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Liz Koslov

@koslov.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof of Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainability, and Sociology at UCLA. Ethnographer of "managed retreat.” PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I had the tremendous pleasure of co-advising Burcu’s diss, which provided the foundation for this ✨ book. Bldg on yrs of ethnographic research, Burcu offers an important + timely cautionary tale abt technosolutionism’s inevitable disappointments + destruction, and the power of community knowledge
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 19/02/2026
Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.
Keep Minnesota Housed!
Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.
Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
In "Homesick," Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/MiN6Otd
Cover of Homesick by Nicholas Shapiro. A small white mobile home is at the center of cover image, with a single window and a pipe protruding from its base. The scene is quiet and minimal, with gravel and asphalt in the foreground and large trees framing the background. The title “Homesick” appears in large, minimalistic serif text across the bottom, with the author’s name in smaller capital letters beneath it.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The second is that the NWS historically has done a very good job at that forecast contextualization (outreach to local governments, emergency managers, outdoor recreation facilities, etc.). But that's one of the first things to go away when offices are critically understaffed.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Predicting such storms is at the cutting edge of science right now, and the stakes are rising in a warming world in which they are intensifying. Yet this is precisely the kind of research that NOAA/NSF have funded in the U.S. over decades that is at imminent risk of disappearing.
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I spent the week talking to UPS Teamsters from around the country about what it’s like to deliver hundreds of packages in a heatwave, in trucks that still aren’t air conditioned, in a country without federal workplace protections for heat newrepublic.com/article/1972...
Yellow Teamsters-branded thermometer showing a temperature around 125F
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO POST YOUR CUOMO LOSS HOT TAKE, STAY IN LINE
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AccuWeather @accuweather.com · 23/06/2025
Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is a great explanation, going straight onto my syllabi
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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The arrest of union leader David Huerta is galvanizing a new element—solidarity: “Right now, just in the last 14 hours, labor unions are joining together from far and wide, communities are reaching out in ways I’ve never seen,” Orr told me. “Something is different.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The arrest of a union president in L.A. will likely activate these unions to bec...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 22/05/2025
I taught close-reading for the first time in awhile recently and I enjoyed seeing how revelatory it felt for some students: a secret language, right under the surface! As Dan writes, "Learning to see what lies hidden before our eyes is part of the magic of close reading."
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UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation @luskininnovation.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As wildfires & floods threaten LA, is managed retreat necessary for resilience? #UCLA LCI’s panel ft. @koslov.bsky.social & other experts debate this climate adaptation strategy & equitable alternatives. Watch the recording: innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/04/29/u... #UCLALuskin
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Beyond the absurdity of sending a battalion of riot police to seize a screen consisting of a sheet & 2 poles, the constant & extreme police..presence on campus since last April has made [it] nearly unrecognizable as a university." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University
A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
good morning divaaaa!!
giant balloon of scabby the rat on a manhattan street
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Story of my life.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 29/04/2025
I'm working on a paper and I was hit with the realization that there will just be HUGE gaps in the literature (coming out of the US) in a few years. All of this defunding - just no citations from the folks who used to the work. No new work. Lines of inquiry just stopped.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/04/2025
NASA is canceling the lease of its New York City climate science unit that has occupied the same Columbia University-owned building since the 1960s.
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NASA Cancels Columbia University Lease for Climate Science Unit
NASA is canceling the lease of its New York City climate science unit that has occupied the same Columbia University-owned building since the 1960s.
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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you’re a Barnes & Noble rewards member, you can preorder MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK today for 25% off! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/make-your-...
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Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers|Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionalsDevelopme...
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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Love to live under a government that asks "are you Jewish?" on forms.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Eliminating due process in order to imprison and deport people based on ethnic background and political views: famously good for Jews
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalil asked for permission to attend the birth of his child under any conditions. His request was denied within 30 minutes. apnews.com/article/mahm...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities denied Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a temporary release from detention to attend the birth of his first child, who was born Monday in New York, according to emails shared with The Associated Press.

Khalil, a Columbia University activist who has been held in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana for six weeks, requested a two-week furlough on Sunday morning, noting that his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, had gone into labor eight days earlier than expected.

His lawyers said he would be “open to any combination of conditions” to allow the release, including wearing an ankle monitor and attending regularly scheduled check-ins with immigration authorities.

Around 30 minutes later, Mellissa B. Harper, the New Orleans Field Office Director for U.S. Immigrations and Customs, wrote back: “After consideration of the submitted information and a review of your client’s case, your request for furlough is denied.”
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 21/04/2025
My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.” www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
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Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families
“It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”
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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 19/04/2025
My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Nationwide, we were: • Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers • Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs • Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2318257 - Collaborative Research: An Equitable, Justice-Focused Ecosystem for Pacific Northwest Secondary CS Teaching Lock
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 17/04/2025
INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


NYU Faculty Take Classes Off Campus to Protest Lack of Protections for International Students



NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 – More than fifty NYU faculty members have taken their classes off campus starting today, and continuing for the next week, to protest the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump administration’s attacks. Some faculty have moved their classes to in-person locations that have been declared sanctuary spaces, where international students are assured that building administrators will do everything in their power to refuse to cooperate with ICE agents. Other faculty have moved their classes online so that students can attend from a safe location of their choosing. 



The protest, which organizers are calling the “Sanctuary Picket,” is a response to a call to NYU faculty issued by a coalition of student groups. It comes after NYU senior leaders failed to respond to two petitions delivered over the past few weeks demanding that the University take steps to protect noncitizen students from abductions and deportations. 



Gallatin Faculty member Vasuki Nesiah, a member of the NYU Sanctuary group that organized the protest, said: “The government has launched a war on higher education so the stakes are existential. University administrators at NYU and elsewhere have not demonstrated that they are ready and willing to fight back. On the other hand, students, staff, and faculty are invested in the integrity of our institutions, in the value of academic freedom, and in continuing the work of making our institutions more equitable and inclusive—that’s what this is about.”
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In the biggest move to weaken the power of the Endangered Species Act yet, the Trump administration is proposing a change to how the word "harm" is interpreted. Under the proposed rule, harming habitats wouldn't count as harming species. www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...
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Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as 'harm' under proposed Trump rule
The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species at risk.
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
CDNC is a genuinely irreplaceable resource - and one that costs practically nothing. Like Katie, I depended on its archive to write my dissertation, and saw it save endangered newspapers first-hand. It costs 1¢ per Californian to operate. Give your state reps a call! (And consider donating!)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/04/2025
I recently received an e-mail from a Canadian university I'm affiliated with containing 3 lengthy attachments advising that "Canadian university researchers are advised to be extra careful when traveling to US," discussing recommended safety precautions and advice re cancelled collaboration funding.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety. *Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
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Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 09/04/2025
New online: Tenant organizer Chelsea Kirk on mobilizing against rent-gouging in Los Angeles after the fires. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Diary of a Spreadsheet | Chelsea Kirk
What scares them is something else: the realization spreading across Los Angeles that the private housing market isn’t just failing wildfire victims—it’s failing by design. That the inability to meet ...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
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Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A “climate justice imaginary” offers a way forward, rooted in everyday concerns, centering solidarity and care, creating free space for an inclusive democratic process, contrasting with the populist imaginary advanced by the proponents of post-political critique. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How (Not) to Politicize the Climate Crisis: Beyond the Antipopulist Imaginary - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
When populism is seen as “the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change,” a depoliticized climate policy managed by elites—rooted in an antipopulist imaginary—can seem to be the most feasible respon...
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
this is how I found out the three-year FEMA grant my tiny rural Catskills town only just got awarded to do flood resilience work isn’t paused, it’s been trashed
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/04/2025
"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."
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I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If universities can’t protect our students what is even the point? thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...
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UA student reportedly detained by ICE
This is a breaking news story and will continue to be updated.  A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning.  Alireza Doroudi, a doctora...
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
At least 25 of my pieces. At least some of which are under licenses that prohibit commercial use.
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