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Bruno Seraphin

@brunomarzipan.bsky.social

Asst prof, anthro and NAIS, UConn. Climate justice. Indigenous sovereignty. Fire. Film. Settler. Hot take not-haver.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d ago

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Aaron Hunter@aaronhunter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you’ve been seeing all the ‘Marcia Lucas saved Star Wars’ posts and wondering … what? I highly recommend Karen Pearlman’s chapter on women editors of the 70s (including Lucas). Not only great on these editors, but one of the best scholarly discussions of how editing works you’re likely to read!

Title page of Karen Pearlman’s Women Editors in New Hollywood: Cutting Down on the Raging Bullshit. Published in Women and New Hollywood (Rutgers), eds Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer.
Bruno Seraphin@brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm happy to announce the publication of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (2nd ed), in which I co-wrote a chapter with Karuk ceremonial leader Leaf Hillman. (My photo is also featured on the cover of the book!) You can read our chapter here: www.academia.edu/165463210/De...

Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire Suppression, Counterinsurgency, and Karuk Cultural Perpetuation

This chapter examines historical and contemporary wildland fire suppression in Karuk aboriginal territory, in what is currently called northwestern California. The chapter analyzes the role of militar...

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Rachel Santarsiero@rsanta.bsky.social · last yr.

For 17 years, the US intel community has kept classified an assessment on the security implications of climate change. Why has the IC kept it a secret? My latest on why the @nsarchive.bsky.social is calling on the ODNI to prioritize the report's declassification: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See

Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community has refused to declassify one of its first investigations into climate change as a national security threat.

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NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees. By @rhersher.bsky.social

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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Truthout@truthout.org · last yr.

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. When the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90% of its territory despite having lived along the Klamath for millennia.

Yurok Tribe Celebrates the Largest Landback Deal in California’s History

The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush.

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Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · last yr.

The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it - Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point #The89Percent Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

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Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last yr.

Unthinkable just 10 years ago: Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear. Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

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