Gerard Fitzgerald

Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground - but anglers and scientists are racing to save them.

Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too | grist.org/culture/wher...

Wow!!! Very impressive!!!

Everything is terrible but BIG NEWS:

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Good god.

This one is highly relevant in times of non-linear expanding and intensifying marine heatwaves:

"Tropical cyclones expand faster at warmer relative sea surface temperature"

Hot spots: all ocean regions near major population centers...

#climate #Earth #uöäü1storms

Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…

My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
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how then can this one small heart beat

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of October in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest along the Eurasian coast.

Changes in October temperatures across the #Arctic by decade... Parts of this area (e.g., the Kara Sea) are warming more than 5x faster than the globally-averaged temperature trend! #ArcticAmplication

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis available at doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Exclusive: Climate scientists expect attempts to dim the sun by 2100

An exclusive New Scientist survey has revealed widespread concern among climate scientists that a "rogue actor" could attempt solar geoengineering without international agreement to mitigate the potential risks.

I was always a fan of the "alternative routes", especially ocean-bound, hypothesis but I generally find it sooo interesting to see how the standards of evidence and interpretation have fundamentally shifted with the reconfiguration of the guiding paradigms of the "peopling" of the Americas 🏺

"Schrödinger's emphasis on the rigidity and specificity of the hereditary material [] influenced how [] biologists conceptualized macromolecules, resulting in a deterministic, engineering view of the cell that is still popular today—even if it is increasingly at odds with experimental findings" 😉

Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities 5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social

Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025

www.uis.no/en/research/...

#envhum #envhist #energy

Just look at how the block is structured. No trellising, low to the ground--likely Mission grapes as that was the choice of monasteries and planted all over CA.

Here’s the link to the archive, there’s more than 170 book talks there now! We’re always happy when people check them out, and especially when people use them for teaching!

The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.

See environmentalhumanities.org

Looking for papers to join our panel on 'Animal Waste/Waste Animals' at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Watching all of this from Germany is quite disorienting as an American historian. Anger, grief, deep sadness, frustration...never acceptance.

I kinda also feel the NIH helped save all of our lives with the Covid vaccine among other things.

To monitor license plate violations, the secretary of state's office has established a "Plate Watch Hotline" where residents can report potential violations, which the secretary of state's office will then investigate, it says. Reports can be made by calling the hotline at 312-814-1730 or emailing platewatch@ilsos.gov. "No one, including federal agents, is above the law, and we intend to hold them accountable, especially while driving on our roadways," Giannoulias said in the news release. "This is a matter of public safety and protecting the wellbeing of our communities."

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Inside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late? Interviews with experts and key players across four countries reveal why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking industry have failed – and how to save the endangered fish

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Locomotive and Freight Car - 1925
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104536

The companies who donated to Trump's new ballroom

Bribes, not donations.

The new grift wing.

The real headline will be, what did they get in return for their money?

#NaziCollaborators

Just like Hitler invading other countries. The military needs to stand down before it's too late. I was just following orders is not going to cut it.

it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life

Russia loses 910 soldiers over past day Russia has lost 910 soldiers killed and wounded and more than 600 weapons and pieces of military equipment over the past day.

❌ Russia loses 910 soldiers over past day

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www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurr...

#Storms
#Precipitation
#FossilFuelPollution
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

There's so many good ideas for how higher education could respond transformatively to meet the climate challenge...

= The New Work Eimes Trump Administration Updates Tariff Tracker GIVE THE TIMES Empowering Ele Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

I love you like a foreign country cliffs and a bridge like a lonely evening smelling of books travel the world towards you under the aerosphere between two lights my thought I've carved and you

Pentti Saarikoski, translated by Herbert Lomas.

(thanks, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social)

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.