carly nichols
@carlynich.bsky.social
feminist geographer, food system researcher, proud auntie, and asst. prof at NUS geography. Lover of comedy, the great outdoors, and the facepalm emoji.
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carly nichols
@carlynich.bsky.social
· Feb 14
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I have new research just out! I try to "reimagine" the intersections between ag and nutrition thru merging some of my long-term India ag research with recent Iowa farmer work. It is an article I have wanted to write for many years and proud to see it finally in print 🙂 Its free to read until 2/28!!
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Starting to think that we should sort out a general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. Let's keep the region strong with some kind of of north american free trade agreement. Perhaps a trans pacific partnership could soften China's influence.
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Starting to think that we should sort out a general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. Let's keep the region strong with some kind of of north american free trade agreement. Perhaps a trans pacific partnership could soften China's influence.
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Lots of people can’t protest and I think @prisonculture.bsky.social’s guide on other actions is really useful: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Everyone has a part they can play from where they’re at.
April 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Lots of people can’t protest and I think @prisonculture.bsky.social’s guide on other actions is really useful: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Everyone has a part they can play from where they’re at.
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DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
March 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
moral of the story: majority of americans are pretty fuzzy on the "tariff" concept 🤦♀️
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Americans Feel About Trump’s Tariffs
Trump loves tariffs. Do Americans? It depends how pollsters ask the question.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
moral of the story: majority of americans are pretty fuzzy on the "tariff" concept 🤦♀️
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
great opportunity to finally integrate some of this in my syllabus for next fall 🔥
the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
great opportunity to finally integrate some of this in my syllabus for next fall 🔥
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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1) The letter is not legal
2) Do not comply in advance!
2) Do not comply in advance!
If colleges comply with this letter by the Trump administration, all affinity orgs, affinity graduation ceremonies, and cultural centers funded by the schools could be forced to be shut down before the end of the month.
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
www.insidehighered.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
1) The letter is not legal
2) Do not comply in advance!
2) Do not comply in advance!
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CFP: Virtual Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Convenors: Caroline Nagel, James D. Sidaway, and Chih Yuan Woon. This new Virtual Forum explores the complex political-geographical landscape that AI is helping to create www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
CFP: Virtual Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Convenors: Caroline Nagel, James D. Sidaway, and Chih Yuan Woon. This new Virtual Forum explores the complex political-geographical landscape that AI is helping to create www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Awards for graduate students going to the 2025 AAG! Please share far and wide!
Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Announcement
Awards The AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group makes four annual awards in economic geography, with the results announced each year at the AAG annual EGSG business meeting. Student Travel Awards ...
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February 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Awards for graduate students going to the 2025 AAG! Please share far and wide!
Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Hearing from reliable sources that NSF was forced to fire the two permanent program officers that manage HEGS. This is a huge blow to Geography, the scientific community and most importantly folks who dedicated their lives to making the world a better place through scientific endeavors.
February 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hearing from reliable sources that NSF was forced to fire the two permanent program officers that manage HEGS. This is a huge blow to Geography, the scientific community and most importantly folks who dedicated their lives to making the world a better place through scientific endeavors.
Love it. 😂
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Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland
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Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Love it. 😂
I have new research just out! I try to "reimagine" the intersections between ag and nutrition thru merging some of my long-term India ag research with recent Iowa farmer work. It is an article I have wanted to write for many years and proud to see it finally in print 🙂 Its free to read until 2/28!!
authors.elsevier.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I have new research just out! I try to "reimagine" the intersections between ag and nutrition thru merging some of my long-term India ag research with recent Iowa farmer work. It is an article I have wanted to write for many years and proud to see it finally in print 🙂 Its free to read until 2/28!!
aww thx for the compliments @profsecchi.bsky.social ...I am super excited to see this in print - it is a new area of research for me and digging into all the great critical legal scholarship on property and all the work on settler colonialism was sooo educational. So much good work being done! 🔥
Hot of the press some great work from @carlynich.bsky.social.
I am so heartened by seeing important critical work about the US agricultural system from a new generation of scholars. There has been so much middling scholarship about American farming and farmers, we need this fresh air!
I am so heartened by seeing important critical work about the US agricultural system from a new generation of scholars. There has been so much middling scholarship about American farming and farmers, we need this fresh air!
Frustrated farmers and the fee simple: property-stress, settler colonialism and race in the United States heartland
The notion that farming is an unusually stressful occupation has become a cultural truism, with calls to investigate ‘root causes’ of stress on the farm. This paper argues the racialized, coloniali...
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
aww thx for the compliments @profsecchi.bsky.social ...I am super excited to see this in print - it is a new area of research for me and digging into all the great critical legal scholarship on property and all the work on settler colonialism was sooo educational. So much good work being done! 🔥
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personally I think Kendrick should have looked directly into the camera and changed the lyrics of "Not Like Us" into a political treatise explaining his exact position on both separation of powers and the immortal science of dialectical materialism. missed opportunity tbh
February 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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"At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...
Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...
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Right on www.channel3000.com/video/dane-c...
Dane Co. sheriff cuts ties from a federal program that relies on info about incarcerated undocumented immigrants
In an exclusive one-on-one, News 3’s Meryl Hubbard spoke with Sheriff Kalvin Barrett to learn more about what this change means for the county.
www.channel3000.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Right on www.channel3000.com/video/dane-c...
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The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
www.globalchange.gov
January 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
Hi Bluesky! Im nerdily excited to give a new platform a shot. im so checked out of facebook and havent been on twitter for years but figure Trump 2.0 is a good time to loop back in to the world of social media? or I'm just bored at work?
January 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Hi Bluesky! Im nerdily excited to give a new platform a shot. im so checked out of facebook and havent been on twitter for years but figure Trump 2.0 is a good time to loop back in to the world of social media? or I'm just bored at work?
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Current temperature in Washington, DC is 27°F with a brisk wind.
This is the exact same weather conditions as Barack Obama's 1st inauguration in 2009 when the famous huge crowd photos were taken. Temp of Trump's 1st inauguration was 48°F.
This is the exact same weather conditions as Barack Obama's 1st inauguration in 2009 when the famous huge crowd photos were taken. Temp of Trump's 1st inauguration was 48°F.
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Current temperature in Washington, DC is 27°F with a brisk wind.
This is the exact same weather conditions as Barack Obama's 1st inauguration in 2009 when the famous huge crowd photos were taken. Temp of Trump's 1st inauguration was 48°F.
This is the exact same weather conditions as Barack Obama's 1st inauguration in 2009 when the famous huge crowd photos were taken. Temp of Trump's 1st inauguration was 48°F.