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Shannon Doherty
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ocean sciences PhD 🌊 Assist Prof @ University of Alaska Fairbanks CFOS 🐻‍❄️ undersea bug enthusiast 🦐🐚🪼stable isotope magician 👩‍🔬she/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
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🌊 If you want to help Alaska’s small villages devastated by the flooding then this is the best legit site using a QR code. Here’s another legit donation link too from Alaska Community Foundation: Click to donate here:
alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

#AlaskaSky #AlaskaFlood
These grants also supported multiple workforce development (aviation, IT) programs and student services on four UAF rural campuses, which are located in primarily Alaska Native communities but open to everyone. It’s a disservice to both students and the future of our rural communities.
The Trump admin is freezing grant funding that Congress already allocated to help Alaska Native students attend college. The grants for Indigenous students in Alaska are part of a $350 million freeze for minority college students nationwide.
Trump administration terminates University of Alaska grants for Alaska Native, Indigenous students | Alaska Beacon
The U.S. Department of Education has terminated grant funding for the University of Alaska's Alaska Native and Native-Hawaiian-serving programs and support services.
alaskabeacon.com
I love a good newsletter or blog, but this is exactly why I don’t buy into the Substack- or Patreon-based journalism. I can’t personally support all the journalists I would want to, AND I don’t want reporting that has not been edited by at least one other person.
One of the problems with the move to single newsletters, besides the fact that the math doesn't really math in terms of people subscribing to eleventy newsletters, is that they don't have editors. And editors are usually a good thing.

It would be useful if folks like Klein had one
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people are all like oh my god what if the AI robots take over? and listen, I’m not worried because it can’t be worse than men running things
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There is nothing inherently wrong with the Earth 400k years ago. The problem is that humans evolved to live in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. The same goes for the animals and plants that we love and love to eat. Climate change is pain for everyone.
The last time Greenland was green was 400,000 years ago, when sea level was between 6 and 12 meters higher than now.

Today, atmospheric CO2 is 1.5 times greater than it was back then.

Goodbye to most of the world's coastal cities, I guess.
we consider ourselves to be worlds apart from American Republicans but the Norwegian media habit of celebrating the impacts of fossil fuel use as beneficial to our lives is indistinguishable from the fascist accelerationist position over there
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NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
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Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting.

Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months.

Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?
I just opened this book and the third epigraph actually made me laugh out loud. I’m excited to dig in!
I am starting "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social this evening, and what a solid start with these epigraphs.

I'll add my thoughts in this thread as I read. 🧵
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Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.

To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.

www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports
He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.
www.advocate.com
What gets me is that we have the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to illustrate exactly how unjust conditions are when states and school boards are in charge of our civil rights
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Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.

www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
New federal grant will support UAF doctoral students
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The program, Enhancing Marine Ecosyste...
www.uaf.edu
Sharing this as a reminder for myself and other UA faculty
If you are a mentor for Native students, please keep in mind that some students are staying connected with their ways of life. Not all, bc forced assimilation has led to some Natives being removed from land and family, so not every Native needs time like this.
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No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.
I just now realized that some guys think that fancy predictive text can make new scientific discoveries but that doesn’t even make sense.
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When AK congress reps say they did something for Alaskans, they usually mean Anchorage and the MatSu valley. This does NOT help rural Alaskans, most of whom are AK Natives, who rely on subsistence hunting and fishing & are more likely to be stuck w/lower paying, unstable jobs.
As someone who was born and raised in Alaska and who has family and friends who will be harmed by this ALL OVER THE FRICKING COUNTRY, I am so fricking pissed at Murkowski. And everyone else who voted for this horrendous bill, but especially her bc she was my rep
Sen. Murkowski admits Trump's budget bill is harmful after she folded and voted yes on it:

"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
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As someone who was born and raised in Alaska and who has family and friends who will be harmed by this ALL OVER THE FRICKING COUNTRY, I am so fricking pissed at Murkowski. And everyone else who voted for this horrendous bill, but especially her bc she was my rep
Sen. Murkowski admits Trump's budget bill is harmful after she folded and voted yes on it:

"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
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It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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Also another angle to this is that since Fairbanks is basically the very tail-end of supply chains, you can't just go buy a fan when you realize you need one, because they are all sold out.

I worked at a hardware store during the 2013 heat wave (temps in the 90s) and we couldn't keep fans in stock
Alaska's historic heat advisory is a serious warning for a state where most people don’t have the coping mechanisms taken for granted elsewhere—shaded porches, central air, even knowing the signs of heatstroke.
From ice to inferno: Alaska issues historic heat advisory
The state is warming more than twice as fast as the global average.
www.motherjones.com
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There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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A lot of people that the system has been working just fine for are coming to the realization that most of our institutions are a facade. If you’re new to feeling this systemically unsafe, it’s really scary; it feels like they’ve taken both the guardrails AND the road. And no one is coming to fix it.