3 yrs ago DeSantis and Chris Rufo piloted the academic repression we've seen across the country at Florida's very queer public lib arts college to fight the "feminization" of higher ed. they ended the gender studies program, fired professors, and 1/8th of the student body left. @us.theguardian.com

youtu.be/vCTRU3c5hwU?... My approach to spatial thinking in education.

I’m not feeling great about the circulating argument that data centers are inevitable, so we may as well tap them to pay for grid expansion. While that may seem shrewd, the notion that infrastructure is “inevitable” has led to a lot of unjust outcomes for hosting communities and beyond (see: dams).

Use our action center to tell Congress to speak out against ICE's detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez and any effort to deport her.

🔴⚠️🌡️♨️🇺🇸🇲🇽Daily records are currently set for Sea Surface Temperature in the Gulf of Mexico. Here the anomaly maps for 1March 13th with #Copernicus Marine data. Values exceed +3°C along most of the #USA coast even 4° or even +4.5°C . #climateemergency via @climatecasino.net

"Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback -- Researchers say DOE report [yes, #JudithCurry is one of the 5 authors] cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases" via #Science: www.science.org/content/arti... "

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

Coming to AAG 2026 San Francisco: Golden Compass Onward: Navigating the Academy – Wayfinding Toward Success for Foreign-Born Women Faculty - Thursday, 3/19/2026 from 2:30 PM to 3:50 PM Pacific Time Please sign up: Friends of Golden Compass lunch social 🥗: Register here! lnkd.in/g2gpc4iA

Yes, #RogerPielkeJr is now literally writing hit pieces for a Koch-funded (www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Na...) antiscience right-wing disinformation site:

4-year fully funded PhD position in 'Climate-related health impacts on children' @hydr-vub.bsky.social. Apply now: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Leaders and advocates gathered in Alabama for the Bridge Crossing Gala, hosted by the NAACP Alabama State Conference. The SPLC was proud to sponsor the evening and connect with partners from across the state ahead of the annual Selma bridge crossing. The work continues. And so does the legacy.

"This bill doesn't make us safer. It makes our campus an unpredictable space where the threat of violence is always part of the curriculum."

Hey, Buffalo nerds and people who believe in, you know, vaccines and clinical trials and all that excellent stuff. Come on out this weekend! #StandUpForScience

"Colorado oil and gas regulators dropped a bombshell in 2024 when operators reported to the state that their third-party contractors had purposefully falsified thousands of data points for hundreds of wells, fudging pollution numbers and other data related to well remediations."

#OTD we recognize Zero Discrimination Day. Discrimination still limits access to housing, education, health care and the ballot. Zero discrimination requires systemic change. #TheMarchContinues

During testing the past two weeks, students completed a Black History Month activity. They randomly selected a career card and researched a historical or modern figure connected to that field, listed key facts or achievements, and shared a quote or reflection on that person’s impact on society. 📚💻🧐

Invalidating ID cards based on gender is literally a key plot point in The Handmaid’s Tale. This is horrifying.

Hiram Revels' story is one of countless examples of why we need to #TeachReconstruction. Check out our report: “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.” See full report with state assessments & resources: teachreconstructionreport.org

As a faculty member of UT's distinguished African and African Diaspora Studies Department, I am angry at the disingenuous way UT is characterzing us and our scholarship. But as an alum of UT (MA, JD, PhD) I am sad to see my alma mater debase itself to curry favor with the ignorance of the right.

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Bullies have to bully: US pressures Vanuatu at UN over ICJ’s landmark climate change ruling aje.news/16b4li

Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships #SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

Project 2025 says (re: weather & climate) that "emphasis on prediction & management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable." But it's clear that broader federal bureaucracy is being forcibly dismantled to prevent anticipation or mitigation of foreseeable future harm.

The SAVE act will disenfranchise millions, mostly women It requires ID that matches your birth certificate or passport If you’ve had a name change, your birth certificate won’t match The State Dept is banning libraries from processing passport applications They don’t want certain people to vote

Excellent book! One of my favorites last year.

Some good news today!! Also Denver Public Library is amazing! Not surprised about the prize though - the book is really good!!

Heartland Institute ^ is one of Atlas Network’s hundreds of partners that has worked hardest to destroy consensus on climate. Merchants of Doubt describes many Atlas partners’ work. Protecting dirty industry is a big job & it pays. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

docs.google.com/document/d/1... Hey folks, tried putting together a letter in direct response to the NSF unprompted decision. Feel free to offer suggestion or to add your name as a signatory, and thanks to those that did it alredy! Current text follows (errors all mine!)...

brave students standing up for their neighbors

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12 AP: After Natl Park Service takes pride flag down from flagpole at NYC's Stonewall National Monument, city leaders -- including Manhattan Borough President -- and 100 activists & residents show up to raise it again.

Even when we shut these concentration camps down, the damage itself cannot be undone Every day it continues, our future generations are further damaged

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Public opinion is not cited in this @nytimes.com story, but repealing the endangerment finding would likely be quite unpopular. Our most recent survey report finds that 74% of American registered voters support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

it's wild how much time and energy is dedicated to threatening people with AI destroying their livelihood as opposed to actually demonstrating how AI could benefit anyone. it really is all about sticking it to those smug [checks notes] passenger attendants

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

The Trump administration removed a Pride flag at the NYC monument honoring the Stonewall uprising, a key turning point for LGBT rights in America

The chapter is still available on the version of the report posted to the National Academies website:

Full article: Elevating the Discipline: Creating Pathways for Geographers as Public Scholars

More disturbing news today about the removal of scientific evidence from decision-making processes in our federal government. Censoring educational materials about the climate crisis will not make it go away - it will just make our public institutions less equipped to deal with it.

College sociology textbook specially written to placate Florida censors, omits any mention of systemic inequality. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

"Disrespect for the Rule of Law Undermines Science and Fundamental Social Norms" "[The] hard-fought gains for a more peaceful, humane and sustainable world, in which many geographers played a critical role, must not be relinquished." by @williamgmoseley.bsky.social www.aag.org/disrespect-f... 🧪

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At the event, some faculty members were upset about how Stephanie Arado, a U violin professor, was treated after she wore a black tunic with “The Evil Must End Now” on the front and “ICE Out” on the back...Then U police officers told Arado that she had to leave Northrop

these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social