Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A 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. 131652495
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Agreed, 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. 030
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 24/08/2026So 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. 020
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters. 331190326
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026static.klipy.comRegina George (Rachel McAdams) 'Take That Fake'ALT: Regina George (Rachel McAdams) 'Take That Fake' 000
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026if 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✨ 839253
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 21/07/2026As 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...just-environments.org2026 Post-Palisades Fire MHC Survey 1 — Just Environments LabThis 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... 130
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I am having so much trouble believing this is real. He was one of the most generous and kind scholars. My heart is broken. 1112
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraBilly Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026And 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...cup.columbia.eduBuilding Postcarbon Futures | Columbia University PressWhat 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 032
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The 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. 245107442056
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2026Emergency 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 29734
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026There 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. 271934397
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026These 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. 1171
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 28/01/2026And 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. 120
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 15/01/2026As many teachers are completing syllabi for the coming semester/quarter, a reminder that this resource is free and available to all! 040
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/11/2025Alice 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 1034397923
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025NEW: 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. 986141198913
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comLinking variation in water democracy to system performance on the human right to waterNature 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... 0158
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraJulie Johnson @jjreport.bsky.social · 06/10/2025A 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...sfchronicle.com‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped outOld growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California. 23710
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraSeth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This 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... 17531
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 30/09/2025At 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...grist.orgTexas floods showed why many rural communities feel abandoned in a crisisAlmost a third of Americans live in unincorporated communities beyond city limits, where disaster aid can confuse and frustrate. 081
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Holy 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 🧿 1200
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Life is chaotic right now, but watching this little Swallowtail caterpillar on my fennel plant grow and transform has been so thrilling this past week! 0130
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025More 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...miamiherald.comHundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving siteAs 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. 11953189619319
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraCorinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025they’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 422342553
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Right near our neighborhood, woke us up with the house swaying and a frenzy of alarms going off! 460
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening. 88035
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025It’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. 8352641192
Reposted by Danielle Zoe Riveraelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/09/2025UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ moveProminent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’ 2453223
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I 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. 1180
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraLiam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 09/09/2025If *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. 4031081013
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/09/2025It'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...taylorfrancis.comResisting Colonialismo Ambiental and Colonialismo Desastre | 21 | TheEnvironmental and climate activism is increasingly criticized for remaining too closely associated with oppressive governance processes, impeding systemic 040
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429... 12989513441
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025Hawaii 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. 5844491383
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraDr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Explosion at Louisiana Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic Fallout - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...capitalbnews.orgExplosion at Louisiana Oil Plant Leaves Black Community Coated in Toxic FalloutAs oily rain fell on Roseland, where 90% of kids live in poverty, the Trump administration is considering gutting chemical-disaster safeguards. 13212
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 02/09/2025A week and a half remaining to submit your CV to the POCIG CV Book! 010
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I 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. 3152
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This 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...theguardian.comFirefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers sayLawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention 18261062823
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraNPR @npr.org · 31/08/2025Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.n.prPublic media stations in rural America say emergency alert funding is in jeopardyWithout congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather. 41989346
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 28/08/2025As someone who researches and works on issues of disasters: this is absolutely terrible and only makes us all less safe. 070
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I'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! 000
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/08/2025can ai suffer? no, and that’s a shame 340960
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Preparing 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. 1/2 130
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraSan Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 22/08/2025A 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... 11910
Reposted by Danielle Zoe RiveraLorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 20/08/2025ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...rwjf.orgRapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity ResearchThe 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. 1202147