Philip Bell

@philipbell.bsky.social

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Learning Sciences professor fighting for a thriving, just world🌿 Settler on Coast Salish Lands in Dxʷdəwʔabš (Seattle)🌿 University of Washington

#SciEd and #ClimateChange Work: STEMTeachingTools.org & ClimeTime.org

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Philip Bell may refer to:Philip Bell (1590–1678) Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889), American newspaper editor Philip Ingress Bell (1900–1986), British barrister and judge Philip W. Bell (1924–2007), American accounting professor .. more

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · Dec 21

For the new followers interested in #ClimateChange Ed, here's our collection of open ed resources on how to #TeachClimate…

🌿 stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-l...

These professional learning resources have been co-designed by researchers & practitioners over the past decade. See what you think!

Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 3d

As with all of our @STEMTeachTools, you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...

Thanks to Nancy Price for being the lead author on this one! 🙏

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 3d

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS #STEAM

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published another NEW TOOL. This one shows how to use ART PEDAGOGIES as a powerful platform for students to learn about and take action on #ClimateJustice and #EnvironmentalJustice!

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/105

STEM Teaching Tool #105

Creating Art to Understand and Promote Climate and Environmental Justice

In the background is a piece of artwork called “Life is a window of vulnerability” by Nancy Price showing a hand drawn bird and a patterned sunflower collage in orange and black.

Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, @emanwela.bsky.social! I saw that you explored our page of climate resources. Some of our newer ones aren't listed there yet, like this Climate Justice Ed framework:
stemteachingtools.org/brief/97

You can find other new resources at the bottom of this page:
stemteachingtools.org/tools

What is climate justice learning? : StemTeachingTools (en-US)

stemteachingtools.org

Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 4d

I'm grateful for the co-authors of this important resource—and for pulling together all of the supporting resources.

Thank you Kelsie Fowler, Cristina Betancourt, Renée Shank & Saraswati Noel! Fabulous work!

kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .

ALT: kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 4d

As with all of our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social , you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...

Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 4d

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

STEM Teaching Tool #104

Watch Your Language! Because Words Help Create Socio-Ecological Worlds

Background image includes a range of words of varying sizes and colors including: Rights of Nature, Regenerate, Climate Crisis, Relationally, Just Transition, Degrowth, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Overburden, Kin, and others.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Stephen M. Walt, Michael E. Mann , and 68 more Anne Applebaum, Stephen M. Walt, Michael E. Mann, Shannon Vallor, Richard S.J. Tol, Jonathan A. Eisen, Simon L. Lewis, Stephan Lewandowsky, Axel Bruns, Jocalyn Clark, Will Jennings, Ken Caldeira, Benjamin Mason Meier, Michael A. Clemens, Evelyne de Leeuw, David Johnson, Caroline Krafft, Amir Attaran, Ian Hall, Ralf Michaels, Rupert Read, Richard Waite, Juan Cole, Johan P. Olsen, Cathy N. Davidson, Gernot Wagner, Robin Celikates, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael Kevane, Devon Greyson, Smith, Robert C. Richards, Michael W. Kraus, R. M. Wilson, Aaron Sojourner, Gary D. Rawnsley, Rachael Garrett, Caroline T. Schroeder, Stephen D. Murphy, Nazita Lajevardi, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Amy W. Ando, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, David C. Kimball, Jason Lyall, Graham Dutfield, Cailin O’Connor, Erin O’Donnell, Aurélien Mondon, Mark Rice, Peter Stegmaier, Claire L. Adida, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Massimo Faggioli, Klaus Oschema, Christina Pagel, Césari Laurent, Philip Bell, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Tom Chevalier, Aidan O’Sullivan, David Stott, Virginia Sapiro, Maria Sobolewska, Dunlap, David Darmofal, Peter Jacobs, Elise Thomas, Pieter Vantieghem

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

newyorkermag.visitlink.me

Reposted by Robert Falkner, Gavin A. Schmidt, Ken Caldeira , and 3 more Robert Falkner, Gavin A. Schmidt, Ken Caldeira, Richard Waite, Daniel Huppmann, Philip Bell

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 6d

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published.
"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.

allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6...

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 9d

At NSTA in Minneapolis, the UW Seattle @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & our colleagues will host 13 sessions on EQUITY-focused #SciEd and #ClimateChange education. Join us!

Please share and help spread the word through your networks!

#NSTA in Minneapolis Nov 12-15
➡️ my.nsta.org/conferences/...

Flyer showing a girl holding a turtle outdoors, another girl recording data on a clipboard, and a teacher smiling on.

STEMTeachingTools.org
Free Teacher Learning Resources to Support NGSS Implementation

What Are They?

The National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the resulting Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) represent a new vision to help all students understand the natural and built world. As educators realize this new vision, many problems of practice come up. STEM Teaching Tools are co-authored by teachers and researchers to illuminate these issues and give advice about how to accomplish specific pieces of the NGSS. The resources are short. direct. easily shareable, and offer links to other useful tools.

WHY THEY MATTER TO YOU

Teachers need tools to reflect on how their teaching aligns with the NGSS & NRC Framework vision These teacher learning resources have been designed to be easily shared with others.

District staff & PD providers can use these tools in professional development to support implementation of the new vision.

Schoolleaders can use the tools to understand crucial aspects of the new vision for K-12 science education and then implement plans to support teachers' professional growth.

FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
THROUGH THE ACESSE PROJECT (COSSS.ORG/ACESSE)

STEM Teaching Tools @ NSTA
Minneapolis | November 13-15, 2025

All sessions held in the
Minneapolis Convention Center - 102 A

Thursday, November 13
8:00-9:00 AM: Climate Justice Overview: Priority Areas and Educational
Approaches
12:30-2:00 PM: Adapting OpenSciEd Curriculum to Focus on Climate Justice,
Local Solutions, and Issues of Indigenous Self-Determination
2:20-3:20 PM: Engaging Students in Talking About Indigenous Sovereignty and
Climate Systems
3:40-4:40 PM: Implementing Climate Learning Across Education Systems

Friday, November 14
8:00-9:00 AM: Supporting Equity and Justice Through Science Instruction: The
Road Traveled and the One Ahead
9:20-10:20 AM: Youth As Climate and Environmental Scientists: Collecting,
Analyzing, and Reporting on Local Community Climate and Environmental
Justice Data
10:40-12:10 PM: Get Your Students Outside to Learn Science!
1:00-2:30 PM: Supporting Youths' Climate Emotions as Authentic Dimensions of
Sensemaking
2:40-3:40 PM: Using Art Pedagogy in Science Class to Teach Climate Justice
4:00-5:00 PM: Designing Learning for Climate Action

Saturday, November 15
8:30-10:00 AM: Supporting All Students in Making Sense of Phenomenon By
Building All of Their Intellectual Resources
10:20-11:20 AM: Climate Learning Share-a-Thon!
11:40 AM-12:40 PM: Core Practices that Center Justice in Ambitious Teaching

Visit stemteachingtools.org for more than 100 resources
on justice-centered science and climate education!

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UBC SPPGA @sppga.ubc.ca · 10d

What does it mean to tell the story of climate change on Indigenous terms? Read about Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes at @moaubc.bsky.social moderated by @rickharp.bsky.social https://f.mtr.cool/gziohzbuhs

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12d

Last Thurs, the Trump admin announced it is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which sits on Inupiaq and Gwich’in land. The Gwich’in consider the land sacred and rely on the caribou migration.

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in…

www.npr.org

Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 19d

Come get your Master's or PhD degree with us! We have a new program strand focused on LAND AND WATER EDUCATION FOR SOVEREIGN FUTURES!

Come explore how land- and water-based pedagogies that uphold Indigenous sovereignty support environmental & #ClimateJustice.
education.uw.edu/academics/pr...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Oct 11

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Philip Bell

Grist @grist.org · Oct 11

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Politics #Oil #FossilFuel #Politics #Report #News

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

grist.org

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Carl T. Bergstrom, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 9 more Peter Thorne, Carl T. Bergstrom, Gavin A. Schmidt, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Lesley A. Hall, Beatrice de Graaf, Margot C. Finn, Zen Faulkes, David Murakami Wood, Wolfgang Huber, Klaus Oschema, Philip Bell

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · Oct 9

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · Oct 8

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

Reposted by Philip Bell, Romain Lorrillière

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · Oct 8

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

Reposted by Philip Bell

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · Oct 4

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s*

Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts.

*linked to air pollution in previous studies

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants

Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

www.science.org

Reposted by Philip Bell

Rick Harp @rickharp.bsky.social · Oct 1

VANCOUVER! Whatcha doing Fri Oct 24? Come see our free public panel, "Beyond Fire & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes," part of a larger invitational gathering of climate-related storytellers, hosted in MOA Great Hall at UBC!

sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

pictographic for "Beyond fires and floods: Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes," a free public panel featuring veteran journos Tanya Talaga, Mark Trahant, Judy Kochon and Paul Seeseequasis, moderated by me! October 24th, 6:30 PM, Museum of Anthropology, UBC.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Philip Bell, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 27

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals reut.rs/46I9oj6

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals

The National Congress of American Indians strongly condemned on Saturday U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to allow soldiers to keep medals awarded for their roles at the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee, an event which many historians consider a massacre.

reut.rs

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Miss Verbal Not-Herbal Tea @booksarelit.bsky.social · Sep 27

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

A good read that gives important background as to what Signalgate clown is saying.

I WOULD like to include the official Oglala Sioux Tribe response to this.

I shared before, separately, but I feel this piece should be here as well.

Reposted by Philip Bell

ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 24

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.

See what changes are in store for your county 👇

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

projects.propublica.org

Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · Sep 21

It is vital to understand climate change as a multispecies justice issue. Here's how SCIENCE mag covered this new study in @pnas.org:

"CLIMATE CHANGE TURNS ALASKAN RIVER TOXIC: The Salmon River, long a symbol of Alaska's untrammeled wild beauty, is now an emblem of Arctic climate change."

Guido Grosse @grosseguido.bsky.social · Sep 11

A new PNAS study links #permafrost thaw and water toxicity levels from metal concentrations. This is bad news for Arctic rivers, their ecosystems, and food chains: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10..... Salmon River in NW Alaska, once praised for its pristine waters, has turned toxic to aquatic life.

Wild, scenic, and toxic: Recent degradation of an iconic Arctic watershed with permafrost thaw | PNAS

The streams of Alaska’s Brooks Range lie within a vast (~14M ha) tract of protected wilderness and have long supported both resident and anadromous...

www.pnas.org

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Dustin Mulvaney, Juan Cole , and 1 more Katharine Hayhoe, Dustin Mulvaney, Juan Cole, Philip Bell

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Sep 21

If you're housebound today (or in South Dakota, where there's no event), join us for a virtual Sun Day extravaganza!
actionnetwork.org/events/think...

Think Global, Act Local! A Sun Day Climate Action Party

Sun Day is a global day of action on September 21st, 2025, celebrating the unstoppable rise of clean energy. We’ll come together to showcase the power of the sun and wind, the energy sources that can ...

actionnetwork.org

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Stephen R. Carpenter, Brendan Nyhan , and 23 more Meredith Broussard, Stephen R. Carpenter, Brendan Nyhan, David Dunning, Martin Paul Eve, Maxwell Palmer, Giovanna Mascheroni, Devon Greyson, Smith, Alan Richardson, Jacob T. Levy, Margot C. Finn, John Hogan, Bessma Momani, Joanna Tai, David Murakami Wood, Urška Demšar, Greg Linden, Philip Bell, Albin Wagener, Alan Liu, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Maksym Polyakov, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Gareth Terry, Carly D. Ziter

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · Sep 21

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Laura Huenneke, Andréas Nilsson , and 1 more Katharine Hayhoe, Laura Huenneke, Andréas Nilsson, Philip Bell

Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · Sep 21

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

Reposted by Philip Bell

High Country News @highcountrynews.org · Sep 20

Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab.

How to build a food sovereignty lab - High Country News

Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 19

“If we cannot even in principle be free from external manipulation and anti-scientific claims — and instead remain passive … and welcome corrosive industry frames into our computer systems, our scientific literature, and our classrooms — then we have failed as scientists and as educators.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

zenodo.org

Reposted by Neil Selwyn, Philip Bell

Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Sep 17

New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club!

I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too.

Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

A photograph of me holding the book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" by Neil Selwyn.

Reposted by Philip Bell

Guido Grosse @grosseguido.bsky.social · Sep 11

Wild, scenic, and toxic: Recent degradation of an iconic Arctic watershed with permafrost thaw | PNAS

The streams of Alaska’s Brooks Range lie within a vast (~14M ha) tract of protected wilderness and have long supported both resident and anadromous...

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