Penny Wheeler
@pennyjw.bsky.social
Education, language, art, humanities, landcare. Also @teledvisors.bsky.social ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-5093
Climate pollution from Woodside's Browse Gas project would kill nearly 30 million coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef in every future mass bleaching event. Add your name to ask the Environment Minister to assess this project for climate and environmental impacts www.acf.org.au/our-work/cli...
Speak up to save our reefs
Public consultation is open on Woodside's Browse Gas Project. Add your name and tell the government its climate and environmental impacts are unacceptable.
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@commsdeclare found Australia's 6 biggest coal & gas co’s are running 260+ programs across the places our kids grow up. From earliest years right through to adulthood. But there is no register, watchdog nor independent oversight. Sign for a senate enquiry www.parentsforclimate.org/not_for_sale
“Systems are marked by long stability.” Yea, seems right. At least until they change. Then things get interesting.
People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.
"the takeaway is clear: simultaneous interpreting places a unique and immediate strain on working memory. Even when performance does not visibly collapse, the cognitive system is working at full stretch—sometimes too stretched to learn in the moment..." New post on @languageonthemove.bsky.social
Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social · 3mo agoEver wondered how simultaneous interpreters do such an amazing job and what goes on in their brains as they listen in one language and speak in another? New post on Language-on-the-Move has the answer 😃 languageonthemove.com/the-cost-of-...
![Zotero flagging an item in my Library has been retracted - the (well-publicised) retraction of Wang & Fan's 2025 meta-analysis [screenshot from the application]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lsamtmls7bw6xtqmx5fkepff/bafkreib4dyjpz3ha4s6g3xanqhbv4nkrd3loon3klanoyklpkfragzfmna)
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo agowho could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)
‘The concept dates back to the cold war, but after a hiatus Sweden set up a psychological defence agency in 2022, which tries to work with the public and highlight online disinformation.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Britain becoming ‘soft target’ for Russian propaganda, says security expert
Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfare
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Seagrass is rebounding off the coast of France. Wastewater treatment and coastal protections in Marseille have enabled the dramatic recovery of Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica), the Mediterranean’s most important endemic seagrass. Mongabay buff.ly/En27JIm #ShareGoodNewsToo
A French city cut its marine pollution — and its seagrass bounced back
Neptune grass is generally regarded as the most ecologically important seagrass and shallow-water habitat in the Mediterranean Sea. It suffered a severe decline during the 20th century, and there…
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"It’s a huge milestone that Copenhagen is now a city where public transport is green and neither pollutes nor emits CO2. It makes a big difference to the climate and the air we breathe every day." Sisse Marie Welling, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen buff.ly/9OUNvxB #ShareGoodNewsToo
100% Of Copenhagen’s City Buses Are Now Electric - CleanTechnica
We've now completely completed the transition to 100 percent electric buses.
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7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in. bsky.app/profile/empt...
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm fairly gobsmacked by the number of people who profess surprise that Orbán was funding CPAC. Did you know of his ties to Heritage and Project 2025? One of the most telling, tho, was he funded Rufo and the racist Trump tried to install at State, Jeremy Carl. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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"Our interests in Europe and the UK are the same. Our values in Europe and the UK are the same. We need a UK voice in Europe. We really miss you guys." President Alexander Stubb of Finland offers his view on Brexit. Watch the event ➡️ bit.ly/4lGe54k
"The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced---Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world" hyperallergic.com/the-jazz-pic...
The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced
Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.
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I wrote a short blog post about this paper, reflecting on my own time as a @carpentries.carpentries.org Software Carpentry instructor blog.stephenturner.us/p/ten-simple...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
A new paper from Tiffany Timbers (UBC) and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (Duke), and lessons I learned from my time with Software Carpentry
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MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have the opportunity to do something so hilarious right now. There are 300 recently unemployed journalists who would love the opportunity to help them fight the darkness that is consuming our democracy.
Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now
Some much-needed good news, including • renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally • new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty • landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown • indigenous wins at COP 🌱❣️🌊 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.
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A thread describing an absolutely fascinating project about the Deep History (and meaning) of Ukraine. x.com/Mylovanov/st...
Tymofiy Mylovanov on X: "Snyder describes an ongoing research project with unusual scale: 3 years of work by 100+ Ukrainian and international scholars writing a “longue durée” history of Ukraine, from geology and ecology to the present war. 2/" / X
Snyder describes an ongoing research project with unusual scale: 3 years of work by 100+ Ukrainian and international scholars writing a “longue durée” history of Ukraine, from geology and ecology to the present war. 2/
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