Mike MacFerrin
@icesheetmike.bsky.social
Dr in glaciology and expert mapper of coastal topography at a Cooperative Research Institute. An organizer for disability rights in science, which mostly involves yelling at agencies. Science is the easier part of my work. #T1D
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Tarantula
Dolphin
Black Bear
Bald Eagle
Moray Eel
Tarantula
Dolphin
Black Bear
Bald Eagle
Moray Eel
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Tarantula
Dolphin
Black Bear
Bald Eagle
Moray Eel
Tarantula
Dolphin
Black Bear
Bald Eagle
Moray Eel
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Polar Bear
Narwhal
Beluga
Leopard Seal
Emperor Penguin
Polar Bear
Narwhal
Beluga
Leopard Seal
Emperor Penguin
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Polar Bear
Narwhal
Beluga
Leopard Seal
Emperor Penguin
Polar Bear
Narwhal
Beluga
Leopard Seal
Emperor Penguin
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
Coastal brown bear
Coastal black wolves
Giant sunflower star
Olympic ermine
Musk ox
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I know zero real scientists who say this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I know zero real scientists who say this.
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
A local board election.
After 3 mos’ organizing, we booted the fascist caucus out with resounding 80/20 blowout majorities. The last remaining a-hole on the board was so gobsmacked that he resigned on the spot and stormed out.
So? We replaced him too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Local organizing ROCKS, y’all. 🤘
After 3 mos’ organizing, we booted the fascist caucus out with resounding 80/20 blowout majorities. The last remaining a-hole on the board was so gobsmacked that he resigned on the spot and stormed out.
So? We replaced him too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Local organizing ROCKS, y’all. 🤘
a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
Alt: The Robert Redford with a beard and long blonde hair in a forest, smiling at the camera meme.
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A local board election.
After 3 mos’ organizing, we booted the fascist caucus out with resounding 80/20 blowout majorities. The last remaining a-hole on the board was so gobsmacked that he resigned on the spot and stormed out.
So? We replaced him too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Local organizing ROCKS, y’all. 🤘
After 3 mos’ organizing, we booted the fascist caucus out with resounding 80/20 blowout majorities. The last remaining a-hole on the board was so gobsmacked that he resigned on the spot and stormed out.
So? We replaced him too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Local organizing ROCKS, y’all. 🤘
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Here's a direct link to my chapter on ableism, incarceration, disability [liberation], abolition, the disability consciousness gap, etc fr years ago:
bit.ly/abolitiondjc...
caveats: This was a necessary intervention; not a willing offering; I wasnt able to fully express myself for myriad reasons.
bit.ly/abolitiondjc...
caveats: This was a necessary intervention; not a willing offering; I wasnt able to fully express myself for myriad reasons.
April 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Here's a direct link to my chapter on ableism, incarceration, disability [liberation], abolition, the disability consciousness gap, etc fr years ago:
bit.ly/abolitiondjc...
caveats: This was a necessary intervention; not a willing offering; I wasnt able to fully express myself for myriad reasons.
bit.ly/abolitiondjc...
caveats: This was a necessary intervention; not a willing offering; I wasnt able to fully express myself for myriad reasons.
I muted the word “Nuzzi” about half a year ago and it’s still paying dividends.
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I muted the word “Nuzzi” about half a year ago and it’s still paying dividends.
Local coffee shop has two receptacles. One says “Trash.” The other says “Garbage.” And it always momentarily confuses me.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Local coffee shop has two receptacles. One says “Trash.” The other says “Garbage.” And it always momentarily confuses me.
They’ve committed no crimes. At what point does it become a concentration camp.
I’m seeing very little daylight between the two.
I’m seeing very little daylight between the two.
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
They’ve committed no crimes. At what point does it become a concentration camp.
I’m seeing very little daylight between the two.
I’m seeing very little daylight between the two.
I feel like a reason the White House thing angers so many people is that it visually rips away any notion that “things can go back to normal once Trump’s gone.”
Which, hasn’t been true for a good bit now, but those not personally affected by all the overt fascism (yet) really wanted to believe it.
Which, hasn’t been true for a good bit now, but those not personally affected by all the overt fascism (yet) really wanted to believe it.
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I feel like a reason the White House thing angers so many people is that it visually rips away any notion that “things can go back to normal once Trump’s gone.”
Which, hasn’t been true for a good bit now, but those not personally affected by all the overt fascism (yet) really wanted to believe it.
Which, hasn’t been true for a good bit now, but those not personally affected by all the overt fascism (yet) really wanted to believe it.
I want to deeply thank @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & Mariame Kaba for this book. I’ve read it slowly; ingesting a chapter, sink it in, enact it over a month, read the next.
It’s helped me w local organizing (we vote our own lil fascist out next week!) and is prepping me to restart a larger campaign.
It’s helped me w local organizing (we vote our own lil fascist out next week!) and is prepping me to restart a larger campaign.
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I want to deeply thank @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & Mariame Kaba for this book. I’ve read it slowly; ingesting a chapter, sink it in, enact it over a month, read the next.
It’s helped me w local organizing (we vote our own lil fascist out next week!) and is prepping me to restart a larger campaign.
It’s helped me w local organizing (we vote our own lil fascist out next week!) and is prepping me to restart a larger campaign.
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I was thinking about this after No Kings.
October 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I was thinking about this after No Kings.
Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.
In one fell swoop, the resistance has completely reclaimed the frog 🐸 from the 4chan dipshits. A win for everyone. #amphibians #resist
October 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In one fell swoop, the resistance has completely reclaimed the frog 🐸 from the 4chan dipshits. A win for everyone. #amphibians #resist
Just got this in my Inbox from a counseling service provider.
I. Think. The. Fuck. Not.
Nuh-uh. No.
I. Think. The. Fuck. Not.
Nuh-uh. No.
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just got this in my Inbox from a counseling service provider.
I. Think. The. Fuck. Not.
Nuh-uh. No.
I. Think. The. Fuck. Not.
Nuh-uh. No.
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Any cause you could care about is a Palestinian cause. If you care about human rights, women's rights, Indigenous rights, environment, climate change. And here I want to stress a very urgent conversation that must center Gaza: DISABILITY JUSTICE.
About 42,000 people in the Gaza Strip have suffered life-altering injuries. Over 22,000 have limb injuries, more than 5,000 have undergone amputations, 3,300 have severe burns, over 2,000 have spinal cord injuries, and more than 1,300 have traumatic brain injuries.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Any cause you could care about is a Palestinian cause. If you care about human rights, women's rights, Indigenous rights, environment, climate change. And here I want to stress a very urgent conversation that must center Gaza: DISABILITY JUSTICE.
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Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
October 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
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Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @jmalumbresolarte Tak! 🙏
New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ
New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ
October 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @jmalumbresolarte Tak! 🙏
New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ
New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ
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Disability scholar here. This is an example of ableism called sanism, and it both endangers mentally ill ppl, already one of our most vulnerable populations, and does not help us come up with actionable ways to deal with the ppl in power who largely are greedy, ignorant, and malicious.
This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Disability scholar here. This is an example of ableism called sanism, and it both endangers mentally ill ppl, already one of our most vulnerable populations, and does not help us come up with actionable ways to deal with the ppl in power who largely are greedy, ignorant, and malicious.
I’m very thankful to have found a rare bad-assed group of fighters in academia to weather this storm with. None of us are under any impression we’ll all make it thru. But we have a fighting chance together, protecting each other.
(No, I won’t elaborate further re: who.
Not here.)
(No, I won’t elaborate further re: who.
Not here.)
October 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’m very thankful to have found a rare bad-assed group of fighters in academia to weather this storm with. None of us are under any impression we’ll all make it thru. But we have a fighting chance together, protecting each other.
(No, I won’t elaborate further re: who.
Not here.)
(No, I won’t elaborate further re: who.
Not here.)
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Memorizing this
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Memorizing this
“Joy is not the opposite of grief.
Grief is the opposite of indifference.”
Malkia Devich-Cyril
Grief is the opposite of indifference.”
Malkia Devich-Cyril
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
“Joy is not the opposite of grief.
Grief is the opposite of indifference.”
Malkia Devich-Cyril
Grief is the opposite of indifference.”
Malkia Devich-Cyril
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The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.
September 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.
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"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
September 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur