Bob Wilson
@bobwilsongeo.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
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My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
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Hey is it good that FEMA is suspending employees that warned publicly that the agency isn't ready to manage disasters with the peak of hurricane season two weeks away
'A lot of folks are terrified': FEMA joins EPA in retaliation against dissenting staff
The result of all that is an obvious chilling of the federal workforce's speech.
www.gravityisgone.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hey is it good that FEMA is suspending employees that warned publicly that the agency isn't ready to manage disasters with the peak of hurricane season two weeks away
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I was 6 when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967, so my whole conscious life has been enriched by its work.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.
August 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I was 6 when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967, so my whole conscious life has been enriched by its work.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.
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In honor of Columbia University capitulating to Trump, I give you this public service announcement from Winston Churchill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GvJ...
Darkest Hour | Clip | Reason With a Tiger
YouTube video by Universal Pictures International Netherlands
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July 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In honor of Columbia University capitulating to Trump, I give you this public service announcement from Winston Churchill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GvJ...
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Anyone who knows anything about history knows how right this piece is:
Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Anyone who knows anything about history knows how right this piece is:
Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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I wrote about how Trump is dismantling the country's disaster forecasting infrastructure. But this isn't going to stop disasters from piling up -- quite the contrary.
Flash Floods and Climate Policy
As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I wrote about how Trump is dismantling the country's disaster forecasting infrastructure. But this isn't going to stop disasters from piling up -- quite the contrary.
I love experimenting with AI. And together with GEO grads and faculty, we've learned so much together in our AI Literacy Workshop.
But then there's this. So many AI written or completed assignments. And so much wasted time filing reports with the office of academic integrity
But then there's this. So many AI written or completed assignments. And so much wasted time filing reports with the office of academic integrity
May 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I love experimenting with AI. And together with GEO grads and faculty, we've learned so much together in our AI Literacy Workshop.
But then there's this. So many AI written or completed assignments. And so much wasted time filing reports with the office of academic integrity
But then there's this. So many AI written or completed assignments. And so much wasted time filing reports with the office of academic integrity
Ended the last week of my Animals and Society course exploring the possibility of AI consciousness (someday). Will we need to extend some of the same moral considerations we give to animals to AI systems as well?
Today's NYT on on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...
Today's NYT on on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ended the last week of my Animals and Society course exploring the possibility of AI consciousness (someday). Will we need to extend some of the same moral considerations we give to animals to AI systems as well?
Today's NYT on on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...
Today's NYT on on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...
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Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony
April 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony
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Statement from the American Society for Environmental History on the closure of the EPA (We used to protect nature and people?!?) Museum.
aseh.org
aseh.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Statement from the American Society for Environmental History on the closure of the EPA (We used to protect nature and people?!?) Museum.
aseh.org
aseh.org
Fellow geographers: Join us this afternoon at an author-meets-critics session celebrating Maria Lane's fabulous new book, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico.
The info: 412A, Level 4, Huntington Place, 4:10pm
The info: 412A, Level 4, Huntington Place, 4:10pm
March 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Fellow geographers: Join us this afternoon at an author-meets-critics session celebrating Maria Lane's fabulous new book, Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico.
The info: 412A, Level 4, Huntington Place, 4:10pm
The info: 412A, Level 4, Huntington Place, 4:10pm
Time to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Time to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
Seems like a swell time to roll back vaccine mandates, gut the NIH, and appoint an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic
www.science.org
March 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Seems like a swell time to roll back vaccine mandates, gut the NIH, and appoint an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I’m no expert on higher education funding. Or antisemitism for that matter. But I going to hazard a wild guess: cutting $400 million in federal grants will have severe consequences for many Jewish students, faculty, and staff at Columbia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration cancels $400m in funds to Columbia University
Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I’m no expert on higher education funding. Or antisemitism for that matter. But I going to hazard a wild guess: cutting $400 million in federal grants will have severe consequences for many Jewish students, faculty, and staff at Columbia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As the unforcasted tornado barrels past the shuttered NOAA facility and toward the Red state, MAGA-voter's house, he looks out the window and thinks to himself "Maybe I shouldn't have voted for that guy..." www.newsweek.com/doge-set-can...
DOGE set to cancel lease on weather "nerve center" as tornado season begins
"There's never a good time for these kinds of awful decisions," meteorologist Don Paul told Newsweek. "But this is an especially bad time."
www.newsweek.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
As the unforcasted tornado barrels past the shuttered NOAA facility and toward the Red state, MAGA-voter's house, he looks out the window and thinks to himself "Maybe I shouldn't have voted for that guy..." www.newsweek.com/doge-set-can...
News flash to Americans: Your phone doesn't tell you the weather on its own. Behind the predictions it displays are NOAA data--boring but essential weather data.
Now, Musk and his tech bro DOGE lackeys are gutting NOAA and firing--or preparing to fire--its staff.
www.theverge.com/news/622990/...
Now, Musk and his tech bro DOGE lackeys are gutting NOAA and firing--or preparing to fire--its staff.
www.theverge.com/news/622990/...
The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
“If these cuts continue, you will feel them personally.”
www.theverge.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
News flash to Americans: Your phone doesn't tell you the weather on its own. Behind the predictions it displays are NOAA data--boring but essential weather data.
Now, Musk and his tech bro DOGE lackeys are gutting NOAA and firing--or preparing to fire--its staff.
www.theverge.com/news/622990/...
Now, Musk and his tech bro DOGE lackeys are gutting NOAA and firing--or preparing to fire--its staff.
www.theverge.com/news/622990/...
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Yes, this is today's column - writing it now!
I'm here outside the Tesla showroom in Devon, Pa. west of Philly where about 10 hearty souls are protesting unelected billionaire Elon Musk #TeslaTakedown
February 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Yes, this is today's column - writing it now!
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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
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Nazimobile sales are declining ...
Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe & California - CleanTechnica
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February 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nazimobile sales are declining ...
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“Altadena may prove to be the true harbinger ⎯ of a future in which no one but the rich owns their own homes, where insurance is a luxury good, and where renters pay a monthly toll to large private equity landowners better suited to manage that risk.” Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership (Gift Article)
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Altadena may prove to be the true harbinger ⎯ of a future in which no one but the rich owns their own homes, where insurance is a luxury good, and where renters pay a monthly toll to large private equity landowners better suited to manage that risk.” Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...