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Scout Blum

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Environmental historian and game designer; mom to an amazing boy and animals.

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Wow, that's really high, but there is still time to submit, and get this number of opponents up EVEN HIGHER: www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/def...
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The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I'm co-editing a series for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration. Open to new proposals on an ongoing basis! niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist
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Call for Submissions - Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration
NiCHE is soliciting submissions of blog posts that help document the effects of the current United States federal administration on the discipline of environmental history and the practices of environ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NOAA’s Regional Climate Center tools & data are affected by funding cuts, staffing gaps, & deferred maintenance. If you rely on RCC tools for your work, we'd love to hear from you. We're collecting anonymous feedback to identify what's at risk & where support is needed: forms.gle/LwjQZ7YwL6MshKV68
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Regional Climate Center Tool Feedback
Please share your experience using RCC tools and data portals. Your input helps improve reliability, usability, and data freshness across the system. This form takes about 5 minutes and is anonymous.
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/e...
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EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say
Reports from separate environmental agencies show that U.S. EPA enforcement has decreased since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Mayan hieroglyphics 2. The Cuban Missile Crisis 3. The Milky Way 4. Differential equations 5. Shakespeare's Plays
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Congress has not yet approved EPA’s proposal to slash its budget by a massive 50%, yet the agency has *already* cut far more staff than in its proposal - 25% by EDGI’s count, and likely more by year’s end. EDGI’s @scoutblum.bsky.social and Chris Sellers explain: theconversation.com/trump-admini...
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Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water
Careful research into public information and in-depth interviews has shown the scale of personnel cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
An op-ed I did with Chris Sellers:
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Proud to have been a small part of this report - many congrats to Chris Sellers for his thorough, hard work!
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!
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BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com · 03/04/2025
Feedback: I asked game publishers how they plan to respond to newly announced U.S. tariffs, and here's a sampling of their responses: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... That post features only 15 of more than a hundred responses, so I'll post another round-up tomorrow. —WEM
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 26/03/2025
I have a few masters level students who are looking for responses to surveys about games, so if you’re in the mood to fill out fun forms I’ll make a thread of them here! First one is about horror games: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
1/ Earlier this month, the Trump EPA announced it would cancel 100s of grants already authorized by congress. EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of cancellations on #EnvironmentalJustice communities. Learn more here: envirodatagov.org/new-environm...
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New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 CONTACT: EDGI’s experts are available to answer media questions. For media inquiries, please email Shannan Lenke […]
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Truth 😬
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Rising Waters has been reviewed in the American Historical Review! This is one of the flagship historical journals - so cool to see board games getting a place alongside other scholarship. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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Scout Blum, designer. Rising Waters: A Game Based on the 1927 Mississippi Flood.
In the evolving landscape of historical pedagogy, Rising Waters, designed by Scout Blum, emerges as a notable attempt to bridge the gap between interactive
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13/03/2025
Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
We have two openings left in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia. If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!
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The Greenhouse – Center for Environmental Humanities
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia... #envhist #climhist #climatechange
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Historians Confront the Climate Emergency
Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23/02/2025
Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”. 📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We are looking forward to your applications!
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Fort Circle @fortcircle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown @downtowntbrown.bsky.social (designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time). the1a.org
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 22/01/2025
People with less knowledge about #AI are actually more open to using it, challenging the assumption that tech-savvy individuals are the most eager adopters. Business professors explain the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link – when people think it’s ‘magic’:
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Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 23/12/2024
Teacher harassment is making headlines. It’s past time for school districts to address it. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2024…
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It’s past time to address teacher harassment
The problem has long plagued educators online and off.
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“The first Trump admin altered or deleted numerous federal web pages containing public-facing climate information, according to monitoring efforts by the nonprofit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks changes on federal websites.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again
Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. Scientists say the threats are bigger this time
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Coming up Monday 2 December 2024, 16:00 Central European time: Elena Kochetkova on Greenhouse #envhum book talk series to discuss The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024) Join us! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhist
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Online book talk: Kochetkova, Green Power of Socialism – The Greenhouse
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Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This #GivingTuesday level up education through the Center for Learning through Games and Simulations and CMich Press, where innovation meets education. Power the future of game-based learning & design: giving.apps.cmich.edu/fund/9100111. The first $1k donated will be matched $2 for every $1 given.
Banner image with a maroon background saying "Unlock new levels of learning! #GivingTuesday" with a large yellow meeple person off to the right side and the CMU Center for Learning through Games and Simulations logo below the text in white.
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Proud to have worked with a great group of historians on this.
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) children's environmental attitudes in the 60s and 70s 2) a history of ideas abt Mars (spec w/environ ideas)
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) children's environmental attitudes in the 60s and 70s 2) a history of ideas abt Mars (spec w/environ ideas)
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