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Julia Wester, PhD@drjuliawester.bsky.social |
282 followers 334 following 74 posts
Interdisciplinary environmental social scientist and teacher at Field School and UMiami | current research: social & environmental change orgs rhetoric culture and practice | Unironically loves Florida
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Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
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Neoliberalism’s biggest downfall is also its main goal: to disconnect GDP growth from Quality of Life. Whatever the pros and (many) cons of using GDP to measure the health of an economy, the disconnect from QoL leaves the majority of the population hopeless for the future.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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WOW! 3 big nurse sharks A bull shark A Caribbean reef shark A lemon shark And a 12 foot tiger shark! Amazing day on the water!
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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I started serving on my town's climate change commission 4 years ago. We're now starting to see the first small projects come to fruition, the big project may be half a decade away. You can't do that on a 2 year post doc.
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Richard Waite
@waiterich.bsky.social
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Sometimes I feel about democracy the way folks in my replies talk about climate...if they aren't working on it directly, they feel powerless/hopeless. The only reason I feel decent about climate is because I work on it w other people who care. Guessing that might work for other important stuff too.
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Julia Wester, PhD
@drjuliawester.bsky.social
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If we really liked sharks for some reason (I'd hazard a guess of some "blah blah top predator" macho nonsense) it would make me so uncomfortable. This just keeps him neatly in the "human opposite day" category.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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we are all calvin's dad
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Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
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Imagine every single thing tech bros say about AI is coming from a 9 year-old schoolboy “it’ll make the movie different every time you watch it”, ““you can just tell it what you want and it’ll write the book for you” etc, and you see the emotional and social level that they’re working on
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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They're betting they can afford to buy fixes for themselves for cheaper than it would cost to fix it for everyone
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Brett Favaro
@brettfavaro.bsky.social
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www.ft.com/content/130f...
I have no doubt that the economics will dramatically favour renewables and thus climate disaster is completely avoidable.
But economics *do not matter* if your ideology is to lock us into oil dependence. They will spend infinite amounts of our money to do so.
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Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
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I have a theory that because learning empathy is coded as feminine that a lot of men deliberately don’t learn it or work hard to overcome it and develop a low level alexithymia, which they then mistake for both stoicism and rationality, rather than emotional illiteracy.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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We’ve had a single spot open up on my Miami July 6 shark research trip. Your donation of $500 helps support bringing public school students out on a future trip, and you’ll get to help with all aspects of the research. First come first served.
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bijan
@bijan.bsky.social
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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost
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ElectronicFerret
@electronicferret.bsky.social
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If they think flags are irrelevant then this month will hopefully be MUCH easier on the rest of us, right???
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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Because it generates maximum pain for minimum gain. Consumers seriously affect their lives and make compromises, in order to achieve essentially nothing. Politically, this a) Staves off more effective government action, and b) Convinces people that action is going to be a personal hardship.
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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The whole idea that climate change can be meaningfully address to consumers altering their personal decisions is so horribly counterproductive it's not surprising to discover it was invented, in large part, by energy companies and other pro-climate apocalypse forces.
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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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Also interesting to see free speech framed as the right to speak without fear of being shamed or shunned. You should fear shame for being a bigot.
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ceej
@ceej.online
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Roxanne is a song about Sting not understanding what it takes to develop film
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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Climate scientists are experts at modelling the past, present and future of Earth systems. If you want an accurate and complex picture of the space of potential political, social and community level action, you need to turn to broader and more representative groups.
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Barbara J. King
@bjking.bsky.social
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"Researchers from the Univ. of Buenos Aires have figured out a way to tap into bird dreams. When a bird slumbers, its syrinx can move in ways that are similar to when they sing while they’re awake. Essentially, birds are silently singing in their dreams." 🌿🧪🪶🦉
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Daniel Radosh
@radosh.bsky.social
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Like Vampire Weekend? Thank Vampire Unions!
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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the idea ai would become sentient and kill us all was always a ridiculous shiny object to distract from the vastly more obvious outcome that humans would simply exploit ai as a dumb tool for killing with no accountability
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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We’re not going to develop intellectual breakthroughs in this country if every form of complex thinking beyond high school requires a 30-50 year mortgage on your brain
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not an art thief
@famousartthief.bsky.social
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ai is beanie babies for people that don’t pay enough taxes. tax these people please and thank you.
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Julia Wester, PhD
@drjuliawester.bsky.social
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A fun side effect of having a parent with early onset Alzheimer’s is every single time I forget someone’s name or have a brain fart I have to think “well, I guess it’s started”
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Casey Williams, PhD
@scificlimateguy.bsky.social
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If you're an academic please consider taking my wife's survey on community engaged scholarship, it only takes a few minutes: educttu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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This incredibly important space telescope is ALREADY IN SPACE, functioning beautifully, and on track to continue delivering astonishing cosmic discoveries for another 5-10 yrs. Abandoning it in space, turning off the receivers, and discontinuing its research would be horribly wasteful. #SaveChandra
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Le Cagle
@lecagle.bsky.social
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re: consulting firms gutting university after university at the behest of administrators
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Tyler King
@tylerking.bsky.social
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Eat shit, Ron. “A lawsuit settlement over Florida’s Don’t Say Gay statute announced Monday affirms that teachers and students can discuss LGBTQ+ issues and have access to related library books, largely canceling many of the impacts of the signature legislation from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
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Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
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Yeah it's absolutely not about phones taking over. It's about the fact that we've made a society where it is illegal for young people to exist in public. Go meet your friends *where*? Do *what*?
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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Ahh, once again THE CHRONOPHAGE has emerged and eaten an hour from many of us. And we have to wait till November till he yarfs up the stolen time like an elk horking up a long-gestating bezoar. Goddamn you, CHRONOPHAGE.
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Julia Wester, PhD
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There’s always advice about women communicating more like men in the workplace - more direct, aggressive even, no time for please/thank you, don’t ask, tell. Honestly, I wish we’d take the good from the “too nice” approach and make that the de facto. Why did we decide being a dick was professional?
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Ketan Joshi
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You mean people like renewables if they delver tangible local benefits instead of railroading and bulldozing communities?
theconversation.com/detroiters-m...
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true
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David Anaxagoras
@davidanaxagoras.com
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We never ask this about bombs.
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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Unidentified merchant marine officer sitting in some guy's lap. collections.sea.museum/en/objects/2...
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Julia Wester, PhD
@drjuliawester.bsky.social
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(Don’t have to tell me twice) everyone should post their cats sitting in the sun ☀️
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Julia Wester, PhD
@drjuliawester.bsky.social
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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The Flute. 1896. www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/prints/co...
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Tom Gauld
@tomgauld.bsky.social
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A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.
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Leonard Pierce
@leonardpierce.bsky.social
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THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab... THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity THE SOLUTION: ...what? THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
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Julia Wester, PhD
@drjuliawester.bsky.social
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I know what some of those words mean!
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