Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
Reconciliation ecologist working towards decoloniality at a Land Grab University on Saponi lands • Writer • Alien of extraordinary ability • 🏳️⚧️ parent • 🐦⬛ 🦚 🪶 📽️ 🏏
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A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing
Spoken in Greensboro, NC in June 2025
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A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing
Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.
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Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.
(and yes, this also launches my newsletter, so please subscribe!)
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The entire "COVID secretly emerged much earlier" narrative is the perfect example of this. If the virus was around in June, why didn't it spark mass outbreaks?
To make this dumb gotcha work, you have to make up even deeper conspiracies where COVID was less deadly and less contagious. Why?
To make this dumb gotcha work, you have to make up even deeper conspiracies where COVID was less deadly and less contagious. Why?
Conspiracy brain. Insists on being smarter than everyone else, while being very much not that.
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The entire "COVID secretly emerged much earlier" narrative is the perfect example of this. If the virus was around in June, why didn't it spark mass outbreaks?
To make this dumb gotcha work, you have to make up even deeper conspiracies where COVID was less deadly and less contagious. Why?
To make this dumb gotcha work, you have to make up even deeper conspiracies where COVID was less deadly and less contagious. Why?
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A hallmark of conspiracy thinking is citing contradictory evidence with no coherent narrative.
If COVID emerged in summer 2019, then it also nukes the lab leak theory. Their best evidence is a few Wuhan Lab researchers getting sick in Nov. If the virus was already circulating, then it's irrelevant
If COVID emerged in summer 2019, then it also nukes the lab leak theory. Their best evidence is a few Wuhan Lab researchers getting sick in Nov. If the virus was already circulating, then it's irrelevant
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
A hallmark of conspiracy thinking is citing contradictory evidence with no coherent narrative.
If COVID emerged in summer 2019, then it also nukes the lab leak theory. Their best evidence is a few Wuhan Lab researchers getting sick in Nov. If the virus was already circulating, then it's irrelevant
If COVID emerged in summer 2019, then it also nukes the lab leak theory. Their best evidence is a few Wuhan Lab researchers getting sick in Nov. If the virus was already circulating, then it's irrelevant
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Lab leak truthers love to point out that "only" one-third to one-half of early cases were directly linked to the market but you know how many were linked to the lab?
Zero.
Plus if the virus had emerged in the summer there would have been *far* more than hundreds of cases by January.
Zero.
Plus if the virus had emerged in the summer there would have been *far* more than hundreds of cases by January.
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Lab leak truthers love to point out that "only" one-third to one-half of early cases were directly linked to the market but you know how many were linked to the lab?
Zero.
Plus if the virus had emerged in the summer there would have been *far* more than hundreds of cases by January.
Zero.
Plus if the virus had emerged in the summer there would have been *far* more than hundreds of cases by January.
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Redfield is a Trump appointee and known crank. If COVID was circulating in summer of 2019, the entire timeline of the pandemic would be different. Chinese authorities were not "pushing the wet market narrative," they actively covered it up.
What is happening to people's brains over there
What is happening to people's brains over there
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Redfield is a Trump appointee and known crank. If COVID was circulating in summer of 2019, the entire timeline of the pandemic would be different. Chinese authorities were not "pushing the wet market narrative," they actively covered it up.
What is happening to people's brains over there
What is happening to people's brains over there
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I don't remember exactly what it was Ryan Grim first did that raised the red flags for me a year or two ago but man my red-flag-meter has never had a false positive. It's like cancer survival rates where you have to give it a time limit but I'm thinking mine is around 5 years.
Redfield is a Trump appointee and known crank. If COVID was circulating in summer of 2019, the entire timeline of the pandemic would be different. Chinese authorities were not "pushing the wet market narrative," they actively covered it up.
What is happening to people's brains over there
What is happening to people's brains over there
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I don't remember exactly what it was Ryan Grim first did that raised the red flags for me a year or two ago but man my red-flag-meter has never had a false positive. It's like cancer survival rates where you have to give it a time limit but I'm thinking mine is around 5 years.
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making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert
February 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert
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We will be rebuilding our destroyed society from whatever we can piece together from cassette tapes, Betamax tapes, and scraps of old books and zines
making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We will be rebuilding our destroyed society from whatever we can piece together from cassette tapes, Betamax tapes, and scraps of old books and zines
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These are concentration camps. kfoxtv.com/news/local/i...
Irish man detained by ICE says he fears for his life at Camp East Montana
An Irish man who has been detained by U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and trasfIn a statement to KFOX14/CBS4, DHS saidRECOMMENDED:
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February 10, 2026 at 10:48 PM
These are concentration camps. kfoxtv.com/news/local/i...
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Every time I see a pic of Palantir CEO Alex Karp I think "Taika Waititi? Oh." But I have face blindness so I finally decided to compare the two directly. IDK, I think it's an understandable mix-up
February 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Every time I see a pic of Palantir CEO Alex Karp I think "Taika Waititi? Oh." But I have face blindness so I finally decided to compare the two directly. IDK, I think it's an understandable mix-up
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What is: the Trump administration
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
What is: the Trump administration
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just when you think you've got a grasp on the horrors humans have made to use against other humans, you learn about a whole new class of horrors somehow even worse
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
just when you think you've got a grasp on the horrors humans have made to use against other humans, you learn about a whole new class of horrors somehow even worse
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And let me add: I never encountered an LMS until I started teaching after grad school. Coincidentally, I never anticipated how much of my job would be providing tech support to students for the various apps and tools that I'm now required to use
I often think about this in terms of email. When I did my undergrad in the 90s, none of my profs used email. It just wasn't how they communicated with students and colleagues.
Now, my working day is filled with emails but I don't think I'm a better historian than my undergrad profs because of it.
Now, my working day is filled with emails but I don't think I'm a better historian than my undergrad profs because of it.
Not surprising from a historical perspective, at all. "Labor saving" technology never actually reduces the amount of work that people are expected to do. It increases it. That's because A) work is fundamentally a social relationship and B) technological innovation creates new problems to be fixed
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
And let me add: I never encountered an LMS until I started teaching after grad school. Coincidentally, I never anticipated how much of my job would be providing tech support to students for the various apps and tools that I'm now required to use
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Dinosaur fans, like feminists, are only interested in predators if they're [SCREECHING INTERFERENCE SOUND CUTS OFF TRANSMISSION]
February 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Dinosaur fans, like feminists, are only interested in predators if they're [SCREECHING INTERFERENCE SOUND CUTS OFF TRANSMISSION]
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ICE is expanding at breakneck speed, by which I mean they’re breaking people’s necks and doing speed
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:27 PM
ICE is expanding at breakneck speed, by which I mean they’re breaking people’s necks and doing speed
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The Trump regime has destabilized the U.S. healthcare system, slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act while hospitals, clinics & other essential services were closing their doors, according to a U.S. Senate Finance Committee report www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
February 10, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The Trump regime has destabilized the U.S. healthcare system, slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act while hospitals, clinics & other essential services were closing their doors, according to a U.S. Senate Finance Committee report www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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this is excellent, and broadly relevant well outside of environmentalism open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...
I Said Environmentalism Was Out of Ideas. I Was Wrong. It's Worse.
How the people fighting for the planet lost touch with the people living on it
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:37 PM
this is excellent, and broadly relevant well outside of environmentalism open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...
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I reflexively flinched at this title but glad I clicked and read it - there are a whole bunch of good criticisms in here and I have probably been complicit in at least a few of these problems in my time
this is excellent, and broadly relevant well outside of environmentalism open.substack.com/pub/drlennec...
I Said Environmentalism Was Out of Ideas. I Was Wrong. It's Worse.
How the people fighting for the planet lost touch with the people living on it
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I reflexively flinched at this title but glad I clicked and read it - there are a whole bunch of good criticisms in here and I have probably been complicit in at least a few of these problems in my time
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Cleo Abrams' enthusiasm for curling is just the 1st reason to watch this. The 2nd is learning the word and meaning of "tribology." 1/2
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Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists
YouTube video by Cleo Abram
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February 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Cleo Abrams' enthusiasm for curling is just the 1st reason to watch this. The 2nd is learning the word and meaning of "tribology." 1/2
youtu.be/p60I9LNHNxg?...
youtu.be/p60I9LNHNxg?...
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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
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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....
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Wonderfully and inexplicably, The Actual Star is STILL only $3.00 on ebook: www.amazon.com/Actual-Star-...
February 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Wonderfully and inexplicably, The Actual Star is STILL only $3.00 on ebook: www.amazon.com/Actual-Star-...
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Holy shit—a terrible waste of $$
Bhattacharya is so kooky
“If lots of people believe it & it’s moving public health, we as NIH have an obligation, again, to treat it seriously,” Bhattacharya said at a MAHA event
Great reporting by @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Bhattacharya is so kooky
“If lots of people believe it & it’s moving public health, we as NIH have an obligation, again, to treat it seriously,” Bhattacharya said at a MAHA event
Great reporting by @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News
At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...
kffhealthnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Holy shit—a terrible waste of $$
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
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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I am so appalled that this is the basis for the NIH Director’s funding decisions
"If lots of people believe it ..." explains so much of what's wrong in America these days.
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I am so appalled that this is the basis for the NIH Director’s funding decisions
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How Many Times Do You Fart a Day? ‘Smart Underwear’ Says It’s Way More Than You Think gizmodo.com/how-many-tim...
How Many Times Do You Fart a Day? 'Smart Underwear' Says It's Way More Than You Think
The device brings the study of farts “into the 21st century,” the researchers say.
gizmodo.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
How Many Times Do You Fart a Day? ‘Smart Underwear’ Says It’s Way More Than You Think gizmodo.com/how-many-tim...
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#ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #Pinks #ProudBlue
The Buddhist monks have arrived in Washington DC after walking 15 weeks from Texas.
The message they brought was for Peace.💙🙏🏽
The Buddhist monks have arrived in Washington DC after walking 15 weeks from Texas.
The message they brought was for Peace.💙🙏🏽
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.
A 15-week 'Walk for Peace' concludes with Buddhist monks' arrival in Washington
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
#ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #Pinks #ProudBlue
The Buddhist monks have arrived in Washington DC after walking 15 weeks from Texas.
The message they brought was for Peace.💙🙏🏽
The Buddhist monks have arrived in Washington DC after walking 15 weeks from Texas.
The message they brought was for Peace.💙🙏🏽
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More than half of biologists serving on search committees or reviewing grants report using the journal Impact Factor to judge credibility of research articles - despite all the known problems of Impact Factors.
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A survey of how biology researchers assess credibility when serving on grant and hiring committees
Researchers who serve on grant review and hiring committees have to make decisions about the intrinsic value of research in short periods of time, and research impact metrics such Journal Impact Facto...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
More than half of biologists serving on search committees or reviewing grants report using the journal Impact Factor to judge credibility of research articles - despite all the known problems of Impact Factors.
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