Sea lions are such scofflaws.

I've spent the past few months thinking with so many people's beautiful work, and I'm honored to share it more widely.

New article!! 🎉 "Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations" w/ @thienkim.bsky.social @bethaniturley.bsky.social #geosky #energysky #water #geography wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

WIP for upcoming map collage workshop

Sometimes our government’s racism looks like incompetence and indifference. Because a federal clerk filed a treaty map under the wrong letter, Yakama Nation lost over 90,000 acres to Washington State. Now, the tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s...

"to listen for the creek when it is covered by concrete necessitates that we reach beyond thinking of a creek as something which exists in and of itself, in isolation." Appreciate this challenge.

Pushing the limits of this Basque cheesecake recipe by just doing everything wrong, let's see how idiot-proof this thing is.

Do rivers unfurl?

Love to see it, and would love to know more about why only 225 of 375 acres were transferred.

I have been witnessing how restorative justice is being taught and talked about at the K-8 grade level. It's been a messy and difficult process. @nbedera.bsky.social articulates the pitfalls I've observed.

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

As I say over and over again, dams were designed for the climate of the past. Yet there are over 3,000 new large dams in the works globally. With increasingly severe droughts and floods, we need to pivot completely to other renewable sources of power.

It’s NEPA. He’s talking about a court finding that CEQ’s regs for NEPA were never actually regs but only guidances, non-mandatory. Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2

19 days until December 1. Do you have your advent calendar yet?? Get a fact about frogs every day and support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social! I'm packing orders tonight, so order now and I'll get yours to the post office tomorrow! Get one at Squidfacts.net

This whole thread is worth reading, this bit in particular. In my limited understanding, Korematsu v. United States and Ex parte Endo didn't really resolve the constitutionality of exclusion/incarceration (this should never have been a question). Ganbatte.

Here's our explainer on Chevron deference: www.theverge.com/24188365/che... Here's something I wrote about the conservative capture of the federal courts: www.theverge.com/24279829/tru... This election explainer has some stuff on agencies and admin law: www.theverge.com/24279103/202...

“It’s hard to believe in them, the beautiful colors of extinction. But these are the colors.”

It's been a year and 6,500 miles since I was hit by a car.

Mistook an unripe persimmon for a ripe one, a good reminder to moving more carefully leads to more sweetness.

I don't want an electric car or truck, I want more state and federal investment in bike lanes, public transportation networks and e-bike susbsidies so I don't have to own a car

Feels pretty awesome to watch a dam come down and a river come back.

Folks should be careful about conjuring standards that determine whether someone is deserving of police violence. It's enough to say that the people protesting a genocide should not be harmed.

Highly recommend!

Labor is labor is labor. And all work deserves dignity. This includes the work of the caregiver, the accountant, the cashier, the janitor, and yes, the artist. Art underpins the most valuable industries in our economy. Of COURSE artists deserve fair compensation for their labor.

This is bad. Even setting apart problems that this poses on reproducibility and verifiability in #research, the disappearance of #OpenAccess publications is especially troubling, as it breaches the social contract of openness. www.nature.com/artic...

Read this very carefully, pls.

The best repair manuals, Mattern argues, present repair as social, embodied, intuitive, & accessible. "What if we extend these principles to civic systems and public spaces?...Is repair about reclaiming a past or building a future? Is it about conserving the status quo or inciting systemic change?"

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, remember: -There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman. -There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist. We're not gatekeeping being a woman in science today, or ever. We're learning, respecting, supporting, and celebrating. 🧪

"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road." - Rebecca Solnit www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Finally back to riding my bike twelve weeks after being hit by a car, and I wasn't ready for all of these emotions.

Deserts are naturally occurring. This, on the other hand, is a 100 percent man-made famine www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

"Activate yourself as a literary citizen" is maybe the best *writing* advice but also some of the best general advice I've ever received. Be active, be present, be nice, be yourself -- and that's a whole life, right there.

Let's hear it for elaborate embroidery.

Citation as both signpost and invitation to engage and collaborate has been one of the most important things I've learned/am learning. This is an excellent collection of sources I hold dear.

Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!

I’ve moved from my “knowing the institution will never love you back” phase to my “the institution is actively trying to grind me into dust and collective action is my only weapon” phase. To early career folks who follow me: learn labor solidarity in grad school. It’s the most useful academic skill.

Just celebrated riding 10,000 miles on my cargo bike yesterday, then got wrecked by a driver today. Life is weird.

Spotted this beautiful poem by Ghassan Kanafani on a street in San Francisco

Organizing my writing this morning. Thank you @shing.bsky.social for this gift from the Strange Beast Tarot.