thien-kim
@thienkim.bsky.social
Geography PhD student, Portland State University. Researching water and energy in the rural US West. Experimenting with maps and material deliberation.
First first author pub, yay!
Excellent new publication on "Collaborative Governance and Hydrosocial Territorialization: Reaching Consensus on Salmon Restoration Goals in the Columbia River Basin" by my PhD student Thien-Kim Bui! #salmon #geosky #waterscience 🐟💧🏞️
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October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
First first author pub, yay!
"Does skibidi come after sigma?" --an actual question asked to me, a person who translated ancient Greek for a degree
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Does skibidi come after sigma?" --an actual question asked to me, a person who translated ancient Greek for a degree
I've spent the past few months thinking with so many people's beautiful work, and I'm honored to share it more widely.
June 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I've spent the past few months thinking with so many people's beautiful work, and I'm honored to share it more widely.
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Creative mapping can change the way we conduct and view research. Larsen puts theoretical work on researcher vulnerability into conversation with scholarship on place dialogue to explore how creative mapping facilitates relationship accountability in research. buff.ly/YQf4ItG
May 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Creative mapping can change the way we conduct and view research. Larsen puts theoretical work on researcher vulnerability into conversation with scholarship on place dialogue to explore how creative mapping facilitates relationship accountability in research. buff.ly/YQf4ItG
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New article!! 🎉 "Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations" w/ @thienkim.bsky.social @bethaniturley.bsky.social #geosky #energysky #water #geography
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Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations
Pumped storage hydropower development is rapidly resurging in the US, yet this energy storage technology has positive and negative impacts at different scales. Building projects that minimize trade-o....
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March 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New article!! 🎉 "Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations" w/ @thienkim.bsky.social @bethaniturley.bsky.social #geosky #energysky #water #geography
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WIP for upcoming map collage workshop
January 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
WIP for upcoming map collage workshop
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Sometimes our government’s racism looks like incompetence and indifference. Because a federal clerk filed a treaty map under the wrong letter, Yakama Nation lost over 90,000 acres to Washington State. Now, the tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s...
A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state
More than 170 years later, the Yakama are still trying to get their land back.
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January 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Sometimes our government’s racism looks like incompetence and indifference. Because a federal clerk filed a treaty map under the wrong letter, Yakama Nation lost over 90,000 acres to Washington State. Now, the tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s...
"to listen for the creek when it is covered by concrete necessitates that we reach beyond thinking of a creek as something which exists in and of itself, in isolation."
Appreciate this challenge.
Appreciate this challenge.
Looking forward to linking sound studies to liberatory timespace research this year.
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to follow an invisible creek: in search of a decolonial soundwalk praxis
i begin with an acknowledgement of the myriad of organizers, scholars, artists, and teachers that have shaped and continue to shape the way that i think and write. Édouard Glissant, Christina Sharp…
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January 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"to listen for the creek when it is covered by concrete necessitates that we reach beyond thinking of a creek as something which exists in and of itself, in isolation."
Appreciate this challenge.
Appreciate this challenge.
Pushing the limits of this Basque cheesecake recipe by just doing everything wrong, let's see how idiot-proof this thing is.
December 23, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Pushing the limits of this Basque cheesecake recipe by just doing everything wrong, let's see how idiot-proof this thing is.
Love to see it, and would love to know more about why only 225 of 375 acres were transferred.
Brown University transfers 225 acres of land to Pokanoket tribe in Rhode Island
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Brown University transfers 225 acres of land to Pokanoket tribe in Rhode Island
The land was the ancestral home site of a historic leader of the Pokanoket Tribe who died during King Philip’s War in 1676.
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December 6, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Love to see it, and would love to know more about why only 225 of 375 acres were transferred.
I have been witnessing how restorative justice is being taught and talked about at the K-8 grade level. It's been a messy and difficult process. @nbedera.bsky.social articulates the pitfalls I've observed.
There are a lot of organizations that claim to offer restorative justice, but that have actually just co-opted the word to make their process sound more progressive and safer for survivors than it is.
Here’s a thread on red flags to look out for.
Here’s a thread on red flags to look out for.
December 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM
I have been witnessing how restorative justice is being taught and talked about at the K-8 grade level. It's been a messy and difficult process. @nbedera.bsky.social articulates the pitfalls I've observed.
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“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem
For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…
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December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM
“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
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My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)
Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art
YouTube video by Hyperallergic
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November 26, 2024 at 11:46 PM
My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)
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We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.
November 23, 2024 at 4:53 AM
We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.
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As I say over and over again, dams were designed for the climate of the past. Yet there are over 3,000 new large dams in the works globally. With increasingly severe droughts and floods, we need to pivot completely to other renewable sources of power.
An unprecedented drought has sapped hydropower in Zambia, leading to crippling blackouts.
To cope, the country is pivoting to a more reliable form of energy: solar.
To cope, the country is pivoting to a more reliable form of energy: solar.
As Drought Shrivels Hydropower, Zambia Is Pivoting to Solar
An unprecedented drought has lowered reservoirs in hydropower-dependent Zambia, leading to economically crippling blackouts and spurring a push for solar. With multiple utility-scale arrays now in the...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:26 PM
As I say over and over again, dams were designed for the climate of the past. Yet there are over 3,000 new large dams in the works globally. With increasingly severe droughts and floods, we need to pivot completely to other renewable sources of power.
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It’s NEPA. He’s talking about a court finding that CEQ’s regs for NEPA were never actually regs but only guidances, non-mandatory.
Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2
Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2
It hasn’t received a lot of attention, but a federal court this week chucked 40 years of rules governing America’s most controversial environmental law into the wood chipper. Here’s what happens next: heatmap.news/climate/nepa...
A Court Just Broke America’s Most Divisive Environmental Law. Here’s What Happens Next.
In a word: chaos.
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November 19, 2024 at 2:26 PM
It’s NEPA. He’s talking about a court finding that CEQ’s regs for NEPA were never actually regs but only guidances, non-mandatory.
Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2
Guess what the entire architecture of mitigation in all federal programs rests on? 1979 CEQ regulations, now possibly just guidance. 1/2
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Two to three Water-Energy Justice Research Graduate Research Assistantships/Fellow positions, Environmental Studies, San José State University, spring through fall 2025. Energy-Water Infrastructures and Just Transitions. Supported by NSF/USEPA. drive.google.com/file/d/1czcC...
November 12, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Two to three Water-Energy Justice Research Graduate Research Assistantships/Fellow positions, Environmental Studies, San José State University, spring through fall 2025. Energy-Water Infrastructures and Just Transitions. Supported by NSF/USEPA. drive.google.com/file/d/1czcC...
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November 11, 2024 at 10:01 PM
19 days until December 1. Do you have your advent calendar yet??
Get a fact about frogs every day and support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social!
I'm packing orders tonight, so order now and I'll get yours to the post office tomorrow!
Get one at Squidfacts.net
Get a fact about frogs every day and support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social!
I'm packing orders tonight, so order now and I'll get yours to the post office tomorrow!
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This whole thread is worth reading, this bit in particular. In my limited understanding, Korematsu v. United States and Ex parte Endo didn't really resolve the constitutionality of exclusion/incarceration (this should never have been a question). Ganbatte.
This is what is on my mind when I hear people saying that our institutions will not save us. Your citizenship, whether naturalized or by birth, will not save you. Being a hard-working and upstanding member of your community will not save you.
November 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
This whole thread is worth reading, this bit in particular. In my limited understanding, Korematsu v. United States and Ex parte Endo didn't really resolve the constitutionality of exclusion/incarceration (this should never have been a question). Ganbatte.
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Here's our explainer on Chevron deference: www.theverge.com/24188365/che...
Here's something I wrote about the conservative capture of the federal courts: www.theverge.com/24279829/tru...
This election explainer has some
stuff on agencies and admin law: www.theverge.com/24279103/202...
Here's something I wrote about the conservative capture of the federal courts: www.theverge.com/24279829/tru...
This election explainer has some
stuff on agencies and admin law: www.theverge.com/24279103/202...
November 10, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Here's our explainer on Chevron deference: www.theverge.com/24188365/che...
Here's something I wrote about the conservative capture of the federal courts: www.theverge.com/24279829/tru...
This election explainer has some
stuff on agencies and admin law: www.theverge.com/24279103/202...
Here's something I wrote about the conservative capture of the federal courts: www.theverge.com/24279829/tru...
This election explainer has some
stuff on agencies and admin law: www.theverge.com/24279103/202...
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“It’s hard to believe in them, the beautiful colors of extinction. But these are the colors.”
November 9, 2024 at 1:04 PM
“It’s hard to believe in them, the beautiful colors of extinction. But these are the colors.”
It's been a year and 6,500 miles since I was hit by a car.
Just celebrated riding 10,000 miles on my cargo bike yesterday, then got wrecked by a driver today. Life is weird.
November 7, 2024 at 11:07 PM
It's been a year and 6,500 miles since I was hit by a car.