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Emily Knight

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Poet, Warren Wilson MFA | Marine scientist, Lenfest Ocean Program | Healthy environment healthy people | She/Her | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · Aug 27

🦑 I'm excited to share my poem Chrysaora quinquecirrha will appear The Nature of Our Times anthology - available for preorder now! natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

The Nature of Our Times

Call for Submissions. Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.

natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

www.propublica.org

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Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 13d

🦑 Our September newsletter is out and announcing our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio, a poetry virtual event, and more: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 13d

Please do reach out and find Dom and Sarah at #WIOMSA2025! Learn more about the work of @blue-convergence.bsky.social!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 13d

🦑 Will you be at hashtag #WIOMSA2025? Remember to find our Program Director Sarah Close and Program Officer Dominique Kone. This conference is a wonderful opportunity to understand how science is informing management and policy across the Western Indian Ocean.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 13d

🦑 Our approach: Listen. Support. Engage. We will mobilize community voices in regions of the U.S., issue open funding opportunities to generate solutions, and conduct strategic outreach to build momentum behind their use. We will develop use cases to share across regions.

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 13d

🦑 Our latest newsletter is out, featuring our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio under the leadership of Program Director Jason Landrum and Director of Outreach & Engagement @emilyknight.bsky.social. Join us: us14.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 14d

I'm so excited to do this - join us if you can, we all need a little poetry right now.

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 14d

🦑 We're doing something a little different at BCF - we're holding a virtual poetry reading hosted by our own @emilyknight.bsky.social. Come celebrate our oceans and other natural wonders on Thursday, November 6, 8pm ET/5pm PT/2pm HT!

Register via zoom: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 15d

A child in Los Angeles has died from SSPE, a rare but fatal brain disorder that can appear years after measles infection.

The case underscores the deadly risks of falling vaccination rates.

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#vaccineswork

Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained

Why falling vaccination rates put vulnerable children at risk.

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 15d

With all the insanity we miss the real stories… this is horrendous. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 16d

🦑 These events will be so informative. We've learned a ton from these projects about how you can adapt MPAs to climate change. Join for both if you can!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 16d

🦑 Join us for a virtual learning series featuring a suite of researchers working at the intersection of local coastal communities and provincial and national managers to integrate climate adaptation measures into MPA management.

Nov 7: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 17d

🦑 This is one of my personal favorites because my grandparents inhabit its spirit. And in a time where immigrants are being vilified and traumatized by the U.S. government. Many of us descend from immigrants - they brought us to this moment.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 17d

🦑 Working through new poems today and going back to others for inspiration. I had my poem String Lights in the online gallery for The Nature of Our Times.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/string-lights/

String Lights - The Nature of Our Times

I remember Bethany Beach, Delaware, me, a child, digging up sand crabs the afternoon long, as the cranky surf churned up the overflowing bottom, so full of food for conks, crabs, gulls, more… incredul...

natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 17d

Dude just fell out of his bed.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 18d

My mom used to make every Christmas!

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 20d

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 20d

There are people fighting. It's just not the national level establishment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells

www.nytimes.com

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 20d

🦑 So excited to be part of this anthology, it's out now: natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 20d

🦑 Climate change touches everything - energy, environment, economy, national security - it will be great for so many sectors to come together. We often live in our siloes... if you're coming to #ClimateWeekNYC, connect with my boss, @charlotteghudson.bsky.social!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 20d

🦑 We are coming to #ClimateWeekNYC! If you will be there, connect with our Executive Director, Charlotte Hudson. We just wrapped up a call for proposals for Climate Resilient Fisheries and had a massive response. And that's not we have planned... #ClimateAction #Sustainability

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 20d

In the wake of Jimmy Kimmel, this is getting missed... this is also a free speech travesty and incredibly cruel at that. I don't care if you don't like his opinions, he's a legal resident and a husband and father of US citizens: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Free Palestine.

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria

Lawyers for the pro-Palestinian activist said they plan to appeal the immigration judge’s order, which was revealed in court documents filed Wednesday.

www.yahoo.com

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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 20d

So if Jimmy Kimmel had just suggested killing homeless people by involuntary lethal injection, like Brian Kilmeade did on Fox, he’d still have a job?

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you…

You’re weak.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 21d

Honestly folks.

The bluster & bullying & “how dare they say that?,” & silencing, & censoring?

It’s weakness x 10.

If you’re really strong, jokes don’t matter.

Only if you’re banking on fear to give you power do jokes matter.

That’s why authoritarians HATE being poked fun at.

No fear=no power.

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 21d

I don't know... I think you are a thoughtful commentator... but... I really think now is the time to seek out and really learn from the perspectives on your column from people that were the targets of Charlie Kirk. This doubling down instead really growing feels very off.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 If you're going to Mombasa for WIOMSA 2025, be sure to talk with Dom and Sarah about our work in climate resilient fisheries!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 Some of our team members are traveling to #WIOMSA2025 in Mombasa, Kenya! Going to be there? Be sure to meet our own Sarah Close, Program Director, Dominique Kone, Program Officer. They are the thought leaders behind our international climate resilient fisheries portfolio.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 22d

🦑 The speakers that will be featured have been working the past few years have been working in communities all over the world to develop knowledge and lay the groundwork for co-governance of MPAs. It will yield great lessons learned on a critical topic!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 22d

🦑 Join us for a webinar series on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean!

Webinar 1: Friday, Nov 7 8am PT/11am ET/3pm GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar 2: Thursday, Dec 11 3pm PT/6pm ET/10pm GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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