Jen van der Meer
@jenvandermeer.bsky.social
Business Model Design, Reason Street, Associate Prof Parsons School of Design; Health, Systems Finance, Regenerative Medicine + Ag + Economy
https://reasonstreet.co/
https://jenvandermeer.substack.com
https://www.newschool.edu/impact-entrepreneurship/
https://reasonstreet.co/
https://jenvandermeer.substack.com
https://www.newschool.edu/impact-entrepreneurship/
I heart NY
Inspired by all of the public servants giving up their jobs to take a stand against corruption & mass deportation.
This is a nuclear bomb of a development, if true. The entire top rung of City Hall leadership, gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...
February 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I heart NY
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There is $38 trillion sitting in US pensions & most of us pension beneficiaries know that climate disruption is bad for our savings. So I really appreciate any effort by pension managers to force asset managers to stop chasing short-term returns & focus on climate risk. www.ft.com/content/0a70...
February 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There is $38 trillion sitting in US pensions & most of us pension beneficiaries know that climate disruption is bad for our savings. So I really appreciate any effort by pension managers to force asset managers to stop chasing short-term returns & focus on climate risk. www.ft.com/content/0a70...
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Great to see a room full of people thinking hard about freeing social media from billionaire power and other unsavoury influences.
Do read the newsletter, follow @freeourfeeds.com, consider a donation!
Do read the newsletter, follow @freeourfeeds.com, consider a donation!
February 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Great to see a room full of people thinking hard about freeing social media from billionaire power and other unsavoury influences.
Do read the newsletter, follow @freeourfeeds.com, consider a donation!
Do read the newsletter, follow @freeourfeeds.com, consider a donation!
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Graded the first learning assessment of my Coastal Biology students using #7vortex Not only did they showed critical thinking and learning but also impressed me with their creativity. This witty one brought me a welcome laugh with the embedded Jacques Cousteau quote! www.7vortex.com/ecosystems/f...
7VORTEX - Everything is connected!
7VORTEX - Everything is connected
www.7vortex.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Graded the first learning assessment of my Coastal Biology students using #7vortex Not only did they showed critical thinking and learning but also impressed me with their creativity. This witty one brought me a welcome laugh with the embedded Jacques Cousteau quote! www.7vortex.com/ecosystems/f...
Let’s redirect our focus locally
COVER STORY: The new year has kicked off with weather events that have many on alert across the country. Events like the extreme heat waves, floods, and storms of years past are proving to be expensive and life-threatening.
Planning a bold climate future means knowing what NYC needs
The city’s scientists have spent years taking on some of the city’s biggest climate issues. Here’s some of what they say.
amsterdamnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Let’s redirect our focus locally
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
Should we be here? jenvandermeer.substack.com/p/escapees-t...
Escapees to BlueSky:
Who Owns It, How It Makes Money, and Does it Deserve Our Contributions?
jenvandermeer.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Should we be here? jenvandermeer.substack.com/p/escapees-t...
This is where we come to share important social media broligarchy news. I'm sure this will fix everything. www.wsj.com/tech/china-o...
China Officials Discuss Option of TikTok Sale to Elon Musk
Beijing officials preparing options for after Donald Trump’s inauguration have examined possible openness to a deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations with the owner of X.
www.wsj.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is where we come to share important social media broligarchy news. I'm sure this will fix everything. www.wsj.com/tech/china-o...
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As the Founders surely intended when they gave federal district court judges the power to micromanage the day to day operations of corporations incorporated in other states.
January 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As the Founders surely intended when they gave federal district court judges the power to micromanage the day to day operations of corporations incorporated in other states.
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler - and The LA Fires via... @teenvogue.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/la-fir...
Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History
This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.
www.teenvogue.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler - and The LA Fires via... @teenvogue.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/la-fir...
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for first day of congestion pricing, a nyc car ownership map comparing car ownership with a city that has had congestion pricing
January 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
for first day of congestion pricing, a nyc car ownership map comparing car ownership with a city that has had congestion pricing
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Congratulations, New York City! Now please stop calling it "congestion pricing". It's the "Congestion Relief Zone," because congestion relief is what the toll buys.
It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight.
Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
January 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Congratulations, New York City! Now please stop calling it "congestion pricing". It's the "Congestion Relief Zone," because congestion relief is what the toll buys.
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Here’s someone on TikTok who has made 19 videos today urging his followers to….do what congestion pricing is designed to do, and he and his followers seriously think they’re owning us all. Some real next-level stupidity going on here today.
January 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Here’s someone on TikTok who has made 19 videos today urging his followers to….do what congestion pricing is designed to do, and he and his followers seriously think they’re owning us all. Some real next-level stupidity going on here today.
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IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
a cartoon drawing of a banana with arms and legs and a smiling face
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a banana with arms and legs and a smiling face, dancing to celebrate the end of cars
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME
"The housing financial crisis is rarely—if ever—recognized as a water crisis for urban dwellers in the United States, despite growing evidence that water poverty, insecurity and unaffordability are flourishing in high-income countries."
A study in Nature Cities on access to running water in large US cities since 1970 finds that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations. 🧪
Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water access in US cities - Nature Cities
Meehan and colleagues study access to running water in large US cities since 1970, finding that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This disproportionately impacted households of color and generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations.
go.nature.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"The housing financial crisis is rarely—if ever—recognized as a water crisis for urban dwellers in the United States, despite growing evidence that water poverty, insecurity and unaffordability are flourishing in high-income countries."
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"we propose educational strategies to promote evolutionary literacy, systems thinking and anticipatory competencies through socioscientific issues linked to sustainability topics" evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Evolutionary literacy as a catalyst for sustainable futures: connecting biological evolution education and education for sustainability - Evolution: Education and Outreach
In the face of growing societal, public health and environmental challenges linked to the functioning of the biosphere, strong evolutionary literacy emerges as indispensable to plan and achieve sustai...
evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"we propose educational strategies to promote evolutionary literacy, systems thinking and anticipatory competencies through socioscientific issues linked to sustainability topics" evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
If only #moss could influence elections.
January 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If only #moss could influence elections.
Has anyone else had a Yunus experience?
We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'
I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.
January 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Has anyone else had a Yunus experience?
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We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'
I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.
Muhammad Yunus, an economist and Nobel peace laureate, is now the interim leader of Bangladesh. He has the expectations of his country’s students on his shoulders. Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. 🧪
January 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'
We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'
I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.
Muhammad Yunus, an economist and Nobel peace laureate, is now the interim leader of Bangladesh. He has the expectations of his country’s students on his shoulders. Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. 🧪
January 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'
I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.
Muhammad Yunus, an economist and Nobel peace laureate, is now the interim leader of Bangladesh. He has the expectations of his country’s students on his shoulders. Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. 🧪
The revolutionary economist who became the unlikely leader of Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
go.nature.com
January 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.
NYC thunderstorms sound angry about this new year's eve. But then, rainstorms are for clearing away the grime of 2024. #nottimessquare
January 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
NYC thunderstorms sound angry about this new year's eve. But then, rainstorms are for clearing away the grime of 2024. #nottimessquare
A delightful read. If only we could go back to the time of the Cephalopod. Predicting the rise of Cephalopod Diet. Or the Cephalopod Economy. Or the Cephalopod Way, a self help philosophy and paid community.
If the highly unlikely Silurian hypothesis is true (if the Earth was home to an intelligent civilization prior to ours), “it’s the cephalopods…who are the most likely candidates to have reached at least some level of civilization”. [pacificklaus.com]
The Silurian Hypothesis: It was the Cephalopods
Text, footage and photographs by Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel A long time ago, as an enthusiastic young, naive graduate student I went to a conference, which was just… #cephalopod #civilization #cuttlefish
pacificklaus.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:17 PM
A delightful read. If only we could go back to the time of the Cephalopod. Predicting the rise of Cephalopod Diet. Or the Cephalopod Economy. Or the Cephalopod Way, a self help philosophy and paid community.
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Same time as Congestion Pricing?
Ain't no coincidence
BOUGHT & PAID FOR NYC GOVT GIVES LYFT(owner) AN EXCLUSIVE 10 YR MONOPOLY CONTRACT?
NYC Taxpayers fund DOT's hostage taking of NYC streets/sidewalks to pay to construct bike lanes for SILICON V INVESTORS OWNED BIKE APP?
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Ain't no coincidence
BOUGHT & PAID FOR NYC GOVT GIVES LYFT(owner) AN EXCLUSIVE 10 YR MONOPOLY CONTRACT?
NYC Taxpayers fund DOT's hostage taking of NYC streets/sidewalks to pay to construct bike lanes for SILICON V INVESTORS OWNED BIKE APP?
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Citi Bike to increase prices next week
For non-members, it will cost $4.99 to start a ride.
ny1.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Same time as Congestion Pricing?
Ain't no coincidence
BOUGHT & PAID FOR NYC GOVT GIVES LYFT(owner) AN EXCLUSIVE 10 YR MONOPOLY CONTRACT?
NYC Taxpayers fund DOT's hostage taking of NYC streets/sidewalks to pay to construct bike lanes for SILICON V INVESTORS OWNED BIKE APP?
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Ain't no coincidence
BOUGHT & PAID FOR NYC GOVT GIVES LYFT(owner) AN EXCLUSIVE 10 YR MONOPOLY CONTRACT?
NYC Taxpayers fund DOT's hostage taking of NYC streets/sidewalks to pay to construct bike lanes for SILICON V INVESTORS OWNED BIKE APP?
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...