Emily Pawley
@emilypawley.bsky.social
Environmental historian working on the climate emergency
Taking a breath and noticing that it is cardinal flower season in Pennsylvania.
July 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Taking a breath and noticing that it is cardinal flower season in Pennsylvania.
Found a truffula tree in the woods.
June 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Found a truffula tree in the woods.
Genuinely psyched that Alix Hui and I just got to send this email to the *many* participants in our wild collaborative project, the Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: A Guide to the Climate Emergency.
Even more psyched that it's with MIT and they are sending it DIRECT TO OPEN ACCESS.
Even more psyched that it's with MIT and they are sending it DIRECT TO OPEN ACCESS.
May 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Genuinely psyched that Alix Hui and I just got to send this email to the *many* participants in our wild collaborative project, the Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: A Guide to the Climate Emergency.
Even more psyched that it's with MIT and they are sending it DIRECT TO OPEN ACCESS.
Even more psyched that it's with MIT and they are sending it DIRECT TO OPEN ACCESS.
Since I found it in the archives at Cornell, I've been haunted by these lines from an 1856 letter from a mother to her daughter.
I can't tell if these anti-vax moms want that world, or just don't know about it.
I can't tell if these anti-vax moms want that world, or just don't know about it.
May 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Since I found it in the archives at Cornell, I've been haunted by these lines from an 1856 letter from a mother to her daughter.
I can't tell if these anti-vax moms want that world, or just don't know about it.
I can't tell if these anti-vax moms want that world, or just don't know about it.
Everyone is posting their witty and beautiful signs for #handsoff today
If that's giving you performance anxiety, I've got you--here is my boring and weirdly-lettered one.
If that's giving you performance anxiety, I've got you--here is my boring and weirdly-lettered one.
April 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Everyone is posting their witty and beautiful signs for #handsoff today
If that's giving you performance anxiety, I've got you--here is my boring and weirdly-lettered one.
If that's giving you performance anxiety, I've got you--here is my boring and weirdly-lettered one.
One of Theoharis's lessons there there is that rather than weighing different tactics against each other and trying to choose the most efficient or effective, we need to be prepared to use multiple tactics at once, and vary them over time.
March 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One of Theoharis's lessons there there is that rather than weighing different tactics against each other and trying to choose the most efficient or effective, we need to be prepared to use multiple tactics at once, and vary them over time.
How it started, how it's going, single-graph-Trump-meme-coin edition.
March 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
How it started, how it's going, single-graph-Trump-meme-coin edition.
Part 7: Ok, this is absolutely my favorite one:
March 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Part 7: Ok, this is absolutely my favorite one:
Part 5 h/t Seth Cotlar:
February 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Part 5 h/t Seth Cotlar:
For those asking for a longer term plan—I pulled this from folks in the replies
February 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
For those asking for a longer term plan—I pulled this from folks in the replies
Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.
February 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.
I could have been teaching this map, of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a representing Cap-and-Trade agreement between multiple states that goes back to 2005 (during what I called the stasis of the Bush years)
November 12, 2024 at 10:10 PM
I could have been teaching this map, of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a representing Cap-and-Trade agreement between multiple states that goes back to 2005 (during what I called the stasis of the Bush years)
I could have been teaching this map--of the members of the U.S. Climate Alliance, which committed to stick to Paris, and went to UN Negotiations on its own, represented by Jerry Brown
November 12, 2024 at 10:06 PM
I could have been teaching this map--of the members of the U.S. Climate Alliance, which committed to stick to Paris, and went to UN Negotiations on its own, represented by Jerry Brown
Then, briefly, I got to teach this map! 4 years! And could teach a little history of federal climate policy! But always this flickering red/green federal focus, that made it seem like withdrawing created a total vacuum
November 12, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Then, briefly, I got to teach this map! 4 years! And could teach a little history of federal climate policy! But always this flickering red/green federal focus, that made it seem like withdrawing created a total vacuum
Then I got to do a similar map for the U.S. pulling out of Paris
(I missed getting to teach an all green map, because I had a kid)
(I missed getting to teach an all green map, because I had a kid)
November 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Then I got to do a similar map for the U.S. pulling out of Paris
(I missed getting to teach an all green map, because I had a kid)
(I missed getting to teach an all green map, because I had a kid)
In my first years teaching, my goal was to explain U.S. inaction on climate by talking about the history of organized climate denial--basically, why is the U.S. the outlier in the Kyoto Map
November 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
In my first years teaching, my goal was to explain U.S. inaction on climate by talking about the history of organized climate denial--basically, why is the U.S. the outlier in the Kyoto Map
I guess I like it better when Google's AI says that edible plants are toxic rather than the other way around but.
October 7, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I guess I like it better when Google's AI says that edible plants are toxic rather than the other way around but.
Just reminded that the People's Climate March was TEN YEARS AGO.
I'd love to know how many folks on Climate Bluesky were marching that day--it's hard to see these connections across time unless we talk about them.
Hands up if you were there!
I'd love to know how many folks on Climate Bluesky were marching that day--it's hard to see these connections across time unless we talk about them.
Hands up if you were there!
September 21, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Just reminded that the People's Climate March was TEN YEARS AGO.
I'd love to know how many folks on Climate Bluesky were marching that day--it's hard to see these connections across time unless we talk about them.
Hands up if you were there!
I'd love to know how many folks on Climate Bluesky were marching that day--it's hard to see these connections across time unless we talk about them.
Hands up if you were there!
Today, when I said to my class, “I forgot my stalk of wheat for class on my desk. Can we all pretend I didn’t forget it and also that this stock photo is it?” They all agreed immediately with only the slightest hint of mockery.
We’re three weeks in and I love them a *lot*
We’re three weeks in and I love them a *lot*
September 19, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Today, when I said to my class, “I forgot my stalk of wheat for class on my desk. Can we all pretend I didn’t forget it and also that this stock photo is it?” They all agreed immediately with only the slightest hint of mockery.
We’re three weeks in and I love them a *lot*
We’re three weeks in and I love them a *lot*
Late to the flower sending, but
September 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Late to the flower sending, but
Hello, I would like someone to write a natural history guidebook of actual species that have been absorbed into science fiction as models for aliens.
See, for example, this teeny lil antlion/sarlacc buddy
See, for example, this teeny lil antlion/sarlacc buddy
July 10, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Hello, I would like someone to write a natural history guidebook of actual species that have been absorbed into science fiction as models for aliens.
See, for example, this teeny lil antlion/sarlacc buddy
See, for example, this teeny lil antlion/sarlacc buddy
Picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
June 2, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie