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Julia Wester, PhD

@drjuliawester.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, educator, organizer | Field School and UMiami | Unironically loves Florida, even when it hurts me

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026
"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
no amnesty
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026
We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Anyone else notice an uptick in ads from AI companies taking a “no really! We love people. go humanity! We’re not trying to do evil. All in this together” tone? I’ve heard commercials to that effect from two different companies in less than 24 hours.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I wrote a paper about changing patterns in online science communication It's been shared 300-ish times on Twitter. And 6,300+ times on Bluesky. I've never had a paper prove it's own point so quickly! doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sorry but the crudest parody of a Woke 1 feminist was basically just correct about powerful men and their insecurities and how disastrous that was. Everyday Feminism 101 article on Toxic Masculinity basically the book of Nostradamus.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Some day, two people are going to go on the Joe Rogan show. The first person will say, "Everything Person #2 tells you is a lie." Person #2 will say, "I am lying." And Joe Rogan will spend the rest of the show spluttering and eventually have a stroke. This will happen to Ezra Klein someday as well.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"
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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm reading a bunch of papers on the integration of social sciences into conservation science and practice. I am sad to say that from what I can tell all of this is also gender.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/07/2026
In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
📢Super important new work led by #ECR @clemencywhite.bsky.social driving towards more positive, inclusive, safer #fieldwork experiences for all. doi.org/10.1093/ices... @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @drcatmac.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social 🙏Please read & share
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Past experiences can inform better practice for marine fieldwork
Abstract. Field-based research is a common component of marine science and many researchers cite field opportunities as a reason for pursuing a career in t
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Worth noting that they are clearly “allowed” to be as racist as they want they are just also demanding a right to be liked despite being racist. No sorry people can draw conclusions that you’re a miserable person they don’t want to associate with.
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Plasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 08/05/2026
Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I found it!
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
the penne opticon
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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I’m trying to find the tweet/skeet about someone saying they are going to organize an uprising of the people but they are one of the most personally off putting people you’ve ever met. Anyone got it?
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Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I teach a weekend workshop on Excel for undergraduates every year. Excel is always a little persnickety but this year had way more instances of just buggy nonsense (e.g., functions just not showing up for some students). I sort of instinctual blame vibecoding for this? Is that right?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
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"I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2026
calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity
Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/04/2026
A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
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In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month
It’s just one month, but it’s a sign of where the U.S. is headed as renewable energy — namely solar — surges onto the grid.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 11/04/2026
It represents the best of us. It was a peaceful mission that constituted an international effort; the ESA was involved and built the service module, there was a Canadian astronaut onboard... It's a glimpse, even in dark times, of all we *can* be both as a nation and, more importantly, as a species.
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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 08/04/2026
I’m old enough to remember when Wisconsin was lost forever, doomed to be run by Scott Walker for all eternity
BREAKING NEWS
Chris Taylor won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, widening liberal control of the court to a 5-to-2 majority.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/04/2026
"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Tomorrow is the last day to take our science communication survey!
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Ok step one is to make them look less delicious
WIRECUTTER
Microplastics Are
Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Eating Them.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Cities can now achieve “what was once thought impossible”: cutting air pollution by 20–45% in little more than a decade. 19 cities, including London, San Francisco and Beijing, cut levels of both PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by more than 20% since 2010. buff.ly/hsm3JlY #ShareGoodNewsToo
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/03/2026
And formally, according to our law, Depose him
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/03/2026
coffee just hit my hand....
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a cartoon character is standing in front of a castle with a lightning bolt coming out of it .
ALT: a cartoon character is standing in front of a castle with a lightning bolt coming out of it .
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.
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Deborah La Torre @deblatorre.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
There isn’t an APA style pizza, yet.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 24/03/2026
Actually doing political work is not cool. It's a lot of being in meetings with earnest dorks who remind you of your parents. If you want to be edgy and badass and aloof and SO much cooler than the normies, you should get into obscure film or fashion or music or whatever.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It’s just funny that they’re still pretending it’s because he was such a great general and not because he fought for ethnonationalism and slavery. All that edglord nonsense and they still can’t be honest bsky.app/profile/bern...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/03/2026
oh wow another piece of shit company that needs to be destroyed via lawsuits and regulation
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