Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

Like most people who have to engage with the #climatecrisis every day, I am sometimes overwhelmed by grief, despair or dread. As I often say, the best antidote to these feelings is action! But I couldn't really be more active & I'm still affected regularly.
In 2019 I did a thing which really helped, which was to try to practice gratitude in relation to the climate crisis every day, by thanking others who are helping in some way. I am going to try to do this again in 2023. https://twitter.com/crisortunity/status/1080235464509018112?s=20&t=PRSNHHidw1JqMBmuoSzztQ

Presenting the Champlain Ice Scarf: #climate #knitting. The white rows are years when Lake Champlain (#vermont) froze over. The blue rows are years when it did not. Data are from 1800 through 2021. Guess which end is 1820.

Do I know this person? The car and license plate screams “geologist”.

Folks, we are hiring six (!) postdocs as part of our NSF funded collaborative community engaged STEM research. 70k plus research funding to partner with Indigenous communities.

Review of applications will begin Feb. 1, 2023 and close no later than June 1, 2023.
Positions to begin on or before Aug. 15, 2023. All successful applicants will be funded to attend an orientation session in Summer 2023.

Position Details: MSU Job number 835465. https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/513394/research-associatefixed-term

READ: “25 Simple Resolutions You Can Make To Improve Your City!” My article in #FastCompany, one of my favourite that I’ve written. Your #NewYearsResolutions don’t have to just be personal… they can and should be CIVIC! What #Resolutions will you make TONIGHT to help make YOUR city better for everyone? Please share & fuel an important discussion. #HappyNewYear2023 #NewYear #NYE #cities #urbanism

https://www.fastcompany.com/90287193/25-simple-resolutions-you-can-make-to-improve-your-city-in-2019

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
And may the new year suck much less
Than the last three years combined

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#Fotomontag #photography #rainbow

2022 has seen many gaps grow wider

Equity gap
Health gap
Wealth gap
Caring gap

May 2023 spark the action towards change

And may the influence of those who serve only themselves shrivel

#HappyNewYear
#Welcome2023
#HappyNewYear2023

The first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S.
The first unionized Chipotle in the U.S.
The first unionized Apple Store.
The first unionized Trader Joe's.
260+ unionized Starbucks stores.
370+ worker strikes across the country.

2022 was a monumental year for worker power.

For our #GreatLakes lower trophic group, 2022 was a very productive and busy year. We sampled for the #WinterGrab in Feb, produced reports for year end, published 5 manuscripts, organized two conference sessions, hired a new biologist to join our team and two sets of students, completed fieldwork in Hamilton Harbour, Toronto Harbour, and coordinated 🇺🇲🇨🇦 Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and Lake Huron #CSMI for a total of 64 days at sea. None of this could have been completed without the talented team.👍

A Guaranteed Livable Income/ Universal Basic Income would solve a lot of problems.

#cdnpoli #basicincome #ubi #gli

Brilliant new paper by Naomi #Oreskes, concluding that "our overall situation suggests that it does not suffice for scientists simply to supply #factual #information, and leave it at that. Scientists need as well to engage actively with the recipients of that information." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-022-00121-1

#FossilFriday For year's end the rear ends of two Edmontosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History

Received some book cases for Christmas. Spent some time geeking with my collection. Many were inherited from my father (a limnologist and zoologist) or gifted to me from retirees. Many of them are getting older now. Like classic cars. But I do plan to disperse duplicates, and cull about 10%.

#IPCC scenarios are #projections, not #predictions.

"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

We get to decide what the world will look like in #2100.

https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3571/2020/