Meghan Klasic, PhD
@roguephd.bsky.social
From policy analyst to social science researcher @EPA. PhD @ucdavis. Adjunct Prof @Johns Hopkins and @U of Minnesota.
*Thoughts are my own*
governance | policy | social-ecological systems
*Thoughts are my own*
governance | policy | social-ecological systems
Reposted by Meghan Klasic, PhD
National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report
Things have changed since 2009: We’re more certain about the problems.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
All the scientists
Inside me
Are tired.
Inside me
Are tired.
July 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
All the scientists
Inside me
Are tired.
Inside me
Are tired.
When every work day may be your last… you work to publish publish publish.
May 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
When every work day may be your last… you work to publish publish publish.
Reposted by Meghan Klasic, PhD
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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Taught a water governance class today and finished activity #1 early. Asked students if they wanted to leave early. They declined. The kids, people. They’re okay.
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Taught a water governance class today and finished activity #1 early. Asked students if they wanted to leave early. They declined. The kids, people. They’re okay.
Working on a collaborative paper with a group of established researchers- biophysical and social- is both exhausting and exhilarating. We are the present and future of science and we will keep marching on.
February 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Working on a collaborative paper with a group of established researchers- biophysical and social- is both exhausting and exhilarating. We are the present and future of science and we will keep marching on.
It’s exhausting, this existing.
January 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It’s exhausting, this existing.
We are not okay.
January 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We are not okay.
Great first day of the semester. “Did you read the syllabus” 15 students: “yes!” “Are you sure” “yes” “Madison, tell them why I’m bringing you KitKats next week” “because I read the syllabus” 😂
Qualitative methods here we go!
#firstclass #teaching #spring2025
Qualitative methods here we go!
#firstclass #teaching #spring2025
January 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great first day of the semester. “Did you read the syllabus” 15 students: “yes!” “Are you sure” “yes” “Madison, tell them why I’m bringing you KitKats next week” “because I read the syllabus” 😂
Qualitative methods here we go!
#firstclass #teaching #spring2025
Qualitative methods here we go!
#firstclass #teaching #spring2025
After so many years of working at the intersection of environment and society, it’s fascinating to me that some folx still don’t see how, or question whether, they’re interconnected (read: inseparable). The work continues.
November 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM
After so many years of working at the intersection of environment and society, it’s fascinating to me that some folx still don’t see how, or question whether, they’re interconnected (read: inseparable). The work continues.
What a fabulous 10 days- National Adaptation Forum, MSP Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Summer Symposium, + IAGLR Panel on centering communities in Great Lakes restoration. Love my job + floating across sectors. Such amazing empowering collaborators! @MSP_LTER @IAGLR #epa
May 25, 2024 at 10:15 PM
What a fabulous 10 days- National Adaptation Forum, MSP Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Summer Symposium, + IAGLR Panel on centering communities in Great Lakes restoration. Love my job + floating across sectors. Such amazing empowering collaborators! @MSP_LTER @IAGLR #epa
April 18, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; member of Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management shared a quote from their work that I love + feel like many will appreciate: “If the water could scream it would be the voice of the people we hear”
#AAG2024 #waterjustice
#AAG2024 #waterjustice
April 18, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; member of Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management shared a quote from their work that I love + feel like many will appreciate: “If the water could scream it would be the voice of the people we hear”
#AAG2024 #waterjustice
#AAG2024 #waterjustice
The balance of federal research, university teaching, and side projects is hard- but fabulously hard. I love the mix of teaching folks the policy process in the morning and then designing research to address policy challenges in the afternoon. So grateful for rockin’ collaborators and colleagues. ❤️
February 15, 2024 at 2:56 AM
The balance of federal research, university teaching, and side projects is hard- but fabulously hard. I love the mix of teaching folks the policy process in the morning and then designing research to address policy challenges in the afternoon. So grateful for rockin’ collaborators and colleagues. ❤️
Reposted by Meghan Klasic, PhD
🚨 New article out at Nature Scientific Reports 🚨
Using experiments from a four-country study, we show that framing fact-checks as *confirming* accurate information rather than *refuting* misinformation elicits higher engagement rates on social media!
link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using experiments from a four-country study, we show that framing fact-checks as *confirming* accurate information rather than *refuting* misinformation elicits higher engagement rates on social media!
link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 8, 2024 at 11:27 PM
“Milwaukee WI – Since 2015, The Get The Lead Out Coalition (GTLO), a Milwaukee community frontline group dedicated to the eradication of lead from our environment has pushed Milwaukee to remove toxic lead pipes tainting our water with lead.”
www.wispolitics.com/2024/get-the...
www.wispolitics.com/2024/get-the...
February 8, 2024 at 11:42 PM
“Milwaukee WI – Since 2015, The Get The Lead Out Coalition (GTLO), a Milwaukee community frontline group dedicated to the eradication of lead from our environment has pushed Milwaukee to remove toxic lead pipes tainting our water with lead.”
www.wispolitics.com/2024/get-the...
www.wispolitics.com/2024/get-the...
Reposted by Meghan Klasic, PhD
What's going on in California? On The Climate Brink, I've written a primer on Atmospheric Rivers:
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
A primer on atmospheric rivers
Climate change runs through it
open.substack.com
February 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
What's going on in California? On The Climate Brink, I've written a primer on Atmospheric Rivers:
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
It is absolutely bonkers to see pictures of the LA River in the midst of this storm 😱
apnews.com/article/cali...
apnews.com/article/cali...
February 6, 2024 at 4:44 AM
It is absolutely bonkers to see pictures of the LA River in the midst of this storm 😱
apnews.com/article/cali...
apnews.com/article/cali...
12 hours later I’m back in Duluth! An exhausting and exhilarating day— day 1 of Spring Semester teaching 200 students Natural Resource and Environmental Policy. It’s going to be a great semester :-)
January 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM
12 hours later I’m back in Duluth! An exhausting and exhilarating day— day 1 of Spring Semester teaching 200 students Natural Resource and Environmental Policy. It’s going to be a great semester :-)
Our Fall 2023 issue of 'City Buzz' is out! Read the latest updates from the MSP LTER - including new research updates, stories, news coverage, and more! mailchi.mp/umn/msp-lter...
Check out a post by yours truly on a bee lawn/pollinator survey we distributed this year.
Check out a post by yours truly on a bee lawn/pollinator survey we distributed this year.
December 22, 2023 at 2:15 AM
Our Fall 2023 issue of 'City Buzz' is out! Read the latest updates from the MSP LTER - including new research updates, stories, news coverage, and more! mailchi.mp/umn/msp-lter...
Check out a post by yours truly on a bee lawn/pollinator survey we distributed this year.
Check out a post by yours truly on a bee lawn/pollinator survey we distributed this year.
Working for an EPA Research Center is like working at a Research Coop - even the higher ups are researchers and super supportive and collaborative— and everyone complains about literature database limitations 🤣
Also it’s the tundra. But the lake views are 💯
Also it’s the tundra. But the lake views are 💯
November 28, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Working for an EPA Research Center is like working at a Research Coop - even the higher ups are researchers and super supportive and collaborative— and everyone complains about literature database limitations 🤣
Also it’s the tundra. But the lake views are 💯
Also it’s the tundra. But the lake views are 💯
Excited to be a part of this report, Centering Communities in Great Lakes Restoration and Ecosystem-based Management
A lot of great collaborations and work coming out of this…
cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_r…#GreatLakese#socialindicatorsr#socialsciencece
A lot of great collaborations and work coming out of this…
cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_r…#GreatLakese#socialindicatorsr#socialsciencece
November 22, 2023 at 4:25 PM
Excited to be a part of this report, Centering Communities in Great Lakes Restoration and Ecosystem-based Management
A lot of great collaborations and work coming out of this…
cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_r…#GreatLakese#socialindicatorsr#socialsciencece
A lot of great collaborations and work coming out of this…
cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_r…#GreatLakese#socialindicatorsr#socialsciencece
Reposted by Meghan Klasic, PhD
Skimming vessels are working to contain and recover oil from a spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, which is estimated to be at least 1.1 million gallons.
The spill is the latest in an area that has seen some of the worst offshore oil disasters in the nation’s history.
The spill is the latest in an area that has seen some of the worst offshore oil disasters in the nation’s history.
Oil spill tops 1 million gallons, threatens Gulf of Mexico wildlife
As they work to contain the spill off the Louisiana coast, authorities are trying to determine if a pipeline was the source.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Skimming vessels are working to contain and recover oil from a spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, which is estimated to be at least 1.1 million gallons.
The spill is the latest in an area that has seen some of the worst offshore oil disasters in the nation’s history.
The spill is the latest in an area that has seen some of the worst offshore oil disasters in the nation’s history.