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Jacquelyn Gill

@jacquelyngill.bsky.social
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Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h
Paleo colleagues, I've got a dino-interested undergrad looking to do summer internships in any field of paleo, but ideally with vertebrates (any period). My knowledge skews more Quaternary; what are some good programs to know, including some that might be a bit more off the beaten path?
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
I keep thinking about how so many different domains are working with vastly foreshortened concepts of the future. There is a radical sort of hope and belief in fellow people that goes along with building something you want to last for generations
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, we should be paying people in all of these fields more!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Liemandt does not suggest Alpha School is an antidote to “mind virus,” but rather the introduction of a variant...The goal, as he frames it, is not to release young people from indoctrination, but to replace brainwashing by radical teachers you can’t trust with brainwashing by tech bros you can."
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For a second-wave movement that built itself around consciousness-raising, Take Back the Night, and other *community based* work, this is disappointing. I get it, it's hard to see so much backsliding. But we need cross-generational solidarity right now, badly.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Create a tool: don’t profit. Tool creates problem: don’t profit. Create solution to problem: profit yet?
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who, who could have foretold this?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren calls for the removal of climate denier Matthew Wielicki as head of the US govt's climate research office. Wielicki has no training in climate science, and regularly uses AI to invent non-existent sources to support his claims.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every point in this small thread. Every. One.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a revelation to me. Are most history depts not already "service depts"? I assumed they were. In any given year I might teach 500 students, most of them in the intro surveys, and maybe 25 of those 500 are history majors. But it's important to note how admins set these classes up to fail.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reading this just before my deinonychus in Path of Titans did a “collect pine cones” quest was deeply satisfying. But seriously, such a cool study!
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s here! Happy book birthday, @amywestervelt.bsky.social! I can’t wait to rage-read this.
A book with a bright orange cover: Brought to You By: Bow Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy, by Amy Westervelt
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey Philly! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum Sept 25-27. It’s the museum’s last weekend (for now!) Sign up here to help docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A flyer with dinosaur bones and beetles and butterflies that says help save the academy volunteer this weekend. Help us hand out flyers the Museum to get more people involved in the fight and save the Academy of natural sciences volunteer at.  Save-the-academy.org
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So far, @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social’s new AI enabled Rex system has less functionality than ScholarOne. Reviewers still can’t suggest alternatives. AI-generated expertise keywords are wrong. Reviews are at a standstill because the system is so bad. But hey, we get this slop!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts. I've posted versions before, but I update this each term following conversations with students. Here's my Fall '26 edition. In no way definitive! Learning as I go.
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This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself. Recently... I read a story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh....
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for creative writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College” persuaded me that for many students of all sorts it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed, you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already. 
	My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled them. Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is, I probably can’t stop you.... Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it....
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good. Even if sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from the act of shaping language... There is no paycheck, or even a finished book held in hand for the first time, that has ever brought me as much complicated pleasure as the arrangement of words. Maybe you’re like this, too. Or maybe you want to be. If so, I designed this course with someone like you in mind.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This remains my favorite Halloween costume of all time.
A woman (Jacquelyn) in a black dress with a gold sash that reads “Fat Bear 2018l wearing bear ears  with a black painted nose and a crown made of wheat and berries.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some very good resources in the replies!
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is so important for so many movements (including the climate movement). If you read one thing this week, let it be this. Also, I just bought a bunch of books! Thanks, @chanda.blacksky.app!
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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries
A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work head
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.
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Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need to work harder..."This work shows us that all of the solutions we need are already here. We just need to scale them, as quickly and strategically as we can." drawdown.org/insights/wer...
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We’re going to miss the 1.5 °C climate target. Now what?
The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of my PhD chapters was conducted at Konza Prairie. This is a hugely important facility.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UMaine: "Strategic staff layoffs and faculty retrenchments will be necessary to reduce the university’s expenses on an ongoing basis." UMaine System: "We just signed a $1.4 million/year contract with OpenAI!" Cool.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When even MDPI decides your article needs to be retracted…woof.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...
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Counting up the costs of coal
Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s deeply amusing to me when I’m told we have to “learn to live with AI” by university administrators tell me who banned student graduation speakers just last year because they couldn’t live with what those graduation speakers might say.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UMaine is hiring a director of our new PFAS lab: fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... If you've got a PhD in analytical or environmental chemistry and 5+ years of PFAS research experience, check it out!
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Assistant or Associate Extension Professor, PFAS and Environmental Contaminants Analytical Specialist, and PFAS Lab Director
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is seeking an accomplished scientist and collaborative leader to establish and grow the University's PFAS analytical and Extension program. This is a uniq...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of stories across Pennsylvania about NIH grant terminations at Pitt and Penn. This is why speaking out matters. Even Congress critters who generally support the administration get pressured into actually supporting their constituents. www.wesanews.org/health-scien...
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McCormick, Fetterman question termination of more than 100 health research grants
Pennsylvania’s senators are demanding information about more than 150 health research grants canceled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this summer.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m still trying to figure out what we win. Unemployment? Deskilling? Rampant water and noise pollution? Higher electrical costs? Climate breakdown? WHAT DO WE WIN??
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please consider helping. The device you’re seeing this on owes much to Maxwell.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
Here's the starter pack featuring most of the authors who have been featured in Buy a Book Friday! go.bsky.app/PaGkisY
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Always for the living world. Always. ✊🏻
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know there are a lot of people who want to make the world better but don’t know where to start so just…don’t. I also know every group I work with that is making the world better is kept afloat by exhausted people who desperately need help. If you’re in group A, please find an org to help group B
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Tyrant Lizard Queen follows Snag through the pit stops typical in many coming-of-age stories: peer rivalries and first loves." A new review of Tyrant Lizard Queen is out in @sciencenews.bsky.social! Though if you want to remain unspoiled, might be wise just to just take my word it's good. 🦖
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'Tyrant Lizard Queen' offers a nuanced look at T. rex
Paleontologist Riley Black’s latest book explores how this misunderstood carnivore might have lived.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Schools are not a business and a student is not a customer and this is the framing that encapsulates everything wrong with higher education. The “solution” of running universities like businesses rather than a public good was always the problem.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Via the State Cartographer's office, here is a summary of what is changing from the National Society of Professional Surveyors: www.sco.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The enshittification of the National Science Foundation will go down as one of the greatest moral injuries I've experienced in my career.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't want to go to meetings today. I want to be a deinonychus.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How am I only now finding out about Path of Titans??! @restingdinoface.bsky.social, do you know about this game??
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We made a new friend in field natural history lab today!
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