Paola Rosa-Aquino

Surviving Occupation in a Climate-Changed West Bank | Atmos Climate change is causing strange rainfall patterns in Palestine. That compounds the devastation of Israel’s weaponization of water.

Must-read dispatch from @yessfun.com's reporting trip to Palestine:

The New Planetary Nationalism | NOEMA The realization of human embeddedness in Earth’s natural systems does not inevitably create a cosmopolitan politics oriented toward universal well-being.

“Planetary nationalism can include an embrace of swift anthropogenic environmental change.”

you ever get your flight times mixed up? like think it’s at 7 am and it’s at 1 am? then they charge you $400 to get on a new flight?it’s my first time 🥲

support a journalist who’s been crying at the airport for her mistake by donating to helping recover the money I lost

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5 science, health and environmental journalism organizations, @sciencewriting.bsky.social @sciencewriters.org @sejorg.bsky.social @healthjournalism.org @uprootproject.bsky.social, called today for immediate restoration of public data and information on federal websites: casw.org/news/journal...

An important new resource!

Blaming media outlets for this moment is valid. I also know so many journalists of color who tried to bring things up, point things out, report with integrity, and change how communities of color are reported; only to be repeatedly discouraged, dismissed and reprimanded by white editors and managers

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset

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LUMA Energy: despeje de vegetación en líneas eléctricas no incluye siembra para mitigar la tala de árboles Si bien el consorcio lo había planteado como parte del proyecto, al avanzar la operación en su primera fase en San Juan, indicó que dicha mitigación no es un requisito

Exigimos que se detenga este manejo negligente y que se implementen de inmediato planes que incluyan reforestación proporcional, consultas comunitarias y monitoreo público.

No podemos permitir que el modelo energético actual profundice el daño ambiental y social en nuestras comunidades.

Black and white photo portrait of Annie Jump Cannon. She is wearing a white blouse or shirt with a frilly collar that fades into the white background of the photo, and a dark choker around her neck. Her hair is pulled back and she is looking to the left of the camera.

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme.

Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives

OMG Drew -- of course!! Added.

THREAD. (tldr: Please tell @highcountrynews.bsky.social publisher Greg Hanscom (greghanscom at hcn.org) that including temporary employees in HCN’s new union will help BIPOC journalists) (1)

Hats Off to NASA’s Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image - NASA Science In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the Sombrer...

wake up babe new JWST image of the sombrero galaxy just dropped science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Trans Journalists Association Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?

@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

The Uproot Project Join the conversation

Corillo! I made a new starter pack of some of my favorite reporters and other accounts that bring critical perspectives to climate and environmental journalism.
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What you didn't know about the first time we tried to contact aliens In 1974, astronomers sent a call out into the cosmos from a massive telescope in Puerto Rico. The anniversary of the message brings reflections on a new missive to the stars and grief for a lost obser...

Our “you up” message to intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos has about 345 years to go to reach our would-be cosmic neighbors. My latest for National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...