Dr. Ashley Conway

*MU Center for Agroforestry
*Silvopasture Scientist, she/her
*Agroecology Lorax 🌲🌾🐂🌳
*opins are only mine

[Peter Ballerstedt @GrassBased]

There can be NO sustainable food systems without livestock. If you haven't thought about agriculture this way, please consider this - It's the production of biomass - the majority of which is NOT edible by humans. Even food crops produce more inedible biomass. As Prof Windisch says, livestock are the "win-win-win."
Thanks to @LivestockVoice for this short video.
https://t.co/v3FdU3OiF6

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

@TamarHaspel Are you thinking of metabolic adaptation? https://t.co/bCM7sDAJTW

[Robert Finger @RobertFinger1]

Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption

New @aecp_eth paper led by Frank Ewert @zalf_leibniz in the Annual Review of Resource Economics @AnnualReviews

https://t.co/fScB3MYqTF

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

I applaud Oxford and Leverhulme for organizing this debate, and I do think it is sorely needed. Unfortunately, a disappointment, albeit an expected one. IMO, the winner of the debate is the audience member who asserts that they are actually in agreement, despite flaws from both.

[Dr. Dr. Desi (she/her) @native4data]

Like most academics, my email is a black hole. Still, I try to respond to all grad student emails regardless if they're at "my" univ or not. But if you email me to pick my brain on Indig research, I will first ask: do you or any of your PhD advisors identify as Indigenous? 1/

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

Ecological theory and experience tells us that just leaving a heavily degraded ecosystem to natural processes means we will be waiting a long time for nature recovery

There is nothing wrong with interventions to set these systems on a path of recovery https://t.co/dMMu74uqtQ

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

@ryanjthomas83 @WSUPullman Loving that vintage CougCard, should try to find my old ones. Congrats!

[Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin]

Excellent piece on the coloniality of (militarized) conservation in #Congo and beyond with wise words from @AbySene9 and my former colleague @MBMabele

[Bill Tripp @CulturalFire]

“Our place in the world is to manage our piece of the world,” Chook Chook Hillman, a Karuk community organizer and cultural practitioner, told NOVA. "That's part of the reciprocity that has allowed us to live here for so long.” https://t.co/4b3r1s0byr

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

@ryanjthomas83 Nathan is vociferously disagreeing with this take, but I feel validated.

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

When I say the grazing/livestock conversation requires nuance, THIS 👏 IS 👏 WHAT 👏 I 👏 MEAN👏

Thank you for articulating this so well.

[Rob Percival @Rob_Percival_]

There's a myth doing the rounds that livestock don't really contribute globally to the climate crisis (at least not to a meaningful degree) and that discussion of agricultural emissions is a ploy to distract from fossil fuels. Here's why that's dangerous nonsense - 🧵

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

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[Lisa Morgans @LisaMorgansVet]

This makes an interesting read, seems to evidence what many have known for a while... How not cow! But clearly we do use some land for ruminant feed that cld otherwise be used to grow hunan food. https://t.co/dTM2y3krFB @Bovidiva

[Ty Beal @TyBealPhD]

Wild herbivores generate greenhouse gas emissions, too, not just domesticated ruminant livestock. This is a great example of how similar emissions between the two can be. Take away: We must include (baseline) emissions from wild herbivores when quantifying livestock emissions.

[Pablo Manzano 🦋 & 🦣 @PabloPastos]

📢 It's out! The paper by @AgusBC3 @gpardoBC3 and me (@BC3Research & @GCCGtweet) at #npjClimAtmosSci @Nature_NPJ on emissions in two savannas in northern Tanzania, one dominated by wild herbivores and the other dominated by ruminant livestock.

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https://t.co/2omz6DWjJH

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Biden said "we lose it all” if we warm beyond 1.5C. Unhelpful rhetoric, unsupported by the science. It's a continuum not a cliff. We've lost much already, and lose more with each fraction of a degree. If we miss the 1.5C exit ramp, we still go for 1.6C exit rather than give up.

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

I just cannot get over how they think the "lesson" is supposed to be trauma, and not a careful, mediated exploration of life and death that the project is actually meant to offer kids. It's a formative experience, and a difficult one. It doesn't not need to be traumatic.

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

Every time I see this, I struggle to reconcile this with the knowledge that Fair Board reps are nominated and elected. The toxic vibes are...incalculable.

[Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social @JMShumway]

A young girl didn’t want to slaughter the goat she raised for 4H. The state senator who bought the goat at auction agreed to let it live out its days eating weeds. But sheriff’s deputies drove 500 miles to kill the goat and teach a 9-year-old a lesson.
https://t.co/3U5dY27paR

[Dr. Ashley Conway @DrACConway]

At no point was his final destination obligatory. Since his buyer was not paying for processing, we could have picked him up and taken him home. Kids do it all the time. I chose to go through with it bc I was emotionally supported and prepared to experience the weight of loss.