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Michelle María Early Capistrán
@earlycapistran.bsky.social
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Social Oceanographer + Data Scientist 🐟
Postdoc @ Stanford Oceans • Studying human-ocean interaction across time and borders • ¡Orgullosamente UNAM! • Fronteriza de ❤️‍🔥
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cetracey.bsky.social
For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about two sound art projects centering the borderlands, the Dia Foundation’s Echoes from the Borderlands and UTEP rhetoric professors’ Border Soundscapes:

www.theborderchronicle.com/p/listening-...
Listening to the Borderlands
Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.
www.theborderchronicle.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Están cordialmente invitad•s!

📢 Seminario Permanente Redes Colaborativas de Oceanografía Social

📅 3 de abril | 🕚 11:00–13:00 h
📍El Colegio de Michoacán y en línea

🆓 Registro: narchi@colmich.edu.mx
🌎🐢🌿
Póster con fecha, horario y detalles del evento
March 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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newrepublic.com
Legitimate criticism of Trump's administration occurs everywhere—and it’s no secret that Musk’s DOGE cut millions in scientific research—so the idea that criticism of this equates to terrorism, and results in someone being barred from the U.S., is absurd.
French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism
So much for free speech in America?
newrepublic.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share!

www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm
Advice for talking to the media as a conservation scientist: Part 2, mechanics of the interview
By  David Shiffman and Brett Favaro. Many environmental scientists understand that there is value in communicating about their work through the media, as publicity can help raise public awareness o…
www.southernfriedscience.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Ok, this is affecting privileged people now. Will that make anyone pay attention?
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Mar 19
Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and Customs and Border Protection. Rolling the dice at all feels risky—and that’s by the Trump administation’s design.
No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore
Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and CBP.
newrepublic.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Irony is dead.
March 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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voiceteachernyc.bsky.social
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
A lot of this also applies to #anthropology. Our fields are more needed than ever, and also more than ever struggling to justify our existence. No coincidence.

#academicsky
jonwynn.bsky.social Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · Mar 14
"[S]ociology emerged in response to rapid transformation in society, and it continues to offer explanations for the causes, patterns, and consequences of social... change. Today’s students can benefit from sociology in the following ways and for the following reasons..."
Why Sociology Is Essential, and Especially Right Now
The discipline of sociology matters, maybe now more than ever. Here are 21 reasons why an understanding of sociology can benefit everyone.
www.psychologytoday.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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theplantinitiative.bsky.social
Nice article from @the-revelator.bsky.social by Melissa Gaskill - Seagrass Gardening "From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide." therevelator.org/seagrass-gar...
Seagrass Gardening • The Revelator
From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.
therevelator.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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alotrolado-org.bsky.social
“We just have to start over,” says a mom from Venezuela, stranded in Tijuana after her CBP one appointment was canceled. Let’s remember the hundreds of people who are stuck in limbo in Tijuana, with no safe home to go back to.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Migrants stranded in Mexico try to restart life after Trump eliminates legal pathway to US
Many migrants have been left stranded in Mexican border cities after the Trump administration immediately canceled tens of thosands of appointments made through a government app called CBP One that of...
apnews.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Budget cuts are now threatening Mexican wolf #conservation 🧪

@theborderchronicle.bsky.social

tucson.com/news/local/e...
Mexican wolf numbers grow but advocates warn of budget cuts, poor genetics
The 2024 count of Mexican wolves showed at least 286 of the endangered animals living in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, an increase of 11% since 2023.
tucson.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Must read.

#academicsky #socialsciene 🧪

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science - Impact of Social Sciences
Beyond their short-term implications, Trump's executive orders represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
ATTENTION

If anyone from Columbia is interested in communicating with reporters and/or can share documents to help reporters cover this nightmare and cover it accurately,

PLEASE reach out to me (or have them do so) on signal (jeremymberg.78).

1/n
March 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
I'll just leave this here and walk away slowly...

#academicsky 🧪
claesdevreese.bsky.social Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Mar 10
Day 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥

First op Leiden 💪🏽

@woinactie.bsky.social

Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.
March 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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brendangodley.bsky.social
Troubling article on the work to save the smallest and rarest turtle. #seaturtle #marineturtle 🦑🌐🌍🦤🧪🐢
lisettebrodey.bsky.social lisettebrodey @lisettebrodey.bsky.social · Mar 9
Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle 🐢 🐢

After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp’s ridley hits rough seas

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Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World's Smallest Sea Turtle
After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp's ridley hits rough seas
bit.ly
March 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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theborderchronicle.bsky.social
We're trying something new at The Border Chronicle 🦂

Check out our new weekly roundup, and our "ask an expert" section. This week we have invited immigration expert
@austinkocher.com Read the newsletter on how you can submit your most confounding immigration questions for our expert to answer 🦂🔥
Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup March 7
Welcome to our first weekly roundup! It's all here; from a border surveillance blimp that crashed in Dallas, to a podcast on Trump's immigration agenda, and the deadly EU/US deportation machine.
www.theborderchronicle.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
It's capitalism
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 8
I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.
Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right-the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else's profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden.
March 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Stoked about this new article on 50 years of the Endangered Species act by @vmshirey.bsky.social and an amazing team of conservation scientists!

🧪 #academicsky

www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
Frontiers | 50 YEARS OF INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT-HISTORY AND THREATS TO SPECIES
The United States Endangered Species Act celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023. As a hallmark piece of environmental legislation, the Act has successfully ...
www.frontiersin.org
March 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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maxplanck.de
To everyone in the U.S. standing up for science today, calling for policies that support science, not suppress it: we’re with you! Cutting science doesn’t just harm scientists – it harms society as a whole. #StandUpForScience
Flyer for the DC and nationwide rally on March 7, 2025. "Stand up for Science", "Science is for everyone".
March 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Very lucid commentary.

US folks, please talk to people that have seen this play out before. This strategy has already been tested.

jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
jesspiper.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
The Resistance is Aloha 🤙

Beautiful reflection by #Hawai'i playwrite Lee Cataluna

www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/lee-...
Lee Cataluna: The Resistance Is Aloha
Decide to be a warrior in your own way, sharing what you have, being reliable and reliably kind.
www.civilbeat.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
More of these

🧪 #academicsky
adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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maritacooperphd.bsky.social
More than half of all academics report the current EOs are impacting their productivity & >90% report low confidence in the government. Most alarming we are at greatest risk of losing scholars with minoritized identities. Great (& fast) summary of concerns in higher ed by @lluaces.bsky.social et al.
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Mar 5
Academia's Future in the United States: A Survey of Academics After the 2025 Executive Orders: http://osf.io/u9cgq_v1/
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
earlycapistran.bsky.social
Sícierto
palomaparda.bsky.social Paloma @palomaparda.bsky.social · Mar 6
Me impresiona -y no sé por qué- la facilidad con la que los "gringos buenos" hablan de mudarse a otros países de los que puedan seguir sacando ventajas, como consecuencia de la "vergüenza" que sienten ahora -HELLO!- por la dirigencia de su país.

Un no entender.
March 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM