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andrewrbeaton.bsky.social
Environmental Historian interested in optics, physics, social science, sustainability, and justice.
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These billboards line the streets around Albuquerque, New Mexico.

More than clams and the Jersey Devil...The pineys know good trouble.

📍Salt Lake City, Utah Protest footage is starting to roll in. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Comment where and how you took action today, and tag us in your best pics and videos for a reshare! Join us at www.FiftyFifty.one. 🤝 #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 @meidastouch.com @polrev.bsky.social

Today in Galloway and some.

not this one, but I am not opposed to learning.

The Dutch Ate the Businessman Who Ended Their Golden Age open.substack.com/pub/michelle... Food for thought

Mother's Younger Brother open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe... Cold War historian blithering.

Securing the High Ground open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe...

One Gut at a Time open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe...

Historians Do Not Know Everything open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe...

A Biden-era Justice Department investigation alleged that Lexington, Mississippi, police brutalized Black residents, siphoned money from the poor and people with disabilities, and arrested people for made-up crimes. Efforts at reform could be in jeopardy under Trump. Read more: buff.ly/arjDwLu

Recommended read: @dialogueearth.bsky.social reported on how extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are causing more frequent power outages in Latin America.

Justice William Alsup said, during a hearing earlier this week. “It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee, and say it was based on performance, when they know good and well, that’s a lie,” he told the Justice Department, using unusually strong language for a judge.

I wanted to wish @democrats.org and @chuckschumer.com the best of luck in your future endeavors preserving norms and institutions on the bridge of the USS Titanic. But for this new Independent, I am no longer interested in participating in your cycle of abuse. www.mind-war.com/p/ok-i-am-out

Establishment American Jewish organizations have issued neutral statements on Trump’s Gaza plan, if they’ve weighed in at all. Rabbis, however, are beginning to speak out.

Targeting Netflix open.substack.com/pub/abeaton/...

✍🏼 @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s likeness to Henry Ford. “If you were to substitute the words ‘woke mind virus’ for ‘the Jewish question’ and slightly update the language, you would almost perfectly capture Elon Musk’s big contention about the world.“ www.prospectmagazine...

Charlie, No Prophet open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe...

🧪 🔭🧵 #histsci #February11 is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. So I would like to highlight Katherine Johnson, #NASA mathematician and computer scientist. A biography➡️ nasa.gov/centers-and-... She was a trailblazer in the quest for racial equality and, as a champion of STEM education,

Widespread ecosystem disruptions! The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet. It will be free of sea ice in summer and the permafrost area will be halved, leading to further CO2 and methane emissions. Let's increase our efforts to limit warming for future generations 🧪🏔️🌊

She is speaking. If you hear yourself breathing, grace is with you. This is the basis of all truth. and too seldom spoken.

The best of what humans have done, are doing, or will ever do, is direct others to the exits from the cultural vortex of greed, anger, and delusion. The worst of culture keeps us spinning, grasping, commodifying, and consuming. 2/2

Andrew Beaton 5m American Lit The system (Nature) is self-cleansing. To her, time and space mean nothing. She can roll a seven anytime she wants one or never roll another one in our lifetime. Truth is stardust, truth is a single gratitude infused, conscious breath. Truth is never silent. 1/2

The Book. Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us was eye level on a shelf I had to walk past many times every day as a child. When the moon and wind got together our house became an island.

NASA onboard with world's deepest pool plans. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My first BS block - NYT- how did that get in my feed?

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

A look at recent events from inside the NIH 🧪 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Engineering Civilians open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe...

Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:

Top receivers of federal grants in Baltimore County in calendar year 2024: health, education, transit, and energy. 🧪

I got my first "what does this mean for us?" question from one of my grad students. Wish I had an answer over the long term, but I'm fortunate to have some current grant money at UDel and startup support to cover gaps this year and next as needed. Others won't be so lucky. 🧪⚛️

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 8 open.substack.com/pub/trumptyr... Not for the timid. A must read.

Apalachicola Bay, FL TODAY is the deadline given by a state admin judge for proposed orders in deciding oil drilling within the watershed. The (deeply compromised) FL DEP is pro drilling. The estuary collapsed in 2012 and is closed to oyster fishing thru '25 more context: tinyurl.com/2s3ef9wj 🧪

#CTDAppreciationDay 🧪🌊🦑🛟 We have Conductivity/salinity and Temperature sensors on our surface moorings measuring seawater carbon dioxide and #OceanAcidification. #GAKOA

Monastic Living and Shellfish Farming Historical relationship between monastic living and sustainable practices

This and a whole lot of things. Journalists are indeed an endangered species, not to be confused with half trained propagandists.

Supercarged extreme weather will increase. This is scientifically proven and not fake. 🧪🌍

Steerable bioresorbable acoustic microrobots successfully deliver drugs that shrink tumours in mice. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/could-bubb...

As a graduate history student I spent countless hours hunting for sources AI spits out in seconds.

A Higher Level of Play open.substack.com/pub/andrewbe...