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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 16h

You too! I'm saving the resources you shared. 👍👍

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New Publication Alert🚨

This excellent thread reminded me to announce a new paper, out last week, "What would it mean to win? Envisioning alternative ecopolitical futures with young climate justice activists," featured in a book I co-edited on community-engaged research for climate justice. 1/2

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 1d

Link to open access full-text: "What Would it Mean to Win? Imagining Alternative Ecopolitical Futures with Young Climate Justice Activists" (2/2)

www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New Publication Alert🚨

This excellent thread reminded me to announce a new paper, out last week, "What would it mean to win? Envisioning alternative ecopolitical futures with young climate justice activists," featured in a book I co-edited on community-engaged research for climate justice. 1/2

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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 2d

honestly I don't really mind writing the 15 page research summary (though 10 pages would be better for both writing and reviewing). It is, inter alia, a helpful conduit to plan out a project.

What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 3d

the amount of time we spend trying to raise $$$ for our research is absolutely immense and results in a huge amount of wasted time. BUT there is a limited amount of money, so they have to have some method of distributing it. not sure what the best way to do it is.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d

The problem is that anyone working towards justice is slowly being labeled a "terrorist."

This is happening in Israel. It's happening in the US. And it's even happening in the UK and Germany.

Don't you all see it?

Hope Berry @hopeberry.bsky.social · 2d

On what grounds are these courageous humanitarians with their flotilla of baby formula and such being deemed “terrorists”? Anyone accusing Greta Thunberg, one of the most internationally famous ppl for her integrity, of nefarious motivations, only reflects poorly on themselves

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 9d

Dear US: "All members of the military have the right, and in some cases the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates internat'l [human rights] treaties ratified by the US...), not to the commander-in-chief or to any other indiv'l in the chain of command."

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 9d

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9d

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 9d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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Gary in PR @pr-gary.bsky.social · 9d

This should be copy/pasted in an email to every service member in your family or circle of friends.

Pass it on.

Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 10d

"All members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates international [human rights] treaties ratified by the US...),not to the commander-in-chief or to any other individual in the chain of command."

John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 10d

If given an illegal order, here is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. 1-877-447-4487. Service members are subject to prosecution for following illegal orders.

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 10d

girightshotline.org/en/military-...

Know Your Rights by girights ❮ News Archive ❮ GI Rights Hotline: Military Discharges and Military Counseling

US MILITARY KNOW YOUR RIGHTS The way military members view their role in war is a constantly evolving story. Often during their military careers, people start to question or doubt the missions they on...

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 10d

"All members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates international [human rights] treaties ratified by the US...),not to the commander-in-chief or to any other individual in the chain of command."

John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 10d

If given an illegal order, here is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. 1-877-447-4487. Service members are subject to prosecution for following illegal orders.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 11d

Fun fact to add: In 1935 German Defense Minister Blomberg - the one who introduced the new oath of loyalty to Hitler renamed the German Defense Ministry… wait for it… the “Ministry of War”.

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 12d

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 12d

I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.

Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 12d

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 12d

Friends tell other friends when they see their work out in the world. Just got an email about my book and it made my day.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12d

Trump just signed a terrifying order classifying anyone challenging his regime or espousing anti-MAGA worldviews as “domestic terrorists.” It directs National Joint Terrorism Task Force, DOJ & Treasury to investigate & prosecute individuals/nonprofits/funders & freeze assets.🧵

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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ariadneshaffer.bsky.social @ariadneshaffer.bsky.social · 13d

This is a super interesting site where you can track the super polluters in your immediate area and how they are affecting your air quality. It's quite sobering.

www.climatetrace.org/airpollution

Air pollution

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills 8.7 million people each year. We homed in on over 9,500 point-sources located in urban areas that expose a disproportionate number of people to PM2.5

www.climatetrace.org

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 14d

Fossil fuel companies try to tie environmental campaigners and protesters up in lengthy legal battles to waste their time and money – and scare them away from criticising the rich and powerful

Wonderful from @seanburkeshow.bsky.social

#TimeToResist

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Matt Chandronait @talkingorange.bsky.social · 15d

It really is this simple. The idea that there’s this deluge of people out there that “want” to be homeless no matter what society would try to do for them is a political myth; ginned up so that we all have more people to hate and we’ll maybe not look more closely at income inequality.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17d

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 20d

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If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be:

"the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute."

BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17d

Disabled people aren’t “less than”.

It’s not a moral failing.

Most people will experience disability at some point.

It’s a minority group you can join at any time.

We need more accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and compassion.

There’s no social justice without disability justice.

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah, I'd appreciate something that digs deeper into direct connections as well. For example, something like this but with tech: share.google/8O939PledM8J...

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 16d

Some recommendations: More Everything Forever by Adam Becker, the work of Gil Duran, and the Dystopia Now podcast. All very informative and get at the idea of techno optimism and accelerationism.

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 17d

Hopeful. A 2025 study of 102 autocratization episodes found that "democratic breakdown does not necessarily prevent a return to democracy, especially if autocratization is halted and reversed relatively soon – the average time for turnarounds is about five years after the onset of autocratization."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 17d

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

V-Dem data

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 18d

Done and done. The 9/16 terms of service were outrageous, and it was very easy to delete my account without agreeing to TOS before doing so. Just click outside of the TOS page without clicking Agree. Navigate to My Account, then Delete. And tell them why.

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