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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Got asked to keynote at a local conservation conference and the opportunity to reflect on my wild ride from ecohydrology into hydropolitics and water resource management was helpful.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Got to give a fun/therapeutic talk today with puns, cite Indigenous scholars, and joke about the mutual critiques of science-social science to anthropology students/faculty friends while sharing stories of life as an academic-regulator over the last 4 years... Nice to have only one hat now.

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Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them) @hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

We also identify 10 action items to guide the development of the discipline and the need for improved strategic investment in education and training as well as support for community-engaged and participatory research and outreach. 4/5

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Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them) @hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

We discuss the unique context of urban hydrology, with unique challenges, opportunities, and - we propose - responsibilities for scientists working in this space. We highlight the need for interdisciplinarity, a new conceptual organization, building a community of practice, and enhanced impact. 3/5

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Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them) @hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Thanks to the amazing team: @jvwilkening.bsky.social, @akkagawa.bsky.social, @sledford.bsky.social, A. Cao, X. Chen, S. Fathel, X. Feng, @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social, K. Kaiser, C. Oswald, @parolari.bsky.social, @ecowarrior-rex.bsky.social, C. Ross, P. Seibert & A. Willis 2/5

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Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them) @hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🎉🎉NEW PAPER🎉🎉 "Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle" This is some of the work I'm most proud of to date: a new commentary co-authored with 15 amazing urban hydrology (or adjacent) folks after the 2024 WaterSciCon! Details and highlights below... 1/5 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

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Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations in Urban Hydrology

Urban hydrology lacks an integrative framework across biophysical processes, social mechanisms, and governance processes We provide a path towards unified conceptualizations, efficient implementa...

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

CO2 fertilization arguments are such a distraction when real plants and ecosystems also need water (climate change translates to hydrologic intensification), nutrients, and are subject to insects, pathogens that are affected also by changing temperatures and moisture regimes.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Right then... A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts /thread/

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Pretty wild to see the variation in tsunami signals across the Hawaiian Islands. tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/map/index.html Thank you federal science.

Kahului Harbor buoy data, clear tsunami perturbation

Kawaihae, Hawaii Island. Strong increase

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS 0717 PM HST TUE 29 JUL 2025 www.tsunami.gov

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Tsunami Alerts (PTWC) from Pacific Tsunami Warning Center @tsunamialertsptwc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

#3 TSUNAMI WARNING M8.7 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 16:24PDT Jul 29 Depth 74km Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Tsunami watch just cancelled but perhaps some weird currents tmrw morning... tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/...

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Tsunami Alerts (PTWC) from Pacific Tsunami Warning Center @tsunamialertsptwc.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Update TSUNAMI WATCH M7.5 earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA 23:49PDT Jul 19 Depth 77km Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin for confirmed or potentially destructive teletsunamis generated anywhere in the Pacific Basin.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Partner found this this morning. Encapsulates the experience of this past week.

Gecko floating on water in glass bottle, top view

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Problem is the undergrads who got by using LLMs are now grad students and don't see why (I) am being a roadblock to their defense. I'm concerned ChatGPT hallucinations are sparking human hallucinations about what rigorous research actually is...

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NPR @npr.org · 03/05/2025

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

Public media is under threat. Millions depend on the NPR Network every day. Silencing journalism is one way to silence truth and erode the power of the people. Donate now.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The last months, I have been recalling how a number of my MIT Course 6 (CS) classmates would carry cash, and avoid transactions on wireless networks and Gmail. The blissful disregard as we all caved to social media has been wonderful for meeting new people and global intellectual exchange.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Scanning this list, I see LSAMP, whose small but steady funding stream has supported dozens if not hundreds of UH system students in their pursuits of STEM degrees. I heard today from someone I deem reliable that this most certainly will be eliminated...

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Thanks to this platform I feel like I've been getting good news in timely fashion. I check FB to see how a broader swath of local discourse is going, and it's tracking but a few days behind. I also checked my spam folder and skimmed "The Blackburn Report: Holding the Federal Government Accountable"

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“The scientific community needs to speak up - not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity, and morality.” www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie... 🧪 🌊⚒️

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Plainly unlawful and unconstitutional. No one can issue such an order; the President and his officers cannot simply ignore an entity created and funded by Congress.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Watching the US insanity, I'm starting to think mass movement seems more and more likely...

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The good thing about spending so much of my wandering educational journey working in community is that I got to witness how much, by working together strategically, people can accomplish with zero grant dollars but loads of social capital.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

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Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airport

As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t...

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I don't know if it helps anyone but IMO a bunch of us were doing "diversity" stuff in STEM long before it was trendy or funded, and will continue to do so. I appreciate the last 4 years for helping me see that POC don't need to go it alone, and to have hard truths mainstreamed.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

What can academics do in disaster-type settings? (many thanks to Andy Whelton who helped us in HI on the learning curve) What we did in 2 situations in HI was fill in the information needs for resident communities that local and state agencies didn't have capacity to serve.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This happened in Lahaina as well. Feeling so so heavy for the people of LA, reliving the horror of our Aug 2023 and the weeks of search and recovery that followed.

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Joseph Lee @josephvlee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oceanic island urban microclimate pilot in progress... Finally gathering some urban ecohydrology-esque data, and hopefully more coming in 2025...chasing the idea that low cost approaches can produce good science. Kudos to student Justin Kellum + many UG helpers.

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Reflecting on a rough start of the week: Preparing to teach Arnstein's ladder of participation required more mental/emotional prep than I allocated for myself. Also it's hard to talk about non participation, tokenism, and power without multiple specific incidents coming to mind as I lecture...

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

TFW you realize as the token WOC in two departments that you are 50/50 in... If you don't 100% participate in department meetings etc you get only 50% representation, which means either you burn out by having to perform at 150-200% or you can't advance anything in either department. FML

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Been feeling this the last week but also excited to see some of the diversity of old twitter moving into this space. Am cautiously hopeful that the rewiring of networks in these times and new spaces will lead to more generative exchange as opposed to the algorithm aided echo/shouting chambers

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"Government waste" brings you clean drinking water and sanitation, bridges that don't fail, smooth roads for ugly Teslas, all that infrastructure no one ever pays attention to until it is broken... And then of course when it is, unfunded public agencies still get the blame. American education: F

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Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

In this new research article in the Journal of Hydrology, we argue for a dialogue between socio-hydrology and peace and conflict research for a nuanced understanding of water management and governance. @stefandoring @KittyyKim www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD @akkagawa.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

(re)Building community, rewiring connections, growing new and overdue coalitions across differences (but not wasting time on toxicity) is the agenda for the next year here. Just gotta be smarter, more strategic, and simultaneously kinder to myself and others moving forward...

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