Dr. Shaina Sadai
@scienceshaina.bsky.social
Climate scientist and critical physical geographer. Works on climate and sea level projections, corporate accountability, climate litigation, and climate justice.
Queer, disabled, vegan🌱🌈 She/her
Views expressed here are mine
Queer, disabled, vegan🌱🌈 She/her
Views expressed here are mine
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🚨New paper🚨
We attribute present day air temperature and sea level rise, as well as future projected sea level rise to the Carbon Majors, the 122 largest industrial fossil fuel and cement producers…more details below! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/n
🧪 #scicomm #ClimateSky #ClimateChange
We attribute present day air temperature and sea level rise, as well as future projected sea level rise to the Carbon Majors, the 122 largest industrial fossil fuel and cement producers…more details below! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/n
🧪 #scicomm #ClimateSky #ClimateChange
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Any conversation about return to office vs work from home that does not acknowledge the ongoing pandemic is ignorant, ableist and destined to miss the mark.
Many, including disabled people but not only disabled know they cannot risk getting COVID and offices haven’t taken steps to protect workers.
Many, including disabled people but not only disabled know they cannot risk getting COVID and offices haven’t taken steps to protect workers.
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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"More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals."
Exclusive by me: How thousands fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then oil and gas companies kept drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals."
It's a mess out here.
This bill is a spectacularly terrible idea. And it is extra insulting that they are doing this during COP30.
MA folks do call your reps about this. There are also rallies tomorrow.
This bill is a spectacularly terrible idea. And it is extra insulting that they are doing this during COP30.
MA folks do call your reps about this. There are also rallies tomorrow.
Our Democratic State House is advancing a MAGA energy bill that rolls back clean energy and energy efficiency commitments and taxes consumers to build new pipelines.
#mapoli
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
#mapoli
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
Sweeping energy bill to weaken 2030 climate goals clears key House committee - CommonWealth Beacon
The measure is ushering in an unexpected — and messy — debate over the state’s overall policy push to meet its 2030 climate commitments as Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability package filed earlie...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It's a mess out here.
This bill is a spectacularly terrible idea. And it is extra insulting that they are doing this during COP30.
MA folks do call your reps about this. There are also rallies tomorrow.
This bill is a spectacularly terrible idea. And it is extra insulting that they are doing this during COP30.
MA folks do call your reps about this. There are also rallies tomorrow.
"Oil-dependent emergent economies are right to demand that the rich countries carry most of the burden, but if we are to wait for the people who broke the planet to be the ones with the strongest initiative to save us all, then we are fooling ourselves"
I've been working since 2022 to try to form the basis for an alternative reading of sovereignty fit for the polycrisis and promoting true, just and internationalist transitions. This view of popular ecological sovereignty is in a few articles, but I just reflected on it in the context of COP30 too:
Ecological sovereignty: from mutual annihilation to true planetary longevity?
When fossil fuel expansion is justified in the name of national sovereignty, you know states have lost touch with the climate reality.
the.ecocene.blog
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"Oil-dependent emergent economies are right to demand that the rich countries carry most of the burden, but if we are to wait for the people who broke the planet to be the ones with the strongest initiative to save us all, then we are fooling ourselves"
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Bounty Hunters.
They are really revisiting the original purpose of policing-slave patrols-to inspire their visions of the future.
They are really revisiting the original purpose of policing-slave patrols-to inspire their visions of the future.
SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Bounty Hunters.
They are really revisiting the original purpose of policing-slave patrols-to inspire their visions of the future.
They are really revisiting the original purpose of policing-slave patrols-to inspire their visions of the future.
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
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Glad to have delivered our speech at the #COP30 plenary opening, emphasising the urgent need for climate action to keep the 1.5°C goal alive and placing communities on the frontlines of the crisis at the centre of key decisions.
Full speech: www.ldc-climate.org/ldc_chair_st...
#LDCs #COP30
Full speech: www.ldc-climate.org/ldc_chair_st...
#LDCs #COP30
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Glad to have delivered our speech at the #COP30 plenary opening, emphasising the urgent need for climate action to keep the 1.5°C goal alive and placing communities on the frontlines of the crisis at the centre of key decisions.
Full speech: www.ldc-climate.org/ldc_chair_st...
#LDCs #COP30
Full speech: www.ldc-climate.org/ldc_chair_st...
#LDCs #COP30
This is a mess. Any dem who is listening to reports or consultants advising them not to address climate change is not the right leader for the times we are living in. People's lives are being upended by the impacts of climate change and leaders need to have a plan for addressing that.
Ahead of midterms, climate policy has become a wedge issue splitting Democrats. After last week's electoral victories, some Democrats will only talk about expanding clean energy through lens of affordability. Others believe talking about climate change will win voters. www.eenews.net/articles/ret...
Retreat or recast? Democrats debate future of climate politics.
Democratic election wins last week reignited arguments on how — or if — candidates should discuss climate change on the campaign trail.
www.eenews.net
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is a mess. Any dem who is listening to reports or consultants advising them not to address climate change is not the right leader for the times we are living in. People's lives are being upended by the impacts of climate change and leaders need to have a plan for addressing that.
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
Sharing the Sudan issue of Transition Magazine with you with essays, analysis and art work by Sudanese writers and artists.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
Current Issue – Transition Magazine
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sharing the Sudan issue of Transition Magazine with you with essays, analysis and art work by Sudanese writers and artists.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
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One of the things we* learned from the genocide livestreamed from Palestine is that the obvious, indisputable starving of children is not enough to move the American political class. The brutal revocation of SNAP is no different. Been thinking about how far this says we are from the horizon.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
One of the things we* learned from the genocide livestreamed from Palestine is that the obvious, indisputable starving of children is not enough to move the American political class. The brutal revocation of SNAP is no different. Been thinking about how far this says we are from the horizon.
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
"Hiring professors with PhDs is meaningless if administrators are the ones deciding what gets taught,” he said. “Faculty will start asking not, ‘Is this accurate?’ but ‘Will this get me in trouble?’ That’s not education, it’s risk management.”
#HigherEd
#HigherEd
Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the AAUP said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise + freedom to teach. “If that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas.”
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Hiring professors with PhDs is meaningless if administrators are the ones deciding what gets taught,” he said. “Faculty will start asking not, ‘Is this accurate?’ but ‘Will this get me in trouble?’ That’s not education, it’s risk management.”
#HigherEd
#HigherEd
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"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies...The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emission"
By me: ‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will/should the ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies...The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emission"
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
Universal health care would avoid so much of this bullshit
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Universal health care would avoid so much of this bullshit
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We’ve only ever asked them to try. They won’t even do that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We’ve only ever asked them to try. They won’t even do that.
"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies...The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emission"
By me: ‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will/should the ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies...The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emission"
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
These passages come from the newsletter of Justin Kollar, an Urban Studies PhD who has a fuller grip on the data center boom than anybody I’ve read.
The Structural Violence of Risk Management Behind the AI Infrastructure Bubble
How financial institutions sustain the AI boom by exporting risks to everyone else
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
These passages come from the newsletter of Justin Kollar, an Urban Studies PhD who has a fuller grip on the data center boom than anybody I’ve read.
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A daily reality, over the past month or so.
Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
A daily reality, over the past month or so.
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A high-amplitude flow pattern, characterized by near-record strength ridging and troughing (respectively) over the western and eastern U.S. and a very wavy jet stream, will bring a progression of notable weather to North America in the coming days.
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A high-amplitude flow pattern, characterized by near-record strength ridging and troughing (respectively) over the western and eastern U.S. and a very wavy jet stream, will bring a progression of notable weather to North America in the coming days.
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
Things were already bad and we were being asked to turn water into wine. But as (public) univs are having their funds restricted/illegally terminated, these pressures and demands are only going to get worse, especially as univs try to make up for those funding gaps by increasing enrollment 😵💫🥴
AI is enticing because it makes it seem like I might be able to do all the things I’m asked to do. I can’t write 5 articles, revise books, mentor students, write letters of recommendation, teach classes, work in the community, review for my peers, etc. and be a whole person.
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Things were already bad and we were being asked to turn water into wine. But as (public) univs are having their funds restricted/illegally terminated, these pressures and demands are only going to get worse, especially as univs try to make up for those funding gaps by increasing enrollment 😵💫🥴
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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
Reposted by Dr. Shaina Sadai
Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-07T02:04:01Z
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-07T02:04:01Z
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
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The WMO today releases their State of the Global Climate Report ahead of COP30. 🌍
The report states that 2025 is set to be in the top 3 warmest years on record, highlighting the need to keep global temperatures down to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
wmo.int/publication-...
The report states that 2025 is set to be in the top 3 warmest years on record, highlighting the need to keep global temperatures down to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
wmo.int/publication-...
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The WMO today releases their State of the Global Climate Report ahead of COP30. 🌍
The report states that 2025 is set to be in the top 3 warmest years on record, highlighting the need to keep global temperatures down to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
wmo.int/publication-...
The report states that 2025 is set to be in the top 3 warmest years on record, highlighting the need to keep global temperatures down to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
wmo.int/publication-...
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion