🦑 For my part, I'll discussing the role of poetry... and I plan to let the poems speak for themselves - so come hear how about how poetry buoys us in these times and a few poems!

🦑 I'm thrilled to be part of this - for OA I was lead staff for the West Coast Panel on OA and Hypoxia... but I'll be coming to this to talk about how poetry as an art can help us face challenging - grieve what we've lost - and save what we can.

🦑 Closing soon - our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals.

🦑 Every month we're producing more and more content to announce - there's also a great blog up on our website about our 11 new Climate Resilient Fisheries projects: blueconvergence.org/awarded-proj...

🦑 We have our first cohort of projects from our Climate Resilient Fisheries Program. Projects come from North America to Central America, Caribbean nations, and Africa... learn more: blueconvergence.org/portfolios/c...

🦑 Just two days left - our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals closes noon (ET) on Wed, April 15. Our focus is on three regions of the US: Mobile Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound. To learn more: blueconvergence.org/funding/

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Victor Orban lost. At least one piece of good news.

🦑 Our April newsletter is out - in it we announce 11 new projects in our Climate Resilient Fisheries program (the outcome of our 2025 Request for Proposals), and a reminder that our Request for Engagement Grants for Ocean Biodiversity closes next Wed (Apr 15) at noon ET.
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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon, threatening ceasefire Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again Wednesday in response to Israeli attacks against the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, casting doubt over whether an already precarious ceasefire to end more ...

Of course we're right back here... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

🦑 Now live - 11 new projects for our Climate Resilient Fisheries program. Learn all about them in our Apr newsletter.

Newsletter: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

🦑 This opportunity is focused on three regions of the U.S. - Mobile Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound. We aim to expand our Ocean Biodiversity program to other places. Stay up to date!

Newsletter: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s...
Program email sign up: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

🦑 And if you have questions about the RFP that the FAQ doesn't cover - you can always email us at grants@blueconvergence.org.

Please share this opportunity with any interested colleagues!

I think about this poem at least once a day.

🦑 My colleague Dom Kone reflects on climate resilient fisheries... in so many places small-scale fisheries are core to food security... it's not an option not to adapt and fight for these livelihoods.

Poetry Reading: The Nature of Our Times YouTube video by Blue Convergence Fund

🦑 Thanks to all that came to our virtual poetry reading for The Nature of Our Times! And if you missed it, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIO...

🦑 Join us on this journey - to reflect on the necessary approaches that accelerate sustainability and good stewardship.

🦑 Join me on Monday evening for a little poetry!

Yeah, this isn't new... not at all... it's the same battle that's existed since the US began...

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

The Oscars Needs Sinners More than Ryan Coogler’s movie needs 16 Academy Award nominations or a Best Picture win.

@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?"

for the academy? everything.
for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much.

for @vulture.com.

When am I allowed to be angry with people that voted for the likes Josh Hawley but at the same time don't want this?
I can blame him for not listening. I can blame dems for not offering viable alternatives... but at some point we need to reckon with who people vote for vs what they want...

THE HILL SENATE Hawley introduces bill to remove FDA approval for Mifepristone BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 03/11/26 5:29 PM ET

THE HILL Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation to remove Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the use of mifepristone to end pregnancies, a bill that has quickly gained the support of major anti-abortion groups. The legislation is an ambitious undertaking given the drug's widespread use in the United States, where an estimated 7.5 million women have used it to terminate pregnancies since the FDA approved its use in 2000. It accounted for 63 percent of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023. But mifepristone, which when combined with the drug misoprostol can end pregnancies at up to 70 days of gestation, has become a major target of the anti-abortion movement. President Trump has sought to satisfy those anti-abortion voices by launching an FDA review of the drug, which has not been completed. Hawley says the ability of doctors to prescribe the drug across state lines has led to rampant abuse and alleges that incidences of adverse health effects are far more common than the drug's maker, Danco Laboratories, has acknowledged.

While we’re worried about the war, the Epstein files, drone attacks in CA…
Josh Hawley and Republicans are taking this moment to push legislation to strip FDA approval for Mifepristone

The assaults on Americans are coming from inside the house.

🦑 Our new blog! This will be a place where we can explore the concepts around a core belief that drives @blue-convergence.bsky.social's mission: That ideas and solutions are stronger when diverse minds come together.

🦑 Join us on Mon, Mar 16, 8pm ET for a virtual poetry reading... you know, in this violent world where the prevailing narrative seems to simply normalize this violence... we need poetry to reconnect to our humanity.

🦑 JOIN US on Monday (Mar 16, 8pm ET) to hear Bill Allen - full disclosure, he taught me creative writing in college and has long been a mentor of mine. Check out his work in the online gallery of The Nature of Our Times and his 5 books of poetry!

🦑 I'm so excited to do this - join me and invite your friends and family - I want to get a great turnout for these wonderful poets. I'll be sharing links to their poems this week! To check out the online gallery of The Nature of Our Times: natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/gallery/

🦑 Join us at 2pm ET today to learn about our new Ocean Biodiversity RFP. We are looking to support projects in three regions of the US - Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound...

🦑 Our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Proposals is now open until noon ET, Wed, Apr 15, 2026. Information at the link!