#DatensatzdesMonats #datasetofthemonth #GESISCommunityDataCollection
Der sechste Deutsche #Freiwilligensurvey (#FWS) mit Daten aus 2024 ist jetzt veröffentlicht. Die repräsentative Befragung zum freiwilligen Engagement in Deutschland wird seit 1999 alle fünf Jahre durchgeführt. Sie ist für Politik, Forschung und zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen eine wertvolle Ressource, um Trends im sozialen Engagement zu verstehen.
#FWs
@GeofCox I share @benofbrown's caution.
#BridgetPhillipson's track record on #trans rights is atrocious. If #Phillipson wanted to support trans people, the simple remedy would be to pass a one-sentence amendment to the #EA2010 making a GRC define sex in the EA as it does elsewhere. The #UKSC ruling in #FWS would be redundant.
This intervention marks a useful but small retreat from the #EHRC's extremist #transExclusion agenda. Phillipson just wants to crap on us less crudely.
Excellent letter in #TheGuardian from Labour #MP Rachel Taylor about the destructive role of the #UK #EHRC's chair, the hardline #transphobe #KrisherFalkner, whose "ideological interpretation" of the #UKSC judgment in #FWS "risks marginalising transgender people". https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/equality-commission-guidance-after-sex-ruling-is-fundamentally-unworkable
Of course, Taylor diplomatically understates the problem. Falkner does not "risk marginalising #transgender people"; #trans exclusion is her clear goal.
There are also signs of possible govt caution ...
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Absolutely, @simon_brooke. The #UKSC inverted reality, and stripped rights that parliament had clearly intended to confer.
That could have been done honestly by Parliament. It could have voted to clarify definitions either way, and it could still do so. A simple amendment could undo the #FWS judgment.
But my meta point is that both with Andrew and with #trans people, UK law was simply pulled out of a conjurer's hat, then solemnised as if it was ancient. The "#BritishConstitution" is a farce.
Smilarly, the #UKSC's stripping of trans rights in #FWS could have been done in a very simple bill amending the Equality Act 2020. That would still have been a cruelly devastating breach of #ECHR rights, but at least it would have been procedurally honest.
#UKania does sometimes do procedural honesty. But it's optional.
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This is of course what happened In the #UKSC's judgment in #FWS. The judges refused to hear any opposing arguments, ignored all the evidence in parliamentary proceedings of the clearly stared intent of ministers. They then proceeded to not just gut the existing statutory framework and overturn it, but to do so on the basis of absurdist concepts such as "biological sex", which they didn't even attempt to define.
In both cases, sleight of hand is masquerading as law.
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I recently spent a couple of evenings with NYC's Urban Park Rangers observing, counting, collecting data, and tagging Horseshoe Crabs. They are amazing animals, and I am more awed each time I see them.
Shoring up beaches for horseshoe crabs and birds | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
#HorseshoeCrabs #Conservation #FWS
https://www.fws.gov/story/2024-10/shoring-beaches-horseshoe-crabs-and-birds
Gabriel Gómez is the 2025 #FormulaWinterSeries champion! 👏👏
If you need some last-minute Valentines, the Fish & Wildlife Service has you covered.
https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/valentines-day-cards-wild-heart
Well....add a second species to the "don't know what this is, needs work to ID it and describe it" list for the year. It's only February, Cave Bio Lab is on a roll!
Want to help us?
FIGHT AGAINST WORD CENSORSHIP - it's wrong, full stop.
FIGHT against funding removal for FWS, USGS, NOAA, NWS, and NPS.
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSFOLK TODAY! KEEP CONTACTING THEM! These things should be bipartisan issues: first amendment rights, and nature/wildlife/wild spaces.
"Like" this when you TAKE ACTION
"Boost" to get the word out.
#nature #fws #fish #wildlife #biology #geology #forest #cave #wild #resist
TAKE ACTION: Tell #FWS, “No Road Through #Izembek National #Wildlife #Refuge”
The link takes you to a page where you can send a comment to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
https://progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org/NoroadinIzembekNationalWildlifeRefuge
In the United States, you can volunteer to help find, monitor, map, and remove invasive species, as well as help restore impacted areas.
More info at the link.
https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/education_public_awareness/public_awareness_fed_volunteer_efforts
#nature #community #nps #eppc #plants #fws #links
[Scotland] UK Supreme Court legal challenge over how ‘woman’ defined in law
https://apnews.com/article/uk-supreme-court-trans-gender-case-cf2bbc911c59b147a5261f431ee93eb7
* dispute betw. women’s rights campaign group, Scottish gov
* transphobic For Women Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Women_Scotland
* whether trans person w. gender certificate as female regarded as woman under equality laws
* Amnesty International: written intervention
* concerned about deterioration of trans rights in U.K./abroad
#Scotland #transphobia #transgenocide #ForWomenScotland #FWS #TERF #JLRowling
This month, US wildlife officials have found two dead adult gray wolves in Washington, a species protected under federal and state law. US Fish and Wildlife is not messing around. They’re offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest or conviction in either case.
#WA #Washington #Wolf #Wolves #FWS #Reward #EndangeredSpecies
#Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as #endangered for first time
This is such a shame, I've been trying really hard to make my yard firefly friendly and I haven't seen any at all. :(
#insect #USA #FWS #beetle #lightningbug
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/30/firefly-endangered-species-list
#FWS announces 4 expanded #wildlife refuges
https://www.eenews.net/articles/fws-announces-4-expanded-wildlife-refuges/ https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-expansion-four-national-wildlife-refuges-conserve
"The two #WildlifeRefuges in #Texas and one each in #NewMexico and #NorthCarolina include some particularly precious habitat for species ranging from #WhoopingCranes to the lesser #PrairieChicken... Under the #Biden-#Harris administration, the Service has added over 500,000 acres through willing seller land acquisition and #conservation easements."
Diese Frau muss sehr viel Hass in sich haben.
Die 58-jährige britische Schriftstellerin J.K. #Rowling hat am Freitag laut Berichten in mehreren britischen Zeitungen 70.000 Pfund (82.000 Euro) an die #transfeindliche Organisation "For Women Scotland" (#FWS) gespendet. Die feministische Organisation will erreichen, dass trans Frauen, deren Geschlechtseintrag geändert worden ist, nicht die gleichen Rechte – etwa Diskriminierungsschutz – wie andere #Frauen erhalten.
スターシップの打ち上げで環境問題に巻き込まれた連邦機関
https://spacenews.com/federal-agencies-caught-in-environmental-crossfire-over-starship-launches/
SpaceXのStarship打ち上げの環境影響について新しい苦情が提出された。環境団体がFAAとFWSの行動を批判し，政府の遅延と環境影響の不十分な審査を訴えた。その一方で，一部からは過剰な審査について批判する声も。 #SpaceX #環境影響 #FAA #FWS
Would it be distasteful or awesome to cartoonify and animate the #spacex #fws #seal #science #collaboration?
With whatever appropriate #edm or similar as a sound track?
I mean, of course we all feel sorry for that seal. And the other one.
SpaceX battles regulatory process that could hold up Starship test flight for months https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/10/18/spacex-battles-regulatory-process-that-could-hold-up-starship-test-flight-for-months/ #starshipintegratedflighttest2 #u.s.fishandwildlifeservice #xhomepagehighlight #starship #spacex #faa #fws
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