Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner
@rgoldenkroner.bsky.social
Earth Doctor. Conservation scientist, communicator, change maker. I stand for courage, compassion, and actions for a thriving future!
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I'm Rachel. I make my living as a scientist, conservationist, and mission-driven practitioner. For fun, I sing, host hikes with friends, birdwatch, and love to connect with the rest of nature!
I'm Rachel. I make my living as a scientist, conservationist, and mission-driven practitioner. For fun, I sing, host hikes with friends, birdwatch, and love to connect with the rest of nature!
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What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ
May 31, 2026 at 2:56 PM
What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ
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ICYMI: my letter to Science last week urging continued US engagement with @ipbes.net and @ipcc.bsky.social despite federal withdrawal. Scientists, universities, professional societies, NGOs, subnational actors - all can keep us engaged for the next few years: www.science.org/eprint/JVSSA...
Filling the US gap at science-policy bodies
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from more than 60 international institutions, including critical science bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a...
www.science.org
March 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
ICYMI: my letter to Science last week urging continued US engagement with @ipbes.net and @ipcc.bsky.social despite federal withdrawal. Scientists, universities, professional societies, NGOs, subnational actors - all can keep us engaged for the next few years: www.science.org/eprint/JVSSA...
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One way to take action is to support Stand Up for Science.
We're a registered 501(c)(4) social welfare organization dedicated to saving America’s scientific ecosystem, protecting health and defending democracy and your donations help. Thank you!
#StandUpForScience
www.standupforscience.net/donate
We're a registered 501(c)(4) social welfare organization dedicated to saving America’s scientific ecosystem, protecting health and defending democracy and your donations help. Thank you!
#StandUpForScience
www.standupforscience.net/donate
Fuel the fight! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
www.standupforscience.net
March 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
One way to take action is to support Stand Up for Science.
We're a registered 501(c)(4) social welfare organization dedicated to saving America’s scientific ecosystem, protecting health and defending democracy and your donations help. Thank you!
#StandUpForScience
www.standupforscience.net/donate
We're a registered 501(c)(4) social welfare organization dedicated to saving America’s scientific ecosystem, protecting health and defending democracy and your donations help. Thank you!
#StandUpForScience
www.standupforscience.net/donate
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DHS is rapidly pushing to wall off Big Bend National Park.
Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says:
“This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says:
“This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Even MAGA Republicans Hate Plans to Put a Border Wall in Big Bend
Virtually no one, it seems, thinks a physical barrier in the region is a good idea. The Trump administration is rushing to build one anyway.
www.texasmonthly.com
March 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
DHS is rapidly pushing to wall off Big Bend National Park.
Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says:
“This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says:
“This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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[COMMENTARY]
Conservationists must move beyond assumptions and test whether their actions truly work, a new op-ed argues, adding: “What’s needed now is making causal evaluation standard practice rather than the exception."
** Views are author's.
Conservationists must move beyond assumptions and test whether their actions truly work, a new op-ed argues, adding: “What’s needed now is making causal evaluation standard practice rather than the exception."
** Views are author's.
Conservation programs must embrace causal evidence when evaluating impact (commentary)
In 2006, Paul Ferraro and Subhrendu Pattanayak issued an urgent warning: conservation lacked the causal evidence needed to know what actually works. This mattered because decades of conservation…
news.mongabay.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM
[COMMENTARY]
Conservationists must move beyond assumptions and test whether their actions truly work, a new op-ed argues, adding: “What’s needed now is making causal evaluation standard practice rather than the exception."
** Views are author's.
Conservationists must move beyond assumptions and test whether their actions truly work, a new op-ed argues, adding: “What’s needed now is making causal evaluation standard practice rather than the exception."
** Views are author's.
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Wow - one of the first (maybe the first?) end-to-end climate impact attribution studies focused on biodiversity change.
NEW – Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @alexpigot.bsky.social
Read here ⬇️
Read here ⬇️
Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s - Carbon Brief
An uptick in heat extremes has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to new analysis.
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wow - one of the first (maybe the first?) end-to-end climate impact attribution studies focused on biodiversity change.
I've been writing about a poem a week (or so) over the last six months, which has helped me to process the inevitable, existential feelings coming up during these very difficult times in the US.
August 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I've been writing about a poem a week (or so) over the last six months, which has helped me to process the inevitable, existential feelings coming up during these very difficult times in the US.
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They came for the foreign aid workers, justice department, public health institutions, universities and researchers, law firms, media organizations, not to mention longtime immigrants. Now it is nonprofits too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next.
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
They came for the foreign aid workers, justice department, public health institutions, universities and researchers, law firms, media organizations, not to mention longtime immigrants. Now it is nonprofits too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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Colombia has a goal to progressively move away from oil and gas while strengthening local renewable energy and storage capacity.
Lena Yanina Estrada, the new environment minister and first Indigenous person to hold the position, argues that it’s a model that helps bring long-term stability.
Lena Yanina Estrada, the new environment minister and first Indigenous person to hold the position, argues that it’s a model that helps bring long-term stability.
Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition
The energy landscape is a shifting terrain, full of twists and turns, according to statistics in the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While some countries are backtracking on…
news.mongabay.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Colombia has a goal to progressively move away from oil and gas while strengthening local renewable energy and storage capacity.
Lena Yanina Estrada, the new environment minister and first Indigenous person to hold the position, argues that it’s a model that helps bring long-term stability.
Lena Yanina Estrada, the new environment minister and first Indigenous person to hold the position, argues that it’s a model that helps bring long-term stability.
Thrilled to share our new paper led by @colincarlson.bsky.social which asks an exciting question - what could a global scientific assessment body for pandemics look like?
We take lessons from existing groups like the IPCC and @ipbes.net, laying out considerations, challenges, and ways forward. 🌍🧪
We take lessons from existing groups like the IPCC and @ipbes.net, laying out considerations, challenges, and ways forward. 🌍🧪
🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics."
🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵 Five things to know 👉
🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵 Five things to know 👉
July 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thrilled to share our new paper led by @colincarlson.bsky.social which asks an exciting question - what could a global scientific assessment body for pandemics look like?
We take lessons from existing groups like the IPCC and @ipbes.net, laying out considerations, challenges, and ways forward. 🌍🧪
We take lessons from existing groups like the IPCC and @ipbes.net, laying out considerations, challenges, and ways forward. 🌍🧪
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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
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🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash.
THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.
Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.
Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash.
THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.
Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.
Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
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200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
Redirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live
wclivestream.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
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💥👊BOOM! We did it!👊💥
Ok, keep signing, everyone!
Next steps, if you're a scientist willing to talk with the press go sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
Ok, keep signing, everyone!
Next steps, if you're a scientist willing to talk with the press go sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
May 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
💥👊BOOM! We did it!👊💥
Ok, keep signing, everyone!
Next steps, if you're a scientist willing to talk with the press go sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
Ok, keep signing, everyone!
Next steps, if you're a scientist willing to talk with the press go sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.
The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?
The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
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A MUST READ: time.com/7285045/resi...
This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM
This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A MUST READ: time.com/7285045/resi...
This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM
This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM
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For the first time in nearly 30 years, the EPA under Trump failed to release the U.S.’s annual greenhouse gas emissions report.
So a nonprofit did it instead.
Facts don’t disappear just because the government refuses to print them.
Read their findings below ⬇️
www.cbsnews.com/news/greenho...
So a nonprofit did it instead.
Facts don’t disappear just because the government refuses to print them.
Read their findings below ⬇️
www.cbsnews.com/news/greenho...
The EPA didn't release its annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions report, but we got the data. Here's what we found
The Environmental Defense Fund published the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks after filing a Freedom of Information Act request last month.
www.cbsnews.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the EPA under Trump failed to release the U.S.’s annual greenhouse gas emissions report.
So a nonprofit did it instead.
Facts don’t disappear just because the government refuses to print them.
Read their findings below ⬇️
www.cbsnews.com/news/greenho...
So a nonprofit did it instead.
Facts don’t disappear just because the government refuses to print them.
Read their findings below ⬇️
www.cbsnews.com/news/greenho...
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Introducing MUSKVILLE: A Solidarity City, popping up outside Union Station starting Sunday, April 20. Sign up at MUSKVILLE.org and we’ll email you with updates and volunteer opportunities!
@fedworkersunited.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social @mdcdsa.bsky.social
@fedworkersunited.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social @mdcdsa.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Introducing MUSKVILLE: A Solidarity City, popping up outside Union Station starting Sunday, April 20. Sign up at MUSKVILLE.org and we’ll email you with updates and volunteer opportunities!
@fedworkersunited.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social @mdcdsa.bsky.social
@fedworkersunited.bsky.social @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social @mdcdsa.bsky.social
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artist: @/reinpress on instagram
April 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
artist: @/reinpress on instagram
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NOAA and the NWS are *lifesaving* public services.
Without tornado, flash flood, blizzard, and hurricane warnings, millions of people will be exposed to deadly weather without warning--weather that will continue to increase in severity due to climate change.
#StandUpForScience
Without tornado, flash flood, blizzard, and hurricane warnings, millions of people will be exposed to deadly weather without warning--weather that will continue to increase in severity due to climate change.
#StandUpForScience
It's worth noting when the system works. The last week of tornadoes and torrential rains led to at least 21 deaths and widespread damage. But the human toll could have been far worse without an NWS already under immense stress.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/nati...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/nati...
National Weather Service issues lifesaving tornado and flood warnings amid massive cuts » Yale Climate Connections
Record- and near-record flooding swept through parts of the Ohio and mid-Mississippi River regions over the weekend.
yaleclimateconnections.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
NOAA and the NWS are *lifesaving* public services.
Without tornado, flash flood, blizzard, and hurricane warnings, millions of people will be exposed to deadly weather without warning--weather that will continue to increase in severity due to climate change.
#StandUpForScience
Without tornado, flash flood, blizzard, and hurricane warnings, millions of people will be exposed to deadly weather without warning--weather that will continue to increase in severity due to climate change.
#StandUpForScience
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📣 GET IN, DORKS!
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣
This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊
#StandUpWithUS
Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣
This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊
#StandUpWithUS
Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
April 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
📣 GET IN, DORKS!
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣
This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊
#StandUpWithUS
Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣
This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊
#StandUpWithUS
Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
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Hi hello good morning.
This is fascism. Nazi Germany did this to support their messaging of a superior Aryan race.
Hope this helps!
This is fascism. Nazi Germany did this to support their messaging of a superior Aryan race.
Hope this helps!
NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
www.nature.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Hi hello good morning.
This is fascism. Nazi Germany did this to support their messaging of a superior Aryan race.
Hope this helps!
This is fascism. Nazi Germany did this to support their messaging of a superior Aryan race.
Hope this helps!