Career track professor teaching #soil and #environmental science in Tucson, Arizona. 🌵
#biochar #biogeochemistry #soilchemistry
Unapologetic feminist scientist 👩🔬 and ally 🌈
Opinions my own
Rivka Fidel, PhD
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College application essays written with AI had less diverse ideas and perspectives.
"In a separate study, the team found that human-written essays offered up to eight times more new ideas than those produced by A.I."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
hey if you're a scientist and you use this data in your research and you want to tell me how dumb this is, contact info is in my bio
(i will also listen to scientists who think this is a great idea, if such a person exists)
How about some optimism for the weekend?
@nvogtvincent.co.uk has a new paper, and I think the title makes the point: Global Coral Reef Collapse is not Inevitable.
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Link: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169534726001060
Please send @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social to Congress. We desperately need more scientists in the halls of power. To oppose the current crop of anti-science grifters. #ScienceSky 🧪
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.
“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.
Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.
Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
Jacquelyn's walk through is excellent if you're trying to understand what is going on with this proposed OMB rule change.
This is how authoritarianism sinks in its hooks. Moves like this.
Rivka Fidel, PhD
You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social
I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting
If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2
Alix Seif, MD
You can find the full story of what happened on my Instagram (video too long for bsky)
I would appreciate any signal boosting
www.instagram.com/jeymccreight...
Leah
I lived there in the late 70s and to see these companies come in and destroy the community sickens me. Arizona strikes agreement with dairy farm to limit groundwater pumping in Willcox azluminaria.org/2026/01/13/a...
I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime
345 likes, 77 comments - jeymccreight on May 20, 2026: "I was recently the victim of a violent attack from a transphobe and am asking for your assistant to help my recovery. A GoFundMe link is in my p...
they WANT us living in the dumbest timeline. i hope y'all like the dark ages
Katharine Hayhoe
Jessica McKenzie
This Tuesday, @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social won the Democratic primary in #GA13. She is likely to succeed the late Rep. David Scott in this safe blue seat and become the first Black woman Ph.D. scientist in Congress.
This story was first reported by @gracepanetta.bsky.social of @19thnews.org.
Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
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Jessica McKenzie
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The Xylom spoke to Jasmine Clark, a Georgia state representative and Ph.D. microbiologist in the "Stand Up for Science" Protest last year. This week, she won the Democratic primary to represent a…
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. PEARCE — Nearly...
This is coming from the Office of Management and Budget, which "serves the President of the United States in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the Executive Branch." Their proposal would give political appointees a formal role in reviewing and approving research grants. 2/n
