If you haven't yet listened to the Peabody-winning 9-part podcast series "Dolly Parton's America" from @radiolab.bsky.social @wnyc.org ... ...now's your moment. 🎧📻💓⬇️

Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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This is an awesome opportunity! Need more students on bluesky to spread the word.

Dr. Dawn Wright@deepseadawn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Meanwhile, Esri's popular climate action MOOC opens on Feb 18. Explore how GIS is uniquely suited to address our changing planet. I’m pleased as hostess to guide you thru this free, 6-week course, that features @globalecoguy.bsky.social + @katharinehayhoe.com Save your spot → ow.ly/7jiJ30sS4i6

Make it viral.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch

The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...

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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

24 years ago, I was on the first research cruise to the newly established Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron to map all of the shipwrecks in the area. We had a huge binder of research on all the suspected wrecks. Most of them sank in a "collision in the fog."

Andrew D Thaler@drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

The @geographers.bsky.social is pleased to host this important event on Monday, 10/27, re the Safeguarding of Academic Freedom. Please register to join us www.aag.org/events/safeg...

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Because who needs clean air and water anyway? The Trump administration plans to reduce the EPA's workforce by 33% by the end of 2025, which will severely impact the EPA’s ability to enforce environmental regulations, conduct research, and oversee cleanup efforts.

Trump Administration Is Set To Cut 1 In 3 EPA Staffers By Year's End

The move will slash the agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water.

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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me. But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

Full on authoritarian dystopia in my neighborhood.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ve confirmed with a person in the neighborhood where the truck crashed that the two men were *not* “El Salvadoran gang members” as the ICE thug so confidently asserted. They’re from Guatemala and Honduras, and one of them has lived here for 15 years and has multiple children.

From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

We're using the workshop to fine-tune these resources, after which they'll be available on the IndigeLab Network website. Videos of the orientation portion of the workshops will also be available there. Everyone is welcome, even if you're not going up for promotion & don't do community work. 3/3

Congressionally-mandated national climate assessments = gone from public view/access.

Matt G. Metcalf@mattmetcalf.bsky.social · last yr.

Public access being stripped from tax payer funded research. This data belongs to the American public.

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

🚨 Israeli forces have reportedly boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Connection to the Madleen ship has been lost.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

New in Area: 'The "creative thesis" in the academic "anxiety machine"' by @mutablematter.bsky.social This paper highlights the possibilities of supporting 'creative' PhD theses within an increasingly challenging institutional environment. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Last week, Linda McMahon was threatening to cut funds to NY schools because of a state ban on Indian-themed mascots. She said she was deeply concerned that the move was “an attempt to eliminate the history and culture of Native American tribes.”

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

This represents a systematic dismantling of the US STEM ecosystem that will create lasting negative consequences for innovation and competitiveness.

Kevin Anchukaitis@thirstygecko.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

Wish I could see this in person!

Sasha Crawford-Holland@sashach.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to be presenting some work at UCSB next week! Hope to see you there

Great fun talking to the folks at This Day podcast about Roger Revelle's climate change testimony on May 13, 1957, which I think of as one of the key moments in which the science went from data to threat for the fossil fuel industry: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

An Early Climate Change Warning Ignored (1957) w/ Amy Westervelt

Podcast Episode · This Day · 05/13/2025 · 29m

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