@danielle-rivera.bsky.social
🇵🇷 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at UC-Berkeley | Just + Equitable Environments | Disaster (and Disastrous) Research | Occasionally gardening + a dog
The appearance of the sky blue Puerto Rican flag is most moving of all, given its meaning and how it was criminalized for so long. To carry it with hundreds of millions watching on national TV is certainly an important moment in Puerto Rican history and culture.
These scenes capture so much about the histories of our families: both the pains we've experienced as Puerto Ricans, but also the bonds that carried/carry us through. That they were shown on such a powerful national stage, and in solidarity with other communities with similar pains, is so moving.
As a result, posts that appear as solidarity are often not: there is not enough awareness of what Black and Latinx peoples have and continue to deal with, what we hear in our communities is rarely reflected in the news... The post below makes this point, and those are just recent names too...
And they've been happening for two decades, since the patrol was formed (and the Rangers before them). One reason I've stayed away from this app in the past months is that the discussions around ICE are often highly racialized and invisibilize the long history of Black/Brown struggles.
As many teachers are completing syllabi for the coming semester/quarter, a reminder that this resource is free and available to all!
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A California wildfire wiped out this little-known ancient forest of massive trees just before major fire-prevention work was set to begin.
“I am sad because this old-growth forest is no more. I am angry because this outcome was a choice.”
www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
I'd respond: "Which time?" 😆
Absolutely horrifying...
This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
At Grist, Laura Mallonee has just published a critically important article on the Texas flood recovery and how unincorporated boundaries are impacting equitable recovery. I was happy to chat with Laura about my ongoing research on these issues in Texas and California.
grist.org/extreme-weat...
Holy moly... our NIH grant wasn't canceled! I'm so thrilled! But that also means I now have TWO intense community-engaged research projects scheduled for Spring/Summer 2026...!
🧿 Wish me luck 🧿
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Life is chaotic right now, but watching this little Swallowtail caterpillar on my fennel plant grow and transform has been so thrilling this past week!
I blame the massive hills and steep paths! I'm constantly stumbling around campus too!
You got this! I'm looking forward to reading the papers!
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Yep, I need to refill our back-up water supply!
Yes! It seems to keep going, rattling the windows at the end of the work day today!
they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements
I think so!
Right near our neighborhood, woke us up with the house swaying and a frenzy of alarms going off!
Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It was ultimately realizing that this work I do is entirely invisible to all but one of my coworkers and the anger that generated inside of me. I'm tired, I know from our mentorship community that we all are tired and don't have energy for academic games right now.
I broke today. It wasn't what happened today, it was the Supreme Court ruling yesterday, and turning to my Black/Indigenous/Latinx mentees not knowing what to say to them. It was silence from white colleagues. It was having to tell my mentorship community one of our heroes passed away last weekend.