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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 14h

On ocean exploration, Black excellence, and the power of nerdiness ...

New "Black Nerds Matter" podcast

#Blacksky 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 #geosky #GISchat #geogchat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-6... or

open.spotify.com/episode/1Pwg...

Banner for this episode of Black Nerds Matter showing picture of Dawn Wright with her new Black Nerds Matter coffee cup and t-shirt (both sporting a graphic of a young Black man SCUBA diving through a beautiful coral reef).

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 16h

Love 😍 this....

New Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdall was NOT around to accept his Prize yesterday.

Why? He was "off the grid," "living his best life" on a hiking trip.

#WorkLifeBalance 🧪

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

www.theguardian.com

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MuckRock @muckrock.com · 1d

The Data Liberation Project launched the new logo to represent how we’re liberating public data for the public good. www.data-liberation-project.org

Data Liberation Project

The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.

www.data-liberation-project.org

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Climate.us @climate.us · 1d

Imagine, just for a moment, a climate future where the facts cannot be deleted...

If that sounds like an ideal future for you and/or your family make sure to check out our website (Climate.us) and give us a follow on our social media accounts.

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 1d

Help us show the Trump administration how unpopular their plans to open our protected areas to industrial fishing are

Please sign and share our petition

forms.gle/WfkshZpsqJGi...

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 2d

Science to investigate the world’s most important carbon sink

Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 2d

We may have lost Jane Goodall, but for me, I will look to Jacinda Ardern, among others, for inspiration.
youtu.be/H9zYviO-fEw?...

Prime Minister | Official Trailer | HBO

YouTube video by HBO

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 2d

"Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them."

www.wired.com/story/former...
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Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.

www.wired.com

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 3d

From Netflix Insta: "Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall, a UN Messenger of Peace, sat down for a deeply reflective conversation about her legacy & to immortalize her final words w/ the understanding that it would only be shared w/ the world after she passed."

“Famous Last Words” is now on Netflix

Banner for Famous Last Words, Dr. Jane Goodall, now showing on Netflix.

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 6d

By the way, I don’t see how Cathy Englebert survives in the long run either 😉🏀

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 6d

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately a lot of schools are going to have to get all new boards and presidents when this administration is out of power

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 6d

Higher ed institution leaders--do not give in to this!!!!

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 6d

If only we could each make a fraction of the difference she made in her life -- Rest in Power Jane Goodall -- you've inspired multiple generations of scientists and activists to make the world a better place

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 6d

More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 6d

This is a painting of Jane Goodall from that I had her sign for my mother Jeanne in 1999, when we both saw her speak at the TED 9 conference in Monterey, CA. I spoke in a session the day before. Jane and my mother were very close in age, and she was also an iconic heroine to both of us.

The painting described in the post with Jane in a thoughtful pose, resting her chin in her left hand. The autograph reads: “For Jeanne - Follow your heart, Jane Goodall”

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall was an extraordinary champion for nature. She holds a special place at Esri as a friend and advocate for using technology to protect and transform our world for the better. Her inspiration will always remain in our hearts.
Rest in peace, power, and warm chimpanzee embrace, dear Jane

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 6d

🧪⚒️🌊 #geosky #geogchat #gischat 🦑

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 1 week left to apply to #EDSsummit

Data + environment + community. This will be our final year hosting the summit!

Oct 8 deadline → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#earlycareer #envdatasci #openscience #EDSsummit #ClimateData #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience

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National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 1 week left to apply to #EDSsummit

Data + environment + community. This will be our final year hosting the summit!

Oct 8 deadline → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#earlycareer #envdatasci #openscience #EDSsummit #ClimateData #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 7d

🎯😉

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The girl from UNCLE @marsybillinger.bsky.social · 7d

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Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown

Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

scim.ag

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 7d

♥️ this from geographer Milad Malekzadeh: "I no longer see success in science as being specialized in only 1 thing. True success is being the scientist who can recognize when their signature approach is no longer the best tool, [& have the courage to] change course." 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You are more than your current research

Nature Human Behaviour - Milad Malekzadeh was once told that to be successful in academia, developing unique expertise was necessary. Over the years, he learned that diversification is more valuable.

www.nature.com

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 8d

Once more with feeling, as well as conviction and hard data:

"The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"

greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In light of attacks on DEI, we gathered articles that lay out the evidence in favor of fostering racially diverse and equitable schools, workplaces, cities, and societies.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 8d

So proud of my colleague David Padgett for his work with GIS mapping & analysis to support environmental justice, HBCUs, and in training educators in NASA's GLOBE program.

amerisurv.com/2025/09/15/t...

#BlackSky #GISchat 🌎 🌍 🌏

The Pioneering Professor Who Transformed Community Advocacy - The American Surveyor

In the early 1990s, environmental justice advocates across the US struggled to prove that marginalized communities faced disproportionate exposure to pollution and other...

amerisurv.com

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