Cora Hersh

Cora Hersh

@chersh.bsky.social

Postdoctoral investigator in physical oceanography at WHOI 🌊

88 Followers 184 Following 9 Posts Joined May 2024
1 month ago

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

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1 month ago

Does anyone who knows a single fact about ecology foresee any problems with this?

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1 month ago
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Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.

A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.

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1 month ago

Concentration camps.

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1 month ago
Acrylic painting of a cliff with ruins on the Amalfi Coast of Italy

Decided to use the snow storm to get back into painting

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7 months ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

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8 months ago
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Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

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8 months ago
Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads: “is Donald Trump an Antagonist or Champion of the Gay Community?”

I don’t know New York Times, which one is it? @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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9 months ago
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Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.

They are nominating 30 year olds who proudly flaunt ties to extremist anti-semites, but we are supposed to play along with anti-semitism claims putatively plaguing higher education.

www.npr.org/2025/05/30/n...

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9 months ago
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

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9 months ago
Redirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

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9 months ago
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Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

Tune into the 💯 hour Weather & Climate Livestream, brought to you by US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts. Learn about the federally funded science that makes weather forecasts and climate predictions possible!
www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...

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11 months ago
FOR SALE: Beachfront property, optimism required Waterfront property has long represented the best of where you can live. But the changing climate — sea level rise and coastal storms — could be reshaping that idea. On Surf Drive, in Falmouth, is a p...

Anyone have $600k to burn on a set of pilings of questionable integrity that will soon be underwater? www.capeandislands.org/local-news/2...

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1 year ago

She told a story about getting to a federal agency & speaking to them before DOGE teens could, thereby delaying DOGE’s access to sensitive data until a judge could stop them altogether. That one anecdote was more reassuring than the entirety of Auchincloss’ call. 3/3

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1 year ago

Auchincloss chided a constituent for asking for more passion & anger from dems in congress, and said we just had to vote for dems in the next election. AOC seems to understand that what we want from congress is to know that they are using our votes NOW to stop Trump & Musk. 2/3

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1 year ago

Yesterday I listened on two different calls with reps in congress - Auchincloss (MA) and AOC (NY). Auchincloss’ call was ok but side-by-side it was incredible how much better AOC is at this. @aoc.bsky.social @repauchincloss.bsky.social 1/3

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1 year ago
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A couple students in my program put together a lovely slideshow about how to call your senators and representatives in congress… google has removed it “because it is in violation of our Terms of Service”. Absolutely insane.

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1 year ago

The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership.

Today vs. January

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1 year ago
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My first, first author paper is out in JPO! Read to learn how mean subtropical ocean circulation carries interannual water property anomalies in both observations and a model, w implications for interannual to decadal climate variability journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... @gaelforget.net

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