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@philipbell.bsky.social
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Learning Sciences professor fighting for a thriving, just world🌿 Settler on Coast Salish Lands in Seattle🌿 University of Washington #SciEd and #ClimateChange Ed Work: STEMTeachingTools.org & climateteaching.org faculty.washington.edu/pbell

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 09/09/2026
If we are smart enough to create such powerful AI, then we are smart enough to regulate it. America can meet the moment, but the clock is ticking. Congress needs to step up and move NOW to protect American lives and safeguard our future.
cbsnews.com
Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
A top Anthropic researcher says there's more than a 10% chance AI "could kill all humans," after a colleague resigned over similar concerns.
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Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Emily Atkin, in Heated, reports on the responses of Big Tech to her questions about new research on how the fossil fuel industry is using AI: Microsoft and Google: non-responses Amazon, Atkin notes, responded with "misdirection and greenwashing." heated.world/p/we-asked-b...
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We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.
Responses from Microsoft, Google and Amazon raise serious questions about their stated commitments both to responsible AI and a livable planet
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Haley Crim @haleycrim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Find the censored climate literacy guide (with broken links replaced with archived versions!) here: zenodo.org/records/2181...
zenodo.org
Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change
Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change presents information that is important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s clima...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/08/2026
We live in a culture obsessed with individual action. Because of that - and fossil fuel companies promoting carbon calculators - we’re convinced the most important thing we can do is to watch what we eat, how we travel, or what we use. Yes, those things do matter. But this is what matters MORE ⬇️
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A helpful review of all peer-reviewed research on the effectiveness of communicating the health implications of global environmental change. Bottom line: Just do it! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social @who.int
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Communicating the health implications of global environmental change: a mixed-methods systematic review of health framing in environmental messaging
AbstractBackground. Global environmental change poses a significant threat to human health, necessitating effective communication strategies to raise publi
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest. balm for the sundays: this solidarity guide to back-to-school support for the wide refusal movement updated w new assignments, teachable readings, labor resources +more after launch 1 year ago send us your updates! bon courage! against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Her mind! This from @karenhao.bsky.social should be one of those inspirational quotes that a crafter does in needlepoint. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Finally, Claude or ChatGPT — what do you use?
Neither.

Really? What is the alternative in your life?
None. My mind.

You don’t feel it holds you back?
It actually liberates me.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
nytimes.com
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.
journals.sagepub.com
Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...
Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🧵 Our team is about to launch our 4th Annual Summer Design Institute for Climate Teacher Education. We will have 30+ faculty & instructors from dozens of teacher ed programs in WA state working to integrate #ClimateJustice into their courses & programs. You can learn more here: climateteaching.org
Title slide for the linked project for "The Climate Teacher Ed Collaborative" with text: Institute for Science + Math Education • UW Seattle (Funded by Washington State Legislature & the Shauna C. Larson Endowment) STEMTeachingTools.org

Image shows abstract images of a sun, clouds, mountains, trees, waves, river, and buildings.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵
Text written on a book page reads: Looking to hear from people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI.  If that sounds like you, reach out via kellyhayes.org.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"A mature university response will protect the right to refuse, cultivate the duty to understand, and treat refusal as evidence that the purposes of learning, teaching, scholarship and governance remain open to public deliberation."
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AI refusal in higher education: the right to refuse, the duty to understand and the diagnostic value of non-use
Generative artificial intelligence has made refusal newly visible in higher education. Students, academics, researchers, professional staff and institutional leaders may reject, restrict, contest o...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today is a good day to donate to The Trevor Project. Trans kids deserve a world that loves and accepts them fully and unconditionally, just as they are.
thetrevorproject.org
Support Homepage
The Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ young people.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
To feel the real essence of an Irish rainforest, go to one in the rain. You'll find yourself immersed in an alternate, magical realm of dripping, lush exuberance.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Today on the @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog: Heidi Reed with a lesson that "helps demystify AI as a sociomaterial construction of natural resources, human labor, habitats of non-human animals, government legislation, toxic chemicals, computer codes, and techno-capitalist ideologies.”
civicsoftechnology.org
What is AI made of? A two-part lesson plan on asking critical questions about technology — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Book Club this week: Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Join us on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Re...
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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Conference Organizer: Do you want to be a part of a panel on AI? Me: oh I would love to do an impression of Dave Phillips! Organizer: wut? #ISLS26
A dr house lookin mother fucker in front of a large projection screen that says “GEN AI LIVES OFF THE THEFT OF YOUR INTELLECTUAL LABOR”
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today is #ShowYourStripes day! Created by climate scientist @edhawkins.org, the warming stripes show how temperature has changed over time. You can find the stripes for where you live here: showyourstripes.info Here are Climate Stripes for Seattle where I live & some related educational resources…
Vertical climate stripes for Seattle WA going from mostly blue on the left (in history) to mostly red on the right (for recent times)
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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 20/06/2026
Today is #ShowYourStripes Day! The warming stripes visualize more than a century of temperature trends. Each stripe represents a year: 🔵 Cooler years 🔴 Hotter years Share custom stripes for U.S. states, cities, & more with #ClimateCentral's new Dashboard: app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 20/06/2026
No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes ➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes: showyourstripes.info (Global) and app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm... (U.S.) What's it like in your area?
Visualization showing vertical colored lines corresponding to temperature anomalies from 1921 to 2025 for the Arctic Ocean. The colors have year-to-year variability, but generally go from blue to red through time, especially in recent years.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Next week I’m leading a three-day professional development for local educators on teaching about, against, and with AI technologies, and as I work on the slides and activities, I’m once again grateful for @betterimagesofai.bsky.social:
betterimagesofai.org
Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...
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doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
At #ISLS26 I’m part of a symposium where learning scientists and computer-supported collaborative learning scholars propose provocations for the next decade of scholarship in our fields. Mine: None of this matters if we don’t stop authoritarianism. 💥 Link below
mborgepsu.github.io
Revisiting Wise & Schwarz's Provocations for CSCL
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Come join our team! The UW Climate Impacts Group is hiring an early career social scientist to support climate change adaptation projects with our federal, Tribal, state, and local partners. Applications due July 2. Please share widely! ➡️ cig.uw.edu/2026/06/join...
An aerial view of Seattle, Washington, with the Climate Impacts Group logo and an announcement that “We Are Hiring!”
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ILSSA Committee @islsilssa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are selling stickers to raise money for need based scholarships! We are near the registration table! They cost whatever you can afford, and whatever you think is fair for whatever you take! Not in person? Want to support the cause? You can donate here: donate.stripe.com/8x24gA9Nsd8i...
donate.stripe.com
Stripe Checkout
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hi all: Given the quickly expanding use of AI in education, I am sharing a new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social that can help deepen our thinking about these efforts. IMO the stakes are too high not to! Please share as makes sense. 🌿 stemteachingtools.org/brief/109 #EquityFirst #AIinEd #SciEd #STEMed
Image from the linked resource titled "What concerns should we be discussing about using AI in Education?"

It is STEM Teaching Tool #109

The image is of a whiteboard with the word "AI?" written on it.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/06/2026
Despite attacks on climate science and the rise of disinformation, meaningful climate action continues to move forward. On June 16 at 2PM ET, I'm joining @globalecoguy.bsky.social, with @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, to talk about where climate action goes from here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Where does climate action go from here? A conversation with Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D.. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining ...
Join Jonathan Foley, Ph.D, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, for a conversation with renowned climate scientist and communicator, Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D. From attacks on climate science by the...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm a big fan of the 2nd edition of The Science of Learning! Clear, practical implications for the classroom based on well-established principles - all presented in a very readable and usable way. Send it to your favorite educator, trainer, or learner today! @deansforimpact #TheScienceOfLearning2
deansforimpact.org
The Science of Learning | Deans for Impact (DFI)
Cognitive science research on student learning, applied to teaching practices.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Recently I posted an article about books to read if you want to know more about the science of learning. @vijisathy.bsky.social recommended I make my own list. So here you go! I've intentionally made this list short, with a focus on consensus science of learning and more recent books. (1/n)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 23/05/2026
It’s #ClimateSolutionsWeek at @NPR.org, with stories about how cities, towns, and states are lowering emissions with renewable communities in Utah, Indigenous knowledge in Montana, and sewage as a heating and cooling solution (for real!) in Denver. Check them out!
buff.ly
NPR's Climate Solutions Week
How does climate change affect decisions on where, and how, people live? NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for living and building on a hotter planet.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"But as Charles Logan, T. Philip Nichols, and Antero Garcia recently argued in Kappan, 'the future [educational technology vendors] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today.'"
jacobin.com
The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing mov...
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We definitely need to transition to renewable energy sources, but we must resist green colonialism as that happens! Indigenous rights must be recognized and upheld in a #JustTransition www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
streetroots.org
'It's not built yet': Yakama Nation fights $3.3B energy project and data center development on sacred site
Yakama Nation and its allies have been fighting to stop the project for nearly a decade. New information shows the project is intended to feed the “world's greenest” data center
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Excited to announce our redesigned & expanded collection of CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION resources on @stemteachingtool.bsky.social! Check them out & pls share them through your networks… Climate & Environmental Learning Resources ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-l... #ClimateJustice #NGSS
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Global climate change is rapidly impacting all life on earth. But impacts of climate change are complex, uneven, and worsening, with people from poverty-impacted and BIPOC communities often experiencing impacts most sharply. We must be prepared to understand and respond to climate science. Education is a vital context for building capacity for just, community-driven adaptation and resilience efforts as well as for promoting the enactment of equitable mitigation efforts around the world.

Our climate education work is guided by this Climate Justice Education framework that we developed through our implementation projects with our partners:

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Justice-centered climate change learning is complex, but urgent. Climate science learning has to happen across PK-12 classrooms, in informal education and outdoor contexts, and in community-based learning settings. To support educators to build capacity for climate and environmental education, we have been creating a suite of resources focused on different aspects of this work since 2000.

All of these resources are provided as open access resources and can be broadly used and shared.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"We conclude with suggestions for how to achieve better public awareness and understanding of the ecological costs of innovative digital technologies such as generative AI by rendering these threats more tangible and immediate," write Deborah Lupton and Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris.
doi.org
“Just One Prompt Is Enough to Kill a Tree”: Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning the Environmental Impacts of Generative AI Among Australians
The rapid expansion of generative AI applications and the infrastructures required to support them is posing serious threats to human and planetary health. In this article, we present findings from...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!
nature.com
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/05/2026
Half the Urban Heat Island effect is currently mitigated by tree cover globally--but benefits are greatest for wealthy cities + suburbs. Current tree cover can only mitigate 10% of urban temp increase due to climate; maximal planting could offset just 10% more. More from @science.nature.org here:
nature.com
Trees halve urban heat island effect globally but unequal benefits only modestly mitigate climate-change warming - Nature Communications
Using global data from 9,000 cities, the study shows trees reduce half of the urban heat island effect but can offset only a small share of future climate warming, with cooling benefits unevenly distr...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
These are the darkest days in American science in the seventy-year history of publicly funded science. But I tell myself every day that what is broken can be mended; what is demolished can be rebuilt. Our job is to fight for the chance. I hope to see you on the front lines.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
insidehighered.com
Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I love @timothysnyder.bsky.social's do not obey in advance, and like to add do not obey during or after either. (I mean within the bounds of what's necessary to do to survive.) I also like to point out that our enemies would like us to feel powerless and surrender and why give them the satisfaction?
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I’m working on a report about data centers in Illinois and remembered this resource that gathers redlining maps from across the USA in case anybody else might find the resource useful for similar (or other) projects:
dsl.richmond.edu
Mapping Inequality
Redlining in New Deal America
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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I always frame citational practice as relational: Whose ideas do I want to inherit and carry forward? Whose/which ideas am I responsible to/for? Which thinkers have offered me intellectual, emotional, spiritual guidance? Who are my ontoepistemological ancestors? #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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Environmental Education Research @eerjournal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards Henderson et al 2507-2530 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2441198 #NGSS #culturalcognition #geography #politicalideology #SDG4 #SDG13 f.mtr.cool/pvmikizddt
Photo by FlyD on Unsplash
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.” Yeah. 🫢 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
cell.com
Serotonergic-dependent awareness is required for trace conditioning in honeybees
Entomology; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Sultana draws on documentary video content from the 'Voices from the Global South' project, produced by the Open University, @rgsibg.bsky.social & @igu-ugi.bsky.social, to illustrate the arguments in her paper. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality
The material dimensions of loss and damage from climate change are compounded by systemic knowledge-based loss and epistemic injustice from the marginalisation and exclusion of critical voices and kn...
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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New in Geo: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Farhana Sultana (2025) entitled: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' with an orange banner at the top.

Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates by drawing attention to epistemic losses: the erasure of worldviews, ontologies and practices that are vital for just and sustainable climate futures. It critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in (re)producing epistemic injustices, while simultaneously revealing counter-narratives of refusal, resurgence and relationality. By engaging Indigenous and Global South scholarship, the paper underscores the need to decolonise knowledge systems that reproduce dominant climate narratives and heed the epistemological alternatives offered by land- and kinship-based knowledge systems. Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility: centring Global South and Indigenous perspectives is essential for cultivating pluriversal, decolonial and just climate frameworks and futures.
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In case anyone is interested, here's my course guide for 'Epistemic Injustice' (formally 'Knowledge, Ignorance, and Power'), which I'm teaching this semester. I've made some changes for this year. There's still so much I don't get to - as I said before, I really need a second semester.
dropbox.com
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