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María BraeuNERD
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Still trying to understand bluesky...

Latinoamericana. Expect Spanglish.

✍️ Science communicator — BraeuNERD.com
🎙️ Podcaster @ EpiSTEMas & Amphibian Rescue
🐸 Full-time nerd and conservationist.
🎨 Occasionally doodling and sharing other art attempts.
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María BraeuNERD @ranabraeunerd.bsky.social · Mar 8
The new Amphibian Ark #podcast is LIVE! 🐸🎙️ After 20 years rescuing amphibians in crisis, it's time you hear the stories of the people giving frogs, salamanders, and caecilians a second chance 💚

🎧 open.spotify.com/show/7K2t5Uk...

#conservation #ConservationScience🌎 #wildlife #frog #addHerper 🐸✨
Amphibian Rescue—the Amphibian Ark podcast
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
I love putting together these newsletters every quarter, but this issue in particular surprised me with a submission from the Sustainability in Prisons Project 💡

Conservation work in correctional centers?

Hop in:
www.amphibianark.org/fileadmin/up...
🐸 💚 #ConservationScience🌎 #SciComm #amphibian
Amphibian Ark Newsletter No. 75 out now Amphibian ex situ conservation stories Download now
September 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
20 years ago, a hotel in Panama made international news when it rented out two rooms for rescued frogs. But this was just a temporary solution.

Where are those frogs now?

🐸💚🌎🎧

Listen here: www.amphibianark.org/news/article...

#Amphibian #Conservation #ConservationScience🌎 #frog #wildlife
September 22, 2026 at 1:21 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
A very #violet Dor beetle (Enoplotrupes sharpi)

#SciArtSeptember
September 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
It's that time of the year when I remember I have a bluesky account: #SciArtSeptember! Might not manage a daily this year, but excited about this year's (very challenging) prompts 👌. Today: #malachite for a malachite-colored sweet bee 🐝
Green sweet bee illustration what the dry pastels and fineliners.
September 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
New episode is out! 🐸✨

Without conservation breeding programs, the Southern Corroboree frogs would most certainly be extinct due to a human-introduced disease.

Listen to their rescue story here or wherever you get your #podcasts : bit.ly/4t8qAHC

#ConservationScience🌏 #Nature #frog #SciComm
Background photo: a small, 1.5 cm, black and yellow striped Corroboree frog on a human hand wearing a white glove. Image text: Amphibian Rescue, the Amphibian Ark's podcast Episode 4: Rescuing the Corroboree frog. Original music by Biota specimens, beats by beasts.
May 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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lizneeley.bsky.social
The more I hear our leaders agreeing that science should atone for its sins & needs to be reformed, the more I find myself asking "which sins, exactly?"

I wholeheartedly agree that systemic biases in academia & medicine harm a whole lot of people! ...but that's not what they mean, now is it?
Angry goose meme. Close-up in the top panel has a squinting goose asking "Which sins of science" In the bottom panel, it's angrily chasing a person yelling "WHICH SINS???" in satisfyingly large font.
April 22, 2026 at 12:43 AM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
Después de una larga pausa, ¡volvimos con EpiSTEMas! Con un tema quizá algo controversial (¿o no?), pero sumamente necesario y que no podíamos ignorar.

Ya en sus plataformas de podcasts favoritas o YT: youtu.be/BfyGUsCoOwA?...

#ciencia #CienciaÑ ⚛️ #CienciaEnEspañol #PodcastsEnEspañol
Ciencia y guerras: consecuencias ambientales y en la salud humana. Epistemas episodio 191.
April 9, 2026 at 6:31 AM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
🐸 Amphibian Ark's quarterly newsletter is out!

#ConservationBreeding stories from Brazil, Mexico, Madagascar, South Africa, US, Sweden and Lithuania 🤯

English here: www.amphibianark.org/fileadmin/up...

Español: www.amphibianark.org/fileadmin/up...

#ConservationScience🌎 #Conservation #Wildlife
March 27, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Reposted by María BraeuNERD
sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Attention Science Communicators!

We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences.

Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can.

umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication. For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done: • by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, • outside of classroom settings • aimed at the public If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."
March 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by María BraeuNERD
theguardian.com
Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir
Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir
First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2026 at 5:47 AM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
The new Amphibian Ark #podcast is LIVE! 🐸🎙️ After 20 years rescuing amphibians in crisis, it's time you hear the stories of the people giving frogs, salamanders, and caecilians a second chance 💚

🎧 open.spotify.com/show/7K2t5Uk...

#conservation #ConservationScience🌎 #wildlife #frog #addHerper 🐸✨
Amphibian Rescue—the Amphibian Ark podcast
March 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Reposted by María BraeuNERD
natrevbiodiv.nature.com
ICYMI: New online! Conservation priorities for global amphibian biodiversity
Conservation priorities for global amphibian biodiversity
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 20 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00101-5Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate group but receive a disproportionately small fraction of conservation funding. In this Review, the authors discuss the status of amphibian conservation, highlighting examples of successful initiatives that have occurred despite global funding challenges.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
The #Conservation Planning Specialist Group has launched a new, more equitable pricing model for their online courses and I'm so happy to be a part of this 🥰

Check it out here: www.cpsg.org/news/2026-on...

More of my thoughts in this here: www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...

#ConservationScience🌎
More accessible training! CPSG Training Program 2026 News | María Braeuner Valladares 🐸
When looking for online opportunities back home in Guatemala, two things usually stopped me: the payment methods (they were even more limiting 10+ years ago)…or the price. It always felt very...dishea...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberDrink

Still afraid of drawing mammals, but this turned out better than I thought it would 😅💪

#inktober #inktober2025
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...
‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO
If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’
www.nwo.nl
October 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberShredded 🐛

#inktober #inktober2025
October 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberHeavy 🐘

Falling behind already, but still enjoying the stippling 🫶

#inktober #inktober2025
Ink stippling drawing of an elephant's foot
October 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
This did not turn out how I pictured it 😂 but it's the #reckless salamander that jumps off cliffs to escape danger, here falling through the leaves 🌿🍃💃

#inktoberReckless

#inktober #inktober2025
October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
Colleagues from CPSG will be at the #WorldConservationCongress this week: don't miss them 🐸🫶

Schedule here:
www.instagram.com/p/DPjjwVkDM9...

Or here: www.linkedin.com/posts/conser...

#IUCNcongress #ConservationScience🌎 #Conservation🌎
October 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberStarfish #inktoberColor

Not entirely happy with this one, but it was good to play with colors for a change.

#inktober #inktober2025
October 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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#inktoberPierce

They slash more than stab when hunting, but won't shy from a true pierce in self-defense.

#inktober #inktober2025
Stippling drawing of a swordfish
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberDeer

Still not comfortable drawing mammals and/with lines, but gotta start somewhere 😅.

#inktober #inktober2025
October 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberMurky

Mudskippers thrive in murky, tropical environments like mangrove swamps and mudflats, utilizing both water and land for survival.

#inktober #inktober2025
October 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberCrown

To impress, warn or threat, the royal flycatcher opens its feathery crown.

#inktober #inktober2025
Ink illustration of a royal flycatcher
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
ranabraeunerd.bsky.social
#inktoberWeaving Jumping spiders don't really weave webs to hunt; but they weave little sleeping bags within leaves to chill.

#inktober #inktober2025
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM