Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

I'm starting an expedition thread on our MUDBENCS project, an oceanographic expedition to collect marine and fluvial mud, suspended sediment, and water from the Amazon River and coastal areas of Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana. I will add to this thread from time to time, so please #boost it freely if you think others would be interested in participating virtually in an oceanographic expedition.

Tonight, the ship R/V F. G. Walton Smith pushed off the dock in Miami heading to St. Thomas, to Trinidad, and the to Cayenne. The scientific party was not on board. Most will join it in about 13 days in Cayenne. I will lead a small party of us to transport frozen Amazon samples over land from Macapá, Brazil, through the savannas and rain forest of the Amazon basin to Cayenne, French Guiana. We will board the ship to begin our work on June 3.

#MUDBENCS
#CarbonCycle
#oceanography
#SouthAmerica
#Amazon
#ResearchVessel
#expedition
#ClimateChange
#RiverOceanTransport
#SourceToSink

Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel disgusting; time to sure them into the (sic) ground.... #stopoil

This one's heartfelt. My new op-ed out today. Imagining a recovery in Vermont that would design for the future that’s coming, not the past we once knew and expand the idea of recovery to include nature and community, as well as bridges and roads https://themessenger.com/opinion/disaster-recovery-efforts-can-serve-more-than-one-goal #multisolving #VTflood23 #ClimateCrisis

From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

Take note: When people downplay or ignore the role of structural racism in health disparties, it leaves space for bad actors like RFK to spread harmful and bigoted conspiracy theories.

Here's one weird trick that billionaires don't want you to know:
Join your union.

#GeneralStrike #WGAStrong #WGASTRIKE #UnionStrong

I've been doing a good bit of insect photography this year, including shoots in Australia, Puerto Rico, and around Texas. Here's a feed of my newest photos:

#insects #Nature #Photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Photography/Recent/n-js6qN/

Teaching kids about frogs isn't grooming them to become amphibians.

The 18 GOP attorneys general who joined MS Attorney General letter calling for access to private health info on abortions/gender aff care their residents received in other states:
AL, AK, AR, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT

This is a crusade for these bigots, its not abt states rights/pro-life, they want to reach into other states & punish ppl who got legal procedures. They'll find a reason to fuck w/ you if you let this go on, whoever you are https://mississippifreepress.org/34705/mississippi-attorney-general-wants-info-on-out-of-state-abortions-gender-affirming-care

This is not normal.

The "influencers" Musk is rewarding with cash at Saudi-government-funded Twitter are -- unsurprisingly -- right-wing extremists, according to this report by @taylorlorenz.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

It goes almost without saying, meanwhile, that Big Journalism continues to support Musk's increasingly evil enterprise. Disappointing, and sad, but willful blindness to ethical considerations is no longer a surprise.

Why this isn't a bigger story is stunning, Why is the Democratic party not screaming this all over the media.

DeSantis refuses to call special election for seat Democrats might flip https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/14/2181249/-DeSantis-refuses-to-call-special-election-for-seat-Democrats-might-flip

Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?

The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?

Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7104

This seems bad. Like, private army bad. USMC vet charging them with battery bad.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/14/florida-state-guard-desantis-national-guard-training/

'“The program got hijacked and turned into something that we were trying to stay away from: a militia,” said Brian Newhouse, a retired 20-year Navy veteran who was chosen to lead one of the State Guard’s three divisions.'

#Florida #DeSantis #Military

"Only 10% of national TV news segments about the catastrophic flooding in the Northeast mentioned climate change" by Evlondo Cooper for @mmfa https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/only-10-national-tv-news-segments-about-catastrophic-flooding-northeast

Here's an insidious form of bothsideism that makes it seem as if there is a legitimate fight here, not far-right manipulation of media, this headline being a demonstration that it works.
Pentagon tries to stay out of Congress’ culture wars feud https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/14/house-ndaa-military-culture-wars/

Data from 58 countries and 12,000 US school districts show that the rate of learning decreases with a rise in the number of hot school days.

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33020588

#Heatwave #ClimateChange #ChildHealth #Education #ClimateCrisis @edutooters

(Photo by Hans Reniers, via UnSplash, shows a child who is sweating.)

Holy shit.

"…they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation."

WTAF 😳 https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

The president’s comments come as hundreds of top #military positions are now w/o a #Senate-confirmed permanent officeholder, among them the chair of the #JointChiefs of Staff & the #commandant of the #MarineCorps. The vacancies, accumulating as top officials reach retirement age, have typically been nominated & confirmed by the Senate in slates.

#TubervilleIsAntiAmerican #Obstruction #AbuseOfPower #NationalSecurity #Senate #Tuberville

The joke is that it's a "non-soon" - our summer rains are failing us in the southwestern US https://cals.arizona.edu/climate/misc/monsoon/nm_monsoon.html