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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So sad I will be camping or else everyone would be subjected to this Jungian treasure

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Probably the most fun I've had riding my bike in a couple of years

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One also bad part of this is that San Bruno is actually BARTable so this closure is also an instance where closing the archives makes it harder for pedestrians and cyclists to access the archives

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Unfortunately, I work professionally in the screwworm space. Fortunately, I have this gem to share. Just a reminder that we haven't even been 50 years free of screwworms in America

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Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In the 1980s, an offroad dirt-biking group bucked the rules in the California desert—and got away with it. Today's anti-environmentalists are following in their tracks, writes anthropologist @jsizek.bsky.social. zps.la/4aj4DOT

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The Dirt Bikers Who Went to War on Desert Conservation | Essay

Today’s Anti-Environmentalists Are Following the Tracks of the ‘Phantom Duck’ and the Barstow-to-Vegas Race

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I wrote about the Phantom Duck and Super Hunky. Come for the names, stay for the history of right-wing anti-environmentalism

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Emily Dolhansky @emilydolhansky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

fuck Coalie. bring back Johnny Horizon, I say:

A government infographic from 1976. It pictures a man in a cowboy hat with the slogan, “Let’s Clean Up America for our 200th Birthday”

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An infuriating thing about journalism is that journalists will cite two equally well-known anthropologists and call the dude professor and the lady Ms.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Same for San Francisco! And by the mid-1850s, there were newspapers in SF published in five languages (adding French, German, and Chinese)

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My weird obsession with golf courses has finally paid off professionally and I'm very excited about it

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It's almost like AI is more demand-side than supply-side, creating consumer demand instead of promising actual labor saving efficiencies.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In disturbing letterheads I didn't anticipate seeing at work today

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Today! Free on Zoom for those of you who appreciate California history

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Ariane Lange @arianelange.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I couldn't find much 1960s coverage of families displaced by the W-X freeway. So I looked at households listed on W or X in the 1950 census & called up the kids to see if they were still living there when construction began. I found two amazing people? Reporting is fun www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

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Will traffic on Highway 50 ever end? Sacramento history suggests the answer is ‘no’

Where are these freeway lanes headed? “It feels like spitting in the wind a little bit. In five years, we’re gonna feel like we want another lane.”

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Re-establishing Wildcat Canyon as a through route to exurban Contra Costa County is a mistake. Fix it if you must, and leave it closed.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Cadiz Inc up to new antics, zombie projects never die

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Prop 13 continues to be my enemy

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I literally had a conversation with colleagues yesterday who told me about their behavior to avoid mountain lion encounters and I reminded them that they're much more likely to die driving to work

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

AI not only requires tons of groundwater or surface water to operate it, but it also heats up that water to kill all the tiny microbes that make groundwater clean!

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There is one extremely active nimby who has made it her mission to make sure that this intersection isn't safer for cyclists and pedestrians, sadly

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Please follow up with a detailed history of property tax repossession, been waiting for someone to write one for a decade kthanx

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

watching closely to see if there's a spike in citations for Neither Settler nor Native

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Counterpoint: Jaws is just Duel, revamped, so actually the template of the movie is about the terror of the open road and mysterious road rage

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Death valley has more Joshua trees than Joshua Tree. Protecting those trees and the areas around the NP will continue to protect the best habitat for the charismatic species moving forward

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The lobby for this is exclusively golden duplex owners in Berkeley who don't want to improve things for their tenants

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The federal government had a little known program to sell off lands under the small tract act, and they had to end it because of too much interest and too much chaos. Today's checkerboard sale would be more of the same

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Villages connected by freeways

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Public transit helps you understand society in both the best and most car-brained ways

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Meanwhile Raymond Williams shouts into the void: what if the country and the city should be conceptualized together?

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

As someone who works in small towns, cities and countryside are so intertwined that it's impossible to talk about rural America without its many metropoles

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

People who hate on public transit clearly have not been on my last two trains, on which someone offered to buy me a drink and another kind person offered and successfully opened a notoriously annoying thermos that I should not use for my tea

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I got to pick where I live so I could bike and train commute, but not everyone gets that choice. Expanding bike lanes gives people the option to stop driving everywhere

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Shannon Skalos, PhD @shannonskalos.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

While we are all reeling from the budget and its major cuts to NASA, NIH, USGS, etc. I want to also draw attention to this little nugget about State Wildlife Grants, which is the mechanism for funding State Wildlife Action Plans. Eliminating SWG will destroy state natural resource agencies.

Screenshot of the president’s FY 2026 proposed budget clearly stating “The 2026 Budget proposes to eliminate funding for the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants program”

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Are dirt bikes cows? The answer to this question is revealed in my new article in @envirohistory.bsky.social

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The irony of this likely being AI-generated and fraudulent data is that one of his "findings" was that AI use makes people unhappy. I guess he's finding that out the hard way now.

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American Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Public lands are the birthplace of rivers and are our largest source of clean, safe, reliable drinking water. We must keep public lands in public hands to protect healthy rivers and our nation's water security. www.americanrivers.org/2025/01/the-...

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The secret double life of America’s public lands

Public lands are the birthright of every American. One of the great privileges of living in this country is the ability to access hundreds of millions of acres to enjoy the great outdoors — all for fr...

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Reminds me of one of my favorite California landmarks in Ludlow, where they thought they'd just use old nukes to make I-40 straighter. Glad project Carryall didn't end up nuclear bombing the Mojave

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The checkerboard still rules everything around me

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 07/03/2025

I personally know at least three people whose private-sector jobs/companies have been impacted by federal cuts and freezes, frequently in places most wouldn't even consider

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The chair of a federal civil service board has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate thousands of fired Department of Agriculture employees, including U.S. Forest Service workers: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Trump administration ordered to reinstate thousands of fired USDA workers

The decision is a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy.

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"All this recent change was squeezing the unique high alpine areas and the species that have adapted to them. Soon they would have nowhere left to go." 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

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150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate

In the heart of Utah’s Uinta Mountains, a team of scientists is re-creating historical pictures to study how much, and how quickly, ecosystems are changing.

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Julia Sizek @jsizek.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Now have achieved my life goal of being on KALX

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