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Scott Gabriel Knowles

@usofdisaster.bsky.social
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Disasters are slow. Northeastern University. Co-editor Journal of Disaster Studies. @jds-disasters.bsky.social (artwork by Gonzalo Bacigalupe)

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
@usofdisaster.bsky.social at the @hazcenter.bsky.social workshop!
A photo from the front row of a conference room. It shows a panel of speakers with Scott Knowles speaking at the podium.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Democracy is alive!!
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Congrats!!
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Congrats friend!
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In case you don't know her work, be sure to catch the Disasterology newsletter by @samlmontano.bsky.social
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Disasterology: February 2025
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Education for Disaster Justice--open access article available now! Please read, share, and send me feedback--always looking for new Disaster Haggyo ideas!
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Education for Disaster Justice - Science & Education
Disasters reveal injustice in society; disasters create new injustices. These two intertwined ideas were the inspiration for an action research project, the first Disaster Haggyo, held across multiple...
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Buffalo Creek was a foundational event in disaster studies thanks to Kai Erikson's research. If only every disaster had a Kai Erikson we would live in a safer world today. www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/a...
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Everything in Its Path (Published 1977)
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Disaster as policy option.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
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2025 University Faculty Lecture
A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
That’s very kind of you. I’m going to be doing something quite similar starting in a few weeks.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Congrats!
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
psst . . . Slow Disaster podcast is coming soon . . .
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
please follow or send me an email thanks
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
TONIGHT! 7pm eastern time. Join an open forum on Disaster Research & Emergency Management hosted by DRJ. www.disasterresearchersforjustice.com It's a chance to talk about shared concerns among disaster researchers+emergency managers. Meeting link available upon request. @samlmontano.bsky.social
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Disaster Researchers for Justice
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
email or follow for link thanks
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
email or follow for link thanks
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
email or follow for link thanks
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
email me or follow and I can send link
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I can send you the link if you email me or follow.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Absolutely
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Rep. Jake Auchincloss @repauchincloss.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Trump's NIH policy is a $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/b...
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‘A $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy’: Auchincloss fires back at NIH funding cuts - The Boston Globe
Representative Jake Auchincloss said Monday that he will try building congressional support this week to exert pressure on the National Institutes of Health to halt its new policy associated with rese...
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Refused.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🚨We’ll be having a Disaster Researchers for Justice meeting Thursday to discuss *gestures around*. Practitioners, journalists, students, and others who do disaster work are also welcome to join. Message Scott for info. #GreySky
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
You remain my hero.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Please join: Open Forum on Emergency Management in America. Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time--hosted by Disaster Researchers for Justice. Respond to this post and I will send meeting details. Hope to see many people there. @samlmontano.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social
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Disaster Researchers for Justice
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Journal of Disaster Studies @jds-disasters.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We are delighted to announce the publication of volume 1, issue 2 of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by @pennpress.bsky.social! This issue includes a wide array of articles and other scholarly content (see the TOC in the thread below), all in open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54211
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Project MUSE - Journal of Disaster Studies-Volume 1, Number 2, 2024
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The historians will remain.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Democracy in action, Franklin, MA. Town hall with @repauchincloss.bsky.social. People ran to the mics.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NEW article alert from @jds-disasters.bsky.social: "Trust, Traffic, & Contemporary Evacuation Barriers in Hurricane Ida" by Jennifer Trivedi, Sarah DeYoung, Prosper Anyidoho, Maria Porada, Tricia Wachtendorf, Rachel Davidson, Linda Nozick. @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Project MUSE - Trust, Traffic, and Contemporary Evacuation Barriers in Hurricane Ida
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Now more than ever you need it . . . Get your fresh disaster research! Journal of Disaster Studies Issue 2 is now live and open access. Please read and share. research! @jds-disasters.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/886
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Project MUSE - Journal of Disaster Studies
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Next week I will hold an online open forum for people who want to talk about FEMA and the future of emergency management in the USA. I know organization is happening at many levels. Contact me if you are interested. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
FEMA disappearing will impact every community in America. Suicidal move. And totally predictable.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
And when a major disaster inevitably occurs . . .
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I want a Disasterology Live Feed for that day.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Yeah. 2026. Right.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Can [memorials] accommodate what can't be fully remembered or known bc of the absence of evidence or... silences in the archives? Perhaps one way to address these absences, as... Mabel O. Wilson will explore, is thru diff modes of provisional mark making, materialities, + sensorial experiences."
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Unknown, Unknown: Provisional Architectures of Memory – A Lecture by Mabel O. Wilson
At a moment when liberated citizens topple monuments erected to the power of despots and dictators abroad or when communities decide that monuments glorifying Confederate leaders, officers, […]
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/01/2025
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. theatln.tc/yofyQRA4
An image of the train tracks at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site. Above the image is the headline: "How Germany Remembers the Holocaust" and the dek "And what America can learn about atonement."
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Academic heroes.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thinking about how when I asked the FEMA leadership panel at the IAEM conference in November what they recommended state and local emergency management agencies should do to prepare for the potential loss of FEMA funding I was dismissed out of hand.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As we watch ongoing shocks around the world, please join us for an open-to-the-public talk on #disaster risk reduction on Thursday February 6th at 6:00 pm at @Northeastern in Renaissance Park 909.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
When people are trapped and minutes count, research shows it is family, friends and neighbors who are already on the scene and are most likely to save lives. It’s often everyday citizens who also take on immediate tasks such as debris removal. theconversation.com/amid-la-fire...
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Amid LA fires, neighbors helped each other survive – 60 years of research shows how local heroes are crucial to disaster response
In emergencies, when every minute counts, research shows family, friends and neighbors are often saving lives. These local efforts go uncounted, yet they’re crucial.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I don’t think anyone outside emergency management understands how small state emergency management agencies are…
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Come to my "final lecture" as a professor at the #Hiroshima Peace Insittute on Thursday Feb 6th. Title: "Legacy Sites: Traces of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Cold War in the United States" #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHum Details in the link: www.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/news/c000747...
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Colleen Hagerty @colleenhagerty.com · 24/01/2025
Feels like a good time to share an excerpt from a feature I wrote on the history of FEMA & the US disaster response system: myworldsonfire.beehiiv.com/p/sorriest-b...
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'The sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses I’ve ever known'
Expanding your understanding of disasters
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great pics John.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Terrific profile of the recently passed Garth Hudson. In the words of Ronnie Hawkins: “He heard all sorts of weird sounds in his head, and he played like the Phantom of the Opera." www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
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Remembering Garth Hudson, the Man Who Transformed the Band
The organist will be remembered for his singular style—erudite, but teasing.
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I hear you. Especially if states that have capacity and good governance become political targets (see: California, today).
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Scott Gabriel Knowles @usofdisaster.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Want to know more about the ways that a poorly-funded emergency management bureaucracy leaves people to suffer? Outstanding new research in the @jds-disasters.bsky.social by Erin R. Eldridge and Amanda J. Reinke. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Project MUSE - Waiting in Mold After Hurricanes and Flooding
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