Peter Howd
@peterhowd.bsky.social
Studied coastal response to physical forces for 30+ years at a couple universities and govt agencies. Now giving back through K12 marine science outreach (NH SeaGrant) & Affiliate Res Prof at UNH SMSOE. Views are mine.
Seems there is a #ThreeSpirits thing happening. This seems to be the traditional version around my house between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Seems there is a #ThreeSpirits thing happening. This seems to be the traditional version around my house between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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Student Opportunity: Apply for the @aibsbiology.bsky.social & SURA Public Policy Fellowship. Work closely with #AIBS & #SURA policy staff to gain first-hand experience with science policy & advocacy efforts that inform federal decision-making. Apply by 28 Jan. Learn more at io.aibs.org/policy-f...
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Student Opportunity: Apply for the @aibsbiology.bsky.social & SURA Public Policy Fellowship. Work closely with #AIBS & #SURA policy staff to gain first-hand experience with science policy & advocacy efforts that inform federal decision-making. Apply by 28 Jan. Learn more at io.aibs.org/policy-f...
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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Hop aboard the R/V Gulf Challenger and step into Appledore Island’s wild world of rocky shores, seabird calls, and rich history.
Join us for an Appledore Island Walking Tour and experience island life alongside researchers and students: seagrant.unh.edu/events/publi...
#MarineLife #IslesOfShoals
Join us for an Appledore Island Walking Tour and experience island life alongside researchers and students: seagrant.unh.edu/events/publi...
#MarineLife #IslesOfShoals
July 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hop aboard the R/V Gulf Challenger and step into Appledore Island’s wild world of rocky shores, seabird calls, and rich history.
Join us for an Appledore Island Walking Tour and experience island life alongside researchers and students: seagrant.unh.edu/events/publi...
#MarineLife #IslesOfShoals
Join us for an Appledore Island Walking Tour and experience island life alongside researchers and students: seagrant.unh.edu/events/publi...
#MarineLife #IslesOfShoals
Canada is is a great position to take full advantage of our US brain drain. When McGill, Dalhousie, UBC, McMaster, Simon Frazier and the others jump in …
University of Toronto agrees to host Harvard students facing Trump visa restrictions — Guardian US
Pact will help international students finish their studies amid Harvard’s legal battle with Trump administration
apple.news
June 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Canada is is a great position to take full advantage of our US brain drain. When McGill, Dalhousie, UBC, McMaster, Simon Frazier and the others jump in …
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In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
June 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
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Trump announces he will restore the names of military bases named after Confederate figures even as his Pentagon strips the names of civil rights icons from navy ships. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: Trump Says Protesters at Military Parade Will Face 'Heavy Force'
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Trump announces he will restore the names of military bases named after Confederate figures even as his Pentagon strips the names of civil rights icons from navy ships. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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This is what’s needed. Intelligent people witnessing the dangerous consequences of foolish gutting of important agencies and both warning the public and urging them to call their representatives. Next we likely need meteorologists leading street protests.
A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for.
Kudos, Sir.🌦️
Kudos, Sir.🌦️
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is what’s needed. Intelligent people witnessing the dangerous consequences of foolish gutting of important agencies and both warning the public and urging them to call their representatives. Next we likely need meteorologists leading street protests.
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something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity
we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that
what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that
what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity
we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that
what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that
what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
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The Ukrainian president has more respect for America's war dead than the U.S. president.
May 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Ukrainian president has more respect for America's war dead than the U.S. president.
Everyone in the US likely has a relative or loved one who has served, and who could, or did, give their life for us. The entire country, every last person, should be disgusted and pissed off far beyond the extreme today by the statement issued by the jackass in charge. Honor the fallen every day.
May 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Everyone in the US likely has a relative or loved one who has served, and who could, or did, give their life for us. The entire country, every last person, should be disgusted and pissed off far beyond the extreme today by the statement issued by the jackass in charge. Honor the fallen every day.
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Trump has canceled funding to Boston’s Museum of African American History. The Trump Administration sent them a letter saying it “no longer serves the interests of the United States.”
May 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Trump has canceled funding to Boston’s Museum of African American History. The Trump Administration sent them a letter saying it “no longer serves the interests of the United States.”
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Sea level impact of #AMOC: bsky.app/profile/rahm...
It further shows a similar sea-level rise pattern after #AMOC shutdown as we found in Levermann et al. 2005, with the dynamic rise extending down into the South Atlantic. (That would be added to any global rise caused by climate warming.) 🧵
➡️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
➡️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sea level impact of #AMOC: bsky.app/profile/rahm...
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Appeal from colleagues at Harvard:
"...we also call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students., including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes."
"...we also call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students., including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes."
May 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Appeal from colleagues at Harvard:
"...we also call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students., including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes."
"...we also call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students., including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes."
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What I'm hearing is that his attendance at this dinner where people hand him bribes is not an official presidential action, as designated for absolute criminal immunity in Trump v. United States
REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
May 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What I'm hearing is that his attendance at this dinner where people hand him bribes is not an official presidential action, as designated for absolute criminal immunity in Trump v. United States
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Like I was saying in my previous post, this isn't about Harvard. It is about higher ed and neutering the critical wing of American society.
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Like I was saying in my previous post, this isn't about Harvard. It is about higher ed and neutering the critical wing of American society.
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The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
May 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
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All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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Trump just banned Harvard from enrolling international students.
25% of the campus—cut off.
Graduation next week—canceled for many.
Why? Politics. Retaliation. Power plays.
This isn’t policy—it’s punishment.
And it’s tearing into the heart of higher education.
25% of the campus—cut off.
Graduation next week—canceled for many.
Why? Politics. Retaliation. Power plays.
This isn’t policy—it’s punishment.
And it’s tearing into the heart of higher education.
May 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump just banned Harvard from enrolling international students.
25% of the campus—cut off.
Graduation next week—canceled for many.
Why? Politics. Retaliation. Power plays.
This isn’t policy—it’s punishment.
And it’s tearing into the heart of higher education.
25% of the campus—cut off.
Graduation next week—canceled for many.
Why? Politics. Retaliation. Power plays.
This isn’t policy—it’s punishment.
And it’s tearing into the heart of higher education.
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It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed.
International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally.
But they can't come without reliable visas.
International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally.
But they can't come without reliable visas.
May 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed.
International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally.
But they can't come without reliable visas.
International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally.
But they can't come without reliable visas.
This screams for an editor to be fired.
Now we have newspapers hallucinating?
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This screams for an editor to be fired.