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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 13h

A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 17h

Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!!

Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

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Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus. You’ve got colleagues working on the same thing, though, and you don’t want to duplicate their ef...

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 7d

An op-ed I did with Chris Sellers:

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 8d

Today is Congress’ deadline to fund the government. While EPA proposed to slash its budget by more than 50%, it has actually *already* cut far more staff than proposed - 25% by EDGI’s count, likely more. EDGI’s @scoutblum.bsky.social and Chris Sellers explain: theconversation.com/trump-admini...

Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water

Careful research into public information and in-depth interviews has shown the scale of personnel cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · Sep 7

Proud to have been a small part of this report - many congrats to Chris Sellers for his thorough, hard work!

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Sep 3

In a new report, EDGI documents the assault on the EPA currently taking place under the second Trump administration. Findings show an EPA that is swiftly being hollowed out and made to work for polluters rather than the health of the public.
envirodatagov.org/publication/...

Burning Down the EPA: Documenting the Second Trump Administration’s Historic Assault – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Under Administrator Zeldin, the EPA has begun incinerating many of the environmental and health protections this agency has provided for decades. Since […]

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Aug 1

❗Former & current fed employees @enviro agencies: EDGI is looking for confidential interview participants.

➡️ Interviews are ~1 hour
➡️ Participation is confidential (encryption & password-protection used)

Interested? Reach out to Scout Blum:
Signal @scoutblum.26
Email scoutblum @ gmail dot com

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BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com · Apr 3

Feedback: I asked game publishers how they plan to respond to newly announced U.S. tariffs, and here's a sampling of their responses: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

That post features only 15 of more than a hundred responses, so I'll post another round-up tomorrow. —WEM

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · Mar 26

I have a few masters level students who are looking for responses to surveys about games, so if you’re in the mood to fill out fun forms I’ll make a thread of them here!

First one is about horror games: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Microsoft Forms

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Mar 20

1/ Earlier this month, the Trump EPA announced it would cancel 100s of grants already authorized by congress. EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of cancellations on #EnvironmentalJustice communities. Learn more here: envirodatagov.org/new-environm...

New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 CONTACT: EDGI’s experts are available to answer media questions. For media inquiries, please email Shannan Lenke […]

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congrats, Dolly!! Well deserved!

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Mar 20

Truth 😬

Eddy Conroy He/Him @econroy.bsky.social · Mar 19

Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · Mar 17

Rising Waters has been reviewed in the American Historical Review! This is one of the flagship historical journals - so cool to see board games getting a place alongside other scholarship. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Scout Blum, designer. Rising Waters: A Game Based on the 1927 Mississippi Flood.

In the evolving landscape of historical pedagogy, Rising Waters, designed by Scout Blum, emerges as a notable attempt to bridge the gap between interactive

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Mar 13

Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat

If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.

www.bellingcat.com

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 9

We have two openings left in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia.

If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!

The Greenhouse – Center for Environmental Humanities

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia...

#envhist #climhist #climatechange

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · Mar 3

Congrats!!!

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · Feb 23

Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Feb 23

Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”.

📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see

Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Feb 18

Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women

www.huffpost.com

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Feb 17

We are looking forward to your applications!

The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · Feb 17

The @carsoncenter.bsky.social invites applications for the international & interdisciplinary MA Environment and Society. Deadline Mar 10, 2025. 2 yrs, instruction in English. In-person in Munich, Germany. No tuition, just small fee. www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_ma/ind...

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Fort Circle @fortcircle.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown @downtowntbrown.bsky.social (designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time). the1a.org

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Jan 22

People with less knowledge about #AI are actually more open to using it, challenging the assumption that tech-savvy individuals are the most eager adopters. Business professors explain the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link – when people think it’s ‘magic’:

Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research

People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Dec 23

Teacher harassment is making headlines. It’s past time for school districts to address it.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2024/12/23/malvern-teacher-tiktok-harassment-case-teacher-bullying-is-old-news/

It’s past time to address teacher harassment

The problem has long plagued educators online and off.

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · Dec 17

Yay, Liz! Well deserved!!

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Dec 15

“The first Trump admin altered or deleted numerous federal web pages containing public-facing climate information, according to monitoring efforts by the nonprofit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks changes on federal websites.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again

Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. Scientists say the threats are bigger this time

www.scientificamerican.com

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · Dec 10

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Nov 29

Coming up Monday 2 December 2024, 16:00 Central European time:
Elena Kochetkova on Greenhouse #envhum book talk series to discuss The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024)
Join us!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhist

Online book talk: Kochetkova, Green Power of Socialism – The Greenhouse

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