Lydia Jennings, PhD

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Excited to chat about our upcoming guidelines for publishing Indigenous data, co-created by 150 Indigenous scholars, academic publishers and data repositories.

NISO Webinars logo with URL: http://niso.org/events

This Wed. Oct, 8: Join Jane Anderson (@localcontexts.bsky.social) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social @kvrouwen.bsky.social & @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social for a discussion of Data Governance & Indigenous Sovereignty w/moderator Melissa Stoner. Free for NISO members: niso.org/events/data-...

Living our best fall life and look we had our first maple creemee (why have I not had this sooner?!?)

WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Wow this is wild— especially given how widely inclusive SACNAS is off all races, fields of study, and career pathways. SACNAS has become a premier conference for undergraduate researchers at large.

I’d imagine the people making these decisions have never attended a conference.

My first time! It’s so stunning!

#Fallcolors in Northern Vermont from this weekend… it was the perfect decompression from all the activity at #NYCClimateWeek, and a reminder of how beautiful our earth is, and the work we need to do to protect our environment!

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

"Trump directives have undermined a 75-year history of independence and threaten the National Science Foundation's vaunted track record for excellence"
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Map: 25 States Plus DC Have Taken Actions To Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Access

UPDATE: 25 states plus DC have taken actions to protect COVID-19 vaccine access.

Two regional public health alliances have formed: The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance.

There are several midwest and mountain states who have collaboration potential.

Photograph of Lydia presenting findings at a conference event

❤️ Have you shared your perspectives on the survey led by the GBIF #TaskGroup on Indigenous data governance?

This week, task group chair @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social shared initial results of the survey at the Living Data, Living Lands event at #ClimateWeekNYC.

🔗gbif.link/Indigenous...

Fantastic “Climate Strides” event by “Where the Climate Things Are” and @protectourwinters.bsky.social — the perfect way to start my day of #NYCClimateWeek— learning with experts and building community through our love or running!

US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals The U.S. discards vast quantities of critical minerals in mine waste each year - including enough lithium to power 10 million EVs.

US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals.

There’s enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste to power 10 million electric vehicles.

grist.org/science/us-m...

#Mining #Climate #Mines #Lithium #EV #Batteries #Minerals

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The food at HHMI is soo delicious! One of my favorite parts of the SACNAS leadership training… also the trails are so green!! Highly recommended dance party in the laundry room like we did 🤣

I saw someone have this on a bio, and damn, GOALS

"I respond to as many messages as I can, don't read or make comments and have no other socials. Try it, it's easier on your relationships and you get more work done (and do less damage in the world)."

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Excited to host my first event here @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social! We will be having a session on Indigenous land restoration with two baddies in the field, Dr. Melinda Adams @scholarmelinda.bsky.social and Dr. Cherie Devore (aka AISES Early Career Scholar of the year) on Oct. 10th!

I got this sent to me from a Pascua Yaqui undergraduate student in Tucson who is in a soils class this semester. She said it was so meaningful to see not only women but someone from her tribe up there. I just about cried. This work matters. We matter ❤️🤍💙

If you use @gbif.org data, please take our survey! It will help inform us on how to advance Indigenous data governance efforts with GBiF & open biodiversity data.

Should take 15-20 mins; partial answers are ok!

THANK YOU!

New Mexico setting the standard! Love my home state 🫶🏽

American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway. The CEO of a seabed mining startup says the decision about mining leases will be made in Washington, D.C.

American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway.

The CEO of a seabed mining startup says the decision about mining leases will be made in Washington, D.C.

grist.org/indigenous/a...

#Mining #Oceans #Animals #Climate #Environment #Policy #Politics

Thanks this is really helpful and has some interesting sessions !

Climate Strides Returns to Central Park We are excited to announce *five* Climate Strides events at NYC Climate Week!

ok good to know! And yes let's! I am doing theClimate Strides event on Weds AM as one of the environmental scientists joining but otherwise most mornings are free! wtcta.substack.com/p/climate-st...

New York climate week… what advice do you have for a first timer?

Where is the weekly agenda for things?

It feels so scattered and overwhelming lol😅.

Nutritional analysis of commercially available, complete plant- and meat-based dry dog foods in the UK Background Adoption of a plant-based diet is a popular lifestyle choice for many owners of canine companion animals. Increasingly, owners would like to feed their canine companions a similar diet. A p...

Complete #dogfood is, by definition, supposed to be nutritionally replete in macro- & micronutrients. #Plantbased diets for #dogs can provide #nutrition adequacy, especially if supplemented with select micronutrients: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Funniest/most maddening conversation is hearing my dad trying to explain to my mom how WiFi works 🤣

Bless this man’s patience 😭🙏🏽😭

The survey should take 15-20 minutes! We prefer partial responses to none.

We are so appreciative of your time and please share with your networks!

The results will provide a baseline that helps to inform, shape and prioritize the work of the GBIF task group on Indigenous data governance and future steps toward implementing the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance within the GBIF network.