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Dean Hardy

@deanhardy.bsky.social
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geographer; associate professor; studying anti-racism, environmental justice, & climate change mostly in floodplains

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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How deep does racial coastal formation go? Pretty far back. Ancient coastlines led to siting of plantations and enslaved populations. As @aaronjbecker.bsky.social highlights below, this social-ecological relationship, that developed over millennia, shapes contemporary politics.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An Endangered Southern Citrus Tree Created The Aperitivo You’ll Love More Than Aperol #SapeloIsland #SaltwaterGeechee #GullahGeechee
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An Endangered Southern Citrus Tree Created The Aperitivo You’ll Love More Than Aperol
Athens, Georgia-based Creature Comforts Brewing Company launched an aperitivo that’s sold in partnership with Save Our Legacy Ourself, or SOLO, a nonprofit working to preserve the heritage, agricultur...
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The African American people are the Spirit of Sapelo" #SapeloIsland #GullahGeechee
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The Spirit of Sapelo
YouTube video by Creature Comforts Brewing Co.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hell yeah!!
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2508202...
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The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says - Inside Climate News
Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes please. More of this.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This Rare Georgia Red Pea Is Helping Protect A Historic Geechee Community
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This Rare Georgia Red Pea Is Helping Protect A Historic Geechee Community
The Sapelo Island red pea has a significance that goes beyond the plate. Maurice Bailey, following in the footsteps of his late mother and activist Cornelia Walker Bailey, believes that as long as the...
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Science often helps see the unseen. @kylerunion.bsky.social shows how #saltmarsh vulnerability to #sealevelrise lies below the surface. #CoastalGeorgia
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The grass looks healthy. But most of Georgia's marshes are losing their roots to sea level rise - The Current
Researcher Kyle Runion is studying how frequent flooding and lost belowground biomass contribute to the risk of marsh drowning across Georgia's coastline.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oyster reef restoration on #SapeloIsland #GullahGeechee #KeepSapeloGeechee
Man deploying bagged oyster shells from boat on edge of tidal marsh creek in mud next to salt marsh grass.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The brutality is so much. Deported From the U.S., Trapped in a Prison in Africa h
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Video: Deported From the U.S., Trapped in a Prison in Africa
Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in ...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"The nation's two largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell on the Colorado River — have fallen to their lowest levels on record. It's a moment of reckoning in the drought-stricken West" #USA 🇺🇸 #ClimateEmergency
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Colorado River reservoirs hit record lows as Trump administration threatens major cuts
It's a moment of reckoning in the drought-stricken West as seven states can't agree on how to share the rapidly shrinking water supply.
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Politico @politico.com · 14/07/2026
House votes to make daylight saving time permanent
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House votes to make daylight saving time permanent
The legislation faces an uncertain path in the Senate.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trying to dispossess Black people has never stopped but never has the fighting back and the resistance.
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Protect Sapelo. Defend Our Legacy.
Podcast Episode · Apathy Is Not An Option · July 2 · 46m
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 08/07/2026
Returning a tennis serve depends on one of the brain’s most remarkable abilities: predicting the future.
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What happens inside a tennis player’s brain as they try to return a 148mph serve?
Returning a tennis serve depends on one of the brain’s most remarkable abilities: predicting the future.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Georgia businesses support Sapelo Island through sour orange liqueur
YouTube video by CBS News Atlanta
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Athens brewery supporting Sapelo Island's Gullah-Geechee people with special spirit - CBS Atlanta
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
😮
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/04/2026
Concern over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over. www.wired.com/story/the-su...
wired.com
The Summer the American Water Crisis Turned Real
Concern over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities." The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Southern University stands with and supports frontline communities. Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... #HBCU #HBCUalum #Justiceforshiloh
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I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities
Nicknamed the father of environmental justice, Robert Bullard argues that researchers in the field have more reason than ever to back up their work with action.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
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Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/08/2025
The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
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Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
As someone with a six-year-old and 2 one-year-olds, this is exactly what I’ve been seeing as well: “What to do when the President acts like five-year-old”
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Opinion | When Trump Fires the Ref, What Game Are We Playing?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/08/2025
also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/08/2025
So, basically, going forward, we're going to have: ☑️ fake economic numbers ☑️ fake census numbers ☑️ fake public health numbers ☑️ no education numbers at all
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Friends — I'm pleased to be joining The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert on Monday (8/4). I'm sure Stephen and I will have a lot to discuss, including my new book "Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America." Please tune in so the ratings don't come up short.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 01/08/2025
"There are moments in history when silence is not neutral. When pretending not to know is the most violent thing a nation can do. We are standing at such a moment now." - @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social on the EPA climate denial rule.
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The Endangerment Is Us
As the EPA guts the legal basis for addressing climate change, Dr. Mustafa Ali warns Black, Brown, and poor communities will pay the price.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
There’s always too much to be done. We (academics) most always get through it though, right? If I can just remember that the amount of anxiety I feel is independent of how much needs to get done or even gets done, it’s easier to roll with it.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I have not been surprised by much but admit to being surprised by how blatantly open an authoritarian regime can be with its corruption without consequence or loss of supporters. “Trump Administration Live Updates: Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Prison After Justice Dept. Questioning on Epstein”
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Prison After Justice Dept. Questioning on Epstein
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.
annualreviews.org
Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews
This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 31/07/2025
BREAKING: A federal court rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to re-detain our client Mahmoud Khalil and blocked the government from using bogus “foreign policy” grounds to deport him while they appeal. This is a big win — Mahmoud will remain free.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/07/2025
“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe. "Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
diverseeducation.com
DOJ Investigation into George Mason Faculty Senate Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns
AAUP President calls federal probe "gross misuse of power" as university faces fifth inquiry in five weeks.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29/07/2025
Aging US dams face increasing overtopping risks due to changing hydrologic conditions. A study in Nature Communications evaluates 33 dams using updated frequency analysis and identifies six dams with the greatest probability, posing risks to downstream populations. go.nature.com/3IMV4xH 🧪
This is figure 4, which shows the location of dams that were categorized as the critical overtopping probability (i.e., not very low) in more than half of the 21 30-year windows and the most recent time window (1993–2022).
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links
RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 25/07/2025
Columbia’s $200M deal with the Trump administration isn’t just about antisemitism — it expands federal oversight into admissions, hiring and more. We unpack the agreement in a Q&A with a #highered scholar: theconversation.com/columbias-20... #edusky
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Columbia’s $200M deal with Trump administration sets a precedent for other universities to bend to the government’s will
While Columbia University can afford to pay the government $200 million in order to unfreeze federal grants and contracts it was awarded, many other universities and colleges could not.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/07/2025
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The National Science Board, the governing body for NSF, meets tomorrow. Timely too with today's NSF employee dissent letter. CLOSED agenda items include: NSF staffing, relocation, and director search. PUBLIC items include updates on "Gold Standard" science & Grad Research Fellowships.
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National Science Board
NSB governs NSF, develops Science and Engineering Indicators, and advises the President and Congress on S&E policy, research and education issues.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The unsurprising yet despicable aspects never end. Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.
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Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Add your signature to the petition: No ICE Detention Camp in South Carolina. Anti-immigrant politicians want to build a version of Florida's disastrous Alligator Alcatraz facility here in South Carolina. We, the undersigned, say "Not in our names." action.aclu.org/petition/no-...
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No ICE Detention Camp in South Carolina
Sign the Petition: No ICE Detention Camp in South Carolina.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs - AP News apnews.com/article/epa-...
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EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If you work with US Census data, this and #tidycensus from @kylewalker.bsky.social are the only way you should be doing it, imo. I stopped using DataFerrett and the Census data website around 2016/17 because #tidycensus is amazing!
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Useful thread on current proposed budget for NOAA and NSF coming out of Congress
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
An Important Lesson for These Times from Environmental Justice’s Earliest Days - Union of Concerned Scientists blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...
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An Important Lesson for These Times from Environmental Justice’s Earliest Days
EJ's ability to make a difference in overburdened and underserved communities will be drastically affected by what happens within the federal government, but its vibrancy has never been predicated on ...
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Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Some relatively good news and hope within the current times. “Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/07/2025
"Americans have never witnessed anything like the corruption that President Donald Trump and his inner circle have perpetrated in recent months. Its brazenness, volume, and variety defy historical comparison" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
Text from the 1990 global change research act (see link above).
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This caught my eye when it was still a preprint, and I’m so happy to see it out. Everyone talking about the applications of AI to health or conservation or you name it… needs to reckon with this
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BBC: Heatwaves in June more likely due to climate change www.bbc.com/weather/arti...
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Heatwaves in June made 10 times more likely due to climate change
As our climate warms, the number of June days reaching 28C plus is increasing.
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