Amy Cooke
@cookeagain.bsky.social
Crafter, environmental prof, Tar Heel, RPCV 🇰🇪. Wants to do most things the hard way.
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I see people sharing this, maybe as an act of shared mourning, an attempt to stir action, or confirmation that the world sucks. The death of reef ecosystems pushed me into a panic about climate change in 2013 & led to me starting the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in 2014. So, a few things (1/5)
… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.
grist.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I see people sharing this, maybe as an act of shared mourning, an attempt to stir action, or confirmation that the world sucks. The death of reef ecosystems pushed me into a panic about climate change in 2013 & led to me starting the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in 2014. So, a few things (1/5)
I want to walk my dog.
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
we need a slur for people who want this future
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I want to walk my dog.
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the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
September 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
Saving. Just in case.
For university courses about #FoodEconomics, a full set of class slides, weekly exercises, & exams is now available for use with the free online textbook from @afinaret.bsky.social and me. Audience is advanced undergrads and first-year grad students using graphical diagrams, examples and global data
Teaching resources – Food Economics
sites.tufts.edu
August 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Saving. Just in case.
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Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
No words
Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
No words
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Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
March 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
www.vox.com/policy/40233...
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Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
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Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
Advocates Say Leaked Farm Bureau Memo Promotes Racist Science - Documented
In opposition to the Temp Act, farm industry memo claims that Caribbean and Latino immigrants would “Feel Very Comfortable Working in New York in the Summertime.”
documentedny.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
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@michaelhapp.bsky.social : “There’s not been a lot of clarity. Some of the money has been released, but a lot of it still hasn’t. And there’s a lot of mixed messages coming from USDA, and farmers are getting frustrated and confused, understandably.” @iatp.bsky.social
The study showed that even a relatively brief pause in funding provided by Biden-era IRA legislation could push many farmers out of these conservation efforts entirely.
Report: A Pause to Land Conservation Programs Funding from USDA Could Kill Their Momentum
Enrollment rates for two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs spiked after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated billions of dollars to them, but agriculture experts warn that a pause on conservation funding could stall the momentum that was building for more sustainable farming practices. A recent study from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy found that in Fiscal Year 2024, about 44% of applicants to the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and 55% of applicants to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) were awarded grants.
dailyyonder.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@michaelhapp.bsky.social : “There’s not been a lot of clarity. Some of the money has been released, but a lot of it still hasn’t. And there’s a lot of mixed messages coming from USDA, and farmers are getting frustrated and confused, understandably.” @iatp.bsky.social
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Who wants this
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Who wants this
If, like me you haven’t read/seen Les Mis this thread is an amazing recap of a bonkers plot
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
Wait wait wait wait hold up. Trump went to LES MISERABLES??? Like I know he can’t even pronounce it, much less understand the plot, but that’s even MORE on-the-nose than Pence seeing Hamilton.
Holy shit that’s hilarious
Holy shit that’s hilarious
June 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If, like me you haven’t read/seen Les Mis this thread is an amazing recap of a bonkers plot
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.
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FYI: The “budget” bill now contains an amendment to sell off 2 million to 3.2 million acres of OUR public lands to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
June 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
FYI: The “budget” bill now contains an amendment to sell off 2 million to 3.2 million acres of OUR public lands to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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The 2024 Planetary Boundaries report showed 6/9 boundaries breached with the 7th, Ocean Acidification, in danger. A new study shows that this too has now been crossed. The implications are huge!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#climatechange #oceanacidification #planetaryboundaries #oceans
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#climatechange #oceanacidification #planetaryboundaries #oceans
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The 2024 Planetary Boundaries report showed 6/9 boundaries breached with the 7th, Ocean Acidification, in danger. A new study shows that this too has now been crossed. The implications are huge!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#climatechange #oceanacidification #planetaryboundaries #oceans
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#climatechange #oceanacidification #planetaryboundaries #oceans
Murderbot is the beat. I’ve been reading and listening to these novellas for the past few years on repeat. The show is so good!
Me to everyone I know this week, trying to be casual: oh heeeey are you watching Murderbot? Here's why you'd love it.
June 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Murderbot is the beat. I’ve been reading and listening to these novellas for the past few years on repeat. The show is so good!
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Insect mortality is being driven by multiple systems. That’s the challenge of sustainability now; to truly listen to the earth and react in the face of a modernity that won’t be switched off.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Insect mortality is being driven by multiple systems. That’s the challenge of sustainability now; to truly listen to the earth and react in the face of a modernity that won’t be switched off.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Seeing modern public libraries, one of America's greatest innovations and contributions to the world, be attacked, politicized, and conquered by authoritarians is too much to bear.
Declaring library books "government speech" is horrifying.
Check on your librarians, we are not okay.
Declaring library books "government speech" is horrifying.
Check on your librarians, we are not okay.
Politics Can Now Dictate Public Library Collections in Three States, Per Fifth Circuit Ruling
The Fifth Circuit ruling will open the doors to rampant book censorship in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
bookriot.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Seeing modern public libraries, one of America's greatest innovations and contributions to the world, be attacked, politicized, and conquered by authoritarians is too much to bear.
Declaring library books "government speech" is horrifying.
Check on your librarians, we are not okay.
Declaring library books "government speech" is horrifying.
Check on your librarians, we are not okay.
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A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
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theonion.com/a-shatt...
May 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
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theonion.com/a-shatt...
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So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
May 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
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Water treaties should be rewritten to factor in climate change and new geopolitical realities.
India-Pakistan conflict over water reflects a region increasingly vulnerable to climate change
Water treaties should be rewritten to factor in climate change and new geopolitical realities.
tcnv.link
May 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Water treaties should be rewritten to factor in climate change and new geopolitical realities.
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This is a better graduation speech than most... and I've seen many.
it might not be the commencement speech you expected. but maybe it’s the commencement speech you needed. 🎓
May 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is a better graduation speech than most... and I've seen many.
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🧪 Re-upping this story for scientists. The man in the photo and interviewed in the story—is physiological ecologist Nathan Phillips at Boston U. Among other topics, he studies urban gas leaks. He’s also my friend.
Dr Phillips’ own research findings inform his activism.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Dr Phillips’ own research findings inform his activism.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI
Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...
www.wbur.org
May 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🧪 Re-upping this story for scientists. The man in the photo and interviewed in the story—is physiological ecologist Nathan Phillips at Boston U. Among other topics, he studies urban gas leaks. He’s also my friend.
Dr Phillips’ own research findings inform his activism.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Dr Phillips’ own research findings inform his activism.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Every time I stop to see what’s up it’s like a gut punch.
I need to keep grading so I’m going to try about looking at the news until the grades are in next week. I just can’t take it in.
I need to keep grading so I’m going to try about looking at the news until the grades are in next week. I just can’t take it in.
this is really a devastating thing for science. you cannot do watershed science in Iowa without USGS data, some of which has been collected continuously since 1873. Not only do Rs hate science, they are trying to make it impossible for people to even do science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
White House orders closure of USGS water science centers, which shares data with weather service for flood warnings
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Every time I stop to see what’s up it’s like a gut punch.
I need to keep grading so I’m going to try about looking at the news until the grades are in next week. I just can’t take it in.
I need to keep grading so I’m going to try about looking at the news until the grades are in next week. I just can’t take it in.