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Meghie Rodrigues
@meghier.bsky.social
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Journalist covering science, climate, and the environment. Words for #Nature, #Eos + | Climate disinfo PhD researcher at #Unicamp | #ClimateTracker ‘20 fellow | RISJ #Oxford OCJN alumna.
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eos.org
Scientists are helping combat wildfires by doing what they do best: Collating data.

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In Parts of the Brazilian Amazon, Science Leads the Fight Against Forest Fire - Eos
The state of Acre counts on science to optimize its limited resources for monitoring and combating forest fires and environmental destruction.
eos.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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eos.org
@meghier.bsky.social reports on an encouraging approach in Acre 🇧🇷 ahead of #COP30, with input from Claudio Cavalcante @ #SemaAcre CIGMA, Quelyson Souza @ #SemaAcre, Freitas Filho @ #CorpoDeBombeiros, and Liana Anderson @ #INPE.
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
meghier.bsky.social
You gotta be kidding me
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...
Iceland Announces an Unfortunate First: Mosquitoes
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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coveringclimatenow.org
Story Idea: Study after study has shown that the vast majority of people, 80-89%, want governments to “do more” to address climate change. Understanding who these people are and why gov't action doesn’t align with the overwhelming public interest are all rich territory for reporting. #the89percent
Covering Public Support for Government Climate Action
Explore how the global majority not only cares about climate change, but wants their governments to “do more” to address it.
coveringclimatenow.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
meghier.bsky.social
"Precisamos inventar um país em que mais pontes sejam possíveis e menos muros necessários para viver em paz. O grande problema da sociedade brasileira é acreditar que a harmonia só existe quando há grades, muros, vidros blindados, classe executiva, VIP, VIPão exclusivo." www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...
Ricos no Brasil: 'brasileiro é obcecado por ricos por crença ilusória na mobilidade social', diz antropólogo que se infiltrou na elite - BBC News Brasil
Autor de livro 'Coisa de Rico', antropólogo Michel Alcoforado se infiltrou entre super-ricos para estudar as diferenças de classes sociais no Brasil.
www.bbc.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
meghier.bsky.social
Rest in peace, Queen 💔
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 1
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
meghier.bsky.social
Great to talk to Prof. Guimarães for @nature.com and share her research and advocacy for women and girls in #STEM. So much we don't know about the historical contributions of Black people to science!Thanks for your careful editing, @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social! :)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Computing is a Black people’s thing’
Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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cienciasuja.bsky.social
O Ciência Suja é finalista do Prêmio Einstein Mais Admirados da Imprensa de Saúde, Ciência e Bem-estar, do @portaldosjornalistas.com.br.web.brid.gy 😊✨
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September 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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jessewise.bsky.social
Good reporting on an attribution study from @nature.com:
🫠 Emissions from each of the 14 biggest #fossilFuel Firms made >50 heatwaves otherwise near-impossible
📈 Exxon & Aramco made 51 #heatwaves ≥10,000× likelier
🔥180 companies caused ~½ the rise in intensity (forest loss most of the rest)
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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caadcoalition.bsky.social
As U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright lobbies for more fossil fuels in Europe, climate experts are warning his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer.

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Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe - Inside Climate News
European climate experts say the pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on climate disinformation.
insideclimatenews.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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nature.com
"I love to tell people is that computing is a Black people’s thing"

Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.

go.nature.com/4oxew1E
‘Computing is a Black people’s thing’
Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.
go.nature.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Deforestation kills more than trees.
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Nice frog; big.
The world's biggest frogs build their own ponds
Goliath frogs excavate meter-long pools and guard their tadpoles through the night
www.science.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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eos.org
Today is Day 2 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding, the key ruling underpinning U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. 🧪

Testimonies start at the top of the hour, and we’re following along: 👇🧵
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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nature.com
At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies

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Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities
At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies.
go.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
August 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
meghier.bsky.social
What a chilling, absolutely heartbreaking account of the world's failure in reaching a decent treaty (a treaty at all) to curb plastic pollution. This, my friends, is what efficient lobbying looks like: the interest of a very few at the expense of the whole humanity
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Brutal. | Kiara Worth | 11 comments
Brutal. That’s the only way to describe today.    I fell asleep around 3:30am and when the Secretariat phoned at 4:50 to say plenary would start at 5:30, I knew it wasn’t good. When I walked in, the e...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
meghier.bsky.social
Current US policies on science and immigration are forcing early-career researchers to choose other countries for their international study seasons. This is true for Brazilian PhD candidates and a few official numbers picture the trend. My latest for Nature magazine: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities
At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies.
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
How can humans trust machines to do important jobs unless they feel confident the machines have the same values and goals? Recent work shows that this “alignment” is highly unstable.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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proflinds.bsky.social
Great to be a coauthor of this new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com which provides a comprehensive set of solutions to bend the land degradation curve & leverage the transformation of global #food systems. #land #climate #biodiversity @yesiuoy.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social
ftmaestre.bsky.social Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Aug 14
To meet the targets of the #UN Rio Conventions (#UNCCD, #UNFCCC & #CBD) we must bend the curve of land degradation. Our latest Review in @natureportfolio.nature.com #Nature discusses how to do it by 2050 by urgently transforming global food systems rdcu.be/eACfr #KAUST
August 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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caadcoalition.bsky.social
💰 Social media companies including Meta, X, and YouTube are allowing climate conspiracy theories about extreme weather spread unchecked as disasters unfold.

New research by @counterhate.com exposes how these companies profit while public safety is put at risk
Meta, X & YouTube Threaten Public Safety by Enabling and Profiting from False Claims During Catastrophic Weather Events — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
Press release: New CCDH research reveals social media companies are allowing false and misleading claims about extreme weather spread unchecked.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
meghier.bsky.social
A pleasure to contribute with Eos in reporting on a very little known issue. :)
July 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
meghier.bsky.social
Weren't it for the curiosity of the Amarandubinha community, we'd never know of these urns found in the Amazon. They don't resemble any known ceramic tradition in the forest and their discovery is a great example of scientist-community collaboration. ❤️
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
A tree fell in the Amazon—and revealed mysterious urns of ancient human remains
Archaeologists still don’t know who buried the urns or exactly how old they are.
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Niède Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist who has died aged 92, studied cave paintings, hearths & worked stones in the state of Piauí in northeastern Brazil, found evidence that the region might have been occupied more than 30,000 years ago, writes @meghier.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Niède Guidon obituary: Brazilian archaeologist who upended ideas on early human migration
Researcher used carbon dating to provide evidence that humans had arrived in Brazil much earlier than previously thought.
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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siricarpenter.bsky.social
As Jeanne says, @theopennotebook.bsky.social began 15 years ago as a labor of love. But it takes more than love to put together the hundreds of articles, courses, mentoring programs and more that TON offers. To be blunt, it takes money. We could use your help! www.theopennotebook.com/donate
June 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM