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Emily Knight

@emilyknight.bsky.social

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Poet, Warren Wilson MFA | Marine scientist, Lenfest Ocean Program | Healthy environment healthy people | She/Her | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · Aug 27

🦑 I'm excited to share my poem Chrysaora quinquecirrha will appear The Nature of Our Times anthology - available for preorder now! natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

The Nature of Our Times

Call for Submissions. Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.

natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 2h

We learned nothing from Katrina. When the inevitable happens and way too many people die and are left abandoned... we must connect it back to these decisions and somehow (I don't know how) relearn why we're not 50 individual nations in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

How FEMA Is Forcing Disaster-Struck Towns to Fend for Themselves

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 4h

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 8h

🦑 I'm so excited to host this event - join us! It's not often my professional life and creative writing life come together!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 8h

Join us on Thursday, November 6 at 8pm ET for a poetry reading featuring contributors to The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 4d

This is something that gets so lost - the National Guard has a REAL purpose and job… which they’re not doing when deployed to cities to “solve” fake problems.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19d

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

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Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 Our September newsletter is out and announcing our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio, a poetry virtual event, and more: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 21d

Please do reach out and find Dom and Sarah at #WIOMSA2025! Learn more about the work of @blue-convergence.bsky.social!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 Will you be at hashtag #WIOMSA2025? Remember to find our Program Director Sarah Close and Program Officer Dominique Kone. This conference is a wonderful opportunity to understand how science is informing management and policy across the Western Indian Ocean.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 Our approach: Listen. Support. Engage. We will mobilize community voices in regions of the U.S., issue open funding opportunities to generate solutions, and conduct strategic outreach to build momentum behind their use. We will develop use cases to share across regions.

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 Our latest newsletter is out, featuring our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio under the leadership of Program Director Jason Landrum and Director of Outreach & Engagement @emilyknight.bsky.social. Join us: us14.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 22d

I'm so excited to do this - join us if you can, we all need a little poetry right now.

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 22d

🦑 We're doing something a little different at BCF - we're holding a virtual poetry reading hosted by our own @emilyknight.bsky.social. Come celebrate our oceans and other natural wonders on Thursday, November 6, 8pm ET/5pm PT/2pm HT!

Register via zoom: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 23d

A child in Los Angeles has died from SSPE, a rare but fatal brain disorder that can appear years after measles infection.

The case underscores the deadly risks of falling vaccination rates.

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#vaccineswork

Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained

Why falling vaccination rates put vulnerable children at risk.

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 23d

With all the insanity we miss the real stories… this is horrendous. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 24d

🦑 These events will be so informative. We've learned a ton from these projects about how you can adapt MPAs to climate change. Join for both if you can!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 24d

🦑 Join us for a virtual learning series featuring a suite of researchers working at the intersection of local coastal communities and provincial and national managers to integrate climate adaptation measures into MPA management.

Nov 7: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 25d

🦑 This is one of my personal favorites because my grandparents inhabit its spirit. And in a time where immigrants are being vilified and traumatized by the U.S. government. Many of us descend from immigrants - they brought us to this moment.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 25d

🦑 Working through new poems today and going back to others for inspiration. I had my poem String Lights in the online gallery for The Nature of Our Times.
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/string-lights/

String Lights - The Nature of Our Times

I remember Bethany Beach, Delaware, me, a child, digging up sand crabs the afternoon long, as the cranky surf churned up the overflowing bottom, so full of food for conks, crabs, gulls, more… incredul...

natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 25d

Dude just fell out of his bed.

Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 26d

My mom used to make every Christmas!

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 28d

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 28d

There are people fighting. It's just not the national level establishment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 28d

🦑 So excited to be part of this anthology, it's out now: natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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Emily Knight @emilyknight.bsky.social · 28d

🦑 Climate change touches everything - energy, environment, economy, national security - it will be great for so many sectors to come together. We often live in our siloes... if you're coming to #ClimateWeekNYC, connect with my boss, @charlotteghudson.bsky.social!

Blue Convergence Fund @blue-convergence.bsky.social · 28d

🦑 We are coming to #ClimateWeekNYC! If you will be there, connect with our Executive Director, Charlotte Hudson. We just wrapped up a call for proposals for Climate Resilient Fisheries and had a massive response. And that's not we have planned... #ClimateAction #Sustainability