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Michael Paul Nelson
@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social
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philosopher, writer, consultant, speaker, professor.

environmental and climate ethics, forests and wildlife, concepts, reason, arguments. undisciplined.

oregon state university 🦫
www.michaelpnelson.com

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Michael Nelson is an American political scientist, noted for his work on the Presidency and elections. He is a Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College.

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 1d
Thoughtful piece on the value of the humanities in contemporary life.
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
The Humanities Don’t Have a Relevance Problem—They Have a Preparation Problem
Why English and Philosophy majors are already essential to the AI economy, and universities still don’t know it
open.substack.com

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 5d
Happy Solstice Everyone!

The light turns—reminding us that even at the edge, something generous is beginning again.

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 6d
14, 2 year post-docs for “early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA”

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 13d
Online finance/budgets course wanted:
A colleague and I are looking for an online course focused on university finance and budgets, or maybe more generally organizational finance and budgets. Let me know if you have any suggestions and links. Thanks!

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 15d
The second sabbatical of my career begins in 3 weeks, I’m soooo ready!!!

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 19d
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The End of the Humanities? - The Philosophers' Magazine
Martha Nussbaum tells James Garvey why the humanities are under threat.
philosophersmag.com

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 28d
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killgrove.bsky.social Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 29d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio , and 27 more

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 29d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

Reposted by Michael Nelson

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rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · Nov 24
Best advice is to wear little bells, so the bears know you're coming, and carry bear spray. It also helps to be able to identify scat. Black bear scat has undigested bits of berries and twigs. Grizzly bear scat smells like bear spray and has little bells in it.

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Nov 20
@brianandreas.bsky.social @storypeople.bsky.social

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Nov 18
“We are nearly out of time…but not out of choices. The whale asks for more space. The river asks for standing. The tern asks for habitat and room. We can give it.”

Lovely piece!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Nov 15
So glad, you and Johnny are definitely Number 1!

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Steve Peers, Michael Nelson , and 2 more

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Nov 14
I’m back.
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Johnny Cash giving a one finger salute Me

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Nov 12
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Nov 9
“It still feels like something is chasing me, but nowadays, I walk alone.”

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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Election Day, 1990
A tale of simpler times, and the poem I wrote about Trump when I was twelve.
sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Nov 2
Some, I hear, might even spend 75% of their time thinking about this, or contacting colleagues at other places, or reading about emigration, etc.

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Nov 2
"He took a hard look around
He saw people were starving all over the place
While others were painting the town"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV9d...
07 - Randy Newman - The World Isn't Fair
YouTube video by Eitoants P.
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Alison Banwell, Ph.D. @alibanwell.bsky.social · Nov 2
Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · Oct 30
Rainy day thought.
#poetry

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Oct 30
Professors in a lot of places in the US feel under siege.

Reposted by Michael Nelson

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Nature @nature.com · Oct 30
Politics trumps salary as the main reason academics are looking for jobs in other states

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Policed and censored: professors in the southern US feel under siege
Politics trumps salary as the main reason academics are looking for jobs in other states, a survey of university educators shows.
go.nature.com

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Oct 28
“If we know something irrevocable has been set into motion — if we already know where the story begins and where it ends — what, then, do we do with the middle? With that space of possibility in between?”

Yes! In this space there’s a lot of work to do!

www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...
Watching the Oregon ash vanish - High Country News
The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here?
www.hcn.org

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Oct 26
“But as long as we are alive, as long as we are resolved, as long as we are taking action to stop the worst of this, as long as we are trying to make America and the world even a bit better — have no doubt: We will triumph.”
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 26
I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born. Some thoughts for your Sunday... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-were-winning

Reposted by Michael Nelson

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 26
I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born. Some thoughts for your Sunday... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-were-winning

Reposted by Michael Nelson

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Oct 26
There is no current writer whose wisdom and insight I respect more than @mollymckew.bsky.social’s. This piece beautifully sums up where we are, what we face, and how we shall prevail, and it has left me in tears:
The sacred American spaces desecrated by the American president
The American faithful must find their voice if the divine American idea is to survive
open.substack.com

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · Oct 24
Aristotle never said this. It never appeared in any of his writings.

Completely unsurprising that Utah Rep. Trevor Lee (R-Dunning-Kruger) posted this without verifying whether it was a real quote.

Reposted by Michael Nelson

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · Oct 24
Writer milestone!
I have a poem in a biology textbook!

I’m really delighted by this.
(Thanks to Margaret Riley and Princeton University Press for reaching out.)

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Oct 22
“The higher-education sector remains disorganized,” the "administration will continue to use that to their advantage.”
www.chronicle.com/article/many...
Many Colleges Have Turned Down Trump’s Compact. Now Some Are Willing to Talk.
The openness to talking to the White House points to the continued division in the sector about how best to interact with the Trump administration.
www.chronicle.com

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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · Oct 20
You mean someone would have paid me for this? Well, phuck! 😖
#NoKings