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Libby Larson
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Environmental/climate scientist, but mostly here on my personal account to explore other interests: art, crafts, history, linguistics, local (DMV) politics.
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Top Trump official suggests the administration will ignore Congress and the Constitution to get its way. app.sosha.ai/s/bxy8y5is
Trump official: We answer to no one
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July 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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If you live in a place where you are represented by a Republican in the US House please call and tell them to vote NO
July 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I borrowed this from the library and it's so good I think I need to buy it for myself. Moss interviews artists of all kinds-the excerpts here are from the chapter with Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America. Love what he says about art, and his take on far-right thinking seems particularly apt.
Photo of the cover of the book "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing" by Adam Moss. Photo of book section with text: All Art Fails Eventually, inevitably, we got around to talking about failure. It had been a long conversation, and it would soon be time to go. Tony was so forgiving of himself-and others. I couldn't help but think that his an- alysis had worked "All art fails," he said, "because all art is essentially Orpheus. All art is meant to resur- rect the dead, and it will not succeed in doing that. The great model for all artists is Orpheus and in his greatest work he bombed. He didn't get her out. "Almost all playwrights are like physicists-we do our work from our late teens to about thirty-three. And then we're kind of garbage. We may generate some interesting things after that, but for some reason it seems to go that way. ""There are flaws and problems and failures in every work that I love. A lot of people feel that the epistle is the big mistake in Angels " Photo of book page with text: WRITING ROY Tony said that a particularly tough part of these first pages was writing a scene he knew he needed: the conversation between Roy and the doctor when the doctor tells him he has AIDS. "The last thing I wrote in act I was Roy and his doctor, because I knew that's how I wanted to end The scene didn't work. I struggled for weeks. Then, for some reason, I reread Billy Budd. And I came across this line about Claggart: he had perfected the use of the rationale as an ambidextrous instrument for effecting the irrational. In other words, a great order is a disorder and a great disorder is an order, these things are one. It made me realize what I was getting at with Cohn, which is true of right-wing thinking in general--that reality is an activity of the imagination. They're fundamentally idealists, they believe that the idea precedes matter. They reject the notion that you begin with material reality. You just demand that reality obey your fantasies. "Then I called my friend Kimberly and said, I think Ive just written the best scene that I`ve ever written.'"
April 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.

Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
The official AMS logo.
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I highly recommend these!
lizneeley.bsky.social Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Feb 22
Every Friday, I write a debrief about what’s happening in science & higher ed. It goes out late, and is written for all the friends & colleagues I wish I could sit down and talk it through with over drinks.

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 5
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
buttondown.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Long but worth the watch: youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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February 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I have been thinking a lot about resilience lately. When I was younger I thought (though maybe only subconsciously) that people had a natural well of resilience that you could discover when it was needed. 1/n
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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I feel like there’s a 50/50 shot he signs an executive order extending January indefinitely tomorrow
January 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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This is a great thread. I want to offer this to others, but also need it offered to me.
rebekahtromble.bsky.social Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · Jan 31
Are you talking to colleagues impacted by executive branch targeting? Here’s a thread 🧵 w/ simple tips about how to show support—what to say that is likely to help, rather than make things worse.

(The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/
January 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Spent a little time yesterday at the SAAM. For the first pic, to my modern eyes it totally looks like she's taking a selfie with her kid. 😀
Bronze statue of Bacchante and infant faun by Frederick William MacMonnies. Alison Saar born 1956, Los Angeles, CA Rouse 2012 wood, bronze, paper, antler sheds, and stamped ceiling tin. Titus Kaphar born 1976, Kalamazoo, MI Monumental Inversions: George Washington 2017 wood, glass, and steel Titus Kaphar born 1976, Kalamazoo, MI Monumental Inversions: George Washington 2017 wood, glass, and steel
January 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Colder weather encourages cuddling. 🐈🐈‍⬛️
January 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Ogden Museum of Southern
January 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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At the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, NOLA.
January 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Random NOLA pics.
January 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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~SOME NEWS~

My book Disasterology: Dispatches From The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis is being re-released in paperback on March 4th!

It'll be the same as the hardcover just with an additional chapter on "The Problem With Climate Havens".

You can pre-order here: www.disaster-ology.com
Blue book cover that reads: Disasterology Dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis by Dr. Samantha Montano
January 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'm at #ams2025 in a TH on climate services. One of the panelists is from @carbonplan.org , mentioned this research: carbonplan.org/research/cli... . Looking forward to digging in to this later.
Climate risk companies don’t always agree – CarbonPlan
A comparison of address-level fire and flood risk assessments.
carbonplan.org
January 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I hope this takes off. I have curated my Instagram feed to be full of artists, plants, friends, and cat videos and would love a non-Meta alternative.
January 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I've been getting more into Science and Technology Studies (STS) stuff the longer I've been a scientist and working for the federal government. Here's a recent article I deeply appreciated: issues.org/limits-of-da...
The Limits of Data
Policymakers want to make decisions based on clear data, but important factors are lost when we rely solely on data. A philosopher writes:
issues.org
January 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Got my first FOIA request at work. I assume it's part of this: www.propublica.org/article/have...
Heritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests
The conservative think tank’s requests are clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration would want to purge.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM