Dr. Shaina Sadai
@scienceshaina.bsky.social
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Climate scientist and critical physical geographer. Works on climate and sea level projections, corporate accountability, climate litigation, and climate justice. Queer, disabled, vegan🌱🌈 She/her Views expressed here are mine
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🚨New paper🚨
We attribute present day air temperature and sea level rise, as well as future projected sea level rise to the Carbon Majors, the 122 largest industrial fossil fuel and cement producers…more details below! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/n
🧪 #scicomm #ClimateSky #ClimateChange
Global mean temperature rise (left) and global mean sea level rise (right) compared across the control scenario (which has full historical emissions forcing) and the three counterfactuals where emissions from the Carbon Majors are removed. All counterfactual scenarios have lower temperature and sea level at present day. The 1854 and 1950 scenarios are similar and have the lowest present day temperature and sea level. Image via Sadai et al., 2025
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
Wait, WHAT? The IRB gone. The IRB!

What an extraordinarily dangerous, harmful, unethical bunch of MAGA and MAHA lackeys we now have running US public health, healthcare, and health research; they have totally lost their moral compass (assuming they once had one?).
melodyschreiber.com
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
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eos.org
Eos @eos.org · 16h
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...
JPL Workforce Decimated - Eos
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., laid off 550 people, a roughly 11% reduction of its workforce.
eos.org
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bachynski.bsky.social
Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function.

“What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”
Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work
Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.
www.statnews.com
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asherelbein.bsky.social
Dr. Maxine “Max” Abbott (née Langford) is an oft-forgotten paleontologist of early 20th century Texas. Born in the 1920s, this pint-sized paleobotanical powerhouse worked on the Carboniferous swamps of North America and the Cretaceous jungles of Texas.

(All photos from her papers at Sul Ross.)
A dark-haired woman with an upturned nose, a white shirt, a ribbon and a plaid skirt holds up a piece of carboniferous plant material from her work desk, where she's been painting it with clear varnish to preserve it A 1950s news article about Maxine Abbott's NSF grant, which notes that she was previously conducting her paleobotany research as a volunteer while at Cincinnati and working in a local department store office three days a week to pay research costs. A black and white photo of a young Maxine Langford in the 1930s at Texas Tech, smiling at the camera from a bench. She's wearing a knee-length dress, a plaid short sleeved shirt, and glasses. She's clearly very small. A photo of undergraduate Maxine Langford posing climbing in through the window of an abandoned stone building new Mexico, wearing field pants, boots, and a short sleeve shirt. It's a great look, honestly.
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dem8z.bsky.social
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
scienceshaina.bsky.social
Really incredible work! 💙🌊🐠
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jamalzuhir.bsky.social
After the bombs stopped, silence filled the streets the kind of silence that follows loss.
We walk among the ruins of what used to be home, trying to find pieces of ourselves.
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.
crampell.bsky.social
U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
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cethompson.bsky.social
Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...
nkalamb.bsky.social
the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)
Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches
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jamalzuhir.bsky.social
Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.
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lyndab08.bsky.social
The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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theresawong.bsky.social
'Climate action is not policy preference, but a legal obligation' - Cynthia Houniuhi of the Solomon Islands, Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change @adaptationfutures.bsky.social
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wmo-global.bsky.social
Climate-driven hazards grow fiercer, but early action—warnings, education, preparedness—can shield lives and futures. “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters” highlights #EarlyWarningsForAll as cost-effective investments.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3J4saJO
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andersonmineral.bsky.social
It’s Geodiversity Day & Mineral Monday!! So I wanted to show you a rare mineral called carletonite, which is usually bright blue but seen here with a pink zonation. It was discovered here in Canada, at the mineral species rich Mont Saint-Hilaire. #GeodiversityDay #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪
Specimen of carletonite with prisms of blue and pink all around. There is one large square crystal with a small blue square in the middle with pink on the outside on the upper right side of the specimen. It sits on a black background. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.
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elivalley.bsky.social
This person is quoted in Museum of Degenerates in the backgrounder to this drawing:
שקמה ברסלר Shikma Bressler
@ShikmaBressler
Benjamin Netanyahu does not represent me and the vast majority of Israelis.
11:52 AM · Sep 26, 2025
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https://x.com/ShikmaBressler/status/1971603892879364239 Incomplete/error-riddled paste from Preview:
Jenin
July 7, 2023
In early 2023, mass demonstrations erupted in Israel to
protest the efforts of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coali-
tion of authoritarians, religious extremists, and avowed
terrorists to push Israel further into tyranny through
"judicial reform." Despite the protest movement's unity-
ing demands for democracv, its leadership consistentl
sidelined the small but growing anti-apartheid bloc, on
at least one occasion prohibiting it from participating in
the main demonstrations. Brandishing Israeli flags as
a symbol of patriotism against Netanyahu's assault on
Israeli
Givi
society, demonstrators repeatedly scuffled
with their anti-apartheid peers waving Palestinian flags.
The demonstrations continued throughout the yea
even as Israel escalated the dally terrors of its Illegal oc
cupation of the West bank into open wartare. In early
July, Israel launched its most expansive airstrikes on the
West Bank in two decades, sending at least 1,000 troops
into the Jenin refugee camp, killing twelve Palestinians,
wounding dozens. and at least temporarilv disDlacing
thousands in scenes that evoked visual echoes of the
Nakba. The contradictions of a movement that stood
for democracy while participating in apartheid were re-
inforced on July 3, in the midst of the assault on Jenin,
when protest leader Shikma Bressler declared that Israel
must preserve democracy in order to protect "the heroes
who are now waging war in Jenn from exposure to pros
ecution in The Hague.
This drawing, with its mass of refugees moving away
trom the reader toward no clear destination. encansulates
much of the art that precedes it. Mirroring motits of dis-
dlacement. it relterates not onlv the themes of democracv's
struggle against authoritarianism but also the ongoing
crises of ethnic cleansing, demagoguery, and the target-
ing of vulnerable communities throughout the world. The
note is ambiguous: we don't know where this is heading.
hut in the abs…
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zacklabe.com
All latitude bands were warmer than average over the last 3 months. This was particularly notable across the Antarctic around the South Pole (austral winter).

Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). GISTEMPv4 data using their 1951-1980 baseline
Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of June-July-August 2025. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies.
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wxdam.com
ISS astronaut Jonny Kim just shared this snap of Humberto's eye today. You can actually see the seafoam taper off between the eyewall and the eye. Amazing stuff.
Looking down Humberto's eye from the side, you can see white seafoam on the ocean surface beneath the eyewall, fading to relative calmness within the eye itself.
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joelhs.bsky.social
Good to see. Let's hope they actually reinstate this professor.
kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...