Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

Half the Urban Heat Island effect is currently mitigated by tree cover globally--but benefits are greatest for wealthy cities + suburbs. Current tree cover can only mitigate 10% of urban temp increase due to climate; maximal planting could offset just 10% more. More from @science.nature.org here:

These are the darkest days in American science in the seventy-year history of publicly funded science. But I tell myself every day that what is broken can be mended; what is demolished can be rebuilt. Our job is to fight for the chance. I hope to see you on the front lines.

This is not normal

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I love @timothysnyder.bsky.social's do not obey in advance, and like to add do not obey during or after either. (I mean within the bounds of what's necessary to do to survive.) I also like to point out that our enemies would like us to feel powerless and surrender and why give them the satisfaction?

I’m working on a report about data centers in Illinois and remembered this resource that gathers redlining maps from across the USA in case anybody else might find the resource useful for similar (or other) projects:

I always frame citational practice as relational: Whose ideas do I want to inherit and carry forward? Whose/which ideas am I responsible to/for? Which thinkers have offered me intellectual, emotional, spiritual guidance? Who are my ontoepistemological ancestors? #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards Henderson et al 2507-2530 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2441198 #NGSS #culturalcognition #geography #politicalideology #SDG4 #SDG13 https://f.mtr.cool/pvmikizddt

🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.” Yeah. 🫢 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Sultana draws on documentary video content from the 'Voices from the Global South' project, produced by the Open University, @rgsibg.bsky.social & @igu-ugi.bsky.social, to illustrate the arguments in her paper. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New in Geo: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

In case anyone is interested, here's my course guide for 'Epistemic Injustice' (formally 'Knowledge, Ignorance, and Power'), which I'm teaching this semester. I've made some changes for this year. There's still so much I don't get to - as I said before, I really need a second semester.

NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases. Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools: ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106 #SciEd #TeachClimate

NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases. Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools: ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106 #SciEd #TeachClimate

Statement from @health.nationalacademies.org "...based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism." www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...

At the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) meeting in Minneapolis, our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team from UW Seattle put on 13 sessions on equity & justice-focused approaches to #SciEd & #ClimateChange ed All slides & resources are available here: stemteachingtools.org/news/2025/ns...

Today (Thurs) at #NSTAFall25, we start off at 8am with a session that explores 21 different priority areas of climate & environmental justice. Come explore how to teach about a new topic in Room 102A! Our full schedule is below. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Had a powerful launch into #NSTAFall25 today at the Climate Café. I talked to dozens of educators & ed leaders working to teach about #ClimateJustice & #EnvironmentalJustice. If you are at NSTA this week, come join us in Room 102A to keep it going. Detailed schedule below! bsky.app/profile/phil...

Are you at NSTA in Minneapolis? Come join us today (Wed) at the Climate Café! It runs from 1 to 3pm (in the STEM Showcase). Our STEM Teaching Tools team is co-hosting the café with Climate Generation. #TeachClimate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #NSTAFall25

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS #STEAM The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published another NEW TOOL. This one shows how to use ART PEDAGOGIES as a powerful platform for students to learn about and take action on #ClimateJustice and #EnvironmentalJustice! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/105

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing. ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us! Please share and help spread the word through your networks! #NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15 ➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

What does it mean to tell the story of climate change on Indigenous terms? Read about Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes at @moaubc.bsky.social moderated by @rickharp.bsky.social  https://f.mtr.cool/gziohzbuhs

At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us! Please share and help spread the word through your networks! #NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15 ➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

Last Thurs, the Trump admin announced it is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which sits on Inupiaq and Gwich’in land. The Gwich’in consider the land sacred and rely on the caribou migration.

Come get your Master's or PhD degree with us! We have a new program strand focused on LAND AND WATER EDUCATION FOR SOVEREIGN FUTURES! Come explore how land- and water-based pedagogies that uphold Indigenous sovereignty support environmental & #ClimateJustice. education.uw.edu/academics/pr...

TL;DR "Al in education is something to avoid as much as you can." Great 🧵

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires. grist.org/accountabili... #Politics #Oil #FossilFuel #Politics #Report #News

“If we cannot even in principle be free from external manipulation and anti-scientific claims — and instead remain passive … and welcome corrosive industry frames into our computer systems, our scientific literature, and our classrooms — then we have failed as scientists and as educators.” 5/🧵

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

Look at her go! #invertebrates 🌿

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s* Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts. *linked to air pollution in previous studies 1/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👥👥 Panelists include @tanyatalaga.bsky.social @paulseesequasis.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social + Judi Kochon! 🤝 Event co-covened by myself and @candiscall.bsky.social

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals reut.rs/46I9oj6

@hcrichardson.bsky.social A good read that gives important background as to what Signalgate clown is saying. I WOULD like to include the official Oglala Sioux Tribe response to this. I shared before, separately, but I feel this piece should be here as well.

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

It is vital to understand climate change as a multispecies justice issue. Here's how SCIENCE mag covered this new study in @pnas.org: "CLIMATE CHANGE TURNS ALASKAN RIVER TOXIC: The Salmon River, long a symbol of Alaska's untrammeled wild beauty, is now an emblem of Arctic climate change."

Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab.

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

If you're housebound today (or in South Dakota, where there's no event), join us for a virtual Sun Day extravaganza! actionnetwork.org/events/think...

New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club! I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too. Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

Right now, a lot of people are trying to understand the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy. So honored that By The Fire We Carry made this New York Times list of best reads on the topic. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Folks, please consider joining us in philly next month. We got some awesome stuff happening. Ive enjoyed being a part of the committee planning this.

Hello SEEDS community 🌱 We are excited to host you all in a few months in Philadelphia. Registration for our 2025 conference is live. Go to our website to register & for lodging information. You need to log in to your SEEDS account to see this). sefedasj.wildapricot.org/Sys/Login?Re...