@snorrithepriest.bsky.social
Writer, translator, educator, researcher, sustainability policy wonk & human concerned for our common Earthly home. Proud resister of Fascism in all its guises. I post in my personal capacity.
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A quote from Madeleine Thomson, Head of Impacts and Adaptation at Wellcome. The quote reads "We need urgent climate action to protect people and our planet. To do that, we must make the health impacts of climate change visible." A photo of Madeleine shows her smiling at the camera, looking kind and determined. She has short grey hair, glasses and a red blazer over a black shirt.
The impacts of climate change on our physical and mental health aren’t always visible.
Why? [1/4]
Autoimmune diseases pit the body against itself, leading to devastating consequences. But could new therapies finally bring an end to these conditions?
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Screenshot of meme from The Language Nerds that says "Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve."
And the neologism of the day is 'apocalyptorecrudescence,' whose gist I reckon we can all work out.
#apocalyptorecrudescence
On the change of direction Jeff Bezos has declared in the Washington Post Editorial Page:
Yeah, that's what we need in the current market of ideas and news opinion, Jeff -- more of those criminally underserved billionaire apologetics.
#WaPo #Bezos #EditorialPage
How can nonprofit and foundation leaders adapt quickly and develop clear plans for continuing their work under the Trump administration? Rev. Bernice King talks to the Chronicle of Philanthropy about how nonprofit and foundation leaders must adapt and create new strategies. phlnthrp.com/4kcsGDj
25.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.
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Image of a post shared from 8 years ago announcing the publication of the volume Contesting Environmental Imaginaries (2017), ed. Steven Hartman.
From #greenwashing to #greenwarring in 8 years. We cannot wait to decide where we will go from here. Slipping back nostalgically to another age is not an option. The Human Age of environmental impacts is in progress and it is literally fueling accelerated #ClimateChange & a Sixth Mass #Extinction.
25.02.2025 08:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S
EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
There. Fixed.
16.02.2025 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Offer examples of what can be done now, big acts and small, not a dream of counter-factuals. You can begin by not going along now with unanimous consent motions in the confirmation processes. Clog the oligarchic machine tearing down our federal government from the inside. Obstruct the destruction.
12.02.2025 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The AHA has sent a letter to President Trump regarding his dismissal of the Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen J. Shogan. 🗃️
10.02.2025 15:35 — 👍 101 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 11There will be a lot of death and suffering resulting from these executive orders.
08.02.2025 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
08.02.2025 22:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
05.02.2025 14:27 — 👍 62531 🔁 26237 💬 2772 📌 2164
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
04.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 28144 🔁 15954 💬 1296 📌 3733Good to meet many friends, new and old, here on #Bluesky.
02.02.2025 23:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#ClimateChange and #TranslationalHumor.
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Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives:
Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could.
That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
The UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Year in Review is out.
See what we were up to in 2024!
UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES are delighted to share our 2024 Year in Review as our first post on Bluesky. Warmest appreciation to all who joined in our journey in 2024. We hope many more will join us in 2025!
#UNESCO #BRIDGESCoalition #sustainability #science #humanities
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We are living in a democratic emergency. It is a profound mistake to go along to get along.
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The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
Figure from paper showing (a) Four framings of Indigenous futures thinking evident from the literature (Adaptation oriented, Participatory, Culturally grounded, and Indigenising), and the key ideas and science underpinning each frame. Each new framing builds upon and includes elements of the previous framing(s), leading to some conceptual overlap between frames. (b) Geographic distribution of the four framings in this review, and numbers of publications in each country
new paper
Framings in Indigenous futures thinking: barriers, opportunities, and innovations
Cheok+
http://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01615-1
In science & policy (e.g. IPBES) there has been increasing attention paid to Indigenous futures thinking
However […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
Bluesky needs a pissed off emoji option.
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