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Museum curator, nature watcher, often intrigued. Likes three item lists.
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Charlotte Abney
23 days ago
Absolutely delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 26-27 postdoc, dissertation, distinguished, and short-term fellowships at
@sciencehistory.org
! 📚 🎉 Details and application info on our website; questions welcome here!
www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/a...
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Applications for 2026–2027 Beckman Center Fellowships Now Open
Researchers can apply by January 15 for various long- and short-term programs, including two-year curatorial fellowships.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/about/news/applications-for-2026-2027-beckman-center-fellowships-now-open/
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Trevor Owens
about 1 month ago
"How AIP is Giving a Name to Mrs. Scientist" ->
www.aip.org/mrs-scientist
Excited to see this overview of some of the reparative description work that AIP's Niels Bohr Library and Archives team is doing with our photo collections.
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How AIP is Giving a Name to Mrs. Scientist
Our librarians and archivists are working together to recognize more Faces of the Physical Sciences
https://www.aip.org/mrs-scientist
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Naomi Oreskes
2 months ago
Deadline for comment on EPA endangerment finding extended to 22 Sept. Please send a comment. Here's a good piece with some ideas, and you don't have to be a scientist to comment.
blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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The Endangerment Finding: The Local Perspective Matters Right Now (Template Comment Letter Linked) - Climate Law Blog
[Here and at the end of this post, a template comment letter is linked for local governments to adapt for their own comments in the Endangerment Finding rule making process.] On August 1, 2025, the U....
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2025/08/29/the-endangerment-finding-the-local-perspective-matters-right-now-template-comment-letter-linked/?mc_cid=068a664e83&mc_eid=3c670e8b34
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Brian Kahn
2 months ago
I know there's a lot of news rn but
@eroston.bsky.social
,
@zhirji.bsky.social
and I wrote a full accounting of the Trump administration's war on climate science and clean energy. Putting it all in one place was a lot!
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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-trump-policies-climate-science/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NzM2NjAwNiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3OTcwODA2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMkFGT0pHUTFZVDUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCOTdGRUFDNjI5N0Y0ODdGODFCOTE5MTRCOUE0QTVENiJ9.AkPBPjc7l2mkwyaKEnMHl62Bnm7PvHhlGUJJxvaZVX4
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Rebecca Altman, PhD
4 months ago
Here’s the
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link on new plastic bag
#envhist
from Nils Johansson — develops R&D, early adoption of plastic carrier bags in Sweden, adding to the impt work from Johan Hagberg, Andrea Westermann h/t
@elsadevienne.bsky.social
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epdf/10....
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Rebecca Altman, PhD
4 months ago
And if you're looking for more on
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plastic bags, How to Read Plastic Bag from the
@sciencehistory.org
's
@rogerturner.bsky.social
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Is the Plastic Bag History?
This digital and outdoor exhibition explores the history of a familiar object from a surprising number of angles.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/visit/exhibitions/is-the-plastic-bag-history/
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Alan Gerard
4 months ago
The NOAA budget justification doc that finally was posted today didn't contain a lot of surprises - but as the first time all of the cuts were listed in their destructive detail, it is a depressing read. I tried to distill and explain the weather part, sad as it is.
substack.com/@balancedwea...
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BalancedWx Special: NOAA releases its FY26 budget justification document
It's still the OMB budget - but now with all the gory disastrous details
https://substack.com/@balancedweather/note/p-167208010?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=5aph6q
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Justine Calma
6 months ago
USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down
www.theverge.com/news/666150/...
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Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
https://www.theverge.com/news/666150/farmers-organic-lawsuit-trump-usda-website-climate-change-data
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Alondra Nelson
6 months ago
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/
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Karen K. Ho
6 months ago
If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (đź§µ):
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Eileen Clancy đź§ż
6 months ago
WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!
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United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights After FAA Staff Walks Out
United has been urging the government to limit the number of flights to what an airport can realistically manage based on staffing, CEO Scott Kirby said.
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/united-airlines-cancels-newark-flights-after-faa-staff-walks-out-e794b071?st=zXLpdk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Shobita Parthasarathy
7 months ago
My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240343&HistoricalAwards=false
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
7 months ago
I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
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I found these insights helpful in guiding a colleague’s powerful but undirected need to do something in response to… everything.
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Grist
8 months ago
The rush for renewable energy minerals has a dark side—environmental harm & human rights abuses. Clean energy’s path must be smarter & more responsible. A Quick thread from our new mining series 🧵...
#Mining
#Renewables
#EV
#Solar
#Batteries
#Climate
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ThĂąy Vy T Nguyá»…n
8 months ago
This thread led me to this book. “The story of refugees from Nazi Europe has been told many times, but Laurel Leff’s focused, well-researched book sheds new light on part of it: how academic refugees struggled to find safety in the American university system.”
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/as-s...
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Review | As scholars tried to flee the Nazis, U.S. universities closed their doors
Laurel Leff sets out to correct the myth of the “welcoming American academy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/as-scholars-tried-to-flee-the-nazis-us-universities-closed-their-doors/2020/01/09/fa0684a0-1470-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html
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Another example of the crucial public services provided by government that only government can plausibly do. So destructive to cut this, but will take a few years for the damage to manifest.
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Alan Gerard
8 months ago
Special Balanced Weather substack article about the announced reduction to NWS upper air weather balloon flights, h/t to
@coweatherman.bsky.social
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@stormscale.io
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open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
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Special BalancedWx Update: NWS announces reduction in upper air flights
Reduction is on top of previously announced cuts
https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/special-balancedwx-update-nws-announces?r=5aph6q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Emily Pawley
8 months ago
On the anniversary of my father's death, I usually try to donate to some people making trouble he would have liked. I couldn't march today, but who should I donate to to push back on these attacks on science?
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NPR
8 months ago
The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.
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Layoffs and potential closures of key facilities raise worries about NOAA's future
The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5316917/noaa-trump-impact-layoffs
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Zack Labe
8 months ago
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
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NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
https://www.science.org/content/article/noaa-firings-hit-birthplace-weather-and-climate-forecasting
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The College Park building holds the Plume Prediction and Response Center, run by NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory. It's an emergence response node that goes into action when there's a nuclear accident or major atmospheric toxic release.
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
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DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump
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Bruno J. Navarro
8 months ago
Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem.
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Federal Firings Threaten Great Lakes’ $5 Billion Fishery - Inside Climate News
Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could unintentionally thwart efforts to control populations of the destructive sea lamprey.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022025/federal-firings-threaten-great-lakes-sea-lamprey-control-program/
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James Fallows
8 months ago
Yup. The strain on air traffic controllers is getting attention for air safety. Deservedly. But in terms of overall danger, in general and specifically for aviation, assault on weather knowledge is worse.
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Dr. Larissa
8 months ago
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
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James Fallows
9 months ago
My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking: The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years.
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
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Trump’s Cultural Revolution | by Orville Schell - Project Syndicate
Orville Schell sees obvious and troubling parallels between the US president and Mao Zedong.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/donald-trump-mao-zedong-cultural-revolution-parallels-by-orville-schell-2025-02
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AarĂłn CantĂş
9 months ago
Scoop: the White House has dismissed 3 top reps at the US Global Change Research Program with climate expertise This office is critical for international climate collab including
@ipcc.bsky.social
. For
@splinternews.bsky.social
I tried assessing potential impacts:
www.splinter.com/will-the-us-...
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Will the US Sabotage Global Climate Science?
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
https://www.splinter.com/will-the-us-sabotage-global-climate-science
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Andrew Dessler
9 months ago
Very impressive article by
@bhensonweather.bsky.social
on the debate over whether climate change is causing more extreme cold events. Lots of great comments by experts, as well as me. Update: How’s U.S. winter weather changing in a warming world?
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/upda...
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Update: How’s U.S. winter weather changing in a warming world? » Yale Climate Connections
Cold extremes are indeed waning over most of the midlatitude Northern Hemisphere, but a decade-plus debate on the Arctic’s role continues.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/update-hows-u-s-winter-weather-changing-in-a-warming-world/
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Natalie Bennett
9 months ago
Very good
#PublicHealth
question about
#PlasticWaste
,
#PlasticPollution
and
#PublicHealth
When it comes to plastic, when are we going to hold the petrochemical industry accountable for this ugliness?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Why Aren’t We Losing Our Minds Over the Plastic in Our Brains?
New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-arent-we-losing-our-minds-over-the-plastic-in-our-brains/
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WIRED
9 months ago
Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess
Replicating the abilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fleet of weather satellites would take time and a lot of money—and expose private companies to a large amount of…
https://wrd.cm/4k51jer
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Looking for a closely contested struggle tonight? Get real insight into the game from the roots of fake grass.
artsandculture.google.com/story/awUxQ3...
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AstroTurf - Google Arts & Culture
A Surface of Contention
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/awUxQ3fIt35WPg
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
9 months ago
"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪
#scicomm
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scientific-institutions-have-a-long-history-of-anticipatory-obedience/4020931.article
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Alisa Bokulich
9 months ago
For
#BlackHistoryMonth
in US, sharing the story of Black physicist Sam Parker who 1840-1846 was indispensable in running experiments on electromagnetic induction in Joseph Henry's (1st Secretary of Smithsonian) lab at College of NJ (Princeton). 🧪 ⚛️
slavery.princeton.edu/stories/jose...
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Joseph Henry and Sam Parker
https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/joseph-henry-and-sam-parker
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Usha Lee McFarling
9 months ago
I urge everyone to read this concise but very complete history of what's been happening at our nation's science agencies the past few years, I mean days, by
@dereklowe.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/blog...
TY Derek
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-happening-inside-nih
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Eric Holthaus
9 months ago
It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.
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Indiginerd_Dr.D
9 months ago
More of this energy among the science community please ✨ might have to renew my AGU membership now
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Gen Michael Hayden
9 months ago
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Jane Friedman
9 months ago
Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book? If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.
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Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman
If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.
https://janefriedman.com/from-fragments-to-finished-books/
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Kris Inwood
9 months ago
The importance of day-to-day or infrastructural science! A useful thread.
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Bill Haneberg
9 months ago
"Infrastructural science" is a good term because the work is essential to so many everyday things we take for granted. In the US, it has historically just been there with products either free or at little cost to the public. And, produced by people following the highest ethical standards. đź§µ
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
9 months ago
In the first couple of days of the second Trump administration, the EPA removed several web pages related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the EPA.
envirodatagov.org/trump-target...
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Trump Targets DEI Pages at the EPA
In the first couple of days of the second Trump administration, the EPA removed several web pages related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the EPA.
https://envirodatagov.org/trump-targets-dei-pages-at-the-epa/
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Alix Hui
9 months ago
Everybody read this thread and follow
@rogerturner.bsky.social
and
@emilypawley.bsky.social
!
#HistSTM
#histsci
#HistTech
#sts
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Jerry Schippa
9 months ago
Maintenance and operations is boring. People and politicians like ribbon cutting and Capital projects. Shout out to all you in maintenance and operations.
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A thread describing how to see some sciences we depend upon as they get broken.
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KSlatteryResist
10 months ago
BREAKING NEWS: WA Governor Bob Ferguson just signed an executive order creating a Rapid Response Network to protect children who may be separated from their families due to Trump’s deportation policies. Supported by numerous state agencies
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
www.king5.com/article/news...
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WA Gov. Bob Ferguson signs executive order in preparation for potential 'mass deportations'
Gov. Bob Ferguson said President Donald Trump's immigration policies will "destabilize families" and harm children.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/state-politics/washington-gov-bob-ferguson-preparing-separations/281-155487d4-8d5e-4799-9bcf-4050f50f9212
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Karen Hao
10 months ago
The problem is there are myriad huge negative externalities of taking this approach - not least of which is that you need to keep building massive data centers, which require the consumption of extraordinary amounts of resources. 6/
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Rebekah Higgitt
10 months ago
Injecting Hope - an exhibition centred around the development and rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines - opened
@ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
this weekend. It expands the show as it appeared
@sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social
considerably, to include NMS collections and Scottish stories
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Charlotte Abney
10 months ago
The
@scihistoryorg.bsky.social
is hiring! Details here:
www.sciencehistory.org/about/join-o...
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Rebecca Solnit
10 months ago
Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.
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