Jen Howard

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An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

"Do we want to be an example of doing everything we can to protect these ecosystems while accomplishing the goals of the project [or] an example like the Port of Miami, where we had a catastrophic and preventable loss of our critical natural resources?” wapo.st/46yTXe5 [gift link] #GreenSky 🌎

Live tracker toll in US-Israeli and Iranian attacks, jnclueing 201 killed in Iran, 3 in the UAE, 1 in Kuwait, 2 in Iraq, and 9 in Israel

Al-Jazeera has a running live update of all the officially reported casualties in the Levant and Persian Gulf www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

I'm partway through Penelope Lively's "Moon Tiger," which came out in the 80s (won the Booker in 1987). I found it on the "Bangers" shelf at @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social. I've never read a book quite like it (that's a compliment).

Inside the cutthroat competition for the best baguette in Paris The Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française, Paris’s most revered bread competition, saw dozens of bakers competing for the title of best baguette.

Found short-story prompt: "One of them was holding the best baguette in Paris." wapo.st/46rKYLB #baking

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Data Center Support Plummets in Latest Heatmap Pro Poll The proportion of voters who strongly oppose development grew by nearly 50%.

Our latest Heatmap Pro poll found that support for data centers has plummeted. The massive computing warehouses are now 24 points underwater with voters, compared to 2 points above in September 2025.

Here’s the full story from @alexckaufman.bsky.social for The Fight:

heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

WTF, Kansas.

American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA July 14, 2026edited by Anne Trubek with an introduction by Kim Kelly  During the Great Depression, out-of-work writers were hired by the federal government to interview American working-class workers ...

I didn't live through the New Deal but I sure miss it. Adding this to my summer TBR list! #BookSky #preorder #WPA #beltpublishing beltpublishing.com/products/ame...

My spouse and I (Sixties babies) got both MMR shots late last year, not being sure if our childhood vaccines were still effective. Glad to have gotten the boosters but share your dismay that it’s necessary.

“knowledge produced from nowhere,” via @laurenpressley.bsky.social 📜📚

Evergreen post from Bree. Tonight, no SOTU, I cannot. Instead, for a good cause, I'm joining my fellow gremlins in a livestream fundraiser & I'm *already* so hyped about it. For my tight 5, I'm going to yell about Supernatural on the internet, as the gods intended postersmadness.wordpress.com

Such a great idea. I hope other libraries are doing this too (they probably are/have). #libraries #BookSky 📚

"Q: What did you learn about how people came to librarianship as a profession?
A: I think the common thread is service. We all want to help people so much."

Whew, that really resonates with me. 🥹 I see it in myself, in my colleagues @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social, and beyond. 🫶📚

Amid all the LARB talk, don’t lose sight of the original (public!) claim: staff were underpaid & leaving. I’m reading the criticisms of/counterpoints to the “hit piece.” They’re measured and smart. But I believe staff & don’t discount the initial claim abt working conditions. That for me is the rub.

all time photo editor performance

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined it’s probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. 🐋 spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z

📷: BlackBox
🎙️: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Nope is right.

All serious historical novels are works of speculative fiction, even ones set in the ‘60s and ‘70s. These three are absolutely brilliant.

anyway once again from a journalist by far the most important feature of this site is that it does not bury links, despite its small population of wackos its regularly our 4th or 3rd biggest source of traffic

So much joy!

You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

thinking about the guy at the pharmacy last week who marched up to the register and said “i see your selection of combs is less robust than it was on my last visit here”