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Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social · Apr 15

For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about two sound art projects centering the borderlands, the Dia Foundation’s Echoes from the Borderlands and UTEP rhetoric professors’ Border Soundscapes:

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Listening to the Borderlands

Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 27

Están cordialmente invitad•s!

📢 Seminario Permanente Redes Colaborativas de Oceanografía Social

📅 3 de abril | 🕚 11:00–13:00 h
📍El Colegio de Michoacán y en línea

🆓 Registro: [email protected]
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Póster con fecha, horario y detalles del evento

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Mar 20

Legitimate criticism of Trump's administration occurs everywhere—and it’s no secret that Musk’s DOGE cut millions in scientific research—so the idea that criticism of this equates to terrorism, and results in someone being barred from the U.S., is absurd.

French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism

So much for free speech in America?

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 19

Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share!

www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm

Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 2, mechanics of the interview

By David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness o…

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 19

Ok, this is affecting privileged people now. Will that make anyone pay attention?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Mar 19

Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and Customs and Border Protection. Rolling the dice at all feels risky—and that’s by the Trump administation’s design.

No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore

Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and CBP.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 15

Irony is dead.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Mar 11

OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing

Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs. In a post on X on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company has trained a “new model” that’s “really good” at creative writing. He posted a lengthy sample from the model given…

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Claudia Friedlander @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · Mar 14

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 14

A lot of this also applies to #anthropology. Our fields are more needed than ever, and also more than ever struggling to justify our existence. No coincidence.

#academicsky

Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · Mar 14

"[S]ociology emerged in response to rapid transformation in society, and it continues to offer explanations for the causes, patterns, and consequences of social... change. Today’s students can benefit from sociology in the following ways and for the following reasons..."

Why Sociology Is Essential, and Especially Right Now

The discipline of sociology matters, maybe now more than ever. Here are 21 reasons why an understanding of sociology can benefit everyone.

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nice article from @the-revelator.bsky.social by Melissa Gaskill - Seagrass Gardening "From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide." therevelator.org/seagrass-gar...

Seagrass Gardening • The Revelator

From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 13

Back to the future with eugenics.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 13

Good one on the impacts on social sciences:

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science - Impact of Social Sciences

Beyond their short-term implications, Trump's executive orders represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Al Otro Lado @alotrolado-org.bsky.social · Mar 11

“We just have to start over,” says a mom from Venezuela, stranded in Tijuana after her CBP one appointment was canceled. Let’s remember the hundreds of people who are stuck in limbo in Tijuana, with no safe home to go back to.
apnews.com/article/immi...

Migrants stranded in Mexico try to restart life after Trump eliminates legal pathway to US

Many migrants have been left stranded in Mexican border cities after the Trump administration immediately canceled tens of thosands of appointments made through a government app called CBP One that of...

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 11

Budget cuts are now threatening Mexican wolf #conservation 🧪

@theborderchronicle.bsky.social

tucson.com/news/local/e...

Mexican wolf numbers grow but advocates warn of budget cuts, poor genetics

The 2024 count of Mexican wolves showed at least 286 of the endangered animals living in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, an increase of 11% since 2023.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 11

Must read.

#academicsky #socialsciene 🧪

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science - Impact of Social Sciences

Beyond their short-term implications, Trump's executive orders represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 11

ATTENTION

If anyone from Columbia is interested in communicating with reporters and/or can share documents to help reporters cover this nightmare and cover it accurately,

PLEASE reach out to me (or have them do so) on signal (jeremymberg.78).

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 10

How about this one?

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Voces del oleaje: ecología política de las tortugas marinas en la costa de Oaxaca

PDF | On Jan 1, 2010, Michelle María Early Capistrán published Voces del oleaje: ecología política de las tortugas marinas en la costa de Oaxaca | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Rese...

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 10

I'll just leave this here and walk away slowly...

#academicsky 🧪

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Mar 10

Day 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥

First op Leiden 💪🏽

@woinactie.bsky.social

Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.

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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · Mar 9

Troubling article on the work to save the smallest and rarest turtle. #seaturtle #marineturtle 🦑🌐🌍🦤🧪🐢

lisettebrodey @lisettebrodey.bsky.social · Mar 9

Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle 🐢 🐢

After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp’s ridley hits rough seas

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Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World's Smallest Sea Turtle

After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp's ridley hits rough seas

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 9

All on spot, though as per your broader agrument (beyond this thread) there is indeed no liberal answer. Wish the author signalled beyond virtue signalling.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 9

Welcome to the club

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The Border Chronicle @theborderchronicle.bsky.social · Mar 7

We're trying something new at The Border Chronicle 🦂

Check out our new weekly roundup, and our "ask an expert" section. This week we have invited immigration expert
@austinkocher.com Read the newsletter on how you can submit your most confounding immigration questions for our expert to answer 🦂🔥

Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup March 7

Welcome to our first weekly roundup! It's all here; from a border surveillance blimp that crashed in Dallas, to a podcast on Trump's immigration agenda, and the deadly EU/US deportation machine.

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Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 8

It's capitalism

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 8

I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.

Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right-the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else's profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden.

Michelle María Early Capistrán @earlycapistran.bsky.social · Mar 7

Stoked about this new article on 50 years of the Endangered Species act by @vmshirey.bsky.social and an amazing team of conservation scientists!

🧪 #academicsky

www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...

Frontiers | 50 YEARS OF INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT-HISTORY AND THREATS TO SPECIES

The United States Endangered Species Act celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023. As a hallmark piece of environmental legislation, the Act has successfully ...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Mar 7

To everyone in the U.S. standing up for science today, calling for policies that support science, not suppress it: we’re with you! Cutting science doesn’t just harm scientists – it harms society as a whole. #StandUpForScience

Flyer for the DC and nationwide rally on March 7, 2025. "Stand up for Science", "Science is for everyone".

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