Christine Clark
@chriseclark.bsky.social
SD native, married to Ryan and mom to Collette & Mireille. Social science and climate science communicator with UC San Diego.
As fan of @barbarafwalter.com, I highly recommend her new Substack. She lists the kinds of shifts that signal a weakening regime. "They’re not dramatic at first but they’re important. So don’t watch what they say. Watch what they fear." @gpsucsd.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social lnkd.in/gXHxZJYA
June 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
As fan of @barbarafwalter.com, I highly recommend her new Substack. She lists the kinds of shifts that signal a weakening regime. "They’re not dramatic at first but they’re important. So don’t watch what they say. Watch what they fear." @gpsucsd.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social lnkd.in/gXHxZJYA
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🚨 My op-ed in @thehill.com makes the case for why we need to regulate congressional stock trading. Congressional legitimacy is on the line, and the vast majority of Americans from both parties support reforms:
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May 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🚨 My op-ed in @thehill.com makes the case for why we need to regulate congressional stock trading. Congressional legitimacy is on the line, and the vast majority of Americans from both parties support reforms:
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The U.S. spent decades building the world’s most powerful innovation system—fueled by immigration, science, & global markets. Now, Trump is tearing it down. David Victor of @gpsucsd.bsky.social explains this is how China wins. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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Trump Is Killing American Innovation
China will reap the benefits.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The U.S. spent decades building the world’s most powerful innovation system—fueled by immigration, science, & global markets. Now, Trump is tearing it down. David Victor of @gpsucsd.bsky.social explains this is how China wins. @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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Very proud to promote the incredible EV research research taking place on the UC San Diego campus 🌎@ucsandiego.bsky.social @gpsucsd.bsky.social
@gpsucsd.bsky.social at #UCSanDiego is turning its campus into a living lab for electric vehicle research—with over 1,200 chargers coming soon and more than 1,000 volunteers already helping researchers crack the code on sustainable charging behavior. 🌱🚗💡
#ElectricVehicle #SaveResearch
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April 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Very proud to promote the incredible EV research research taking place on the UC San Diego campus 🌎@ucsandiego.bsky.social @gpsucsd.bsky.social
Hats off to another female Facebook whistleblower. The future of our democracy relies on the ability to regulate big tech. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
Ex-Meta executive: ‘People deserve to know what this company is really like’ | CNN Business
Meta is once again facing allegations from a former employee that a growth-at-all-costs culture has caused offline harm.
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March 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Hats off to another female Facebook whistleblower. The future of our democracy relies on the ability to regulate big tech. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
Ahead of International Women’s Day, I interviewed Meera Mahadevan of @gpsucsd.bsky.social & @ucsandiego.bsky.social, a trailblazer who finds that when women were elected to political office in India, air pollution decreases. tinyurl.com/am6fb6bt
Do Women Leaders Drive Better Environmental Outcomes?
Meera Mahadevan, an assistant professor of economics at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy discovered that when women are elected to political office in India, air pollution decreases...
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March 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Ahead of International Women’s Day, I interviewed Meera Mahadevan of @gpsucsd.bsky.social & @ucsandiego.bsky.social, a trailblazer who finds that when women were elected to political office in India, air pollution decreases. tinyurl.com/am6fb6bt
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February 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The 25% tariffs on steel & aluminum is not "a full-blown trade war yet," @kylehandley.bsky.social told the@csmonitor.bsky.social. “It’s more of a trade cold war.” Yet uncertainty has downstream effects "that’s bad for economic growth." @gpsucsd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/msdk47cm
Risk of a trade war rises as Trump boosts tariffs globally
President Trump is hiking tariffs on steel and aluminum, and pledging to impose more. The question is whether this leads to a widening conflict or not.
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February 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The 25% tariffs on steel & aluminum is not "a full-blown trade war yet," @kylehandley.bsky.social told the@csmonitor.bsky.social. “It’s more of a trade cold war.” Yet uncertainty has downstream effects "that’s bad for economic growth." @gpsucsd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/msdk47cm
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
February 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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This is what happens when a bunch of guys who hold history & social science in contempt are able to accumulate unlimited wealth & power.
Total ignorance, total absence of curiosity about why government exists & what problems it was designed to solve.
The broligarchs are world historically dangerous.
Total ignorance, total absence of curiosity about why government exists & what problems it was designed to solve.
The broligarchs are world historically dangerous.
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
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Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is what happens when a bunch of guys who hold history & social science in contempt are able to accumulate unlimited wealth & power.
Total ignorance, total absence of curiosity about why government exists & what problems it was designed to solve.
The broligarchs are world historically dangerous.
Total ignorance, total absence of curiosity about why government exists & what problems it was designed to solve.
The broligarchs are world historically dangerous.
Barbara F. Walter chats with KPBS 'There will progress after this, we will have to experience all the pain of turning on each other. But I think there is going to be clear evidence that this is not the world we want to live in. Will will hopefully bring Americans back together.' tinyurl.com/dmb43jcw
The impact of Jan. 6 pardons, from San Diego to D.C.
President Donald Trump has pardoned roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists. We discuss the connections here in San Diego.
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February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Barbara F. Walter chats with KPBS 'There will progress after this, we will have to experience all the pain of turning on each other. But I think there is going to be clear evidence that this is not the world we want to live in. Will will hopefully bring Americans back together.' tinyurl.com/dmb43jcw
David Victor of @gpsucsd.bsky.social is interviewed in this @corbinhiar.bsky.social article on Silicon Valley’s climate contradiction. “Microsoft’s emissions have jumped 29% since the company announced its carbon negative pledge in 2020. Google’s emissions have soared by 67% over the same period.”
"Eight years ago many tech leaders rightly condemned Trump's withdrawal" from the Paris climate agreement, Facebook's former director of sustainability said. "Their silence now is cowardly." www.eenews.net/articles/how...
How Trump silenced tech giants on his Paris withdrawal
Silicon Valley loudly criticized President Donald Trump when he quit the climate accord in his first term. This time? Crickets.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
David Victor of @gpsucsd.bsky.social is interviewed in this @corbinhiar.bsky.social article on Silicon Valley’s climate contradiction. “Microsoft’s emissions have jumped 29% since the company announced its carbon negative pledge in 2020. Google’s emissions have soared by 67% over the same period.”
“Content from abortion pill provider accounts — or in some cases, their entire accounts — were no longer visible on Instagram. Meta, which owns Facebook & Instagram restored some of the accounts and posts on Thursday, AFTER The New York Times asked about the actions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Content from abortion pill provider accounts — or in some cases, their entire accounts — were no longer visible on Instagram. Meta, which owns Facebook & Instagram restored some of the accounts and posts on Thursday, AFTER The New York Times asked about the actions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
"You have to ask yourself, 'Who has done more damage to the quality of American democracy: Elon Musk or TikTok?'" @vicshih.bsky.social says in this Q&A on the implications of a potential permanent ban and what actual threats the platform may pose to the US @gpsucsd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/579b2k95
TikTok Ban is Still ‘Fair Game,’ Says Expert on Chinese Business and Government
It’s been a whiplashing January for TikTok and the app’s more than 100 million U.S.-based users.
Just days before a national ban was slated to go into effect, the company failed in its last-ditch effo...
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January 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"You have to ask yourself, 'Who has done more damage to the quality of American democracy: Elon Musk or TikTok?'" @vicshih.bsky.social says in this Q&A on the implications of a potential permanent ban and what actual threats the platform may pose to the US @gpsucsd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/579b2k95
Tom Fudge of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social spoke to David Victor of @gpsucsd.bsky.social on the need for smoother relations between China and the U.S. to enhance joint research in areas such as cosmology, renewable energy, life sciences and polar science tinyurl.com/2vru5dup
Second Trump inauguration has scientists worried about future research with China
Heightened tension between the U.S. and China could affect the vital relationship China has with American universities and research partners. Scholars call for clearer rules about “safe zones” for joi...
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January 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Tom Fudge of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social spoke to David Victor of @gpsucsd.bsky.social on the need for smoother relations between China and the U.S. to enhance joint research in areas such as cosmology, renewable energy, life sciences and polar science tinyurl.com/2vru5dup
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Good morning!
Happy MLK Day.
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." ~MLK
Be that stone.🙂
Happy MLK Day.
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." ~MLK
Be that stone.🙂
January 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Good morning!
Happy MLK Day.
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." ~MLK
Be that stone.🙂
Happy MLK Day.
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." ~MLK
Be that stone.🙂
New here. Looking forward engaging on a platform not owned by the broligarchy.
January 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
New here. Looking forward engaging on a platform not owned by the broligarchy.