Jennie Dusheck
@solenodon.bsky.social
Firewise community leader
Climate policy, climate action, health, flying less, forestry.
- Here I am, placing my grain of sand when I can.
- Known to have independent thoughts
Freelance science writer/editor
UC Berkeley & UC Davis: Eco Evo
UCSC: SciCom
Climate policy, climate action, health, flying less, forestry.
- Here I am, placing my grain of sand when I can.
- Known to have independent thoughts
Freelance science writer/editor
UC Berkeley & UC Davis: Eco Evo
UCSC: SciCom
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
Landkeeping
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural bu...
osupress.oregonstate.edu
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
Oh look, it is possible to massive offshore deployments of seismometers after all!
Would *never* know it from how the US has been (not) instrumenting Alaska and Cascadia.
It's kind of like green energy: the US has behaved lackadaisically for 20+ years while other countries actually improve.
Would *never* know it from how the US has been (not) instrumenting Alaska and Cascadia.
It's kind of like green energy: the US has behaved lackadaisically for 20+ years while other countries actually improve.
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Oh look, it is possible to massive offshore deployments of seismometers after all!
Would *never* know it from how the US has been (not) instrumenting Alaska and Cascadia.
It's kind of like green energy: the US has behaved lackadaisically for 20+ years while other countries actually improve.
Would *never* know it from how the US has been (not) instrumenting Alaska and Cascadia.
It's kind of like green energy: the US has behaved lackadaisically for 20+ years while other countries actually improve.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
There’s not a single thought Ross Douchehat has ever had or ever will have about women that’s worthy of anyone’s attention. Hope that clears things up
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
There’s not a single thought Ross Douchehat has ever had or ever will have about women that’s worthy of anyone’s attention. Hope that clears things up
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
CA endemic bird Yellow billed magpies, very limited range. Gorgeous, vocal and intelligent Corvids. I hung out with about 20 of them in the oak studded wine country of Paso Robles a few days ago. Always a treat. Lots of interactions with Acorn woodpeckers also, each doing their own thing. 🪶🌿
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
CA endemic bird Yellow billed magpies, very limited range. Gorgeous, vocal and intelligent Corvids. I hung out with about 20 of them in the oak studded wine country of Paso Robles a few days ago. Always a treat. Lots of interactions with Acorn woodpeckers also, each doing their own thing. 🪶🌿
I often hear experts describing climate change purely in terms of how it will directly impact human populations.
Billionaires tell us, "Don't worry about excessive heat, we'll just use more air conditioning."
But what about the deer, the birds, the salamanders, the flowers and the bumblebees?
Billionaires tell us, "Don't worry about excessive heat, we'll just use more air conditioning."
But what about the deer, the birds, the salamanders, the flowers and the bumblebees?
In Aug-Sep 2020, thousands of migrating birds were found dead in the SW US. Cause? “Compound climate extremes” had pounded the birds until they expired. Climate change increases the threats migrating birds face: heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires, etc.: therevelator.org/weather-whip... #birds 🌎
Weather Whiplash: How Climate Change Killed Thousands of Migratory Birds • The Revelator
Can we help birds and other species adapt to the evolving threat of compound climate extremes?
therevelator.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I often hear experts describing climate change purely in terms of how it will directly impact human populations.
Billionaires tell us, "Don't worry about excessive heat, we'll just use more air conditioning."
But what about the deer, the birds, the salamanders, the flowers and the bumblebees?
Billionaires tell us, "Don't worry about excessive heat, we'll just use more air conditioning."
But what about the deer, the birds, the salamanders, the flowers and the bumblebees?
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
In Aug-Sep 2020, thousands of migrating birds were found dead in the SW US. Cause? “Compound climate extremes” had pounded the birds until they expired. Climate change increases the threats migrating birds face: heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires, etc.: therevelator.org/weather-whip... #birds 🌎
Weather Whiplash: How Climate Change Killed Thousands of Migratory Birds • The Revelator
Can we help birds and other species adapt to the evolving threat of compound climate extremes?
therevelator.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In Aug-Sep 2020, thousands of migrating birds were found dead in the SW US. Cause? “Compound climate extremes” had pounded the birds until they expired. Climate change increases the threats migrating birds face: heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires, etc.: therevelator.org/weather-whip... #birds 🌎
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
Still relevant: Study Finds Controlled Washington, D.C. Wildfires Crucial For Restoring Healthy Political Environment — theonion.com/study-finds-...
Study Finds Controlled Washington, D.C. Wildfires Crucial For Restoring Healthy Political Environment
WASHINGTON—Calling the process essential to preventing overgrowth and promoting renewal, a study released Tuesday by researchers at American University found that regular, controlled Washington, D.C. ...
theonion.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Still relevant: Study Finds Controlled Washington, D.C. Wildfires Crucial For Restoring Healthy Political Environment — theonion.com/study-finds-...
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
There are few things more demonstrative of the efficacy of having governments than society-level water projects like these.
April 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
There are few things more demonstrative of the efficacy of having governments than society-level water projects like these.
"Under [Gould's] office’s current pace of treatment – less than 6,000 acres a year – a patch of forest under his jurisdiction stands to be treated once every 1,000 years."
This whole article makes me want to cry. And then it makes me want to scream.
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
Did Forest Service negligence make the Garnet Fire worse?
Years of inaction by the US Forest Service station near Fresno put one of the agency’s last stands of old growth forests in California on the brink of
fresnoland.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"Under [Gould's] office’s current pace of treatment – less than 6,000 acres a year – a patch of forest under his jurisdiction stands to be treated once every 1,000 years."
Jim Watson was quite the one-trick pony.
I think his hatred for Franklin bloomed from his knowledge that she was smarter than him, didn't respect him, and that he'd deeply, deeply wronged her.
I think his hatred for Franklin bloomed from his knowledge that she was smarter than him, didn't respect him, and that he'd deeply, deeply wronged her.
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Jim Watson was quite the one-trick pony.
I think his hatred for Franklin bloomed from his knowledge that she was smarter than him, didn't respect him, and that he'd deeply, deeply wronged her.
I think his hatred for Franklin bloomed from his knowledge that she was smarter than him, didn't respect him, and that he'd deeply, deeply wronged her.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
They want you to leave your phones at home so you can’t take video of them. If you leave your phone at home, take a go-pro with you. Cameras out, America!
“ICE is quietly building up its ability to spy on Americans' phones
The agency activated a $2 million contract with Paragon, a service that offers the ability to remotely hack into someone's phone.
[Also] ICE entered into an $11 million contract for Cellebrite devices…to break into a locked phone”
The agency activated a $2 million contract with Paragon, a service that offers the ability to remotely hack into someone's phone.
[Also] ICE entered into an $11 million contract for Cellebrite devices…to break into a locked phone”
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
They want you to leave your phones at home so you can’t take video of them. If you leave your phone at home, take a go-pro with you. Cameras out, America!
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
Going thru my phone, I found this reminder of the importance of sending books to people in prison. This was from a man who had been in solitary confinement for several years & received PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME, my book with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Going thru my phone, I found this reminder of the importance of sending books to people in prison. This was from a man who had been in solitary confinement for several years & received PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME, my book with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentleman, “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth…. What shall I put you down for?”
“Nothing!” Scrooge replied.
“Nothing!” Scrooge replied.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentleman, “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth…. What shall I put you down for?”
“Nothing!” Scrooge replied.
“Nothing!” Scrooge replied.
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution
Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Is an American Political Giant
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
With around ten million people, LA County is larger than most states.
I wonder what other local government services could be developed as public software!
I wonder what other local government services could be developed as public software!
LA County developed a publicly owned and open source voting system that supports 18 different languages. It's ADA compliant. (Though a second generation voting machine is coming out to make it easier for low vision and blind voters).
No Diebold, etc. no proprietary black box software
No Diebold, etc. no proprietary black box software
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
With around ten million people, LA County is larger than most states.
I wonder what other local government services could be developed as public software!
I wonder what other local government services could be developed as public software!
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reposted by Jennie Dusheck
minor great prolific strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
minor great prolific strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913