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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 22h

What right-wing elites are trying to do to universities reveals their total disinterest in education as not just a public good but as a *practice*. To them, college isn’t for learning; it’s a credentialing service that offers ongoing opportunities to network with other wealthy elites.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 2d

When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure, but this stuff tastes pretty good! I've also used it for making sumac "lemonade".

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 1d

So many Rose-breasted Grosbeaks on my checklist this morning that eBird asked “are you sure?” 🪶

A birding checklist with 15 Rose-breasted Grosbeak and many other birds

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to beat sumac for early fall color 🌱

A wide view of an Indiana bottomland with patches of bright red winged sumac

Close-up of bright red sumac leaves and berries

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, fall break is banana-pepper pickling time #food #canning #garden

Pints of pickled yellow, orange, and red banana peppers

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal. Report shows solar, wind booming worldwide, but fossil fuel generation rose in U.S., EU
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

www.cbc.ca

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 2d

New assessment identifies the flaws of five of the most-often discussed proposed polar-focused geo-climate engineering strategies. None seems likely to work & “most of them are more likely to be environmentally dangerous, causing more harm than they seek to solve.”

scripps.ucsd.edu/news/experts...

Experts Warn Against Five Polar Geoengineering Ideas

A team of international scientists is urging caution against five of the most-discussed polar geoengineering ideas, stating they are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems...

scripps.ucsd.edu

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3d

This is what every Democratic state needs to do, tell its state university leaders that they will lose all state appropriations if they sign the compact. Take the decision out of feckless college administrators’ hands.

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 4d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 4d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

In addition to mass firing of public servants, Musk's team executed a takeover of the Treasury payment system. David Lebryk, the civil servant who was acting Treasury Secretary, pushed back against the Musk official, Tom Krause, who demanded control over the payment system and specifically to pause USAID payments. Lebryk informed Krause that Treasury could not legally stop payments, and recommended to work through USAID instead. Krause then threatened Lebryk: “I would also recommend you consider an equal alternative liability.” By the next week Lebryk announced his retirement, and Musk announced he was shutting down the agency.

It was later revealed that the other DOGE official who had sought to take control of Treasury spending, Marko Elez, was a self-avowed racist with a record of making disparaging remarks about foreigners, including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” After he resigned, Musk led a successful campaign to bring Elez back into government, even as he pushed out those doing actual life-saving work.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d

Another EWG 🎯, read the 🧵
“the top 4 practices that would generate the largest reductions in GHG emissions on continuous corn […] are: riparian forest buffers, tree or shrub establishment, hedgerow planting & windbreak establishment”
Note how these are all PERMANENT practices,unlike cover crops.

Anne Schechinger @anneschech.bsky.social · 4d

New @ewgofficial.bsky.social analysis released today from me and @albine14.bsky.social. We found that just under 15 million cropland acres across Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are used for continuous corn, representing 20% of the total harvested cropland. 1/4 www.ewg.org/research/fer...

Fertilizing ‘continuous corn’ drives major source of farm greenhouse gases, but conservation can help

Millions of acres in four major Corn Belt states are used to grow "continuous corn” on the same fields year after year, requiring significant use of

www.ewg.org

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

The letters I get usually have an offer and reference the parcel ID. I assume it’s somewhat automated and they’re mining the county databases. The texts are more exploratory.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely feels predatory, given how much below market the offers are (although they've been rising steadily lately).

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting. I thought it was land speculation (most of mine are for three vacant lots), but seems to be real estate more broadly.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

You two are making my morning!

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

We don’t own that much land and I get texts and letters every week asking to buy our property sight unseen.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

Rewilding opportunity for some of that farmland

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 4d

The goldenrods have faded but the view was still pretty sweet this afternoon

A valley in southern Indiana in the late afternoon

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

The health insurance industry doesn't care who you voted for — only how much money they can extract from you.

Insurance premiums are set to double, and Republicans shut down the government to make sure it happens.

Now is the time to demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

I will look for this next time I'm in Vancouver. It looks like it's carried at some of the places where I regularly shop (e.g., City Market on Commercial Drive).

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Perfect! Thanks for sharing.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Very good idea -- in cardboard, like these.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Hope not, but you never know

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