Of all the problems tech can potentially solve, basic human interaction is not at the top of my list. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My mom worked at a preschool and daycare when I was growing up, so I had the joy of being raised not only by her, but by a whole cohort of strong, brilliant, and loving women. I had a lot of people who felt like home to me. We’re all better in community, even when it’s hard. Happy Mother’s Day

Walking around the lake today and a bald eagle flew directly overhead, only a few yards above us. In my whole life, I’ve never seen one there. Gotta be a good sign of…something!

Recently rewatched clips of this show for unrelated reasons and it was even funnier than I remembered

April was a busy month, but squeezed in some good books nonetheless 📚💙

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As Artemis II passed out of communication with earth, I was struck by the realization that each day each of us is the farthest we have been from the moment we were thrown into this world, pushed out into space, slung by gravity, looking out the windows.

9 books in March, and I continue to get deep into nonfiction about anything and everything. Favorites were probably Motherland (A Feminist History of Modern Russia) and When it All Burns 💙📚

Worried about the state of democracy? Wondering about the myriad threats facing water governance? In this systematic review, we describe three practices of democracy—as an institution, a collaboration, and a revolution—to illustrate the evolution (and future) of water around the world. #GreenSky

My take on the whole AI in Social Science discourse is, even if you perfected the AI to remove hallucinations, math errors, and nonsense language, you still would be locked in to a specific kind of science--one dominated by white/male/heteronormative methods, theories, & assumptions

Reading won’t fix the world, but it can help us understand it and bring a little bit of joy. 9 books in February, enjoyed them all. Favorites were probably The Wild Dark, Buckeye, and Wuthering Heights 📚💙

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

California scientists: The Legislature is considering a bipartisan bill to create a CA version of the NSF: the California Foundation for Science and Health Research. It would be funded with a $23B bond measure on the Nov 2026 ballot. Sign on to support the bill here: www.fundCAscience.org

Started off 2026 with 9 books, almost all nonfiction, and I really loved most of them 📚💙

The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC. Links to fundraisers in thread. bsky.app/profile/last...

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

We’ve got a new publication out in Environmental Communication. We analyzed media coverage during the LA fires to find the dominant frames used to talk about California’s long-term water challenges. The case was a collision of both emergent threat and chronic crisis Free here:

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

The Stranger Things finale was…kinda dumb, right?

Happy new year to all, but especially to the un- (and under-) employed. We’ve got the creativity and resilience we need to make this world better in 2026, whether or not capitalism acknowledges it!

I read 105 #books this year! And lots of really, really great ones. Here’s a 🧵of some of my favorites (roughly categorized)💙📚

In 2026, I want to read.... a lot. Please suggest a book I should read to better understand the world around me or to simply enjoy this place a little bit more. #booksky #readsky

Just a little tbr pile to get me started in the new year 💙📚

A curious fox that came to my camp at sunset in Algonquin, painted acrylic on 16”x20” canvas in the style of Giovanni Segantini, one of my favourite artists. Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar #OpenHouse #natureart #BlueSkyArtShow #canadianart

Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.

Day seventeen of #ArtAdventCalendar Tonight I’m sharing this painted stone of the Seven Whistlers. Years ago, when people heard the Whistlers flying at night, they thought of it as a bad omen. Sailers would refuse to sail the next day, and miners would avoid the mines.

A family portrait I did awhile back. Watercolor, micron, colored pencil. #BirdoftheDay #birds #heronsandegrets #ArtAdventCalendar #birdart #sciart

Day 14: #ArtAdventCalendar Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6" tishamark.com/product/late... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm

🐙 Halcyon the Nebula Octopus 🌌 Hand sculpted from clay ✨⭐ #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡

Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar "Murmuration 2" Starling hand embroidery thread painting artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p23/st... #birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt

Little garden collage for #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10 - an old sketchbook drawing that I'm planning to redraw sometime soon

Here's a snowy night for your #artadventcalendar

This painting is from the period when my Mum was experimenting with colour. #ArtAdventCalendar

December 8 #ArtAdventCalendar is my best to date watercolour (I think). I honestly really like the look of this. #art #watercolour #saskatchewan #learning

Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar Testing a new tune of two tone granulating color I just got! I love the tone so much. Already thinking about purchasing a bigger tube. On a side note: My paintings should really be more diverse. I paint too much snow lol #art #watercolor #artsky

Can't wait for the conversation!!!

A trio for day 4 of #artadventcalendar Atlantic Puffins hanging out #watercolor #seabird

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RIP Claude 😢

Oh, seeing now that Kai Erikson passed away last month. “Everything in its Path” was really formative to me early on in grad school, and when I decided to study Paradise after the Camp Fire. It’s probably become more relevant than even he could have imagined…an important legacy to leave behind.

A busy month of November reads 📚💙 I especially loved Misinterpretation, Martyr!, and When the Cranes Fly South (😭 alert for that last one, though). Careless People and On Muscle were great nonfiction reads

Rewatching The Hobbit with my family and I’m struck by Bilbo’s monologue about how he misses his armchair, his garden, etc. People always quote that on the internet to justify wanting to retreat from the world…

About to watch this John Candy documentary and absolutely lose it 😭😭

Can we just not www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Impacts add up when gov stops working… From 2018: “coal plants released 15 to 20 percent more particulate matter during the 35 days when the government was shut down and EPA enforcement officers were furloughed.”

Our op-ed in the Sacramento Bee last week calling on Gov. Newsom to show more leadership on pfas regulation. This is critically important from states as the fed dismantles our environmental regulatory system. Recent events show more than ever that we need courageous leadership

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.