Agricultural conservation scientist @xercessociety. Pollinators, pesticide toxicology, IPM, habitat restoration, resilient food systems. Views are my own.📍Vermont | she/her
Emily May
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The House just voted to strip the provisions that would have shielded pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits and stronger state-level restrictions out of the Farm Bill. Now we wait for the Supreme Court to tell us if they can still be sued for failure to warn about the risks of their products.
This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Emily May
The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is higher than at any point in at least the past one million years (according to evidence from paleoclimate records).
More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Take a break today to revel in the joy of a man unapologetically celebrating his Boricua culture. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Then learn more from @beckyhammer.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/beck...
No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").
Did you miss Pollinator Pathway's winter webinar on pollinators, pesticides, and what you can do to help? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkI6...
Fascinating op ed on the digital gamification of K-12 education and its downsides - been thinking about this more as I enter the relevant age of parenting. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
Dan Wade
New study finds a consistent negative association between insecticide use and insectivorous bird populations, based on 15 years of data from 2783 sampling plots in France. Less food? Fewer birds. 🐛🐦 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emily May
Over-the-top dicamba: still a bad idea for non-target crops, plants, and wildlife. Yet here we are again. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...
Zack Labe
Emily May
Pesticide use is suspected to contribute to bird population declines in Europe, but few studies link long-term pesticide trends to bird population abu…
