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The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership. Today vs. January

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

NIH had two tracks for the same fellowship: those from underrepresented backgrounds and those not. Both usually get funds. Rather than merge back to one track to comply with their understanding of executive orders, they essentially rejected without review all the ones on the underrepresented track.

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

Here's a lesson for all of us that the universities are relearning today: Staying silent in the face of fascism will not protect you.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

As Montreal loses its wetlands at an alarming pace, locals are fighting to get the province to enforce its own environmental laws. Excellent piece by Natalia Rivero Gómez. therover.ca/why-are-queb...

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Palestinian babies are not spontaneously freezing to death. They are being deliberately subjected to conditions calculated to terminate life. In other words, they are being murdered. The cause of death is not the cold, but the genocide being perpetrated by Israel and the US.

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Major new research finds “shockingly” fast changes to flows of Earth’s c. 3 million rivers, mapped across 35 years. “Rivers are dynamic and beautiful beasts & humans should never take them for granted or squander the resources they provide us with.” (Hannah Cloke) www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/c...

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

This is so horrible. This needs to stop. kitchener.ctvnews.ca/university-o...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Amnesty International has officially concluded that a genocide is being committed by Israel.

submitted 88 days ago • 22 comments

A group of Israeli’s block an Egyptian aid truck from getting into Gaza by dancing and waving flags in front of it 🎞️ www.instagram.com/reel/C2f9eiF...

submitted 404 days ago • 4 comments

"It looks like a controlled demolition... And you have nothing to say ...it takes a lot of planning and preparation to do and if there was a threat from this particular facility, they wouldn't have been able to do it." The chyron says it's Matt Lee from the AP www.aljazeera.com/program/news...

submitted 409 days ago • 4 comments

Good morning, Bluesky. Free Palestine.

submitted 442 days ago • 0 comments

One out of every 200 people in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli army — and the bombing still hasn’t stopped. Let that sink in for a moment, then remember how Israeli authorities are trying to make Western publics believe they aren’t targeting civilians. This is a massacre.

submitted 475 days ago • 9 comments

The terrorist regime has over 6000 Palestinians held hostage in their jails. They’ve taken almost 3000 hostages in the West Bank alone since October 7. They torture Palestinians all day every day and even brag on social media about it, and now their convicted terrorist minister wants more torture.

submitted 475 days ago • 1 comment

Study find more proof for what we already knew: the connection between climate change & the fossil-military-industrial complex, and that wargmongering countries owe climate reparations to the world’s frontline communities facing the worst of longstanding climate breakdown. #Climatesky #geo

submitted 483 days ago • 4 comments

Huda's sister Nour Al-Sousi—a writer who had two stories in the 2014 anthology GAZA WRITES BACK, which you may have read—posted on Twitter to say “The rescuers only recovered her head. They promised to continue searching for the rest of her body. I never got the chance to say goodbye or mourn her.”

submitted 495 days ago • 1 comment

Phenomenal, wrenching essay by Hala Alyan.

submitted 496 days ago • 7 comments