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William Clark ([email protected])

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#Sustainability science and knowledge systems focus as researcher and teacher at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. More at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustainability-science-program

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William Cummin Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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Chris Bennett @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social · Oct 6

GSA's Office of Evaluation Sciences is looking for a Division Director to oversee large-scale evaluations across the federal government.

Remote position at GS-15 with a salary of $136,908 - $183,500 per year. Applications due by 11/3 at www.usajobs.gov/job/752919800. #socsky #econsky #academicsky

The Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) supports General Services Administration (GSA) and other federal agencies to generate and use evidence to better serve the public. The OES Governmentwide Division works across government to provide support and applying evidence, and providing end-to-end support in the design of evidence-based program changes and rigorous evaluations to measure impact. The GSA Evaluation Division was established in 2022 to work within GSA to identify opportunities for learning, lead evaluations and produce evidence to support strategic decision making. Annually OES delivers over a dozen high quality evaluations to understand what works, what works best, and what does not work with actionable findings for GSA and agency partners.

The Division Director:
-Determines the overall strategic plan for the Division for near-term and long-range goals and objectives
-Formulates and implements long-range and multi-year evidence building portfolios designed to ensure that pri

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · Oct 28

The need to conserve water and use it wisely, including rethinking agriculture practices
#Conservation #Restoration #Resilience #Sustainability #Ecology #WaterUsage

The ‘Soft Path’ of Water for Farmers in the Western US

Peter Gleick discusses his latest book, "The Three Ages of Water," and why we should rethink agriculture in the driest part of the country.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · Nov 16

Well this has been a weird time to come back online after a quiet couple months. Pretty alarmed at how much of the climate discourse is about how to effectively compromise with Republicans. Climate work is ultimately about protecting people — and who eats these compromises?

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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · Nov 28

It’s been my custom each year to write a column listing reasons to be thankful. It’s tougher in 2024, but I did my best. See here: foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/28/t...

10 Reasons to Be Thankful in 2024

There are a few things in the world to be grateful for this year, despite everything.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 27

This is highly disturbing, especially as many of the people in this article are women working on climate issues.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · Nov 27

#Musk, the once rabid anti-Doxxer is now doxxing federal employees on X and putting their lives at risk. He has publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers. What an a$$. www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business

When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Dec 7

See that’s why Twitter got unusable for me a year-plus ago (plus of course increase in hate speech). My replies just always filled up with people’s pet talking points whether based in reality or not. It no longer felt possible to have a fact-based exchange.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Dec 7

I’m not sure what you’re missing.

I use Bluesky exactly the same way I used to use Twitter with exactly the same type of experience (w less trolls for now).

Maybe it takes time to build connections back up? I’ve been here since mid-2023. It was quiet at first.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Dec 14

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm

See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

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MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy @mit-cs3.bsky.social · Jan 8

A new MIT CS3 Special Report shows that sustainable #aviation fuel, combined with efficiency improvements, #emissions mitigation policies and other measures, could enable Latin America's aviation sector to achieve #net-zero #carbon emissions by 2050. bit.ly/4j99Qw9 #climate #energy #sustainability

MIT CS3 Special Report: Sustainable Decarbonization of Aviation in Latin America

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · Jan 13

Welcome to The Contrarian, a new media outlet not owned by anybody

You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability

Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com

The Contrarian | Substack

Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication. Launched 13 hours ago.

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MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy @mit-cs3.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congrats to MIT CS3 Director Noelle Selin for being elected a #AAASFellow for “world-recognized leadership in modeling the impacts of air pollution on human health, in assessing the costs and benefits of related policies, and in integrating technology dynamics into #sustainability science.”

Noelle Selin elected to 2024 class of AAAS Fellows

Noelle Selin, professor of atmospheric chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), was elected as a Fellow of...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Apr 6

My talk yesterday, interspersed with images of those more than 1200 protests nationwide. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action

I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Apr 3

1 / Going into what’s expected to be a big weekend of protests around the US, my team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam & Chris Shay) has issued our monthly data release. TLDR: protest in the US is growing at an impressive pace. A few key highlights:

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Graham Clark @grahamcclark.bsky.social · Apr 15

More & more convinced that the Forgiveness Scene in Figaro is the exception that proves the rule that Mozart never Subverts his librettists, all the Profound Issues & Character Development that critics like to talk about in Così are already in the words, he just makes them matter

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 22

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links

RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 7

Risk analysis now needed of relative vulnerability of these forest age groups to climate-related and other stresses, as noted by authors (e.g. Anderegg, W. R. L., et al. (2022). A climate risk analysis of Earth’s forests in the 21st century. Science, 377(6610), 1099–1103. doi.org/10.1126/scie... )

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 6

Heather Cox Richardson's effort to put super-ICE in context: "the law pour(s) $170.7 billion into immigration enforcement—more than the military budgets of all but 15 countries... mak(ing) ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 6

The super-funding of T&Co.'s own paramilitary -- otherwise known as ICE -- is for me the scariest part of the BBBill. Read here for Kovensky's reporting and Skocpol's historical analysis .This story needs more & wider coverage. Please help to spread the word.

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Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy

TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jun 23

"Teaching sustainable development" is a workshop that @alicia-harley.bsky.social and I will be running at the National Sustainability Society ( #NSS @the-nss.bsky.social) conference in October. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

Couldn’t have said it better. | William Clark

Couldn’t have said it better. Please share your own syllabi and approaches to learning and teaching this exciting and important subect

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · May 15

Authoritative reminder that the important thing is not whether you benefit from T & Co’s actions, but rather their systematic & intentional violation of the law - not least the separation of powers in the Constitution & the protections in the Bill of Rights.
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The End of Rule of Law in America

The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 15

"Just..."?

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Apr 15

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 7

This was an outstanding event, featuring some of the most cutting edge work out there in understanding the dynamics of nature-technology-society systems & harnessing that understanding to promote #sustainability. The web page has a summary of the presentations plus links to many of their slides. 🧪

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 6

Very much worth reading in its entirety on how to think about protests, protest numbers, and what is changing. Thanks!

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Apr 3

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 6

Brilliant reflections on being there and its importance for the journey ahead. Wow!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Apr 6

My talk yesterday, interspersed with images of those more than 1200 protests nationwide. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 5

#HandsOff rally huge, diverse, mutually supportive, fired-up.

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 5

The march from Boston Common to the City Hall Plaza were endless, fired up, and peaceful. Great support of different groups and interest by one another, and of all by Boston and MA State Police who made us feel welcome and safe.

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Dylan Lion @lionshue.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great opportunity to connect with the amazing (and surprising) amount of research going on in the greater Boston area on how the global systems for meeting human needs for food connect with health, environment, economy, security and justice🧪.