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Join us for the second annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on April 2 at 5 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) will present her paper, “History from the Dogsled: Animals, Climates, and the Stakes of Telling the Past."

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This is in an area hit hard by the 2011 tsunami.

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In case you don't know her work, be sure to catch the Disasterology newsletter by @samlmontano.bsky.social

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If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor. And that’s the point.

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Structures are often chosen to preserve memory in part because they seem solid, immobile, and enduring, but they have life cycles of their own and require tending to. This means they risk deteriorating and failing to facilitate remembrance.

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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Undermining disaster recovery: Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...

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When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .

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Try to see Victor speak if you're on campus today!

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🚨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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A welcome form of disaster memorialization.

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The Missing Post Office, on the remote Japanese island of Awashima, is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address. Lost friends and pets; past and future selves; and, most frequently, the dead. Gift link to our story: wapo.st/4gtdy1n

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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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Our #article "Substitute or complement" looks at how trust and interactions save lives during shocks TL;DR: For the elderly and those with lower SES, deeper reservoirs of social capital are linked with lower levels of mortality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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So much of what is happening is unacceptable, but this one hits me right in the gut. Sending love and support to all of my EarthScope friends and colleagues.

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Still need to get to this one!

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The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) allows states and territories to make evacuation maps like this one and to create plans for what to do in case of a tsunami. NTHMP is at the core of how we prepare for the unthinkable and it is 100% grant funded.

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Citizen science after the meltdowns: Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/w...

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i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories

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An excellent short piece by Bill Deverell. Memory work is often integral to recovery, even if not officially recognized or funded.

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The (re)definition of disaster/emergency/crisis is always political, as is the denial of those labels to other events/processes. This labeling or ignoring of course unlocks or withholds important administrative tools/powers.

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When the climate shifts, caribou make decisions about where they migrate—showing that they understand risk & use their knowledge to collectively make decisions to lower risks for the herd: “a pretty clear and dramatic example of the concrete importance of social memory.” phys.org/news/2025-01...

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Seeing the arguments about the LA fires saying "It's climate change" "It's lack of funding" "It's the wildland urban interface" "It's forestry policy" "It's whatever"---That is falling into the trap. Disasters are never one single thing. They are complex. That is why we study them.

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Excited that our new #article "Corralling a Chimera: A Critical Review of the Term Social Infrastructure" with Anaya Joshi of NYU has been accepted for publication! TL;DR: we encourage scholars to use the definition centered on networking spaces papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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That’s that.

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A THREAD on how disaster donations can be extremely harmful instead of helpful to communities experiencing a disaster. I'll be using the movie Clueless to illustrate this issue but there is also decades of disaster research about this and plenty of first-hand accounts. #GreySky

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A fascinating example of disaster memory. As the 20th anniversary approaches I’ve been thinking a lot about remembering and forgetting Katrina in the US.

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Cascading disaster: insurance industry collapse. Early estimates of insured losses from the Pacific Palisades fire are hovering around $10 billion, reports show. The total losses for Los Angeles are projected between $20 billion and $50 billion. news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/10/c...

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Kim Stanley Robinson in NATURE magazine: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The layers of bullshit that the Right generates during every disaster makes our jobs as disaster researchers so much harder. You have to learn about and debunk their lies. By that time people are too worn down to take in actual criticism.

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It’s honestly hard for me to have a reaction to the LA fires as a scholar of disaster, my reaction is much more visceral, it’s honestly just insane. Shocking even if it’s not surprising.

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