Bob Patalano
@robertpatalano.bsky.social
PhD in Archaeology. Biomarkers & early human paleoecology. Husband. Father x2. Lecturer, coordinator for environmental science & sustainability and climate action programs and sustainability liaison at Bryant University.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is a very interesting perspective on the repeal of the Endangerment Finding. If the EPA no longer regulates fossil fuel emissions through the Clean Air Act, cities and states have a better chance at bringing climate lawsuits against the oil and gas industry.
Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it.
For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.
substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
This is a very interesting perspective on the repeal of the Endangerment Finding. If the EPA no longer regulates fossil fuel emissions through the Clean Air Act, cities and states have a better chance at bringing climate lawsuits against the oil and gas industry.
Meanwhile in the U.S., we’re opening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing and will soon be selling off public lands to the highest bidder.
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Meanwhile in the U.S., we’re opening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing and will soon be selling off public lands to the highest bidder.
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China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:58 AM
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
Sounds accurate to me.
Sounds accurate to me.
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
Sounds accurate to me.
Sounds accurate to me.
Manufactured outrage resulted in the most watched Super Bowl halftime show ever.
The billionaires are sitting back and just laughing at us all.
The billionaires are sitting back and just laughing at us all.
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Manufactured outrage resulted in the most watched Super Bowl halftime show ever.
The billionaires are sitting back and just laughing at us all.
The billionaires are sitting back and just laughing at us all.
NBC removed the boos for Vance and Israel from their primetime broadcast of the opening ceremonies.
Two countries booed at Olympics opening ceremony despite stern warning
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 11:39 AM
NBC removed the boos for Vance and Israel from their primetime broadcast of the opening ceremonies.
American propaganda in full swing tonight for the NBC broadcast of the opening ceremonies.
February 7, 2026 at 2:57 AM
American propaganda in full swing tonight for the NBC broadcast of the opening ceremonies.
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Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...
www.um.edu.mt
February 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...
Journalism should be one of the most difficult majors at any college or university.
You’ll notice that not one single reporter stood up for/defended CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as she was being verbally attacked by the orange felon in the bulldozed White House. They can’t even stand up for one of their own so there’s no hope of them ever standing up for democracy.
February 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Journalism should be one of the most difficult majors at any college or university.
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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What happens in the rapidly warming Arctic does not stay in the Arctic ...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall
Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall, Zhang, Jie, Chen, Haishan, Ma, Weiqiang, Riaz, Rafi, Syed, Sidra, Ullah, Irfan, Shen, Jiayu
iopscience.iop.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
What happens in the rapidly warming Arctic does not stay in the Arctic ...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
I ask myself how anyone could have voted for this, but it seems highly likely that the 2024 election was in fact rigged.
The Cabal Is Real: Epstein’s Project to F*ck America
The latest batch of vomit from the belly of elite depravity is even worse than it looks.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I ask myself how anyone could have voted for this, but it seems highly likely that the 2024 election was in fact rigged.
My favorite part of Star Wars in when the Hutts and Black Sun tried to capitalize on the Rebel Alliance’s starbird symbol
February 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
My favorite part of Star Wars in when the Hutts and Black Sun tried to capitalize on the Rebel Alliance’s starbird symbol
The Epstein Files are worse than I could ever have possibly imagined. Beyond the trafficking, rapes, and murders, every major culture war from the last 15 years is tied to it. How do you even begin to process all this?
January 31, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Epstein Files are worse than I could ever have possibly imagined. Beyond the trafficking, rapes, and murders, every major culture war from the last 15 years is tied to it. How do you even begin to process all this?
Someone on here recently predicted that journalists will start being arrested because of how easily attacks on the first amendment were normalized. Well, here you go.
BREAKING: The former CNN journalist Don Lemon was arrested Thursday night, not two weeks after he was on the ground covering an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a church service in Minneapolis.
Details: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Details: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
January 30, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Someone on here recently predicted that journalists will start being arrested because of how easily attacks on the first amendment were normalized. Well, here you go.
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The governor's proposal would bar U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting warrantless civil arrests in courthouses, schools, child care programs, hospitals and places of worship. https://www.wcvb.com/article/healey-massachusetts-ice-trump-protect-actions-announcement/70189344
January 29, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The governor's proposal would bar U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting warrantless civil arrests in courthouses, schools, child care programs, hospitals and places of worship. https://www.wcvb.com/article/healey-massachusetts-ice-trump-protect-actions-announcement/70189344
“Trump's federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir just don't believe your eyes
It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies”
Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir just don't believe your eyes
It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies”
Streets of Minneapolis - Single by Bruce Springsteen on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 1 Song
music.apple.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:05 PM
“Trump's federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir just don't believe your eyes
It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies”
Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir just don't believe your eyes
It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies”
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
Dinosaur footprints in the snow
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January 25, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Dinosaur footprints in the snow
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There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
Oh how I miss living in Canada…
Carney uninvited to join Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ alongside Putin, Netanyahu, Lex Luthor, Megatron
WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump disinvited Prime Minister Mark Carney from his newly-established "Board of Peace", comprised of Trump, various war criminals, authoritarian strongmen, and...
www.thebeaverton.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Oh how I miss living in Canada…