Emily Knight
@emilyknight.bsky.social
Poet, Warren Wilson MFA | Director of Outreach & Engagement, Blue Convergence Fund | Healthy environment healthy people | She/Her | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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🦑 We created an event page for our upcoming Launching Ocean Biodiversity webinar. Check it out and register: www.linkedin.com/events/73947...
🦑 Join us to launch this portfolio - which will include community listening sessions, engagement grants, and network building to build serious momentum behind ocean biodiversity sustainability.
🦑 Join us to launch this portfolio - which will include community listening sessions, engagement grants, and network building to build serious momentum behind ocean biodiversity sustainability.
🦑 We created an event page for our upcoming Launching Ocean Biodiversity webinar. Check it out and register: www.linkedin.com/events/73947...
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🦑 Join us to launch this portfolio - which will include community listening sessions, engagement grants, and network building to build serious momentum behind ocean biodiversity sustainability.
🦑 I and @jasonlandrum.bsky.social will answer your questions... to the extent we can as this portfolio will be ground up with communities and the relevant management context defining our scope. Listen. Support. Engage.
🦑 On Dec 3 at 3pm ET/12pm PT come learn our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. This is an invitation to the start of a conversation - with communities - about how ocean biodiversity shows up in your life. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🦑 I and @jasonlandrum.bsky.social will answer your questions... to the extent we can as this portfolio will be ground up with communities and the relevant management context defining our scope. Listen. Support. Engage.
I was in high school... I found most grunge waaayyyy too broey... sad dudes singing about heroin w/ these deep guttural voices. Then The White Stripes came... Here's to Jack and Meg, getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...
Hello Operator
YouTube video by The White Stripes - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I was in high school... I found most grunge waaayyyy too broey... sad dudes singing about heroin w/ these deep guttural voices. Then The White Stripes came... Here's to Jack and Meg, getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nq...
Shark party! www.yahoo.com/news/article...
'Sharknado' or shark party? Researchers spotted a school of 400 sharks off Block Island
A SyFy movie might call the school of 400 sharks off Block Island a "Sharknado," but the RI Department of Environmental Management wasn't so dramatic.
www.yahoo.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Shark party! www.yahoo.com/news/article...
🦑 A great takeaway from the portfolio is that if managed for climate change explicitly (alongside other objectives), MPAs can confer resilience. We have to not avoid it... rather we must face it. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reminder - join us for Part 1 tomorrow at 11am ET for a webinar on all we've learned from the Lenfest Ocean Program's support of a portfolio of projects on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🦑 A great takeaway from the portfolio is that if managed for climate change explicitly (alongside other objectives), MPAs can confer resilience. We have to not avoid it... rather we must face it. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🦑 I'm so excited to do this - please join us and share with your friends, families, and colleagues!
🦑 Join us tomorrow night for The Nature of Our Times poetry reading! Let's celebrate the power of words to capture the beauty of our lands, waters, and wildlife. This is particularly special as we embark on a new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🦑 I'm so excited to do this - please join us and share with your friends, families, and colleagues!
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Our co-executive director Heather Mannix had a great time at #OceanFloorExplore last week!
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our co-executive director Heather Mannix had a great time at #OceanFloorExplore last week!
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🦑 Our October newsletter has arrived! Key highlights include an invite to our upcoming virtual event to launch our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio as well as a blog by Dominique Kone about his key takeaways from attending #WIOMSA2025.
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🦑 Our October newsletter has arrived! Key highlights include an invite to our upcoming virtual event to launch our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio as well as a blog by Dominique Kone about his key takeaways from attending #WIOMSA2025.
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump hosted 'Great Gatsby' Halloween party hours before SNAP funding lapsed
President Donald Trump has come under fire after he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed Halloween party just hours before millions of Americans lost their SNAP benefits.
abcnews.go.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
🦑 To get to more sustainable solutions in any marine and coastal management (or any area really), you have to think about the pathway there. Here @compassscicomm.bsky.social highlights that in the course of research, ongoing collaboration and communication are essential ingredients.
🦑 Great blog post by @compassscicomm.bsky.social. There is much interest out there in co-production and transdisciplinary research to improve management and policy outcomes. This piece breaks down just what those terms mean in practice.
www.compassscicomm.org/transdiscipl...
www.compassscicomm.org/transdiscipl...
Transdisciplinary Research: Embedding Communication & Collaboration into the Full Research Cycle | COMPASS
Effective communication is reciprocal. It’s not just about getting your message across; it requires a back-and-forth between parties, where shared understanding and mutual commitments develop as both...
www.compassscicomm.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🦑 To get to more sustainable solutions in any marine and coastal management (or any area really), you have to think about the pathway there. Here @compassscicomm.bsky.social highlights that in the course of research, ongoing collaboration and communication are essential ingredients.
Reposted by Emily Knight
Weird to see chants of “USA! USA!” at these rallies that I was assured were “Hate America” rallies.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Weird to see chants of “USA! USA!” at these rallies that I was assured were “Hate America” rallies.
Line that stuck out: "Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act..." it's a good example of how something being popular among the public guarantees nothing. Protecting marine mammals is always broadly supported in public polls.
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.
www.wcax.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Line that stuck out: "Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act..." it's a good example of how something being popular among the public guarantees nothing. Protecting marine mammals is always broadly supported in public polls.
I’m grateful to these prosecutors choosing their integrity over their jobs, and helping to keep this in a news cycle that is already waning on reporting on this.
Watergate every day
Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I’m grateful to these prosecutors choosing their integrity over their jobs, and helping to keep this in a news cycle that is already waning on reporting on this.
🦑 Sign up for the newsletter - @blue-convergence.bsky.social is already hosting events and releasing content regularly, and it's only going to grow!
🦑 Our Friday reminder that the best way to keep up with all we're doing is to sign up for our monthly newsletter. A lot is already happening... and there's only more to come. Join us: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s...
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🦑 Sign up for the newsletter - @blue-convergence.bsky.social is already hosting events and releasing content regularly, and it's only going to grow!
We learned nothing from Katrina. When the inevitable happens and way too many people die and are left abandoned... we must connect it back to these decisions and somehow (I don't know how) relearn why we're not 50 individual nations in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...
How FEMA Is Forcing Disaster-Struck Towns to Fend for Themselves
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We learned nothing from Katrina. When the inevitable happens and way too many people die and are left abandoned... we must connect it back to these decisions and somehow (I don't know how) relearn why we're not 50 individual nations in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...
🦑 I'm so excited to host this event - join us! It's not often my professional life and creative writing life come together!
Join us on Thursday, November 6 at 8pm ET for a poetry reading featuring contributors to The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🦑 I'm so excited to host this event - join us! It's not often my professional life and creative writing life come together!
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Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧
Reposted by Emily Knight
