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Silvia Secchi
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Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant.
Trans rights are human rights.
💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧
My views are my own and do not represent my employer.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Nov 7
Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.
Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931
Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde…
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 5h
We spend billions subsidizing the corn/soybean duopoly via crop insurance, direct & conservation payments, R&D at land grants plus pay for ethanol & biodiesel mandates. We ignore their massive environmental impacts. Meanwhile, the majority of US oats is imported (from Canada). Smart AND sustainable!
mprnews.org MPR News @mprnews.org · 2d
Some corn and soybean farmers in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa have started planting oats for environmental reasons, but also in an effort to diversify what’s grown in the Midwest. One area farmer has broken ground on a new oat mill in Albert Lea, Minn. for a local market.
‘Oat Mafia’ in search of a market for oats in the upper Midwest market
Some corn and soybean farmers in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa have started planting oats for environmental reasons, but also in an effort to diversify what’s grown in the Midwest. One area far...
www.mprnews.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h
another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!
51st.news The 51st @51st.news · 8d
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Chuang Tzu @chuangtzucat.bsky.social · 11h
Aurora tonight outside of Reykjavik.
#travel
#northernlights
#Iceland

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 12h
Well I have a paper in the same journal forthcoming and I am not the corresponding author so I thought it might be about that…

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 19h
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 19h
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com

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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 19h
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 19h
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 20h
Got this email this morning from Springer about a recently published article of mine.
This is completely absurd, particularly since last week I reviewed an article w/ tons of fake references that were obviously AI generated.
There really are no adults in the room, just greedy unethical publishers.
Dear Silvia Secchi, You have every right to be proud of your work and your publications. So, what are the best ways to tell your peers and the wider community about it? Based on your accepted article by "Agriculture and Human Values" with Springer from the Springer Nature family you are invited to explore promotional tools to enhance the visibility of your work. Promote your article AI-generated social media posts AI-Generated social media posts Promote your latest article quickly and easily, saving time while expanding your reach. Let AI do the work with ready-to-use social media posts. Promote your article

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Lol Ben Smith just got Chotinered, he may not have recovered yet by then. And Shapiro's RGGI move was a huge disappointment, even with my low expectations of his leadership.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d
I am so sorry Laura, this must be very stressful and painful for all of you.

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Eran Tal @erantal.bsky.social · 2d
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 2d
Some corn and soybean farmers in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa have started planting oats for environmental reasons, but also in an effort to diversify what’s grown in the Midwest. One area farmer has broken ground on a new oat mill in Albert Lea, Minn. for a local market.
‘Oat Mafia’ in search of a market for oats in the upper Midwest market
Some corn and soybean farmers in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa have started planting oats for environmental reasons, but also in an effort to diversify what’s grown in the Midwest. One area far...
www.mprnews.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d
The Daily is the worst NYT product and there’s plenty to choose from.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
This happens in part because scientists in the global North do small science like the kind I am disappointed in btw.
mongabay.com Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d
[COMMENTARY]

“This is the Amazon COP. If it ends with a decision that ignores Indigenous rights and props up offset markets that science says cannot work, it will squander the moral clarity of this moment,” a new op-ed argues.

** The views expressed are those of the author.
It’s time to end the carbon offset era, COP30 scientists & communities say (commentary)
At COP30 in Belém, the first climate summit held in the Amazon, something rare has happened. For years, the risks and failures of carbon offsetting have been dismissed as activist exaggeration or…
news.mongabay.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
I cannot even begin to unpack how disappointed I have been that so many colleagues doing research on how to mitigate and adapt to climate change in US agriculture have been squandering their time to produce small science that just parrots and validates industry talking points. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
profsecchi.bsky.social Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
Not doing 💩 science that benefits the fossil fuel lobby and big ag would not hurt too in my field lol

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
Not doing 💩 science that benefits the fossil fuel lobby and big ag would not hurt too in my field lol

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
I really do believe that a way we meet the moment as higher ed educators is to ensure students have strong theoretical foundations and a good understanding of history. And they also must appreciate the role of the executive and SCOTUS in dismantling Federal legislation and the science behind it. 2/2

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
It's pretty much the same for US environmental policy these days. Prof. Saideman explains how he has pivoted in the 🧵.
I've had to do it too. How?
1) teaching the theory of environmental policy mechanisms
2) focus on implementation past and present and distributional impacts. 1/
smsaideman.bsky.social Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3d
Why do i bother teaching US foreign policy? No process, no institutions.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3d
Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 3d
Enlightened centrist
Noah Smith @noahpinion The thing is, Republicans HATE Democrats, but when Obama and Biden were elected they didn't crash out and decide that they hated America. Their love for their country wasn't conditional on who it chose to lead it. Democrats' was.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d
[COMMENTARY]

“This is the Amazon COP. If it ends with a decision that ignores Indigenous rights and props up offset markets that science says cannot work, it will squander the moral clarity of this moment,” a new op-ed argues.

** The views expressed are those of the author.
It’s time to end the carbon offset era, COP30 scientists & communities say (commentary)
At COP30 in Belém, the first climate summit held in the Amazon, something rare has happened. For years, the risks and failures of carbon offsetting have been dismissed as activist exaggeration or…
news.mongabay.com

Reposted by Silvia Secchi

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3d
Why do i bother teaching US foreign policy? No process, no institutions.
rochaa.bsky.social Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 3d
Good god, this story!
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Bloomberg unfolds the history of the Vance-Dmitriev initiative... Dmitriev put it to Witkoff and Vance in a meeting in Miami, Axios published it, Trump and Rubio knew nothing of it. But then Trump decided to simply bless Dmitriev's draft after the fact. A perfect biopsy of "diplomacy" under Trump.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
This was not surprising to me - unfortunately. He was pro oil drilling in his first term as well. And now Brazil is also pushing the production of corn ethanol.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d
I know there’s much to be appalled about these announcements (and some of it looks pretty illegal to me) but what really gets me is that again GOP politicians are spewing falsehoods about the Clean Water Act and agriculture even after SCOTUS gutted WOTUS.
Ag is pretty much exempt from the CWA. Sigh.
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
I am sure there are lots of other examples from other parts of the world, this one just resonates with me because of my personal experiences.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
Italy actually has laws making it illegal to do what people here do legally, and often get public money to do again once hurricanes etc. strike. And enforcement is better than it was in Italy. Yet these facts matter little in practice, I see homes worth millions on barrier islands in the US.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d
I'm still amazed that growing up in Italy all the abusivi (unauthorized) homes too close to beaches, on floodplains, not up to code etc. were seen as evidence that we were not a proper Global North country and in the US they build right on the beach and it's all good and legal and worth millions.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 4d
A comprehensive rundown of the #COP30 shenanigans from @roycerk2.bsky.social. From what I saw, the Colombians were the only ones whose negotiators and civil society groups were on the same page, and they carried the whole world on their shoulders.
Colombian delegation to COP30 raising an objection during the final plenary as the Brazilian presidency rushed through adoption of a final text that left out any language around phasing out fossil fuels.