for a sec to say a couple things.
1. This uses a 1981-2010 climo which will boost the anomaly numbers.
2. This doesn't use the Relative Oceanic Nino index (RONI), which would slash these anomaly numbers by, my guess, 0.5C
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Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.

Whew.

All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.

New anxiety unlocked. I can see why people only sign their names or something super basic like "Thanks for reading." Not only is there a lot out there to keep up with, but the meanings of things can change or be co-opted after you write them. Anything meme-y feels particularly fraught.

Update. The Dow is down 2,600 points now since Pam Bondi told us we should judge the Trump administration solely by the Dow.

There's a lot of value to a local in-person newsroom, but it amazes me how many national and international news organizations still require you to live in NY, DC or London. It's 2026. The only journalists who should have to be in New York, paying New York rent, are the ones covering New York.

The plagiarism bot does not have anxiety. It tells you what you want to hear, and a lot of us want our anxiety validated, so it uses words that were previously used by anxious people. It's all marketing.

For renters like me, let's put it in terms of median rent ($2174/mo). We are spending over 19,000 months of rent per hour on the Iran War. 456,000 rent-months every. single. day.

We also get dizzy! I lose my balance all the time looking up at birds. I sometimes fully fall down.

The so-far $6 billion cost of the war on Iran is hard to visualize. It just feels like a big abstract number.

The best equivalent I've found: 100 homes an hour. We are spending the full price of 100 median American single-family homes every hour to wage a pointless, murderous war of choice.

In new court filing, ICE says it has no plans for Newport facility, asks judge to dismiss lawsuit. Newport says “Promise” Newport officials say the fight isn’t over until Immigration and Customs Enforcement can permanently promise that no detention center is coming to Newport.

Two shout outs to Newport: First, for such a strong and immediate resistance to ICE's plan for a detention center there, and second, for not taking them at their word when they say the plan is cancelled.

My closest coast town kicks ass. #oregon

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