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hx 🇵🇸 @h229.bsky.social · 7d

Linked here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Microhabitat Restoration Applications of a Strategic Land Conservation Decision Support Model

Strategic land conservation is a global priority to protect species diversity and local native species in the face of climate change, urbanization, and other forms of anthropogenic disturbance. This paper discusses development of a regional spatial decision support...

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hx 🇵🇸 @h229.bsky.social · 7d

Latest publication in Geoinformatics and Data Analysis is out! ➡️ “Microhabitat Restoration Applications of a Strategic Land Conservation Decision Support Model” 🗺️ We used a GIS resilience model to identify promising religious and faith-owned lands for SW Michigan microhabitat restoration! 🕌

Screenshot of article front page and abstract.

Figure 4 from paper shows resilience rankings for Kalamazoo County parcels with faith-based ownership.

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 8d

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG?

Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

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Noor @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 10d

Fucking THIS! I was born disabled, I know how hard chronic illness is. My mask isn’t a prison it’s literally my freedom from ✨not making it worse✨ so many people told me “covid is just like the flu so you’re not worse off than you were before you were always at risk” bruh I’ll fight you

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10d

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10d

""Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó."

Petro responde a EE.UU. que la retirada de su visa viola el derecho internacional y las normas de inmunidad de la ONU

"Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó. EE.UU. dice que instó...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 13d

Some good news. Gullah Geechee community in St Helena’s Island manages to block golf course development.

By @kristaldixon.bsky.social

S.C. county again rejects proposed golf course on Gullah Geechee land

Elvio Tropeano wants to build an 18-hole golf course and 49 homes on 437 acres.

www.axios.com

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 15d

Our research on Microsoft’s data centers is out and it’s 😬

💡Huge energy demand (as much as New England by 2030!)

 ⛽️ Fossil fuel reliance (most data centers in states with ≥50% FF grids)

 🏫Local impacts (data centers used to justify more gas)

Learn more and take action: stand.earth/microsoft-ai

White background. Text reads “A hyperscale data center can use as much energy as an entire city. Whether that data center runs on fossil fuels or renewable energy matters - a lot. As of right now most Microsoft data centers are in states with grids that are
≥50% dependent on fossil fuels.” Photo of a data center in the center of the image.

Red background. Text reads “600%” “Microsoft's North American AI data center build-out is set to grow by 600% through 2030, and will demand as much electricity as the entire New England Region.” Graph shows exponentially increasing electricity demand starting in fiscal year 24 and estimating as far as fiscal year 30.

White background. Text reads “Unless surging energy demand from Microsoft's data centers is met with round-the-clock renewable electricity, it will lead to a huge increase in climate and local pollution, including extending the life of coal plants as well as new fossil fuel power plants and pipelines to meet the electricity needs of the data centers.” Photo of a polluting data center, with photo credit reading “Credit: Shelley Robbins”.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14d

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.

See what changes are in store for your county 👇

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 14d

Protests are powerful, but they aren’t the only tool for change.

KF Research Fellow @devawo.bsky.social explains how social movements are building community protection strategies that are quieter, local, and just as impactful.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 16d

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 17d

Self-serving politicians may want you to believe that violent crime is rampant and repeat offenders are to blame – but two things to remember:

1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels
2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"

Graph showing that US crime rates continue to fall, and preliminary data indicate that the 2024 crime rate was the lowest since 1961

Graph titled: The most serious charge for most people who are booked into jail is related to drugs, property, or public order – not violence

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 19d

white academics stop writing about power if you’re just going to cede yours at the slightest pressure challenge.

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 21d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!

ASAB Guest Info

ASAB is a podcast which brings on trans and non-binary guests in science (undergrad or grad students, technicians, professors, educators, researchers, science journalists, photographers, or even someo...

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 23d

Firing a Black woman for quoting a white man about how unintelligent he believes Black women are is a clear example of how misogynoir, white supremacy & ableism work together to harm Black women uniquely. That is how intersecting oppressions work.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 25d

UC Berkeley has given the names of 160 Palestinian rights activists to the Trump administration to be investigated for “antisemitism” - including prominent Jewish professor Judith Butler apple.news/AlC4HA9EpRBi...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move — Guardian US

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

all in all I obviously wouldn't say things are peachy right now but as you make your way through the shittiest discourses known to man on this website don't doomscroll your way into a feeling of inevitability and defeatedness that the current geopolitical situation doesn't actually warrant

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26d

thank god we’re all against political
violence

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 26d

Politico - President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics," following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Trump says ‘we have to beat the hell’ out of ‘radical left lunatics’ after Kirk killing

The conservative activist's killer remains at large and authorities have not said what the motive was behind his shooting.

www.politico.com

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26d

Opposing political violence requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s death.

Opposing political violence also requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s life.

Charlie Kirk spent his life encouraging his allies on the far-right to think violence was legitimate and concerns about it were fake.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 26d

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

Charlie Kirk: Jail every doctor who has treated transgender children.

(Source: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...)

Charlie Kirk: "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor"

www.mediamatters.org

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 26d

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

www.404media.co

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hx 🇵🇸 @h229.bsky.social · 28d

Our incredible team includes @moreorloess.bsky.social @sprucehen.bsky.social @creekthinker.bsky.social @chaseprairie.bsky.social and many more!

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hx 🇵🇸 @h229.bsky.social · 28d

…including the Indigenous history of Wisconsin, land theft related to the Morrill Act of 1862, the impact of the Dawes Act, and my own module on land privatization.

Please use our work in your classroom! 🌼🤎🌱

campushistory.wisc.edu/education/in...

Indigenous Lands Dispossession In Wisconsin and Beyond Education Modules

These educational materials are a resource for students, faculty, instructors, and staff to learn about and engage with the Morrill Act of 1862 in Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin, established i...

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hx 🇵🇸 @h229.bsky.social · 28d

It’s such an enormous joy to share that our interdisciplinary team of Indigenous and settler scholars has launched the publicly accessible version of our work on land dispossession!!

We have multiple modules available to educators (and the public!) at the link below…

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