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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 2d

I'm proud to share the first paper on co-creating water knowledge from our #IAHS #cocreatingwaterknowledge group! We're centering diverse knowledges in hydrology—a return to my ethnobotany roots. It's not always easy, but sparks creative ways of thinking about water. doi.org/10.1080/0262...

Co-creating water knowledge: a community perspective

Navigating the complexities of global and local water resources challenges requires collaboration and mutual learning among diverse knowledge systems and disciplines. However, Western philosophical...

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 20d

Do you like #eDNA,#hydrology, and #frozen #water (#ice and #snow)? Are you looking for a #PhD position? Then join me in Bern for this interdisciplinary project in the mountains of two continents! Funded by @snsf.ch at the Geography Institute of the @unibe.ch !
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Uni Bern: PhD position (4 years): environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tracer of hydrological processes in snow and ice dominated catchments

In the Hydrology Group at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern Starting date: January 2026 You will be part of the bilateral research project Hydrology from Genes: what does eDNA tell us abo...

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 20d

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actionuni der Schweizer Mittelbau | Representing scientific staff in Switzerland

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 20d

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Stop aux coupes budgétaires dans la formation et la recherche - ACIDUL

Article mis à jour régulièrement 10 septembre 2025 En collaboration avec la FAE et le Syndicat des services publics, ACIDUL lance une pétition contre les coupes cantonales massives, annoncées en juill...

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 20d

1er octobre : manifestation à 17h00 sur la Place fédérale à Berne, contre la hausse des taxes d’études et les coupes dans la recherche. Départ collectif depuis la gare de Lausanne avec le train de 15h17

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spz19.bsky.social @spz19.bsky.social · May 10

"There is no justification for such drastic spending cuts: Switzerland's finances are healthy, and now is the time to invest in the future."

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 27d

Help! I’m a scientist who’s never given a talk without a powerpoint. How do i prepare for a 15-minute-ted-like vision talk on the stage of a movie theater with no visuals??? #ethnokino #ted #advice #meiringen www.ethnokino.com/filmfestival

FILM FESTIVAL | EthnoKino

30.09.2022 - 02.09.2022: BELONGING - our second EthnoKino Film Festival in Bern, Switzerland.

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Sep 5

Required reading: @natalie-diaz.bsky.social ‘s post colonial love poem. (Or listening)

Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Aug 31

www.warmbaechli.ch/publikationen/ if you read and/or understand spoken German (or know how to use a translator)- you can learn all about my home, Warmbächli, in Bern. We hope you’ll copy us!

Genossenschaft Warmbächli

Website der Wohnbaugenossenschaft Warmbächli in Bern: Informationen zum Projekt, der Organisation, Veranstaltungen, Dokumente, Kontakte.

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Aug 31

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r... this is a good first intro to housing coops in Switzerland, but I don’t think it emphasizes enough that there are many kinds of coop, each with their own values and structures, and nothing is given- this is created by individuals not the governments. You can too.

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Aug 31

I think anyone, anywhere could create them. It took us about a decade from idea to move in, and we had political resistance - we did lots of organizing and fundraising. But now we live in a converted chocolate warehouse close to the city center

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Aug 31

I live in a housing coop in Switzerland and I think this article misses some important parts of the story. 1) there are as many different types of coops as there are coops, each driven by different values . 2) resident owned coops are rare and created by a lot of time and hard (unpaid) work.

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · Aug 9

Indigenous scientists working and living in the colonial lands of Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, Australia, the US, with expertise in microbiology, astrophysics, behavioral ecology, hydrogeology, water sciences, traditional knowledge, indigenous research methods and geography say :
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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · Aug 9

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Medical anthropology . (Major: biology; current field; hydrology)

Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Offener Brief gegen Zensur an der Universität Bern

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

@unibe.ch Pourquoi avez vous l’annulé? www.amnesty.ch/fr/pays/euro...

Amnesty appelle à défendre le débat public

Amnesty International déplore le retrait par l’Université de Berne de l’autorisation d’accueillir une conférence publique avec Agnès Callamard, Secrétaire générale d’Amnesty International, et Francesc...

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

Walk or Take public transportation!!! Tip: travel without carbon emissions? Flying and driving are unethical in this century.

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

Food coloring is illegal now, isn’t it?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 5

What makes a country great in the 21st century is science, and it’s really insane to purposefully destroy its science enterprise.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 4

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

Quickest method to stop climate change- ignorance www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory | CNN

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

Is it time to shift the conversation? Refocus our research? What do we study to survive and not just understand and mitigate? www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

@the-glacionaut.bsky.social our children won’t know what a glacier is.

Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · Jul 5

Check your size. Check your Ego. Let’s change the default Maps