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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · May 11

"In the few months since the second Trump administration began, the federal government’s efforts to control silicosis have been destroyed," David Michaels and Gregory Wagner write:

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · Mar 6

The EPA IRIS database specifies the cancer + noncancer risk of > 500 chemicals. It's the rosetta stone to calculating the relationship between exposure and risk. It powered our tox map and formaldehyde map. Killing it would destroy the ability to regulate or even show how harmful toxic chems are.

Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass

www.propublica.org/article/legi...

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.

www.propublica.org

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Cultural Geography Group (GEO) at Wageningen University, NL @culturalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 5

📣 Upcoming event with Prof. @jennypickerill.bsky.social "'How do we carry on?’ Political activism in an era of uncertainty" | Thursday 20 March 2025 | 12:30 - 17:30 | Location: Thuis Wageningen (Stationsstraat 32, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Info ⬇️
centreforspaceplacesociety.com/2025/03/03/e...

Event | ‘How do we carry on?’ Political Activism in an Era of Uncertainty – with prof. Pickerill

We are excited to invite you to the PhD defence activities of Tom Rowe, exploring hope, privilege, and prefiguration in climate activism, art, and academia. The two-day programme includes an intera…

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass

www.propublica.org/article/legi...

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.

www.propublica.org

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balayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · Feb 23

One week left to submit your abstracts!

balayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · Jan 16

CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab"

We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...

Screenshot of Call for Papers:
"Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab". 7th Nordic STS Conference: STS in and out of the Laboratory, June 11-13, 2025, Stockholm. See link in post for abstract and organisational details.

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Feb 2

A new analysis confirms links between early life #PFAS exposure and stunted “cognitive, motor, and language development” as well as “behavioral issues like hyperactivity.”

#foreverchemicals appear to be damaging children’s brains, and not only highly exposed kids.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39888511/

Effects of Early-life PFAS Exposure on Child Neurodevelopment: A Review of the Evidence and Research gaps - PubMed

Sixty-one studies in total were published from 2008 to March 2024, with 35 in the last five years. Findings primarily link early life PFAS exposure to reduced cognitive, motor, and language developmen...

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Jan 29

Excited to see this is out - and with an expanded online edition alongside! Congratulations and thank you @erindurban.bsky.social and team for all the work that went into it

erin l. durban @erindurban.bsky.social · Jan 25

TSQ Trans* Ecologies Print Issue read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/11/4

Volume 11 Issue 4 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · Jan 29

📼 For those who missed todays Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage online symposium session with @farhanasultana.com, Gabriela de Matos and Amali Tower on “Decolonising #ClimateColoniality and Re-Centering Marginalised Voices and Knowledges” the video is now online! 🥳

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqZ...

Decolonising Climate Coloniality and Re-Centering Marginalised Voices and Knowledges

YouTube video by Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Jan 23

Making Asbestos Great Again www.propublica.org/article/davi...

Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm

David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s fir...

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Sarah McC @sarahmcc.bsky.social · Jan 21

@4sweb.bsky.social and fellow STSers invested in projects of liberation! We invite folks to submit to our open panel, Reverberations of Power and Justice in Critical Science and Technology Studies. #207 findable here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Accepted Open PanelsSearchMobile Menu

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CHEM Trust @chemtrust.bsky.social · Jan 16

⚠️#PFAS are ubiquitous to our environment and a new #ForeverLobbying Project has estimated they will cost billions to clean up!

🚫CHEM Trust calls on the UK Government to act now to #BanPFAS.

Read more here: https://buff.ly/40imRLz
Find the project here: https://buff.ly/3Z6DNCq

Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe

Exclusive: Costs of UK cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in UK if emissions of ‘forever chemicals’ remain uncontrolled

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balayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · Jan 16

CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab"

We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...

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Vicky Cann @vickycann.bsky.social · Jan 15

‘High-risk sites’: where are the UK’s ‘forever chemical’ hotspots?

What you need to know.

#ForeverLobbying

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘High-risk sites’: where are the UK’s ‘forever chemical’ hotspots?

An Environment Agency report has identified more than 10,000 ‘high-risk sites’ contaminated with PFAS

www.theguardian.com

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

The #ForeverLobbying Project exposes the real cost of #PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics.
46 journalists teamed up with 18 experts to investigate the worst pollution crisis humanity has ever faced, caused by the “poison of the century”.
foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Jan 14

Big news: A new EPA study finds that millions of acres of farmland are likely polluted w/ #PFAS from sewage sludge spread over the fields as fertilizer—a practice EPA has long promoted. The implications for our food system are hard to overstate. h/t @ewg

www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Public Inspection: Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment: Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid

Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment: Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid

www.federalregister.gov

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Bethanie Carney Almroth #PlasticsTreaty @bcarneyalmroth.bsky.social · Jan 6

Chemical recycling doesnt work at scale; it’s neither environmentally or economically viable ioplus.nl/en/posts/ano...

Another pioneering plastic recycler faces bankruptcy amid challenges

While chemical plastics recycling shows promise, the practical implementation faces significant hurdles. Blue Cycle's experience mirrors these challenges.

ioplus.nl

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Dec 15

“The first Trump admin altered or deleted numerous federal web pages containing public-facing climate information, according to monitoring efforts by the nonprofit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks changes on federal websites.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again

Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. Scientists say the threats are bigger this time

www.scientificamerican.com

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balayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · Dec 2

thank you!! ☕

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balayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · Dec 2

Excellent! Staying in a few different spots inner-northside

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balayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · Dec 1

Heading home to Melbourne next week - if you're around and keen to chat about pollution, chemicals, or waste, I'll be there throughout December. (Also would appreciate hot takes on good cafes as my coffee map is 6 years out of date...)

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Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social · Nov 25

Today 20.000+ people came together in The Hague to protest the proposed cuts in education funding. To protest against layoffs. Against a penalty for study delays. Against the closure of degree programmes. And to fight for academic freedom, equal opportunities, and the right to study. #WOinActie

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Nov 25

More than 20,000 people protesting the budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands #WOinActie

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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · Nov 20

This summer Hiilei Hobart and I, among others, will "contribute to the theorization, imagination, and practice of socially just and ecologically hopeful futures" includding workshops on works-in-progress with participants. Apply!

Summer Institute - Center for the Arts and Humanities

Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities The Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities (SIEH) gathers scholars from around the globe to

cah.colby.edu

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Nov 22

Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Wollongong in geography, history, language, maths, environmental science, physics and public health. Entire units being cut, short sighted and devastating. Petition here: betteruniversities.work/uow-petition...

David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social · Nov 15

The very idea of so many incredible geography friends and colleagues at the University of Wollongong being in scope for possible redundancy next month is absolutely gut wrenching www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... 1/5

University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolments

The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.

www.abc.net.au

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Nov 21

There you have it! An official Starter Pack of people working on #PFAS issues curated by @saferstates.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/ThQN6Zs

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