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chadmbriggs.bsky.social
Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

As someone who's also done a large, consortium NSF grant proposal - this would ignite several suns' worth of fiery ennui (rage mixed with depression)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Environmental Protection Agency #EPA has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest — a region plagued by a legacy of pollution — to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, multiple sources told CNN. www.cnn.com/politics/epa...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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For the last four decades, a group of bicyclists has embarked on a 950-mile bike ride following the Trail of Tears. The ride honors Cherokee ancestors who were forcibly removed from their homelands. #RTR2025 wpln.org/post/cheroke...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Everyone, even Stephen Miller, understands that undocumented people are crucial for our economy's most basic functions, and the marching orders are clearly that it's now acceptable to destroy the local economy of any enemy jurisdiction to punish them for voting Democrat.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

On the one hand, the federal govt will save billions of dollars by shifting costs to the states. On the other hand, thousands of people will die.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Finally… I’ve been waiting for someone to cover this story. So sad. Climate[dot]gov has always been one of my favorite go-to resources to share.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

1) The Wave www.imdb.com/title/tt3616... 2) Airplane! (if airline disasters count) 3) Twister

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 2539 comments

And folks, don't hesitate to really rub it in. Be insufferable. Let everybody know you goddamn told them so. They deserve it.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Watching on the news a country threatened with military invasion by an authoritarian government, and am glad I'm here in Taiwan instead. #FightICE

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

It’s not just people and scientific expertise we’re losing. History is being erased. www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Jax Connelly talked with me about my book EXCAVATION—specifically “…writing trauma, writing queerness, and the always destabilizing, sometimes valuable experience of trying, over and over, to mine memory for difficult shit” heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/06/04/w...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment