Margaret Garcia
@garciamargarete.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof @SSEBEatASU | Researching water resources infrastructure, sustainability and adaptation 🏳️🌈 she/her
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I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
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November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Wishing we were just a little bit further north tonight but loving all the aurora photos!
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Wishing we were just a little bit further north tonight but loving all the aurora photos!
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WHATEVER your goals for the energy system are, rising energy bills are going to stoke more anger towards incumbents. Every incumbent needs a plan to deal with this issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
In an Upset, Democrats Oust Two Republicans on Georgia’s Utility Board
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
WHATEVER your goals for the energy system are, rising energy bills are going to stoke more anger towards incumbents. Every incumbent needs a plan to deal with this issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Of course this is what Sinema is doing now. We didn’t even get a chance to miss her.
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Of course this is what Sinema is doing now. We didn’t even get a chance to miss her.
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Reminder that @agu.org's Water Resources Research still has a special call for papers on Equity and Justice.
Call open until May 2026.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Call open until May 2026.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Water Resources Research Call for Papers Equity and Justice in Sustainable Water Resources Management
<em>Water Resources Research</em> is an AGU hydrology journal publishing original research articles and commentaries on hydrology, water resources, and the social sciences of water.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reminder that @agu.org's Water Resources Research still has a special call for papers on Equity and Justice.
Call open until May 2026.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Call open until May 2026.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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Amazing work by friends @kbdobbin.bsky.social, @alfencl.bsky.social and Justin McBride (@uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Linking variation in water democracy to system performance on the human right to water
Nature Water - Access to safe, affordable and accessible drinking water is influenced by various socioeconomic factors. A survey of a large number of California water systems shows how different...
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Amazing work by friends @kbdobbin.bsky.social, @alfencl.bsky.social and Justin McBride (@uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Axed Colorado River nominee alleges interference: ‘Never seen this kind of vitriol’ #cawater #westwater #ColoradoRiver www.reviewjournal.com/news/environ...
Axed Colorado River nominee alleges interference: ‘Never seen this kind of vitriol’
Colorado River talks to save Lake Mead may go on without a permanent commissioner.
www.reviewjournal.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Axed Colorado River nominee alleges interference: ‘Never seen this kind of vitriol’ #cawater #westwater #ColoradoRiver www.reviewjournal.com/news/environ...
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📣Help us make heat risk visible! We're looking for original photos of the impacts of extreme heat around the world, and the ways people are responding to it. Learn more and enter by August 29: https://loom.ly/Fz8N4Og
August 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
📣Help us make heat risk visible! We're looking for original photos of the impacts of extreme heat around the world, and the ways people are responding to it. Learn more and enter by August 29: https://loom.ly/Fz8N4Og
Just a grandma ruthlessly breaking the speed limit and her grandson yelling weee! What hooligans!
August 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Just a grandma ruthlessly breaking the speed limit and her grandson yelling weee! What hooligans!
So, my support for trans rights means I can’t get the grant to do the water resource engineering research even when I’m the best one for the job. And I thought they were all about ‘merit’ and ‘efficiency’… 🧐
“Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate … denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic”
TL;dr grants to be denied to entities who acknowledge the existence of trans people
TL;dr grants to be denied to entities who acknowledge the existence of trans people
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
So, my support for trans rights means I can’t get the grant to do the water resource engineering research even when I’m the best one for the job. And I thought they were all about ‘merit’ and ‘efficiency’… 🧐
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Among the many things that bum me out about anti-vaccine nonsense is that every rich person knows vaccines work. Bezos could dedicate a great metropolitan newspaper to saying so. The LA Times is owned by a biotech billionaire. But saying so could affect their personal bottom line now, so.
August 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Among the many things that bum me out about anti-vaccine nonsense is that every rich person knows vaccines work. Bezos could dedicate a great metropolitan newspaper to saying so. The LA Times is owned by a biotech billionaire. But saying so could affect their personal bottom line now, so.
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SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.
www.wired.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:
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Looking for a speaker? I am contractually obligated to give a few “high level” talks each fiscal year and given the chaos, I’ve got a space open for 2025-26. Send me a note if you want to talk science/research/climate communication, water/wildfire/disaster, community engagement. I hear I do okay!
July 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Looking for a speaker? I am contractually obligated to give a few “high level” talks each fiscal year and given the chaos, I’ve got a space open for 2025-26. Send me a note if you want to talk science/research/climate communication, water/wildfire/disaster, community engagement. I hear I do okay!
In the airport with a 3+ hour delay and our toddler keeps yelling ‘I ready’. Me too buddy, me too 🤣
July 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In the airport with a 3+ hour delay and our toddler keeps yelling ‘I ready’. Me too buddy, me too 🤣
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Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
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Rural healthcare is already hanging on by a thread. With Medicaid cuts here in rural Arizona - which will affect several members of my nuclear family and half the population here, at least - I do not see how healthcare facilities will manage. The knock-on impacts are hard to even fathom.
June 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Rural healthcare is already hanging on by a thread. With Medicaid cuts here in rural Arizona - which will affect several members of my nuclear family and half the population here, at least - I do not see how healthcare facilities will manage. The knock-on impacts are hard to even fathom.
As a life long Unitarian Universalist how will my religious principles including the ‘respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every person’ be honored? Can I opt out of the homophobia?
BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled public schools must allow opt-outs from any lesson parents believe will interfere with their child's religious development, including LGBTQ-themed materials.
This will make it difficult for public schools to teach lessons that may trigger religious objections.
This will make it difficult for public schools to teach lessons that may trigger religious objections.
June 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
As a life long Unitarian Universalist how will my religious principles including the ‘respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every person’ be honored? Can I opt out of the homophobia?
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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
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A refreshing breakthrough on #ColoradoRiver negotiations: let's manage the river based on the actual water it has, not what was legally promised 100 years ago. (The fact that this idea is simultaneously "innovative" and...obvious...says a lot about western water policy) www.upr.org/mountain-wes...
New Colorado River proposal breaks over year long negotiation deadlock
Colorado River states appear to be coalescing around the early makings of a new plan to share water in a way that accounts for climate change.
www.upr.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A refreshing breakthrough on #ColoradoRiver negotiations: let's manage the river based on the actual water it has, not what was legally promised 100 years ago. (The fact that this idea is simultaneously "innovative" and...obvious...says a lot about western water policy) www.upr.org/mountain-wes...
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I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.
June 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.
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We are looking for a #Postdoc in 'hydrological modelling and climate impact assessments of extreme events'. Are you excited about #flood modeling and working on an applied project in the Canton of Valais? Apply here:
apply.refline.ch/273855/1743/...
@slfdavos.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
apply.refline.ch/273855/1743/...
@slfdavos.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
We are looking for a #Postdoc in 'hydrological modelling and climate impact assessments of extreme events'. Are you excited about #flood modeling and working on an applied project in the Canton of Valais? Apply here:
apply.refline.ch/273855/1743/...
@slfdavos.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
apply.refline.ch/273855/1743/...
@slfdavos.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
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🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
May 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
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Effectively a full repeal of the largest climate bill in history. There’s no strategy for America’s future. We all get sicker and pay more in energy bills and suffer climate disasters, while some rich folks pay less in taxes. That’s it. Disgraceful.
The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
waysandmeans.house.gov
May 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Effectively a full repeal of the largest climate bill in history. There’s no strategy for America’s future. We all get sicker and pay more in energy bills and suffer climate disasters, while some rich folks pay less in taxes. That’s it. Disgraceful.