Calista McRae

mainly off twitter, but around by email: mcrae at njit dot edu

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

( i've watched probably ~100 birds literally hit glass [and found about 3000 who died/were injured after glass collisions]. exactly twice have i seen a bird hit a non-glass surface--both times woodcocks who had severe eye damage from previously hitting *glass* )

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

unfortunate that the nyt & guardian have picked up "building" as what killed flaco, depressing to see the tweets blaming "skyscrapers." in collisions, it's untreated glass that kills birds-- and the lowest few floors of glass usually do more damage than any glass higher up

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

1) "building," for many people, will suggest there's no way to stop collisions-- when in fact there are solutions
2) "skyscrapers" makes tall buildings/urban density seem dangerous-- whereas the massive threat to birds is suburban sprawl (habitat loss, cars, climate change)

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

BREAKING| Israel kills journalist Hiba Abadleh and her daughter in an airstrike that targeted their house in Gaza.

[Defense for Children @DCIPalestine]

12-year-old Dunia lost her leg in an Israeli airstrike that killed her whole family.

We filmed this video with Dunia during the seven-day truce, and yesterday an Israeli tank-fired shell killed her while she was recovering in Naser Hospital in Khan Younis.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

As Abu Ahmad, waving a white flag, follows Israeli instructions and flees their house, his son is shot in the head.

"I told you, let’s stay at home, my son! Let’s stay at home!"

His son didn't make it.

A neighbor's son, no more than 4 years old, watches the whole scene. Damaged for life.

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

@fakeAPchekhov @excitedstoat same, repeatedly (the stairs of both ny & nurk penns are kind of formidable)

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

Shameful, devastating, racist. @DoselineKiguru is a brilliant and much-valued colleague - what she and her daughter have been put through is evil https://t.co/TdDUsKhDvt

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

it would be helpful to stop thinking of to supertalls/skyscrapers as the bird killers -- tall buildings are not the main problem for birds, it's these below-treeline sheets of glass (sheets that could easily be treated)

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

a few of the more than dozen stunned or dead birds at Ironside Newark this morning: this is *not* a skyscraper, it's a midrise with glass railings, floor-to-ceiling glass on the lowest floors, and some appealing plants.

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

behind that poor confused junco are about eight other stunned birds (including a hermit thrush also hunkered down by the glass). the railing is so unnecessarily deadly

[Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy]

This is fascist fuckery

Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) and a group of far-right House Republicans want to revoke visas issued to Palestinians. https://t.co/hsJ3VZxReI

[Shabazz Stuart @ShabazzStuart]

🚨🚨🚨This is the most regressive piece of legislation in recent #bikenyc history and an alarming number of council members are signing on….and there are some surprising names.

This would be a disaster for people on bikes. A disaster.

https://t.co/ORyxW8OoVW

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The three populations most frequently invoked to justify automobile hegemony are the children, the disabled and the poor. These are the very groups most harmed by it. These are the exact populations most limited, trapped, immiserated, hit, hurt and killed by car dependency.

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

@shang_sx i hope you're ok!

[Em Casey @emcaseyturf]

Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.

[Calista McRae @stuffedowl]

@NoreenMasud Elaine Scarry once made almost exactly this point while discussing the Heaney poem where Hardy lies down staring at a sheep's shins (?) and it's the main thing that stuck with me from grad school

[Jessie Singer @JessieSingerNYC]

People who drive cars in this pedestrian-dense, transit-rich city are running a successful campaign of grievance politics to roll back every improvement we have made to New York City’s streets in the past decade.