Aidan O’Brien

U Miami PhD candidate. The intersection of herpetology twitter and election twitter. he/him

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

Me Gerrymandering
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Coupling salamanders and politics

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

This impacts middle-schoolers and elementary schoolers as well, but in any case, this response is emblematic of the gratuitous cruelty that characterizes the Republican Party's approach to economics.

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

@mizzoumalek23 @josh_metcalf That’s my hometown, Morehead. It’s got the only reliably Dem voting precincts in EKY since 2016. It’s a small college town. Home to Morehead State University. It keeps Rowan County as the least red EKY county (still roughly around 60% GOP at presidential level though).

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

This was my final week as @FTC Chair so I wanted to say thank you.

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

https://t.co/wm2nNNOfnp

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

Check out the first chapter of my dissertation now available online at the link below!

We studied Sonoma California Tiger Salamanders to identify important habitat variables influencing their larval densities. The model is being used to develop a Habitat Conservation Plan!

[Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13]

If you’re a Democrat in any blue state or blue city, number one on your list of politicians to primary out of office over the next 6 years are Democrats who block the expansion of housing. Unaffordable/unavailable housing can lead to very bad results on a host of issues

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱 @MappingFL]

This would be like coming out of 2004 and being "Democrats need to come out against Same-Sex Marriage"

All the data says economy drove this. This is a take you only get if you are already a transphobic dickweed. You WANT this to be the case

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

@Thorongil16 You guys have done an excellent job! Thanks for all your work!

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

@bluearrowMaps I didn’t catch the debate. Did Tester do really well?

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

@lxeagle17 I know you don’t like to go with your vibes, but do you think Nevada will have this much ticket splitting? Those Senate numbers are wild.

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

We've heard the voices of LGBTQ Kentuckians and we stand with them. Today I was proud to sign an executive order banning dangerous conversion “therapy” on our kids. No child, regardless of their sexuality, should be subjected to harm.

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

Direct link to the video: https://t.co/V74VtYb3NN

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

Check out some of my ongoing work with Everglades herpetofauna at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge! Thanks to Joshua Prezant and Franco LaTona for documenting my research!

https://t.co/CnqjRXANRI

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

Ask the country to have a debate. My God.

Forget the violation of your oath to the Constitution. Imagine being this depraved, this servile, this pathetic.

This is why Trump needs to be asked about 2020 tonight and in every interview.

[Anton Sorokin @Anuranton]

Back from my yearly pilgrimage to visit the largest salamanders in the Americas. There is no other feeling like watching a massive hellbender crawl along the bottom of the stream as the current causes its loose skin to flutter. Like being transported to a different time.

[Aidan O’Brien @salamandermaps]

@lxeagle17 FL?

[Lexington Herald-Leader @heraldleader]

If you want your children to attend private schools in KY, pay for it yourself | Opinion https://t.co/y1wngKUFlQ

[Hunter Howell, Ph.D. @HunterH0well]

This is such a beautiful example of how social security needs to be raised on the ultra wealthy. That’s a laughable amount

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

MONEYBALL (2024):

The pundits see Kamala Harris and they see a candidate with a -14 favorable rating, a horrible 2020 campaign, and similar odds against Donald Trump if she replaces Biden.

When I see Kamala Harris, I see...an imperfect understanding of what candidate quality is