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The world won’t unf**k itself. Let’s get to work: www.whatcanido.earth Brought to you by www.importantnotimportant.com

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentines Day! Stop falling in love with chatbots 💕
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hey Sh*t Givers 🌎 We have something big, like change the actual world big (because the world won't unfuck itself). We are joining podcasts across the planet for #PodsFightPoverty, a campaign directly supporting our good friends at @give-directly.bsky.social www.givedirectly.org/podsfightpov...
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Pods Fight Poverty: 2x your impact for 700+ Rwandan families in poverty | GiveDirectly & Giving Multiplier
Join us in sending life-changing cash to 700+ Rwandan families, with your favorite podcasters helping deliver ~$1,100 per family to spend on what they need most. While match funds last, your donation…
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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How Can I Stop My Wife From Badgering Our Friends About Climate Change?
A reader’s wife is angry about what she sees as insufficient commitment to the cause of environmentalism, alienating the couple’s friends.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Vibe this week: Stay informed, take action, and don’t let the robots win.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Our 2025 Charitable Giving Guide is here! LETS GO 🎉 Check out the full guide here or scroll through some quick links in this thread: www.importantnotimportant.com/p/the-2025-c...
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ This week, Quinn is chatting with How The Word Is Passed author, Clint Smith, about how the stories we tell about history -- and whether they are rooted in nostalgia or fact -- can help us make connections to today and make better decisions for tomorrow.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ Another one in our series with Run For Something, Quinn chats with RFS alum and Michigan State Rep Laurie Pohutsky and RFS candidate running for Detroit City Council, Denzel McCampbell, about their fight to make clean water a right, which shouldn't be controversial, but here we are.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ Today Quinn is chatting with school board member and Manchester, NH mayoral candidate Jessica Spillers and Buffalo Public School Board candidate Talia Rodriguez about how we can use schools to make sure kids (and their communities!) get fed.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ Today in our series with @runforsomething we're talking to RFS alum and Missouri State Representative, Ray Reed, and Minneapolis Mayor candidate Jazz Hampton about their work fighting for safer communities at the state and local level.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ Next up in our series with Run For Something we're talking to RFS alum, New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Tucson City Council candidate Miranda Schubert about why they are so passionate about better, safer, cheaper, more reliable transit.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ In our new series, co-developed with our friends @runforsomethingnow we're chatting with young people across the country who have stepped up to lead.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wake up, the latest The Science of Fiction essay from Maddie Stone is out! This week: What can Andor teach us about the impacts of critical mineral extraction on Earth? Read it here: www.importantnotimportant.com/p/andor-show...
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Andor Shows the Power and Peril of High-Tech Minerals
As the quest for Ghorman “kalkite” reveals, access to minerals can make or break empires, while raining riches or curses on mining communities.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
200 episodes later and we're still asking: what can I do? Amanda Litman's answer hasn't changed: RUN FOR SOMETHING. We're diving into your responses about running for office. From "I don't feel qualified" to "people won't like me", Amanda tackles every concern and explains why you should run.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New Life Finds A Way! What can population dynamics in places like Yellowstone teach us about democracy? Read it here www.importantnotimportant.com/p/lfaw-every...
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LFAW: Every Community Needs Its Wolves
How diversity creates stability in nature and democracy
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Federal climate policy is gone. Strategic philanthropy just became our lifeline. Listen to our new episode with Giving Green founder, Dan Stein to learn how to make your climate donations count. 👉 lnk.to/tmiq_ep199
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Making Your Climate Dollars Count When Government Won't
Congress just jammed the brakes on America's clean energy boom, however short-lived it may have been. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law after a lot of debate in the House and the Sen...
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So excited to announce the debut essay for our new column, Life Finds A Way! Our first post is from science writer Riley Black. She explores examples in other species that force us to expand our understanding of sex differences beyond a binary. www.importantnotimportant.com/p/every-body...
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Every Body Is A Sex Spectrum
Introducing: Life Finds A Way - The original diversity initiative
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
What happens when $35 billion in foreign aid vanishes overnight? This week, Quinn is joined by Rob Rosenbaum, co-lead for PRO, a rapid response team sifting through every single grant, ranking them by lives saved per dollar and building lifeboat bridge grants before the lights go out.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
What can you do to combat deforestation and increase access to quality sanitation everywhere? This week, Quinn chats with Bernie Wiley, Sustainability Director @whogivesacraptp about their mission to wipe away waste in the supply chain while donating 50% of profits to build toilets worldwide.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This week, Quinn chats with Marguerite Holloway, author of "Take To The Trees", about the hidden crisis happening to our forests, the scientists working to save them, simple ways we all can help, and why everything changes when you start paying attention to all the nature around you.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This week, IPCC scientist Dr. Minal Pathak isn't here for your city's token climate efforts. In today's episode, she breaks down: 🔹 Why 3 electric buses isn't enough (how about the entire fleet?) 🔹 How one heat plan saved lives in 50+ cities 🔹 What you can do in your spheres of influence
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
What do "snot otters," missing boulders, and your drinking water have in common? Our latest episode with science journalist, Jackie Flynn Mogensen, dives into how saving a 160-million-year-old salamander could be the key to protecting our communities from floods. 🎧 Listen now lnk.to/tmiq_ep194
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
What if we stopped apologizing for abortion and started celebrating it as the social good it truly is? In our newest episode, Quinn talks with Sophie Nir about the Abortion Positivity Project and their mission to transform how we talk about abortion. Full episode here lnk.to/tmiq_ep193
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Changing the Abortion Conversation
63% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and yet here we are. So what can we do to make the language around abortion more positive? My guest today is Sophie Nir. Sophie is...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hey everyone— @healthsciences.mcgill.ca is thinking of ditching X Their Bluesky account is still empty, but if we can rally some followers, it might help them make the switch. Give them a boost? Thank you!!🙏
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The problem with farm-to-table? It doesn't change farming at scale. Hear how chef and Zero Foodprint Executive Director Anthony Myint is building a table-to-farm revolution with just pennies on the dollar. 🎧 New episode out now lnk.to/tmiq_ep192
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡ Disease doesn't discriminate, but our systems do. This week, we dive into "A History of the World in Six Plagues" with author Edna Bonhomme to unpack how epidemics expose inequality. 🎧 Listen now lnk.to/tmiq191_edna... #pandemics #healthcare #inequality #publichealth #history
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
What can you do when science is being dismantled? Dr. Gretchen Goldman at the Union of Concerned Scientists shares actionable steps in our latest episode. The fight for evidence-based policy isn't over. 🎧 Listen now lnk.to/190gretcheng... #StandUpForScience
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I had a great time chatting with @quinnemmett.bsky.social on his podcast about what feels different about this moment for Federal science and how we can hold true to our values in fighting back (plus some hard-hitting takes on Dragons Love Tacos). podcast.importantnotimportant.com/dont-move-th...
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Don't Move The Goalposts
One of the ways this Trump administration is different from the last is, relatively at least, how much more unconstitutional, how much more organized and comprehens…
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The institutions that keep us fed, safe, and advancing scientifically are under unprecedented attack. In our latest episode, Dr. Gretchen Goldman, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, breaks down what's happening, why it matters, and most importantly—what YOU can do about it.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"What can I do?" It's the question we get most often. And in this powerful conversation, Dr. Ticora Jones helps answer it by sharing how she went from the lab to leading science strategy at USAID and the NRDC during some of our most challenging times.
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Quinn Emmett @quinnemmett.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A win for today. Huge thanks to the hundreds of folks who called in via @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/h...
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White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director
Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New episode, new podcast name, still asking and answering the most important question: What can I do? This week we're asking: What can we do about land power? Our guest is Mike Albertus, author of the new book "Land Power". We dive into how land ownership shapes power, inequality, and society.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This week: Having mercy is pro-life. Read the full essay here: www.importantnotimportant.com/p/have-mercy
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🌎 Have mercy.
And be merciless.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Build something useful.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Call your Senator to oppose RFK Jr’s nomination! The vote is tomorrow so chip chop www.whatcanido.earth/action/oppos...
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Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
How worried do we need to be about #H5N1? CEID director @bhadeliamd.bsky.social covers what the current bird flu situation means for farm workers, the general population, & public health.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"'The risk is low - but not as low as it was last year." Dr. Nahid Bhadelia breaks down everything you need to know about bird flu and what it means for public health. 🎧 Listen now lnk.to/Z7PXeG
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We Need To Talk About Bird Flu
We (Quinn) has been avoiding this question for quite a while. I even wrote a few thousand words about it a couple months ago and didn't publish it because it was a bit of a downer. But that's kind o...
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This week: What can you do? How about using your unique set of skills -- for good? Right now. Read the full essay here www.importantnotimportant.com/p/build-some...
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🌎 Build Something Useful
Like right now.
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you're feeling particularly activated right now for whatever reason... Then check out What Can I Do? A one-stop shop for taking action on the world's biggest issues. Donate. Volunteer. Organize. Learn. Invest. Get Funded. Get Help. Be Heard. Let's go whatcanido.earth
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
About 2025.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Science @science.org magazine's Breakthrough of the Year is fantastic: an HIV-prevention drug protects people for six months at a time and in two clinical trials showed 99.9% and 100% (!) efficacy in preventing infection www.science.org/content/arti... by @cohenjon.bsky.social 🧪
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Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: Opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention
A drug with a novel mechanism protects people against the AIDS virus for 6 months. It could speed the end of the epidemic—if those who need it most get access
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We just dropped our 2024 Gift Guide (it was so nice to take a little break from writing about climate and cancer). Everything listed is things and experiences we swear by/actually use/have been gifted/plan on gifting! Check it out www.importantnotimportant.com/p/it-s-the-2...
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It's the 2024 Important Gift Guide!
Experiences, jammies, salmon, coffee, classical music, books, journals and more
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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Non profit organizations in the U.S. do crucial work protecting the environment, serving marginalized communities and so much more. HR 9495, which just passed the house, allows the Treasury dept to revoke licenses for any non profit. Pls call your senator & tell them to reject this law. 202-224-3121
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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you're feeling particularly activated right now for whatever reason... Then check out What Can I Do? A one-stop shop for taking action on the world's biggest issues. Donate. Volunteer. Organize. Learn. Invest. Get Funded. Get Help. Be Heard. Let's go whatcanido.earth
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Quinn Emmett @quinnemmett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's Monday, which means HR 9495 is up for a vote again. Folks -- this shit is going to keep happening for the next four years, so grab a Gatorade and call your House rep again. @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social www.whatcanido.earth/action/stop-...
Screenshot of a tool that is used to call House representatives
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD go.bsky.app/RScFWyt go.bsky.app/ADqkPeH Will keep updating!
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