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she/her, ecological data scientist for BC gov www.sarahpopov.com

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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
SEEKING: Canada Excellence Research Chair in #Ocean #Ecological #Modelling. #Professor or #Associateprofessor level with #tenure. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac... @science.ubc.ca @eoas.ubc.ca
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling
Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling Department Faculty | Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences | Faculty of Science (Erik...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 02/07/2025
They're giddy.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17/05/2025
Star Wars has always been obsessed with mentor-mentee relationships ("do or do not," "trust the force," etc). But Andor is specifically about different ways of running a lab, and how they all go wrong.
A chart titled "Models of lab governance: the Andor guide," comparing two fictional lab leaders—Lio Partagaz and Luthen Rael—from the Andor TV series. The chart mimics academic lab structures using their leadership styles:

Lio Partagaz: Regular lab meetings, side collaborations encouraged, abundant public funding, focus on minimum publishable units, collective success/failure metrics.

Luthen Rael: One-on-one meetings, PI dictates research topics, funded by a shadowy private benefactor, pursues high-risk moonshots, PI aims to elevate successful students and “kill” weak ones.
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project.
Image of the TV series The Magic School Bus accompanied by the following text: Airing on PBS in the mid-1990s, this NSF-funded animated TV show follows Ms. Frizzle and her class as they set off on field trips out of this world, including careening across the solar system, traveling through the human body or visiting the late Cretaceous period.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/05/2025
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screencap: ashdylanlit
it's always "kids don't need 30 dolls they can have 2 dolls" and never "rich people don't need 30 billion dollars they can have 2 billion dollars and pay taxes"
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/05/2025
Also uhm at the risk of doxxing myself I've never seen fish from the "Russian federation" before
Screen shot of a label at hmart . It says wild caught atka mackerel. Product of the Russian federation
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
‘We had the same moral panic about TV’ is a common refrain when people bring up social media, but like, in terms of social-political impacts, it’s hard to not see the ‘moral panic’ about TV as at least partially vindicated! A reality TV star is president! He’s filling his admin with Fox News hosts!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 07/05/2025
Instead of ensuring that everyone had their basic needs met and could live comfortably no matter what they happen to do with their lives, we convinced ourselves that schools were magic boxes that would solve inequality for us fairly instead. That they would train people for success in the economy.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This Harvard comp sci prof laments Republicans’ declining public opinion of universities and blames it on professors who, unlike him, inject politics into their classes. As evidence of politicization, he references Google, Coinbase, Bud Light—ie not academia—and one email from one law school TA.
nytimes.com
Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All
Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
When confronted by Trump, so many people and organizations look to polling for guidance, get paralyzed, talk in circles or just fold like a cheap suit. Disabled American Veterans, on the other hand, has taken the right approach. This is how you respond.
DAV statement on the proposal to rename Veterans Day:

No.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Once again, the main goal of Trump's tariffs is soliciting bribery. That is why all who go looking for a coherent (if misguided) economic strategy that aims to benefit the country come away confused. Make manufacturing boom? Stop fentanyl? Generate revenue to replace income tax? Nope. Corruption.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/05/2025
oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Unbelievable. This lawyer lost his job because he provided a minimum of legal advice to an immigrant family. I cannot fully convey my outrage and disgust at his employer.
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Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/04/2025
Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
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The Last Hospitals in Gaza
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.
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evil queen jolene @queenjolene.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Before there were trains there was ship autism
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yfw plane/train autism existed in ancient greece but it was with ships instead
25. Thrasyllus of the deme of Aexone suffered a strange new form of madness. He left the city and went down to live at the Piraeus. He imagined that all the ships coming into harbour there were his own. He made a list of them, attended when they departed once more, and was delighted when they returned safely to the harbour. For a long time he continued to suffer from this mania. But his brother, returning from Sicily, handed him over to a doctor to be cured, and in this way he recovered from the illness.
He often recalled his mad hobby and used to say that he had never been so happy as when he rejoiced at the sight of ships which did not belong to him returning safely, 45
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.
His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people.

Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him.

ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention.

The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card.

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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John Alroy @johnalroy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Evenness is dead. Long live species richness. If you want to use an index, try this R calculation. Where n is a list of species counts: length(n) / mean((n %o% (n - 1))^0.5 / (n %o% n)^0.5) advance.sagepub.com/users/363764...
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⚡️Derek⚡️ @derekheartsbflo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“There’s nothing naive about moral clarity.” @ayanaeliza.bsky.social words on Atmos’ “Nature Is” podcast hit hard this morning. Useful phrase that I’ll be putting in my toolkit, and great inspiration when you’re feeling a little defeated. Also reading “All We Can Save” helps.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/04/2025
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I think the key here is there needs to be consequences. There were consequences after WWII, and Germany did not keep electing Nazis. There were no consequences after the 2008 crash. There were no consequences for trump after the first term. It was as good as permission.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Lithuanian president & people paid their respects to 4 American servicemen who died during training exercise. When the soldier’s remains arrived at Dover Air force Base, no US president was there to honor them on behalf of a grateful nation. Trump was golfing & will dine with rich Saudis
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
When I tell students about the realities of pre-New Deal industrial life — where it was so commonplace for workers to die on the job that a Pittsburgh newspaper once celebrated that “only” 127 had died the previous month — they can’t believe it. That’s the world Trump wants us to return to
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library
The Trump administration is engaged in something much worse than book burning. It is attempting to burn down the entire cultural infrastructure that supports the pursuit of history.
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Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trump's tariffs could increase the cost of an iPhone 16 Pro by almost $300. Who pays for it? Us or Apple? And if we moved iPhone manufacturing to the U.S.? Let’s just say… get ready for a bajillion-dollar iPhone. We broke down the bill of materials. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Harvard doesn't represent us. "We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." -3000+ Jewish higher ed workers & students docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 31/03/2025
Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki)
Sheeta, confronting Muska. "What is a king when his country lies ruined."
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is brilliant and on point. This is exactly it - the Democrats who will internalize these points and lead accordingly will emerge as the real leaders for the time we live in www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
Bulwark screenshot 

“The rough roadmap for how to proceed goes like this:

Demonstrate popular power in the provinces through large-scale rallies.
Use these events to organize the resistance into a mass movement that can be called into action.
Direct the mass movement into targeted political strikes: Getting blowout wins in special elections; boycotts of Tesla; etc.
Politicize everything: Attack the authoritarians for every bad thing that happens, anywhere in the world. Flood the zone.
Elevate the corruption/graft in a way that pits the billionaire insiders against the “forgotten man.”
When the moment is right, bring this movement to the Capital for a show of strength.
Use this demonstration as a slingshot to take back legislative power in the 2026 elections.
More importantly, use it to send a message to the institutional actors that people will have their back if they show courage.”Bulwark screenshot 

“Find a leader. Bring people together in person, far away from the capital’s control. Build momentum. Organize your supporters. Harness the power of their mass. Build toward an explicit show of strength. Take back control of Congress.

And then, if we’re lucky, we can start thinking about an endgame.

In the meantime, fight the authoritarians on everything. If the stock market drops, scream about it. Because it’s their fault. When a kid dies of measles—their fault. Attack them every day, on whatever the latest thing is. Turn “flood the zone” against them by not needing to cling to any one outrage for weeks. Embrace the idea of snapping up new outrages every day.

Get hot about them. Be passionate about them. And for the love of all that’s holy, talk like a normal human being, not a canned politician going through the motions.

Let’s get to work.”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"Anti-wokeness" ca. 1958. This is the front page of the March 1958 edition of the official newspaper of the segregationist white Citizens' Council newspaper. They're outraged that the city of NY is spending money on "race propaganda" to serve "NAACP purposes" & destroy the South's "way of life."
She hasn't been taught to hate yet!
Keep her free from racial and religious prejudice!
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on page two, in relation to the
posters statement, "She hasn't been taught to hate-yet."
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Dedicated to the maintenance of peace, good order and domestic tranquility in our Community and in our State and to the preservation of our States' Rights
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITIZENS' COUNCILS OF AMERICA-MARCH, 1958
Jackson, Mississippi
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
My Quote for the Day “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” ― Rachel Carson
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
american politics is being in a car pointed toward a cliff having to choose the "slam on the accelerator" party or the "ease on the accelerator" party and if you mention brakes or steering away from the cliff everybody loses their god damn mind at you
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate: Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC. (Feel free to add others in replies)
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Trevor Aaronson @trevoraaronson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Think a Venezuelan gang is invading the U.S.? My story today in @theintercept.com is about how that panic really started — not with a crime wave, but with an alleged slumlord in Colorado and a PR firm in Florida. (1/7) 👇
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The minute the New Deal started conservatives were like “it’s only a matter of a few years before we go full communism” and yet, somehow, we never got within earshot of full communism. Meanwhile, all it took was electing one Black president and within a few years we’ve got Nazi salutes at CPAC.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/03/2025
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, companies are telling regulators they plan to move ahead, whether or not rules are in place.
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There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. Companies want to push forward anyway
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, companies are telling regulators they plan to move ahead, whether or not rul...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/03/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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