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cathy r

@myqntm.bsky.social
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tech & data for environmental justice || currently: Data & Tech Lead @ OEDP || previously: Fellow @ Green Web Foundation, Tech @ The Engine Room, Teaching @ SVA www.cathyr.com

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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Open Source for Science Fund invites letters of intent from developers and maintainers of open source software projects that underpin AI and data-intensive research in the life sciences. os4science.org/funding_oppo...
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Request for Applications: Open Source for the Life Sciences
We seek proposals from open source software that underpins data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences.
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"What is your concern, right now?" An anonymous global record of what people fear, on a draggable 3D globe. whatisyourconcern.com
whatisyourconcern.com
what is your concern, right now?
An anonymous global record of what humanity is afraid of, right now.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 02/04/2026
NEW Open Visualization Academy COURSE: 'Visualization with R’s ggplot2 Package and AI Tools' openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/visu... And in the newsletter: 'Designing for the Middle Reader': openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/designing-... #dataViz #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
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1.1 Introduction - Visualization with R’s ggplot2 Package and AI Tools - Open Visualization Academy
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Public Environmental Data Partners @publicenvirodata.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Federal data and tools are all around us, influencing our lives in ways we often overlook. Our new data story, Protect the Data that Nourishes Us, highlights the data and tools that inform every stage of an apple's life cycle from seed to supermarket. screening-tools.com/blog/protect...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it
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Futurism @futurism.com · 13/10/2025
Numbers are down across the board.
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The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“You’ve got to stop the tyranny, not try and make a better case for why science should exist.” 🎯
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Open Science Hardware Foundation @opensciencehw.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We're #hiring! The Open Science Hardware Foundation seeks an Executive Director to lead our growing non-profit. We seek expertise in: Executive Leadership Resource Mobilization Strategic program development Effective Communication #openscience #openhardware minifi.ca/ZSxhj
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We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation
Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Grist created a comprehensive guide to help you stay ready and informed before, during, and after these traumatic and chaotic events, as well as where to find and build support in your community. grist.org/extreme-weat...
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Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery
From packing an emergency kit to navigating FEMA aid to finding legal services and mental health resources, this is a comprehensive guide to surviving and coping with natural disasters.
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WILDLABS Community @wildlabs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The Boring Fund is back in 2025 and supporting more projects than before. With support from Arm, we’re providing $80,000 of funding for the overlooked initiatives that create a stronger #conservationtech sector. Learn more and apply by 19 August 2025: wildlabs.net/funding-oppo...
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.” gizmodo.com/free-lunch-i...
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Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web
Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
PlasticList. 'Data on Plastic Chemicals in Bay Area Foods'. plasticlist.org. www.plasticlist.org
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PlasticList
Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Email just went out from @aoc.bsky.social to her massive email community - no tacky ask to sign a petition - no craven and shameless ask donation - not even a donate button Just laying out plainly how she believes Trump has launched an illegal war and that is grounds for impeachment. Leader.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress
Murshed,

The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.

He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.

It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

More soon,

Alexandria
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
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250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/06/2025
behold the "smarter-than-human" machines that'll soon be "too smart to control"
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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...
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Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 11/04/2025
JUST IN: US immigration judge rules that deportation case against Pro-Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil can proceed reut.rs/426ySFY
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Catrin Einhorn @catrineinhorn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
From state legislatures to community groups, from tribal lands to city parks to postage-stamp backyards, people are doing quiet, vital work to confront climate change and biodiversity loss. All year, @carabuckley.bsky.social and I will be writing about these efforts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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50 States, 50 Fixes
A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 27/03/2025
After wildfires burned houses and brush alike in Los Angeles, researchers have mobilized to understand the health risks posed by urban conflagrations. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3DV7GR4
The wildfire that swept through Altadena, California, in January burned houses and cars as well as vegetation, generating smoke that contained a complex mix of toxic chemicals. Weeks later, these chemicals still cling to the soil and remaining structures. Researchers are working intensively to understand the lingering hazards of such urban wildfires.
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VikingsGirl18 @vikingsgirl18.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Dahlia look! Now we have names of the men who were deported to a prison in El Salvador. Share far and wide so friends and family can identify them! www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
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Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador
CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelans the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Little scooplet from me: The Trump administration has a plan to remake USAID. Part of that vision? Blockchain. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain
“It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” says one expert.
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi All We started a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles go.bsky.app/LkUCfem
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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Just a heads-up to folks who are siloed in English-speaking BlueSky - there are starter packs for Brazilian scientists and activists bsky.app/starter-pack... You'll also want to update your content languages setting so you can actually see their posts: bsky.app/settings/lan...
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Time for a 'Be My Eyes' type app but like 'Be My Young Person with a Computer'
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025
Begging reporters to say whether something Trusk is doing is actually legal
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some prisons have ordered trans people to hand in gender-appropriate underwear as if it was contraband, threatening discipline if they don't. Internal memo says staff can't use correct pronouns or names. Male guards now doing pat-down searches of trans women, who say they're being groped + assaulted
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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You already f*cking own it. Bam. 💥
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre, voice, audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin.... Texts are ‘true’ only in the right context." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug
Letter to the Editor
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Sara Petti @sarapetti.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🦙 csv,conf is coming to town! 💥 Join us in Bologna from 8 to 11 September to share your #data love. 💚 And if you have a good story of data for #communities consider proposing a talk: the call for presentations is open until April 6th.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
spite. somewhere there's a bigot who is FUMING by the idea of a trans Jew building an evolutionary biology lab where inclusion is prioritized, and i am drinking in their pathetic tears like sweet ambrosia
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“At 1:58 p.m., President Donald Trump tweeted, “Long live the king.” I'm here to say, New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years and we sure as hell are not going to start now.” www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-a...
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Video, Audio, Photos & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Updates New Yorkers on Congestion Pricing
Governor Hochul updated New Yorkers on congestion pricing.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
People can't even come up with original hate speech now?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/02/2025
MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
How you can help archive U.S. government data right now: install ArchiveTeam Warrior www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/02/2025
NEW: More than 300 career employees at the EPA have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections. By @fastlerner.bsky.social & @pratheekrebala.bsky.social
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“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump
More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA…
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Alex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 04/02/2025
This is so good.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I heard a democratic senator say, “In America everyone should be able to get ahead.” Ahead of… whom? This makes no sense. It’s like saying every child should be above average. This claim presupposes inequality, is mathematically impossible, and is apparently a bedrock American ideal
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.
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Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Last week the Trump administration removed access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). The public web tool allowed users to see on a map which...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
FYI the National Council of Nonprofits is collecting stories via this form about how the executive orders are harming nonprofit organizations nationwide. If you just got screwed today, tell them about it here. They're also asking who is comfortable sharing their stories with reporters.
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Effects of Executive Actions on Nonprofits
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time buff.ly/4jpMP8p
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GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/01/2025
Our big social media platforms have been *intentionally designed* to make it near impossible to find (and post) useful, timely information about disasters, as this article points out - this has been angering me for years. We need “most recent” and functional search! Which Bluesky provides.
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Social media platforms are not built for this
We have simultaneously too much and too little information.
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It. buff.ly/40qSTFh
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Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It.
FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties…
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cathy r @myqntm.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Network Of Time
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Network Of Time
Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures.
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