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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💧 My views are my own and do not represent my employer. I do not enjoy having to state the obvious. .. more

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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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3h
They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.
The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic. Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 9h
Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10h
RIFed:
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center

Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.

They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.

Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠
2024 Accomplishments
Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 10h
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river.

“The river is my grandfather.” @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.
www.azcentral.com
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 10h
It's a blue state, Pritzker is governor jfc. There is no better place than Chicago to send the message that congress is a co-equal branch of government. They need to coordinate and have a strategy, durbin really is useless and Duckworth has consistently underperformed, she doesn't have range.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12h
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 13h
Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 16h
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 16h
I just spent five minutes reading about "sustainable" big ag activities on Linkedin and I am feeling slightly nauseous. Some of the really large ENGO have really gone full corporate and their people sure can spew some industry partner lingo.
a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his hand to his chest .
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h
Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise
Russ Vought v @russvought The RIFs have begun. 12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Honestly Portland can Streisand-effect autarky frog costumes and even improve their design, the drone strikes tho 😬
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
They have a rubric. Half the grade is for specificity of the question(s) (are they based on the reading assigned, and they demonstrate that the student has read the paper) and half on relevance to the course content (the questions refer to material previously covered in the class).
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Since my family is from around there, for me I think it would be Barumini
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
During the late 2nd millennium B.C. in the Bronze Age, a special type of defensive structure known as nuraghi (for which no parallel exists anywhere else in the world) developed on the island of Sardi...
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Cities really do have their own energy and this is such a lovely representation of Portland's.
May the Portland frogs live long and multiply.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d
"The main problem behind the idea of energy transition is that we project on the history of energies & materials ways of reasoning that are derived from the analysis of technical substitution.

We make as if solving the #climate challenge was just an issue of diffusing a new technology"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Energy Transition Myth (w/ Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
This is one of the reasons why one of my regular assignments for students is to write questions on the readings we do, for the class to discuss as a whole. You can generally tell how deeply they engaged with the reading from the questions, and good questions are awesome for class discussions.
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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d
my initial thought when LLMs started becoming a thing was that it could be like an ELIZA on steroids, and ask you a bunch of questions that could help YOU write

unsurprisingly not a single LLM exists to ask questions and even if you tell it to, they can't
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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d
my initial thought when LLMs started becoming a thing was that it could be like an ELIZA on steroids, and ask you a bunch of questions that could help YOU write

unsurprisingly not a single LLM exists to ask questions and even if you tell it to, they can't
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms
The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Yikes!
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
In Brazil there are huge issues in the Cerrado for direct land use change and in the Amazon for indirect land use change.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
In Brazil it is a bit of a different story - the government has been pushing for biofuels since the 1970s as a response to the energy crisis so there are lots of programs to promote them. Historically the crop of choice was sugarcane - better than 🌽 energy wise but problematic for deforestation.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
We should be getting people out of those houses on stilts on barrier islands and similar flood prone places, they cost tons of money to the public for repeated flood losses and aren’t good for the environment. That’s the crux of the issue.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
The framing of this piece is just terrible. The issue is that due to climate change and pathetic zoning laws people build and sell homes at inflated prices in places where it doesn’t make sense b/c of subsidies.
The shutdown is exposing a massive moral hazard problem. Very NYT framing though.
For Homes by the Water, Closing Just Got More Complicated
www.nytimes.com
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Carter was big on biofuels because of the energy crisis (doesn’t mean he was right)
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