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Education for Disaster Justice--open access article available now! Please read, share, and send me feedback--always looking for new Disaster Haggyo ideas!

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I would like to invite @deannecriswell.bsky.social to a Disaster Researchers for Justice meeting, and I wonder if she is active on BlueSky? Any ideas/contacts welcome--I know there would be an enormous amount of interest in hearing from her at this time among disaster researchers & EM professionals.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Buffalo Creek was a foundational event in disaster studies thanks to Kai Erikson's research. If only every disaster had a Kai Erikson we would live in a safer world today. www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/a...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Disaster as policy option.

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

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Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

psst . . . Slow Disaster podcast is coming soon . . .

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The intentional destruction of the disaster research & response institutions in this country is hurting people who devote their lives to saving lives. A great journalist should bring this disaster-in-the-making into the light. @maddow.msnbc.com @jeffsharlet.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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Just finished a meeting on impacts of Trump Administration policies in disaster research and emergency management and the mood out there among the people who try to keep us all safe is GRIM. But also, frankly speaking, pretty determined. Join DRJ to learn more! www.disasterresearchersforjustice.com

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TONIGHT! 7pm eastern time. Join an open forum on Disaster Research & Emergency Management hosted by DRJ. www.disasterresearchersforjustice.com It's a chance to talk about shared concerns among disaster researchers+emergency managers. Meeting link available upon request. @samlmontano.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Trump's NIH policy is a $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/b...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

🚨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

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Please join: Open Forum on Emergency Management in America. Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time--hosted by Disaster Researchers for Justice. Respond to this post and I will send meeting details. Hope to see many people there. @samlmontano.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

We are delighted to announce the publication of volume 1, issue 2 of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by @pennpress.bsky.social! This issue includes a wide array of articles and other scholarly content (see the TOC in the thread below), all in open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54211

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The historians will remain.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Democracy in action, Franklin, MA. Town hall with @repauchincloss.bsky.social. People ran to the mics.

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NEW article alert from @jds-disasters.bsky.social: "Trust, Traffic, & Contemporary Evacuation Barriers in Hurricane Ida" by Jennifer Trivedi, Sarah DeYoung, Prosper Anyidoho, Maria Porada, Tricia Wachtendorf, Rachel Davidson, Linda Nozick. @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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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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Next week I will hold an online open forum for people who want to talk about FEMA and the future of emergency management in the USA. I know organization is happening at many levels. Contact me if you are interested. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Reminder that Project 2025 called for an end to all FEMA grant programs. FEMA grants are the primary mechanism for federally funded disaster mitigation and preparedness. Every single community has benefited from this funding. It benefits the economy and national security.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

FEMA disappearing will impact every community in America. Suicidal move. And totally predictable.

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And when a major disaster inevitably occurs . . .

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Higher education in the USA today is the accumulation of decades of struggle, investment, & care. Perfect? Hardly. Yet it is one of our greatest national assets. Universities, colleges, and community colleges impact life in every corner of this broad land. To weaponize higher ed funding is suicidal.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

"Can [memorials] accommodate what can't be fully remembered or known bc of the absence of evidence or... silences in the archives? Perhaps one way to address these absences, as... Mabel O. Wilson will explore, is thru diff modes of provisional mark making, materialities, + sensorial experiences."

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In the early days of COVID people learned new ways to cope, to build community, and to survive often with little or no consistent help from government--a government that was flailing, covering up, and lying. It wasn't that long ago. People we need that kind of resolve now. @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. theatln.tc/yofyQRA4

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

Thinking about how when I asked the FEMA leadership panel at the IAEM conference in November what they recommended state and local emergency management agencies should do to prepare for the potential loss of FEMA funding I was dismissed out of hand.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

As we watch ongoing shocks around the world, please join us for an open-to-the-public talk on #disaster risk reduction on Thursday February 6th at 6:00 pm at @Northeastern in Renaissance Park 909.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

When people are trapped and minutes count, research shows it is family, friends and neighbors who are already on the scene and are most likely to save lives. It’s often everyday citizens who also take on immediate tasks such as debris removal. theconversation.com/amid-la-fire...

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I don’t think anyone outside emergency management understands how small state emergency management agencies are…

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

Come to my "final lecture" as a professor at the #Hiroshima Peace Insittute on Thursday Feb 6th. Title: "Legacy Sites: Traces of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Cold War in the United States" #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHum Details in the link: www.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/news/c000747...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Feels like a good time to share an excerpt from a feature I wrote on the history of FEMA & the US disaster response system: myworldsonfire.beehiiv.com/p/sorriest-b...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Terrific profile of the recently passed Garth Hudson. In the words of Ronnie Hawkins: “He heard all sorts of weird sounds in his head, and he played like the Phantom of the Opera." www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

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