Ben Lockwood, PhD
@benlockwood.bsky.social
Postdoc @ ecosystems.psu.edu | #forests, #geography, #socialnature | Writer | Editor at Brief Ecology and Rotting Leaf Mag | Centre Co. DSA chair | Admin of the Nature and Society feed 🏡
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I’m looking for a pop science book that follows scientific efforts to measure and/or model the global carbon cycle—would happily accept any recommendations! 🌏 #geoscience
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I’m looking for a pop science book that follows scientific efforts to measure and/or model the global carbon cycle—would happily accept any recommendations! 🌏 #geoscience
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NOW: Striking baristas are hosting a rally in Philly and are joined by allies and friends! Workers standing up and fighting back. Don’t shop at Starbucks while @sbworkersunited.org are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee Take action: seiu.co/NoStarbucks
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
NOW: Striking baristas are hosting a rally in Philly and are joined by allies and friends! Workers standing up and fighting back. Don’t shop at Starbucks while @sbworkersunited.org are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee Take action: seiu.co/NoStarbucks
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While workers in 40+ cities began their ULP strike today, union baristas are also holding Red Cup Rallies in 17 cities!
Here's a glimpse from Pittsburgh, where Starbucks customers are demanding the company stop union-busting and finalize fair contracts! #NoContractNoCoffee
Here's a glimpse from Pittsburgh, where Starbucks customers are demanding the company stop union-busting and finalize fair contracts! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
While workers in 40+ cities began their ULP strike today, union baristas are also holding Red Cup Rallies in 17 cities!
Here's a glimpse from Pittsburgh, where Starbucks customers are demanding the company stop union-busting and finalize fair contracts! #NoContractNoCoffee
Here's a glimpse from Pittsburgh, where Starbucks customers are demanding the company stop union-busting and finalize fair contracts! #NoContractNoCoffee
The movement is growing.
DSA member Zohran Mamdani was just elected mayor of NYC—the biggest socialist electoral victory in a century! Our movement is winning & growing across the country, w DSA now at 86,000 members. 📈🌹
Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
Join us TODAY to talk abt what’s next, w/ electeds, union organizers, & more!
go.dsausa.org/WIN
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The movement is growing.
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Here’s a couple of facts for you:
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Here’s a couple of facts for you:
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
18.168.63.88
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
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I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
R.L. Summerling's review of The Cellar Below the Cellar
5/5: The Cellar Below the Cellar is about Jane and her story of self discovery. Stranded during an unprecedented weather event, she finds herself with the unappealing prospect of living with her domin...
www.goodreads.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
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A Mongabay investigation found that companies without financial or technical expertise signed deals with Indigenous communities in Brazil and Bolivia, covering millions of hectares of forest, for carbon and biodiversity credits.
Many of the communities involved say they were rushed into signing.
Many of the communities involved say they were rushed into signing.
How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands
BARCELONA — In December 2022, one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous territories and one of the smallest would each sign a 118-page, 10-year contract they would soon come to regret —as would faraway…
news.mongabay.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A Mongabay investigation found that companies without financial or technical expertise signed deals with Indigenous communities in Brazil and Bolivia, covering millions of hectares of forest, for carbon and biodiversity credits.
Many of the communities involved say they were rushed into signing.
Many of the communities involved say they were rushed into signing.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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Klein’s version of abundance is just more of the same capitalism. It can’t solve the problems that capitalism itself creates. Radical Abundance suggests a different approach that’s worth considering.
"The value of Radical Abundance is in the authors’ recognition of the complexity of the capitalist economy."
In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Radical Abundance from @plutopress.bsky.social
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In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Radical Abundance from @plutopress.bsky.social
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www.briefecology.com/p/actual-abu...
Actual Abundance and How to Get There
A review of Radical Abundance from Pluto Press
www.briefecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Klein’s version of abundance is just more of the same capitalism. It can’t solve the problems that capitalism itself creates. Radical Abundance suggests a different approach that’s worth considering.
No contract, no coffee ✊
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
No contract, no coffee ✊
Here’s a couple of facts for you:
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Here’s a couple of facts for you:
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
1. In 2020, a leaked report from JP Morgan Chase identified climate change as an existential threat to humanity.
2. As of 2025, JP Morgan Chase remains the world’s top investor in fossil fuel production.
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In light of the NYT sitting on Epstein/Trump info for years, today would be a great day to cancel your subscription and subscribe to Brief Ecology instead. We’re a publication dedicated to telling the truth. Just saying 👀
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In light of the NYT sitting on Epstein/Trump info for years, today would be a great day to cancel your subscription and subscribe to Brief Ecology instead. We’re a publication dedicated to telling the truth. Just saying 👀
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All these people showing up in Epstein’s emails feels like that scene from Spotlight when they’re like “our investigation suggests there may be as many as 13 [pedophile] priests in Boston, does that sound right?”
And the psychologist is like “no that number seems low”
And the psychologist is like “no that number seems low”
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
All these people showing up in Epstein’s emails feels like that scene from Spotlight when they’re like “our investigation suggests there may be as many as 13 [pedophile] priests in Boston, does that sound right?”
And the psychologist is like “no that number seems low”
And the psychologist is like “no that number seems low”
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My poem "Time as Endless as Time" is in the most recent issue of Packingtown Review. It's almost always the best time to read a poem!
"Time as Endless as Time" by Andrew Kozma | Packingtown Review - A journal of literature and the arts
Poetry:
www.packingtownreview.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My poem "Time as Endless as Time" is in the most recent issue of Packingtown Review. It's almost always the best time to read a poem!
Now wait a minute are you saying these harvard guys might also not be brilliant...
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Now wait a minute are you saying these harvard guys might also not be brilliant...
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And my novel 'The Veldt Institute' was published by Double--Negative
double--negative.com/003-the-veld...
double--negative.com/003-the-veld...
THE VELDT INSTITUTE
THE VELDT INSTITUTE, a novel by Samuel M. Moss.
double--negative.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And my novel 'The Veldt Institute' was published by Double--Negative
double--negative.com/003-the-veld...
double--negative.com/003-the-veld...
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Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
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"The domination of scientific publishing...by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments & Universities, to lead the drive to recommunalise publishing to serve science not the market"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The domination of scientific publishing...by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments & Universities, to lead the drive to recommunalise publishing to serve science not the market"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
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Happy birthday, Mr. Rosewater.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy birthday, Mr. Rosewater.
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IPBES #NexusAssessment reveals biodiversity's ties to food, water, climate, land & and health. As #COP30 builds momentum, understanding these interconnections is more critical than ever for effective solutions. 🏡🧪
🌍 Learn more with UNEP-WCMC: https://ow.ly/95xw50XpbuL
🌍 Learn more with UNEP-WCMC: https://ow.ly/95xw50XpbuL
Enhancing synergies across the climate and biodiversity agendas - UNEP-WCMC
Momentum is growing for coordinated action across climate and biodiversity conventions As anticipation for the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP30) builds, Dr Valerie Kapos, Principal Specialist, Nature-based Solutions, and Dr Shaenandhoa García Rangel, Deputy Head of Nature Economy, discuss the growing focus on synergies across…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.
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Update: He was fired illegally and now we officially have zero income. The phones will be shut off soon and we're both expecting calls from potential jobs over the next couple weeks. I need to make $300 by the end of the week to keep them on. If you can help in any way it is needed. Thank you.
my dad suffered a freak accident 2 nights ago when a butane torch lighter exploded in his hand, giving him third-degree burns. he had a skin graft today and is going to be out of work for weeks. any help is appreciated
vm SiobhanIrv
$JunkBlader
PayPal.me/junkblader
vm SiobhanIrv
$JunkBlader
PayPal.me/junkblader
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Update: He was fired illegally and now we officially have zero income. The phones will be shut off soon and we're both expecting calls from potential jobs over the next couple weeks. I need to make $300 by the end of the week to keep them on. If you can help in any way it is needed. Thank you.