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Assistant law professor at UChicago. Environmental regulation, corporate voluntary efforts, social psych

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Home alone still a hit

28.01.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

22.01.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 15568 πŸ” 8591 πŸ’¬ 711 πŸ“Œ 1966

I don't know what else to say anymore. This is where we are at as a country. And people need to say it out loud: ICE is kidnapping children.

21.01.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
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Deputy Policy Director Chicago, Illinois, United States

Big, big news! This is probably the coolest of the many jobs I have shared here!

🚨COME BE MY DEPUTY🚨

🚨JOIN THE BEST TEAM WORKING IN CLIMATE POLICY AND POLITICS!🚨

This. Will. Go. Fast.

16.01.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6

I’m pro both of these moves

30.10.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😒😒🌊🌊

21.02.2025 00:16 πŸ‘ 7272 πŸ” 1349 πŸ’¬ 172 πŸ“Œ 58

β€œIn one example from [OR], beavers built dams on the property of a large, multimillion-dollar stormwater treatment facility. When scientists looked more closely, they learned that the animals were able to filter out heavy metals and other pollutants about twice as well as the human-built structure.”

09.02.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBeaver dams can be massive structures. The largest beaver dam on record is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, stretching the length of seven football fields. The dam is so big, it can be seen from space.”

09.02.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Beavers are awesome

09.02.2025 03:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A tipline to protect the planet Polluting industries have captured the federal government. We’re opening a secure tipline for employees to report the impacts.

A PSA to federal employees working on climate and environmental science/policy

If you're witnessing political and/or industry interference in your work now that Big Oil has effectively captured the government, you don't have to let it slide.

Contact me securely:

heated.world/p/a-tipline-...

06.02.2025 22:02 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Press Conference - Defend EPA Programs and Staff Β· Climate Action Campaign On Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 2:30PM ET, Senator Markey, climate and environmental advocates, union workers, and members of Congress will hold a press conference outside the Environmental Protectio...

This is it, we've had enough. Join me outside of the US EPA headquarters. I'll be speaking alongside @markey.senate.gov and @actonclimateus.bsky.social leaders to defend EPA programs and people. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

06.02.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 372 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

I can’t agree with this more. Throwing your hands up and assuming illegality implicitly accepts the illegality β€” it makes it OK.

06.02.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

05.02.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 3529 πŸ” 1601 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 31

If you’ve ever complained about free speech on college campuses but aren’t upset about this, you’re not serious.

Can’t even do mainstream economics while avoiding this list.

04.02.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

There is a pervasive sentiment that marches that don’t disrupt your target are β€œperformative”

That is 100% wrong

The most important thing about a protest is that it gives people hope 🧡 1/x

03.02.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire. He should not have access to or control over trillions in Treasury payments. From Social Security, to Medicare, and even tax refunds, this is the American people’s money.

03.02.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 623 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 12

putting this call out again:

are you a climate or enviro scientist whose work has been paused due to the change in admin?

is your job impacted by the IRA/BIL freeze?

do you work in decarb and have concerns about your job stability?

hit my line: jael@heatmap.news

i’m on signal too, dm for info.

03.02.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 207 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

03.02.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 7765 πŸ” 2034 πŸ’¬ 350 πŸ“Œ 240

You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

03.02.2025 12:46 πŸ‘ 8660 πŸ” 3153 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 86

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.

We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.

Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

02.02.2025 22:14 πŸ‘ 23342 πŸ” 7385 πŸ’¬ 1129 πŸ“Œ 982

this is completely insane. like, literally insane. that water is supposed to be stored for the summer.

01.02.2025 00:07 πŸ‘ 1552 πŸ” 453 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 26
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Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action - Nature Climate Change Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate ac...

89% of the world’s population want their govts to β€œdo more” to fix climate change. However, those 89% don’t know that they are the overwhelming majority β€” that most other people on Earth also want govts to take stronger climate action #ClimateAction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

31.01.2025 01:10 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Confirmation that distribution of already contracted funds have been frozen: "EPA cuts off IRA solar money already under contract. Recipients of the $7 billion Solar For All program were locked out of an online portal that’s used to distribute federal funding."

30.01.2025 14:38 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 25

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.

They are talking about civil rights

23.01.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 4061 πŸ” 1235 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 51

Yes. My husband is an NIH-funded scientist studying infectious diseases such as whooping cough, covid, & influenza. The current grant funding his salary runs out of money this summer; a delay in grant reviews means he won’t get a new grant funded before then. He’ll lose his job.

22.01.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 869 πŸ” 211 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 13
A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.

A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.

Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.

Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

17.01.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 4706 πŸ” 2063 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 144

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. πŸ“š

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. πŸ™

16.01.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 22035 πŸ” 15096 πŸ’¬ 261 πŸ“Œ 473