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Marci Baranski

@ecomarci.bsky.social
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💡 Independent consultant. graphitestudio.co 📖 Author of The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution 🌿 Ex-UNEP, ex-USDA 📌 DC

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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 9h
Being a mom means the one day you dress respectable, you end up covered in crusty baby snot and picking up Cheerios off the doctor's office floor anyway.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15h
well my day is improved approximately 10 trillion percent
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I think if we can acknowledge the kinds of logic people bring to these conversations, it creates the possibility of having better conversations. If we dismiss what they’re saying without any acknowledgement… it gets really hard to create a shared sense of understanding from which to move forward.”
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She's spent two decades talking to parents who don't vaccinate their children. Here's what she's learned
Jennifer Reich has spent two decades speaking to families about their immunization decisions. In an interview, she unpacks what she's learned.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iowa's rising cancer rate and the long-term effects of industrial agriculture. Excellent article "Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's "Cancer Alley,"" www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
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Iowa's cancer rates are rising as the nation's fall. Families want answers.
Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's Cancer Alley as residents search for answers.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spent the week in NYC for climate week. Can't help but compare how good the city vibes were to DC. We are constantly on the brink of a mental breakdown in DC.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I knew it was happening but I heard it for the first time in person today: a young person calling a government career "volatile"
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thinking at work back then: waiting for inspiration while staring into the room, holding your specs, wearing your thinking hat, and ignoring the sticky note you made yesterday. The year is 1653, and this etching is showing a thinking philosopher. #academicchatter
a three-quarter length figure, seated at a desk, turned to right; supporting his head with his left arm, which is placed on the desk covered in papers and a globe at right; and holding spectacles in his right hand. The Dutch etching from 1653 can be found over here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1848-0911-194
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First orchestra rehearsal after summer break. Somehow the notes keep looking even tinier. Are my eyes getting worse? 😅 Initial read-thru was decent except "Buckaroo Holiday" by Aaron Copland. Conductor says Copland was sexist and egotistical, but we have to get the rhythms right.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My step-mom is now asking daily for "that weird guy Nathan", so mission accomplished ✅
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Soft launching my website - anyone have a sec to check it out? Should be looking better on mobile now. graphitestudio.co
graphitestudio.co
graphite studio
strategic clarity for a better future
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have some exciting (and nerdy) news that I can't share yet which is simultaneously the best and worst type of excitement 😄
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rewatching The Rehearsal because I am very excited about this new documentary.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The fun thing about being in a family of medically-trained people is you never know which bodily fluid will be discussed during meal times.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I use LLMs on a regular basis for my work, but I do get amused by the LinkedIn AI cycle of "look at all this cool stuff AI is doing for me" followed by a month later "it turns out I didn't actually get more productive".
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The thing about the Roger Marshall story is that women getting arrested because they can’t afford their obgyn is a choice made by Congress. Most other rich countries have made a different choice.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One random perk of my marriage is I get an entry badge to the World Bank. Always weird walking thru in shorts and Birkenstocks but that's where my doctor is!
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Brings up a lot of questions about my childhood when my mom says things like, "what do you mean babies can't go in hot tubs?"
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Actually I am chronically under-hydrated and paying more attention to it has dramatically increased my mood and energy levels. One of my ADHD Kryptonites unfortunately is not having strong thirst signals 😅
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why am I being targeted
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Dr. Leon Sumbitches @leonsumbitches.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They say the difference between Michael Caine and Tim Curry was that Michael Caine treated the Muppets like they were fellow actors and Tim Curry treated the Muppets like he was a fellow Muppet
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Something about LinkedIn has gotten noticeably worse in the past week or so for me. Way more paid content, way more irrelevant influencer content.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Colorado River researcher: more than half of that cup’s water was used for agriculture, and the majority of that was for cattle feed, some of which was exported to the Middle East where growing feed is restricted due to water scarcity
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me: If I was autistic certainly someone would have noticed by now. Also me: Immediately makes a mental ranking of the coffee mugs when staying at someone's house.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Glanced at my husband's phone and he's just looking at pictures of literal meat 🥓 This is what I get for marrying a German 😅
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Zandra Fagernäs @zandraselina.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Lab manager: WHY IS THERE A RANDOM CUP OF UNLABELLED LIQUID HERE?! WHO DID THIS?!?!
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finalising my first big project proposal today- any last minute tips 😅 I have more often set on the other side reviewing them.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love that I can bike a mile to physical therapy, which is a hospital complex, but there are three absolute hellscape intersections immediately inside the complex. Just absolute shit urban design for both cars and cyclists/pedestrians. At least if I get hit there, there will be a hospital nearby
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today's goal: not letting Word formatting get the best of me. Seriously, why is there not a better way to align photos????
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Can crises bring about change in our food systems? Recently TABLE's Richard Kipling wrote about how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the UK food system's reliance on imported fertiliser for the @ox.ac.uk's expert comment news section. buff.ly/SI8OI7a
A quote card from a recent essay written by TABLE’s Richard Kipling for the University of Oxford and reposted to TABLE’s website: “The lesson of the recent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, of the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine war, is that these external shocks are not sufficient to transform food systems towards more resilient states. This may be a relief to those who support a doubling down on the industrialisation of agriculture or who profit from it, but it should be a concern for those advocating transformation.”
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today in headlines that wouldn't have existed 10 years ago...
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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Other than the unusual controls, this has everything I need.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We watched The Drama last night and both of us loved it. I am by far no expert but I thought both the editing and sound editing were very good. Acting was on point and thought provoking storyline without being too depressing.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Husband and I both agreed that John Oliver is sexy. For me it's more intellectual and for my husband it's more the nice suits 🤣
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Something from your field that everybody should know: Food systems are the #2 driver of climate change & the #1 driver of water use & pollution, biodiv loss, & deforestation. Lots of systems change needed to improve food production & consumption, but we can waste less food & eat more plants 3x/day.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026
the thing is that we would've known to expect all this if we'd trusted the reports of the first colonisers to arrive, who documented the whole thing, and later were dismissed as 'fantasists' because colonial academia couldn't believe that indigenous folk were 'civilised'
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Small wins of the week: signed my first two independent consulting contracts!
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Overheard in DC: bathing yourself in jello-o sounds very exciting.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/
"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if the cheese banks fail we will have a problem worse than 2008
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I was explaining etudes to my husband yesterday as "soccer drills for musicians" and he immediately understood 🤣
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Oh my god, I have been doing calf stretches and toe yoga for 2 weeks (as directed by my PT) and there is a PHYSICAL CHANGE in my foot structure! I am stunned, and guessing that tight calves were causing a slew of issues for me!
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A lot of things I miss about Bangkok, but DC win in zipping across the city on a Capital Bike Share in 20 min. (I know, very different metro areas, but still)
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This looks awesome! Just downloaded every episode 😅
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Shivvy 🎃 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
HUH???? we truly used to be a country
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I just have zero patience for a public intellectual IN THIS DECADE, pretending that environmental policy isn’t going to involve politics. Look around. Pay any attention at all. Yes, the 60-second ads will lack the nuance of a white paper. Industry ignores your white papers though.
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Marci Baranski @ecomarci.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
DC is a swamp this week and I fucking hate it. It's only 76 degrees but I'm drenched in sweat from my walk to daycare.
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