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@smeedha.bsky.social
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🌱 🌎 Ⓥ Climate Justice ✊🏽 she/ they Social Work | Human Geography Academic-ing in the U.S. Midwest. *car door slammer 🌍 🇮🇳 🇺🇸

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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 15h
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“What is being built up in people’s hearts,” Mr. Singh asked, “that they would want to do something so terrible to another human being?” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For those who prefer “sugar-coated” analyses, such as: “we still have time” … “transitioning to a Net-Zero future” … “plants love CO2” … “carbon capture technology” this article is not for you. Stop reading now. Elites Have No Plan for Climate Collapse www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/e...
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Elites Have No Plan for Climate Collapse
Bill McGuire, emeritus professor, Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London is unique within the scientific community. He claims that
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an incredible man. Definitely one of the greats, who can convey the deepest meaning in the simplest of words… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/w...
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
metopera.queue-it.net?c=metopera This is giving me a lot of joy 🥲
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m so bored with all the discussion around AI. Can we talk about some useful technology, like heat pumps?
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What… WHAT??? Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@drkatemarvel.bsky.social closed out the day at The New York Times #ClimateForward alongside @chicoharlan.bsky.social with a clear message: We might be over climate change, but it isn't over us. We have the solutions to stop climate change. What we do with them is up to us.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😮‍💨 sigh www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New sign to point at daily—> We do not need A.I. to tell us how to solve climate change. We already know how. Electrify everything and phase out fossil fuels to zero by 2050. It is suicide to justify even one new gas turbine sale in the year 2026 because “A.I. will help solve climate change.”
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Climate scientists fired by Trump step in to fill U.S. report gap www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
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Climate scientists fired by Trump step in to fill U.S. report gap
The future of national climate assessments remains murky after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.
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Protestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk ban
Colors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Defense tech contractor Anduril as official sponsor of Ohio State Athletics?! This is appalling and absurd. (I wrote about some of their early border tech operations back in 2018: placesjournal.org/article/all-...)
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On Friday, several students with @climatestrikeoh organized a protest on campus challenging Ohio State’s contract with the defense contractor Anduril, and calling for an end to the university’s association with militarism and genocide.
Students protesting OSU’s contract with Anduril wrote slogans in chalk around the Thompson statue at Ohio State. The slogans say things like: no blood money, no war, divest, etc. the slogans go around the entire statue in dramatic fashion
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kinda tired of all Desis overusing the nazar emoji 🤦🏽‍♀️
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Monbiot: "But the idea that such individuated solutions would be any use in the face of a societal catastrophe is neoliberal nonsense.” 'Store food for climate shocks' theecologist.org/2026/sep/10/...
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'Store food for climate shocks'
Environment secretary warns people in Britain to store food for weather emergencies.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...
nytimes.com
Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History (Gift Article)
Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Judge Blocks Controversial International Student Restrictions
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Judge Blocks Controversial International Student Restrictions
A Massachusetts judge granted a preliminary injunction hours before the regulation was set to take effect. Institutions worried it would harm international students.
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Jill BSky @jilles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The impact of AI and hyperscale data centers is so underestimated.
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Erick M. Corimanya-Yucra @erickcorimanya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The water angle gets overlooked here. PFAS don't stop at the discharge point, they move into soils and crops through irrigation. Reuse schemes built downstream inherit the problem, and most national reuse standards don't regulate these compounds at all.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Shut it down right now. This Is Really Bad www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is Really Bad (Gift Article)
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Somehow I am skeptical of all these folks ringing the alarm bells now after creating the whole mess. is this just a ruse to stay in the news before your IPO?
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Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you see a burger on TV and salivate with hunger instead of recoiling with disgust, congratulations, you now can empathize with other kinds of bigots whose moral taste was trained to misalign with reality, creating self-destructive, other-harming habits 💲 >💚 = 🔥🌎 Tell yourself true stories, kids
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The pretense that we are waiting for a solution yet to be invented or tried is nothing but a form of delay and avoidance… to justify continuing with harm and preventing energy transition.” Climate: Who Dies, Who Fights, Who Surrenders, Who Sabotages
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Climate: Who Dies, Who Fights, Who Surrenders, Who Sabotages
"Canadians will have to prepare for a future that's 5 C hotter, according to a new report summarizing the latest science on climate change," says a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report on a…
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The proposed overhaul, as well as removing questions about race, ethnicity and sexual orientation from the census, could have major implications for collecting the federal data used to inform anti-discrimination policies and civil rights protections.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can review and sign our letter to the OSU Board and upper administration below. Sign as faculty: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fa... Sign as ally: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fa...
actionnetwork.org
Faculty Equity and Educational Excellence: A Petition on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Working Conditions
Ohio State's non-tenure track faculty teach a growing share of our students, on short-term contracts, without a living wage, and without a voice in the conditions they work under. AAUP-OSU is petition...
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On Friday we opened up the Labor Day weekend by launching our campaign for equity in faculty working conditions - with a focus on Non-Tenure-Track faculty.
AAUP-OSU members and allies gather at St Stephen’s church to launch the campaign for faculty equity, centered on NTT faculty. An NTT faculty leader addresses the group.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Human brains have the marvelous capacity to normalize any extreme situation, not unlike those boiling frogs… Let’s hope we find that particular tipping point long before we’re truly cooked. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An old saw is that climate change makes people like frogs being boiled alive so slowly they don’t realize it. Actually, not only do we already feel the heat, we're reaching out of the pot to crank up the burner. Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Bill Gates Is Still Wrong About Climate Change
A popular metaphor for climate change is the boiling frog, the idea being that we’re getting cooked so slowly that we don’t realize it until it’s too late. In reality, if humans are the frogs, they’re...
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ohio State non-tenure faculty demand higher pay, job protections. They make up about a third of Ohio State University's instructional workforce by Sheridan Hendrix www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
dispatch.com
Ohio State non-tenure faculty demand higher pay, job protections
More than 1,000 non-tenure Ohio State faculty are pushing for a $65,000 salary floor and longer contracts amid concerns about pay and job security.
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities | House Committee on Appropriations
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National…
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As climate academic Bill McGuire wrote for the Guardian this week, global heating will “leave no part of the planet untouched. As the world processes the horror of the events in Nepal and Tibet, it is a lesson that we ignore at our peril.”
theguardian.com
What we know about the link between Nepal’s flash floods and our climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: The full scale of the disaster is still emerging, but as rescue efforts continue, scientists warn that a warming Himalayas could mean more deadly hazards
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Etienne Domingue @akhuan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A lot more polite than many of my previous attempts.
A map of Lake Ontario, with the name changed to “Lake Non-Indigenous People Don’t Get to Rename Lakes.”
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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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IngerAndersen.bsky.social @ingerandersen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Deeply saddened by the devastating footage of the floods hitting Nepal and China. As analysis on the factors that contributed to this deadly disaster continues, understanding what data & monitoring we need to help us prepare for similar future catastrophes will be key. @unep.org's ready to support.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Donald Trump’s Artifishy Intelligence
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Donald Trump’s Artifishy Intelligence
Bernie Sanders, has called for a moratorium on datacenter construction across this country and only recently took on AI directly
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😢 Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
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Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We all needed this today 🥲
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“We also mourn the concepts she embodied with grace right until the very end: compassion, good-humored joy, a genuine wish for the well-being of her neighbors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
University of Houston Cuts 40% of Core Courses
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University of Houston Cuts 40% of Core Courses
The University of Houston System Board of Regents has approved removing about 40 percent of the courses that counted toward its flagship institution’s core curriculum requirements. The system says…
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There are two versions of the petition, one for OSU faculty (NTT and TT at all OSU campuses), and one for allies (staff, student, alumni, community member, non-OSU supporters). When you sign, please indicate the affiliation that best describes you.
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
AAUP-Ohio State is launching a campaign this semester, focused on Non-Tenure-Track faculty, called “Faculty Equity and Educational Excellence.” Read our research and rationale, see our list of demands, and sign our petition to the university leadership.
Graphic with title of AAUP-OSU campaign: “ faculty equity and educational excellence: a petition on non-tenure, track faculty working conditions”
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smeedha @smeedha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures
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Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures
With heatwaves now recognised as disasters, personal testimonies are key to a new project that looks to protect those living in the most cramped districts of India’s capital
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