NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A California wildfire wiped out this little-known ancient forest of massive trees just before major fire-prevention work was set to begin. “I am sad because this old-growth forest is no more. I am angry because this outcome was a choice.” www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At Grist, Laura Mallonee has just published a critically important article on the Texas flood recovery and how unincorporated boundaries are impacting equitable recovery. I was happy to chat with Laura about my ongoing research on these issues in Texas and California. grist.org/extreme-weat...

Holy moly... our NIH grant wasn't canceled! I'm so thrilled! But that also means I now have TWO intense community-engaged research projects scheduled for Spring/Summer 2026...! 🧿 Wish me luck 🧿

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Life is chaotic right now, but watching this little Swallowtail caterpillar on my fennel plant grow and transform has been so thrilling this past week!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Right near our neighborhood, woke us up with the house swaying and a frenzy of alarms going off!

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I broke today. It wasn't what happened today, it was the Supreme Court ruling yesterday, and turning to my Black/Indigenous/Latinx mentees not knowing what to say to them. It was silence from white colleagues. It was having to tell my mentorship community one of our heroes passed away last weekend.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

It's been a looong 2-3 year process, but this book chapter is coming out at the end of the month! Timely as we can learn so much about organizing and resistance from Casa Pueblo and its founding family! The chapter is meant as a "thank you" to them. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.

Explosion at Louisiana Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

A week and a half remaining to submit your CV to the POCIG CV Book!

I set an aggressive no AI policy in my classes this Fall, but took time to discuss it with students, expressing openness to changing the policy if they saw issues. All my students were like "the policy sounds great!" I don't think the enthusiasm to use this new tech exists in all disciplines.

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.

As someone who researches and works on issues of disasters: this is absolutely terrible and only makes us all less safe.

I've filled out so many forms and emails for the university today, I'm literally starting to misspell my name as "Dnaielle" on everything. No clue why, but my brain is officially broken!

can ai suffer? no, and that’s a shame

Preparing the first lecture for my Public Participation class and strengthening my plea to stop using Arnstein's "Ladder of Citizen Participation" without acknowledging how it responds to a context from nearly 60 years ago. It is a critical part of participation history, but highly outdated. 1/2

A fast-moving wildfire broke out Thursday on the northern edge of Calistoga, prompting emergency evacuation orders for parts of rural Napa County as crews race to contain the flames. The Pickett Fire has burned more than 1,000 acres. Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

POCIG is preparing our annual collection of CVs from people of color seeking teaching and faculty positions in planning. The deadline for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. More information on CV formatting and submission can be found on ACSP's website here: www.acsp.org/news/679862/...

Recently reminded many journals are still predatory, despite their growing "acceptance" amongst some scholars. Received an email from Sustainability (an MDPI journal) inviting me to submit an article, with paragraphs about their billing structure and if/when they'd waive submission fees for me. 1/4

Finishing a syllabus for a class on environmental and/or climate and/or disaster justice? Check out The Syllabus for resources! We are adding more readings and databases every day! Open and free to everyone! www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

POCIG is preparing our annual collection of CVs from people of color seeking teaching and faculty positions in planning. The deadline for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. More information on CV formatting and submission can be found on ACSP's website here: www.acsp.org/news/679862/...

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

I regularly hear of Black/Latina women scholars going 10+ years without sabbatical, often never receiving one in the tenure process. Yet in these timeframes, others receive not one, but two or more. Inequitable distribution of sabbaticals is a major way women of color are overburdened in academia.

💕 www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!

This paper identifies “informational justice” as a fourth tenet of Environmental Justice, distinct from distributional, procedural and recognitional forms of justice. It identifies trusted information as foundational although under-acknowledged in the literature. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause. The removal was blamed on a "coding error." Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am preparing for my AICP certification exam, and noted a change in the APA education criteria. My PhD now counts in the "two years of experience" category, as opposed to the "four years of experience" category! No matter as I have 5-6 years experience now, but a positive change for Planning PhDs!

Here's the letter that NSF sent UCLA last week about cutting its research funding NSF says UCLA is doing affirmative action by asking applicants' their zip codes, family income and what HS they went to, and that they can discuss race in personal statements storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

Sprained my ribs, hurt my neck causing persisting migraines, attacked by a hive of bees, and took my dog to the emergency vet three times... that was July. 🧿 Happy we are done with that month and hoping we both heal fully in August. 🧿 Needless to say, I'm behind on all messages and deliverables!

No AP News alerts, no Union-Tribune alerts or articles, no emails from UC either. I work at a UC and I would not know that UCLA lost all grant funding last night if I wasn't on Bluesky or in union group chats. Self-preserving silence and general complacency are becoming more common.

Flood risk Thursday bumped to a Level 3 out of 4. NWS warns of localized 8-inch totals possible, with 2-3 inches in an hour in some spots. Details on the rain and heat @ cwg.live.