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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Bhandar's Colonial Lives of Property and Moreton-Robinson's The White Possessive come to mind immediately as political theoretical approaches; both I think read Locke for this

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 4

Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
By @rhersher.bsky.social

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jun 18

In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need.

Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jun 5

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. When the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90% of its territory despite having lived along the Klamath for millennia.

Yurok Tribe Celebrates the Largest Landback Deal in California’s History

The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Apr 22

The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it

- Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point

#The89Percent
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · Apr 19

Ryan Coogler is what happens when someone steeped in LA Rebellion film aesthetics is given access to all of resources of the Hollywood blockbuster machine. Sinners crystallized this for me.

filmlifestyle.com/what-is-la-r...

What Is LA Rebellion Film Movement? The Essential Guide

LA Rebellion was a movement of young filmmakers and artists who created new and innovative work that defied Hollywood conventions.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Apr 19

Unthinkable just 10 years ago:

Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear.

Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · Apr 11

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

www.science.org

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Apr 8

Wow, these four simple climate solutions also have tremendous benefits to biodiversity and human well-being.

drawdown.org/insights/fou...

Four climate solutions with surprising benefits for biodiversity and human well-being

There are a few things that are non-negotiable for all life on Earth, among them, water, food, and shelter. Unfortunately, human activities are driving widespread habitat loss and degradation, destroy...

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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · Mar 27

A useful tool is back: Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it #extremweather #droughts #floods #hurricanes #FEMA #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

www.theguardian.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 25

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · Mar 15

(this looks like a cool job) Wildfire Studies - Assistant or Associate Professor: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Search Jobs - University Affairs

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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · Mar 2

👀 Applications open for a graduate student summer workshop, June 9-15, on videographic criticism at Notre Dame University! Organized by @arielavissar.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, Matthew Payne, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social . Deadline Mar 28 Please share!
sites.google.com/view/reframi...

Reframing the Argument

Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice June 9-15, 2005

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · Mar 12

The latest episode of Writers on Film is a discussion with Marya E Gates on her book CINEMA HER WAY.
It’s great. @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2d38...

Marya E Gates talks Cinema Her Way

Writers on Film · Episode

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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our new piece in American Quarterly: "How Ecofascism Creeps" (unfortunately relevant) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... DM if you need access!

Project MUSE - How Ecofascism Creeps

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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · Mar 9

Powerful conversation with the always-brilliant @amycardinal.bsky.social, Vikki Preston, and Monique Wynecoop; cutting through the fluff to go deep on the issues that matter in Indigenous fire management+sovereignty

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Healing Trauma Through Burning with Vikki Preston and Monique Wynecoop

Podcast Episode · Good Fire · 03/06/2025 · 1 sec

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Feb 15

An estimated 3,400 U.S. Forest Service employees were fired this week.

@jjreport.bsky.social reports what it means for California

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Feb 15

BLM confirmed it had stopped all plans to clear hazardous overgrowth on public lands across the country if the projects were to be paid for through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

A USFS spokesperson said that no wildland firefighting or other public safety positions were cut in staff reductions.

Trump’s spending freeze halts key California wildfire work: ‘We can’t even buy the rakes’

Trump’s spending freeze halts key California wildfire prevention work: ‘We can’t even buy the rakes’

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · Feb 10

The new issue of American Ethnologist (@amethno.bsky.social, 52.1, Feb 2025) features a forum titled "I was Wrong" featuring contributions from Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Carole McGranahan, Gil Hizi, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, and Laura A. Meek. 1/3
#AnthroSky #Anthropology

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the title to browse this issue

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daanis @daanis.ca · Feb 5

What an amazing reading list to be part of! I've read, recommended, and cited a few of these books. Will have to check out the others.

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Lakota Law's 2025 Decolonized Reading List

This "Top 25 for 2025" list of nonfiction books focuses on a variety of topics, including BIPOC-centered histories of Native America, resistance movements, and the decolonizing work of reconnecting us...

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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · Jan 31

These are the 13 films I am teaching this semester in ANTH 1001W: Anthropology Through Film boxd.it/DENfm

Anthropology Through Film Spring 2025

These are the 13 films I am teaching this semester in ANTH 1001W: Anthropology Through Film (Spring 2025)

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · Jan 27

Since it’s becoming obvious that Trump’s mass deportation plan will wind up being an updated version of the Japanese internment of WWII, we need to be asking exactly what goals they hope to achieve with this, since that is central to the postwar understanding of the earlier episode. 3rd thread, 1/21

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Jan 19

While the right obsesses over imaginary water declarations and DEI initiatives, actual solutions get pushed aside. That’s not an accident: It’s the point.

The Right’s Wildfire Lies Spread Faster Than the Flames

As Los Angeles burns, Trump and his allies are exploiting tragedy to push their favorite grievances about “diversity” and water management.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Jan 14

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · Jan 13

"With the dams now gone, the river is flushing itself clean, and for the first time in 100 years, salmon are spawning above the former dam sites. This restoration is a major step toward healing both our land and our people, and in no way impacts water supplies in the rest of California..."

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · Jan 9

As LA burns, conspiracy peddlers lie about—and celebrate—the danger we’re living through

The sky is smoldering, alongside online misinformation and right-wing bigotry.

As LA burns, conspiracy peddlers lie about—and celebrate—the danger we’re living through

The sky is smoldering, alongside online misinformation and right-wing bigotry.

www.motherjones.com

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