Deirdre Lockwood
@deirdrelockwood.bsky.social
Poet & fiction writer, oceanography PhD & occasional container-ship rider. Author of AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR (2025, Cornerstone Press). she/her deirdrelockwood.com
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
Ken Schwencke@schwanksta.com · 6d agoA year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
I'm so excited to read with the ingenious Noelle Catharine Allen and celebrate the launch of her delightful Seattle eco-fable Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture from @blacklawrence.bsky.social. All proceeds from book sales go to @350seattle.bsky.social. Join us Oct 25 at Meridian Park in Seattle!
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
The news from Scientific American this week has been heartbreaking. While the magazine itself will go on under its new owners, many *extremely talented* writers and editors have been let go. I do worry about the future of #science #journalism… 😔
1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL
Excited to be reading with the brilliant @catherinebroadwall.bsky.social at J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio in Woodinville on June 18, hosted by @webbish6.bsky.social! www.meetup.com/poetry-in-wi...
Words & Wine: Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic Series, Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
**Words & Wine: A Poetry & Spoken Word Open Mic Series** A great night full of expression featuring local Poets & Spoken Word artists through **Words & Wine** **Hosted By
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U.S. Begins Dismantling Major Ocean Observation Network gcaptain.com/u-s-begins-d... Just thinking once again about how senior folks in my field told me during the election to “stick to marine biology” and not comment on politics.
U.S. Begins Dismantling Major Ocean Observation Network
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun a major downsizing of one of the world’s largest ocean observing networks, announcing plans to remove most of the in-water infrastructure…
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Love this! For more of Eric's great writing check out his new book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Seabirds as Sentinels
What the fates of seabirds reveal about the changing ocean and our shared futureEvery spring, thousands of rhinoceros auklets return to Destruction Island of...
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Ann Finkbeiner@annfinkbeiner.bsky.social · 5mo agoEric submits results of study of birds: Abstract: Many years ago, birds started breeding on an island. Several thousand of them still do. Will they be on the island much longer? We hope so.The signs are ambiguous. Keywords: Seabirds, oceans, uncertainty lastwordonnothing.com/2026/05/29/r...
Yet it & its siblings are projected to use 9-20% of ALL US ELECTRICITY by 2030. For a creepy industry that kills jobs & benefits very, very few. Letting them use all our power & water is a choice we don't have to make. In fact, it's a choice we CANNOT make if we want a healthy future.
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 5mo agoChatGPT is less than four years old.
I loved hearing @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social recently read from her book of poetry. I finished it this weekend. What a delightful, thought-provoking journey to where science meets soul. (Bonus cameos from crows, Bill Buckner, Dr. Zizmor and even my elementary school's namesake. 😊) Highly recommend!
So sad to hear this news, my sentiments exactly. I have wonderful memories of taking film and Spanish classes there while a student at Amherst -- the educational freedom and openness was enlivening, as well as the politicial activism that encouraged.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6mo agoI am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
Absolutely this. The 2028 Dem nominee has to pledge this same thing, a total housecleaning and prosecutions for those in power who committed all the crimes we’re seeing.
Wendy Thurm@wendythurm.bsky.social · 6mo agoFrom new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...
We lose again: Windham-Campbell Prize manqué
Was going to post this on Substack, but they don't let you indent blocks of text. Today’s insanely long installmen...
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go vote for Ani and Susanna!
Susanna Donato@susannadonato.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe @marchxness.bsky.social tournament has been fun. But what brought me in was sadness: the grief and self-recrimination of Ani DiFranco's achingly beautiful song. Here's one more dive, this time with feeling. Hope you'll vote for me, but if not, I'll go out singing. youtu.be/IGK-JBgBwNg
Today, global scientists called on regulators around the world to address glyphosate's well-documented harms to human health and its links to cancer and other chronic diseases. #Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide and the active ingredient in Roundup. deohs.washington.edu/news/sgs
Global scientists say regulators must address glyphosate’s strong links to health harms
Epidemiologists, toxicologists, cancer specialists meet in Seattle to review latest science tying widely used pesticide to disease, including cancer
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I'm thrilled that this simple, groundbreaking tongue-swab method for TB testing has gained endorsement from the WHO. I've been following this story for about 6 years, and the progress that Jerry Cangelosi and team have made is monumental. #WorldTBDay
UW DEOHS@uwdeohs.bsky.social · 7mo agoLife-changing news on #WorldTBDay: An easy, inexpensive tongue-swab test first developed by DEOHS faculty member Jerry Cangelosi and team has been endorsed by the @who.int, which called it a “major step forward in making TB testing faster and more accessible.” deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/uw-...
DEOHS Professor Karen Levy applauds the recent federal judicial decision to strike down RFK Jr.’s vaccine plan in an op-ed in @seattletimes.com. @uwsph.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu www.seattletimes.com/opinion/judg...
Judge made right call in striking down RFK Jr.'s vaccine plan | Op-Ed
A judge's ruling blocking the federal government's plan to change recommendations for routine childhood immunizations will keep children safe.
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Excited to read with my Cornerstone Press mates this Saturday, March 7 at Motor House in Baltimore. I'll also be at the Cornerstone Press booth (#525) at the book fair on Friday noon-1 pm, with copies of An Introduction to Error! #AWP26
I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...
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Tomorrow!
Deirdre Lockwood@deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 9mo agoI’m so excited to read with incredible poets and fellow former fellows Bill Carty, Laura Da' and Shankar Narayan at Hugo House in Seattle on February 25. Come out and join us - followed by drinks at the HH bar! ❤️📝🥤 hugohouse.org/event/_2026-...
Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: "Trump covers up crime with scandal. That is his main propaganda tactic, the one few seem to be able to discern...The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait."
