It's kind of wild that I've staked so much of my beliefs on the importance of effective rhetoric, and now teaching it is the main thing I do for a job. Wonderful how things worked out, even if I don't get paid enough

TIL that more than half of all native plant species in the southeastern U.S. depend on naturally recurring fires, and that most of the region’s rarest plants occur in fire-maintained communities. [source, comments]

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bioessentialism, misogyny, misandry

"gender politics was a fucking mistake. ppl will really be like "men dont have the capacity to have authentic, normal human emotions like women do" and act like that's peak feminism and not an utterly fucking deranged thing to say about another person"

The 6th Mass Extinction Really Has Begun, Scientists Warn in Newly Published Study | ScienceAlert

"Despite the looming weight of evidence to suggest this grim phenomenon is unfolding all around us, not everybody agrees.

"Drastically increased rates of species extinctions and declining abundances of many animal and plant populations are well documented, yet some deny that these phenomena amount to mass extinction," says bioscientist Robert Cowie from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

"This denial is based on a highly biased assessment of the crisis which focuses on mammals and birds and ignores invertebrates, which of course constitute the great majority of biodiversity." "