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Randall Hughes

@randallhughes.bsky.social
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Ecology, Evolution, Conservation, Restoration | Mostly Marine | Professor of Marine and Environmental Science | views expressed my own | she/hers | BlackLivesMatter | CeasefireNow

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It was a huge honor to talk with @briangoldstone.bsky.social, author of the amazing and heartbreaking "There is No Place for Us." I have a little review tacked onto the top of our conversation, but it's a stunning work that exposes the suffering we tolerate among our fellow citizens. (1)
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where you live shouldn’t determine whether you can safely give birth. Rural Georgia families deserve access to prenatal care, maternity services and emergency care close to home. We need to make sure our rural hospitals have the resources to stay open. That's one reason I'm running for Congress!
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This one is for the undergrads!! Can y'all repost?!? Share in your classes? I'm not sure where the undergrads are these days when it comes to social media! TY!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
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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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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very excited to share the cover of my new book JUST BENEATH THE SOIL: WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LAST WITNESSES. It will be out May 4, 2027. I learned so much writing this book and truly can't wait to share it with you all. It’s available for preorder now: sites.prh.com/justbeneatht...
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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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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've already had some brilliant donations in, so let's keep this going, please do spread the word!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about how existing as a woman means knowing you could be the victim of sexual violence at any moment, all while knowing there's a high likelihood no one will believe it even happened if you come forward.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I wrote about the Cornell fraternity brothers who saw the group chat about a rape in progress and chose silence. The high school that missed the opportunity to teach boys how to speak out against sexual assault. And the path of silence that connects them dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...
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The silent path from Cornell to Hope High
Three hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Regina Fairbanks @reginafairbanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fight isn't over yet! Please keep calling, emailing, and making your voices heard. Suggestions for action items can be found here - save-the-academy.org Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, botanists, etc - please distribute throughout your professional networks!
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.
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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool
The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Sept 25 (Year 2, Week 39) - Justice Dept drops 50+ longstanding school desegregation cases - no new NIH EO (but threat isn’t past) - $1B in new pocket rescission & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Year 2, Week 39
Sept 19-25 – digging in
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"By early Thursday afternoon, advocates in New Bedford had documented 34 immigration arrests. Ondine Galvez Sniffin, an immigration attorney in the city, said that total only includes people whose families reported the arrests — the actual number could be higher."
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In wake of ICE raids, immigration advocates in New Bedford scramble to locate detainees
By early Thursday afternoon, immigration advocates in New Bedford had documented 34 ICE arrests this week around the South Coast, but some believe the number could be higher.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BIJAN helps support folks and their family and community paying bonds to be released from detention - because bonds have been so high recently ($20,000!) the fund is being depleted rapidly and they'll need additional support in light of this surge.
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Overview — Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 25/09/2026
New at Media Nation: My @northeasternu.bsky.social journalism ethics students identify news stories that should get more attention. dankennedy.net/2026/09/25/m...
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My Northeastern ethics students identify news stories that should get more attention
If you’ve been reading Media Nation for a while, you know that I like to ask my journalism ethics students to find stories that they think have been underreported. The definition is elastic. …
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kansas
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.
Screenshot of article which reads: At the same time, new job-focused majors may not be sustainable — and can even backfire. Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, pointed to the rise in computer-science degrees in the 2010s. At the time, they seemed like the best way to secure a high-paying salary after graduation, she said. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, computer-science jobs are increasingly hard to find, and enrollment in such programs is falling significantly.
“When you tie the viability, the financial viability in particular, of an institution really tightly to jobs creation on that scale,” especially as a four-year institution, she said, “you have to be really careful, because you can find that in 10 years that program that you poured all your money into — worthless.”
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 24/09/2026
There are so many incredible professors and teachers in the depts they are targeting, and their work is so important to our understanding of this moment and of this world. Thinking about the loss of learning makes me very, very sad.
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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A school lockdown because agents are detaining someone nearby is unacceptable and frightens our children. The Trump Administration ripped away protections for schools and other sensitive locations. And now our own communities are experiencing the consequences.
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ICE Activity Sparks Shelter-In-Place At School In Essex County
ICE was back in Essex County this week. Here's where other recent arrests and detentions have been reported.
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Matthew Costa @mangrovematt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One species, but a range of nutrient acquisition traits: read the new paper lead by Kristen Rabbitt, "Nitrogen uptake varies regionally in the salt marsh plant Spartina alterniflora" in @estuariescoasts.bsky.social, @randallhughes.bsky.social @bowenlab.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1....
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Nitrogen Uptake Varies Regionally in the Salt Marsh Plant Spartina alterniflora - Estuaries and Coasts
Excess anthropogenic nitrogen is a key stressor in coastal and marine ecosystems, where it can alter primary production, create eutrophic and anoxic conditions, and affect biodiversity, structure, and...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
there is so much here to unpack. first and foremost, the absurd idea that it is the fault of people like me that there are nazis in the republican party. rod dreher is from LOUISIANA. he lived there when DAVID DUKE was running for president.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 17/09/2026
Yesterday, alongside Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, I introduced the Environmental Health Restoration Act to restore a commitment to science-based environmental protection at the EPA. Read more: casten.house.gov/media/press-...
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Casten, Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Restore EPA’s Core Mission | U.S. Congressman Sean Casten
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Sean Casten
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Mike Sieracki @msier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That’s more than the whole NSF budget
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For months, the burners who posted Maddie’s video remained anonymous. They even made a cryptocurrency out of her name, valued at $11k. So she hired a lawyer to unmask them. And what she learned stunned her. Read my investigation for @wired.com, out now: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey Massachusetts friends! We've got a beefy ballot this election year with a lot referendums & a lot to keep track of. It'll be easy to get overwhelmed, but, with help from The League of Women Voters, we got you
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Be the Change Workshop: Your Voice is Your Vote: Navigating the 2026 Midterm Ballot with The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
Porter Square Books' September Be the Change event will be a "Your Voice is Your Vote" workshop led by The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Last time that 🎾 asshole won a slam we organized to donate to women’s shelters. If you’d like to join in on that effort again today, wherever you are, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to post links to your favorite charities. Here’s mine:
Image shows a group of women and children in colorful shirts holding a hand lettered cardboard sign that says “thank you!”
Text on the page reads ” thank you for your gift” and “your generous support builds a brighter future for survivors and their families”. The logo of the Hope and Safety Alliance is at the top of the screen
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I posted about this because it’s really distressing that it’s been swept under the rug by virtually every tennis association/tournament, broadcaster, commentator. It’s like a mass gaslighting campaign. I really feel for the survivors of his violence and all survivors watching.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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Barbara Moran @moranwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Can an entire Arctic ecosystem evolve to adapt to the climate crisis?
In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Money can make a scientist freer. It can't rebuild a lab, replace a technician who knows an instrument by feel, or restart a sixty-year dataset from scratch. That is what is at stake.
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