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Silvia Secchi
@profsecchi.bsky.social
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Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant.
Trans rights are human rights.
💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Nov 7
Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.
Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931
Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde…
blognostrumuva.wordpress.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 8h
A thread 🧵 for #energysky
beckyhammer.bsky.social Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 8h
I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 8h
It’s really hard to teach how science works when the scientific process is dismissed and buffoons are in charge. Teaching with a nuanced approach - where one centers stuff like structural inequities, Traditional Knowledge and implicit bias is a lot at the moment (ask me how I know lol).

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 8h
I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 9h
Next up on the research agenda: the sex of angels

Massive bonus: it’s gonna be less harmful

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 10h
Stanford is doing this because it wants to
Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 10h
I missed this: Gallup: "40% of [US] women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity." (Was 10% in 2014.)

The pronatalism will continue until moral improves.

ht @katemanne.bsky.social
Graph comparing trend for different groups

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 10h
Not @theonion.com

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 10h
Trump confused Greenland and Iceland so much that Reykjavík hired a DC lobbyist for advice: report trib.al/DwFwMHP
Iceland hires DC lobbyist for advice after Trump mixed it up with Greenland: report
Trump repeatedly mixed up Greenland and Iceland during his Davos speech last month as he pushed for the U.S. to acquire the Danish territory
trib.al

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 12h
Super excited for this book 📕 , and for the chance to read what is likely the last scholarly contribution of the late Lance Foster, who left us too soon.
The book: This is the route of my forefathers the 1837 Iowan map, by William Green with contributions by Lance Foster and Saul Schwartz.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 12h
Chicago style.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h
I just looked up its price 😬😬😬😬😬

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h
Jeebus so many typos, that’s bad even by my crappy standards. Sorry.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h
I am SO envious of your technical expertise, you have no idea.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h
Hahah that’s a fair question for an Iowa resident!!!!
This year is extraordinary because so many are staying do so long - this morning we took the dog to the ved and during the 3 mile drive, which is largely by the river, we saw over 20 eagles each way. It’s just great.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h
Looking up from my driveway just now - you can hear them too
Three eagles in the sky. Eagle flying in a blue sky with some clouds.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15h
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 16h
I assembled census of agriculture response rates since 1974, those drops are happening faster. And a 2019 national academy study argued that response rates are falling faster for large farmers, who are becoming more and more dominant in terms of the percent of production they are responsible for.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 16h
I agree with all these points: we have massively reduced analytical capacity at a time when response rates and maybe even strategic answering on the part of farmers are making it difficult to get good estimates. This isn't going to get better unfortunately, look at the figure in the next post.
USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep...
www.reuters.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h
This kind of article makes me wonder about the how and why of the trends and style issues that the NYT chooses to highlight.

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 17h
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h
It’s obvious that eating less meat and dairy has multiple benefits for people and the planet, we don’t do it because the power of the ag lobby is extraordinary and deeply intertwined with settler colonial beliefs and power structures (just look at land grant university research!).
jennifermolidor.bsky.social Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 18h
Cows are an invasive species that damage nature. Tribes are showing that less grazing benefits native wildlife like sage grouse.

Yet ranchers dominate public land policy. In the American West, less grazing would mean undoing deeply ingrained “settler-colonial” beliefs

www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...
What’s needed to protect sage grouse? Less grazing. - High Country News
Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of t...
www.hcn.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h
This is just sad. Sad that guys actually do this, sad that it’s something the NYT thinks they should write about, sad as a symptom of people’s relationship with food.
Move Over, Girl Dinner. Boy Kibble Has Arrived.
www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 18h
Cows are an invasive species that damage nature. Tribes are showing that less grazing benefits native wildlife like sage grouse.

Yet ranchers dominate public land policy. In the American West, less grazing would mean undoing deeply ingrained “settler-colonial” beliefs

www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...
What’s needed to protect sage grouse? Less grazing. - High Country News
Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of t...
www.hcn.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 20h
Italians in the US have known this forever, I guess the secret’s out now.

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 20h
Happy to see this new paper from Daniel Silva Luna out! It focuses on how professional science communicators make sense of and navigate emotion in their work #SciComm www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emotion in practice: the cultural work of emotion in science communication
This article examines how professional science communicators make sense of emotion in their work. Drawing on a constructionist perspective and reflexive thematic analysis of 22 interviews with prac...
www.tandfonline.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 20h
Holy shit—a terrible waste of $$

Bhattacharya is so kooky

“If lots of people believe it & it’s moving public health, we as NIH have an obligation, again, to treat it seriously,” Bhattacharya said at a MAHA event

Great reporting by @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social

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US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News
At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
This is one for @potamologist.bsky.social

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Robert Hirschfeld @rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 1d
Speaking of farming the government...

Here in Illinois, $67 million in climate money is funding strip/no till on 650,000 acres for three years

A *temporary* bump in reduced tillage on ~3% of the state's corn & soy acres for a practice that, whatever its other benefits, has minimal climate impact.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Farmers are a very small voting block. But both parties really want to claim to be farm friendly thanks to the consultant class/big ag narrative that farmers represent true American values and need continuous pandering to. This doesn’t consider the reality of US ag and alas never works for Ds.