Bruno Seraphin

Tonight's beautiful murder of thousands of crows. ❤️

Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis Anonymous group of senior executives say major ad agencies are “enabling harm rather than doing good.”

Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis

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Story by @tjjordan.bsky.social @desmog.com
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‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina

‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

The Center for Engaged Scholarship seeks to fill the role of President of the organization.

This would be a three-year term with the possibility of renewal. The President’s role is to provide vision and leadership, work with the board to address new challenges and changing times...

Job Announcement:

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It Starts With a Whisper A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.

A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):

1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...

The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community has refused to declassify one of its first investigations into climate change as a national security threat.

For 17 years, the US intel community has kept classified an assessment on the security implications of climate change. Why has the IC kept it a secret? My latest on why the @nsarchive.bsky.social is calling on the ODNI to prioritize the report's declassification: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Colossal Wreck review – sharp-eyed dispatch from the Kubrickian weirdness of Dubai during Cop28 Josh Appignanesi’s documentary follows the film-maker to the Kubrickian city built on oil money as it hosts the 2023 climate change summit

Colossal Wreck review – sharp-eyed dispatch from the Kubrickian weirdness of Dubai during Cop28

Bhandar's Colonial Lives of Property and Moreton-Robinson's The White Possessive come to mind immediately as political theoretical approaches; both I think read Locke for this

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
By @rhersher.bsky.social

In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need.

Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...

Yurok Tribe Celebrates the Largest Landback Deal in California’s History The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush.

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. When the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90% of its territory despite having lived along the Klamath for millennia.

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it

- Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point

#The89Percent
Story by me
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What Is LA Rebellion Film Movement? The Essential Guide LA Rebellion was a movement of young filmmakers and artists who created new and innovative work that defied Hollywood conventions.

Ryan Coogler is what happens when someone steeped in LA Rebellion film aesthetics is given access to all of resources of the Hollywood blockbuster machine. Sinners crystallized this for me.

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Unthinkable just 10 years ago:

Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear.

Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Four climate solutions with surprising benefits for biodiversity and human well-being There are a few things that are non-negotiable for all life on Earth, among them, water, food, and shelter. Unfortunately, human activities are driving widespread habitat loss and degradation, destroy...

Wow, these four simple climate solutions also have tremendous benefits to biodiversity and human well-being.

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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

A useful tool is back: Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it #extremweather #droughts #floods #hurricanes #FEMA #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

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(this looks like a cool job) Wildfire Studies - Assistant or Associate Professor: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Reframing the Argument Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice June 9-15, 2005

👀 Applications open for a graduate student summer workshop, June 9-15, on videographic criticism at Notre Dame University! Organized by @arielavissar.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, Matthew Payne, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social . Deadline Mar 28 Please share!
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Marya E Gates talks Cinema Her Way Writers on Film · Episode

The latest episode of Writers on Film is a discussion with Marya E Gates on her book CINEMA HER WAY.
It’s great. @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2d38...

Our new piece in American Quarterly: "How Ecofascism Creeps" (unfortunately relevant) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... DM if you need access!

Healing Trauma Through Burning with Vikki Preston and Monique Wynecoop Podcast Episode · Good Fire · 03/06/2025 · 1 sec

Powerful conversation with the always-brilliant @amycardinal.bsky.social, Vikki Preston, and Monique Wynecoop; cutting through the fluff to go deep on the issues that matter in Indigenous fire management+sovereignty

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An estimated 3,400 U.S. Forest Service employees were fired this week.

@jjreport.bsky.social reports what it means for California

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

The new issue of American Ethnologist (@amethno.bsky.social, 52.1, Feb 2025) features a forum titled "I was Wrong" featuring contributions from Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Carole McGranahan, Gil Hizi, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, and Laura A. Meek. 1/3
#AnthroSky #Anthropology

Lakota Law's 2025 Decolonized Reading List This "Top 25 for 2025" list of nonfiction books focuses on a variety of topics, including BIPOC-centered histories of Native America, resistance movements, and the decolonizing work of reconnecting us...

What an amazing reading list to be part of! I've read, recommended, and cited a few of these books. Will have to check out the others.

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Anthropology Through Film Spring 2025 These are the 13 films I am teaching this semester in ANTH 1001W: Anthropology Through Film (Spring 2025)

These are the 13 films I am teaching this semester in ANTH 1001W: Anthropology Through Film boxd.it/DENfm

Since it’s becoming obvious that Trump’s mass deportation plan will wind up being an updated version of the Japanese internment of WWII, we need to be asking exactly what goals they hope to achieve with this, since that is central to the postwar understanding of the earlier episode. 3rd thread, 1/21

The Right’s Wildfire Lies Spread Faster Than the Flames As Los Angeles burns, Trump and his allies are exploiting tragedy to push their favorite grievances about “diversity” and water management.

While the right obsesses over imaginary water declarations and DEI initiatives, actual solutions get pushed aside. That’s not an accident: It’s the point.