Michelle María Early Capistrán

Listening to the Borderlands Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.

For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about two sound art projects centering the borderlands, the Dia Foundation’s Echoes from the Borderlands and UTEP rhetoric professors’ Border Soundscapes:

www.theborderchronicle.com/p/listening-...

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French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism So much for free speech in America?

Legitimate criticism of Trump's administration occurs everywhere—and it’s no secret that Musk’s DOGE cut millions in scientific research—so the idea that criticism of this equates to terrorism, and results in someone being barred from the U.S., is absurd.

Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 2, mechanics of the interview By  David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness o…

Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share!

www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm

Ok, this is affecting privileged people now. Will that make anyone pay attention?

Irony is dead.

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

A lot of this also applies to #anthropology. Our fields are more needed than ever, and also more than ever struggling to justify our existence. No coincidence.

#academicsky

Seagrass Gardening • The Revelator From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.

Nice article from @the-revelator.bsky.social by Melissa Gaskill - Seagrass Gardening "From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide." therevelator.org/seagrass-gar...

Back to the future with eugenics.

We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science - Impact of Social Sciences Beyond their short-term implications, Trump's executive orders represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.

Good one on the impacts on social sciences:

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Migrants stranded in Mexico try to restart life after Trump eliminates legal pathway to US Many migrants have been left stranded in Mexican border cities after the Trump administration immediately canceled tens of thosands of appointments made through a government app called CBP One that of...

“We just have to start over,” says a mom from Venezuela, stranded in Tijuana after her CBP one appointment was canceled. Let’s remember the hundreds of people who are stuck in limbo in Tijuana, with no safe home to go back to.
apnews.com/article/immi...

Mexican wolf numbers grow but advocates warn of budget cuts, poor genetics The 2024 count of Mexican wolves showed at least 286 of the endangered animals living in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, an increase of 11% since 2023.

Budget cuts are now threatening Mexican wolf #conservation 🧪

@theborderchronicle.bsky.social

tucson.com/news/local/e...

We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science - Impact of Social Sciences Beyond their short-term implications, Trump's executive orders represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.

Must read.

#academicsky #socialsciene 🧪

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

ATTENTION

If anyone from Columbia is interested in communicating with reporters and/or can share documents to help reporters cover this nightmare and cover it accurately,

PLEASE reach out to me (or have them do so) on signal (jeremymberg.78).

1/n

(PDF) Voces del oleaje: ecología política de las tortugas marinas en la costa de Oaxaca PDF | On Jan 1, 2010, Michelle María Early Capistrán published Voces del oleaje: ecología política de las tortugas marinas en la costa de Oaxaca | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Rese...

How about this one?

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I'll just leave this here and walk away slowly...

#academicsky 🧪

Troubling article on the work to save the smallest and rarest turtle. #seaturtle #marineturtle 🦑🌐🌍🦤🧪🐢

All on spot, though as per your broader agrument (beyond this thread) there is indeed no liberal answer. Wish the author signalled beyond virtue signalling.

Welcome to the club

Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup March 7 Welcome to our first weekly roundup! It's all here; from a border surveillance blimp that crashed in Dallas, to a podcast on Trump's immigration agenda, and the deadly EU/US deportation machine.

We're trying something new at The Border Chronicle 🦂

Check out our new weekly roundup, and our "ask an expert" section. This week we have invited immigration expert
@austinkocher.com Read the newsletter on how you can submit your most confounding immigration questions for our expert to answer 🦂🔥

It's capitalism

Frontiers | 50 YEARS OF INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT-HISTORY AND THREATS TO SPECIES The United States Endangered Species Act celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023. As a hallmark piece of environmental legislation, the Act has successfully ...

Stoked about this new article on 50 years of the Endangered Species act by @vmshirey.bsky.social and an amazing team of conservation scientists!

🧪 #academicsky

www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...

Flyer for the DC and nationwide rally on March 7, 2025. "Stand up for Science", "Science is for everyone".

To everyone in the U.S. standing up for science today, calling for policies that support science, not suppress it: we’re with you! Cutting science doesn’t just harm scientists – it harms society as a whole. #StandUpForScience

I Know Exactly What They Are Doing Rural foresight

Very lucid commentary.

US folks, please talk to people that have seen this play out before. This strategy has already been tested.

jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...

Lee Cataluna: The Resistance Is Aloha Decide to be a warrior in your own way, sharing what you have, being reliable and reliably kind.

The Resistance is Aloha 🤙

Beautiful reflection by #Hawai'i playwrite Lee Cataluna

www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/lee-...

Sadly such a common experience for women in STEM! It's at least good to see it being recognized vocally.

More of these

🧪 #academicsky

More than half of all academics report the current EOs are impacting their productivity & >90% report low confidence in the government. Most alarming we are at greatest risk of losing scholars with minoritized identities. Great (& fast) summary of concerns in higher ed by @lluaces.bsky.social et al.