Gregory Manni

@gregory-manni.bsky.social

🌍 grad student @univie.ac.at, looking at climate change x migration 📔 writer, reporter, neighbor, (poet) 📍 Detroit ➡️ Vienna 🦎 he/him 📈 environmental justice/climate crisis are the biggest deal

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

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Science under attack – How the Trump administration affects the academic landscape in the US. An interview with Sociologist and political scientist Alexandra Lieben of #UCLA and Contemporary historian Maximilian Brockhaus (#univie) about the effects of these massive cuts. 🇺🇸 🥊

Austrian scientists in the USA describe a climate of uncertainty and fear

Science under attack – How the Trump administration affects the academic landscape in the US

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I’m releasing a zine today containing a simple poem written to bring strength and focus to those of us in the climate movement. It’s titled Climate Activist’s Call: A Poem of Resistance. You can print your own single-sheet zine or poster: gregorymanni.com/projects/cli... (poem below)

Climate Activist's Call Zine - gregory manni

Print and fold “Climate Activist’s Call” into a zine or hang as a small poster, all on one sheet of paper.

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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

Re-sharing a thread before I delete it from x because I think it’s a useful one: In a work email, we had a fantastic thread about the use of "stakeholder" — many collaborators have stated they do not want this term used, and scholarship has supported this.

Last night went to a talk by Kim Stanley Robinson on climate change & in the Q&A a teacher asked how to address her students' climate despair & he responded in part by citing "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (Malm 2021) - essentially "tell them to keep the felonies to a minimum"