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Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science

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Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting.

Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months.

Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

I just opened this book and the third epigraph actually made me laugh out loud. I’m excited to dig in!

Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.

To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.

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What gets me is that we have the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to illustrate exactly how unjust conditions are when states and school boards are in charge of our civil rights

New federal grant will support UAF doctoral students The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The program, Enhancing Marine Ecosyste...

Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.

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Sharing this as a reminder for myself and other UA faculty

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast NYT Chose Anti-Trans Cranks Over Real Doctors #genderaffirmingcare #mediabias #nytimes

The New York Times sided with anti-trans cranks over medical doctors on gender affirming care:
NYT Chose Anti-Trans Cranks Over Real Doctors #genderaffirmingcare #mediabias #nytimes
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When AK congress reps say they did something for Alaskans, they usually mean Anchorage and the MatSu valley. This does NOT help rural Alaskans, most of whom are AK Natives, who rely on subsistence hunting and fishing & are more likely to be stuck w/lower paying, unstable jobs.

As someone who was born and raised in Alaska and who has family and friends who will be harmed by this ALL OVER THE FRICKING COUNTRY, I am so fricking pissed at Murkowski. And everyone else who voted for this horrendous bill, but especially her bc she was my rep

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Paleo folks! The fan favorite biomineralizer proxies session will happen at @agu.org in New Orleans this year! Chaired by me, @lauralhaynes.bsky.social, and Zan Stremler. Submit your abstract today!

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PP020 - New and Developing Paleoproxies in Biomineralizers

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Protect transgender scientists Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

PROTECT TRANS SCIENTISTS 🏳️‍⚧️

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Also another angle to this is that since Fairbanks is basically the very tail-end of supply chains, you can't just go buy a fan when you realize you need one, because they are all sold out.

I worked at a hardware store during the 2013 heat wave (temps in the 90s) and we couldn't keep fans in stock

There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social

A lot of people that the system has been working just fine for are coming to the realization that most of our institutions are a facade. If you’re new to feeling this systemically unsafe, it’s really scary; it feels like they’ve taken both the guardrails AND the road. And no one is coming to fix it.

White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”

What I've seen with the people in my life is really tough. These are people who committed to serving the common good, usually for less pay than they'd get elsewhere. They're often completely invisible to the general public, but do essential work.

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I was thinking about this the other day when I heard that some think AI is going to “solve” the climate crisis for us…are there people that think AI will just do our science? Like do they think a computer could design and execute experiments, collect novel data, or make novel observations?

Few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities - AP-NORC Most of the public believes that colleges and universities make significant contributions to scientific and technological advancement and think their federal research funding should be maintained.

The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:

ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs? One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

“Perseverance has its limits. The erosion of these institutions’ integrity—and the growing realization that it is impossible to fulfill their missions in good faith—has made the cost of continuing untenable.”

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But I guess, as the sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom often reminds us, “the institution cannot love you”

I feel a lot of anger that I don’t know where to direct that NSF (the institution not individual people) *asked* marginalized people to do this work and/or *encouraged* this work and turned around to punish those marginalized people for the gift of their service

What strikes me about the NSF termination data is exactly this: the PIs *doing the work* of making science more inclusive are primarily women, people of color, people with disabilities, and all intersections of those identities.

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But did you find any forams…

I like to grill or sear them to burn off any spikes that might be left after prep. They also taste great a little smoky