Very cool!!

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

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EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say Reports from separate environmental agencies show that U.S. EPA enforcement has decreased since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/e...

I took it in about 1989 or so, before the movie came out. And was very much a traditional political science at the University of Texas - and amazing - lots of reading of academic work and primary documents!

Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Mayan hieroglyphics
2. The Cuban Missile Crisis
3. The Milky Way
4. Differential equations
5. Shakespeare's Plays

No, these are very serious comments.

ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.

And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water Careful research into public information and in-depth interviews has shown the scale of personnel cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Congress has not yet approved EPA’s proposal to slash its budget by a massive 50%, yet the agency has *already* cut far more staff than in its proposal - 25% by EDGI’s count, and likely more by year’s end. EDGI’s @scoutblum.bsky.social and Chris Sellers explain:
theconversation.com/trump-admini...

A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!

An op-ed I did with Chris Sellers:

Proud to have been a small part of this report - many congrats to Chris Sellers for his thorough, hard work!

This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!

Feedback: I asked game publishers how they plan to respond to newly announced U.S. tariffs, and here's a sampling of their responses: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

That post features only 15 of more than a hundred responses, so I'll post another round-up tomorrow. —WEM

I have a few masters level students who are looking for responses to surveys about games, so if you’re in the mood to fill out fun forms I’ll make a thread of them here!

First one is about horror games: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 CONTACT: EDGI’s experts are available to answer media questions. For media inquiries, please email Shannan Lenke […]

1/ Earlier this month, the Trump EPA announced it would cancel 100s of grants already authorized by congress. EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of cancellations on #EnvironmentalJustice communities. Learn more here: envirodatagov.org/new-environm...

Congrats, Dolly!! Well deserved!

Truth 😬

Scout Blum, designer. Rising Waters: A Game Based on the 1927 Mississippi Flood. In the evolving landscape of historical pedagogy, Rising Waters, designed by Scout Blum, emerges as a notable attempt to bridge the gap between interactive

Rising Waters has been reviewed in the American Historical Review! This is one of the flagship historical journals - so cool to see board games getting a place alongside other scholarship. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.

Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

We have two openings left in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia.

If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!

This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia...

#envhist #climhist #climatechange

Congrats!!!

Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.

Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”.

📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz

Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women

Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

We are looking forward to your applications!

Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown @downtowntbrown.bsky.social (designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time). the1a.org