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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle-rivera.bsky.social
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🇵🇷 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at UC-Berkeley | Just + Equitable Environments | Disaster (and Disastrous) Research | Occasionally gardening + a dog

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Agreed, please place a trigger warning if you are sharing these videos. These are human beings and peoples' friends and family. I had to step away from my computer the first time I saw it.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So many women are suffering quietly because it is so taboo to share what they are experiencing (or have experienced)... Any movement towards removing the spectre around this is immensely positive.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Regina George (Rachel McAdams) 'Take That Fake'
ALT: Regina George (Rachel McAdams) 'Take That Fake'
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
if you’re getting behind on administrative tasks — car registration, doctor appointments, dental cleanings, passport renewal, organizing the house — I cannot recommend enough ✨writing a novel✨
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As we launch Survey 2, in the past year I've worked with NPHS in LA County to support three manufactured housing communities (MHCs) impacted by the 2025 Palisades Fire. Our report from Survey 1 helped support two senate bills in CA for MHC disaster recovery: www.just-environments.org/2026-mhcs-po...
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2026 Post-Palisades Fire MHC Survey 1 — Just Environments Lab
This research brief analyzes our first survey of manufactured housing (MH) residents in three manufactured housing communities (MHCs) impacted by the 2025 Los Angeles Fires. All three were impacted by...
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I am having so much trouble believing this is real. He was one of the most generous and kind scholars. My heart is broken.
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
And it features stellar new work from many of your climate justice favorites, including @aldasky.bsky.social, @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, @akirarodriguez.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, and many others. cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...
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Building Postcarbon Futures | Columbia University Press
What would a postcarbon future look like? How would a more just, decarbonized world require us to change the way we live? What would it take to build this wo... | CUP
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2026
Emergency officials in Hawaii ordered people near a dam in the northern part of Oahu to evacuate on Friday and warned that it was in danger of failing after heavy rain overnight pushed the reservoir to critically high levels. nyti.ms/4spFbiE
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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.
Photo of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show: holding the Puerto Rican independence flag.Photo of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show: in a simulated sugarcane field with jíbaros.Photo of Ricky Martin at the Super Bowl halftime show.Photo of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show: in a Puerto Rican wedding and family celebration.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
As many teachers are completing syllabi for the coming semester/quarter, a reminder that this resource is free and available to all!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/11/2025
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
Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Linking variation in water democracy to system performance on the human right to water
Nature Water - Access to safe, affordable and accessible drinking water is influenced by various socioeconomic factors. A survey of a large number of California water systems shows how different...
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Julie Johnson @jjreport.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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...
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‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out
Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.
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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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...
a, Total incidence of TCs on CONUS by month. Bar height is sum of average maximum wind speeds for all state-by-storm events. Colours correspond to decades. b, Stacked overlapping excess mortality responses to each storm for all of CONUS. Each storm response aggregates state-level responses nationally, accounting for state-level population and adaptation. Outline colours correspond to the decade when the TC occurred. The upper envelope is the total estimated mortality burden for CONUS resulting from all TCs occurring during the prior 172 months (see Supplementary Fig. 3). c, Official deaths directly resulting from TCs for each month according to NOAA National Hurricane Center and NOAA National Weather Service6,7. The y-axis scale is the same for b and c.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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...
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Texas floods showed why many rural communities feel abandoned in a crisis
Almost a third of Americans live in unincorporated communities beyond city limits, where disaster aid can confuse and frustrate.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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!
A series of three photographs showing a Swallowtail butterfly caterpillar grow and turn into a chrysalis.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Right near our neighborhood, woke us up with the house swaying and a frenzy of alarms going off!
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney Calls on Syracuse University to Fire Professors Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk's
Murder or Face Loss of Federal Funding
September 17, 2025 | Press Release
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24)
today issued the following statement after reports surfaced o that two professors at Syracuse University mocked the brutal murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk:
"While Americans across the country are mourning the tragic murder of Charle Kirk, two Syracuse University professors, Jenn Jackson and Farhana Sultana, used their platforms to celebrate and mock his death," said Congresswoman Tenney.
Their appalling remarks included comments such as 'rest in piss, 'give him what he valued: no empathy, referring to him as 'trash, and even thanking a so-called 'witch' for cursing his life."
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By Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. - Syracuse University said
Wednesday it had taken swift action to address an uproar over social media posts made by two professors about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In a statement, the university implied it had placed both professors on leave and promised to treat the matter "with utmost seriousness.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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.
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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 09/09/2025
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It's been a looong 2-3 year process, but this book chapter is coming out at the end of the month! Timely as we can learn so much about organizing and resistance from Casa Pueblo and its founding family! The chapter is meant as a "thank you" to them. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Resisting Colonialismo Ambiental and Colonialismo Desastre | 21 | The
Environmental and climate activism is increasingly criticized for remaining too closely associated with oppressive governance processes, impeding systemic
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
Hawaii to join West Coast Health Alliance with California, Oregon, and Washington
SACRAMENTO – Roughly 24 hours after the launch of the West Coast Health Alliance, Hawaii is joining California, Oregon, and Washington in a shared commitment to safeguard public health. Together, these states will provide evidence-based immunization guidance rooted in safety, efficacy, and transparency — ensuring residents receive credible information free from political interference.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Explosion at Louisiana Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
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Explosion at Louisiana Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout
As oily rain fell on Roseland, where 90% of kids live in poverty, the Trump administration is considering gutting chemical-disaster safeguards.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A week and a half remaining to submit your CV to the POCIG CV Book!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I set an aggressive no AI policy in my classes this Fall, but took time to discuss it with students, expressing openness to changing the policy if they saw issues. All my students were like "the policy sounds great!" I don't think the enthusiasm to use this new tech exists in all disciplines.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say
Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention
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NPR @npr.org · 31/08/2025
Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
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Public media stations in rural America say emergency alert funding is in jeopardy
Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
As someone who researches and works on issues of disasters: this is absolutely terrible and only makes us all less safe.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I've filled out so many forms and emails for the university today, I'm literally starting to misspell my name as "Dnaielle" on everything. No clue why, but my brain is officially broken!
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/08/2025
can ai suffer? no, and that’s a shame
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Preparing the first lecture for my Public Participation class and strengthening my plea to stop using Arnstein's "Ladder of Citizen Participation" without acknowledging how it responds to a context from nearly 60 years ago. It is a critical part of participation history, but highly outdated. 1/2
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 22/08/2025
A fast-moving wildfire broke out Thursday on the northern edge of Calistoga, prompting emergency evacuation orders for parts of rural Napa County as crews race to contain the flames. The Pickett Fire has burned more than 1,000 acres. Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
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Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.
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