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Still wayfinding. Trying to understand paths during these times of planetary change. Open to feedback. Also on @vivekgani@mastodon.social Likes ≠ Endorsements
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Paging all reporters to think very, very carefully about WTF is going on at the Abundance Conference later this week. Because it'll be slick, designed to generate favorable media coverage, & amplified by an ecosystem of podcast, substack, & big social media accounts. Dig beneath the surface.
Kinda nice to come across this as someone who used to listen to Haidt and the heterodox stuff 6-7 years ago.
One of my kid’s good friends is a Macalester student and she is on the river rn on the boat they built. So in awe of this program and the people involved in it. And so happy the river is still teaching us the ways.
Accept no less for this prosecco chamber...
Bluesky also has its share of mob morality rather than reading things: bsky.app/profile/vive...
The whole 'RFK Jr Is Repeating Michelle Obama's Mistakes' ordeal reminds me of another terribly titled article which wasnt actually that bad when actually reading it from nine months ago: bsky.app/profile/gspe...
Someone I know from the Delaware Appalachian Edge region is hosting a weekly book club reading of the biofi.earth book, starting this Monday at 6pm Central over Zoom. The event is being hosted on Hylo and also on Ecohana.org : ecohana.mn.co/posts/899925...
related to the lean into nostalgia: bsky.app/profile/repo...
Somewhat related article from last year: www.tni.org/en/article/s...
Sense there may be some irony considering there likely was people from the burning man scene that swung toward RFK Jr. & Shanahan's platform a year ago. See open.substack.com/pub/danielpi... (Oct. 2024, Daniel Pinchbeck)
By me from Mohave county: ‘It happened so fast’ - the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona as energy bill rise and federal aid shrinks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Also worth remembering this experience in Phoenix from last year: bsky.app/profile/mini...
From the man himself, what the deletion of @joho.bsky.social’s channel at the hands of YouTube via Vinay Prasad means. sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...
The chattering classes consider the conservation of biodiversity so frivolous (even the libs — see e.g. the Abundists!) that they can’t comprehend that environmental literature is inherently political.
Bonhoeffer found the soul of antifascism in a Black church in Harlem in 1930. He arrived loyal to the white Jesus of European empire, but left loving the Black Jesus of the oppressed. Then he joined a plot to kill Hitler. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-antifascist-christianity-bonhoeffer
Somewhat related: bsky.app/profile/aspi...
ICE's Detained Population Now at Record 61,226 People ICE's latest data show record detention numbers, growing GPS ankle monitor usage, and dip in arrests since June. PLUS: This newsletter just crossed 10,000 subscribers—thank you! 🎉 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-detai...
Also, Ive shared Nate's concerns about MMT but..: "As the Money on the Left Editorial Collective recently proclaimed, “It’s Time For Complementary Currencies,” forms of community credit which, as Raworth puts it, can help us “become full participants in nature’s cycles.” bsky.app/profile/mone...
Also, Ive shared Nate's concerns about MMT but..: "As the Money on the Left Editorial Collective recently proclaimed, “It’s Time For Complementary Currencies,” forms of community credit which, as Raworth puts it, can help us “become full participants in nature’s cycles.” bsky.app/profile/mone...
"It didn’t cost much, all things considered, to give kids something to memorize besides cigarette commercials."
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
Can't believe it's been five years since camping out here just before the fires happened. Back then was fairly influenced by a bioregional thoughtleader who turned out to have some deep shadows, and yet you learn to be in service to life in the contexts you can...
In the midst of everything happening so much, reminding myself there can be some thriving after the fires... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwLX...
Actual paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - it was submitted around April 2025 and reflects a longer tail of research. Haven't read but notable the paper mentions 'social dominance orientation' (SDO; Fischer et al., 2012) which can happen in activism across the political spectrum.
Approval was on August 27th, some are saying mid-late september for availability.
This is a haphazard response but reminded me of some things Ian has shared: bsky.app/profile/ians... bsky.app/profile/ians...
Are all of the abundance folks in the clean-energy suburbanism camp? Some seemingly are more into urbanism/YIMBY camp, yet possibly not asking hard questions about land-use change, water availability, etc. instead slipping into 'carbon tunnel vision'.
Yesterday, I DM'd people an embarrassing secret about myself if they called Congress about RFK. (It quickly got overwhelming.) Today, I ask you to do the same, but I'm going to make this way wilder: for every 25 call screenshots, I'll post one embarrassing fact on main 5calls.org/issue/center...
US COVID-19 levels continue to climb gradually Over the past week, test positivity for SARS-CoV-2 rose from 10.2% to 11.2% www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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post61 Antarctica Heat transport in the world's oceans is driven fundamentally by salt gradients by saline gradients. @realar.bsky.social Tipping Point Update (2 study compare American Resiliency go.nature.com/45H0bqS www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmMw...
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Trump to bulldoze Texas wildlife refuge for border wall.
I'm a novavax taker and even I still took a few minutes to call my reps regarding my concerns about where the CDC is headed. 5calls.org/issue/rfk-hh...
Done. Thanks for your posts on ecology and public health over the years.
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RFK Jr. brought up the Wisconsin study and autism again at the 'Making Texas Healthier' bill signings : youtu.be/Ls4akOx-7Xc?...
Video with broader context: youtu.be/Ls4akOx-7Xc?...
The 'physical inactivity' thing goes back to some theories back around 2021-2022 I think that promoted physical health and being outdoors, which got picked up for example by...
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Not an HVAC expert, Did they explain where the bacteria was? Usually there can be some stuff in the drain pipe and should be resolved by flushing with vinegar (and in some cases a bleach/water mix)
Doesn't help that our VP is trotting out the same talking point: bsky.app/profile/atru...
Fwiw, Monbiot also encouraged reading that article with some nuanced appreciation of OWID months ago: bsky.app/profile/geor...
Same energy... (Though it gets a nice review in www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/... )
The IPC data on famine in Gaza is utterly horrifying. Don't look away. www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
The official position of the Trump administration is that larger and larger companies should control the growing, processing, and marketing of our food supply When will farmers and MAHA realize that this movement has nothing for them?
We have far too little evidence on how well DIY drinking water testing kits and filters work. We know it's not great, but don't have many unbiased places to point people for more information. Great work on kits by friend Emily Kumpel and LeighAnn D'Andrea ⬇️ iwaponline.com/jwh/article/...
"On Aug. 18, health officials declared the West Texas outbreak over, but the consequences of the catastrophe will be lasting. The outbreaks it sparked across the U.S. and Mexico are still spreading. More are inevitable, Nuzzo said." bsky.app/profile/angi...
Related on mid-late 2021 mask removal guidance going alongside other endings of support: bsky.app/profile/vive...
"Some unspecified people"... its worth remembering it was a number of major outlets between institutions that made this mistake in public comms, see this video reflecting on it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mway...
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I just finished @andreawulf.bsky.social ‘s INVENTION OF NATURE — and have to share her call for us all to be more Humboldtian, more interdisciplinary, more enamored with the Earth and the dignity of everyone who inhabits it
Eh, there's been some increase according to the most recent biobot report: biobot.io/risk-reports... "COVID-19 continues to increase in week 33 (through August 16, 2025)[...]National hospitalizations for COVID-19 are increasing, currently at 1.7 per 100,000 people in week 32 (through August 9)."
Not quite what youre calling for, but Vijay Kolinjivadi & Asmaa Ashraf had this from late last year: www.tni.org/en/article/s...
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There was also a decent interview between Brett and Daniel Pinchbeck a few months ago trying to unpack what the culture around things like Bitcoin has morphed in meaning over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-YK...
It would be wonderful if @natehagens.bsky.social interviewed folks like Brett Scott for some balance: bsky.app/profile/bret... Brett seemingly tries to pick apart 'the train keeps moving' argument from Lyn Alden along with Alex Gladstein's argument around it being a freedom-from-oppression asset.
"You need to launch a catch-up vaccination campaign and explain why measles is a serious illness" Did a double-take yesterday when seeing a big bus livery in Austin encouraging getting a measles shot.
I was literally thinking of a prior post of yours when reading the news: bsky.app/profile/esgh...
What applications practically need 5-minute EV chargers? I'd be more interested in distributing charging access in general, per bsky.app/profile/keta... along with load optimization via OCPP.
Huh, Clean Air Task Force was one of those groups shortlisted in giving recommendations for the Effalective Altruism space back in the late 2010s. Then again, so were hopium startups like Climeworks 🤷♂️
You can also submit letters via this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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fires-and-fascism.co.uk FIRES AND FASCISM is a documentary due for release at the end of 2025. It aims to link the increasing wildfires of Europe with past fascism, big business, crime, and the rise of the far right. by @peteknapp.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLY...
Today is Day 2 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding, the key ruling underpinning U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. 🧪 Testimonies start at the top of the hour, and we’re following along: 👇🧵
Tom Homan Accused of Exploiting Mass Deporations for Profit migrantinsider.com/p/tom-homan-...
As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing. (With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)
Trump's EPA has proposed a rollback of the Endangerment Finding (which classifies fossil fuels and/or GHG emissions from fossil fuels as health threats so that the EPA can regulate them). Here's where people and companies can submit public comments in response... www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...
Hi, have you considered an RSS feed or email list for your 'Respiratory Virus Risk Reports' posts? Tried checking biobot.io/feed/ and latest is from April 11, 2025, and your latest post on bluesky is from a month ago while you have a newer report from August 9th (biobot.io/risk-reports...) Thanks!
Got reminded of the phrase again "the best of what we can know right now" (Originally post linked to emilygorcenski.com/post/on-truth/) when coming across this today: (from bsky.app/profile/mani... -> www.wired.com/story/people... )
Got reminded of the phrase again "the best of what we can know right now" (Originally post linked to emilygorcenski.com/post/on-truth/) when coming across this today: (from bsky.app/profile/mani... -> www.wired.com/story/people... )
Sidebar bookmarking aloud: on Lysenko and criticism of Mendelian Genetics, from bsky.app/profile/angi... -> rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
Just thinking aloud here, but part of me also wonders if there was also a shift in population demographics from rural to urban during the mid 20th century, akin to Portugal: bsky.app/profile/vive...
I've also been thinking of Lysenko recently, and the history lesson of how pseudoscience in service of a totalitarian regime destroyed tens of millions of lives. Rasmussen makes that comparison sharper by holding Lysenko's pseudoscientific journey up to Bhattacharya's.
Got kinda frustrated when they got interviewed for the PBS news hour recently: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
To be sure, fires in Spain are partially caused by climate change, but as in other parts of the world, I wish there was more coverage of how fires in Spain are the result of past land management decisions - in this case an overemphasis on planting trees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
Not sure, but i suspect others were there earlier talking about it, see bsky.app/profile/robe...
Write-up of Shannon's paper, with a neat photo of a #bee face. news.unt.edu/news/2025/un...
UPDATE: Today’s Texas Senate hearing on congressional redistricting has been canceled. But you can still make your voice heard — public comments are open: bit.ly/TXRedistrictingComment #TXLege #SD16
Full transcript for the latest episode of Landscapes now available. Listen to Lindsay Shade and Karen Rignall describe how the legacies of land control challenge simplistic ideas of transitions.
Why not also talk about land-use change that's been going on for over 100 years? I've made a thread collecting articles, essays and more in the context of recent texas floods: bsky.app/profile/vive...
Counterpoint: some of the patents are bogus and crippling open source culture. Check out Josef Prusas recent post on its impact on the open hardware 3D printing space: www.josefprusa.com/articles/ope...
Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productive 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NEW: 3 yrs after the Uvalde school shooting, DPS is still fighting news organizations to keep its records on the response secret. Now, SB 15— a #txlege priority this session— could help DPS permanently block access to unresolved misconduct investigations. www.statesman.com/news/politic...
Two conversational streams are crossing (in my mind) so I'll say: I learned researching community radio stations built in rural places that "red state" stereotypes don't account for actual complexity therein, including people banding together across political lines & "blue" "counterpublics" therein
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“How might we develop digital #technology that is better for people, communities and the planet?” Find out in Neil Selwyn’s ‘Digital Degrowth’. Out now! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @neilselwyn.bsky.social
Done. Thank you.
The cloudbursts and floods that have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan are increasingly common in India’s Himalayan regions and Pakistan’s northern areas, and experts have said climate change is a contributing factor. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow apnews.com/article/kash...
🧵 critiquing the techno-optimist progress narrative were hearing under the meme of 'abundance' lately.
How dry is this year on New Mexico's Rio Grande? In which I push the envelope of my modest data visualization skills. Maybe driest since 1964? www.inkstain.net/2025/08/drie... Maybe the couch tells the story best....
The only way back to normalcy is through, and that means getting these people out of power. I'm not going to get an NIH grant to do the work I care about until RFK and Jay are out anyway. So I hope you'll read and share our piece. www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
Our first guest is Paul Krafel, author of Shifting, Nature's Way of Change. Krafel's careful observation reveal deep natural patterns that can help us navigate the fog of present times. Check the full interview: entangledfutures.fm/episodes/tow...
What seed should I sow for ecological #restoration? Our new review paper seeks to bridge the latest science with practical guidance to improve outcomes that recover degraded lands and damaged #ecosystems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @restorationecology.bsky.social
Thread got split, other end is here: bsky.app/profile/fran...
I’m outside the Don Hutto ICE detention center in Taylor, Texas CoreCivic just denied Congressman Greg Casar access to the facility
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Naw its just getting front of the news headlines...