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DSNY anthropologist-in-residence; #anthropologist at NYU focusing on #discards & the #environment; #sciencefiction nerd; #tattoo aficionado; future trapeze student; homebody PICKING UP: https://bit.ly/dsnybook TED talk: https://bit.ly/dsnytalk
This month’s SciFri Book Club pick is here! 📚
We’re reading “Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World” by @elizkolbert.bsky.social for March and April. Start reading with us:
buff.ly/WaRgEwO
This
Is
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@tomflood.bsky.social
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
@grantennis.bsky.social
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
Fucking love this guy.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Join me on January 29th from 6-8pm CET (12-2pm EST) for @climaterealityproject.org's "The Climate Reality Check: Exposing Misinformation, Disinformation and Greenwashing" webinar online via zoom.
Follow this link for registration: climatereality.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
Star Trek, esp TOS, is sacrosanct -- this a-hole talking about it at all is like someone taking a sh*t in a church
“When oil drilling accelerates in the middle of a climate apocalypse and the Orange Blob plans invasions in South America and Greenland like it’s a walk in the park, it is clear that this civilisation is already running on smack fumes”
Trying to be here less, but not so much less that I miss important news that I can only find here because the news is broken. Thank God @hellgatenyc.com got me covered for NYC news…
We Shall Overcome: Religious Resistance to ICE
My latest @patheos.com piece www.patheos.com/blogs/theglo...
#AcademicSky #ICE #Catholic #Religion
For those who missed the memo, the new US food pyramid - a masterclass in nutritional misinformation - was concocted by Big Meat & Dairy.
Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation.
THIS.
Also, the world is moving away from this stuff… it’ll drag around for a few decades, but the speed renewables are being deployed and improved is basically killing the FF industry. Its peak is behind us.
The mass of CO₂ humans put into the atmosphere in 2025 is 4x the mass of all plastic humans have ever produced.
Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to do the greatest thing ever.
Jan 1, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani (wearing a suit from SuitSupply), and the first lady, Rama Sawaf Duwaji (wearing a brown wool coat with faux fur from Palestinian-Lebanese designer Cynthia Merhej)
#zohranmamdani
🎥 L. Vural Elibol
Insta: @vuralelibol
As Eric Adams heads off into that great Turkish Airlines lounge in the sky, we remember his legacy
and forgive us our emails, as we forgive those who email against us
Since all the VSPs seem to have recently discovered the circa-2012 point that "supply-side restrictions on fossil fuels are pointless," here's a piece I wrote in Vox that presents the other side of that argument:
As promised, here’s a year-end #ScholarSunday thread featuring some of the best public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new books, & more from throughout 2025. I really appreciate folks who shared work, their own & that of others, for this meta-thread! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/special-best...
It's always projection from the right. American cities were to a significant extent demolished to make roads and parking for high volume car traffic coming in.
But paying a few bucks to cover a fraction of the costs they impose when they drive into a city becomes "a declaration of war".
NASA’s largest research library will be closed & “some material (will) be stored in a government warehouse while the rest (will) be tossed away.”
Happy new year! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
“[C]ities are literally wasting public money by not investing in smart bike infrastructure.” 💯
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
The pricing means that taking a Citi Bike will become, for a lot of people, the transportation choice of last resort, such as when there's a subway meltdown or it's 20 minutes before the next bus arrives. That's not at all what the city should want. It should be a seamless part of people's choices.
It passed unanimously. Override the veto.
