Rivka Fidel, PhD
@rivkafidel.bsky.social
Career track professor teaching #soil and #environmental science in Tucson, Arizona. 🌵 #biochar #biogeochemistry #soilchemistry Unapologetic feminist scientist 👩🔬 and ally 🌈 Opinions my own
Meet #MissAbyss, 🐙 a Dumbo Octopus on a massive mission to protect our deep ocean floor from mining! Help us send a loud message that some places are just too special to destroy! Background at: www.southernfriedscience.com/please-help-... 🦑 🌊 #deepseamining @taotaotasi.bsky.social
Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...
Kelly Hereid@kellyhereid.bsky.social · 4mo agoLove this figure describing Colorado River basin allocation
📣 FREE SOIL TEXTBOOK ALERT 📣 🪱📚🪱📚🪱📚🪱📚 Now at over... 4.9k downloads ⬇️ 14k readers 📚 34k views 👀 Go team! 🎉 #soil #soilscience #openaccess #OER #education #highered #academicchatter #academicchat
Rivka Fidel, PhD@rivkafidel.bsky.social · 7mo agoLess than 6 months after publishing, our 🪱 Introduction to Soil Science Second Edition 📙 textbook has hit... 3k downloads ⬇️ 7k readers 📚 15k views 👀 🎉 #Soil #SoilScience #OpenAccess #OER 🙏 Thank you Amber Anderson and @openaccesselder.bsky.social Check it out here 👇 doi.org/10.31274/isu...
The Trump administration shuttered Climate . gov last year. Now, former NOAA scientists fired during the DOGE cuts have launched Climate . us - a new home for trusted climate science and public resources. Science persists. ✊ zurl.co/GdVMU
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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Land return to Mi’maq doubles tribal land base. #Indigisky🔥 Source: The Portland Press Herald share.google/TD6RSugge0Wb...
Land returned to Mi’kmaq Nation will double tribe’s territory
Nearly 3,400 acres have been returned to the Aroostook County-based tribe.
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In April, Pete Hegseth makes flu vaccine optional for armed services, saying vaccine mandates "weaken our warfighting capabilities." ~60% of Air Force doesn't get vaccinated. Two months later, flu outbreak races thru big Air Force base. Air Force re-implements mandatory vaccine policy at base.
Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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How about some optimism for the weekend? @nvogtvincent.co.uk has a new paper, and I think the title makes the point: Global Coral Reef Collapse is not Inevitable. 🧪🌊 Link: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169534726001060
hey if you're a scientist and you use this data in your research and you want to tell me how dumb this is, contact info is in my bio (i will also listen to scientists who think this is a great idea, if such a person exists)
Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 3mo agothey WANT us living in the dumbest timeline. i hope y'all like the dark ages
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
Forbes@forbes.com · 3mo agoScientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2
Donate to Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime, organized by Jey McCreight
I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime
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You can find the full story of what happened on my Instagram (video too long for bsky) I would appreciate any signal boosting www.instagram.com/jeymccreight...
Dr. Jey the Science They on Instagram: "I was recently the victim of a violent attack from a transphobe and am asking for your assistant to help my recovery. A GoFundMe link is in my profile. Thank yo...
345 likes, 77 comments - jeymccreight on May 20, 2026: "I was recently the victim of a violent attack from a transphobe and am asking for your assistant to help my recovery. A GoFundMe link is in my p...
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Jacquelyn's walk through is excellent if you're trying to understand what is going on with this proposed OMB rule change. This is how authoritarianism sinks in its hooks. Moves like this.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is coming from the Office of Management and Budget, which "serves the President of the United States in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the Executive Branch." Their proposal would give political appointees a formal role in reviewing and approving research grants. 2/n
College application essays written with AI had less diverse ideas and perspectives. "In a separate study, the team found that human-written essays offered up to eight times more new ideas than those produced by A.I." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity
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Please send @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social to Congress. We desperately need more scientists in the halls of power. To oppose the current crop of anti-science grifters. #ScienceSky 🧪
The Xylom@thexylom.com · 3mo agoThis Tuesday, @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social won the Democratic primary in #GA13. She is likely to succeed the late Rep. David Scott in this safe blue seat and become the first Black woman Ph.D. scientist in Congress. This story was first reported by @gracepanetta.bsky.social of @19thnews.org.
I lived there in the late 70s and to see these companies come in and destroy the community sickens me. Arizona strikes agreement with dairy farm to limit groundwater pumping in Willcox azluminaria.org/2026/01/13/a...
Arizona strikes agreement with dairy farm to limit groundwater pumping in Willcox - AZ Luminaria
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. PEARCE — Nearly...
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"Indigenous stewardship has a 'value to humankind globally.'" A recent study published by the British Ecological Society affirms what Indigenous peoples already know: Indigenous stewardship bolsters conservation goals. 🌱 🔗 https://ow.ly/ftA250Z2mrV
Watch Duty also covers more than fires - for example, residents of Orange County can currently use it to get verified evacuation info on this unfolding chemical incident: www.ocregister.com/2026/05/21/h...
Officials buy time against possible chemical tank explosion in Garden Grove
Some 40,000 people were evacuated on Friday following a malfunction in a tank containing a flammable, volatile chemical used in plastics and manufacturing at an aerospace plant.
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Watch Duty now has nationwide coverage, incidentally. A membership is pretty cheap, lets you see firefighting aircraft, and supports one of the very best public safety orgs and its app that the US has.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am very glad that Watch Duty exists, and is holding the line on providing accurate, freely available disaster information to the public, outside of the locked down and intentionally confusing confines of X and Meta. app.watchduty.org
They dropped Nature’s engineers to solve the London Hnderground flooding problem and they fixed it. Beavers 🦫 are amazing. Just plop them in the ecosystem and watch them repair it.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3mo ago1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
Everlee Has Disappeared
Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.
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Never believe any billionaire's promises that are not secured by threat of law.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4mo ago"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"
Remembering the Bill Gates memo arguing he could do more good for the poor if he deprioritized climate change.
John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · 4mo agoMicrosoft is considering ditching its commitment to match its hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases by 2030. It's in a race with the other hyperscalers to power up energy-guzzling AI data centers as fast as possible, so apparently a livable climate is no longer a priority.
JOB OPENING: Education Coordinator: Education Coordinator $52,000 - $58,240 per year -- Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District
Education Coordinator
Education Coordinator $52,000 - $58,240 per year -- Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District
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May 4, 2026 MANHATTAN, New York In an era of extreme economic inequality and financial instability, members of Rise and Resist gathered outside the Met Gala near Metropolitan Museum of Art and staged their own “Resistance Red Carpet.”
Tribes in Montana lose millions after USDA kills farm grants
Tribes in Montana lose millions after USDA kills farm grants
Montana-based awardees called the terminations ‘devastating’ — and based on a false presumption that tribal initiatives fall under DEI.
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Mainstream media is starting to cover the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. Thank you for speaking out and helping keep this story alive. #SaveUSFS
