Silvia Secchi

@profsecchi.bsky.social

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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💧
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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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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 8h

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

🚨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

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily is the worst NYT product and there’s plenty to choose from.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

This happens in part because scientists in the global North do small science like the kind I am disappointed in btw.

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d

[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…

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

Not doing 💩 science that benefits the fossil fuel lobby and big ag would not hurt too in my field lol

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

Not doing 💩 science that benefits the fossil fuel lobby and big ag would not hurt too in my field lol

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

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

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

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/

Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 2d

Why do i bother teaching US foreign policy? No process, no institutions.

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 2d

Good god, this story!

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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…

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 2d

Why do i bother teaching US foreign policy? No process, no institutions.

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 2d

Good god, this story!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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.

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 3d

Teaching is the profession that lays the foundation for all other professions.

Insulting, yes, but also outrageously reckless given teacher alienation policies that have already led to a teacher recruitment and retention crisis nationwide.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing several people who have been complicit in cropaganda in multiple ways through the years going out there pretending to be conservation heroes.
I suppose it might be a sign that the wind is shifting, but then again it could be the next grift.

Suspect Guilty GIF

ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d

The thing is, if you eat the cookies by themselves without all the accoutrements of tiramisu or without dunking them, a softer savoiardo is way more pleasant to eat!

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4d

Actually the bakery ladyfingers I grew up with in Italy are NOT crispy. I only use the commercial ones for tiramisu' as I do not like their texture at all. Savoiardi are quite soft and that is how I like them!