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Silvia Secchi

@profsecchi.bsky.social

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Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant. Trans rights are human rights. 💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧 My views are my own and do not represent my employer. I do not enjoy having to state the obvious. .. more

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Nov 7

Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.

Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde…

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 4h

Yikes

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

Enlightenment Later

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 6h

Super happy to be one of the contributors to this really important effort, and also delighted that the book is open access!

Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 8h

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Dana Nuccitelli @dananuccitelli.bsky.social · 6h

For @climateconnections.bsky.social today, with the help of @bobkopp.net & @andrewdessler.com's team of 85 climate scientists and the National Academies, I fact checked the EPA/DOE's claim that carbon pollution is good for food production. Spoiler alert: it's not. Article and 🧵 (1/9):

Fact-checking a Trump administration claim about climate change and crops » Yale Climate Connections

A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer...

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 6h

That variable isn't exogenous.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 7h

That would require fundamentally rethinking US agriculture, which has from the beginning been export oriented, and driven by tech advances that make us produce more of fewer commodities.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 7h

The issue I think is scale - we do not have much use for all that land if we stop wasting it in these harebrained schemes that depend on the public dime. How much land do you you think we need for all the stuff we drink?

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 8h

I suspect many of those trad wives families lose money on the farm and offset those losses against the income they make as social influencers lol

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 8h

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h

The good news is that the Supreme Court still refused to hear this case.

The bad news is that three justices seem eager to force every public school in the country to out trans kids to their parents, and it only takes one more vote to put a future case on the docket that lets the court do so.

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Ben Averis @averisben.bsky.social · 10h

My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.

Five Merveille du Jour moths found by Alison Averis in her moth trap here in SE Scotland on the morning of 14th October 2025. Background: bark with lichens.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 22h

The Department of Environmental Studies at CU-Boulder is searching for a new Assistant Professor in the area of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainability and decarbonization. #EnergySky

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

jobs.colorado.edu

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 23h

When you print papers from non-US journals that’s why there are bits and bobs missing unless you don’t change the settings. Super irritating.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

As an Italian in the US every year on this day I don’t know whether to be more embarrassed that it’s a federal holiday or by all the Italian Americans still celebrating it.

Today (and every day) let’s celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay instead.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 1d

"Indians pour liquid gold into the mouth of a Spanish conquistador," detail from Theodor de Bry, c.1594.

Image of a group of men holding down a spanish conquistador while pouring a liquid into his mouth

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

a young buck at sunset on the trail tonight…

a warm pale orange glow is in the sky above dry shrubs and grass at sunset. a young buck and his antlers cast a dark silhouette poking out from the foliage. (pacifica, california in october)

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Next time they make up some thing about offshore wind and whales, ask about this.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

Equally sad, US big ag is pivoting towards heavily subsidized "Sustainable" Aviation Fuels as the way to continue overproducing corn and soybeans. They rely on subsidized dubious climate friendly practices scored with jerry-rigged metrics and CO2 pipelines to keep agro-extractivism alive here too.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

And absolutely terrible news for the Amazon, the Cerrado and climate change.

The Economist @economist.com · 2d

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

The telecoupling of the kakistocracy. Behold the wonders of the 21st century.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“America First.”

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

And absolutely terrible news for the Amazon, the Cerrado and climate change.

The Economist @economist.com · 2d

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

econ.st

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“America First.”

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

I despise LinkedIn even more after learning this.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 3d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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