Worried about the state of democracy? Wondering about the myriad threats facing water governance? In this systematic review, we describe three practices of democracy—as an institution, a collaboration, and a revolution—to illustrate the evolution (and future) of water around the world. #GreenSky
My take on the whole AI in Social Science discourse is, even if you perfected the AI to remove hallucinations, math errors, and nonsense language, you still would be locked in to a specific kind of science--one dominated by white/male/heteronormative methods, theories, & assumptions
Grid of 9 book covers: Best Offer Wins, The Divorce Colony, The Copywriter, Bonfire of the Murdoch, Ladder of Years, The Wild Dark, Perfect Madness, Buckeye, Wuthering Heights
Reading won’t fix the world, but it can help us understand it and bring a little bit of joy. 9 books in February, enjoyed them all. Favorites were probably The Wild Dark, Buckeye, and Wuthering Heights 📚💙
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
California scientists: The Legislature is considering a bipartisan bill to create a CA version of the NSF: the California Foundation for Science and Health Research. It would be funded with a $23B bond measure on the Nov 2026 ballot. Sign on to support the bill here: www.fundCAscience.org
Grid of 9 book covers: Rough House, A Marriage at Sea, A Physical Education, Empire Antarctica, Destroy this House, The Abandoners, The Uncool, Intermezzo, and Bringers of Order
Started off 2026 with 9 books, almost all nonfiction, and I really loved most of them 📚💙
The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC.
Links to fundraisers in thread.
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
We’ve got a new publication out in Environmental Communication. We analyzed media coverage during the LA fires to find the dominant frames used to talk about California’s long-term water challenges. The case was a collision of both emergent threat and chronic crisis
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
The Stranger Things finale was…kinda dumb, right?
Happy new year to all, but especially to the un- (and under-) employed. We’ve got the creativity and resilience we need to make this world better in 2026, whether or not capitalism acknowledges it!
Yeah! Did you also read her other book Migrations? And I’m not usually big on celebrity memoirs, but Cher’s got an interesting story and her voice really shines through
Some of the ones here…Rivers in the Sky, The Volcano Daughters, The Covenant of Water, the Nightingale. I also really liked the Ibis Trilogy, those covered a time period I didn’t really know about. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women and the Frozen River were both pretty good too, if interested in midwifery
A FEW MORE, JUST BECAUSE
- When the Cranes Fly South
- I Who Have Never Known Men
- The Trees
- The Emperor of Gladness
- Dream Count
FICTION (beautiful but heavy)
- There are Rivers in the Sky
- The Volcano Daughters
- Wild Dark Shore
- The Dream Hotel
- The Covenant of Water
FICTION (of the more lighthearted variety):
- Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
- The Family Fang
- We’ll Prescribe you a Cat
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built
NONFICTION-MISC.
- Starlings: The curious odyssey of a most hated bird
- The Serviceberry
- Splinters
- Cher, Part One
- Brave the Wild River
- Van Gogh and the End of Nature
NONFICTION- CURRENT EVENTS
- Careless People
- Everything is Tuberculosis
- Extremely Online
- Autocracy Inc.
- Girl on Girl: How pop culture tuned a generation of women against themselves
Grid of 100+ tiny book covers
I read 105 #books this year! And lots of really, really great ones. Here’s a 🧵of some of my favorites (roughly categorized)💙📚
In 2026, I want to read.... a lot.
Please suggest a book I should read to better understand the world around me or to simply enjoy this place a little bit more. #booksky #readsky
Stack of books: Poisoning the well, The Journey of trees, the thousand autumns of Jacob de sit, girl warrior, tremor, the abandoners, and east of Eden
Just a little tbr pile to get me started in the new year 💙📚
I’m in a pretty rural place so I’ve usually got to go at least 20. I could do up to 40 if absolutely necessary
A multi coloured painting in the Divisionist style, with an orange and white fox in the middle left, 3 mushrooms bottom right, and 3 trees behind. Behind that is a lake, mountains, and a blue, pink and purple evening sky.
A curious fox that came to my camp at sunset in Algonquin, painted acrylic on 16”x20” canvas in the style of Giovanni Segantini, one of my favourite artists. Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#OpenHouse #natureart
#BlueSkyArtShow
#canadianart
Five stones, all painted with ravens on them.
Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.
Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.
San Francisco
The Seven Whistlers, here portrayed as a flock of seven curlews flying together on the night of a full moon. They fly from right to left, above a silver loch and a little cottage on the shore.
Day seventeen of #ArtAdventCalendar
Tonight I’m sharing this painted stone of the Seven Whistlers. Years ago, when people heard the Whistlers flying at night, they thought of it as a bad omen. Sailers would refuse to sail the next day, and miners would avoid the mines.
Two adult herons and two fluffy chicks all nestled together in a nest of sticks. Watercolor, pen, committed pencil on white paper.
A family portrait I did awhile back. Watercolor, micron, colored pencil.
#BirdoftheDay #birds #heronsandegrets #ArtAdventCalendar #birdart #sciart
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Late Autumn Wish" 6"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.
Day 14: #ArtAdventCalendar
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
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#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
