James Erickson
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Former newspaper reporter and university science writer. Lifelong Red Sox fan. Working on groundstrokes and pentatonic scales. 🌊
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Joined August 2012
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Never thought I’d say it: Thank you, US Supreme Court.
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The mellow mood here in Ann Arbor, several hours before tonight’s Harris-Walz rally, is in sharp contrast to last night’s MSG hate fest.
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“Fools multiply when wise men are silent.” — Nelson Mandela
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Naked, 43-foot Trump sculpture goes up in Detroit, turning heads, sparking laughter via @freep.
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It is part of a "Crooked and Obscene Tour." What that means is open to interpretation, but part of the statue’s anatomy is quite curved.
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One of my favorite Dylan albums. I was a senior in high school when it came out. Hearing these songs always takes me back. Thanks.
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Finally, from Peter Baker in NYT this afternoon:
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With President Biden no longer in the race, former President Donald J. Trump would be the oldest person ever to serve in the Oval Office. But his rambling, sometimes incoherent public statements have...
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"A Times analysis of photos and videos of the event also showed that Mr. Trump’s claims about the size of the crowd were unfounded. Other images and videos from multiple vantage points showed a large audience.".
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Three New York Times reporters who attended the rally confirmed that the crowd numbered in the thousands.
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via @NYTimes. Nice NYT story this evening by Shane Goldmacher.
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The former president, in a series of social media posts, said that Vice President Kamala Harris had used A.I. technology to create images of fake crowds at her events.
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U-M lands $6.5M center to study links between Great Lakes algal blooms, human health @UMich @MichiganChem @umclasp @UMLifeSciences @UToledo @bgsu @UMSEAS @waynestate @UTKnoxville @OhioState @michiganstateu @UNC @JMU @SUNY @UWindsor @NIH @NSF.
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Great Lakes researchers at the University of Michigan have been awarded a $6.5 million, five-year federal grant to host a center for the study of links between climate change, harmful algal blooms...
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Scientists CT-scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free @UMich Museum of Zoology #UMMZ among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens for oVert project. @UMichEEB @AIBSbiology @FloridaMuseum.
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Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of open Vertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to...
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RT @UMichiganNews: More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small,….
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Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot New @ScienceMagazine study from international team led by @UMichEEB #UMMZ biologists.
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More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs.
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Diverse forests hold huge carbon-storage potential, as long as we cut emissions, study shows New @Nature paper led by @ETH_en. Co-authors include @UMSEAS forest ecologist Peter Reich, director Institute for Global Change Biology. @UMich @UMichResearch.
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New research suggests that a realistic estimate of additional global forest carbon-storage potential is approximately 226 gigatonnes of carbon—enough to make a meaningful contribution to slowing...
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Decarbonizing light-duty transportation in the US: U-M study reveals strategies to achieve goal New @NatureComms paper by @UMSEAS Center for Sustainable Systems. @UMich @UMichResearch.
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Study: Decarbonization potential of electrifying 50% of U.S. light-duty vehicle sales by 2030 One of the goals outlined by the Biden administration's National Climate Task Force in 2021 was to reduce...
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Hiss-toric first: U-M museum’s 70,000 snake specimens form world’s largest research collection #UMMZ @UMichEEB @UMichResearch @UMich.
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The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology recently acquired tens of thousands of scientifically priceless reptile and amphibian specimens, including roughly 30,000 snakes preserved in alcohol-fi...
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Space weather disrupts nocturnal bird migration, study finds New @PNASNews paper by @UMichEEB Eric Gulson-Castillo & Ben Winger, @umclasp Daniel Welling & Mark Moldwin, colleagues @UMichStatistics, @Cornell, @ColoradoStateU.
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It's well-known that birds and other animals rely on Earth's magnetic field for long-distance navigation during seasonal migrations.
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