Kitty Gifford
@myndwalk.bsky.social
Cornell Scicomm instructor + local sustainability advocate | Bringing community & science closer
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Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
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AOC: You are not aware that the Trump Department of Justice is investigating the largest insurance company in America for fraud of Medicare Advantage that you have jurisdiction over?
June 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
AOC: You are not aware that the Trump Department of Justice is investigating the largest insurance company in America for fraud of Medicare Advantage that you have jurisdiction over?
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe– major report “The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe– major report “The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions, such as the false claims that renewable energy caused the recent massive blackout in Spain.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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June is in full swing, and so is the growing season.
Check out upcoming field days, helpful resources on cover crops, #soilhealth characterization, and biochar, plus learn about veteran scholarships. Get all the details in our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/5b6349af4cb7...
Check out upcoming field days, helpful resources on cover crops, #soilhealth characterization, and biochar, plus learn about veteran scholarships. Get all the details in our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/5b6349af4cb7...
June 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
June is in full swing, and so is the growing season.
Check out upcoming field days, helpful resources on cover crops, #soilhealth characterization, and biochar, plus learn about veteran scholarships. Get all the details in our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/5b6349af4cb7...
Check out upcoming field days, helpful resources on cover crops, #soilhealth characterization, and biochar, plus learn about veteran scholarships. Get all the details in our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/5b6349af4cb7...
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"jargon can increase perceptions of explanatory satisfaction for low-quality explanations. This is because jargon decreases the perception that the explanation contains explanatory gaps."
Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
June 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"jargon can increase perceptions of explanatory satisfaction for low-quality explanations. This is because jargon decreases the perception that the explanation contains explanatory gaps."
How we start a conservation story shapes what we think is possible.
A new essay shows how geohistorical data, fossils, sediment, and deep records can counter shifting baselines & make stories more persuasive, emotional, and actionable.
#scicomm
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A new essay shows how geohistorical data, fossils, sediment, and deep records can counter shifting baselines & make stories more persuasive, emotional, and actionable.
#scicomm
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using the past to tell more persuasive conservation stories
For millennia, stories have been central to conveying human experience—a tradition through which communities continue to share lessons, knowledge, and cultural values. Now, conservationists are begin...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
How we start a conservation story shapes what we think is possible.
A new essay shows how geohistorical data, fossils, sediment, and deep records can counter shifting baselines & make stories more persuasive, emotional, and actionable.
#scicomm
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A new essay shows how geohistorical data, fossils, sediment, and deep records can counter shifting baselines & make stories more persuasive, emotional, and actionable.
#scicomm
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The MAHA report serves as a vignette of techniques used to mislead the public by exploiting the credibility and language of science. A closer look reveals not only bias but outright fabrication.
May 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The MAHA report serves as a vignette of techniques used to mislead the public by exploiting the credibility and language of science. A closer look reveals not only bias but outright fabrication.
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100 hour livestream of #climate & weather researchers is going strong on YT right now: www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
Meteorologists & #climatechange scientists want to fulfill their mission of sharing their science
Despite US govt's shortsighted and 'bound to backfire' cost-cutting
Meteorologists & #climatechange scientists want to fulfill their mission of sharing their science
Despite US govt's shortsighted and 'bound to backfire' cost-cutting
May 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
100 hour livestream of #climate & weather researchers is going strong on YT right now: www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
Meteorologists & #climatechange scientists want to fulfill their mission of sharing their science
Despite US govt's shortsighted and 'bound to backfire' cost-cutting
Meteorologists & #climatechange scientists want to fulfill their mission of sharing their science
Despite US govt's shortsighted and 'bound to backfire' cost-cutting
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before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland
May 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The birding at #PCST2025 has been pretty good! Viewing the Skylark song flights from the hotel have been a highlight.
Locations visited: TECA, Dunnottar Castle at Stonehaven, Troup Head, Fraserburgh, Loch of Strathbeg, Bullers of Buchan, Ythan mouth
Locations visited: TECA, Dunnottar Castle at Stonehaven, Troup Head, Fraserburgh, Loch of Strathbeg, Bullers of Buchan, Ythan mouth
May 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The birding at #PCST2025 has been pretty good! Viewing the Skylark song flights from the hotel have been a highlight.
Locations visited: TECA, Dunnottar Castle at Stonehaven, Troup Head, Fraserburgh, Loch of Strathbeg, Bullers of Buchan, Ythan mouth
Locations visited: TECA, Dunnottar Castle at Stonehaven, Troup Head, Fraserburgh, Loch of Strathbeg, Bullers of Buchan, Ythan mouth
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Thank you #PCST2025 for programming our audio experience One in Ten and thanks everyone who took the time to come and listen! We loved hearing your feedback and chatting about #letstalkaboutcough
Our new evaluation report is available here www.letstalkaboutcough.net/evaluation/
#chroniccough
Our new evaluation report is available here www.letstalkaboutcough.net/evaluation/
#chroniccough
May 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Thank you #PCST2025 for programming our audio experience One in Ten and thanks everyone who took the time to come and listen! We loved hearing your feedback and chatting about #letstalkaboutcough
Our new evaluation report is available here www.letstalkaboutcough.net/evaluation/
#chroniccough
Our new evaluation report is available here www.letstalkaboutcough.net/evaluation/
#chroniccough
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Are you attending #PCST2025 and presenting on #scicomm transitions?
Submit to @jscicom.bsky.social 's special issue — we want to feature your work!
Submit to @jscicom.bsky.social 's special issue — we want to feature your work!
Special issue, @jscicom.bsky.social: Transitions in Science Communication: Continuity & Change
For @pcstnetwork.bsky.social ‘25 Conference authors.
jcom.sissa.it/news/27
Eds: Declan Fahy, @fleerackers.bsky.social, Ana Claudia Nepote & Guoyan Wang
@marinajoubert.bsky.social @hdoran.bsky.social
For @pcstnetwork.bsky.social ‘25 Conference authors.
jcom.sissa.it/news/27
Eds: Declan Fahy, @fleerackers.bsky.social, Ana Claudia Nepote & Guoyan Wang
@marinajoubert.bsky.social @hdoran.bsky.social
Announcing a special issue on "Transitions in Science Communication: Continuity and Change"
Transitions in Science Communication: Continuity and Change
JCOM is pleased to announce a special issue dedicated to “Transitions in Science Communication”, one of the three themes of the forthcomin...
jcom.sissa.it
February 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Are you attending #PCST2025 and presenting on #scicomm transitions?
Submit to @jscicom.bsky.social 's special issue — we want to feature your work!
Submit to @jscicom.bsky.social 's special issue — we want to feature your work!
“A new meta-analysis of 279 studies finds that belief in conspiracy theories is linked to three core psychological motives: wanting to make sense of the world, coping with uncertainty, and connecting with others.” open.substack.com/pub/matthewf...
Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories: A Summary of the Science
What hundreds of studies reveal about the motives behind conspiracy thinking
open.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
“A new meta-analysis of 279 studies finds that belief in conspiracy theories is linked to three core psychological motives: wanting to make sense of the world, coping with uncertainty, and connecting with others.” open.substack.com/pub/matthewf...
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Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
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Read more in our press release! Takeaways include
- Tradeoffs everywhere
- win-wins only in some places
- Combinations of practices are best
- Spatial data can help target farmers
- Other measures can sequester more, eg plant-rich diets
- Other benefits besides carbon
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
- Tradeoffs everywhere
- win-wins only in some places
- Combinations of practices are best
- Spatial data can help target farmers
- Other measures can sequester more, eg plant-rich diets
- Other benefits besides carbon
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
Scientists Identify Ways to Minimize Tradeoffs Between Crop Yields and Climate Benefits
Research highlights where and how regenerative farming could lead to win-wins for climate-change mitigation and crop production
www.nyu.edu
May 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Read more in our press release! Takeaways include
- Tradeoffs everywhere
- win-wins only in some places
- Combinations of practices are best
- Spatial data can help target farmers
- Other measures can sequester more, eg plant-rich diets
- Other benefits besides carbon
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
- Tradeoffs everywhere
- win-wins only in some places
- Combinations of practices are best
- Spatial data can help target farmers
- Other measures can sequester more, eg plant-rich diets
- Other benefits besides carbon
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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Well, it’s been a wildly eventful 100+ days, to say the least. Sharing a few resources that are helping me keep track of it all + a call to action. Protect the Inflation Reduction Act! ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/100-days-e...
100+ Days: Environmental Policy Trackers 🕵🏽♀️ & a Call to Action 🙋🏽♀️
Protect the Inflation Reduction Act!
ayanaelizabeth.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Well, it’s been a wildly eventful 100+ days, to say the least. Sharing a few resources that are helping me keep track of it all + a call to action. Protect the Inflation Reduction Act! ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/100-days-e...
Today I learned from @danfagin.bsky.social that only 4 mammalian species make up about 96% of mammalian biomass. Can you name them?
#Cornell friends, looking forward to seeing you April 24! Thanks for spreading the word! events.cornell.edu/event/univer...
University Lecturer Professor Dan Fagin
events.cornell.edu
April 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Today I learned from @danfagin.bsky.social that only 4 mammalian species make up about 96% of mammalian biomass. Can you name them?
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If you weren’t aware Sen Cory Booker is filibustering right now. He has been at it since 7pm EST
m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
YouTube video by MSNBC
m.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
If you weren’t aware Sen Cory Booker is filibustering right now. He has been at it since 7pm EST
m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
My cat is enjoying the sunshine after a long winter in the Northeast
March 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My cat is enjoying the sunshine after a long winter in the Northeast
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A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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Three of the most powerful words in journalism: help us investigate.
@joshtpm.bsky.social: "Need Your Help."
"If you’re contacting your senator or member of Congress about this issue, I would be so in your debt if you would send me the response you get..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/need-...
@joshtpm.bsky.social: "Need Your Help."
"If you’re contacting your senator or member of Congress about this issue, I would be so in your debt if you would send me the response you get..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/need-...
Need Your Help With Something
Yesterday the Bulwark posted a very interesting article which showed that while...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Three of the most powerful words in journalism: help us investigate.
@joshtpm.bsky.social: "Need Your Help."
"If you’re contacting your senator or member of Congress about this issue, I would be so in your debt if you would send me the response you get..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/need-...
@joshtpm.bsky.social: "Need Your Help."
"If you’re contacting your senator or member of Congress about this issue, I would be so in your debt if you would send me the response you get..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/need-...
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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
media.tenor.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Excellent prompt with fascinating responses. Go Science!
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
February 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Excellent prompt with fascinating responses. Go Science!