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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 5d

I was catching strays in the Taylor Swift album review chat last night, too bad my millennial ass was fast asleep

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 6d

The gen-z-ification of the State Dept

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”

#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve avoided having to institutionally refer to the Gulf as anything except “the Gulf” for 9 months and was finally almost forced to today. “Deep Gulf, southeast of Louisiana,” directly from a cruise report to the rescue 🙏

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 13d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 15d

Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 15d

Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

A Rhode Island Wind Farm Changed Their View. And Their Lives, for the Better.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Sarah Bearchell 🌻 @sarahbearchell.bsky.social · 15d

If you are doing any kind of #engagement, this new guide helps you to examine your work and teaches you how to make it more equitable and inclusive.

#SciComm @big-stem-network.bsky.social

Dr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social · 15d

The reflexivity workbook : for individuals who are interested in or already doing science communication/engagement & want to make their efforts more equitable and inclusive. #scicomm
Download here www.reflexivityworkbook.org

A great ressource by @andrea-isabel.bsky.social & @moefeliu.bsky.social 👏

Reflexivity Workbook | Enhance Science Communication

Download tools for equitable, inclusive science communication. Ideal for both new and experienced science communicators focused on public engagement.

www.reflexivityworkbook.org

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Wen Stephenson @learning2live.bsky.social · 18d

Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 19d

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 20d

"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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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 19d

This history of #RVEndeavor Storymap has been my child throughout the last few months. This ship has seen things!

URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 19d

⬇️ From the very beginning, #RVEndeavor was a first responder to urgent ocean challenges. Explore more from the first cruise and other milestones as #RVEndeavor wraps up its final cruise before retirement: buff.ly/VIhLhAH

R/V Endeavor

Celebrating nearly 50 years.

buff.ly

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22d

Our media has collapsed.

Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.

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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 27d

For University of Rhode Island ocean engineering student Jake Bonney, remotely operated vehicles keep him anchored to the sea, even as he navigates his own uncharted waters.

A skiing accident left a R.I. PhD candidate paralyzed. But he’s still exploring shipwrecks – and probing the ‘unknown’ - The Boston Globe

For University of Rhode Island ocean engineering student Jake Bonney, remotely operated vehicles keep him anchored to the sea, even as he navigates his own unchartered waters.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 26d

Comms professor, rhymes with Skunksgard :)

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · 29d

“You’re in graduate school to learn to skim like a motherfucker” -my new dream professor

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Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · Aug 26

Brown University Professor @timmonsroberts.bsky.social said his students found that groups fighting offshore wind “have chosen to get in bed with some of the most anti-environment and anti-climate actors.” He called the letter “strategic harassment to shut me up."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Back at work after a week of vacation & 3 days concussion recovery

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Climate change is the signature global challenge today... the most ill-suited people available, rich and coddled and insulated from the impacts they are already unleashing, stand on its figurative beachhead, urging the seas higher and higher."

The 360-Degree Assault on Climate Action Is Impossibly Grim

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Aug 3

All enlightenment leaves my person during a long car ride with my mother. Did the Buddha have to drive with his mother? Who did not believe in a blinker? And always thought she was in the slowest lane of traffic?

Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Aug 2

Taylor said I shot up in the middle of the night and said “phytoplankton…. Something fuzzy…” 3 times ☠️ I need a vacation

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Aug 2

This tree rules

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Mystic Aquarium @mysticaquarium.bsky.social · Aug 1

Current mood going into the weekend…

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Aug 1

Tyler Childers giving us all permission to be little freaks this summer 🦖

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Mackensie duPont Crowley @mdupontcrowley.bsky.social · Jul 29

Spotting myself in the crowd behind a happy MJ Lenderman at Newport Folk Fest is so pleasing

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jul 26

Darren Beattie, fired from the Trump White House in 2018 after it was revealed he attended a white supremacist conference, has just been appointed acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to the State Department.

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