spencer 🦈

marine ecologist, phd candidate, investigative journalist, environmental activist, nonprofit director, master freediver, metal musician

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

I wrote about why slugs are better than clankers.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@christothecium Animal commodification industries are uniquely reliant on slave labor because no one wants to kill animals for their job.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

Seven of the top ten prison labor food firms in the United States are animal agriculture corporations.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

As you read this, there are hundreds of thousands of humans enslaved on fishing vessels and prisoners forced to labor in animal farms, slaughterhouses, and processing plants.

[ɱαɾι ᰔ @uniicornpoopp]

can vegans stop comparing eating meat to rape and slavery its genuinely insane and so insensitive

[Alerta News 24 @AlertaNews24]

🇧🇷 | En Brasil, el gobierno de Rio Grande do Norte confirma la extinción regional del jaguar y el tapir.

[@aweiss.bsky.social Aaron @aweiss]

Doug Burgum says the quiet part out loud: He loves #BAAJA because it locks in natural gas pipelines and undermines NEPA, NHPA, and the Endangered Species Act.
Can we stop pretending this is a climate bill?

[Jerome Foster II @JeromeFosterII]

A striking figure by Andrew Fanning, showing cumulative extinctions from 1500 to 2025, against the numbers that would be expected naturally over this period, and against what would be consistent with the planetary boundary.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

Soy does not increase risk of breast cancer, nor any cancer. Red and processed meat, however, increase risk of colorectal cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

The most common food allergies are animal products.

[Angel 𖤐 🍉 @GrimInker]

It's also a healthy privilege. If you've had breast cancer, you likely can't have soy. If you have any allergy that aligns with vegan replacements, soy, nuts, legumes, etc. you can't have a lot of vegan food, and so on. Not everyone can be vegan.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@yenga_ NREL calculates rooftop alone can supply 39% of US electricity. Studies incorporating parking lots and degraded farmland project >100%. Transmission is minor. But even if you want to pursue utility scale, they will use BAAJA to stack the deck for fossil.

https://t.co/H68umnI4Vd

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

I worked in solar for 6 years. I drafted hundreds of PV permits. I worked on software for thousands more.

The US badly needs permitting reform — to fast-track clean energy on rooftops, parking lots, & farms.

Trump’s bill does not do that. It is for data centers on public land.

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

From Chaco Canyon to the Boundary Waters, from the Arctic Refuge to landmarks in Washington DC, BAAJA would make the Trump administration’s drilling, mining and development approvals nearly impossible to undo.
CALL YOUR STATE'S SENATORS NOW!
https://t.co/aFJlvLmtFj

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@BrentInQueens Rico

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

Killing half of a bonded coyote pair, to study grief in the heartbroken survivor?

Sadistic. That's the only word for this.

[Feroze Sidhwa @FerozeSidhwa]

My colleague and friend Dr. Rizk Abu Shaaira was killed yesterday at work when Israel, backed by the US as always, bombed the surgical recovery room at Nasser Medical Complex. Two of his colleagues were badly injured, and many patients were hurt and killed. Dr. Rizk is featured on the original poster for the documentary American Doctor, standing to my right as we did a redo laparotomy on a disaster abdomen.

Dr. Rizk was one of those surgeons we describe as "super enthusiastic". On rounds he would jump at the opportunity to change a dressing, clean a wound, or pull a drain. He always had an answer to any question anyone asked. He embodied the surgical wisdom that "a chance to cut is a chance to cure."

Dr. Rizk's shocking murder is yet another reminder of why we must get control of our country. Our government has no right to force us to subsidize the mass murder of doctors and children, not in Palestine and not anywhere.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@HonkIfUrHoary 💔

[Watershed Nationalist @WatershedNat]

They have identified over 90M acres. No one is paying attention.

https://t.co/jReguRBGRe

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@Hezbolsonaro feeling more and more like the “no farmers” is worth the “no food”

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@yenga_ There are different kinds of solar. The best place to build solar is on built environments. This type of solar is called “distributed generation”. Utility monopolies do everything they can to obstruct this, because it reduces their profits. BAAJA does nothing to fix this.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Photos show fragments of a US-made GBU-39/B bomb used by the israelis to kill doctors and patients in Nasser Hospital in Gaza last night

[Dereck Joubert @dereckbeverly]

At least 780 mountain lions (or 18% of California's population) are dying by vehicle strike each year. https://t.co/DyjkEYWJtm

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

@thestustustudio The only take that deserves criticism here is the inexplicable hatred of bivalves among vegans.

[Tommy Greene @Tommy___Greene]

Has the meat industry - and big chicken, in particular - laid waste to the UK's biggest lake?

My new piece looking at how Lough Neagh's fishing community has been hit by 3+ crisis years for @TBIJ

https://t.co/gNh2jkOhtt

[Dr. Thaer @ThaerAhmadMD]

I’m devastated to hear the Dr. Rizk Abou Sheira has been killed in the bombing of Nasser Medical Complex.
Dr. Rizk was in the American Doctor documentary operating and serving his people. He lost his life doing that, he lost his life because he was doing that.