Elaine Mumford

The image features a vibrant bouquet of various flowers, including red, purple, blue, yellow, and orange blooms, with green leaves and stems. The flowers are densely packed, creating a colorful and lively arrangement against a black background. Overlapping the floral design is bold white text that reads: "I WISH FOR YOU WHAT YOU WISH FOR IMMIGRANTS" The text is prominent and stands out clearly against the colorful backdrop. At the bottom, the word "TRANSPAINTER" appears, likely indicating the artist or creator of the image.

In my PhD, I'm focusing on onto-epistemologies in relation to sand and… | Elaine Mumford In my PhD, I'm focusing on onto-epistemologies in relation to sand and what I call "sandscapes," which are places like beaches, dunes and tidal flats. (Onto-epistemologies, a term coin...

Hear me talk about sand and the people who love it! Video made by Petra Damsma and @meikevedder.bsky.social from @denoordzee.bsky.social. Click through the link for the whole story.

EXTREME HEAT IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN
Record after record every single day of the month.
Today
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47.5 Khairpur
46.4 Turbat
44.4 Dera Ismail Khan
44.0 Nokkundi
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46.2 Jaisalmer
46.2 Rajkot
etc all heat records for April

Next days Pakistan will approach 50C and May will be worse

Today I'm walking out with my colleagues, friends, and supervisors from Wageningen University and Research to protest the Dutch government's proposed 1.1 billion Euro cut to higher education. In a time of global crisis, this is unacceptable. We need policy that prioritizes the future.

Really enjoyed being back on #Ameland for the TRAILS workshop, seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones! The mini holiday was a little added bonus 😊

We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you're doing, before you make any more calls or read anymore social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent. A. Go to [link] B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT"). C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.

They are trying to get rid of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as quickly as possible, but there's still time left for dissent! Go to the Federal Register and tell them exactly what you think of them compromising the future.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

#NEPA #Environment

UMaine loses multi-million-dollar Maine Sea Grant funding from NOAA It is the latest fallout for Maine from the cuts the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk has made in the last few weeks.

This is devastating! Maine Sea Grant works tirelessly for our coastal and fishing communities, their impact is widespread and spans decades. These are the best people! Call you senators and representatives. Stand up for NOAA Sea Grant programs! 💔

Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government The Times identified 49 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.

To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing.

The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My abstract was accepted! See you all at MARE! 🤩🌊

Dear all, we have also transitioned from twitter to bluesky :-) it would be great to find our followers back here. So please follow us and spread the news! We will be communicating about the MARE conference👇 and other MARE news via Linkedin and Bluesky!

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and millions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulato...

This article is a little old, but I need to make the point that if you're someone who claims to care about sustainability and/or social justice, you should not be using AI. Period. Ever. Leaving aside ethical questions about how these models are trained, their physical resource use is unacceptable.

Twitter post from Ed Markey @SenMarkey . The post lists several actions that have been blocked: 'Birthright citizenship order - BLOCKED. Federal funding cut off - BLOCKED. Illegal feds resignation plan - BLOCKED. Access to Treasury's vital data system - BLOCKED. Firing 2000 USAID workers - BLOCKED. Drastic NIH Grant Cuts - BLOCKED. Removing public health websites - BLOCKED.'

The big question was whether the White House would obey court orders and appeal them as is its right, or whether it would thumb its nose and risk contempt. The White House so far has chosen to appeal.

Really nice primer on the connection between systems thinking and co-design!

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From Mary Oliver

Today and in the coming days, remember

A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

In the eye of the beholder: exploring the hidden meanings of sand | OR ELSE Elaine Mumford, a PhD candidate at Wageningen University, spent her summer researching how people perceive and interact with sandy landscapes on the Dutch Wadden Islands. Her work explores diverse wor...

Curious about what I was up to on #Ameland and #Schiermonnikoog? Check out this article by Petra Damsma from the North Sea Foundation!

#SocialScience #Sand #WaddenIslands #Environment #EnvironmentalPolicy

Now offering my free online workshop “How *not* to use ChatGPT for fun and profit.” Here’s the outline:

1. ChatGPT is bullshitting you.

2. Yes, more than you already think.

3. Yes, it’s getting worse, not better.

4. Only a fool willingly adds more bullshit to their life.

5. Don’t be a fool.

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In 1979, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed at the White House.

Ronald Reagan had them removed.

We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.

A wish upon a star, in B.C. | The Narwhal This west coast First Nation plans to establish a dark sky festival to draw attention to our endangered, irreplaceable view of the stars

In this week’s newsletter, we tell you about one west coast First Nation’s plans to establish a dark sky festival and draw attention to our endangered, irreplaceable view of the stars: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-b...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan -The Onion

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
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Like the Olympic National Park tree, just keep hanging in there — together, we’ve got this.
Photo by Michelle Wiese.

Ik zie ik zie wat jij niet ziet: de verborgen betekenissen van zand verkennen | OR ELSE Elaine, promovendus bij de Environmental Policy Group van Wageningen Universiteit, onderzoekt hoe mensen zandige landschappen en zeegezichten waarnemen en ermee […]

Benieuwd in wat ik dit jaar aan het doen was op #Ameland en #Schiermonnikoog? Bekijk dit artikel van Petra Damsma van #StichtingdeNoordzee

#SocialScience #Sand #WaddenIslands #WaddenEilanden #Natuurbeleid #EnvironmentalPolicy

A photo of a sunset at the beach. There is a sheen of water on the sand which reflects the sky like a mirror. A strip of dark land (beach and dunes) cuts through the center of the photo and seems to float between the sky and the water. The sun is sinking into this strip of land.

Hello Bluesky! I wish I had known about this platform back in May so I could have documented my fieldwork in the #WaddenIslands in realtime. But better late than never!

I'll be using this account to post updates about my research, including publications, presentations, and milestones.